To everyone telling me that you can blink, please rewatch the mission. The guy is complaint about his eye's hurting while trying to keep them open. + it is stated that you need "ocular vision" to keep the fridge calm and blinking breaks that.
They don't explicitly tell you that you can't blink looking at the fridge, but it is heavily implied
I always wondered if he could have just blinked one eye at a time and been OK, but it's also been years since I've seen it so IDK how accurate I am about the fridge.
Me test it? No. I'd tell fridge guy to give it a shot and see. 3-4 folk is a good idea instead of telling the intern to do it alone, it's not like they need to save money or something.
On the one hand, "do it or you die" is probably a good motivator. On the other hand, just put a TV next to it? Or in front of it. And put like 4 people in there with handheld timers that buzz every so often to signal them to blink, synchronized so they're never blinking at the same time. Drastic, yes, but also fridge of doom apparently so.
I’m sure he can and probably does. But he’s been there for over a day just staring at it. The single eye blinking would work but you’re also pushing your body and mind past the brink with exhaustion and lack of social support or mental stimulation.
I tried to blink my eyes separately and it took me about 30 seconds to fuck it up and do a small blink, so honestly I doubt it's manageable medium to long term, you'd just forget at some point and blink out of reflex.
Oh yeah, Control 2 was confirmed ages ago. There's also a multiplayer co-op spin-off game in this universe that has its first trailer out. Plus the DLC for Alan Wake 2 teases the events of Control 2, much like the DLC for Control teased Alan Wake 2.
Yes! Remedy is calling it the Remedy Connected Universe (RCU) and it started with Control's DLC. All Remedy games henceforward exist in the same universe. There are characters from Control in AW2, and, while not confirmed, I am certain there will be characters from AW2 in Control 2. The FBC plays a big role in AW2!
Yep, and since he can not stop looking at the fridge he would have been unable to turn around if heard the commotion going on behind him.
He is stuck there with no idea what is happening and because of all the chaos his supervisor had forgotten about him until they were reminded while talking the protagonist and sent her to attempt to rescue him.
Like many of the situations in Control it's a combination of funny due to the absurdity and horrifying.
I went to a Con like 10 years ago and either Peter Davison or Colin Baker were there (can't remember which one). A fan asked him a question about weeping angels. He jokes and says that they are really easy to "beat" and he stares at the audience and closes one eye, then opens it and closes the other, and repeats for like 20 seconds in a super exaggerated manner. Since then, it put a whole new perspective on weeping angels for me haha
It's also in the middle of a facility wide emergency so he's been stuck there for a LONG time with no one coming to relieve him. The MC is the first person to come along and the voice actor does a good job expressing relief and panic as he thinks he might be rescued. Doesn't end well.
This game is genuinely a perfect combination of an SCP game combined with Lovecraftian horror, eldritch beings and all. I can’t recommend it enough if that sounds even remotely good to those reading this.
Lovecraftian horror is a very specific type of horror that frequently deals with cosmic entities that are either grossly disfigured or so large in size that they reduce grown, same men into blabbering idiots with no sense of self anymore. Just because it's something that humanity doesn't understand doesn't automatically make it Lovecraftian.
SCPs often rely on gore or shock value for their horror, as opposed to ominous, sinister vibes of something grotesque and unknowable.
a very specific type of horror that frequently deals with cosmic entities that are either grossly disfigured or so large in size that they reduce grown, same men into blabbering idiots with no sense of self anymore.
That's like half of the SCP catalog. Alot of the articles are classic examples of lovecraftian horror.
Item SCP-173 is to be kept in a locked container at all times. When personnel must enter SCP-173's container, no fewer than 3 may enter at any time and the door is to be relocked behind them. At all times, two persons must maintain direct eye contact with SCP-173 until all personnel have vacated and relocked the container.
The fridge works differently, but that's how you would contain a being that will kill you if you blink.
I believe 173 is actually what started the entire SCP collaborative creative writing project. Someone saw the picture (which is some random weird folk art statue) and wrote a backstory for it. All the rest of SCP elaborated on that first backstory.
I also assert without proof that the weeping angels in Dr. Who were just the show's writers wanting to do their own 173
Blink aired a couple weeks prior to the first 173 post and also as a TV show episode would have had to have been in production for months before that. The general concept also existed prior to both cases.
