This post contains spoilers for the 2019 video game Disco Elysium. And we drink / ever notice how drinking’s like war / cup o’ troops o’er the gums / to the end of our health, a campaign ‘gainst myself / armed with bourbons and scotches and rums — Moxy Früvous, The Drinking Song It was the […]
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