so season 1 was familiarizing us with elliot’s alters, introducing players and setting the scene for the play that was about to unfold. season 2 was creating tension between mastermind & robot and establishing just how unreliable a narrator elliot would be just by way of his mental illness. season 3 was when all the big, sweeping moves happened and the fate of most of the players was determined. season 4 is the jarring, sudden realization that this was never about revenge, but a desperate desire for control over a world that was unsafe for host elliot to occupy; that there was a greater purpose concealed beneath the theatrics and rage-fueled rants, and that elliot’s trauma was always at the center of it.
Nobody hates freshly baked cookies more than David Bowie.
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Tyrell, I can’t let you die I’m just going to go for a walk
I want to be a part of this world, but it’s all a lie. Control Nvidia RTX Gamescom trailer
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When a computer gets hit with a kernel panic, there’s only so much you can do. An internal fatal error is hard to recover from. I mean, listen to that: internal fatal error. Sounds pretty fucking bad, you ask me.
might fuck around and read a 500 page physical published book in one sitting like it’s 2006 and I’m being bullied in middle school so I take refuge in the library and inhale books at a frightening speed that I have not been able to replicate since
“Fiction affects reality!”
It does… but also it doesn’t, and certainly not on a one-to-one level. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have had a staunch conservative/proto-fascist former friend recommend to me Lois McMaster Bujold’s books; he was quite in love with the military sci-fi aspect, but not so much the liberal outlook that her stories are steeped in. The same former friend also recommended to me Seanan McGuire’s books, which are also decidedly more on the liberal edge of things.
I wouldn’t have had to kick a Trump supporter off of my Discord server who basically saw my alternate history fic and was enamored to the point of joining, but ignored all of the liberal and leftist mindset I have steeped into it.
Going bigger, Paul Ryan, who is a political sociopath and hypocrite on a scale that is mind-boggling, liked to say that Rage Against The Machine was his favorite band–while the band members basically said that he was the personification of the machine they are raging against.
And how many hardcore conservatives willfully misinterpret Star Trek’s messages of inclusiveness and “we can be better”? Or Star Wars’ pointed comments on fascism and authoritarians? Or the mindset encapsulated by this picture?
So, yes, fiction can affect people’s mindsets. But it’s not a mold into which a mind is pressed, stamped out and formed into identical models, as some people seem to think it is. No, it is sowing seeds into fertile or barren ground, with the possibility of it taking root or not. And even then, what takes root there depends on how nurturing the existing environment is, and further cultivation.
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↳ CONTROL (2019)
Transgender voice and communication
Eva App
Voice pitch analyzer
Video tutorial
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First in another series
Voice Training Through Singing
Voice advice
Reddit’s advice
Voice training website
How to develop a feminine voice
TS Roadmap’s Advice
Professional Advice
Prismatic Speech Advice
“Is there surgery to make the voice higher?”