I'm just so tired, man. Is this a dare? Because I'm basically taking the bait just by writing about it, aren't I? "The last carrier bag you’ll ever need," begins the description of this tribute to the plastic bag Disco Elysium's protagonist uses to collect bottles to exchange for cash at Martinet's local off-licence. "Frittte brings reassurance that the bag will serve your everyday needs on the toughest streets."
This nod to people whose main takeaway from Fight Club was how rad Brad Pitt's taste in shirts was is being sold by ZA/UM's collobrative merch store with company Atelier. They've previously put out things like a replica of Kim Kitsuragi's jacket. I'm not going to link them, as a pathetic act of rebellion.
As the man who couldn't afford an ambulance to get the gash on his head sewn up once said, let's try and keep an open mind about this. The bag's Dyneema fabric "is up to 15x stronger than steel on a weight-for-weight basis and provides the highest tear and tensile strength of any competing materials".
Last year, a bunch of studios that revealed themselves to be developing not quite Disco Elysium successors, and soon we learned that they'd all brushed shoulders with each other in a bunch of ways - some of which were controversial or bizarre - prior to making those announcements.
There's a lot to love about Disco Elysium: the writing, the art style, the philosophy, the branching narrative, the little hole in the middle of space and time, lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi... the list goes on.
