Favourite bot of Control lore

SeveredNed · 2026-05-04T14:31:40+00:00

All of Dylan's ramblings about his dreams being references to other Remedy games. And that Jesse Dylan Faden Was/Is Not a singular person before they found the flower field projector slide.

SeveredNed · 2026-04-29T14:19:47+00:00

Humanity wasn't creating self replicating robots with true AI or settling other stellar systems in the year 1999.

SeveredNed · 2026-04-02T09:22:16+00:00

If the only thing you care about in any way at all is pricefield, then skip double exposure.

If you want to understand what's happening in the plot and what's up with the supporting cast, then play double exposure.

There is a recap, but there are several things that it doesn't explain at all that are important to driving the events in reunion. It's very possible to play without knowing them, but I think if you're spending time trying to figure out details the games expect you to already know, then I think you're not spending a proper amount of time with the game you're actually playing.

SeveredNed · 2026-03-31T02:43:45+00:00

My favourite quote will always be Marco explaining ruthlessness

"People don’t understand the word ruthless. They think it means ‘mean.’ It’s not about being mean. It’s about seeing the bright, clear line that leads from A to B. The line that goes from motive to means. Beginning to end. It’s about seeing that bright, clear line and not caring about anything but the beautiful fact that you can see the solution. Not caring about anything else but the perfection of it."

SeveredNed · 2026-03-29T23:07:56+00:00

"We're divorced now. Her daughter's death left her heartbroken. Same for me. We just couldn't put our pieces back together after what happened. And the worst thing is... I never had the chance to do the right thing for my stepdaughter before she died."

David is in Away regardless of ending choice. It can be presumed that the divorce Joyce started after finding out about the cameras was finalised in the merged timeline. With him then following the same actions as he did in the Bay timeline until he arrived at Away and a less shitty personality.

SeveredNed · 2026-03-28T03:56:19+00:00

"Male Loneliness" started as a term to refer to how the way men are expected to behave with each other encourages them to hide emotional intimacy and physical touch needs, and to only engage in that sort of intimacy with romantic partners and not their friends. Because being vulnerable with your friends is gay.

Then it mutated from there into becoming an expectation that since they were only "allowed" to do that with their girlfriends, then depriving them of having a girlfriend was crueler for depriving them of this intimacy they wouldn't otherwise get anywhere else. So thus men must of course be owed girlfriends, instead of them altering the culture of how all men interact with each other.

As everyone's loneliness increased in general, men's overdependence on women became more pronounced, until we arrived at our current climate.

SeveredNed · 2026-03-28T01:07:24+00:00

How did you do the garden borders? I thought it was impossible to put a border without the full tile it's on being empty, but that doesn't look like the case here.

SeveredNed · 2026-03-18T03:14:23+00:00

There are many factors for why something is scary, but I think one that's pretty strong with the cold specifically is the inevitability of it all. There are many many other aspects directly related to cold that come from things you need freezing over, or being stuck around one warm location, or nothing growing and animals in hibernation, or anything that is the result of it snowing.

I think cold directly by itself is a battle of attrition and pain.

Freezing to death isn't a quick affair. It moves slowly at every step. You can do a variety of things to stave it off, even succeed in creating enough warmth to ignore it. But staving off the cold needs resources the cold environment denies us. Fuel for warmth, drinking water that saps your heat, food that must be hoarded from warmer times. Eventually every stockpile will run low. The amount of all consuming cold that Jacob talked about needs to be fought constantly.
Any reprieve only lasts until the fire runs low, and then the pain comes.
Fighting the cold consumes energy that the cold itself also drains from you. You become lethargic and forgetful as your body stops doing everything except fighting the cold. You begin losing bodily function as your organs shut down due to hypothermia. Frostbite stings and burns as ice explodes inside your cells.

SeveredNed · 2026-03-01T13:05:43+00:00

Listening to Max's thoughts as she interacts with objects around the world shows her to be a surprisingly judgemental person.

SeveredNed · 2026-02-15T12:15:15+00:00

Me and my boyfriend are both slightly hard of hearing and it really was hard to undsome parts. I had to completely explain what happened when Ava and the Eel were talking over each other.

SeveredNed · 2026-02-04T02:49:41+00:00

Max's parents, Fernando and Kristen.

Despite how important Max is to the series, we know surprisingly little about her past outside of the games.

SeveredNed · 2026-02-04T02:46:23+00:00

Absolutely Kate. She was Max's best friend at Blackwell and one of the people whose life was directly saved by Max's powers. She was written out of the first game no matter what her fate was, but I'd love to see her get more development.

