Agencies still use tape decks cause it's too risky to update them and the infrastructure is almost perfected lol. Just takes an age to read from them. LTO5 tape masterrace 😎
With regards to modern tech, if you know what a SCIF is (basically an office where classified materials are handled) all modern tech is pretty much banned except for government approved devices. Mostly because of their ability to be tracked or collect images & audio.
Omgggggg I was just wondering if you were going to keep on posting videos about Control. Thank you soooo much, love the way you narrate and how you tackle Control's story and symbolism it just feels personal and as if you are incentivizing us to learn and become more interested about the paranormal in a fun way, similar to what Emily does
Thanks! I love Emily so your comparison to her made me very happy. :) I’m glad that you enjoy the way I narrate. I try to be approachable, fun and warm in my videos so it's great to see that's how I’m coming across. I just want to share my passion and curiosity for these topics with people, allowing viewers to engage with subjects in new ways.
Control has become one of my recent hyperfixations and there's so little discussion content on youtube for it, i cannot describe how great it's been to find your videos because for starters it has defintely aided in quenching my thirst for contrnt surronding the game but it has also generally just been amazing and lead to me noticing details i hadn't previously in game!
Its funny, most of these videos are subjects i already know from reading the in game collectibles and yet I still enjoy sitting down and watching you talk about them. Youve managed to do something most other people cant - hold my interest on topics most would label as "shit i already know"
I'll take that as a compliment. :) I’m glad that you still find the videos enjoyable to watch despite already being familiar with the ideas/topics discussed!
As soon as I seen the title I just thought of the video "why are people afraid of modern technology" where someone turns fast yelling technology with a board that says technology.
Oh god the technology clip from Brass Eye. lol You're not the only person to think of it, I actually had that clip in the video at one point but alas it didn't work.
Amazing video, I’ve been thinking about this maybe in the future when technology has gotten deeper into the collective unconscious there would be digital altered items and stuff like that
nice :D I've been checking your channel now and then for a week and finally big brain me activated the bell haha I felt so dumb. Really like your content, only discovered you about a month ago
Nice vid! I always thought it was stuck with old tech is because that’s when Northmoor discovered the House, and as he’s still alive, technically, I thought he might be disregarding change.
Another great video, thanks for sharing; I really appreciated the recap about Objects of Power. I love to see how you're focusing in "secondary" aspects to generate discussion on underrated topics! The first thing I thought was "it's a super secret security department, of course they want avoid devices that makes leaking information much easier", and even if it may still be one of the reasons, now I think the last point you touched it's the most important and it's a little meta because many people if they were asked to describe a bureau, they will probably describe something like the FBC. More over, eliminating the technology we (gamers) are more familiar with rn contributes to the sense of alienation and mistery that the whole game builds.
i was looking up the NSC from control and got pointed to your video, and i have to say it's been a blessing from the YT algorithm, because your content is nice, to the point, and with the perfect amount of extra detail to give a nice and full understanding, plus your voice-over is great, you have a lovely voice. i hope to see you do youtube more reguarly and see more content from you in the future : ) love everything about you & your channel so far. you have a new sub, and a new fan if you decide to keep making content : )
Thank you! :) I'm glad you enjoyed the videos. I will be making more videos in the future as I love making them! Though I will be branching out from Control content and covering some other games/topics I enjoy. My next video is taking me a while and looks to be on the longer side but it should hopefully get it finished by Halloween or November.
Honestly I love the way the No. 2 pencil ban works for the game. I remember when I first read that document, I was confused and ended up finding it really funny. I just thought it was some joke thing and didn’t think too much of it. As the game went on though, and I understood a bit more about how the universe of Control worked, I finally got why they specifically were mentioned. They have such a universal image to people that if I had to guess, the FBC probably has had legitimate issues with no. 2 pencils becoming altered items in some way and causing trouble. It’s…still honestly pretty funny to me but god I’d hate to be the person that got hurt by an altered pencil.
I really love the way you present and summarize the lore and ideas of Control! I've recently been so obsessed with the game and need more of it my life. Thank you for making these explained videos and I hope you release more in the future! :)
Two random thoughts. What if when "smart" devices become.. understood - the object of power that the device will become will be.. inteligent? What if when the new devices that dissapear in the bureau are being.. examined by the oldest house? they break becouse it is testing them... trying to understand them...
