Damn, end of an era... I didn't realize it was over. >After almost two decades of pornographic media usage, on August 11, 2020, pornographic studio companies finally stopped using the Hanazono Room indoor pool as they deemed it "virtually prohibited" for adult video shoots. This was after P-Studio announced that they would drastically increase the operating and maintenance fee on the pool due to the need to disinfect it of "bodily fluids" resulting from pornographic shoots inside, meaning that pornographic studio companies could no longer keep up with the operating expenses in shooting their films.
God I hate indie devs. As much as everyone shits on AAA devs, and rightfully so, these gays spit out way more shit than said devs ever could.
Couldn't be me.
How come people always mock liminal spaces and the backrooms? It’s a creepy concept
AN EMPTY ROOM IM GOING INSANE SAVE ME Black personMAN
It’s not just an empty room it’s a massive unnatural structure that exists for no reason. Not only that it also reflects the real world because in the real world there are massive structures that are unnatural and are against human nature. Car infrastructure and giant buildings are just gross and humans subconsciously perceive them as existing without purpose because in the individual human level they don’t serve a purpose they only exist for many people and when you are alone in a space like this it is just all wrong. Everyone is lonely now because it is what our world is made for. And that is fricking terrifying.
>It’s a creepy concept
For drooling morons, absolutely.
>Place with no food, water or anything to do other than walk or wait to die >>it's creppy only for morons
Anon this concept has existed for centuries, it's called a maze.
Of course it's only really scary if you were to experience it first hand in real life, that's why videos and games about the backrooms add a bunch of monsters and stupid shit, otherwise it would be insanely boring instead of scary to just watch a bunch of endless corridors while in the confort of your house and chair
The post in your image was obviously a joke or bait, zoomers don't live in caves or underground shelters, they grow up walking to school and seeing the sun like everyone else
>anon is gonna waste hours of his time making up a lie with nothing to gain from it since posts here are temporary
Do you like to be moronic or you just force it?
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>>anon is gonna waste hours of his time making up a lie with nothing to gain from it since posts here are temporary
First week here?
If not a joke that kid probably has a neurological illness his parents neglected as a child. Unless you get diagnosed with schizophrenia, adhd, or autism your parents don't give a frick.
t. Sensory processing disorder diagnosee who bumps into shit frequently because of no spatial awareness
Okay actually unironically I was thinking about this yesterday.
How DO you walk? Are you supposed to use your toes to push off or lift with your knees like you're marching?
I question is because I've always used my toes to push off, but I've also had fricked up toes and my big toes will always blister and tear when I'm working out or walking for prolonged periods, making me think I've been doing it wrong the whole time.
A quick google said that yes you're supposed to push off with your toes, but they kinda hurt.
Part of the phenomenon has to be a distinct lack of going outside to new places. I've never walked into a clean, empty building and activated my fight or flight instincts. Something like 40% of zoomers never leave their rooms on the weekend and have no IRL friends. I could see someone like that being terrified of something completely mundane, like a warehouse, or an indoor pool.
There's nothing wrong with anything listed here, you could just as easily write a list of annoying but endearing things/experiences that medieval farmers or cavepeople wrote and the exact same message would get across. Teddy K was a moronic incel who killed actual smart and hardworking people while he lived in a shack in the woods, and you aren't special or unique for "empathizing" with him.
If you empathize more with animals or nature then actual humans, then that means you are a genetic dead end and probably autistic BTW
When you realise it would mean them facing up to the utterly fricked status of the world we live in, and I don't mean superficial shit like not having the latest iphone, I mean truly fricked, you can see the horror of it.
No distractions, just reality
that's why you make yourself a 100% distant c**t at work yet still do impressive work so they can't actually afford to let you go.
It's the best, no one will want to bother you in the slightest since they know you don't care.
Here for the fricking paycheck, homosexuals, not your weed stories
I had many bad dreams about bathrooms or bath houses like this. Why? Because in these dreams I always was crazy to pee but somehow the pee was never coming out.
How come people always mock liminal spaces and the backrooms? It’s a creepy concept
AN EMPTY ROOM IM GOING INSANE SAVE ME Black personMAN
It’s not just an empty room it’s a massive unnatural structure that exists for no reason. Not only that it also reflects the real world because in the real world there are massive structures that are unnatural and are against human nature. Car infrastructure and giant buildings are just gross and humans subconsciously perceive them as existing without purpose because in the individual human level they don’t serve a purpose they only exist for many people and when you are alone in a space like this it is just all wrong. Everyone is lonely now because it is what our world is made for. And that is fricking terrifying.
Being alone in a massive empty artificial space isn’t terrifying because you don’t have the iphone you stupid boomer. You are not smarter than other people.
I worked nightshifts at the warehouse when I was in college nothing but an artificial voice keeping me company. Guess I was living in a zoomer's nightmare every night lmao
it's only creepy to people who grew up in cities with mass crowds everywhere, if you grew up somewhere with less than 5 people per square inch, all it looks like is normal with no haunting implications. It's so mundane
>be townsmen who lives in a town with less than 10k people >one day while walking to the town's square your feet slips and you fall on what seems to be a big bathroom with no furniture except railings for a pool on the center of it >the biggest building you ever entered was 4 stories tall >walk around while your eyes and breath sting and the humidity suffocates you >its bathrooms all the way down >all you hear is the small waves of the pools nearby and in the distance and a faint current of air, besides you of course >this place seems like it was built by a cyclopean toddler mashing rooms together, after triping with odd steps in the middle of nowhere and walking in tall areas without railings you get used to watching your step >after a while you decide to call for help since you havent seen nobody yet and the place seems to have been empty for a while >you wander for hours and still cant find anyone >renenbering the moment when you fell and the distance you have traveled makes you thing you should be at surface level at least, near the local police station, 30 meters above ground and you still havent seen a window to the outside
idk what else to write, but shit would get scary for any mf who fell on those, the only complaint i see is that most games are just walking sims to admire the landscape or your average horror game but in office rooms. the walking sims are not about the horror but the setting and the feeling of liminality, suposedly they aim to capture that aesthetic. i just want some media that manages to capture it but the only guy who seemed to be able to make a decent story out of it was kane and you Black folk could to if you werent against anything youngfolk made
>It's scary because it would be scary in real life as long as something defying reality happened
If fricking spongebob came out of my television and started breakdancing in the carpent I would scream and be traumatized forever, but it would still be stupid and not something to make serious fiction about
However, my city is in the middle of constructing some massive overpass infrastructure, and seeing it in the middle of being build I've suddenly "gotten" what all those post apocalypse artists and writers were going for.
Half built infrastructure just looks so monolithic and overbearing, when you're not looking at it from the point of view of using it to bypass traffic its just massive concrete structures towering over everything. It legitimately makes me feel small in a way sky scrapers and other large buildings never have.
It's something that can be disconcerting at best man, and even then only because it makes a larger statement about society that you might or might not agree with. Even creepy is pushing it, calling it actual horror is fricking hilarious.
imo liminal spaces are something you have to experience firsthand. It's not something that can be replicated by a game. I once had to do some IT work in an empty office building at night and it scared me fricking shitless. The sound-dampening floor and walls basically make it impossible to hear someone or anything. Because you can't hear anything, your mind goes crazy and you start to somewhat hallucinate. It was the worst, most spookiest shit I had to do. So I get how it can be creepy and terrifying, but none of these games can emulate the feeling of it.
you're the biggest pussy possible I work midnights in a giant office alone its comfy, WAHHHH IM HECKING HALLUCINATING AFTER BEING IN AN EMPTY ROOM ALONE, get your shit together anon
I work alone overnight IT in an office just like that, there is literally nothing scary about anything you explained. Worst case scenario it sounds like someone watching the news in another room. I got over it the first night
Like when someone is watching a TV in the other room and it's kinda muffled, but it has the cadence of a news anchor. Usually happens when it's really quiet and I have headphones on not listening to anything
This is the kinda liminal game that I'd enjoy.
The protagonist doing a nightshift alone in a massive building, no monsters, just eerie atmosphere and weird sounds while working. Relaxing but also kinda creepy.
How come people always mock liminal spaces and the backrooms? It’s a creepy concept
AN EMPTY ROOM IM GOING INSANE SAVE ME Black personMAN
It’s not just an empty room it’s a massive unnatural structure that exists for no reason. Not only that it also reflects the real world because in the real world there are massive structures that are unnatural and are against human nature. Car infrastructure and giant buildings are just gross and humans subconsciously perceive them as existing without purpose because in the individual human level they don’t serve a purpose they only exist for many people and when you are alone in a space like this it is just all wrong. Everyone is lonely now because it is what our world is made for. And that is fricking terrifying.
I realize the reason for you to be like this, is because you are sheeps. You are prey, that's prey mentality.
I try to find shelter in the dark and quiet, you try to find shelter in the loud and the crowd's movement
Maybe I'm just a different kind of prey myself
But if that's the case.. why you fear my safespace, but noone on the planet fears a random crowd passing by?
>The sound-dampening floor and walls
This scares the zoomer but damn what I'd give to live and work in a place like this, in complete silence. I'm autistic and random noises and people talking distract me. Except rain, rain sounds nice.
I know this is a bait.
I wish the covid lockdown would have lasted for a decades so we could see zoomers and younger millenials really going nuts like this. This is cyberpunk dystopia fiction level of schizo, and it's fun.
If people were locked up for that long, they would escape eventually. That COVID bullshit was a massive fluke in Amuttica the moment those George Floyd riots started.
>it’s a massive unnatural structure that exists for no reason
So are modern art sculptures and even then the horror comes from the realization that my tax dollars probably paid for it.
All "liminal spaces" are are places that are supposed to have people but don't. The actual spooky element comes from "what if this empty place actually has something?" Which can apply to literally any location, any place that's (seemingly) empty, but might have something lurking.
I just think it's a neat concept man, but it isn't fricking creepy or scary. It seems more comfy than anything. I got home from a 10 hour drive through the american midwest yesterday, and what I find a bit weird are all of those businesses you see in the middle of nowhere that have like 40 trucks in their parking lot but nobody is ever actually there, even during the middle of the work day, for months at a time. Mostly because I'm stupid and don't understand why they're there. Liminal shit is gay though.
Its for white people only unirocally. All the haters are low IQ thirld worlder with without the ability to think further.
The terror (not fear, actual Terror) insinued by the backroom Is a conceptual one based on the inability to comprehend something si different, yet so close.
A moron will just find it comfy. See reply, alway about "lol its comfy lmaaao no creepy", they just cannot grasp It.
liberals want the new generation to grow up in a healthy world with clean land and endless suffienct farming, republic**ts embrace the car centric sprawling shitholes and suburbs with gun toting suburbanites to which they call the white ethnostate when they are actually mutts
But i thought the future liberals wanted was for everyone to be crammed into "walkable" cities, living in box pod- i mean "condos" since they suddenly support high density living? Liberals panic when they exit the city limits and they shit their pants when they are surrounded by vegetation or flatgrass land where cattle or other livestock usually graze on pastures and make countless of post seething at people who reject living in urban areas.
Yes, and this is the topic stupid urbanists tend to avoid on why Americ**ts don't like walking in most areas and ride public transportation like Europeans do. Not only because the country has horrid car based infrastructure and a shit network, but also leave out the fact that it's also because of Black folk and stinky bums that board buses and the subways, which forces people to drive against their will.
Black folk socking people in broad daylight in New York City and Chicago still goes unnoticed.
>Black folk socking people in broad daylight in New York City and Chicago still goes unnoticed.
