Human Can Opener: A Disco Elysium Podcast

🎉 Welcome to Season 2 of Human Can Opener! 🎉 We’re back with Part 3 of our exclusive interview with Argo Tuulik, diving deep into the world of Disco Elysium. If you’re able to support Argo, his GoFundMe link is right here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-disco-elysium-writer-survive-the-winter 💛 Every little bit helps! In this episode, we explore: 00:00 The Collaborative Writing Process 17:10 What Is Harry's Canon Voice? 20:10 The Karaoke Scene 23:45 Who Is The Mysterious Pair Of Eyes? 26:37 The PAX Gameplay Demo & Kim's Original Voice 29:38 Disco Elysium's Main Menu Art 32:20 Sea Power & Disco Elysium 42:56 Ideology In Disco Elysium 49:35 Measurehead 52:00 The 2mm Hole In the World 53:30 Arno Van Eyck 56:52 Riget & La Royaume 1:04:10 The Feld Playback Experiment 1:07:22 La Puta Madre 1:15:36 What Are The Innocences? 1:22:57 Argo Loves Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri! 1:26:15 Captain Pryce's Call To Arms Enjoy the episode, and let us know your favorite part in the comments! #DiscoElysium #HumanCanOpener #Podcast #GamingCommunity

🎉 Welcome to Season 2 of Human Can Opener! 🎉 We’re back with Part 2 of our exclusive interview with Argo Tuulik, diving deep into the world of Disco Elysium.

If you’re able to support Argo, his GoFundMe link is right here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-disco-elysium-writer-survive-the-winter 💛 Every little bit helps! In this episode, we explore: 00:00 What Is Disco Elysium About? 05:09 Argo's Favourite Sub Plot 10:20 Meta Jokes and Fortress Accident 16:00 Argo's Favourite Character 22:20 Discussing Argo Tuulik's Characters 26:01 Prank Calls & Gaming Memories 34:53 Who Is The Cuno? 59:05 Jean Vicquemare 1:09:30 Judit Minot 1:11:31 Evrart Claire 1:33:00 Switch To Next Day Recording 1:35:55 Cunoesse 1:52:42 Evrart Claire's Strike Plot 1:59:34 Kimball Kitsuragi 2:01:37 The Hardie Boys 2:30:51The Writing Process 2:38:16 Rene & Gaston 2:46:49 Poltical Vision Quests 3:01:35 Talking About Dora Ingerlund 3:07:18 Horrific Necktie 3:19:10 Mikee Goodman 3:26:13 The Kortaeners 3:29:14 The Mercenary Tribunal Enjoy the episode, and let us know your favorite part in the comments! #DiscoElysium #HumanCanOpener #Podcast #GamingCommunity

Human Can Opener is a Disco Elysium podcast setting out to chat with people from the Disco Elysium Fandom, Dev Team, and The Cast to explore their personal journey with Disco Elysium. This episode features the brilliant musical mind of Paul Looney, the man behind hit Disco Elysium fan track, God, Please. All episodes will launch at least a week early to members of any tier, link to join below. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoDXQLqsJErOPDGIREu4Obg/join

Human Can Opener is a Disco Elysium podcast setting out to chat with people from the Disco Elysium Fandom, Dev Team, and The Cast to explore their personal journey with Disco Elysium. This episode features the legendary Disco Elysium narrator, Lenval Brown! All episodes will launch a week early to members of any tier, link to join below. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoDXQLqsJErOPDGIREu4Obg/join

