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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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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.

[–] Rhaxapopouetl@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Isn't it the plot of the movie

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In the mouth of madness

(A very good movie btw)

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Rhaxapopouetl@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well it's just the artist commentary on the original concept of meme, the way Richard Dawkins described them in the selfish gene.

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