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Oceanview Motel and Casino
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anthurak · 2 years
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One of my favorite things about Control is just how completely and utterly nuts/bonkers/GONE the FBC is as one of these ‘secret government blackops’ groups.
Like this is a trope we’re all fairly familiar with at this point; some secret government organization formed to monitor, contain and research all kinds of weird shit and keep it secret from the public. Also they may or may not have kinda gone totally rogue somewhere along the way and might now answer only to themselves at this point in a ‘who watches the watchers?’ commentary on the need for oversight.
But the more you find out about the Federal Bureau of Control, the more it becomes clear they just so utterly past ANY of that by the time the game begins. And have been for basically the last fifty some odd years.
Like here is a basic overview of the FBC that you learn within the first thirty or so minutes of the game: They are a secret government organization dedicated to the containment, cataloguing and research of supernatural artifacts and events. They are headquartered in what they call ‘The Oldest House’, a tall, imposing yet utterly nondescript building in the middle of New York City that is literally impossible for anyone to enter or even notice unless they already know about it. And the interior of the building is actually a twisting extradimensional labyrinth that also opens up to other dimensions/realities and might actually be the World Tree Yggdrasil. It also kind of hates any technology made in the last twenty years. And apparently Number 2 Pencils.
Oh, and the FBC doesn’t really report to the US Government. They report to a floating, inverted black pyramid that exists in a space outside of known reality that might also be the collective human subconscious. The pyramid is colloquially referred to as ‘The Board’ and they are an extradimensional entity/group of entities that appoints the Director of the FBC via the use of a physics-defying geometric gun called ‘The Service Weapon’ that is probably Excalibur/Mjolnir/every other legendary weapon in human myth. They also speak in word-salads and probably know they are in a video game.
See, back in 1964 when the FBC first discovered The Oldest House, they basically decided ‘WOW, this place is cool! Let’s make it our new headquarters!’ and promptly moved in. This was also when the current Director at the time found the Service Weapon within The Oldest House, made contact with/was chosen by The Board and from the point on the FBC really hasn’t answered to the US Government anymore.
Also, the Government basically doesn’t even know the Bureau even EXISTS anymore. Remember how The Oldest House has this kind of ‘Perception Filter’ that prevents almost anyone from entering it or even noticing it, which is how basically nobody can find it despite the fact that it is right in the middle of New York City? Well, after they moved in and became effective ‘residents’ of the house, this filter started applying to the FBC itself. They basically CAN’T be noticed or remembered at this point by anyone who isn’t part of the organization. The reason this secret organization can operate entirely off the grid and can’t be tracked is because they literally have freaky extradimensional reality-warping covering their tracks.
This is what I meant when I said that the FBC is just so far GONE. At this point, the FBC is itself a crazy, supernatural thing in and of itself.
Other fun details about the FBC include:
The Bureau facilities in The Oldest House are not powered by coal, oil or nuclear power. No, instead the lights are kept on by a former director who went a tad power-mad and lost control of his pyrokinesis, so the Bureau locked him up in a giant ‘Sarcophagus Containment’ unit and now use him as a power-generator.  He also sometimes talks through the waste-disposal furnace to try and get people to bring him human sacrifices.
The maintenance sector of the FBC includes an area called the ‘Black Rock Quarry’. The so called ‘black rock’ is an extra-dimensional mineral that, among other things, blocks and dampens supernatural effects and abilities. Needless to say, the Bureau mines the stuff extensively. Now, despite being within The Oldest House, the Black Rock Quarry is an open-top quarry. To space.
One of the ways Bureau personnel get around is via pull-strings that show up all over The Oldest House. Pull a string three times and you are transported to the Oceanview Motel, a quaint little motel that probably exists outside of known reality because no one has ever been able to actually go or see outside the motel. Once you’re there, you just ring the bell on the front desk three times, do some random task and procure a room key. The key opens a door, but only one with an inverted black pyramid. From there, you pull another string and are transported back to somewhere else in The Oldest House. So basically a rather convoluted teleportation system. There are also doors with other symbols that probably go to other realities, but the Bureau hasn’t figured out how to open them. Though one does seem to lead to a void of malevolent darkness that feeds off human creativity and is currently holding one Alan Wake.
Also, the bureau’s janitor is probably a Finnish Sea God.
