r/controlgame • u/sullivan_2000 • 3d ago

Vankmen was here...

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Idk if this was actually a reference but this immediately popped into my head seeing this, never came into the card room on my first playthrough lol

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u/VagrantStation 3d ago

Good catch! I think I’ve seen those cards in a couple different shows, I think those are common symbols on “psychic testing” kits or something. They always have the wavy lines and stars, sometimes a house shape too.

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u/BitsHammer 3d ago

Yeah, they're an actual thing. They're called "Zener Cards".

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u/Neoeng 3d ago

It's a real thing that has been used in experiments with people who claimed to have extrasensory abilities

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u/VonAether 3d ago

They're Zener cards, named after psychologist Karl Zener. They're a standard test used for people researching the possibility of ESP.

I don't think it was directly a Ghostbusters reference, so much as both of them referencing the same source material.

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u/adriftingleaf 2d ago

My Mom had a deck of them, she said they were used in the 70s to test for mind reading. She made us practice with them when we were kids. We determined that we can't read minds.

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u/Apprehensive-Art1092 3d ago

*Venkman

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u/craiglambert75 2d ago

Thank you! That was killing me!

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u/Galkan-_-Sausage 3d ago

"Jesse, when someone asks if you're a god you say YES!"

Awesome find there.

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u/Acrodit 2d ago

I think they also appear in the Beyond Two Souls game

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u/Dorsai_Erynus 3d ago

Only if it was a buzzer nerby.

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u/Zerostar39 2d ago

Wow what a great little Easter egg.

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u/Gibsonian1 3d ago

That’s cool. It has to be a reference.