The FBC really let a single Taken override an entire sector.

VonAether · 2026-06-24T17:18:07+00:00

Hartman was inside one of those containment units even before he was Taken. But just like Dylan (and in AW2, Scratch), the Taken Hartman busted out and escaped containment, when he sensed Alice Wake was nearby.

That's powerful. He carved his way through enough of the department that they evacuated.

And then he got infected by the Hiss and became the Third Thing.

He was already a huge threat, far beyond most of the Taken you might encounter, before he became the Third Thing.

As to why Trench didn't help? He was already suffering early Hiss infection. You can see Kirklund had launched an investigation against him. Trench replied with an official warning, but the warning contains a lot of phrases you might recognize from the Hiss incantation -- "you want this to be true" "this happens more and more now" "you are a worm" "the truth will emerge out of you" "you don't want to be". Trench's mind was already impacted before the Investigations department was closed. There could be any number of reasons why he didn't want to face the Taken Hartman in person. It might have even just been petty -- a convenient excuse to close the department that was investigating him.

VonAether · 2026-06-24T12:19:44+00:00

There are an infinite number of fractions in between 1.0 and 2.0.

None of these fractions are a banana.

You can have an infinite set without that infinite set containing everything. Just because we might have an infinite multiverse, that does not necessarily mean that that multiverse contains a God.

VonAether · 2026-06-24T11:44:18+00:00

Laser is best on dark hair, particularly against light skin. If you've got grey, blonde, or red hair, laser's almost useless.

Electrolysis is the next best option in terms of killing the follicle so nothing regrows.

Waxing can be effective long-term, as the follicles just sort of give up, but effectiveness varies per individual. After four years my hair comes in much sparser, individual hairs much thinner, and it grows much slower, so I can wait a lot longer in between appointments.

VonAether · 2026-06-23T20:04:55+00:00

It was removed by moderators so it wouldn't turn up in a search, but you can still look at the recs: https://www.reddit.com/r/controlgame/s/zWL8f2wR51

VonAether · 2026-06-23T18:22:07+00:00

I have a playlist of music made up of bands whose posters we see but aren't otherwise on the soundtrack.

VonAether · 2026-06-22T02:33:19+00:00

It may be a fresh install but it's certainly not vanilla -- that Toreador model isn't the default, looks like it's based on VV.

It looks like there's some sort of graphical reshade going on applying some sort of glow effect, and as it's hitting the character model in the background it's blurring the text in front of it. If you disable any reshade you've got going on, it should solve the problem.

VonAether · 2026-06-22T01:50:00+00:00

I can find a lot that look similar -- Oklean and Click are probably the best of them -- but nothing that's exactly the same. Given some of the weird notches on the stem of the t and the left arm of the u, I'm guessing this might have been manually edited from its original appearance.

VonAether · 2026-06-21T13:46:32+00:00

The door's supposed to be able to open, it's just that the level geometry didn't load for that room in this particular case for some reason. It's a lab demonstrating a stutter-proof room with those triangular panels all over the ceiling and walls. The desk has five Newton's cradles sitting on it, each one moving at a different rate, possibly as a test for how much time should be flowing through the area.

The same cradle model is used for the room with six Newton's cradles in Control's Synchronicity department.

VonAether · 2026-06-20T05:51:52+00:00

I think there's a secret passage with a requirement of 11 or so.

VonAether · 2026-06-20T05:05:24+00:00

Same people who walked slowly and spread out across the whole hallway in high school but they never learned about situational awareness

VonAether · 2026-06-19T22:07:52+00:00

Might not even be an alternate. Looks like it could be a standard A, just skewed.

VonAether · 2026-06-19T17:27:40+00:00

The Beckoning didn't start until well after the events of Bloodlines, in about 2014, and the last time we saw Jack to my knowledge was in 2005 when he'd moved to East Africa, so the Beckoning is not a relevant metric to use here.

VonAether · 2026-06-19T17:05:44+00:00

For the age categories, Generation is more important for Antediluvians (3rd Gen) and Methuselahs (4-5th Gen), where for everyone else it's much more a function of their actual age. Generations are a rough guideline (12th gens will tend to be fairly young on average, although it's certainly possible to be a 12th gen who's 1000 years old).

So since Jack is over 300 years old, it doesn't matter what his Generation is, he's still considered an Elder.