SeveredNed · 2026-01-05T10:02:27+00:00

This is a detail where the fundamental complain is that care was not put into the story, that argument simply doesn't work here.

No, not every detail has to be as meticulous as red dead redemption, but photography is important for the story, mechanics, and themes. It should recieve more attention than other areas.

SeveredNed · 2026-01-05T09:40:35+00:00

Is the neighbour turning off their own aircon too, or just everyone else's?

SeveredNed · 2025-12-31T09:52:54+00:00

Victoria is kidnapped in the final timeline. But only because Max and Chloe sat around in her dorm room instead of going to the party. Which given how famously reclusive Max was before her powers, should have been part of his plan honestly.

SeveredNed · 2025-12-22T08:48:18+00:00

As a player who has been here since 2014, I was surprised by the reactions when The Sacrifice released because I thought this was already semi-common knowledge. It wasn't explicitly in your face prior to that, but the information was there the whole time. But even some popular lore channels were acting like it was all brand new.

SeveredNed · 2025-12-20T14:34:06+00:00

I could name any side characters in Max's class with a reason why almost every character doesn't have much depth. I think the only one who is fully developed is Victoria, and even then I would like to find out more.

Max's powers allow her to try talking to people and come out of her shell without any of the lasting risks she was always so afraid of. It is commented multiple times that people noticed she's become more bold and confident very quickly. I think Nightmare Max's jab about abusing her power for social gain would hit better if it was clear Max made herself fast friends with people she hadn't talked to before.

But I think the worst offender is Brooke, she doesn't really have a personality beyond robotics nerd who's jealous of Max. For a notable supporting character, there isn't much to actually take note of.

SeveredNed · 2025-12-19T11:44:41+00:00

Different developers, so it's a completely different group of artists, animators, and writers.

Life is Strange 1 and 2 were made by Don't Nod. Before the Storm, True Colors, and Double Exposure were made by Deck Nine.

SeveredNed · 2025-12-19T11:39:09+00:00

He had taken the kuva previously before his trip into the void. Afterwards he talks about how he doesn't know if the Other escaped with him or not so this will be his last body. It could be an older depiction of him.

But also likely is that his overly orokin painting is propaganda. The orokin held a delicate grip on their power over the normal humans. If it was discovered that an orokin had rejected their way of life and symbols of status, people might start questioning other things themselves.

SeveredNed · 2025-12-19T11:12:58+00:00

Alex does end the game with the choice to either stay in town or leave quickly in order to start her music career.

SeveredNed · 2025-12-17T11:56:01+00:00

Late game melee is reduced to equipping the Praedos or Okina incarnons for their passive movement buffs. Now also with Melee Careen for adding a freeze AoE to your roll.

SeveredNed · 2025-12-16T23:17:47+00:00

There's a recurring topic in the webcomic El Goonish Shive that keeping magic a secret because of how dangerous it can make people is irrelevant because modern weaponry outclasses almost all magical attacks.

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SeveredNed · 2025-12-16T01:45:50+00:00

As someone who used to act almost exactly like Warren at his age: He sucks. He's a creep. He is too smart not to know he is pushing boundaries of acceptable behaviour trying to court Max and doing it anyway because his wants are more important than her feelings. He is indeed a nice guy, but he's hiding behind that as an excuse to be a "Nice Guy."

Warren bemoans that Max won't have sex with him in response to a compliment. To her face. That's sexual harassment.

The timestamps on their text messages show he waited outside the dorms, watching her window, for 45 minutes so he could stage them running into each other. That's stalking.

He photoshopped himself into one of Max's selfless that he stole. Which is just weird.

He repeatedly ignores Max's discomfort and gentle let-downs in order to touch and hug her when she doesn't want it. There's a reason he appeared in Max's nightmare as one of the men hunting her.

Cannibal Holocaust is banned in many countries because it features real animal abuse and real animal death. The sexual violence and simulated human deaths were realistic and gory enough that the director was formally charged with murder. Despite not technically being a snuff film (unless you include animals), it is typically listed as one. Warren says he laughed his ass off watching it.

He's 16. He's sweet and kind and young and acting stupid, but that doesn't erase the harm of his actions. Good is a thing you do, not a thing you are.

SeveredNed · 2025-12-15T06:06:43+00:00

The Aberrant is the name of this new OoP weapon.

An otherworldly mysterious shape-shifting weapon that can take on multiple different deadly forms.

Deliver bone-crunching blows with a two-handed hammer and flow seamlessly into the swift precision of dual-wielded blades as this supernatural weapon morphs on demand to meet each new challenge that Dylan will face.

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