It doesn't go unnoticed, it only goes undiscussed. Remember those images that get posted around, showcasing schools that used to be white becoming all-black in modern times? That's modern white flight, which still happens. I did research on it, very interesting topic; white women, even liberal women, will pull their kids from school and find a "better" school that "teaches their culture" if the school becomes a certain percentage of brown. For American women, it's 40%, for British, it's 5-8%, and for Swedes it's as sensitive as 3%. The only white kids that remain in those doomed schools are those too poor to move elsewhere.
Nobody says anything because everyone knows if you say something, you're going to get eaten alive by the media, by the mobs and even by Black folk.
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Anonymous
I've also seen that black people also prefer schools with a black majority.
And when liberal women migrate to more conservative states, do they also become more conservative, or do they start voting and doing activism in favor of the same things that made them flee their place of origin in the first place?
2 months ago
Anonymous
>I've also seen that black people also prefer schools with a black majority.
Why the frick would anyone prefer schools with a black majority? You're dooming your kids to being morons.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Because black Americans have a strong tribalist tendency, like all other races except (liberal) whites.
Probably smarter and richer blacks will prefer white schools, however, but they won't tell why.
2 months ago
Anonymous
I'm sure they do, but everyone that can escape the ghetto does so. It's insane to purposefully be around other blacks if you can actually help it.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>It's insane to purposefully be around other blacks if you can actually help it.
Tribalism is incredibly strong, gamer. I've been a Lyft Driver for years and most of my clientele are Black folk. Most of them are tolerable, some of them are actually great, but the call of the Hood is mighty. Think about it this way, anon; would you rather live in an all-black neighborhood making $60,000/yr, or live in an all-white neighborhood making $30,000/yr?
2 months ago
Anonymous
It would depend on how high the crime is in that all black neighborhood, which I assume would be very high.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>And when liberal women migrate to more conservative states, do they also become more conservative, or do they start voting and doing activism in favor of the same things that made them flee their place of origin in the first place?
Women are brutal when they're forced to be, but women are still women. They'll vote and do activism in those places because they don't have pattern recognition. To most of these women, they moved for the reasons I put in quotations (and are in fact the most common explanations for white flight.) It could of course just be a clever excuse to avoid saying, "I did it because Black folk," but white women are in fact concerned that their children learn what it "means" to be "British" or "Swedish" or even "American."
i'm not even american but we still have this kind of bullshit happen on our public transit here in england. after 4 years of this hell, i'm glad i had enough money to buy a used car and bike in 2020 when covid swept the world
>since they suddenly support high density living
No one supports those since at least 1990s. High rise housing projects always fail. Future apartment projects are a few floors high with a lot of public spaces and greenery around them.
Most American whites are not mutts in the sense that they are mixed with any brown races. Interracial relationships are the exception, not the norm, despite what media tells you.
imo liminal spaces are something you have to experience firsthand. It's not something that can be replicated by a game. I once had to do some IT work in an empty office building at night and it scared me fricking shitless. The sound-dampening floor and walls basically make it impossible to hear someone or anything. Because you can't hear anything, your mind goes crazy and you start to somewhat hallucinate. It was the worst, most spookiest shit I had to do. So I get how it can be creepy and terrifying, but none of these games can emulate the feeling of it.
I can't relate, empty locations like these feel very nostalgic, relaxing and comfortable to me.
>It’s not just an empty room it’s a massive unnatural structure that exists for no reason. Not only that it also reflects the real world because in the real world there are massive structures that are unnatural and are against human nature.
Black person, most of what you zoomers call liminal spaces is just 70s and 60s architecture. The image in OP reflects a lot of east-europe brutalism architecture, you only think is terrible because you grow up between school, mcdonalds and malls. >Everyone is lonely now because it is what our world is made for. And that is fricking terrifying.
It's more fricking terrifying to find adults afraid of a hotel corridor, a convention center or pools.
Why? Empty locations aren't particularly weird. Go anywhere really early or really late and you will have huge empty places. There is nothing weird about them. If anything, they're calming, since no one's around, and everything basically belongs to you. When I still went to school I used to go swimming before lessons started, so I went to some indoor pool at 6:30 AM every single day. It was really comfy, no one was around, I had the entire hall to myself, at most you'd have a lifeguard and 1-2 other dudes around.
Really, this whole thing seems like something hypersocial morons would have issues with.
Why are gay redditor leftists so obsessed with cars and public transport?
liberals want the new generation to grow up in a healthy world with clean land and endless suffienct farming, republic**ts embrace the car centric sprawling shitholes and suburbs with gun toting suburbanites to which they call the white ethnostate when they are actually mutts
And thats why they are trying to ban homegrown food in Europe right? Whatever idea of left and right you have, its outdated 30 years. Switch them out, and you will be close to it.
I have a bizarre memory when I was a kid of going to some other country with my family and the hotel we stayed at had some pool near the roof, when I went to the pool it had some "downward steps" thing and it basically led into one of those weird liminal all white rooms with the silence and corridors and just the pool water, no one else was in it, I found it freaky so didn't stay down there long but it was zoom zoom shit before it became a thing (I'm in my 30s this was ages ago)
I had a dream last night that had the same vibes as liminal space. I got that sense of unease that something was off because the dream was of myself exploring my old childhood home. The difference however is that there were a bunch of new rooms that I've never seen before and rooms that I knew of were larger than normal.
This is what these games should be going for. A familiarity that becomes twisted but you're not aware that something is different.
I have those kinds of dreams but they aren't terrifying, just confusing because they're very realistic for me and I almost can't tell if what I saw was real or not
I swear every single fricking time I dream about my parent's house it's a horrifying as frick nightmare, I hate it. >Wake up in childhood home >Walk down the stairs >Mom is washing dishes at the kitchen sink with her back turned >Say something to her >Her voice replies, but from behind me >Turn around and see my mom smiling at me >Slowly turn around to see what was washing the dishes >Split second of a nightmarish warped face filling my vision and wake up with a ringing scream in my ears
Alternatively: >Wake up in my childhood home >Walk down the stairs, house empty >Gaze outside to my garden, all relaxed >Eventually end up spotting an abnomality, like a chimney that was never there, or a window that shouldn't be there from the neighbor downstreet >As soon as I spot it the PoV of my dream shifts to something that's rapidly closing in on me from that same abormal spot and I see myself turn around and bolt upstairs to my bed, as if I myself become the evil spirit chasing me >Never quite make it back in bed before I catch myself, waking up with ringing ears and an awful sense of dread
The problem with these "liminal spaces" games is they have reached the same issue the FNAF copies did. They are no longer referencing specific things from real life, they are referencing other "liminal space" videos or games. Same as newer evil mascot games are not referencing Chuck E Cheese type restaurants or Sesame Street type kids shows, their point of reference is other evil mascot games.
So they just repeat the same shit because they think they're supposed to.
That doesn't help, but there is at least some anchor there to real life. Now there isn't even that. You just have references to well known "liminal" pics and videos recycled.
I'm a zoomer and been living all my life in a small rural town. You moronic Black folk believe every zoomer in the world is the NY murimutt type. You're the one who wouldn't last a second in here, cityhomosexual.
I live in rural areas before you were even born squirt. I lived Alberta for the first 13 years of my life and then later on a farm in rural Texas for the past 21 years, homosexual. Cities, especially American and Canadian spawling cities with their god-awful infrastructure are major deterrents for "flyovers" like me. Frick that loud hustle and bustle bullshit, the only good that comes from cities is commerce and keeping socialists bundled up in their hives while Black folk terrorize them. I'd rather till my 7 acre land and spit out tobacco till I die.
am I autistic for looking at that tractor and feeling kinda sad that someone was done using it for the day once, and just never used it again? Whenever I see a vehicle from like the 60s or earlier, I always wonder what kind of history they had.
I mean there's some sadness behind things like that. I remember seeing an old picture of a prohibition era Packard car being hidden away in some warehouse and was never used for decades until it was discovered recently. Thought it was kinda sad.
subtlety distorting spacial dimensions to create an unnerving stark landscape is a neat concept and didn't catch on by accident, but like any fad it can become overdone and silly.
You know, why hasn't anyone made a game about Mall World yet?
The lore behind Mall World is actually grounded in shared dream experiences and all of the paranormal BS that surrounds it, and it was basically the OG backrooms, decades before the backrooms were a OG content post on Ganker.
Though I suppose Mall World will never pick up with indie devs because it's actually teeming with NPCs and complex environmental settings. Could probably only be adequately portrayed by an AA-developer team or higher.
I like these games not because it's "LE SCARRY!!!!!" I like it because I find liminal spaces interesting to explore. I would love to simply be able to have the ability to enter/leave the pool rooms through any body of luke warm water.
I think that would be cool.
A pool isn't a liminal space. A pool as a specific function. For something to be a liminal space it needs to have no function within the construct it's designed for.
Å hotel hallway is liminal because it's not a room anyone uses, or has any function on its own.
That's not a set function, it's a result of the design of the hotel itself.
A kitchen has a set function. A den. A living room. A bath room. You can use them how you want, but their functions are integrated into their forms.
Å hotel hallway is a residual room that no one uses or wants. It serves no other function than to be liminal within the structure of a hotel.
A hotel could just as easily be a set of 100 cabins isolated from one another, but to save space and resources they coup them together on one building. The hotel hallway is a leftover space that could be resolved by just having one big room were everyone is quartered into.
>For something to be a liminal space it needs to have no function within the construct it's designed for
This is why Ganker is obsessed with this shit. You are all liminal spaces. God, or nature for the smoothbrains, gave you one of the most complex mortal shells with a multitude of functions and abilities that you actively avoid using because youd rather be a 400 pound drain on humanity. Your ancestors cry in shame
part of the uncanny weirdness is that it is still clean despite seemingly nobody existing there
The regular office backrooms is more into that since regular office spaces like that don't exist anymore either while interior pools and bathhouses were never really a thing in US culture so there's no theming to them going dilapidated.
Same, I wanted to buy it just for that cozy exploration kino. I used to love playing online games by myself so I downloaded a lot of those Gmod rp maps and explored around. Seeing people lose their minds to this shit is really puzzling to me. There's something really calming about being alone and exploring an aesthetically pleasing place.
yeah but that was more putting the fear of 'what if there was a monster in here' and less 'THERE'S A BILLION MONSTER IN HERE LOOK WE ORGANISED IT IN A WIKI'
Never understood the liminal space as horror thing. Always found them comfy and at worst melancholic. I can understand being stuck in endless corridors with nothing to hope for but starve being scary but the aesthetic themselves are rather pleasant to me.
Zoomers are all socially and emotionally stunted so if something is making them feel in a way that can't be described as "fun" "sad" "mad" "bored" they can't articulate the emotion and settle on one chosen almost at random.
I wouldn't call it scary, but it is interesting surreal concept.
Ive had dreams exactly like this before, though I wouldn't call those even creepy.
I find it comfy in a way.
That's me in Half-Life Deathmatch circa 1999, when I wasn't allowed use the dial-up for multiplayer because I'd be stolen through the screen or something, just run around the maps for a while.
For real tho are any actually good backroom games out there ? The settings genuinely seems like it could work but there are just so many available and they all look meh...
Empty malls and offices are comfy.
I can see them being somewhat melancholic but more in a light sad music type of way rather than something oppressive.
I'm 30+ but I recall -~7 yo child me having reactions and weird dreams about places.
I do recall daydreaming about the public pool having underwater caves leading to bigger pools and slides, or the lazy river going on forever with alternative paths. Those dreams were quite detailed too.
I recall finding dark alley with stone path, trees and lamp posts terrifying with the near-silence of night. I felt my heart rushing running in them.
I recall finding forests mystical. Like they extend to infinity.
I recall thinking the same of misty days, where you couldn't see past 20 meters. I felt like I could lose myself and end up in another town by some reality warping shit.
I used to sail boats as my hobby and felt the "endless" depths of the ocean beneath me. I recall the caves on the cliffs that lead to some unseen rooms, the old WW2 german bunkers on the beach with their own hidden rooms.