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vyragosa · 8 months
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"the director's role is to keep the lights on."
a power plant, the cooling system needs to be repaired at all cost, this reactor is powering the entire of the oldest house, you could even call it the last light through the hiss invading the building except that,
it's not nuclear, never has been and nobody knows if it really could be
you are the man who first explored the oldest house in the center of new york and gave it its name, first picked the gun offered by the board in those strange ruins deep into the abyss, the first man to interact with this inverted pyramid whispering secrets to you, the man who orders expeditions in the foundation to stop once the id started killing too many people, your name is the director broderick northmoor
northmoor, with heat-related powers, that became totally uncontrollable, willingly entombing himself alive in a sarcophagus and relinquishing the position of director to trench, unwilling to endanger more people, called an "impotent storm" by ash jr. becoming a living lighthouse while the rest of the oldest house is swallowed in darkness, falling into the trench...the man who was called "power-hungry" becoming the main source of energy for the survivors within the oldest house...
"I had to find a solution in the end. Contain the situation. Northmoor never liked me, but he went along with it, to his credit.""
"the pensioner is starting to feel the band around his head tighten."
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titleknown · 6 months
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HELLOWEEN #9: GENTIFLACCIO
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-GENTIFLACCIO is a Great Mesne-Lord of Hell, with 144 Buroughs and 1,285 individual dwellings to his name. He may create mansions and fotresses in a night, and may be called to extract unpaid debts and transmute the flesh of others into gold piece-meal.
He appears as an ugly giant with a mouth in his chest, a great castle sprouting from his back and siege engines jutting from his upper body. He requires blood for his summoning, freely given by its owner as payment for a debt, though this blood may be taken from the summoner and given to Gentiflaccio to pay their debt to him-
...The author of the Final Testament seemed to struggle to understand the appearance of Gentiflaccio, as rooted in modernity as his construction-equipment arms and horrible McDonalds-Mansion-meets-post-modern-skyscraper acme may attest. Though, at least they tried, which as an author who is also a book is an effort most appreciated.
One might make the joke that "Of course there are landlords in Hell," but that would perhaps undercut the true gargantuan nightmare of Hell's land-lords. There are depths of rent-seeking depravity that would chill you to the bone, innovations that break the very laws of life itself. I have seen a streamlined biomechanical demonic Human Centipede as a rooming arrangement. I have seen a potential tenant call it "a good deal, for this side of town"
In that respect, the horror of Gentiflaccio's operations might seem superficially tame. But the scale of his operations and the gaudiness of his actions was evident in our conversation. 
His office was gaudy in a way that went past charmingly tacky into grotesque, not helped by the majority of the architecture being the bodies of certain tenants transmuted into gold, twisted and screaming. This was apparently common enough that he had developed a process for warping them into the positions he desired as they coagulated "A great asset to any showcase" he said.
The place was at once gargantuan and lonely, containing only him and me and the ugliest furniture excessive quantities of money can buy. He was easy to speak to, as my superficial flattery convinced him this was a puff piece, but the casualness with which he spoke of atrocities was in itself revealing. 
He spoke of tenants forced to give up their limbs to afford increased rent, leaving them crawling like worms to offer their tongues in exchange, of homes flattened (Perfectly legally according to the laws of hell) with the tenants still inside in such a way that their flesh was perfectly preserved to sell or; of course, transmute, of the efficiency of the boxes he built where "nobody knows anybody, so they don't have anything to distract them," and spoke elegaicly at the violence over two individuals eating each other alive over a singular apartment that he was offering.
He in particular was proud of the innovative home system he had based upon his own crainium. At the lower-level (As is considered the acme of Hell) was a simple suburban pseudo-mansion, which he described in the most glowing of terms in a way that boiled down to it being bloated, tacky, soulless, and built for the semiotics of wealth without any purpose therein, then ascending to the apex of skyscrapers as designed by a worm-ridden mind, studio-apartments into cubicles into pods, in an inverted pyramid that both conveyed excess and blocked out competition.
In particular he was proud of the rental arrangement where, at random, one individual studio was given to the dweller in the pseudo-mansion to do with as they wished, tenants included, "It's like they get to be little landlords" he said after describing something done by one bottom renter that was so profoundly hideous that I do not dare share it here.
He spoke with pride at the violence at which accompanied his housing plans, oblivious to any veiled criticisms I spoke of, thanking me whenever I voiced them. I recall him saying "The thing you oughtta know, and I say this as a gift most people don't get this for free, is that business is violence! And If i can inspire one person to go into business, I know I've done my part."