🎙️ Welcome to Season 2 of Human Can Opener, the ultimate Disco Elysium Podcast! 🎮 In this episode, we bring you an exclusive, in-depth interview with none other than Argo Tuulik, a founding member of ZA/UM and a pivotal creator behind the masterpiece Disco Elysium. In this episode, Argo shares: 02:41 - Meeting Robert Kurvitz, Martin Luiga, Aleksander Rostov & The Overcoats 19:00 - The Start Of Dungeons & Dragons and expanded tabletop games 22:47 - The Inspiration For Garte The Cafeteria Manager 25:55 - Building The Tabletop Worlds 35:59 - Moving From Races To Nations & Forming Elysium 39:25 - Robert Kurvitz As A Dungeon Master 41:07 - Favourite Video Game Twists 44:26 - Argo's First Characters 46:30 - Torson & McLain 52:09 - Taking Characters From Tabletop To Disco Elysium 58:25 - What Is The Pale? 1:09:12 - The Idea Of Escapism 1:11:58 - Connecting With Your Characters As Real People 1:14:21 - Overarching Plots In The Tabletop Days 1:18:14 - The Introduction Of Harry & Kim 1:21:53 - Kim Kitsuragi 1:24:06 - Introducing The Skills 1:25:24 - Sacred And Terrible Air 1:48:20 - The Driving Force & The Miracle Of Elysium Existing 1:53:27 - Making Disco Elysium 2:13:57 - Were There Any Alternative Ideas For The Story Of Disco Elysium? 2:16:50 - Influential Games And Media 2:30:43 - The Thought Cabinet & The Skill System 2:43:05 - Failure In Elysium & Contextual Changes In Story But there’s more at stake here—Argo is currently facing legal challenges and is unable to work due to an injunction. 💔 He’s launched a GoFundMe campaign to help in his fight. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-disco-elysium-writer-survive-the-winter This conversation was so detailed and fascinating that we had to split it into multiple parts. This is Part 1. We end right where things get really exciting, Disco Elysium itself. Get ready for a mind-blowing deep dive into the origins of Elysium, what the Pale REALLY represents, and so many other incredible tidbits about the world you love.

Human Can Opener is a Disco Elysium podcast setting out to chat with people from the Disco Elysium Fandom, Dev Team, and The Cast to explore their personal journey with Disco Elysium. Martin Luiga is one of the original members of the ZAUM Cultural Association, friend & world building partner of Robert Kurvitz, Argo Tuulik and others. For this episode Martin joined via phone, so to mitigate the risk of signal issues we decided to keep it as voice only. We discuss some of the early conceptions in the tabletop era of Elysium and some of the lore that exists in that world. We also discuss the emergence of 3 brand new studios aiming to release games in the spirit of Disco Elysium and of course the fourth studio that Martin himself is working with; Red Info. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoDXQLqsJErOPDGIREu4Obg/join

Human Can Opener is a Disco Elysium podcast setting out to chat with people from the Disco Elysium Fandom, Dev Team, and The Cast to explore their personal journey with Disco Elysium. Stushi is a humble video essayist responsible for the "No Truce With Capital" video in respons to the Disco Elysium documentary by People Make Games - We discuss both the PMG doc and the response in this chat. We also discuss the 3 brand new studios aiming to release games in the spirit of Disco Elysium and what our hopes or expectations are for those studios. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 intro 01:59 Anime, Books, and Gaming Chat 22:35 YouTube Stuff 33:40 PMG Doc & No Truce With Capital 58:04 The Disco Elysium Successors 01:19:04 Disco Elysium Questions Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoDXQLqsJErOPDGIREu4Obg/join

Human Can Opener is a Disco Elysium podcast setting out to chat with people from the Disco Elysium Fandom, Dev Team, and The Cast to explore their personal journey with Disco Elysium.

Volha is the former community lead at ZA/UM Studio, the first ever Kim Kitsuragi cosplayer, all around Disco Elysium super fan and huge contributor to the community through the ton of content on social media as well as curating Disco Elysium fanzines showcasing incredible fan art for the game.

Please check out all of the links below - with special mention to the projects Volha is currenlty working on, including new studio Postive Impact Games!

Social/LinkedIn

https://x.com/KapitonovaVoliahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kapitonava-volha/

Positive Impact Games & Cozy Impacthttps://linkedin.com/company/positive-impact-gameshttps://x.com/cozy_impact

Fan Art and Social Media Content

Fanzines:

https://online.fliphtml5.com/rgevm/lwni/

https://online.fliphtml5.com/rgevm/lcma/

This is when Volha first read "Never Fuck with Kim Kitsuragi" before the Final Cut:

https://www.twitch.tv/whiteforest_/clip/HeadstrongRenownedSamosaPJSugar

And this is when Volha heard it in the Final Cut:

https://www.twitch.tv/whiteforest_/clip/WonderfulCloudyDurianPermaSmug-NT7WhRZwKGBubdIR

Human Can Opener is a Disco Elysium podcast setting out to chat with people from the Disco Elysium Fandom, Dev Team, and The Cast to explore their personal journey with Disco Elysium.It is my pleasure to welcome my first guest, the Disco Elysium YouTube legend @JamrockHobo