I suppose it's what they mean by "liminal spaces" this kind of warping and exaggeration of reality by a child's mind. Alice in Wonderland-kind of thing. Tho I don't see feel in those games I played so far.
I was driving across Australia about 10 years ago by myself. The worst fear I ever had in my life was stopping in the middle of a highway at midnight, where the nearest town was about 60km away, and turning off all the lights and then stepping out of the car. Don't know why I did it, I was just compelled to try it. It was completely quiet and almost pitch black, and I know it was irrational but I felt like something was watching me which made me feel an intense fear. The weirdest part though is later I started researching that area and it turns out that that particular highway Newell Highway has a history of stories with encounters with a ghost called the Pilliga princess and is also known as an evil land full of spirits. Weird that I found that out after I felt that primal feeling of something watching me.
This one falls into one of the better liminal "experiences" personally, there's no forced puzzle shit or dumbass monsters chasing you, but it has no real narrative but depending on your tastes all of these are either a bonus or negative. It's a fricking walking sim so you'll know if it's for you or not. There're a few surprise moments that are creepy but no jump scares, a lot of ambient noise spooks, creator has a weird fetish for "pipes" going in giant statue's mouths, I wish I was kidding there.
Zoomer here (born in 1999) and I have always found liminal spaces interesting but long before they were called liminal spaces. I liked empty shopping malls and indoor pools because those were the kind of places I visited in my dreams.
So while I understand the appeal of liminal spaces, I never understood the "deep fear" of them. I mean sure, they're mysterious and creepy but only just enough to fuel intrigue, not to leave you shivering in your boots.
I don't think people originally liked liminal spaces because of horror, I feel like that got tacked on later by content farming channels and morons.
>I feel like that got tacked on later
It absolutely did, because people wanted to make games based on the backrooms and shit but realized the concept in and of itself doesn't lend itself to a proper video game, so these dopamine addled zoomers always default to "lol unknown monster chasing u, just like in slender man!!!! now pewdiepie will play my game!!!"
I remember when the concept was 100% just about simulating weird spaces that you see in dreams that don't make sense, which I found very compelling and unique. Finding a pool game for the first time was really creepy since I had never heard of anyone else having those kind of dreams and I thought it was just my own personal quirk from traveling a lot as a kid and going to a lot of different weird old cheap hotel in-door pools. It's like LSD the ps1 game, there's sort of a monster at times but mostly it's just exploring weird spaces and that's interesting enough.
Man with a knife can be shot
infinite 80s office space will have me wandering around until i dehydrate to death or until i go insane and become man with a knife
No. A man with a knife is inherently scary. There’s a threat. Hell, even the hint of a threat is good. That’s why the Backrooms is scary, there’s the hint of something in there with you, and nothing else inside it. A fricking pool room or any other “liminal space” can only hint at threats by relying on a zoomer’s ADHD ridden hallucinations
“Guy with a gun” is too quick
“Guy with bare hands” is too slow (also blunt force)
“Guy with knife” is in the Goldilocks zone. Not too slow, not too fast (also lots of blood and feeling a foreign object insert itself into non-orifices)
I mean as the response to analog or "liminal" horror being mocked, they always seem to default to claiming boomers feared "guy with knife".
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Anonymous
Oh yeah
Because it’s too mundane for them. It’s why they all gravitate to robots and demons and monsters and eldritch abominations. It’s sully and limiting, but it’s how they think
2 months ago
Anonymous
>eldritch abomination
They don't even do that right though, it's always so mundane and petty and the ideas are extremely basic. There's not really anything eldritch about it.
One is a scenario with 0 dangers, let alone other living things, and the other has a very real chance of violence and murder. One is actually trying to be scary and threatening.
>...by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and outwardly architecture.
I'm sorry, I'm only EFL (English first language), so I've never developed the intricate and elaborate understanding of the English language ESLs have. What does "outwordly" mean in this context
a knife provides certainty, you know its dangerous and know how to avoid it. the point of something like luminal spaces is to create uncertainty, there is the potential of a threat and it being unorthodox, you might have a harder time knowing how to avoid it.
A setting isn't scary on it's own. It need a possible threat hidden or otherwise.
When you're explicitly told that "Pools" doesn't have any threat at all then there should be no fear at all.
How can you be scared of something you know is safe? Are you scared of Safety Scissors anon?
the room as presented is unorthodox in layout, its unusually quiet for a space organized around such a scale, and what else might be in those rooms with you is what is concerning. you arent afraid of your room because you are familliar with it, know its layout and know where the entrances and exits are.
>where are all the people? Where are all the funko pops? This place is so unorthodox I'm scared af!
some people experience this same feeling in empty or abandoned malls and theme parks.
>you might have a harder time knowing how to avoid it
and yet in 99% of cases, all they ever do is make it pathfind until it finds you, and then it....... kills you somehow, and for some reason which are never explained. Does it want to eat you? Does it want you dead for literally no reason? These are the things that are never actually expanded on, so all it really ever winds up being is a minotaur in the maze situation, because the people who make these games aren't actually creative in the least. You can tell because, well, the entire premise of their game is a trendy meme that zoomies are talking about. Nothing that they came up with themselves.
I agree the games are all very bad and unimaginative, im refering to the concept which is based on photos. I think games inherently make the concept less scary because you navigate unorthodox layouts all the time, its not something youre ever conditioned into thinking about or reflecting on.
>you might have a harder time knowing how to avoid it
and yet in 99% of cases, all they ever do is make it pathfind until it finds you, and then it....... kills you somehow, and for some reason which are never explained. Does it want to eat you? Does it want you dead for literally no reason? These are the things that are never actually expanded on, so all it really ever winds up being is a minotaur in the maze situation, because the people who make these games aren't actually creative in the least. You can tell because, well, the entire premise of their game is a trendy meme that zoomies are talking about. Nothing that they came up with themselves.
I mean, you have to admit there is a subtle slow burn in the subliminal isolation that permeates the plane upon which you internalize and virtually occupy when you perceive and interface with the emotional aura of this piece of interactive media.
>um actually horror doesn't involve any thought on the part of the user. It's all just jump scares and big heckin men with knives
lol oh dem ol' boomers
2 months ago
Anonymous
Didn't say that and the zoomer horror games don't require any thought. Actual classic horror games do. Keep trying!
An abandoned apartment is not "Fear of the unknown" unless the creepiness is centered around the possibility of finding a random crackhead who tries to stab you for your wallet which would be an actually feasible fear, too bad none of this shit focuses on that and instead genuinely believes that yellow interiors are the harbingers of dread and insanity
>An abandoned apartment is not "Fear of the unknown" unless the creepiness is centered around the possibility of finding a random crackhead who tries to stab you for your wallet which would be an actually feasible fear, too bad none of this shit focuses on that and instead genuinely believes that yellow interiors are the harbingers of dread and insanity
Yeah see when you enter a place that you don't know what's in it that is the scary part.
>it's okay to ruin nature with shitty plastic toys as long as its some niche anime bullshit! look it's funny because its a little anime girl in a situation you would never expect to see one!!!!!!!!!
anime only has one joke and it's amazing that it lures in Black folk like you every single time
All those liminal space games try to ape House of Leaves but lack the truly oppressive factor of almost impercetibly shifting walls, and the anomalous laws of space and spatiality.
According to the internet, every single zoomer under the sun is an american urbanist, regardless of location. It's merely a coping mechanism terminally online homosexuals, really.
Guess the internets wrong because I've seen a bunch of French 20-something zoomers operating tractors in the countryside and more after that Farmers protest we had.
>why are they always contained to shovelware as opposed to full games?
Why do you think? It's because its inherently flawed as a video game concept. What exactly are you supposed to accomplish in a liminal space? If there are other NPCs in there, then it ceases to be liminal so having other characters already ruins the concept. If your danger is just "monster moves towards you" then congrats you just made the same game again for the 5000th time. If the gameplay is just to explore and find shit to figure out a narrative, then it will never feel like a full game and it will have no replay value.
The setting of a liminal space is fun for a setting, but there's really nothing you can do with it to make it feel like a full game.
What studios are even currently making games where a setting like this could work as a short segment? I guess it could work in a kojima game but he's working on that new game with the troony main character right now
that is in no way true. adding liminal shit to an otherwise upbeat and cheery game will just make it look lime some kind of moronic attempt to subvert expectations and make zoomies shit their pants
Its for white people only unirocally. All the haters are low IQ thirld worlder with without the ability to think further.
The terror (not fear, actual Terror) insinued by the backroom Is a conceptual one based on the inability to comprehend something si different, yet so close.
A moron will just find it comfy. See reply, alway about "lol its comfy lmaaao no creepy", they just cannot grasp It.
Zoomers are terrified of liminal spaces because they know that, at any moment, a Black person could pop out from behind the corner and kill them. Zoomers both love and fear Black folk, because while the Black person dominates American culture they also dominate FBI crime statistics. And what's this whining about zoomers never going outside? Have you seen what's out there? Let me describe the average American town to you goobers, >The roads are terrible, often so filled-in to fix potholes as to make a clean bike ride impossible >Nowhere to go, all the stores have been consolidated into soulless supermarkets with armed guards and security systems commanding you either Shop or Scram >Most of those stores, especially the ones that somehow survived the purge, cater to Black folk or women >None of them have fathers, so their homes are barren of spirit >Everywhere is dominated by Black folk. Despite account for only 13% of the population, Black folk make up 90% of the foot traffic around any economic center. >The remaining 10% are aging whites, frightened white women who want nothing to do with you, and white women with Black person boyfriends
What's the point in going outside, anymore? What's the point in "maintaining society?" If you go outside you get shot, if you talk to a woman you might get #Cancelled, and all of the stores either don't cater to you, or are so expensive they're out of a zoomer price range. Tell me, where are zoomers supposed to go? Like, I've *seen* what happens when tons of white zoomers congregate in an area, and it's always described by the news as a hate crime.
>TL;DR
Zoomers don't go anywhere because there's nowhere left to go. The "good old days" when you could go on bike adventures with friends happened when the economy was strong and demographics were still hovering around 80% white.
Black person, you're just parroting shit you've heard on /misc/, probably from a shut in who never leaves the house and gaslit yourself into believing it.
There's still young kids riding bikes in my 70+ year old dreaded suburb. Call it anecdote all you want, but I still see the scary broccoli perm head zoomers walking in the nearby mall buying moronic shit at kiosks like the consoomers they are.
>Zoomers are terrified of liminal spaces because they know that, at any moment, a Black person could pop out from behind the corner and kill them.
No, that's right wing millennials.
I'm a zoomer that grew in the countryside with barely any technology and had a great childhood full of exploration with bikes in the nearby forest and beach with the fellow kids from town, I can't imagine how sad it must be to grow in the city with nothing but cars outside and ipads inside.
I'm a early zoomer 1998 tho so maybe I'm not representative enough
When I was a kid my parents took me into their offices late at night/on weekends sometimes when there was no one else around. At one point my mum worked as a cleaner too, so I got to go around empty buildings and even school campuses at night sometimes. There's nothing scary about it.
KEK. In 20 years Ganker will be filled with homosexual zoomerboomers who reminisce about these totally lit retro games from their youth. MEMBER DAT POOLS BO
Look at the kind of homes most people were living in back then, and what that salary could buy. The options these days are fricking luxurious compared to it. Even right now your average working class family can afford a holiday somewhere sunny at least once a year, back then it was unheard of.
>Go back to 1980 and learn what oppressive decay and decline actually looked like
Unironically worse, now. We have, >Oppressive decay and decline >Declining wages >Unaffordable houses >Black folk
And back then you had white Black folk instead of black ones. There were gangs, there was violence, there was garbage piling the streets. TV was shit and vidya was next to non-existant. Kids these days have ADHD level choice but back then if the weather was shit and nobdy was out playing, I remember it being so truly grim and boring at times that I wished I didn't exist.
