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You say this while we live in a world where people are driven insane by chat gpt
Yeah, like, is OP doing a bit? This is happening
he is, yes, please refer to my calling sam lake a hack fraud comment for more context
The Lake House dlc for AW2 also has a direct reference to "ai written" art
it really shows its age, too, because it is at best hilariously bad instead of actively reenforcing any sort of psychosis
The worst part about Control is that your character doesn't burn the FBC to the fucking ground at the end of it.
I don't want some guy to have the soviet launch code floppy that can make you hurl forklifts
That's kind of the point
The Hiss is more of a malignant meme that is trying to spread than a singular entity
The only personality it has comes from its victims ( Trench hiding it because his feelings of inadequacy, Dylan's anger towards Jesse and Polaris)
and let's not forget
The Hiss was created by Alan Wake (or at least he influenced it, seeing as how the word salad is an experimental poem he wrote on college) as a result of his attempts to escape The Dark Place
It's just the starter version of the Dark Prescence
To quote 
on infohazards:
I wouldn't worry about it.
Control: AWE Spoiler
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I'd argue the-thing-that-once-was-hartman makes a fairly good case for the Hiss being on even playing field with the Dark Presence. Might well be the same thing filtered through a lake that is an ocean that loops that is a spiral
it's just an SCP-style memetic agent
cosmic horror stuff
The worst part is that it is a Video Game and is therefore Western decadence
The worst part of control is it exists in the same universe as Alan Wake, a game series with thousands of the same 3 enemy types which are ALL ANNOYING
the only annoying enemies in the series are the fast taken (both games), wolves and divers (2 only)
I loved the wolves, holy shit they scared the fuck outta me my first playthrough.
the annoying enemies are the taken, all of them, the birds, all of them, the floating spooky trash, all of it
Watching my gf walk through the woods and having SPOOKY SOUND + FIGHT every 5 feet like it's a pokemon random battle was a nightmare idk how she had fun with this game
Playing Alan Wake 1 is a lot better than watching it because the combat is much more Max Payne than Alan Wake 2 honestly. The combat picks up with Chapter 3 and then keeps getting better as resource management becomes less and less of a problem
You could say the same about star wars opening credits.
how
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
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.
I do but I also have to give Rhaxanpopouetl credit because they're not wrong, it's just diegetically happening in our actual world
Isn't it the plot of the movie
?Tap for spoiler
In the mouth of madness
(A very good movie btw)
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
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.
Well it's just the artist commentary on the original concept of meme, the way Richard Dawkins described them in the selfish gene.
I always hated that part
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Sam Lake is a hack fraud mfer but not as much as I am
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