As he spoke to me, he was shoveling money into his gullet. Just, eating money, right in front of me. His mouth was full as he spoke as well. At one point he broke a tooth eating a particularly large jewel. He ate both the tooth and the jewel.
Expected, but unpleasant.
-Xavier X. Xolomon , Monsterologist and Understudy to The Librarian Of Babel
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So, I had that brainworm of the castle-headed guy Wayne Barlowe previewed in his old Guide to Extraterrestrials, and I figured I might as well combine it with the horror that is McMansions for this guy.
I will say, I may re-write this later, or at least further revisit Xavier's meeting with this character, as I feel unsatisfied with it in terms of conveying what a big deal this guy is and how his operations hurt people, at least with it rushed on this deadline. Even if I did include a little dude next to him for scale.
The buildings I used for the skyscraper part were actually mainly from PD/royalty free pictures of Frank Gehry's work because... God I hope I don't come off as reactionary for this, but his buildings look like if skyscrapers had tumors and then those tumors were extracted to become their own buildings. 
They look like if Everywhere at the End of Time was a Dr Seuss book. They look like if Cool World underwent gentrification and Barry Jackson was always  offscreen weeping a single tear like in a political cartoon.
And for the record, yes the money-eating was inspired by a very specific ProZD sketch, and yes the use of a McMansion as a base was inspired by the great @mcmansionhell
As per usual the whole descriptions, designs, ectcetera from this project are free to use as you see fit under a CC-BY 4.0 license so long as I; Thomas F. Johnson, am credited as their creator!
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blogdemocratesjr · 11 months
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Joan of Arc by Georges de Feure (1898)
By class Joan was the daughter of a working farmer who was one of the headmen of his village, and transacted its feudal business for it with the neighbouring squires and their lawyers. When the castle in which the villagers were entitled to take refuge from raids became derelict, he organized a combination of half a dozen farmers to obtain possession of it so as to occupy it when there was any danger of invasion. As a child, Joan could please herself at times with being the young lady of this castle. Her mother and brothers were able to follow and share her fortune at court without making themselves notably ridiculous. These facts leave us no excuse for the popular romance that turns every heroine into either a princess or a beggar-maid. In the somewhat similar case of Shakespear a whole inverted pyramid of wasted research has been based on the assumption that he was an illiterate laborer, in the face of the plainest evidence that his father was a man of business, and at one time a very prosperous one, married to a woman of some social pretensions. There is the same tendency to drive Joan into the position of a hired shepherd girl, though a hired shepherd girl in Domrémy would have deferred to her as the young lady of the farm.
The difference between Joan's case and Shakespear's is that Shakespear was not illiterate. He had been to school, and knew as much Latin and Greek as most university passmen retain: that is, for practical purposes, none at all. Joan was absolutely illiterate. 'I do not know A from B' she said. But many princesses at that time and for long after might have said the same. Marie Antoinette, for instance, at Joan's age could not spell her own name correctly. But this does not mean that Joan was an ignorant person, or that she suffered from the diffidence and sense of social disadvantage now felt by people who cannot read or write. If she could not write letters, she could and did dictate them and attach full and indeed excessive importance to them. When she was called a shepherd lass to her face she very warmly resented it, and challenged any woman to compete with her in the household arts of the mistresses of well furnished houses. She understood the political and military situation in France much better than most of our newspaper fed university women-graduates understand the corresponding situation of their own country today. Her first convert was the neighboring commandant at Vaucouleurs; and she converted him by telling him about the defeat of the Dauphin's troops at the Battle of Herrings so long before he had official news of it that he concluded she must have had a divine revelation. This knowledge of and interest in public affairs was nothing extraordinary among farmers in a war-swept countryside. Politicians came to the door too often sword in hand to be disregarded: Joan's people could not afford to be ignorant of what was going on in the feudal world. They were not rich; and Joan worked on the farm as her father did, driving the sheep to pasture and so forth; but there is no evidence or suggestion of sordid poverty, and no reason to believe that Joan had to work as a hired servant works, or indeed to work at all when she preferred to go to confession, or dawdle about waiting for visions and listening to the church bells to hear voices in them. In short, much more of a young lady, and even of an intellectual, than most of the daughters of our petty bourgeoisie.
