I Talk Alot

You and I remember Budapest VERY differently.. -Clint Barton

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Somebody liked an old cringe comment I made a few years back literally just to remind me of it. It wasn’t mean or cruel but MAN. I winced when I re-read it. Logically, now I have to stay inside for a month and not go out. Because what if I just keep embarrassing myself.

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Hah. Nice.

(My second play through of Control. I can’t even lie I got 99% of the achievements my first run through. I’m only missing the vending machine one so I’m working on getting that now.)

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I can’t tell if I’m a bit early or a bit late. But it’s the thought that counts. Happy 25th to Max Payne!!!

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Today marks 69 days before Control Resonant comes out

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LETS GOOOOOO!!

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So, who was gonna tell me that the ending of Max Payne 2 was gonna hurt? Because I, for one, wasn’t properly informed.

[thelovelyink]

Playing Control at the moment, and now I have come up with a Control x Psychonauts au!

The FBC has opened a door in the Oceanview Motel and Casino which leads to the Psychonauts universe. Unfortunately, this allows The Hiss to bleed in and attack the Motherlobe. Now Jesse and Razputin have to team up to stop this threat together

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OHHHH FIRE CROSSOVER I LOVE BOTH OF THOSE GAMES‼️‼️‼️

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77 days until control resonant!

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I’m so excited I’m going to be so very annoying.

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Suddenly everything’s okay and life is sunshine and rainbows again (I sat in a bathtub of hot water until I could think straight).

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I told you let me write. I’m sorry if there’s any typos or grammar issues. I also apologize for all of the breaks in the text but if I don’t have plenty of those the words swim for me. I wrote a whole thing about Space Oddity and connecting the lyrics to Alan. I’m putting it under this because there’s mentions of AW2, American Nightmare, and Control. The mentions aren’t that major but still. Also, I wrote this on my computers notes app, so I’m sorry if it doesn’t seem too put together or professional. Have fun with the ramblings.

So yes. It MAKES SENSE that Space Oddity would be at the end of AW1. The last chapter/episode we go through was called Departure. Obviously, Space Oddity is also a departure. The song (from a baseline, without interpretations or whatever) is about Major Tom. An astronaut that looses communication with Ground Control after being shot up into space. Now, the irony that Major Tom being named Major Tom when we have Thomas Zane is not lost on me. I’ll touch on that later. I really want to get into the lyrics here but I want to make connections with the baseline of the song with Alan.

A big thing is the loss of communications with Ground Control. For Alan, that’s him finally being within the Dark Place and loosing his connection with all of the outside world. Loosing communication with Barry, Alice, or Sarah Breaker. People who he would trust to help guide him out of this hell. He’s completely out of his element here and he’s going to have to learn how to adapt to that in the most meaningful way. It’s alien to him, get it? Like space, being out in this void like area where you have nothing but you and your thoughts. You are left with the worry over your survival, especially when things go to shit and suddenly your life is flashing in-front of your eyes.

LYRIC TIME!! I might be stretching some of these but I’m spitballing and I want to talk.

So, first we have the banger starting point;

“Ground Control to Major Tom

Ground Control to Major Tom

Take your protein pills and put your helmet on

Ground Control to Major Tom (ten, nine, eight, seven, six)

Commencing countdown, engines on (five, four, three, two)

Check ignition and may God's love be with you (one, lift off)”

Now, something came to me while I was thinking about the back and forth between “Ground Control” and “Major Tom”. I think it can be seen as Tom and Alan. Now, I know with things like “The Writer” and “Signals” That Zane can get through to Alan. We even see in the AW Control DLC that Zane is actively searching or talking to Alan. (Now, I don’t know how much of that is ACTUALLY Zane and not Scratch. At least in Control and AW2). But, during that moment where Alan finally breaches the surface of the Dark Place and finally gets himself locked up in that cabin, that writers room. A connection severs.

BUT!! This stanza for this song is the beginning. The start of a transmission from Ground Control to Major Tom. Much like in the beginning of AW1 where Tom comes to Alan in his dream and gives him a run down about the Dark and the Taken. The beginning of this song is sending Major Tom out into space. Like I’ve stated this can be correlated with Zane sending Alan off to Bright Falls/The Dark Place with knowledge of how to fight it back.