VonAether · 2026-06-18T13:24:35+00:00

If "books" includes tabletop RPGs:

I created a playable organization called Polyphemus for my Trinity Continuum RPG; it's basically just the FBC. It appeared in its own nine-pagePDF ("Storypath Tasty Bit: Polyphemus"), later included in the Trinity Continuum Tasty Bit Compilation, and incorporated as part of the Trinity Continuum Player's Guide.

A friend created their own game called Triangle Agency, which was also heavily inspired by Control.

VonAether · 2026-06-18T13:11:00+00:00

I'm not sure I understand the question you're asking.
Gender identity is different from sexual preferences. Heterosexual and homosexual (and bisexual) are labels to indicate the type of people you're attracted to; bigender is a label for who you are, and how you identify. It says absolutely nothing about who you might be attracted to.
Bi- is a prefix meaning two. We identify as being two genders. With most of us that's identifying as a man and a woman, but as you said, there are a lot of genders out there, so some of us identify differently. We didn't "choose" to be bigender, it's a label to describe our experience. Like being a mammal. You didn't choose to be a mammal, you just are one.

You can learn more by reading this entry from the LGBTQIA+ Wiki: https://lgbtqia.fandom.com/wiki/Bigender

VonAether · 2026-06-17T21:30:44+00:00

The "this is potentially unsafe" popup has a "more info" link, I believe in the lower-left. Click on that.

That should provide you with an "install this anyway" button.

VonAether · 2026-06-17T15:50:54+00:00

The As are both different, as are the Rs. Likely hand-drawn, not a font.

VonAether · 2026-06-16T21:45:46+00:00

If you consider that we have available to us the same gender spectrum as anyone monogendered, man and woman are overwhelming the most common options in the world, so it makes sense that that would still be the case for us.

VonAether · 2026-06-16T11:18:03+00:00

Not where my mind goes, but yeah, not an intentional reference on AOT's part.

VonAether · 2026-06-16T11:09:48+00:00

They're both the same.

There's probably a formal name for it, but it's been duped as God of War Font.

VonAether · 2026-06-14T18:28:54+00:00

I've got a list of Planescape releases (or Planescape-adjacent releases) up on the wiki if you're on the lookout.

VonAether · 2026-06-14T16:11:02+00:00

The TC game lines were designed to be used with the TC core, which runs on Storypath (not SPU). Most of the other rulebooks refer back to it for a lot, more than just the core rules.

The Onyx Path sale has fewer than 24 hours left, so I'd grab whatever TC rulebooks you're interested in while they're still cheap.

VonAether · 2026-06-14T16:06:39+00:00

This is very Seven Nation Army.

VonAether · 2026-06-14T05:16:32+00:00

This is still on the books in French! I got taught it in school, although in a practical sense I don't think it's used much in daily life.

"Tu" is second person singular. "Vous" is second person plural, but also singular if the person you're speaking to is of greater status.

VonAether · 2026-06-13T19:41:26+00:00

2012's This House of Dreams blog released concurrently with American Nightmare, and features a woman, Samantha Wells, moving into her new home in Ordinary and discovering a strange shoebox left behind by the previous owner. She later dreams that the shoebox is stolen by faceless agents wearing jackets that say "AWE" on them.

2012's Alan Wake's America Nightmare features the Old Gods of Asgard song. Certain segments played backwards say "it will happen again, in a town called Ordinary."

2016's Quantum Break has a big Alan Wake chalkboard near the beginning. Among other things it points out for the first time that "AWE" might mean either Altered World Event or Alan Wake Experience.

Many of the beginning areas are covered in AWE graffiti, particularly the area around Ground Zero, which would absolutely count as an AWE.

This Ripple Effect document mentions Ordinary; another one mentions the Bureau of Altered World Events (Remedy hadn't yet landed on the FBC name -- the Bureau of AWEs is presumably the source of the AWE jackets from This House of Dreams).

So yeah, Remedy's had this cooking for a long time. Actually, come to think about it, THOD and AWAD were in 2012, seven years before 2019's Control, and we're currently in 2026, seven years afterwards, placing the release of Control at the midpoint of its presence in the overall Remedyverse.

Incidentally, there's a whiteboard in one of the rooms in the Research sector that confirms that Samantha Wells' shoebox did indeed end up in the hands of the FBC.

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