>Look at the kind of homes most people were living in back then, and what that salary could buy.
I can't tell if you're joking if you think it was harder to buy a nice home in the 1980's compared to today.
A home was easier to buy for sure, but a nice home? lolno. Your options were suburbia or rotten city. Nice homes were in the sticks and remote working was unheard of for most careers. Especially for wagies.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Nice homes were also a lot more affordable than now. You're literally moronic, bro. Do you think so many millennials live in shitty rented apartments because they're just too cheap to buy the nice mansion they afford?
2 months ago
Anonymous
Defined a "nice home" and affordable to who? Because no matter where you look in history the masses never ever had affordable "nice homes". The fact that millenials are always b***hing about not being able to buy a house when there's so much cheap land for sale where you can build your own is hilarious to me.
2 months ago
Anonymous
You fricking moron, I never said most people lived in nice homes, I said they were more affordable back then.
>The fact that millenials are always b***hing about not being able to buy a house when there's so much cheap land for sale where you can build your own is hilarious to me.
Genuinely sub-zero IQ.
2 months ago
Anonymous
but streamer said you can just build a house
2 months ago
Anonymous
>I said they were more affordable back then
Yes, but to WHO you fricking mongoloid? Oh that's right, to the same professions that have no problem buying a house today. >Genuinely sub-zero IQ.
homie you can literally build a house for 1/4 of price of buying one
2 months ago
Anonymous
To anybody, dipshit. Homes were overall cheaper. >homie you can literally build a house for 1/4 of price of buying one
Where? Rural Alabama? You can't buy cheap land in any city.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>Homes were overall cheaper.
They were, but wagies were not buying "nice houses". Even back then the property ladder is a thing. Couples had to pool their money to buy something shitty and work their way up to a "nice house". >in a city
lmao
2 months ago
Anonymous
So what the frick are you even arguing over then, you moronic homosexual?
You agree people had an easier time buying a home, including a nice one and you also agree that modern cities are completely unaffordable.
2 months ago
Anonymous
ignore him, he's attempting to be subversive
2 months ago
Anonymous
>ignore him, he's attempting to be subversive
Spotted the israelite. When you're peddling the idea that everyone is hopeless and can't make a comfy life for themselves you bet your fricking shit stained kippur I'm going to subvert it.
2 months ago
Anonymous
yet you have no problem peddling a false image of the past
2 months ago
Anonymous
Because the homes people were buying back then in most of the west are exactly the kind of homes you can buy now as a wagie, but you've all been conditioned to turn your nose up at anything that isn't a fricking luxury. Btw this land is 40km outside Austin Texas, it cost $50,000.
You've been spoonfed the idea that everything is impossible now and you believe it.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Except we can see with our own eyes that property values shot up at least 300% everywhere just in the last decade. >it cost $50,000
And?
2 months ago
Anonymous
>And?
And you build a fricking house on it anon. Voila, you now have an affordable decent property in a comfy area within commuting distance of a busy city. A property which will only increase in value. What the actual frick are you complaining about.
2 months ago
Anonymous
What exactly do you think it costs to build a home, anon?
2 months ago
Anonymous
You can build a 2 bedroom home for around $100k. If you honestly can't find a way to make it work for you in current day you're not cut out to have a family anyway, it's only going to get worse as populations grow and with learned helplessness like you homosexuals have, your kids won't stand a chance.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Sure, if you make it tiny and made out of cardboard. > learned helplessness
When the frick did I say I'm helpless, you subhuman piece of zoomer garbage? have a nice day, trash.
2 months ago
Anonymous
You don't have to say it when it's implied in everything you argue about. You're an entitled homosexual who thinks being a janitor should get him a 3 bedroom penthouse when you could buy a crappy little property like every human not from wealth has had to do, and work your way up. >cherry picks the most unfavourable result >"Sure, if you make it tiny and made out of cardboard"
See, learned helplessness.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>posts an image about a bungalow, a home literally defined as being small
Are you actually moronic? That's literally what I said. You can make a little bungalow for cheap, so what? >implied in everything you argue about
Frick off, subhuman. The conversation started with me saying buying a home in the 1980's was more affordable than today, which is something you yourself ended up agreeing with. Don't project your insecurities onto me.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Ackshully when you look at the median household income, median home price and interest rate in 1980 compared to 2024, buying a house inlcuding the principle and interest in 1980 would have took up 58% of a buyers income compared to the 53% it is today. Skill issue.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Shut the frick up. If you're buying a house in 2024 it was probably built before 1990.
>Go back to 1980 and learn what oppressive decay and decline actually looked like
Unironically worse, now. We have, >Oppressive decay and decline >Declining wages >Unaffordable houses >Black folk
>Go back to 1980 and learn what oppressive decay and decline actually looked like
I grew up in the early 80s, it is worse now. Posting pictures of a NyC slum won't change my opinion.
Maybe it's worse for YOU now but I guarantee you it's not 1980s shithole britain or NYC bad. The world changes and all the millenials with their oversaturated skillsets crying about their boomer parents holding onto the very properties that paid for the millenials education is clown world. People really think they're entitled to a fricking mansion because they sit at an office desk all day.
Of course there were. The same as there are now. But most of the west wasn't experiencing the golden age of American suburbia you're probably thinking of.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>you're probably thinking of
I'm not thinking of anything, I'm just asking a question.
2 months ago
Anonymous
No, don't you see you can by a method shack in rural buttfrick nowhere for pennies! It doesn't matter that all the local towns are dead or dying, that most of the populace is addicted to meth or oxygen, or that you have to pay a fortune to have local utilities restored.
Some Amiga games had the backrooms aesthetic and it was creepy back then as a kid in the 90s so I can see the appeal. They had monsters too tho not just empty rooms
Why do the younger generation want to ruin everything?
I dont care that they like the same things or have their own things.
It's normal.
It's more like they see something and bastardise it, try to censor it. Or change it to their liking, and remove any originality.
It's like everything becomes the same, like there's a standard of things that they want everything to be and anything they like needs to conform and change to it.
Like every single horror thing just becomes an escape from 2000s kid mascot horror.
What's more is that anything they dont like needs to be cancelled and hated, even ignoring the time period, context, or whatever.
Like before, you had some kids playing some shooters with some old man online and having a ball yelling racist shit and having fun. Well now it's gross and problematic now, regardless of if there's any sexual groomer shit or actual racist undertones.
Even old shows are too sexualised, sexist and racist and need to be censored but some troony can strip naked in front of preschoolers and be seen as brave.
I know I'm digressing here but frick this bothers me.
It gets worse and worse, this generation is ruining culture and the world based on their little experience they had with the world.
Shit is getting more and more crazier.
Why are people confused about liminal spaces? A hallway is liminal because it serves as a location of change. You’re going from A to B, that is a liminal space. The horror that comes from backrooms is that you never complete that journey from A to B, you’re stuck in a transitory state.
I guess it speaks to a lot of people who feel like they’re stuck in life, trying reach the door at the end of the hallway, only the hallway stretches on forever.
A good example of a liminal space is when in tribes, young men have to go through a rite of passage, and the few days in anticipation of the completion of the rite, they are in that liminal space, not a young boy, but not an adult either. Imagine some young teen in a tribe, never being able to complete his rite of passage. It would frick him up forever.
It’s a fad, just like slasher, zombie and superhero films were a fad.
Whenever some original backdrop appears, there’s always imitators that want to give it their own spin to it.
Tale as old as time.
The first level of this one also has pools.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2453060/Dreamcore/
I from the older generation and I find liminal spaces and these pools creepy as frick.I was always interested in this kind of thing, but there was no name for it at the time.
yeah I can't believe boomers prefer a movie with a plot and events that is good and entertaining over looking at pictures of pools when it's obviosly the exact same thing
Ironically a game where you destroy the frick out of the Backrooms and Pools just came out.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2248330/Backrooms_Break/
You all seem so mad about this game but it honestly looks really comfy to me
I can totally see myself playing it while smoking some weed
I love the way liminal spaces look they remind me of comfier times
I've enjoyed liminal spaces long before the backroom shit as a concept, it looks beautiful and nostalgic. But I don't like what people are doing with it, it's all le creepy monster stalking you in an empty closed space.
The only game I liked was one with no monster and shit, just exploring and stumbling on an abandoned supermarket and the mall music going weird. Creepy experience but also extremely comfy somehow. Very calm and it's fun to let your imagination run wild even though it's just a supermarket, as weird as it is. Kinda like reading a book : they're just pages but can evoke feelings.
I love indoor swimming pools so much. Ever since I was a kid.
I never saw them as creepy though, and I'm not sure why zoomers do. Even the ones without windows and little light
I actually feel nostalgia for a lot of this liminal stuff like when you're a kid and you wander from your parents into parts of buildings nobody's in. Especially these pool ones with the tile because there used to be a huge gym I used to go to when I was a kid that had parts of it unused most often.
Is there THAT pool?
No, that pool is closed due to AIDS.
Damn, end of an era... I didn't realize it was over.
>After almost two decades of pornographic media usage, on August 11, 2020, pornographic studio companies finally stopped using the Hanazono Room indoor pool as they deemed it "virtually prohibited" for adult video shoots. This was after P-Studio announced that they would drastically increase the operating and maintenance fee on the pool due to the need to disinfect it of "bodily fluids" resulting from pornographic shoots inside, meaning that pornographic studio companies could no longer keep up with the operating expenses in shooting their films.
so it was used for almost 20 years and they barely cleaned it until 2020? the frick
Look into Japanese hot springs and how disgusting they can be. 20 years is par for the course
the pool would at least be chlorinated though, no? and I have to imagine hot springs have some natural antimicrobial properties (eg sulfur)
my worst nightmare... a bath
uh oh, stinky
Noooo my precious dick cheese
unironically I cultivate my dick cheese. Lovely to scrape off and sniff.
Are you a smash bros player by any chance?
good morning sir
>He bathes in swimming pools
average coomer/gacha/VN "gamer"
nice
a zoomer's worst nightmare is not being able to find a place to charge their phone
to them, having to be alone with their own thoughts is true horror
God I hate indie devs. As much as everyone shits on AAA devs, and rightfully so, these gays spit out way more shit than said devs ever could.
Couldn't be me.
>It’s a creepy concept
For drooling morons, absolutely.
>Place with no food, water or anything to do other than walk or wait to die
>>it's creppy only for morons
Anon this concept has existed for centuries, it's called a maze.
Of course it's only really scary if you were to experience it first hand in real life, that's why videos and games about the backrooms add a bunch of monsters and stupid shit, otherwise it would be insanely boring instead of scary to just watch a bunch of endless corridors while in the confort of your house and chair
The post in your image was obviously a joke or bait, zoomers don't live in caves or underground shelters, they grow up walking to school and seeing the sun like everyone else
That appeared to be neither joke nor bait. I got it from /adv/ and it was so eyebrowraising that somebody put Uncle Ted in the background.
>everything on /adv/ must be true, nobody would ever shitpost on there
a one off post might be a shitpost, but like 5 or 10 a little less.
>anon is gonna waste hours of his time making up a lie with nothing to gain from it since posts here are temporary
Do you like to be moronic or you just force it?
>>anon is gonna waste hours of his time making up a lie with nothing to gain from it since posts here are temporary
First week here?
I usually believe everything I read on the 'net but I refuse to accept this.
If not a joke that kid probably has a neurological illness his parents neglected as a child. Unless you get diagnosed with schizophrenia, adhd, or autism your parents don't give a frick.
t. Sensory processing disorder diagnosee who bumps into shit frequently because of no spatial awareness
>millennials are too moronic to detect an obvious bait post
Guess that avocado toast, unemployment and transitioning did a number on millennioids. They're unironically as dumb as zoomers.