Also, I feel like there could be a mention of Hartman. As much as I hate this guy, I get it from the line of ‘take your protein pills and put your helmet on’. There was an entire part in AW1 where Hartman was trying to convince Alan that everything that happened was in his mind. That Alice was so worried over him and his mental health that he NEEDED to be there. I wouldn’t be surprised if Hartman tired to convince Alan that he needed to be put on medication for his mental issues. It could also be a reference to Alan’s partying habits back when he had his writers life in New York. Its been talked about him drinking, but how surprised would we all be if he got into things that would give him more of a high than booze.

Moving on then we have;

“This is Ground Control to Major Tom

You've really made the grade

And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear

Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

This is Major Tom to Ground Control

I'm stepping through the door

And I'm floating in a most peculiar way

And the stars look very different today”

Most of this I chalked up to the world changing for Alan. Saying how he needs to leave behind what he knows in order to be able to help Alice and save what he has. He has to “leave the capsule”. Then it switches from Ground Control speaking to Major Tom to Major Tom speaking to Ground Control. Obviously if we are going with my train of thought then it would be Alan talking to Zane. Stating he’s stepped out, that things are odd. Things are different. They don’t quite add up. The stars look VERY different. This could also be Alan reaching out to Barry in the beginning when he was gone for a week; or simply having to explain to him that things are not what they seem to be anymore. Whatever you think it is, it’s clearly the point where Alan can’t return back to how things were. Especially with Alice missing.

Also a little detail I wanted to add was with the line of ‘and the papers want to know whose shirts you wear’. It’s clear with the context of the game and it doesn’t really matter to the plot but I like how that aligns with Alan and his whole thing with paparazzi. We know this guy does not have a good track record with them. But also, it’s hella deserved. Shoving flashing cameras in somebody’s face and asking questions about their personal life is a personal hell of mine. He’s The Dark Places strongest soldier for only right hooking a guy. Especially when he’s blackout drunk with a raging migraine.

Than we have;

“For here

Am I sitting in a tin can

Far above the world

Planet Earth is blue

And there's nothing I can do”

This can represent how Alan finally sees the big picture (or at least more than he knew before in the beginning) and having that feeling in the back of his mind that ‘there’s nothing [he] can do’. We see that his determination is one of his most defining features. But, you can’t tell me that somewhere in that head of his he doesn’t doubt himself and what he’s doing. He even states in within AW1 at the end before he drives to Cauldron Lake. He states that this could all be a dream, some bad episode of his mental illness that caused him to imagine everything. But he pushes on. He states that when he told Barry his plan that he sounded confident, but that he truly didn’t know what the fuck he was doing. He had a baseline but he didn’t know how he was going to get from Point A to Point B, or if he even could. But, he pulled through for Alice and I love him for that.

Might be a stretch but the line of ‘sitting in a tin can’ could reference him sitting in the cabin and just writing over and over. A suffocating space that leaves him claustrophobic and uncomfortable. But, he can’t even give himself time to notice that or else he won’t be writing. A tin can that he can only glance around at before he has to start typing again.

Moving on we have this next;

“Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles

I'm feeling very still

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go

Tell my wife I love her very much she knows

Ground Control to Major Tom

Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong

Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you-“

I HAVE SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT!!!!! But I will go in order with the lines. First off the ‘though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I’m feeling very still”. This makes me think of more towards the end of the game where Alan has pretty much come to terms with all of the weird shit going on. That he knows what he has to do to save Alice and cast the Dark Presence back. He read the page that Zane wrote about his childhood and he finds the Clicker. He knows he’s ‘past one hundred thousand miles’ but he’s ‘feeling very still’. He knows what he needs to do, and he needs to steel himself before he thinks about it to hard and tries to change it. To add to that, the next line of ‘and I think my spaceship knows which way to go’ once again enforces the thought that he knows what’s he’s doing now. Even if every idea is a Hail Mary waiting to explode.