Reckon Darling's presentations are to help give younger FBC employees a grounding that the older employees already have, in order to reinforce the "older and archetypal is safer" ritualistic mentality?
I hope you cover more of this Remedy shared universe, the way you telling and explaining the story and concept is pretty good, especially after alan wake 2 released
Another great video! Your voice and speech pattern are perfect for this type of content. I like how you drew information from so many sources to make this thorough explanation of the archetypal object ban in the oldest house. This game is incredible and I love every bit of it! Great work!
This was a really well produced, researched and thought out video. I've seen much shoddier content from those with much bigger subs numbers! Please, keep up the good work and try and squeeze in making more content. THANKS
Might be too much to hope to see anything anytime soon, but I feel like it'd be interesting if you did a video comparing and contrasting concepts from the SCP wiki, and the world of Control/Alan Wake. Pataphysical, Cognitohazards, Memetics, stuff like that.
Thanks! I’m happy that you found it to be well thought out. When I was first started making this video, I was concerned about it being too abstract or hard to follow so I'm glad its not.
First of all - great video, glad I stumbled upon this channel. Second - this concept always bugged me. The oldest house is already filled to the brim with archetypal objects, where's the guarantee that they won't go altered? Even the clothing employees whear, the mundane obejct they use, their tables, chairs, speakers, guns, most things inside the building are, at the end, archetypal representations of their concepts - I half-expected to see the items inside the building to be insanely designed and barely recognizable, and seeing the exact opposite just confuses me - a thousand items inside the House should be going altered every day.
I also think the collective conciousness plays a massive role in this as well. When we think of a bureau, we mostly are familiar with them using outdated technologies as a while, as we are familiar with how slow things are and how much of a pain it is to start shifting to more modern standards. Take the DMZ for example. When we can easily file everything via servers and do things online, we still need to file paperwork anyways due to a formality, and just accept the fact that they use older technologies anyways. And it isn't unsurprising to us when we hear the FBI and whatnot still using older standards and technologies from the 1970s thanks to films and depictions of such. Despite the FBI, NSA and whatnot being increasingly modern, the FBC is stuck in the past with older tech because collectively we cannot think of a bureau as anything but, because of how inefficent some things are and the formality when dealing with actual bureaus. The suit for example, a classic bureau icon, and amongst them, paperwork, files and whatnot, but not a hint of modern technology in sight as we think of a bunch of grumpy old men running the entire operation, and they would be more familiar with older tech as compared to modern equipment. Its not so much as the Oldest House cannot accept the idea of new equipment or "smart" items, but rather we think that these old men cannot think of using these new equipment because they are older and are more familiar with older equipment. So collective conciousness also plays a massive role, as the public in general still thinks of a bureau using outdated equipment and standards anyways, when the reality is much more different, but thats the effect of the oldest house at play. Regardless, this is an excellent presentation and breakdown as well. Thank you.
I'd love to see Control go on and on and become a franchise all on its own, apart from Alan Wake. It reminds me of the best parts of Stephen King's shared universe - that idea of "mundane fantasy" or "magical realism", stuff that's just going on around us and without human interaction or intervention, but "bleeds" into our world. Love this stuff.
What a wonderful way of explaining this. I love it. I've been interested in ideas like this for a while and this game has been a pleasant surprise. I just picked it up and started playing it here and there and have quickly been sucked in as it touches on a ton of ideas like Carl Jung and collective unconscious stuff. Did not expect that when I bought it. I keep wanting to look into stuff about it but afraid of spoilers lol
I might be grossly oversimplifying things but what I got was this: Take an object anywhere around the world, ask anyone there what it is and they will instinctively know what it is, what it's purpose is and what it represents Understanding at its core and at its finest & simplest what it means. It doesn't matter where you live. A chair is a chair and that simplicity is what The Oldest House understands. Fundamentals. And as you wonderfully said it: if it ain't broke, don't fix it
What I love is the seeming gag that gov agencies are always way behind in tech, so a Federal anything agency would still have floppy discs and CRT screens abound....
Are you not making videos anymore? I am in a whole new Remedyverse rabbit hole and have now found myself back at your videos, I just noticed that I do not recall seeing anything from you in a long time.
