https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/02/08/from-samizdat-to-twitter/
Both the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of longstanding anti-American regimes in the Arab world, were movements in which βdemocracyβ was quickly subverted against the will of the people, leading to irreparable damage to people everywhere.
Greetings, dear DFW fans. I'm searching for direct quotes from Wallace on the significance, background, motivation or inspiration for the plot/events of the samizdat or Infinite Jest V (or IV?). I'm sure there are many brilliant interpretations, but I'm hoping to find something directly from DFW regarding your killer becoming your mother. Whatchyall got for me?
Like the title says: I have collected the evidence from Palisade but unable to close the mission, ie hand the evidence to K. Game keeps crashing in the vicinity of the stage and The Music Box, every single time without fail. No problem heading there the first time. No problem with other areas. Here are the things I have tried:
- using Icarus dash to "teleport" forward
- approaching the area from different angles
- coming back at night after my return from Golem
- loading earlier saves
- reinstalled the game
- rebuilt PS4 database
I am well aware that this is just a side mission, but as a DX completionist, I don't think I can let it go. So as far as I am concerned, this is game-breaking. There are other bugs (NPC not talking, missing cover prompts) but I can live with those. Of course I can start a new game but with the amount of exploring I've done I was hoping to not have to do it all over again.
Any help and suggestions appreciated.
I just stumbled on a playlist for this radio on YouTube and I have a question now why this station in my game always plays the same song? Is that a bug?
-Samizdat originates in Prague and becomes archenemies with Picus by giving truthful news. K leads Samizdat and Picus is Morgan Everett's mouthpiece. This makes K and Everett archenemies. Samizdat escapes to Paris with Adam's help.
-Over the next two decades, Samizdat evolves into Silhouette.
-...Unfortunately, Paris becomes Everett's home when he hooks up with Beth DuClare.
-Paris becomes an ideological battleground and both Everett and K ramp up their efforts to control the flow of media information throughout the city.
-A teenage boy named Chad Dumier's parents are killed by police while peacefully protesting while Chad watches. K sees promise in Chad, recruits him into Silhouette, and takes him under his wing. Before long, Chad proves to be the leader K could never be, so K grooms Chad to become his successor.
-During a mission at La Porte de L'Enfer, Chad meets Nicolette DuClare, and the two fall in love. Before long, Chad discovers that Everett, archenemy of his people, is Nicolette's stepfather of sorts, and that her own mother is on the ruling council. Everett is also aware that Chad is a Silhouette leader; he had Eliza spy on him for some time. Everett and Beth hope to use this to his advantage, to try and use Chad as their mole inside Silhouette. Neither Chad nor Nicolette wish to be used by their families against each other. Chad tells K that he will not take action against Everett's family because of Nicolette, and Nicolette refuses to help Everett work against Silhouette. K is furious with Chad for not putting the mission first, and Everett and Beth are disappointed with Nicolette for potentially aiding the enemy and possibly compromising the Illuminati.
-A year passes and Picus and Silhouette are at a stalemate. Bob Page hatches his plan to betray Everett and wipe out Silhouette along with the Templars. Everett, Beth and Nicolette are nearly assassinated and are forced to flee from the Chateau DuClare. Everett leads them to the Knights Templar Cathedral where the knights have already been slaughtered by Gunther Hermann and Anna Navarre, except for one survivor: a young Templar named Saman. Everett asks Saman to join them, but Saman, distraught by how augmentation technology had so cruelly wiped out his Templar brothers, leaves on his own on a quest for justice against augmentation and those who control it. Nowhere left to go, Nicolette leads them to the only remotely safe place available: the Silhouette hideout.
-Unfortunat
... keep reading on reddit β‘So I've become obsessed with IJ, almost to a maddening degree and I've come to realize a couple things, things other people probably have before me, people much smarter and clever-er-ra than me may/will have noticed/done.
The actual book Infinite Jest is the first draft or treatment if you will of JOI's film. As I go to sleep thinking about it, and I wake up thinking about it, and now I'm beginning to dream about it, though this may have something to do with me being dangerously sober due to a stunning lack of any type of drugs in my system at the moment. I have purchased it on Audible so I can listen to it when I do all the mundane shit of my days It is literally becoming the soundtrack of my life.
And so but, like, hahaha, others will have noticed this. Orin (who sends the tapes) is the cockroach in the glass, in his bathroom at the beginning, in the end. The twisted scene of him in the glass box being studied gives me the howling fantods as does Gately's scene with Bobby C.C and the transvestites and the pharmacy assistant and that 'ain't no god-damn lie'. I can imagine those two scenes so vividly I almost slip into them from time to time, like now, picturing them, as i write this, gaaa.
And his 'do it to her' is very 1984 and by that I mean exactly 1984 he's talking about MP not the Swiss model.