Okay actually unironically I was thinking about this yesterday.
How DO you walk? Are you supposed to use your toes to push off or lift with your knees like you're marching?
I question is because I've always used my toes to push off, but I've also had fricked up toes and my big toes will always blister and tear when I'm working out or walking for prolonged periods, making me think I've been doing it wrong the whole time.
A quick google said that yes you're supposed to push off with your toes, but they kinda hurt.
but it's not your problem
dude's disabled how is he related to zoomers in general exactly?
>a zoomer's worst nightmare is not being able to find a place to charge their phone
to them, having to be alone with their own thoughts is true horror
Part of the phenomenon has to be a distinct lack of going outside to new places. I've never walked into a clean, empty building and activated my fight or flight instincts. Something like 40% of zoomers never leave their rooms on the weekend and have no IRL friends. I could see someone like that being terrified of something completely mundane, like a warehouse, or an indoor pool.
Shut the frick up you moronic millennial homosexual
oof hit the nail on the head didn't he
>oof
Shut the frick up moronic millennial homosexual you’re so devoid of talent you get your takes from baby boomer comics
There's nothing wrong with anything listed here, you could just as easily write a list of annoying but endearing things/experiences that medieval farmers or cavepeople wrote and the exact same message would get across. Teddy K was a moronic incel who killed actual smart and hardworking people while he lived in a shack in the woods, and you aren't special or unique for "empathizing" with him.
If you empathize more with animals or nature then actual humans, then that means you are a genetic dead end and probably autistic BTW
Be afraid of what is coming, latinx
>Spicball z
Twitter meme
Go back
this but with a boomer who can't find a newspaper to glue his eyes to
zoomies in shambles
When you realise it would mean them facing up to the utterly fricked status of the world we live in, and I don't mean superficial shit like not having the latest iphone, I mean truly fricked, you can see the horror of it.
No distractions, just reality
>"second family" at work
I hate this shit so much.
that's why you make yourself a 100% distant c**t at work yet still do impressive work so they can't actually afford to let you go.
It's the best, no one will want to bother you in the slightest since they know you don't care.
Here for the fricking paycheck, homosexuals, not your weed stories
zoomers btfo
Unironically more natural behavior than being a loner. Humans are social animals.
what the hell! this isnt a haunted house or a hospital or a graveyard
stop trying to come up with original ideas for horror you stupid zoomers!
some really influential horror movies take place in your home, a hotel, a space station, and some random warehouses. Ya dumb frick
based
let me solo it
Pool's open.
>drowns
>tourist
AIIIIIEEEEEE HELP ME NIGRAMAN
underrated post
newbies won't comprehend
every zoomer watched that youtube video
>youtube video
holy shit kys
yeah. thats why we have the internet historian 🙂
>newbie
seethe
yoo new cope just dropped
I had many bad dreams about bathrooms or bath houses like this. Why? Because in these dreams I always was crazy to pee but somehow the pee was never coming out.
Heh. I miss those raids.
take me back.
>protagonist from previous generation comes to help current protagonist
KINO
>stingrays seething
>aids seething
>aussies cheering
>one man ended racism, here's how
Very nice.
Only good post
booba
>this made boomers shit and piss and cum they are pants
Oh no… a quiet room… WITH A BIG BATH!
How come people always mock liminal spaces and the backrooms? It’s a creepy concept
AN EMPTY ROOM IM GOING INSANE SAVE ME Black personMAN
It’s not just an empty room it’s a massive unnatural structure that exists for no reason. Not only that it also reflects the real world because in the real world there are massive structures that are unnatural and are against human nature. Car infrastructure and giant buildings are just gross and humans subconsciously perceive them as existing without purpose because in the individual human level they don’t serve a purpose they only exist for many people and when you are alone in a space like this it is just all wrong. Everyone is lonely now because it is what our world is made for. And that is fricking terrifying.
Gay. This theory makes much more sense
Being alone in a massive empty artificial space isn’t terrifying because you don’t have the iphone you stupid boomer. You are not smarter than other people.
>thinking being alone in an empty artificial space is terrifying
You've already lost. Come back when your balls drop.
I worked nightshifts at the warehouse when I was in college nothing but an artificial voice keeping me company. Guess I was living in a zoomer's nightmare every night lmao
It's creepy but
>it's not just an empty room
most of the time yes it is. They're not making games they're making boring walking simulators.
It's not "creepy" the 500th time you do the exact same shit. We've seen "the pools". Every single one does them. They're not creepy.
it's only creepy to people who grew up in cities with mass crowds everywhere, if you grew up somewhere with less than 5 people per square inch, all it looks like is normal with no haunting implications. It's so mundane
>be townsmen who lives in a town with less than 10k people
>one day while walking to the town's square your feet slips and you fall on what seems to be a big bathroom with no furniture except railings for a pool on the center of it
>the biggest building you ever entered was 4 stories tall
>walk around while your eyes and breath sting and the humidity suffocates you
>its bathrooms all the way down
>all you hear is the small waves of the pools nearby and in the distance and a faint current of air, besides you of course
>this place seems like it was built by a cyclopean toddler mashing rooms together, after triping with odd steps in the middle of nowhere and walking in tall areas without railings you get used to watching your step
>after a while you decide to call for help since you havent seen nobody yet and the place seems to have been empty for a while
>you wander for hours and still cant find anyone
>renenbering the moment when you fell and the distance you have traveled makes you thing you should be at surface level at least, near the local police station, 30 meters above ground and you still havent seen a window to the outside
idk what else to write, but shit would get scary for any mf who fell on those, the only complaint i see is that most games are just walking sims to admire the landscape or your average horror game but in office rooms. the walking sims are not about the horror but the setting and the feeling of liminality, suposedly they aim to capture that aesthetic. i just want some media that manages to capture it but the only guy who seemed to be able to make a decent story out of it was kane and you Black folk could to if you werent against anything youngfolk made
>pic
What is the name for that type of building? It's not pueblo-style or adobo, is it?
You are pathetic, goddam zoomers are embarrassing
>It's scary because it would be scary in real life as long as something defying reality happened
If fricking spongebob came out of my television and started breakdancing in the carpent I would scream and be traumatized forever, but it would still be stupid and not something to make serious fiction about
If that would really happen then it would be a great anomaly and there will be huge serious books written about it.
Personally I think liminal spaces are moronic.
However, my city is in the middle of constructing some massive overpass infrastructure, and seeing it in the middle of being build I've suddenly "gotten" what all those post apocalypse artists and writers were going for.
Half built infrastructure just looks so monolithic and overbearing, when you're not looking at it from the point of view of using it to bypass traffic its just massive concrete structures towering over everything. It legitimately makes me feel small in a way sky scrapers and other large buildings never have.
This, in my experience 90% of times, you start to have problem when in an empty place you find a person, he is probably going to be a joggers
It's something that can be disconcerting at best man, and even then only because it makes a larger statement about society that you might or might not agree with. Even creepy is pushing it, calling it actual horror is fricking hilarious.
imo liminal spaces are something you have to experience firsthand. It's not something that can be replicated by a game. I once had to do some IT work in an empty office building at night and it scared me fricking shitless. The sound-dampening floor and walls basically make it impossible to hear someone or anything. Because you can't hear anything, your mind goes crazy and you start to somewhat hallucinate. It was the worst, most spookiest shit I had to do. So I get how it can be creepy and terrifying, but none of these games can emulate the feeling of it.
FLASHLIGHT
I wonder what was going through the replica's heads when they saw the Point Man and his inhuman reflexes
Shotgun pellets?
That would just take out the entire upper body though
probably the Point Man's boot
>Empty office spaces
Comfy, in my lane, relaxed.
>Full office spaces brimming with people and noise
Lovecraftian.
Looks like F.E.A.R.
Guess it all depends on your character. Nothing comfier to me than to be alone without a sound in a place that's supposed to be lively.
Just put some 80s speed metal on a portable speaker. That'll solve anything.
you're the biggest pussy possible I work midnights in a giant office alone its comfy, WAHHHH IM HECKING HALLUCINATING AFTER BEING IN AN EMPTY ROOM ALONE, get your shit together anon
I work alone overnight IT in an office just like that, there is literally nothing scary about anything you explained. Worst case scenario it sounds like someone watching the news in another room. I got over it the first night
>Worst case scenario it sounds like someone watching the news in another room.
Huh?
Like when someone is watching a TV in the other room and it's kinda muffled, but it has the cadence of a news anchor. Usually happens when it's really quiet and I have headphones on not listening to anything
I think you're being haunted.
This is the kinda liminal game that I'd enjoy.
The protagonist doing a nightshift alone in a massive building, no monsters, just eerie atmosphere and weird sounds while working. Relaxing but also kinda creepy.
I realize the reason for you to be like this, is because you are sheeps. You are prey, that's prey mentality.
I try to find shelter in the dark and quiet, you try to find shelter in the loud and the crowd's movement
Maybe I'm just a different kind of prey myself
But if that's the case.. why you fear my safespace, but noone on the planet fears a random crowd passing by?
this destruction of the english language by an ESL is fascinating
you have to read it 3-4 times to understand what it's saying
Read it in your mind with thick Japanese or Chinese accent, it's perfect.
>pretending English isn't mongrel pidgin to begin with
I have to clean the office and run it after focus groups that runs into midnight by myself and shit's fricking comfy
>The sound-dampening floor and walls
This scares the zoomer but damn what I'd give to live and work in a place like this, in complete silence. I'm autistic and random noises and people talking distract me. Except rain, rain sounds nice.
You tried
The steam description outright states there's fricking nothing in it. Why the frick would I be scared? Any and all potential unknowns are dispelled.
You must shit yourself when you move to a new home and havent decorated it yet
Very unnatural empty rooms boo
it was fine when it was just a mysterious seemingly endless place and not SCP 2.0
and they hated him for he spoke the truth.
>humans subconsciously perceive them as existing without purpose
Humans subconsciously perceive them as "civilization is near, it is safe"
I know this is a bait.
I wish the covid lockdown would have lasted for a decades so we could see zoomers and younger millenials really going nuts like this. This is cyberpunk dystopia fiction level of schizo, and it's fun.
Cool non argument bro. Just call him a poopy face next time.
If people were locked up for that long, they would escape eventually. That COVID bullshit was a massive fluke in Amuttica the moment those George Floyd riots started.
>it’s a massive unnatural structure that exists for no reason
So are modern art sculptures and even then the horror comes from the realization that my tax dollars probably paid for it.
All "liminal spaces" are are places that are supposed to have people but don't. The actual spooky element comes from "what if this empty place actually has something?" Which can apply to literally any location, any place that's (seemingly) empty, but might have something lurking.
I just think it's a neat concept man, but it isn't fricking creepy or scary. It seems more comfy than anything. I got home from a 10 hour drive through the american midwest yesterday, and what I find a bit weird are all of those businesses you see in the middle of nowhere that have like 40 trucks in their parking lot but nobody is ever actually there, even during the middle of the work day, for months at a time. Mostly because I'm stupid and don't understand why they're there. Liminal shit is gay though.
Its for white people only unirocally. All the haters are low IQ thirld worlder with without the ability to think further.
The terror (not fear, actual Terror) insinued by the backroom Is a conceptual one based on the inability to comprehend something si different, yet so close.
A moron will just find it comfy. See reply, alway about "lol its comfy lmaaao no creepy", they just cannot grasp It.