I took this as almost a throwaway gag, turns out it's the most integral aspect of Control's story you can find, and the core why altered items and objects of power exist the way they do. How about that.
My favorite example of outdated tech that is still used is with airlines. It's the only time I still see people using computers with nothing but a keyboard. 🥴 Benefit though, try hacking an airline. There's nothing to hack. 🤓
I love the idea that when smartphones enter the collective consciousness the bureau has to use shit android ones because the iPhone is the archetypal smartphone
At first, at least, it seems like a paradox, doesn't it? I mean, if an object is too familiar, it isn't allowed inside. But, if an object isn't too familiar, it can't stay inside. 🤔 But what got me really thinking was... What would happen if they had Casual Fridays? Half of the staff could end up naked before the end of the shift.
I have some problems with the shared understanding not being established in new tech so it is problematic within the oldest house, its a bit of a gap because at the time they adopted the site a lot of that technology was not in the forms and usage we see in the game. In the mid 60s computer data storage came as tapes, punch cards and most bizarrely something much closer to a modern solid state solution of capacitance gates stacking up binary states into data than anything from the 70s and 80s like HDDs and floppies. Those old styled digital desk calculators for example didn't exist, at the time the FBC moved in mechanical calculators would have been how that was handled, expensive and hard to use for most people. Other things like batteries would be familiar in concept from the 19th century through to today, chemical reactions creating or maintaining an imbalance of electrons to create a flow. Other stuff like screens, I think a flat panel of some kind is the same in concept as a CRT and a mobile phone is really just a radio in concept even if the back end of how it functions goes deeper but that goes for any technology. To summarise, a lot of the 40-50 year old tech in the Oldest House would have been newer, shinier with less time to form a shared consensus when they moved in compared to a mobile phone to us today and much of the newest tech we have today isn't really that different from the old tech, just easier to use for the layman and proliferated to a massive degree. If I had to fan theorise my own misgivings away it would be that they had some problems with new tech, perhaps just perceived problems or related to the OOPs and they got paranoid about it or even triggered problems because of it and reflexively banned it all. Plus there is all the data gathering and reporting modern devices do, without each chip and line of code coming from the FBC they could never be sure of outside parties realising devices disappear in NYC and pop up in other parts of the world or someones Google Timeline and other issues looking really strange.
7 month ago 911 subscriber so much watch time...where are youuuu ?😑 you must continue morgan 😒 you are soo good at this keep it up pls.... no matter its about remedy verse or about bioshock or other games
Question: Why don't the HRAs count as modern technology in this regard? It is absolutely new with not a hint of anything like it in the collective subconscious. It's not even trying to look like a protective vest.
I have to disagree somewhat with the "smart" items explanation. Even in 2019, I think the archetypes for "smartphone" and "laptop" were pretty well fixed and well known. (Watches... maybe not.) I propose that the risk (other than just Trench being paranoid) was that a smartphone had a high chance of getting altered. When taken outside TOH, it would connect to the network of servers, and we know there's a chance for an altered item to create another altered item. There's a risk of an explosion of altered items! Were're lucky TOH is made of thick concrete and doesn't have wifi! (Or maybe it's already happened, which explains why my mobile provider keeps trying to push unwanted apps to my phone.)
I think newer standards like MK16s and whatnot are too "modern" for the bureau standards, and when it comes to weapons, its better to take the safest approach than to get into the bureau with, say a glock, despite a glock being made around the same era. Most "modern" weapons are built during the cold war, and effectively puts it in the same time period as those computers, but as humanity, we think of even older equipment. And for weapons, doubly so. Better a broken iphone than a disasterous result with "newer" weapons.
It would be funny if The Oldest House replaced modern tech with older equivalents. Oh, you have a laptop? Well now it's a spiral notebook and a beige IBM compatible PC from 1984.
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Having the nukes run on floppy disks was actually a lot safer
Agencies still use tape decks cause it's too risky to update them and the infrastructure is almost perfected lol. Just takes an age to read from them. LTO5 tape masterrace 😎
This video received a signal boost from "Gaming University", my usual Remedy-verse RUclips channel. Congratulations, you now have a new subscriber.
Awesome and welcome! :) I've already made sure to thank them!
Same here lol
Sorry about the delay with this video.
I had hoped to finish it before the end of July but life came at me first. Hope you all enjoy it!