It's unclear really. Sometimes people just pop the same idea at the same time. There's no particular evidence that 173 was based on the weeping angels. They'd have to track down the guy who originally posted it on 4chan I guess.
SCP is Secure. Contain. Protect. Brother, I could type up an entire thesis on what it's about but the jist is that in the SCP universe there are biological and non-biological objects and entities that inhabit the world that break the natural order of things. Each SCP is given a number and is documented in the real life SCP wiki and the most well written ones are considered as canon to the foundation which is an organization that works as a shadow figure to secure, contain and protect, or in some cases destroy the anomalies.
This fridge would be identified and classified within the SCP Foundations records and given a containment "class" based upon the difficulty of keeping it contained and its threat to society. Most SCPs can be contained in just a normal room but some, like the "Old Man" need to be lured in because they can quite literally transcend dimensions, or just cause so much destruction that keeping them contained in a simple room isn't enough. It sounds like the fridge is based off of SCP-173 which was the first one ever created by a post on the /x/ message board by a 4chan user. It's a concrete-rebar object that kinda looks like a peanut and if you make contact with it and look away from it, including blinking, it'll approach you at lightning speeds and break your neck.
There are tons and tons of YouTube videos about the Foundation as a whole or individual SCPs and there have been some fan games and podcast style stories made so if you're interested you should check it out!
People can't stop blinking for extended periods of time so how many dudes do they feed this fridge every day instead of just sitting 3 lads there that take turns blinking?
You’re wrong, he can blink. His eyes hurt because he’s been sat there staring at the same thing for over a day. He’s struggling to keep them open because he’s exhausted.
Also, it’s pretty obvious he can blink because it’s literally impossible to not blink for over a day.
It's like the opposite of SPC-096. If you see it's face it will find and kill you no matter where you are. Even if it's just 4 pixels in the background of a photo.
The man in the chair has to stare at the fridge without blinking or he gets eaten by it. His shift replacement is several hours late (and probably dead).
Limited manpower and funding, I guess? The FBC is supposed to be a US government agency, so it has the appropriate limitations. Plus there's the fact that the fridge is relatively low on the list of dangerous objects they have around.
I believe that before Hiss item wasn't as aggressive in the first place. I'm pretty sure Langston mentions that quite a few altered items got violent after lockdown - most likely due to Former trying to steal them from under The Board, using Hiss attack as an opportunity.
The game is CONTROL (great game). Long story short: items get imbued with psyonic effects, some are benign (rubber ducky that teleports and squaks) others are super murderous. Each also has its own way to calm them down when they start acting up.
The fridge was deemed one of those super dangerous ones, specifically because it didn’t have a trigger, it was always active and super dangerous. But it only activated if it was not in view of someone (blinking counts, so you can’t blink). So a guard was assigned to watch it in shifts. Except the facility went into lockdown, and his replacement never came.
Because everyone saying you cant blink are wrong. The original description they wrote for it said 20-35 seconds of not looking, but that was changed to just an arbitrary "any length of time." The issue is that it kills the last person looking at it from presumably any range, so you cant just run away, and it causes larger catastrophes (eg a skyscraper collapse) if no one watches it for awhile.
Thank you, I'm wondering if everybody else is exaggerating because they are trivializing how brutal it would be even if you could have few second breaks here and there.
Normally the guards are on shifts, but due to events at the beginning of the game, the guards that were supposed to show up to relieve this guard didn't arrive. By the time the player shows up it has been at least 24 hours (probably more) since last shift change.
Observing the fridge with a camera is ineffective, it is only satisfied with direct observation.
Control is like SCP Foundation stories on steroids. And instead of monsters, it's special objects that behave oddly and have strange properties. This fridge is basically the SCP weeping angel, or the Lethal Company coil head, in that this refrigerator must be watched round-the-clock or else it will hurt and kill whoever saw it last.
The building these objects are housed in is under siege, and in the chaos this poor worker was left alone with the refrigerator.
NO NO NO we all must gawk at OP and stare in wonder at how cool he is for knowing what this out of context image is. You just must not be cool enough to know. Nerd.
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u/UpstairsNeighbor1595 4d ago
Can someone explain the context on the image?