Just ignore them
liberals want the new generation to grow up in a healthy world with clean land and endless suffienct farming, republic**ts embrace the car centric sprawling shitholes and suburbs with gun toting suburbanites to which they call the white ethnostate when they are actually mutts
But i thought the future liberals wanted was for everyone to be crammed into "walkable" cities, living in box pod- i mean "condos" since they suddenly support high density living? Liberals panic when they exit the city limits and they shit their pants when they are surrounded by vegetation or flatgrass land where cattle or other livestock usually graze on pastures and make countless of post seething at people who reject living in urban areas.
Cities aren't walkable because of Black folk.
Yes, and this is the topic stupid urbanists tend to avoid on why Americ**ts don't like walking in most areas and ride public transportation like Europeans do. Not only because the country has horrid car based infrastructure and a shit network, but also leave out the fact that it's also because of Black folk and stinky bums that board buses and the subways, which forces people to drive against their will.
Black folk socking people in broad daylight in New York City and Chicago still goes unnoticed.
>Black folk socking people in broad daylight in New York City and Chicago still goes unnoticed.
It doesn't go unnoticed, it only goes undiscussed. Remember those images that get posted around, showcasing schools that used to be white becoming all-black in modern times? That's modern white flight, which still happens. I did research on it, very interesting topic; white women, even liberal women, will pull their kids from school and find a "better" school that "teaches their culture" if the school becomes a certain percentage of brown. For American women, it's 40%, for British, it's 5-8%, and for Swedes it's as sensitive as 3%. The only white kids that remain in those doomed schools are those too poor to move elsewhere.
Nobody says anything because everyone knows if you say something, you're going to get eaten alive by the media, by the mobs and even by Black folk.
I've also seen that black people also prefer schools with a black majority.
And when liberal women migrate to more conservative states, do they also become more conservative, or do they start voting and doing activism in favor of the same things that made them flee their place of origin in the first place?
>I've also seen that black people also prefer schools with a black majority.
Why the frick would anyone prefer schools with a black majority? You're dooming your kids to being morons.
Because black Americans have a strong tribalist tendency, like all other races except (liberal) whites.
Probably smarter and richer blacks will prefer white schools, however, but they won't tell why.
I'm sure they do, but everyone that can escape the ghetto does so. It's insane to purposefully be around other blacks if you can actually help it.
>It's insane to purposefully be around other blacks if you can actually help it.
Tribalism is incredibly strong, gamer. I've been a Lyft Driver for years and most of my clientele are Black folk. Most of them are tolerable, some of them are actually great, but the call of the Hood is mighty. Think about it this way, anon; would you rather live in an all-black neighborhood making $60,000/yr, or live in an all-white neighborhood making $30,000/yr?
It would depend on how high the crime is in that all black neighborhood, which I assume would be very high.
>And when liberal women migrate to more conservative states, do they also become more conservative, or do they start voting and doing activism in favor of the same things that made them flee their place of origin in the first place?
Women are brutal when they're forced to be, but women are still women. They'll vote and do activism in those places because they don't have pattern recognition. To most of these women, they moved for the reasons I put in quotations (and are in fact the most common explanations for white flight.) It could of course just be a clever excuse to avoid saying, "I did it because Black folk," but white women are in fact concerned that their children learn what it "means" to be "British" or "Swedish" or even "American."
>just use public transportation, chud
i'm not even american but we still have this kind of bullshit happen on our public transit here in england. after 4 years of this hell, i'm glad i had enough money to buy a used car and bike in 2020 when covid swept the world
>not 1 person tackled this frick and shoved the fireworks in his face
All those ppl deserve that for just sitting there and taking it
>since they suddenly support high density living
No one supports those since at least 1990s. High rise housing projects always fail. Future apartment projects are a few floors high with a lot of public spaces and greenery around them.
Directionbrain
Most American whites are not mutts in the sense that they are mixed with any brown races. Interracial relationships are the exception, not the norm, despite what media tells you.
It's a creepy concept that becomes moronic in video game form
shut the frick up
I agree with this and i'm a 38 yo boomer if that matters
I can't relate, empty locations like these feel very nostalgic, relaxing and comfortable to me.
Same here.
>It’s not just an empty room it’s a massive unnatural structure that exists for no reason. Not only that it also reflects the real world because in the real world there are massive structures that are unnatural and are against human nature.
Black person, most of what you zoomers call liminal spaces is just 70s and 60s architecture. The image in OP reflects a lot of east-europe brutalism architecture, you only think is terrible because you grow up between school, mcdonalds and malls.
>Everyone is lonely now because it is what our world is made for. And that is fricking terrifying.
It's more fricking terrifying to find adults afraid of a hotel corridor, a convention center or pools.
Why? Empty locations aren't particularly weird. Go anywhere really early or really late and you will have huge empty places. There is nothing weird about them. If anything, they're calming, since no one's around, and everything basically belongs to you. When I still went to school I used to go swimming before lessons started, so I went to some indoor pool at 6:30 AM every single day. It was really comfy, no one was around, I had the entire hall to myself, at most you'd have a lifeguard and 1-2 other dudes around.
Really, this whole thing seems like something hypersocial morons would have issues with.
Why are gay redditor leftists so obsessed with cars and public transport?
And thats why they are trying to ban homegrown food in Europe right? Whatever idea of left and right you have, its outdated 30 years. Switch them out, and you will be close to it.
I have been told that the pool is, in fact, closed
I have a bizarre memory when I was a kid of going to some other country with my family and the hotel we stayed at had some pool near the roof, when I went to the pool it had some "downward steps" thing and it basically led into one of those weird liminal all white rooms with the silence and corridors and just the pool water, no one else was in it, I found it freaky so didn't stay down there long but it was zoom zoom shit before it became a thing (I'm in my 30s this was ages ago)
are you sure this wasn't just some dream you had based on all this zoomer shit? Nobody would build obtuse shit like that.
>this makes zoomers piss and shit their boxer-briefs
escape from boykisser
I had a dream last night that had the same vibes as liminal space. I got that sense of unease that something was off because the dream was of myself exploring my old childhood home. The difference however is that there were a bunch of new rooms that I've never seen before and rooms that I knew of were larger than normal.
This is what these games should be going for. A familiarity that becomes twisted but you're not aware that something is different.
good idea, they should scan the players memory before starting the game to generate something familiar to them
I have those kinds of dreams but they aren't terrifying, just confusing because they're very realistic for me and I almost can't tell if what I saw was real or not
I swear every single fricking time I dream about my parent's house it's a horrifying as frick nightmare, I hate it.
>Wake up in childhood home
>Walk down the stairs
>Mom is washing dishes at the kitchen sink with her back turned
>Say something to her
>Her voice replies, but from behind me
>Turn around and see my mom smiling at me
>Slowly turn around to see what was washing the dishes
>Split second of a nightmarish warped face filling my vision and wake up with a ringing scream in my ears
Alternatively:
>Wake up in my childhood home
>Walk down the stairs, house empty
>Gaze outside to my garden, all relaxed
>Eventually end up spotting an abnomality, like a chimney that was never there, or a window that shouldn't be there from the neighbor downstreet
>As soon as I spot it the PoV of my dream shifts to something that's rapidly closing in on me from that same abormal spot and I see myself turn around and bolt upstairs to my bed, as if I myself become the evil spirit chasing me
>Never quite make it back in bed before I catch myself, waking up with ringing ears and an awful sense of dread
You were molested in that home and have repressed the memory.
I guess people nowadays are so sensitive their idea of a horror game isn't something trying to kill you, it's invoking their anxiety.
NOOOOOOO THE SHRINKAGE
*mogs your poolshit*
>inspired by backrooms
AAAAAAH HELP ME N-WORD MALE-PRESENTING BODY!
take me back
Every time I see pools like this it just makes me think of that gay furry porn comic at the gym. You know the one.
Damn
No i dont, be more specific
> You know the one
I don't though.
And I am a better person for not knowing.
The problem with these "liminal spaces" games is they have reached the same issue the FNAF copies did. They are no longer referencing specific things from real life, they are referencing other "liminal space" videos or games. Same as newer evil mascot games are not referencing Chuck E Cheese type restaurants or Sesame Street type kids shows, their point of reference is other evil mascot games.
So they just repeat the same shit because they think they're supposed to.
Problem is that OG itself is shit
That doesn't help, but there is at least some anchor there to real life. Now there isn't even that. You just have references to well known "liminal" pics and videos recycled.
Liminal spaces, like FNAF and it's copies, have always been absolute dogshit made for children who haven't developed taste yet
Zoomers are so bombarded with ads a pretty lights they can't enjoy a moment of solitude anymore.
I would love to live anywhere that isn't a stupid city. Zoomoids and millenioids wouldn't last a second in vast countrysides.
I'm a zoomer and been living all my life in a small rural town. You moronic Black folk believe every zoomer in the world is the NY murimutt type. You're the one who wouldn't last a second in here, cityhomosexual.
>You're the one who wouldn't last a second in here, cityhomosexual.
Okay?
Based rednecks. At least they know how to have fun even if it's dumb shit like mudding and driving trucks in deep murky water until it gets stuck.
I live in rural areas before you were even born squirt. I lived Alberta for the first 13 years of my life and then later on a farm in rural Texas for the past 21 years, homosexual. Cities, especially American and Canadian spawling cities with their god-awful infrastructure are major deterrents for "flyovers" like me. Frick that loud hustle and bustle bullshit, the only good that comes from cities is commerce and keeping socialists bundled up in their hives while Black folk terrorize them. I'd rather till my 7 acre land and spit out tobacco till I die.
am I autistic for looking at that tractor and feeling kinda sad that someone was done using it for the day once, and just never used it again? Whenever I see a vehicle from like the 60s or earlier, I always wonder what kind of history they had.
Black person that thing just tilled the field
In like that with plushies
I mean there's some sadness behind things like that. I remember seeing an old picture of a prohibition era Packard car being hidden away in some warehouse and was never used for decades until it was discovered recently. Thought it was kinda sad.
>pools closed due to AIDs
What about this pool?
Went to japan last winter. The place used to be a tourist spot before covid but now they forbid entrance.
What's out there?
the room turns white under a uv light
very interesting phenomenon
the fungus
I-I'm fricking cooming!
AHASDHAAHHHHHHHH IM GOING INSANE------!
sauce?
likeadragon gaiden (actual videogame)
why does everyone suddenly mention it?
Looks cozy af
subtlety distorting spacial dimensions to create an unnerving stark landscape is a neat concept and didn't catch on by accident, but like any fad it can become overdone and silly.
Makes me think of this film clip from over a decade ago that YouTube deleted https://vimeo.com/30798517
You know, why hasn't anyone made a game about Mall World yet?
The lore behind Mall World is actually grounded in shared dream experiences and all of the paranormal BS that surrounds it, and it was basically the OG backrooms, decades before the backrooms were a OG content post on Ganker.
Though I suppose Mall World will never pick up with indie devs because it's actually teeming with NPCs and complex environmental settings. Could probably only be adequately portrayed by an AA-developer team or higher.
shut up b***h
Is-Is that a empty space? a liminal space? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH I'm loosing my mind; save me Black personman
HYDROHOMIES, OUR RESPONSE???
the future of the human race is doomed fr
I like these games not because it's "LE SCARRY!!!!!" I like it because I find liminal spaces interesting to explore. I would love to simply be able to have the ability to enter/leave the pool rooms through any body of luke warm water.
I think that would be cool.
A pool isn't a liminal space. A pool as a specific function. For something to be a liminal space it needs to have no function within the construct it's designed for.
Å hotel hallway is liminal because it's not a room anyone uses, or has any function on its own.
>Å
Generally the poolrooms have moronic floorplans that defy logic and function
>no function
it functions as a room people use to get between rooms you mouth breathing moron
That's not a set function, it's a result of the design of the hotel itself.
A kitchen has a set function. A den. A living room. A bath room. You can use them how you want, but their functions are integrated into their forms.
