Muchy: Welcome back to "Stealing Your Dad, As If It Was Easy"! Today we're...we're...wait a second! This isn't the greatest podcast ever recorded that can be found on munchyshatskyvideogame.com/channel—go to the description and look at that—this is some wierd dystopian alternate reality, where the cool nuclear holocaust never happened, and the vintage hipster modernist super teenage nihlist world didn't get completely and utterly obliterated by the thousands of sick-as-stage-three-neurosyphilis radical galactic eternity molotovs, which changed the chemical makeup of the planet into the individual atom level, forever thrusting the world into an infinite aesthetic of cyberpunk, post-cyberpunk, biopunk, nanopunk, steampunk, dieselpunk, stonepunk, clownpunk, elfpunk, mythpunk, dreampunk, atompunk, weaselpunk, trashpunk, dadpunk, siezurepunk, fancy santapunk, and most of all clusterpunk—all at the same time! Even the ones that contradict each other! ESPECIALLY the ones that contradict each other! That never happened in this cocksuckingly terrifying timeline! Everything's just, like, normal and not completely obliterated physically, mentally, and spiritually. They haven't figured out how to fully utilize, uh, uh, irony's fully and unbelievably destructive force and use it against one another. Holy fuck, Digi, I'm—I'm freaking the fuck out, that's crazy, dude, that's crazy!
Beatrice the Golden Witch (going by Digi at the time): I know man. I thought that we were always gonna be in the future, and now we're not in the future, but in the other future, the not-good future...
Beatrice the Golden Witch (going by Digi at the time): I know man. I thought that we were always gonna be in the future, and now we're not in the future, but in the other future, the not-good future...
The game is set in a time of cold war in a world that never was. Replace the futuristic science elements in sci-fi with modernity and you get... Modernopunk? A world of Bauhaus and Dada, neo-grotesk fonts and transistors, communists and fascists and boring old democracies. Off the coast you can occasionally spot airbound coalition warships keeping the peace. They are kept afloat with magnetic levitation. Further beyond the horizon there is the Pale that divides the continents.
— Studio ZA/UM attempts to summarize
the New Weird setting of their then-upcoming game Disco Elysium
the New Weird setting of their then-upcoming game Disco Elysium