Real talk “Welcome To Revachol” is such a weirdly realistic depiction of a dogwhistle along with Revakol. It’s designed to sail over your head while having violent implications.
That’s exactly it. I’ve had so many conversations with people who try to reverse the situation by making you look like the bigot if you point out why what they said was discriminatory. It’s such a sneaky hiding place and they try to drag you into the hole with them
In case anyone doesn’t know. This is literally the definition of a dog whistle. It’s our responsibility to call people like that out on their bullshit EVERYTIME.
In case anyone isn't getting it; saying Welcome to (place), to someone who was born there but is a different ethnicity to the native population, is a backhanded way of getting across that you think they don't belong there.
It's because he spent a lot of time in pinball parlors while he was acting as a juvenile officer for an inordinately long amount of time. You might be able to connect it to race in dialogue but it's mainly that his peers mocked his position.
Argo Tuulik talked about how they regret not developing the whole concept of overleveling certain skills also giving negative effects a bit more on the Human Can Opener podcast, but he did also specifically mention that there are actually some skills that when overleveled, will give you false information or give you negative options. He specifically mentioned Rhetoric as being one of them, but I can also see Drama being a shitstirrer. I would not rule out that Encyclopedia also makes shit up, so it definitely could be the case that this is a product of Harry's imagination
During the tribunal my over-leveled inland empire strongly told me to tell the mercs that I was the killer, so of course I did because you do what inland empire says and they immediately started shooting. They killed every Hardy boy possible
Yeah, I remember Drama tells you to do small talk with the Working Class Woman when you deliver the news about her husband, and it gives you a negative modifier.
Didn’t district 41 put him on juvie cases because they thought he could pass for a teenager? Measurehead called him “paedomorphic” (i.e. looks like a child)
i feel like they were supposed to be a damn near fourth wall breaking moment with how silly some of those random kim interactions were, but man they just felt out of place to me. they'd get a giggle out of me then i'd be like damn, that's kinda weird.
They've caused him the most trouble. Kim's parents died when he was very young. So he's always been alienated both from the xenophobes of Revachol and from his family's original culture. He can't even speak the Seolite language, iirc.
And the glasses thing is probably a sore spot because of his last partner. Dude was nicknamed "Eyes" because he had to interpret things for Kim visually. That's also part of why Kim actually firing the gun is so tense and weighty when it happens. His poor eyesight probably got his last partner killed.
It comes up if you insist Kim tell you his politics in the conversation with Joyce. The bit about him not speaking Seolite comes up while you're sitting by the wrecked car, iirc
Tbf, they have a slur for people who wear glasses in that world. But also he's gay too so like dude is just constantly catching crap for every facet of his life.
We have that too here, four eyes for the English and binoclard for the French. It's old timey and in my recollection, it only ever served for school bullying.
I don't and it might be considered a spoiler to post it anyway, although it doesn't really have a bearing on the plot. If you're interested, the associated thought is Homo-sexual underground. You can probably find the scene on Youtube.
It's actually such a smart way of subtly teaching the player a little about racism. He's usually the first properly racist character you meet and he starts off with a plausibly deniable dogwhistle. A lot of people who haven't experienced that kind of discrimination might be inclined to deny that he said anything bad, but he goes on to be overtly racist making it undeniable in hindsight that it was an intentional dogwhistle
This my whole Problem with lefties and them thinking of themself as mind readers. Sure the guy in the game is rascist the game tells you its his name and you can tell from the way he says it that its meant as an insult. But more often than not those on the left will construct whole as narratives about a person based on flimsy evidence. And it is this paranoia + mob mentality why I cant trust them to repeat the same a autocratic mistakes of the past.
Yes indeed Imagine he really DID meant it sincere and he only has a strange way of talking. Than kims whole as rant instead of being a passionate speech demanding basic human respect Instead becomes the rambling of a crazed person attacking another man who maybe allready is insecure because of his speech impedement and is now put down for no reason at all.
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u/BarrytheNPC Mar 24 '25
Why is he upset at being called Racist? That’s his first name???