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It's been awhile since I've played Control but I thought the entity Jesse & Dylan called Polaris was originally contained within the Hedron, but then transferred into her consciousness when the Hiss finally invaded it. Which is why there's that whole false ending where Jesse succumbs to the Hiss before Polaris "boots up" in her brain again.
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Al! posted:yeah im a basic bitch like that Dynamite might be favorite too just for how out there it was in a game full of out there stuff
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idk where im getting this from but i thought Polaris is basically Jesse's link to other Jesse's in other realities, or is in some way a reflection of herself and independent of hedron. was hedron pulled out of the specific slide that jesse and dylan used, or was it discovered on another slide? it seems like the AWE unleashed might have been different from the hiss/polaris stuff and was more like Annihilation dog boy
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Al! posted:the hra introduction tape where dr darling is only barely able to keep up his effervescent facade is probably the spookiest/my second favorite one "Don't worry that HRAs aren't monitoring everything you do here in the building...we're doing that anyway If you don't have an hra don't worry it'll be quick and painless... Lol just kidding ...We're making more..." exquisite tea posted:It's been awhile since I've played Control but I thought the entity Jesse & Dylan called Polaris was originally contained within the Hedron, but then transferred into her consciousness when the Hiss finally invaded it. Which is why there's that whole false ending where Jesse succumbs to the Hiss before Polaris "boots up" in her brain again. well again we're not given a real answer but the evidence against hedron being dead since the ordinary awe is that it was still producing resonance, otherwise the HRAs wouldn't have worked. but this being an extradimensional entity maybe an empty husk could still do that? we don't know Al! posted:idk where im getting this from but i thought Polaris is basically Jesse's link to other Jesse's in other realities, or is in some way a reflection of herself and independent of hedron. was hedron pulled out of the specific slide that jesse and dylan used, or was it discovered on another slide? it seems like the AWE unleashed might have been different from the hiss/polaris stuff and was more like Annihilation dog boy yeah hedron was found in the same slide jesse used in the ordinary awe site fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Jan 12, 2024 |
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The one where Darling is in full meltdown is a favorite one of mine. Dude spends the whole game trying to keep a neutral of not positive attitude for a situation that'd have most people breaking down and I felt that video really hit it home how serious it was. Also his rockin scientist bod
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I’m a big fan of this one myself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaaBbHVMsrY
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Al! posted:yeah im a basic bitch like that
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Dewgy posted:I’m a big fan of this one myself. Lmao
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I like the little side story between the two researchers in the background of Dr. Darling's presentations. There is stock footage of them in the abandoned wing, implying they've been working with him for a while. They look very tired of his antics. In one note the male researcher asks the woman out under the guise of studying cool rocks for work and in another she gently turns him down 
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rewatched a few of the dr darling videos and man, not only is he a great actor but he's got a killer body
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Jan 12, 2024 23:15
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How would a man whose been trapped in the Dark Place for decades know the word swole!?!?
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PriorMarcus posted:How would a man whose been trapped in the Dark Place for decades know the word swole!?!? Uhhh it was a term in Finland in the 70s
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TontoCorazon posted:Uhhh it was a term in Finland in the 70s My god This is the most mind blowing thing in this thread
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not too surprising if you know Tom
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deep down the poretta rabbit hole. did you know that he got horribly injured in a bar fight and can barely see out of his left eye? he got 600 large suing the bar
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Since Wake dissappeared in 2010, there should have been a scene people explaining to him Trump won, Bitcoin and NFTs. He would have thought he is still in the dark place after that.
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Ulio posted:Since Wake dissappeared in 2010, there should have been a scene people explaining to him Trump won, Bitcoin and NFTs. He would have thought he is still in the dark place after that.
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those things were all failed attempts to escape the dark place
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The Director Stoyvasin DLC for control was crazy. The part where you had to collect the eel bowel and hound bowel was nauseating
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Mr Scratch is basically an Alan Wake NFT or is Alan a Scratch NFT hmm...
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taken are what you get when scratch adds slurp juice to copies of return
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I have never really understood why Alan Wake is so famous and admired when he seriously seems to just write airport books. People barely seem to care about authors nowadays, I doubt that most people out on the street could name one person that is currently writing fiction.
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poking around detective fiction 2006-2010 on google, looks like michael connely's bosch series was coming out, lee child's reacher books, and 2008-10 is when stieg larssons girl with the dragon tattoo series was coming out, and i at least remember that one being a big deal
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Based on the names that Nightingale calls him (Dan Brown, Tom Clancy), he was indeed a Barnes & Noble Middle Shelf Detective Fiction Author. The inspiration for Alan likely continues by matching the trajectory of those authors. Big in their heyday, made a huge splash with the first novel of what became a series they were tied to by the dollar bill. Alan came to resent his money maker. He also calls him names of authors like HP Lovecraft and Stephen King who didn't write detective fiction but instead started by penning short stories for newspapers like Alan. Remedy: It's a joke, but it's serious! sisu! CJacobs fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Jan 13, 2024 |
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I'm up to Initiation 2 now, and Ahti, what are you doing in the Dark Place? Why are you in the Dark Place, Ahti? This throws a serious wrench into my "he's an avatar of the Board/Oldest House" theory, because they wouldn't be there. It's also semi-creepy that Alan has the word-for-word exact reaction to him that Jesse did. Yes, okay, he is a friendly face, but why does everyone think that the first time they meet him? Does he make you think that? They're doing a remarkably good job of showing, rather than telling, that Alan has gone absolutely bugfuck insane. "Oh, a manifestation of the fictional detective I made up showed up in this place made of my own subconcious impulses and told me about a murder cult, what a remarkably good idea, I think I should write them into reality and add stuff about them summoning a dark god". I love all the incidental details on hosed Up Nightmare New York, from the ads to the graffiti to how every official-looking piece of signage actually has text from a manuscript from a previous game on it (including American Nightmare!). Really wonderful design work. Am I meant to find it significant that Alan gets dragged out of the Dark Place -- which, holy poo poo okay, didn't expect that to happen in Chapter 2 -- in his AN outfit?