Also, I sometimes find myself saying quietly and softly and menacingly and creepily 'there' from time to time which disturbs the shit of me as did Linz's whole, like, deal.
Getting high so I can be sober
And I call a work mate Clipperton in a kind of fucked up term of endearment though he would suit the name Linz as he is a meth head, and despite this 'flaw' he is a really interesting if not a little too gregarious and most definitely garrulous guy.
And I spend large amounts of time focusing my thoughts on a two characters, Mario and Pemulis.
And I'm noticing lines and ideas everywhere from IJ be it DFW cribbing or vice versa. Tom Waits 'temptation' has the beautiful line 'time is made from honey slow and sweet' is but one example.
And it's not enough to just write something these days, and being a writer, like published, not code for unemployed it's becoming very hard to know where I am adapting and evolving and where I am just aping, this, case in point.
Never has a book had such an effect on me. I use sa
... keep reading on reddit β‘So! I started re-reading IJ and I ran into a pretty inconspicuous line that suddenly made it feel like I had somehow figured it all out. I googled keywords to see if anyone else had the same moment, and I didn't find anything about it, so I'm not sure if it was intended or not. It's probably just reaching, buuuut, here's the passage:
>βThe Halster.'
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>ββHalorama.β
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>βHalation.'
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>ββHalation,β Rader says. βA halo-shaped exposure-pattern around light sources seen on chemical film at low speed.
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>ββThat most angelic of distortions."
It's from when they're resting and commiserating about the challenge matches, early on in the book, I think like page 97.
What caught my attention was Rader's unidentified respondent saying a verbatim dictionary definition, which probably meant Hal had dictated it to him at some point, and he was saying it to mess with Hal like everyone else was doing. Axford mentions the word later on as well, separately, which pretty much establishes it that it's some sort of meme in Hal's friend group.
A hundred pages or so after Axford's offhand reference, another mental-third-person-narrator-thing suddenly mentions the term "Halation" again: Joelle, when she's walking through the rain and describing the way the air humidity puts a filter on her veil that makes it seem like the world is "milky and halated".
It makes me wonder if such a weird, random word coming up in two different people's everyday thoughts, who never knew each other, could mean they learned it from a mutual acquaintance: someone who worked in that field of interest, maybe, and who might've talked their ears out about it, babbling on about a hyper-focused interest. The Stork!
I can't get exact quotes for this, but bear with me: I also remembered someone mentioning that the Entertainment had a "special weird lens effect", and that it could be part of the whole effect it has on people. I think it might've been Notkin, while she was being interrogated.
Notkin told the OSS about how the movie is some sort of weird monologue about a mother-death cosmology, said in a condescending but caring way, from a sort of crib's-eye-view. Joelle, on the other hand, primarily remembers another version of it that she recorded: the one where she just says "I'm sorry" over and over again in different ways.
And then, nearly at the end, when Gately is having his vision, I'm pretty sure (pretty sure) he mentions the Joelle/Neighbor
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Ask me how I know.
In other news, samizdat has a pretty cool etymology.
When Marathe and Kate G. meet in the bar after Poor Tony mugs her and Ruth, the scene ends with Marathe asking Kate if she wants to view the Entertainment. What are your thoughts? Will she? Won't she?
Like many have said before, the main story of Mankind Divided was seriously underwhelming, with a lack of scope and it only being contained in the conspiracy itself and not that much Illuminati talk.
Instead, my favourite stories came from side quests, which angers me, because all of them end up having no real repercussion outside of their contained world.
Take the Mystery Augs for example, Sarif tells you that all your augmentations are probably new and that something strange happened in Alaska, then he closes the call and it's never brought up again. Or how Helle (Elisa) only blows up a car and then calls it a day.
Hopefully, the rumors about Squeenix cancelling are all false and we actually get a sequel son, because I want to hear more about all these threads that have been left hanging. What is cool Elisa going to do now? Is Samizdat really Silhouette, or is it a Picus lie?
I really wish there weren't so many unfinished stories in this game, it just depresses me.
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Having read Heart of a Dog and being halfway through The Five by Jabotinsky, I'm wondering what other banned Soviet works I should check out, maybe something originally published underground within the USSR this time.
Similarly, I should probably start checking out Chinese underground literature, maybe stuff first published in a minority language.
Samizdat is defined as, "the clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state, especially formerly in the communist countries of eastern Europe." Of course illegal literature isn't confined only to communist regimes. Today, you can be arrested over YouTube videos and saying mean things on Twitter. You can lose your job for having unpopular opinions. You can be harassed and swatted for having un-PC politics.
Should unpopular ideas automatically migrate to the underground and become Internet samizdat within the anonymity of systems like Tor or should they be discussed and debated in the light? I believe that the latter should be the case. However western culture currently doesn't approve of open debate.
Well, r/FreeSpeech, what do you think?
