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see also: scp-6595, scp-6599 note: apparently unrelated to scp-1293

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SCP-1955-MPT uncontained instances of SCP-1955-MPT are inert objects constructed from simple materials like felt and ping-pong balls that vaguely resemble anthropomorphic animals observers report that instances of SCP-1955-MPT appear to be alive, repeated exposures increase this effect

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Abdul El-Sayed's campaign has sent me like 3 emails in the last 12 hours and at least two more in the previous somebody over there really needs to learn to regulate

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i just beat Control Resonant and right at the end ran into several bugs my first playthrough of several otherwise great RPGs have also been marred by issues at the end including Dragon Age II and Baldur's Gate 3 near release

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and by "lol" i of course mean "i fucking hate it"

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there is also a variant of this dialog that looks almost identical but ctrl+L does *not* work lol

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i was on board until i scrolled a little farther and saw the nm row placement 😱

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17.9. Understanding kinds of value

i would be remiss to not mention Inform, an interactive fiction language LLM peeps have no idea what is out there! ganelson.github.io/inform-websi...

ganelson.github.io

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TE was always a design firm, their products were basically portfolio filler abandoning a successful product line to pursue pure design is silly but entirely on brand for these kinds of people

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none of the side quests have any real resolutions, the best you can hope for is maybe not everyone dies everything is a rehash or a retcon Control Resonant is the video game equivalent of an episode of Dragonball Z where they spend the entire runtime powering up and then end on a cliffhanger

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considering how much i loved Control, its gameplay and the world it built, there is no conceivable way that i could play Resonant and not feel an immense sense of loss there is nothing narratively valuable here, it does not meaningfully progress Jesse's story, and no questions are answered

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it is one thing to make a mid game, which Resonant is but to rewrite and obliterate the entire narrative universe is really ... impressive, i guess just, unfortunately, impressive in a bad way i wish i would have waited a few months after playing Alan Wake 2, my expectations would have been lower

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the gameplay is fine, not great, i played all of the games they borrowed from and they were all more fun than Resonant the world design was a mixed bag, a few bright spots, but the rest was just the same thing over and over, and not even well assembled really sad for the teams that worked on this

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Zoe's coherence is so fucking embarrassingly bad on the radio she is on the verge of tears and talking about how she wants to show Dylan the world then you go and talk to her and she is mean and dismissive like yeah real people are like that too, but this feels like different writers never talked

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Resonant's writing, as far as dialogue and individual interactions, is really good on the other hand, the overall plot and how everything fits together is shockingly abysmal immensely disappointed

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finished Control Resonant what a shitshow my first impressions were right, pretty much everything i predicted from the first 2 hours was dead on

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and it just froze and had to be killed honestly it has been pretty stable up until this point

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so i exit the game and come back to the save it spawns me outside of the Gap thankfully but then Dylan reports to Zoe that the team is dead but there was at least 4 rangers alive when i killed the Unknown Resonant is this scripted or a bug??

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qim @queerinmech.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

so i have fallen through the floor in the Roots area and just now i got locked into the Gap "transition blocked" it says and going to the monolith acts like it will take me out and then i just respawn in the same area except it is not the real proving ground because no enemies spawn lol

Dylan falling through infinite void outside of the level

the underside of some geometry visible in the distance

the proving ground area of the Gap, no enemies and the downward d-pad button is greyed out indicating i cannot leave

the mission is The Unknown Resonant and i had just killed it

now i live here i guess

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why must they be so biteable

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qim @queerinmech.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

no no i think you understand everything perfectly

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i never thought about it that way but i kinda agree

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it does get better as a standalone game after the first like ten hours but man that is one of the roughest starts i have experienced it is up there with Borderlands 2 at least Resonant does not have a robot whining in your ear for two hours of linear tutorial!

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i wanna know why the fuck all of the clothing designs in this entire game are the most ugly batshit literal potato sack tarp shit i have ever seen in my entire fucking life this is the BEST outfit i have (i do not wear the mask) i put Dylan in a fucking tie because it was the least ugly option

Dylan with a mask made out of canvas covering his entire head

it looks like somebody made a scarecrow out of an army surplus messenger bag

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so basically everyone you know and love from the first game is dead or a villain or both except Pope, so far though it is implied that she is in a relationship with Jesse, or at least Good Friends, which is one of the few cute updates

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SPOILERS the real gut punch was the demonizing of Polaris, the benevolent entity from the first game is now from a species of warriors who care naught for other forms of life so long as they can kill Hiss while i can hope that the end of the game is not humans killing Hedrons... that IS the plan

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Casper is now entirely defined by his fuckups with Dylan and instead of having good intentions and going too far he is a complete unrepentant monster the Casper they created here is pretty interesting i think, just is not Casper, like the facts are similar but the characterization is simply wrong

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by 30 hours in, every major character has been completely rewritten from the first game or flanderized into single exaggerated traits the Siblings here demonstrate my feelings on the matter

Jesse and Dylan Faden with hands outstretched grimacing

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i swear i keep sitting down to talk about the good parts of Resonance but every time i do every problem i have with it rises to the top first and this thread is a completely disorganized mess of complaints that randomly changes directions constantly it is just a raw braindump

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depending how you count it, there are at least 4 different skill trees and every one of them is genuinely baffling as mentioned, the big "talent" menu includes boosts for a ton of different abilities, most of which you will not have (yet?) but may need to take anyway to get to the next tier

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Control 1's crafting system was barely there and forgettable, but it rarely got in your way either Resonant takes that system and makes it imperative to your core progression talents points are a separate currency, which can be used to boost abilities... including those you do not even have

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there are so many things to *do* but so few of them feel significant or have any impact on the player or the world or the story they are just things to do, because... number go up

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it collects every grindy Ubisoft mechanic from the last 15 years and slaps a Control-themed coat of paint on it instead of climbing towers for the map you align sensors for a "Map Kit" - oh and the map is somehow even worse than in Control 1, giving you only the vaguest hint at the street layout

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Resonant is extremely "gamey", forgoing any attempt at integrating the world with the story like, each area has "Area XP" and levels up, which mainly just lets you exchange source points for better crafting resources at a magic ice cream truck this sounds like a parody but i am dead serious

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will there be a redemption arc in Resonant? yeah that is exactly the direction they are aiming but they have so much ground to make up, especially when the premise is so flawed and contradictory Dylan *has* killed people, and that is a legit thing to try to atone for, just not THOSE people lol

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the jarring transition as i went from Alan Wake 2's beautiful ending to Resonant's train wreck of a beginning and i mean i started AW2 NG+ and then switched to Resonant with zero downtime the contrasts are so fucking stark

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Alan Wake 2 does not climax with the final boss battle the real battle is of the mind, it is Saga in The Dark Place fighting her demons not with guns, but with logic confronting herself and her failures, not denying them but showing how that is not all she is it is a powerful and beautiful scene

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i do not care about spoiling Resonant, there is nothing of substance here but i do care about spoiling Alan Wake 2, a game which i think is truly incredible so fair warning, the next post is a non-specific spoiler for the end Alan Wake 2 go 🏴‍☠️ AW2 and come back when you are done ugly crying

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"we need DRAMA people, give me ideas!" "we will have Arish HATE Dylan" "why tho?" "he blames Dylan for the Hiss invasion!" "that makes no sense" "we will retcon it so it does" "GREAT, write that down!" "also everyone agrees that Dylan killed all those people" "wait wha.." "a REDEMPTION ARC! LOVE IT"

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