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CapnAndy posted:I'm up to Initiation 2 now, and Ahti, what are you doing in the Dark Place? Why are you in the Dark Place, Ahti? This throws a serious wrench into my "he's an avatar of the Board/Oldest House" theory, because they wouldn't be there. It's also semi-creepy that Alan has the word-for-word exact reaction to him that Jesse did. Yes, okay, he is a friendly face, but why does everyone think that the first time they meet him? Does he make you think that? Ahti is pretty much all but explicitly confirmed to be a Finnish god of rivers/water in Control, and is not actually tied to the Board or the Oldest house, it just happens to be one of the places he does regular maintenance as a janitor. I mean, the Dark Place itself is covered up by a lake after all and is described as an ocean, is it such a surprise Ahti is hanging around and inside of it? Evil Kit fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Jan 16, 2024 |
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ImpAtom posted:Control 2 is a strategy game where you have to manage your budget and employees so that you can deploy the optimal amount of spooky fairy tales with tape records and dolls around the world. i'd play x-control
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I would also like to play XCONTROL. Especially if they find some bullshit justification to give out the superpowers (oh Jesse's loaning you the power or something blah blah whatever), just because if you could handle a baddie in cover by telekinetically ripping the cover out of the ground and throwing it into the face of one of his buddies, that would loving own.Evil Kit posted:Ahti is pretty much all but explicitly confirmed to be a Finnish god of rivers/water in Control, and is not actually tied to the Board or the Oldest house, it just happens to be one of the places he does regular maintenance as a janitor. I mean, the Dark Place itself is covered up by a lake after all and is described as an ocean, is it such a surprise Ahti is hanging around and inside of it?
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CapnAndy posted:I would also like to play XCONTROL. Especially if they find some bullshit justification to give out the superpowers (oh Jesse's loaning you the power or something blah blah whatever), just because if you could handle a baddie in cover by telekinetically ripping the cover out of the ground and throwing it into the face of one of his buddies, that would loving own. They're probably both.
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Tor and Odin are people who are willing to do the stupid self destructive poo poo necessary to become Gods, Ahti is a god who is going through some stuff right now.
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CapnAndy posted:I would also like to play XCONTROL. Especially if they find some bullshit justification to give out the superpowers (oh Jesse's loaning you the power or something blah blah whatever), just because if you could handle a baddie in cover by telekinetically ripping the cover out of the ground and throwing it into the face of one of his buddies, that would loving own. The rest of control exists and somehow Ahti is the weird one? Fair enough lol. Fwiw I don't think Tor and Odin are actual gods, just a pair of swedes with actual psychic seer powers they can trace back to their ancestors. They just happen to really like Norse mythology.
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Evil Kit posted:The rest of control exists and somehow Ahti is the weird one? Fair enough lol. Also I got to switch back to Saga which means I've been to Alan's apartment, except no I haven't. AW1 made me do the bedroom-to-study samba way too many times to not have that layout memorized, AW2! That wasn't even remotely close! Genuinely unsure if I'm meant to accept it as a "it was always like this" retcon or the Dark Place has also hosed up Alan's floorplan.
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Jessie is the source of the resonance now that hedron is cracked.
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Benagain posted:Ahti is a god who is going through some stuff right now. I imagine it must be pretty weird being able to do/be anything and you will live forever.... seems like doing something menial like cleaning might make you feel a bit more normal. Ahti is just one of us really
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I'm serious though I will drive to Finland with a VHS tape of every time Alan Wake 1 made me leave the study and go to the bedroom next door on the same side of the hallway or vice versa and throw it at Remedy employees while screaming "EXPLAIN THIS", I'll do it.
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CapnAndy posted:I may make the rules, but I don't understand them. This bothered the poo poo out of me. Where did his golden dual berettas writer's award go? Did Mr Scratch throw it out? 
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CapnAndy posted:I'm serious though I will drive to Finland with a VHS tape of every time Alan Wake 1 made me leave the study and go to the bedroom next door on the same side of the hallway or vice versa and throw it at Remedy employees while screaming "EXPLAIN THIS", I'll do it. Alice got a different apartment after returning to New York
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The apartment was renovated, boom done, explained
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Alice changed a few light bulbs and now the whole layout’s different. That’s just how it works!
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