—George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan
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wereh0gz · 11 months
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What’s your favorite structure in Frontiers? Mine is either the floating inverted pyramid on Kronos, or the huge temple that has the last Chaos Emerald on Ouranos
One of my faves is the temple with the Chaos Emerald in Ouranos too! I also like the big tower in Kronos and the little houses around the island. I find those really endearing for some reason (and sad, bc y'know. All the ppl who lived in them are dead. But mostly endearing and cute)
Oh also the giant pinball machine in Chaos. It's so funny that it's just There inside a literal volcano lmao
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The Magician's House - William Corlett
Every autumn, without fail, I go through a "witchy" phase. Last year, I was shopping for a pendulum. This is the only reason I even remembered that this series exists.
I had this idea that I should choose a pendulum that spoke to me. I felt convinced that I would know "my" pendulum when I saw it, and I was listlessly flipping through the same options, over and over. Cone, pyramid, spiral. Crystal, steel, glass.
And then, suddenly, I came across one that was different. It was a sort of inverted teardrop shape, bulbous at the top, curving inwards to a sharp point.
It was the strangest thing, a kind of sense memory. All of a sudden, I was violently reminded of this book series I had loved as a child. I couldn't even figure out why, at first - I didn't know what this shape meant, or even whether it was from the books or the TV show that followed a few years later. But I saw the shape of this pendulum, and I was assaulted, somehow, with the wonder I had felt as a child reading these books. My very first taste of magic.
The only thing I could initially remember from the books is a little side plot about the aunt being a vegetarian. There was nothing else, except a feeling. Not even really a memory, but the memory of an emotion. I was in awe of how nicely the plot came together, I was thrilled by the magic, I was made breathless by the adventure. I remembered the bone deep satisfaction of a story well thought out, clicking into place and changing my perspective. But I couldn't remember what the story was.
After a couple of days, the dusty, forgotten cogs of my brain whirred into reluctant action, to start uncovering long hidden memories. Time travel; a looking glass that's concave in one time, and convex in the other; the magician calling one of the children "Minimus"; a basement being cleared out; an apprentice with sinister motives; an animal death.
Not a lot to go on, but the tug in my rib cage was there, telling me I know this story, intimately. That it was sitting there, just out of reach, as familiar as my own skin. If I dreamed it, every detail would be right. If I read it, it would be coming home.
I knew it might be a bad idea to re-read them. Maybe I would be disappointed by a substandard plot and thin characterisation. Maybe the magic would be spoiled when it didn't live up to my childhood imagination. Maybe I would lose that feeling of wonder to the thin, bitter tinge of cynicism. Or maybe I would rediscover the first step of a path that shaped me. Maybe one day I would give these books to my nephew.
Honestly, having now re-read them, I absolutely stand by them! I first read these when I was six or seven, when I found them in my local library. And then when the TV series came out, perhaps three years later, my dad bought me the tie-in editions of the books, and I read them again several times in quick succession. Thinking back, I don't think I ever actually watched the show, I'm just very familiar with the tie-in covers.
There are parts that haven't aged particularly well - either terms that are no longer socially acceptable, or cultural or technological references that are no longer relevant - but honestly, far less than I would have expected? I think they're still perfectly readable. The first book is actually older than I am, and I would have expected it to have dated far more than it has.
And incredibly, despite it being within my reading level as a child, it honestly wasn't that far below my reading level now! It's clearly aimed at children, but it certainly doesn't talk down to them. It's fast paced, and mostly action centred, in order to hold a shorter attention span. But I doubt that this author ever chose to substitute a more suitable word for a simpler one to cater to his audience.
I loved re-reading this, it was ley lines and animal companions and alchemy, and probably my first experience of magic, and I wish I knew someone else who had read this series. And yes, I cried at the end.
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div-divington · 4 months
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things Remedy could definitely sell in their Official Merch Store that would undoubtedly make them A Sum of Money (a very serious and extremely cost-friendly non-exhaustive list):
- Black mug with the Federal Bureau of Control's seal on it (either the simple, clean, modern all-white version or the full coloured version)
- plushies of The Former. they're cute and i like them.
- mini-fridge that looks like AI10-KE (the Arctic Queen)
- literally just normal stationary with FBC imagery attached. Lemme buy Pope's clipboard.