With regards to modern tech, if you know what a SCIF is (basically an office where classified materials are handled) all modern tech is pretty much banned except for government approved devices. Mostly because of their ability to be tracked or collect images & audio.
Absolutely wonderful work! It is always a treat to see you dive into this universe.
Thanks for letting me know about this channel
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Thanks for signal boosting this. It would have flew under my radar otherwise.
Thank you! I'm really grateful for you shouting out my video, It made a big difference to me! . :)
Omgggggg I was just wondering if you were going to keep on posting videos about Control. Thank you soooo much, love the way you narrate and how you tackle Control's story and symbolism it just feels personal and as if you are incentivizing us to learn and become more interested about the paranormal in a fun way, similar to what Emily does
Thanks! I love Emily so your comparison to her made me very happy. :)
I’m glad that you enjoy the way I narrate. I try to be approachable, fun and warm in my videos so it's great to see that's how I’m coming across. I just want to share my passion and curiosity for these topics with people, allowing viewers to engage with subjects in new ways.
Control has become one of my recent hyperfixations and there's so little discussion content on youtube for it, i cannot describe how great it's been to find your videos because for starters it has defintely aided in quenching my thirst for contrnt surronding the game but it has also generally just been amazing and lead to me noticing details i hadn't previously in game!
Its funny, most of these videos are subjects i already know from reading the in game collectibles and yet I still enjoy sitting down and watching you talk about them.
Youve managed to do something most other people cant - hold my interest on topics most would label as "shit i already know"
I'll take that as a compliment. :)
I’m glad that you still find the videos enjoyable to watch despite already being familiar with the ideas/topics discussed!
THE HOLE IN YOUR ROOM IS A HOLE IN YOU. YOU CAME AND WE LET YOU IN THROUGH THE HOLE IN YOU.
As soon as I seen the title I just thought of the video "why are people afraid of modern technology" where someone turns fast yelling technology with a board that says technology.
Oh god the technology clip from Brass Eye. lol
You're not the only person to think of it, I actually had that clip in the video at one point but alas it didn't work.
You and Gaming University got a subscriber. 🙌🏼
Can't wait for more Control content ... your naration is amaizing
As someone that works for a Four Letter Government organization, I can confirm, there's no modern IT tech to be found.
YES YES YES YES ANOTHER VIDEO FROM YOU ABOUT MY FAVORITE GAME!!!
please do more control videos... this was just captivating ❤
It" might seem a little backward" b-roll of the mirror. Love it!
Amazing video, I’ve been thinking about this maybe in the future when technology has gotten deeper into the collective unconscious there would be digital altered items and stuff like that
Thank you! It's certainly something interesting to think about as well as what items/objects would become the embodiment of those concepts.
nice :D I've been checking your channel now and then for a week and finally big brain me activated the bell haha I felt so dumb. Really like your content, only discovered you about a month ago
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy my content. Hopefully the gaps between my uploads won't be as long in future.
Nice vid!
I always thought it was stuck with old tech is because that’s when Northmoor discovered the House, and as he’s still alive, technically, I thought he might be disregarding change.
I really hope you get more subs, you really deserve it!
Thank you so much!
Another great video, thanks for sharing; I really appreciated the recap about Objects of Power.
I love to see how you're focusing in "secondary" aspects to generate discussion on underrated topics!
The first thing I thought was "it's a super secret security department, of course they want avoid devices that makes leaking information much easier", and even if it may still be one of the reasons, now I think the last point you touched it's the most important and it's a little meta because many people if they were asked to describe a bureau, they will probably describe something like the FBC.
More over, eliminating the technology we (gamers) are more familiar with rn contributes to the sense of alienation and mistery that the whole game builds.
i was looking up the NSC from control and got pointed to your video, and i have to say it's been a blessing from the YT algorithm, because your content is nice, to the point, and with the perfect amount of extra detail to give a nice and full understanding, plus your voice-over is great, you have a lovely voice. i hope to see you do youtube more reguarly and see more content from you in the future : ) love everything about you & your channel so far. you have a new sub, and a new fan if you decide to keep making content : )
Thank you! :) I'm glad you enjoyed the videos. I will be making more videos in the future as I love making them! Though I will be branching out from Control content and covering some other games/topics I enjoy. My next video is taking me a while and looks to be on the longer side but it should hopefully get it finished by Halloween or November.
