Weeknotes 10-28-2026

Last week was prettttyy chill honestly! And this week I have some PTO coming up that I'm planning to do fuck all with, I'm so excited. Probably will just read and crochet and play video games for 6 days :D

Speaking of video games, I finished playing Control Resonant, and woooow what a game. Spoiler free thoughts: There were so many moments while playing this game where I would think "how in the world could someone have come up with this level design." The anti-grav platforming stuff was WILD and disorienting and frustrating, but really cool and fun. The combat was Not Good imo, but I turned on one-hit kills so I kind of ended up being able to quickly bypass all the repetitive hack and slashing to keep the story rolling.

It's been like 6 years since I played Control, so I don't remember all that much, but I do feel like this game had much deeper character development and character arcs compared to the first which I really enjoyed. I feel like the first game was about The Oldest House, and this game was about the people who work in The Oldest House. I really became attached to every character and they all had really interesting growth arcs. Alsooo the voice acting in this game was some of the best that I've ever heard. A random audio log would have an oscar winning performance, not to mention all the main characters.

I actually really missed The Oldest House being such a focal point- I thought the setting of Manhattan was obviously very visually impressive, but I found it less interesting. They did a good job of keeping the coupling between government banality and the paranatural in this game though which was appreciated- that's one of my favorite parts of the setting of The Oldest House.

Spoiler thoughts: I feel like this was merely hinted at in Control, but was kind of confirmed in Resonant via lore docs and reading between the lines: Dylan and Jesse are one person, or were at one point one person? There was only one kid, and then there were two. Copy of a copy of a copy and so on. It felt like a lot of stuff was culminating around this idea in Resonant which is very interesting! That said I do hope that Control 3 doesn't combine them. One of my favorite parts of this game was the relationship between Jesse and Dylan, and making them one again would impact that dynamic.

Also I couldn't believe they went there with Jesse and Emily! I remember feeling it in Control, but assumed I was reading into it because I am always looking for characters I can pretend are queer lol. Emily's final words at the end of the game while at Jesse's bedside talking about what is basically their first date, and that she should have told her how she felt before it was too late, absolutely heartbreaking. This was a moment where the voice acting really blew me away and got me teary-eyed.

Spoilers over

All in all, really cool game, and I can't wait for another one in however many years. I am starting a NG+ to do side quests I skipped in favor of finding out what was going to happen next in the main plot! I haven't been so invested in a world and it's characters since probably the first Control!

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I finished reading As You Wake, Break the Shell last week- adored it. I love love love Becky Chambers. She captures the best of humanity in the most in-human settings. Her books show dark realities, but offer light within them. Her writing is a balm to the hopelessness that is so tempting to fall into about our world.

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That's all! Pretty much just a media dump for this week's weeknotes, but that's what I was excited about this past week!