- Oceanview Motel & Casino keychain
- Inverted Black Pyramid keychain
- Replica posters for all the fun little posters in the Oldest House (Do as you're told! Don't eat the Mold!)
- Get a real actual wizard to curse a buncha rubber duckies so they actually follow buyers around and quack at them (may not be profitable depending on wizard rates)
- The hairclip Jesse gets when she finishes the base game
- just. That poster Ahti has on his office door. Of himself.
- Tiny Little Hotline
- hoodie with Bureau seal on it
- small high-detail statues of Jesse and other characters (Emily, Arish, Langston, Marshall, idk) in action poses (or just dynamic poses)
- a vinyl record featuring literally nothing but Langston's freestyle poetry/rap from AWE on loop (on both sides) (cover art should be a low-res PNG of Langston with 2013 MLG sunglasses Photoshopped poorly onto him and "Langston's Greatest Hits" written in hot pink Comic sans font)
There are also a buncha Alan Wake options too:
- Life-sized cutout of Alan complete with book-holding shelf
- book sleeves so you can dress any unrelated book up as a litany of Alan's literary wonders
- Oh Deer Diner mug
- More of those thermoses (I will eradicate the scalpers that bought them all within literally seconds of them being made available)
- all the Manuscript pages from all the Alan Wake games (including the tiny amount we hear him narrate in AWE) in either an FBC "CLASSIFIED" folder or a dirty envelope
- real gun
- any and all posters from any and all AW games. Like the ones advertising Tom Zane's movies, or the ones telling you to celebrate Deerfest or the ones telling you to visit Coffee World
- plushie of Mayor Setter :)
- plushie of the Coffee World mascot (make it do the terrifying laugh when you squeeze its hand too)
- Barry Wheeler desk statue where the headlamp and Christmas lights light up
- "Not The Worst Mom" mug (PLEASE)
- deer masks
- anatomically accurate Taken-Nightingale statue with removable heart (show me the terror)
- just a framed print out of Alex Casey giving us the Look he always does
- Dr. Hartman's "The Creator's Dilemma" book sleeve so we can bask in his smug smile
- official Alan Wake branded flashlights
- Saga's sweater/sweaters?
- for $3000 Sam Lake just personally shows up at your house and sends you to the Dark Place
feel free to add more
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dollsonmain · 2 years
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I’ve repeatedly tried to warn That Guy to build a separate structure to hide out in during the nights in 7 Days so zombies don’t break the supports out from under the place he stores his stuff, without spoiling the fact there are dudes with explosives strapped to their chests later in the game, because I don’t want to deal with him taking it out on us when his house gets blown up and he loses everything but he’s not listening.
So not looking forward to that.
What I don’t know is whether there’s a max weight the boxes can carry. He’s building upward and was doing so in an inverted pyramid until his outpost kept falling apart on him, but I don’t know if he can build straight up without that happening.
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tsuki-sennin · 2 years
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Get ready! For Boost! AND Magnum.
September 4th, Geats Day! I've been itching to get into this, you've got no idea. What sort of desires would be reflected in our Riders' eyes this season?
My tag for this will be... "the world's next round: trick shot of desire for the grand victory". Mute that in your tags for your convenience.
Spoilers, I guess...
-Those waves were from the trailers!
-Coin
-Ah yep, the loot boxes!
-There he is, the Geats Man.
-God, I can't wait to hear the theme song.
-That is a... very nicely animated inverted CGI pyramid, but
-Sakurai Keiwa!
-My man just wants a job, give it to him.
-Oh shoot, he's a mad man.
-"I want world peace!"
-We are strong! No one can tell us we're wrong! Searching our hearts for so long! Both us knowing love is a battlefield!
-Oh shit, series over already?
-Wow, not even two minutes in and we already have aspirations of godhood?
-Who will change the world?
-"Noooooooo, my jooooooob!"
-Sara-neesan!
-"Bro you'd just donate all that money to charity lmao"
-"...yeah </3"
-Jesus, Sara. We don't need these kinds of scenarios so soon.
-Tanuki soba~!
-I'm personally more of a kitsune udon guy myself.
-"I am Neon Kurama! And I just fucking murdered by the housing market!"
-Oh fuck.
-Those guys definitely aren't from around here.
-Let's gooooo, soba time!
-"MY NOODLES"
-Feelin' boxed in, huh?
-Ooooooh, he killed that poor man!
-Keiwaaaa!