Honestly I love the way the No. 2 pencil ban works for the game. I remember when I first read that document, I was confused and ended up finding it really funny. I just thought it was some joke thing and didn’t think too much of it.
As the game went on though, and I understood a bit more about how the universe of Control worked, I finally got why they specifically were mentioned. They have such a universal image to people that if I had to guess, the FBC probably has had legitimate issues with no. 2 pencils becoming altered items in some way and causing trouble.
It’s…still honestly pretty funny to me but god I’d hate to be the person that got hurt by an altered pencil.
Same here! New subscriber via Gaming University! Love it so far!
Came into your channel late, it seems. Hope you come back and make more videos as I've enjoyed your perspective of Control!
I really love the way you present and summarize the lore and ideas of Control! I've recently been so obsessed with the game and need more of it my life. Thank you for making these explained videos and I hope you release more in the future! :)
Please do more of these videos, I really enjoy it
Control is one of my favourite games and you explain it so well
Thank you. Whilst I do hope to branch out into other content I'll still be diving into Control as there's so much to talk about.
Two random thoughts.
What if when "smart" devices become.. understood - the object of power that the device will become will be.. inteligent?
What if when the new devices that dissapear in the bureau are being.. examined by the oldest house? they break becouse it is testing them... trying to understand them...
I fully expect Control 2 to have more modern tech as by the mid to late 2020’s or 2030’s an iPhone would be considered fundamental tech to everyone.
_What works, works I suppose..._
Once again a great video. Please keep up the incredible work. You deserve way more subs.
Thank yous! The positive reception has been wonderful. It's so validating to see that the effort I put into these videos is being appreciated.
Reckon Darling's presentations are to help give younger FBC employees a grounding that the older employees already have, in order to reinforce the "older and archetypal is safer" ritualistic mentality?
Super cool vid! I absolutely love this game!
This was well put together. I really enjoyed your Control videos and would love to see more! You do an excellent job!
Oof at the hero's journey monomyth reference but otherwise good stuff. Glad for the extra context.
This is a great and well made video. You have talent, keep it up.
Thank you very much!
Why don’t you have any more subscribers? You really have good quality content, keep going.
Thank you and I hope to. I really enjoy making content. :)
I hope you cover more of this Remedy shared universe, the way you telling and explaining the story and concept is pretty good, especially after alan wake 2 released
Been watching Control lore all week! Love your coverage!!!
Commenting for the algorithm. Great video!
Much appreciated!
1:06 a little backwards...that was such a nice touch
I just want to say your content is excellent! Please keep making videos analyzing strange and spooky things!
I really love your videos about one of my favorite games. Your voice as a narrator is definitely top tier.
Great work, looking forward to your future videos.
Your videos are fantastic! I hope you find the time to make more
Another great video! Your voice and speech pattern are perfect for this type of content. I like how you drew information from so many sources to make this thorough explanation of the archetypal object ban in the oldest house. This game is incredible and I love every bit of it!
Great work!
5:12 I did kinda want to know why they brought up a ketchup bottle. Like it was dangerous...
This was a really well produced, researched and thought out video. I've seen much shoddier content from those with much bigger subs numbers! Please, keep up the good work and try and squeeze in making more content. THANKS
Will do!
Wonderful video. Currently obsessed with this game 😍🛸
Your control series is amazing. Looking forward to more!
Might be too much to hope to see anything anytime soon, but I feel like it'd be interesting if you did a video comparing and contrasting concepts from the SCP wiki, and the world of Control/Alan Wake. Pataphysical, Cognitohazards, Memetics, stuff like that.
Wow! Mind blown really enjoyed this and wetted my appetite to go back to a play of Control, very well done! Subscribed
It's always a good time to dive back into Control and welcome!
Great content and really well made too. Thank you
Damn thats some awesome made video. Nice visuals and good script and nicely presented. Awesomme for such a small channel keep on going ! :)
This was a very well thought-out video - well done! It’s awesome to get these lore deep dives!
Thanks! I’m happy that you found it to be well thought out. When I was first started making this video, I was concerned about it being too abstract or hard to follow so I'm glad its not.
Thanks for the facts I am playing this game currently and have been enjoying it. It can get challenging at times as well.