Å hotel hallway is a residual room that no one uses or wants. It serves no other function than to be liminal within the structure of a hotel.
A hotel could just as easily be a set of 100 cabins isolated from one another, but to save space and resources they coup them together on one building. The hotel hallway is a leftover space that could be resolved by just having one big room were everyone is quartered into.
>A hotel could just as easily be a set of 100 cabins isolated from one another
that's called a motel you fricking moron
>For something to be a liminal space it needs to have no function within the construct it's designed for
This is why Ganker is obsessed with this shit. You are all liminal spaces. God, or nature for the smoothbrains, gave you one of the most complex mortal shells with a multitude of functions and abilities that you actively avoid using because youd rather be a 400 pound drain on humanity. Your ancestors cry in shame
Every time I see pool backrooms I think 'Man, cleaning that place must be an absolute prostitute'
I want to see more such places that are going mouldy and disgusting instead of just always pristine and spotless
part of the uncanny weirdness is that it is still clean despite seemingly nobody existing there
The regular office backrooms is more into that since regular office spaces like that don't exist anymore either while interior pools and bathhouses were never really a thing in US culture so there's no theming to them going dilapidated.
Anyone else find games like this comfy?
Same, I wanted to buy it just for that cozy exploration kino. I used to love playing online games by myself so I downloaded a lot of those Gmod rp maps and explored around. Seeing people lose their minds to this shit is really puzzling to me. There's something really calming about being alone and exploring an aesthetically pleasing place.
Man, if they didnt say there isnt a monster in there it could be kind of kino..
Unless there is one now.
Backrooms was always sold with 'there could be a monster in it' since day 1
yeah but that was more putting the fear of 'what if there was a monster in here' and less 'THERE'S A BILLION MONSTER IN HERE LOOK WE ORGANISED IT IN A WIKI'
Kane Pixels did a pretty good job at replicating this tbh. Without him this setting would have just died out
Never understood the liminal space as horror thing. Always found them comfy and at worst melancholic. I can understand being stuck in endless corridors with nothing to hope for but starve being scary but the aesthetic themselves are rather pleasant to me.
Also, for my post to not be pointless bloggayging, here's a Backrooms game that you can pirate.
Zoomers are all socially and emotionally stunted so if something is making them feel in a way that can't be described as "fun" "sad" "mad" "bored" they can't articulate the emotion and settle on one chosen almost at random.
Zoomers are afraid of melancholy.
I wouldn't call it scary, but it is interesting surreal concept.
Ive had dreams exactly like this before, though I wouldn't call those even creepy.
I find it comfy in a way.
I'm wondering who shoots a man before throwing him into a pool.
I hate pools because they remind me of when my mom forced me to swim completely naked in a pool with two 12 year old girls when I was 15
What
DO NOT OPEN THE SPOILER
Babies love the ballpit.
it's from one infamous furry conference
they peed in it
I'm diving in
I thought it was a tumblr con
Maybe. It's more or less the same crowd.
OOOH I'M GONNA PEE
Those are balls.
>people pay money to play on empty multiplayer maps
That's me in Half-Life Deathmatch circa 1999, when I wasn't allowed use the dial-up for multiplayer because I'd be stolen through the screen or something, just run around the maps for a while.
>because I'd be stolen through the screen or something
they were right to protect you but today they will fail and I will steal you
Meh, I've lived long enough.
The ambience on those levels is so nice
For real tho are any actually good backroom games out there ? The settings genuinely seems like it could work but there are just so many available and they all look meh...
MyHouse.pk3 does it pretty well, but you aren't normally supposed to get there without cheats.
Dreamcore
Both "the complexe" game
i'm scared anon
imagine how many times it'd echo if you yelled Black person in the middle of that room
No worries anon, we’ll just close the pool and everything will be alright.
I just like the exploration, but even that part is boring
Empty malls and offices are comfy.
I can see them being somewhat melancholic but more in a light sad music type of way rather than something oppressive.
I'm 30+ but I recall -~7 yo child me having reactions and weird dreams about places.
I do recall daydreaming about the public pool having underwater caves leading to bigger pools and slides, or the lazy river going on forever with alternative paths. Those dreams were quite detailed too.
I recall finding dark alley with stone path, trees and lamp posts terrifying with the near-silence of night. I felt my heart rushing running in them.
I recall finding forests mystical. Like they extend to infinity.
I recall thinking the same of misty days, where you couldn't see past 20 meters. I felt like I could lose myself and end up in another town by some reality warping shit.
I used to sail boats as my hobby and felt the "endless" depths of the ocean beneath me. I recall the caves on the cliffs that lead to some unseen rooms, the old WW2 german bunkers on the beach with their own hidden rooms.
I suppose it's what they mean by "liminal spaces" this kind of warping and exaggeration of reality by a child's mind. Alice in Wonderland-kind of thing. Tho I don't see feel in those games I played so far.
I miss having a child-like imagination
Zoomers were confined in their homes unable to explore the world and feel its wonders, now they're afraid of it.
I was driving across Australia about 10 years ago by myself. The worst fear I ever had in my life was stopping in the middle of a highway at midnight, where the nearest town was about 60km away, and turning off all the lights and then stepping out of the car. Don't know why I did it, I was just compelled to try it. It was completely quiet and almost pitch black, and I know it was irrational but I felt like something was watching me which made me feel an intense fear. The weirdest part though is later I started researching that area and it turns out that that particular highway Newell Highway has a history of stories with encounters with a ghost called the Pilliga princess and is also known as an evil land full of spirits. Weird that I found that out after I felt that primal feeling of something watching me.
Oooooh
This one falls into one of the better liminal "experiences" personally, there's no forced puzzle shit or dumbass monsters chasing you, but it has no real narrative but depending on your tastes all of these are either a bonus or negative. It's a fricking walking sim so you'll know if it's for you or not. There're a few surprise moments that are creepy but no jump scares, a lot of ambient noise spooks, creator has a weird fetish for "pipes" going in giant statue's mouths, I wish I was kidding there.
do people really play these? I just thought they were the current "a weekend in unreal" horror game trend for streamers and shit to bug out on.
Does this count as liminal?
not really, it looks like some kind of water pumping or treating station. nobody is really supposed to be there in the first place
not clean enough. liminal spaces are eerily pristine.
Zoomer here (born in 1999) and I have always found liminal spaces interesting but long before they were called liminal spaces. I liked empty shopping malls and indoor pools because those were the kind of places I visited in my dreams.
So while I understand the appeal of liminal spaces, I never understood the "deep fear" of them. I mean sure, they're mysterious and creepy but only just enough to fuel intrigue, not to leave you shivering in your boots.
I don't think people originally liked liminal spaces because of horror, I feel like that got tacked on later by content farming channels and morons.
>I feel like that got tacked on later
It absolutely did, because people wanted to make games based on the backrooms and shit but realized the concept in and of itself doesn't lend itself to a proper video game, so these dopamine addled zoomers always default to "lol unknown monster chasing u, just like in slender man!!!! now pewdiepie will play my game!!!"
I remember when the concept was 100% just about simulating weird spaces that you see in dreams that don't make sense, which I found very compelling and unique. Finding a pool game for the first time was really creepy since I had never heard of anyone else having those kind of dreams and I thought it was just my own personal quirk from traveling a lot as a kid and going to a lot of different weird old cheap hotel in-door pools. It's like LSD the ps1 game, there's sort of a monster at times but mostly it's just exploring weird spaces and that's interesting enough.
>AAAAH IT'S A MAN WITH A KNIFE THAT'S SO SCARY HELP ME Black person MAN
You can do this for any setting.
What was the last horror game to have a dude with a knife as the spooky killer? It's always abominations, mascots, ghosts or Cthulhu shit these days.
>empty office presents as much danger as a man with a weapon
Okay, zoomoid.
>OH NOT A MAN WITH KNIFE SO SPOOPY
It's trivial to do.
There could be a man with a weapon hiding behind the corner. You never know.
Devils Proof
mirrors disprove this image
The Hitlers move to the areas the mirror cannot see, including other rooms
wrong, your fov merely expands. They still reside outside of it
Mirrors are just a different room with a npc model of yourself. All you're seeing is what's in front of you.
Have you tried to talk to people in your field of view to determine if they are hitler?
Man with a knife can be shot
infinite 80s office space will have me wandering around until i dehydrate to death or until i go insane and become man with a knife
No. A man with a knife is inherently scary. There’s a threat. Hell, even the hint of a threat is good. That’s why the Backrooms is scary, there’s the hint of something in there with you, and nothing else inside it. A fricking pool room or any other “liminal space” can only hint at threats by relying on a zoomer’s ADHD ridden hallucinations
lol no it's not you fricking homosexual. Check out this pussy
Ooh, struck a nerve there, zoomzoom? Let me guess, mommy and daddy left you home alone and you pissed yourself in fright, is that right?
Ooh, struck a nerve there, homosexual? Let me guess, mommy and daddy left you home alone and you pissed yourself in fright, is that right?
Wow, you can’t even program a bot right
Why is it always "guy with knife" as the default? Is it supposed to be Halloween? I don't think those are held up as TERRIFYING movies.
“Guy with a gun” is too quick
“Guy with bare hands” is too slow (also blunt force)
“Guy with knife” is in the Goldilocks zone. Not too slow, not too fast (also lots of blood and feeling a foreign object insert itself into non-orifices)
I mean as the response to analog or "liminal" horror being mocked, they always seem to default to claiming boomers feared "guy with knife".
Oh yeah
Because it’s too mundane for them. It’s why they all gravitate to robots and demons and monsters and eldritch abominations. It’s sully and limiting, but it’s how they think
>eldritch abomination
They don't even do that right though, it's always so mundane and petty and the ideas are extremely basic. There's not really anything eldritch about it.
One is a scenario with 0 dangers, let alone other living things, and the other has a very real chance of violence and murder. One is actually trying to be scary and threatening.
>...by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and outwardly architecture.
I'm sorry, I'm only EFL (English first language), so I've never developed the intricate and elaborate understanding of the English language ESLs have. What does "outwordly" mean in this context
Probably a shorthand for out-of-this-world. I suppose the goal here is an architectural version of unnatural.
t. ESL
>Analog/found footage shit
>Liminal shit
>Mascot shit
>knife shit
>big man shit
>monster shit
>Horror shit
Meme genre
>no monsters
fricking finally someone understands the appeal of liminal spaces
it was supposed to be relaxing but zoomers (and /x/) fricked it up
>zoomers believe that yellow carpets pose the same threat as a knife
The threat it's self isn't scary in a video game because you know it's not real. The challenge is creating the spooky setting.
a knife provides certainty, you know its dangerous and know how to avoid it. the point of something like luminal spaces is to create uncertainty, there is the potential of a threat and it being unorthodox, you might have a harder time knowing how to avoid it.
Space isn't dangerous at all.
Especially if it's a room.
Why I'm occupying and living in a room right now!
I'm sorry you don't understand the concept of a setting.
A setting isn't scary on it's own. It need a possible threat hidden or otherwise.
When you're explicitly told that "Pools" doesn't have any threat at all then there should be no fear at all.
How can you be scared of something you know is safe? Are you scared of Safety Scissors anon?
>A setting isn't scary on it's own
lol yes it can because of fear of the unknown. Oh you ol' boomers
>fear of the unknown
>fear
Yes fear of the unknown.
Why is this complex of nonsensical stuff here?
>Why is this complex of nonsensical stuff here
Year-round swimming 🙂
What's unknown?
You know you in a space of endless pools and nothing else.
There's the unknown of the space and the unknown of the creator.
But by that token all space could be considered such.
Yes any space you're unfamiliar with.
Explains why you're terrified to leave your own bedroom I guess
Unfamiliar here meaning an unknown space that doesn't make any sense.