-Jyamato, huh?
-Desire Driver!
-Quite the body count, even for this early.
-"No dreaming for you, normie!"
-There he is. The Polar Bear Man.
-And the Buffalo Zombie Man!
-Ooooooh, love that Poison Charge.
-Gamers rise up.
-All these points.
-Oh shoot, we're going
-Where's Mr. Fox?
-Still has his Ace!
-Esu Ukiyo... what kind of man are you, I wonder?
-Awesome bike, awesome bike.
-Where we droppin', boys?
-Ooooh, a fireman type!
-Love this kinda drama. Shirowe(?) and Buffa are definitely gonna impress me a lot.
-The world's coming to an end!
-Oop. Guess poor Shirowe wasn't enough of an epic gamer.
-Ohhhh, there goes Miss Neon! ...I fear this may be foreshadowing.
-Mr. Fox with the save!
-Not gonna show us the full transformations yet, huh?
-Ooooooh, gonna build me up.
-I love how he instantly assumes he's her boyfriend.
-"Soooooo, you're saying I have a shot."
-...I have noticed that he didn't specify whether or not he had a chance with Keiwa or Neon.
-Definitely get a lot of Kagami/Tendo vibes off of Sakurai/Ukiyo.
-Hitting that there jackpot.
-The world's ending, just like that?
-Thank you for reminding me that the dinosaurs are all gone. Just like my friends Ikki and Vice :(
-Ah yes. "Let's end the world and start over."
-That's a very appropriate response.
-Set!
-Magnum!
-Ready, Fight!
-Oooooooh! Love this music.
-"Get ready for the highlight of the game!"
-Oooooh, man can shoot!
-God, he's so cool...
-Magnum Shooter 40X!
-Ah yep, the classic circling strategy!
-Hot damn, fox man!
-Oh, he got shooties on his arms too!
-Goddamn!
-Oh, here comes the fortress.
-Oooooh, he snipe!
-Oh my god he kissed it.
-Set!
-Boost!
-Ready, Fight!
-"It fucking ate him"
-Geats about to bring down the house.
-Get Ready! For Boost. And. Magnum.
-Oh my god, he's upside down.
-Let's do this thang!
-Revolve On!
-EHHHHH indeed, Keiwa.
-Magnum Boost Grand Victory
-Mission Clear.
-Ukiyo Ace.
-Our new God of Desire!
-"Who the fuck, man?"
-Kamen Rider Geats.
-"Oh, hold on!"
-His baby done left him.
-"Byeeeeeee~!"
-"A game is happening."
-Oh, the new world is happening!
-Holy shit.
-Imagine going through all that on this frequent a basis.
-Tanuki soba guy's okay!
-Ohhhhhhh.
-"Hooray, you're a Kamen Rider now!"
-"I'm a what now"
-Holy shit, there're so many of them.
-Neon-san!
-Holy shit that's like 50 cats.
-No going back now, Keiwa-kun.
-"That's... not a dream?"
-Is that the theme song?
-I want to hear it, I demand to hear it, I neeeeeeed to hear it.
-Desire Grand Prix. A game of survival only for those truly worthy to change the world.
-Gotta say, this has me hooked. Takahashi's really good at grabbing my attention.
-Let's play again sometime, hmm?
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binch-i-might-be · 2 years
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I used to travel a lot with my grandma when I was a child, and I have a vague memory of visiting a city that had this one architectural quirk that was a big tourist attraction.
it was. that some historic houses had inverted pyramids for ceilings??? as in you had the house and the ceiling went down into the last story. pyramid coming down from the ceiling. you could look at it from the inside. we did look at it from the inside.
I am like 90% certain I made this up entirely because WHAT the fuck. why would you do that. how would it even work. what about rain. did I fucking dream this?? lately I've been remembering it a lot and I have no idea what's up with this
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anthurak · 1 year
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My Top Posts in 2022:
#5
So, uh... here’s an interesting trend I’ve noticed over Volumes 6, 7 and 8:
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Volume 6: Ruby uses a big heroic speech to bait Cordovin into taking a shot at here, thus revealing her cannon’s weak-spot for Ruby to take out.
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Volume 7: Ruby needles Harriet’s competitive streak in order to bait her into chasing her around for the entire RWBY vs. Ace-Ops fight, thereby keeping Harriet distracted and unable to help her teammates.
