The worst part of CONTROL (2019 Remedy Game) is that other than a few select ones people are instantly turned psychotic by a bunch of word salad (hexbear.net)

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I mean it doesn't make sense. Imagine a real life person just listening or reading to a bunch of word salad and then immediatly lose all free will and get stuck on whatever last thought or characteristics they have but cranked up to 11 while going back to the world salad all the time. It really breaks my suspension of disbelief.

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[-] Rhaxapopouetl@ttrpg.network 11 points 1 month ago

You could say the same about star wars opening credits.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

how

[-] Rhaxapopouetl@ttrpg.network 14 points 1 month ago

The worst part of STAR WARS (movie franchise) is that other than a few select ones people are instantly turned psychotic by a bunch of word salad

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

I think OP means that diegetically, the origin of the madness/cognitohazard or whatever in CONTROL is just some text, not that the audience likes the game just for some text within it.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

I do but I also have to give Rhaxanpopouetl credit because they're not wrong, it's just diegetically happening in our actual world

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

hegel-kraken

[-] Rhaxapopouetl@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 month ago

Isn't it the plot of the movie

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In the mouth of madness

(A very good movie btw)

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the "driven mad by art/media" trope is at least 130 years old. been a staple of cosmic horror ever since and more recently sci-fi

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Haven't seen that. I think a lot of similar ideas started floating around the zeitgeist, you see a lot of the cognitohazard tropes in SCP articles, too, which also were popular when CONTROL was produced.