I would love to see you tackle the Ordinary AWE (AWE-24). I personally don’t understand much of it and haven’t seen many others discussing it.
First of all - great video, glad I stumbled upon this channel.
Second - this concept always bugged me. The oldest house is already filled to the brim with archetypal objects, where's the guarantee that they won't go altered? Even the clothing employees whear, the mundane obejct they use, their tables, chairs, speakers, guns, most things inside the building are, at the end, archetypal representations of their concepts - I half-expected to see the items inside the building to be insanely designed and barely recognizable, and seeing the exact opposite just confuses me - a thousand items inside the House should be going altered every day.
''Smartphones are very complex''
Nokia phones with hundreds of shapes and appearances: Allow us to introduce ourselves
Very interesting video. Love how you went into topics like collective unconsciousness and such
you can also mention hand chair as altered object in Langston mission. because it has unusual look for a chair
I love this game and it's cool to see your deep dive. I'm surprised you aren't better known, your videos are great!
I love this game and the whole asthetic of it and the horror behind the madness of it all to
Damn you make amazing first impressions
I also think the collective conciousness plays a massive role in this as well. When we think of a bureau, we mostly are familiar with them using outdated technologies as a while, as we are familiar with how slow things are and how much of a pain it is to start shifting to more modern standards.
Take the DMZ for example. When we can easily file everything via servers and do things online, we still need to file paperwork anyways due to a formality, and just accept the fact that they use older technologies anyways. And it isn't unsurprising to us when we hear the FBI and whatnot still using older standards and technologies from the 1970s thanks to films and depictions of such. Despite the FBI, NSA and whatnot being increasingly modern, the FBC is stuck in the past with older tech because collectively we cannot think of a bureau as anything but, because of how inefficent some things are and the formality when dealing with actual bureaus.
The suit for example, a classic bureau icon, and amongst them, paperwork, files and whatnot, but not a hint of modern technology in sight as we think of a bunch of grumpy old men running the entire operation, and they would be more familiar with older tech as compared to modern equipment. Its not so much as the Oldest House cannot accept the idea of new equipment or "smart" items, but rather we think that these old men cannot think of using these new equipment because they are older and are more familiar with older equipment.
So collective conciousness also plays a massive role, as the public in general still thinks of a bureau using outdated equipment and standards anyways, when the reality is much more different, but thats the effect of the oldest house at play.
Regardless, this is an excellent presentation and breakdown as well. Thank you.
I'd love to see Control go on and on and become a franchise all on its own, apart from Alan Wake. It reminds me of the best parts of Stephen King's shared universe - that idea of "mundane fantasy" or "magical realism", stuff that's just going on around us and without human interaction or intervention, but "bleeds" into our world. Love this stuff.
Your voice kinda reminds me from Sage, the DJ from Radio-X (GTA SA) xD. Great video!
I understand the basic idea, but why are rangers stuck with 90 year old Lewis Guns?
What a wonderful way of explaining this. I love it. I've been interested in ideas like this for a while and this game has been a pleasant surprise. I just picked it up and started playing it here and there and have quickly been sucked in as it touches on a ton of ideas like Carl Jung and collective unconscious stuff. Did not expect that when I bought it. I keep wanting to look into stuff about it but afraid of spoilers lol
I absolutely love this content !! 🎉🎉🎉
It’d be interesting to see a usb store anything as an OOP.
I might be grossly oversimplifying things but what I got was this:
Take an object anywhere around the world, ask anyone there what it is and they will instinctively know what it is, what it's purpose is and what it represents
Understanding at its core and at its finest & simplest what it means. It doesn't matter where you live. A chair is a chair and that simplicity is what The Oldest House understands. Fundamentals. And as you wonderfully said it: if it ain't broke, don't fix it
What I love is the seeming gag that gov agencies are always way behind in tech, so a Federal anything agency would still have floppy discs and CRT screens abound....
Are you not making videos anymore? I am in a whole new Remedyverse rabbit hole and have now found myself back at your videos, I just noticed that I do not recall seeing anything from you in a long time.
New here! I love your game breakdown/ theory videos, liked and subscribed! 😊
I always thought it was because they didn't want the eldritch abominations getting on the internet.
Keep up the good work love the lore vids
Thank you! Glad you enjoy them.
Great vudeo. I'm Obsessed with this game
The oldest house is a boomer then? Noted.