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#4
One of my favorite things about Control is just how completely and utterly nuts/bonkers/GONE the FBC is as one of these ‘secret government blackops’ groups.
Like this is a trope we’re all fairly familiar with at this point; some secret government organization formed to monitor, contain and research all kinds of weird shit and keep it secret from the public. Also they may or may not have kinda gone totally rogue somewhere along the way and might now answer only to themselves at this point in a ‘who watches the watchers?’ commentary on the need for oversight.
But the more you find out about the Federal Bureau of Control, the more it becomes clear they just so utterly past ANY of that by the time the game begins. And have been for basically the last fifty some odd years.
Like here is a basic overview of the FBC that you learn within the first thirty or so minutes of the game: They are a secret government organization dedicated to the containment, cataloguing and research of supernatural artifacts and events. They are headquartered in what they call ‘The Oldest House’, a tall, imposing yet utterly nondescript building in the middle of New York City that is literally impossible for anyone to enter or even notice unless they already know about it. And the interior of the building is actually a twisting extradimensional labyrinth that also opens up to other dimensions/realities and might actually be the World Tree Yggdrasil. It also kind of hates any technology made in the last twenty years. And apparently Number 2 Pencils.
Oh, and the FBC doesn’t really report to the US Government. They report to a floating, inverted black pyramid that exists in a space outside of known reality that might also be the collective human subconscious. The pyramid is colloquially referred to as ‘The Board’ and they are an extradimensional entity/group of entities that appoints the Director of the FBC via the use of a physics-defying geometric gun called ‘The Service Weapon’ that is probably Excalibur/Mjolnir/every other legendary weapon in human myth. They also speak in word-salads and probably know they are in a video game.
See, back in 1964 when the FBC first discovered The Oldest House, they basically decided ‘WOW, this place is cool! Let’s make it our new headquarters!’ and promptly moved in. This was also when the current Director at the time found the Service Weapon within The Oldest House, made contact with/was chosen by The Board and from the point on the FBC really hasn’t answered to the US Government anymore.
Also, the Government basically doesn’t even know the Bureau even EXISTS anymore. Remember how The Oldest House has this kind of ‘Perception Filter’ that prevents almost anyone from entering it or even noticing it, which is how basically nobody can find it despite the fact that it is right in the middle of New York City? Well, after they moved in and became effective ‘residents’ of the house, this filter started applying to the FBC itself. They basically CAN’T be noticed or remembered at this point by anyone who isn’t part of the organization. The reason this secret organization can operate entirely off the grid and can’t be tracked is because they literally have freaky extradimensional reality-warping covering their tracks.
This is what I meant when I said that the FBC is just so far GONE. At this point, the FBC is itself a crazy, supernatural thing in and of itself.
Other fun details about the FBC include:
The Bureau facilities in The Oldest House are not powered by coal, oil or nuclear power. No, instead the lights are kept on by a former director who went a tad power-mad and lost control of his pyrokinesis, so the Bureau locked him up in a giant ‘Sarcophagus Containment’ unit and now use him as a power-generator.  He also sometimes talks through the waste-disposal furnace to try and get people to bring him human sacrifices.
The maintenance sector of the FBC includes an area called the ‘Black Rock Quarry’. The so called ‘black rock’ is an extra-dimensional mineral that, among other things, blocks and dampens supernatural effects and abilities. Needless to say, the Bureau mines the stuff extensively. Now, despite being within The Oldest House, the Black Rock Quarry is an open-top quarry. To space.
One of the ways Bureau personnel get around is via pull-strings that show up all over The Oldest House. Pull a string three times and you are transported to the Oceanview Motel, a quaint little motel that probably exists outside of known reality because no one has ever been able to actually go or see outside the motel. Once you’re there, you just ring the bell on the front desk three times, do some random task and procure a room key. The key opens a door, but only one with an inverted black pyramid. From there, you pull another string and are transported back to somewhere else in The Oldest House. So basically a rather convoluted teleportation system. There are also doors with other symbols that probably go to other realities, but the Bureau hasn’t figured out how to open them. Though one does seem to lead to a void of malevolent darkness that feeds off human creativity and is currently holding one Alan Wake.
Also, the bureau’s janitor is probably a Finnish Sea God.
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One particularly interesting detail I haven’t seen many people talking about is the fact that Ironwood has a prosthetic left arm at the start of Volume 8.
