Let this be a lesson, you are good enough, you do not have to make your art like another thing to be good, I am finding it hard to enjoy this game on its own merits because it is actively forcing me to take all of its creative choices in comparison to Disco Elysium m

I am going to keep playing Esoteric Ebb because I’m enjoying it despite all my criticisms but I am gonna need it to start trying to actively differentiate itself from Disco Elysium within hour 2

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

manifesting:
🍀
🕯 🕯
🪄 good news 🪄

🕯 and good times 🕯

✨ holy fuck ✨
🕯 🕯
🍀

Alas one characters existence in and of itself is a spoiler so girlie she is locked out of lesbian week 😭😭😭

I do have non Downtempo characters floating around but they are by the wayside because I have terminal Downtempo brain (there’s not…. *no* sapphic stuff in Downtempo but it is deeply in the realm of toxic and upsetting in probably not a fun way)

Omg is it Lesbian Week I should draw my sapphic OCs

Snell has Kim Kitsuragi's same walk cycle and idling pose

I am getting the sense the game might be building to something more vis a vis the main characters identity so I'm willing to retract this criticism later but like you're already jacking all of Disco Elysiums shit you might as well just make him a full amnesiac

Like other NPCs comment on how weird it is that he doesn't know this stuff and like yeah! Why doesn't he?

It's also like an odd choice to act like the player character is an amnesiac when he like... isn't. It makes sense for Harry DuBois to go round asking questions about the world cause he literally forgor everything but it seems like Ragn only forgot the details of his death?

Meme with a photo of a fountain drink machine with a cup sitting under two nozzles (red and blue), a hand pushing both buttons at once and liquid coming from both nozzles. The blue (left) drink is labelled "grateful for the insight I have gained from all my experiences" and the red (right) drink is labelled "still thinks some of that sh*t should not have happened". The hand is labelled "me".

There keeps being moments in the writing and worldbuilding where I'm like ok yeah!! I'm sat!! This is interesting!! then I'll talk to a character called Oppressive Landlord and I'm like stoooooooop

I want to like this game so bad but it is something of an artistic ick when something seems so unsure of its own identity that it's trying to be a different piece of art and it's kind of colouring all the things I'm finding unique and charming in their own right

I was like really getting into the halfling character talking about how D&D alignments are like a weird metaphysical thing you get gifted by the universe but then he started talking about capitalism and I'm like hold up

It is kind of weird to be in an explicitly medieval coded fantasy setting and having characters talk at me about capitalism like.... I don't think we are considering how setting and themes mesh here

I am actually trying so hard to give this game a chance to do something different from DE but my new goblin companion has an extremely Kim Kitsuragi like manner of speaking game come oooooon

It's actually kind of bumming me out cause the worldbuilding in this game is pretty interesting on it's own but I just wish it were trying less hard to be Disco Elysium

Yeeah I'm like ok Disco Elysium didn't invent having a political alignment system but the way it's being applied currently feels less like it's relevant to the world and characters and more because Disco Elysium did it

This may end up annoying me or it may end up endearing me to the game more but we shall see

I am throwing an absolute boulder in the mother of all glass houses but come on the granular plot details here are just like way too similar so far

Just started Esoteric Ebb and I feel like I'm gonna like this game but like it's ok buddy you don't have to copy Disco Elysium's homework that directly

We have done it historically obvs but at this point it is kind of like poofing all motors out of existence and expecting us to just seamlessly go back to horse and coach travel like all of our infrastructure isn't built around motor vehicles (not necessarily just cars but ESPECIALLY cars in the US)

I do kind of hate the "let the internet go down" argument like it is not actually very difficult to exist in society these days without the use of the internet even if you aren't like chronically online or on social media

Aaaaa hopefully I can direct them outside once I start having compost!

My new wacom pen is gonna take days to get here and my old one is rapidly dying BUT this is the price I pay for not giving any more money to Jeff Bezos

Ah see I'm a notorious airtight container girlie, my pantry looks like one of those Tiktok restocking videos truly (had mice at my old place, not taking any chances) so unsure what the moths are hoping to find here!

Just gonna have to mute a whole bunch of stuff even related to things that are hot button topics for me personally cause my MH is in the gutter and there’s not much I can do about any of it

Did a quick google and yup those do look like pantry moths! There do seem to be the most of them in the bathroom for some reason, but yes any tips would be appreciated cause they are getting on my nerves!