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ZA/UM gets away with $165 plastic bags because its execs know hypocritical moaners are the same 'ones ordering the expensive items' anyway, says former Disco Elysium writer




Not two days ago I came to you with the befuddling news that ZA/UM—the studio whose name is still on Disco Elysium even though the game's chief creative talent have all left—was selling a $165 carrier bag based on the one you can get in the game...
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Why do the likes of $165-ish official Disco Elysium plastic bags exist? Well, one ex-writer says she was simply told "people covet these items more than they care"

You can buy an official version of plastic bag Harry Du Bois uses in very good detective game and now endless source of often very depressing fallout involving its studio and the numerous creatives and devs who no longer work at said studio, Disco Elysium.

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Disco Elysium writer was told "people covet these items more than they care" when pushing back against ridiculous merch

Earlier this week, a plastic bag blowing in the wind made me question all I knew about the world, but in whatever way the opposite of life-affirming is. Less blowing, actually. More taunting me from my screen maddeningly like a middle finger salute from a man with no hands. It was a baffling piece of licensed merch from Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM and Atelier, who I assume are three hyenas in a board room sniffing each other's crotches for eternity.


I couldn't tell you exactly where I first saw the bag - which has actually been on sale for a few months now - but I soon realised why it had likely entered the zeitgeist again: an extensive set of a documentary podcasts by YouTube creator The 41st Precinct, the latest of which interviews writers Dora Klindžić and Argo Tuulik for more time than I have ever spent on anything. Here's a clip on Atelier and that fucking bag.


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Disco Elysium game director Robert Kurvitz praises the first Fallout: 'It makes other post-apocalyptic worldbuilding seem like an amusement park'




Independent publisher Verso Books recently published Marijam Did's Everything to Play For: How Videogames are Changing the World, and to promote that work Did has been streaming with game designers. First she played Wolfenstein: Youngblood with Josh Sawyer, and now she's played the original Fallout with Disco Elysium's game director Robert Kurvitz while chatting about politics and art...
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Nothing says 'communism' like this $165 poverty-chic plastic bag based on Disco Elysium, aka 'the level of greed that they talk about in the Bible'




What is Disco Elysium about? A lot of things, I suppose. It's about failure, about loss, about redemption, about being a mess of ungovernable nerves and hormones, and it's about communism—a struggle against a drab, alienating, and interminable now we've all inhabited since, oh, the '80s at least...
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