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I mean, think about the implications here. Ironwood’s arm was badly injured in his fight with Watts, but it’s not like he actually LOST the arm.
It seriously looks like that in the scant few hours between the end of Volume 7 and the start of Volume 8, Ironwood decided that he wasn’t going to wait for his arm to heal and simply amputated it and had it replaced with another prosthetic.
Ironwood didn’t lose his left arm due to battle or self-sacrifice. He lost it due to his own impatience.
Now in the moment of Volume 8, this is a pretty stark indicator of Ironwood’s villainous turn and how much he’s started dehumanizing those around him. He’s flat out dehumanizing himself.
But in the broader context of Ironwood’s character, I really have to wonder: Is this even the FIRST time Ironwood has done this? Replace part of his body with machinery not out of necessity but out of convenience?
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So like, Belos/Phillip calls himself a ‘Witch Hunter’, but we all know what that really means, right? Considering just where and when he came from?
I mean, it seems only fitting in a show about Witches, the main villain turns out to be an actual seventeenth-century, New England, puritan witch hunter.
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Okay, random little detail I noticed on rewatch;
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The Crimson Abode
His house looked like a miniature palace of foreign design. It had deep crimson walls outlined with golden paint, a gently curved rooftop filled with deep dark tiles and a small spire-like structure that sprouted from the roof like a wizard's tower. Its main entrance was a light red door with golden decorations that resembled flowing rivers of fire. Painted on the door's center was the same golden symbol depicted on the genasi's back: A round disk on top of an inverted pyramid surrounded by jagged edges. The inside was somehow minimalist and glamorous at the same time. His furniture was sparse, but very well made and organized in an oddly pleasing manner. The floor was made of a smooth auburn stone that led into his modest kitchen and living room, where a large orange carpet with intricate embroidery took most of the floor. Inside the living room were a pair of bookshelves filled with books of many different genres, next to a comfortable armchair and equally comfortable sofa, and a pot shrub with red leaves and dark wood sitting at the corner.
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Inverting the Paradigm of Modern Education
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The image above depicts the impressive architecture found within the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. One of the museum’s most distinguishable physical attributes comes in the form of a glass pyramid, visible from outside the building. However, the pyramid also extends beyond the surface, inverting itself and extending into the interior of the museum. It is a privilege to be able to explore this extension, and I was fortunate enough to be able to see it firsthand in 2014. Since then, I have always thought of this pyramid and its relativity to pedagogy and learning — there is so much depth that requires multiple vantage points to fully see and experience the impact of it all.
Throughout this semester, we’ve been encouraged to dig deeper into the “why’s,” pondering what it means to be an educator and how we position ourselves in the world around us. Looking at this pyramid, you can only see what is underneath by going down, forcing you to interact with the space around you. However, like I mentioned earlier, not everyone is able to do so, as the museum requires ticketed entry. It is also worth noting that this museum in particular is steeped in Colonial roots, and as fascinating as the many artifacts housed are, we should still be cognizant that these pieces are largely stolen. This is reminiscent of us as settlers on Indigenous land, and how recognizing this and how the system works, and how many of the things we appreciate and laud have been presented to us through means of forceful violence, is what equips us with the knowledge and tools to shape our pedagogy around our positionality.
Michael Apple’s article, “Challenging the Epistemological Fog: The Roles of the Scholar/Activist in Education,” discusses Gramsci’s (1971) argument that in order to participate and propel “truly counter-hegemonic education” and to be a “committed cultural worker,” we need to take conventionally distributed “elite knowledge” and “reconstruct its form and content so that it serve(s) genuinely progressive social needs “ (Apple, 511). To me, the concept of the subverted pyramid feels like utilizing the knowledge that we have and putting it through a prism in order to challenge convention and encompass more space (much like Nicole West-Burns’ TEDtalk about seeing perspectives through a metaphorical kaleidoscope).
Now the question I have is: how? How do we do this? At what point will I have done enough inner work to be able to feel confident in the classroom?
Apple, M. W. (2016). Challenging the epistemological fog: The roles of the scholar/activist in education. European Educational Research Journal, 15(5), 505-515. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474904116647732
West-Burns, N. (2019, November). Building Critical Consciousness for Educational Equity [Video]. TED Conferences. https://www.ted.com/talks/nicole_west_burns_building_critical_consciousness_for_educational_equity
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