The next lines are clear to me and it breaks my heart. They are ‘tell my wife I love her very much she knows’. Which I read as ‘tell my wife I love her very much, she knows.’ OH IT HURTS. Obviously thinking about Alice and Alan. When he plunges himself into the lake and write for who knows how long in order to get her out of that damn lake and to get her away from the Dark Place. I almost take this as Alan begging Zane to somehow tell Alice this. Because he doesn’t know how long he’s going to be there or if he will even be alive when she sees him next. IF, she sees him.

Next we have the rest of the lines, ‘Ground Control to Major Tom, your circuit's dead, there's something wrong. Can you hear me, Major Tom?’ And then the final line has it cut off after ‘can you’. When I first listened to this after the end of the Remastered game I kinda thought of Alan and Barry. Barry trying to go with Alan at the end and Alan telling him he needs to do this alone. But, I also feel like it’s right back to Alan and Zane. Alan goes into the Dark Place and suddenly the communication between the two of them is a lot harder to keep up. With how these lines go it’s Zane trying to talk to Alan. Trying to break through to him. Much like in the Signal DLC where Zane tries to get Alan to “follow the signal”. With how little we hear from Zane within AW All American Nightmare to AW2 one can assume that the signal was pretty much lost there.

Finally we have the lines of;

“Here am I floating 'round my tin can

Far above the moon

Planet Earth is blue

And there's nothing I can do”

Now these are different. Though there are slight differences from the earlier stanza. Instead of being in a tin can he is ‘floating ‘round’ in it. Instead of ‘far above the world’ he is ‘far above the moon’. This really pushes the fact that Alan is so far away from his home. He’s far away from Barry, from Alice, from ANYTHING. He’s in a completely different world than he’s ever been in. He was far away before, sure. But he was still in his ‘world’. Now, he’s so far away he’s ‘far above the moon’. Pretty much dead to the world and labeled as missing until AW2 which is thirteen years later. The only line that stays the same is “planet Earth is blue”. The one thing that was Alans constant was writing. That was the one thing that stayed the same from beginning to the “end”, the one thing he can rely on here. Then there’s the repeated line on ‘there’s nothing I can do’ holds so much more significance here. He’s in the Dark Place. There physically isn’t anything he can do but write. Write out possible endings or escape plans that always fail for him. That’s all he can do now, and he KNOWS it. He knows there’s nothing else he can do.

This song can also go for Zane. His departure from his life into the Dark Place. How he had to physically write himself and everything around him out of existence. He sacrificed himself because that was the only solution. Alan Wake and Thomas Zane are my favorite self made sacrificial lambs. They both fought, clawed, and bit to try and find their way out. But in the end, they understood that for the greater good they would have to disappear.

Anyway thanks for coming to my TedTalk, bye bye.

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I just finished Alan Wake Remastered. I’m so happy that Space Oddity is in my credits when I finished it up. I love that song with my whole heart and the song fits Alan in such a heartbreaking way. Give me 5 business days I need to write things out.

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I missed this guy so much.

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Rb game

Explain your favourite piece of media in the SHORTEST way possible

Eg: danganrompa

Highschool Killing game which homosexuals and (mostly) horrible representation

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Thanks KarahKat for the tag but I'm removing reblogs because they were LONGGG. Here's my one:

Ghosts are real but only one person can see them. Also they make horrible roommates.

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The apocalypse but it's a man and his teenage daughter he adopted vs zombies that really need glasses but echolocate instead

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Hiii!!! One of my favorites;

Dudes stuck in the dark looking for his wife. All he has is his gobsmacking depression and the sun as a flashlight.

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there's a group of high school boys in this McDonald's and I just heard one of them say "I bet you you cannae break your own arm" so something interesting might happen shortly

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"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

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Really wild having people tell me they care about me after weeks of feeling like I fucked up every social interaction I’ve ever had. Like oh fr you care about me?? You’re gonna keep talking to me?? You’re not lying straight to my face until you don’t have to see me?? Damn guys I love you to :[[.

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I’m getting to the point where I’m trying to figure out if it’s socially acceptable to send good morning/good afternoon texts. Which is already kinda fuzzy to me in a way?? Like, yes we are absolutely friends but have I unlocked the level to be apart of a “routine” good morning. Or am I skipping a few crucial steps here? Like what level do I need to be at for a good morning NOT to be out of the blue or oddly timed??? Riddle me this.

[tuherrus]

you don't even have a dog