Great video!
I took this as almost a throwaway gag, turns out it's the most integral aspect of Control's story you can find, and the core why altered items and objects of power exist the way they do.
How about that.
So the Oldest House is basically an old geezer still stuck in his ways.
Using Dr. Coomer reciting Wikipedia articles when defining the concept of chairs. 😂
My favorite example of outdated tech that is still used is with airlines. It's the only time I still see people using computers with nothing but a keyboard. 🥴 Benefit though, try hacking an airline. There's nothing to hack. 🤓
Just look at the history of NORAD, it also relied on decades past tech.
I love the idea that when smartphones enter the collective consciousness the bureau has to use shit android ones because the iPhone is the archetypal smartphone
At first, at least, it seems like a paradox, doesn't it?
I mean, if an object is too familiar, it isn't allowed inside.
But, if an object isn't too familiar, it can't stay inside. 🤔
But what got me really thinking was...
What would happen if they had Casual Fridays?
Half of the staff could end up naked before the end of the shift.
I have some problems with the shared understanding not being established in new tech so it is problematic within the oldest house, its a bit of a gap because at the time they adopted the site a lot of that technology was not in the forms and usage we see in the game. In the mid 60s computer data storage came as tapes, punch cards and most bizarrely something much closer to a modern solid state solution of capacitance gates stacking up binary states into data than anything from the 70s and 80s like HDDs and floppies. Those old styled digital desk calculators for example didn't exist, at the time the FBC moved in mechanical calculators would have been how that was handled, expensive and hard to use for most people.
Other things like batteries would be familiar in concept from the 19th century through to today, chemical reactions creating or maintaining an imbalance of electrons to create a flow. Other stuff like screens, I think a flat panel of some kind is the same in concept as a CRT and a mobile phone is really just a radio in concept even if the back end of how it functions goes deeper but that goes for any technology. To summarise, a lot of the 40-50 year old tech in the Oldest House would have been newer, shinier with less time to form a shared consensus when they moved in compared to a mobile phone to us today and much of the newest tech we have today isn't really that different from the old tech, just easier to use for the layman and proliferated to a massive degree.
If I had to fan theorise my own misgivings away it would be that they had some problems with new tech, perhaps just perceived problems or related to the OOPs and they got paranoid about it or even triggered problems because of it and reflexively banned it all. Plus there is all the data gathering and reporting modern devices do, without each chip and line of code coming from the FBC they could never be sure of outside parties realising devices disappear in NYC and pop up in other parts of the world or someones Google Timeline and other issues looking really strange.
Big chungus is in there sonewhere.
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So the oldest house is a grandpa that doesnt understand new things
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Question: Why don't the HRAs count as modern technology in this regard? It is absolutely new with not a hint of anything like it in the collective subconscious. It's not even trying to look like a protective vest.
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Interesting! This game is bonkers.
I have to disagree somewhat with the "smart" items explanation. Even in 2019, I think the archetypes for "smartphone" and "laptop" were pretty well fixed and well known. (Watches... maybe not.)
I propose that the risk (other than just Trench being paranoid) was that a smartphone had a high chance of getting altered. When taken outside TOH, it would connect to the network of servers, and we know there's a chance for an altered item to create another altered item. There's a risk of an explosion of altered items! Were're lucky TOH is made of thick concrete and doesn't have wifi! (Or maybe it's already happened, which explains why my mobile provider keeps trying to push unwanted apps to my phone.)
"The Fundamentals" is a really strange name for a pet rat...
Maybe I'm missing something, but I still don't know why the Rangers use Lewis Mk1 LMGs from WW1 😅
I think newer standards like MK16s and whatnot are too "modern" for the bureau standards, and when it comes to weapons, its better to take the safest approach than to get into the bureau with, say a glock, despite a glock being made around the same era. Most "modern" weapons are built during the cold war, and effectively puts it in the same time period as those computers, but as humanity, we think of even older equipment.
And for weapons, doubly so. Better a broken iphone than a disasterous result with "newer" weapons.
Not all Modern Technology is missing in The Oldest House. They have TVs in there.
It would be funny if The Oldest House replaced modern tech with older equivalents.
Oh, you have a laptop? Well now it's a spiral notebook and a beige IBM compatible PC from 1984.