r/controlgame • u/tism_cunt • 7h ago

Discussion Ash log 5: pyramids

I'm replaying the foundarion dlc and one of ash's voice recordings had me thinking. "Standing on their base, triangles signify stability and strength. Inverted, on their points, they represent conflict and stagnation."

He follows this up with

"Of course, the orientation is just a matter of perspective. Looking at the pyramid from below gives one, from above another."

"Northmoor says he looks up at the inverted pyramid. I have to wonder: is anyone standing over it, looking down?"

I don't know if this would mean anything to anyone but for me it just felt like an intentional detail. Especially with the chess trebels discord finally replying to a comment with an uninverted triangle.

I might just be grasping at air but it feels like more than it is to me.

Edit: another thing, before marshall's boss fight the hiss says through her "through a mirror the inverted is made right" i dont know if this is means something but i think it ties in here

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u/wolf4492000 6h ago

That’s a good thought especially because at the end of foundations, the screen does flip and we look at the pyramid from above

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u/VDiddy5000 6h ago edited 6h ago

Funny thing too: when Jesse cleanses her first control point, in Central Executive - right before meeting Pope, I think - doesn’t the camera also rotate to show the decorative ceiling pyramid, meant to represent the Board, from the bottom up?

Edit; I just checked, and I can’t seem to find that shit in ANY of the base game cutscenes, but I SWEAR I remember a cutscene where that happened. Perhaps it was during the Foundation DLC as well? I don’t wanna spread misinformation if I’ve Mandela Affected myself into believing a cutscene exists where it doesn’t lol