I feel it's pretty clear why the space is there
Which space?
any space; therefore not scary
Yes there are spaces that you would think twice about entering.
the room as presented is unorthodox in layout, its unusually quiet for a space organized around such a scale, and what else might be in those rooms with you is what is concerning. you arent afraid of your room because you are familliar with it, know its layout and know where the entrances and exits are.
some people experience this same feeling in empty or abandoned malls and theme parks.
I agree the games are all very bad and unimaginative, im refering to the concept which is based on photos. I think games inherently make the concept less scary because you navigate unorthodox layouts all the time, its not something youre ever conditioned into thinking about or reflecting on.
>where are all the people? Where are all the funko pops? This place is so unorthodox I'm scared af!
>only two frames of reference Millenials have is food and funko pops
Kek
>people
>food
Are you one of those heckin monsters that are crawling all over these empty rooms?
>you might have a harder time knowing how to avoid it
and yet in 99% of cases, all they ever do is make it pathfind until it finds you, and then it....... kills you somehow, and for some reason which are never explained. Does it want to eat you? Does it want you dead for literally no reason? These are the things that are never actually expanded on, so all it really ever winds up being is a minotaur in the maze situation, because the people who make these games aren't actually creative in the least. You can tell because, well, the entire premise of their game is a trendy meme that zoomies are talking about. Nothing that they came up with themselves.
Pure, contant horror is shit
I-IS THAT AN INDOOR LOCATION WITHOTU PEOPLE OR SMARTPHONES? AAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SAVE ME WALTEN FILES!!!
No the scary part is you don't know what the purpose of the space is or what created it.
>OH MY GOD ITS A DOUBLE SIDED FORK HELP ME AAAAAAAAAAA
>IS THAT A HECKING LITERALLY ANYTHING? I'M GOING INSANE!
I win.
...it's a pool
He’s a moronic gibbon, he won’t get that in a million years
Lovecraft should’ve said unknowable
>HE'S A POOPY FACE
Cool argument bro
I mean, you have to admit there is a subtle slow burn in the subliminal isolation that permeates the plane upon which you internalize and virtually occupy when you perceive and interface with the emotional aura of this piece of interactive media.
nah
A game where you stalk zoomers and rape them in liminal spaces.
TASUKETE NIGERUMAN
The boomer just says "Yeah this thing exists I'm not curious why it exists"
>”OH MY GOD IM FEELING CURIOSITY! WHICH IS THE SAME AS FEAR! SAVE ME Black personMAN!
Proving once again you’re moronic
Curiosity that leads into horror when considering the possibility of an inhuman mind creating the abomination.
>”OH MY GOD A BRAIN IN A TANK PROCEDURALLY GENERATED POOLS! IM GOING BONKERS! REAL LOONY-LIKE! COULD SOMEONE PROVIDE ME ASSISTANCE!?”
Still moronic
That's not what these things are about and the fact that a zoomer is speaking about horror games like this is extremely funny
>um actually horror doesn't involve any thought on the part of the user. It's all just jump scares and big heckin men with knives
lol oh dem ol' boomers
Didn't say that and the zoomer horror games don't require any thought. Actual classic horror games do. Keep trying!
Idk why people say muh zooms when most of this (and other shit like analog) was made by and for millennials
Modern horror is all so fricking gay and you can clearly tell that it was made by people who never had any creepy experiences or were in real danger
Go look up fear of the unknown.
An abandoned apartment is not "Fear of the unknown" unless the creepiness is centered around the possibility of finding a random crackhead who tries to stab you for your wallet which would be an actually feasible fear, too bad none of this shit focuses on that and instead genuinely believes that yellow interiors are the harbingers of dread and insanity
>An abandoned apartment is not "Fear of the unknown" unless the creepiness is centered around the possibility of finding a random crackhead who tries to stab you for your wallet which would be an actually feasible fear, too bad none of this shit focuses on that and instead genuinely believes that yellow interiors are the harbingers of dread and insanity
Yeah see when you enter a place that you don't know what's in it that is the scary part.
>that picture
why do homosexuals feel the need to shit up nature with their moronic troony hobbies
Then get off of Ganker if you don't like anime.
>it's okay to ruin nature with shitty plastic toys as long as its some niche anime bullshit! look it's funny because its a little anime girl in a situation you would never expect to see one!!!!!!!!!
anime only has one joke and it's amazing that it lures in Black folk like you every single time
Then leave. Good bye.
>I love repetitive, boring, and lazily written cartoons because I'm autistic and I am afraid of change
compelling argument
All those liminal space games try to ape House of Leaves but lack the truly oppressive factor of almost impercetibly shifting walls, and the anomalous laws of space and spatiality.
>everything is shit I'm so enlightened
I'm not saying they'te terrible.
Should take this as inspiration. Zoomer in the countryside kek
That's mostly urbanist morons in general.
According to the internet, every single zoomer under the sun is an american urbanist, regardless of location. It's merely a coping mechanism terminally online homosexuals, really.
>coping mechanism
*projection
It's a bit of both, to be fair.
Guess the internets wrong because I've seen a bunch of French 20-something zoomers operating tractors in the countryside and more after that Farmers protest we had.
"agender human"?
Most of the images like this you see are falseflags from burner accounts that were screenshot by the person who posted it.
Game where you are hunted by a Hound of Tindalos when?
None because doing them properly would require actual skill and AI beyond Slender tier "move to player"
I love liminal spaces but why are they always contained to shovelware as opposed to full games? Closes that comes to it is gmod I think
>why are they always contained to shovelware as opposed to full games?
Why do you think? It's because its inherently flawed as a video game concept. What exactly are you supposed to accomplish in a liminal space? If there are other NPCs in there, then it ceases to be liminal so having other characters already ruins the concept. If your danger is just "monster moves towards you" then congrats you just made the same game again for the 5000th time. If the gameplay is just to explore and find shit to figure out a narrative, then it will never feel like a full game and it will have no replay value.
The setting of a liminal space is fun for a setting, but there's really nothing you can do with it to make it feel like a full game.
It feels like it could be a 30 min segment in a Kojima game or something, but no one has ever tried to include it in their games.
What studios are even currently making games where a setting like this could work as a short segment? I guess it could work in a kojima game but he's working on that new game with the troony main character right now
Any game would be better with liminal spaces. Any game.
that is in no way true. adding liminal shit to an otherwise upbeat and cheery game will just make it look lime some kind of moronic attempt to subvert expectations and make zoomies shit their pants
zoom zoom
moronic boomer
earthbound's department store dungeon kind of does this
The setting is creepy/unsettling. Think of it as a sculpture you can move around in.
How much experience do you need as a game dev to make something like this and rake in money?
0 you just need to get lucky
Practically nil for both. Zoomers are S-Tier slop consoomers
is this game any good? it just smells like a half-assed unreal engine asset flip to me
>boomers
>zoomers
>boomers
>zoomers
fricking kys selves
Zoomers are terrified of liminal spaces because they know that, at any moment, a Black person could pop out from behind the corner and kill them. Zoomers both love and fear Black folk, because while the Black person dominates American culture they also dominate FBI crime statistics. And what's this whining about zoomers never going outside? Have you seen what's out there? Let me describe the average American town to you goobers,
>The roads are terrible, often so filled-in to fix potholes as to make a clean bike ride impossible
>Nowhere to go, all the stores have been consolidated into soulless supermarkets with armed guards and security systems commanding you either Shop or Scram
>Most of those stores, especially the ones that somehow survived the purge, cater to Black folk or women
>None of them have fathers, so their homes are barren of spirit
>Everywhere is dominated by Black folk. Despite account for only 13% of the population, Black folk make up 90% of the foot traffic around any economic center.
>The remaining 10% are aging whites, frightened white women who want nothing to do with you, and white women with Black person boyfriends
What's the point in going outside, anymore? What's the point in "maintaining society?" If you go outside you get shot, if you talk to a woman you might get #Cancelled, and all of the stores either don't cater to you, or are so expensive they're out of a zoomer price range. Tell me, where are zoomers supposed to go? Like, I've *seen* what happens when tons of white zoomers congregate in an area, and it's always described by the news as a hate crime.
TL;DR
>TL;DR
Zoomers don't go anywhere because there's nowhere left to go. The "good old days" when you could go on bike adventures with friends happened when the economy was strong and demographics were still hovering around 80% white.
Black person, you're just parroting shit you've heard on /misc/, probably from a shut in who never leaves the house and gaslit yourself into believing it.
There's still young kids riding bikes in my 70+ year old dreaded suburb. Call it anecdote all you want, but I still see the scary broccoli perm head zoomers walking in the nearby mall buying moronic shit at kiosks like the consoomers they are.
>The "good old days" when you could go on bike adventures with friends
I wish I had friends.
>Zoomers are terrified of liminal spaces because they know that, at any moment, a Black person could pop out from behind the corner and kill them.
No, that's right wing millennials.
Walking simulators are no fun, games should be interactive
At least add puzzles & shit
homie wants Resident Evil without zombies
Who else /stinky/?
This game is my biggest fear. I do not want to wash. I have years of grime buildup covering my entire body.
I'm a zoomer that grew in the countryside with barely any technology and had a great childhood full of exploration with bikes in the nearby forest and beach with the fellow kids from town, I can't imagine how sad it must be to grow in the city with nothing but cars outside and ipads inside.
I'm a early zoomer 1998 tho so maybe I'm not representative enough
>is that a clean tiled room?
>I'm losing my miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind! Save me Lovecraft's cat!
ANOTHER episodic Backrooms game?
Still waiting on part 2 of the first one
If I were rich I'd make the poolrooms real. It looks so comforting, the sound of water echoing through the endless rooms and halls.
Same but i'd release a hungry tiger in there too
When I was a kid my parents took me into their offices late at night/on weekends sometimes when there was no one else around. At one point my mum worked as a cleaner too, so I got to go around empty buildings and even school campuses at night sometimes. There's nothing scary about it.
>tfw can't play the Dreamcore demo because my GPU can't do raytracing and it can't be turned off in the game so everything is pitch-black
i don't think it's scary I just dig the aesthetic
I'm getting sort of a bone-chilling slow burn from these pictures.
You could at least post some gameplay. Had to search it myself.
Its a backrooms game, you should know what the 'gameplay' is, just walking through endless halls of spastic architecture
>poolcore
This is not a thing
It is now. Okay boomer.
KEK. In 20 years Ganker will be filled with homosexual zoomerboomers who reminisce about these totally lit retro games from their youth. MEMBER DAT POOLS BO
When your generation has only known decay and decline, the rotting corpse of society is seen in these empty buildings.
They can't comprehend a world where these buildings served a purpose, and ascribe so malign force to their being.
>When your generation has only known decay and decline
Go back to 1980 and learn what oppressive decay and decline actually looked like
You still had increasing salaries in the 80's and you could afford a home. At least in the West.
Look at the kind of homes most people were living in back then, and what that salary could buy. The options these days are fricking luxurious compared to it. Even right now your average working class family can afford a holiday somewhere sunny at least once a year, back then it was unheard of.
And back then you had white Black folk instead of black ones. There were gangs, there was violence, there was garbage piling the streets. TV was shit and vidya was next to non-existant. Kids these days have ADHD level choice but back then if the weather was shit and nobdy was out playing, I remember it being so truly grim and boring at times that I wished I didn't exist.
>Look at the kind of homes most people were living in back then, and what that salary could buy.
I can't tell if you're joking if you think it was harder to buy a nice home in the 1980's compared to today.
A home was easier to buy for sure, but a nice home? lolno. Your options were suburbia or rotten city. Nice homes were in the sticks and remote working was unheard of for most careers. Especially for wagies.
Nice homes were also a lot more affordable than now. You're literally moronic, bro. Do you think so many millennials live in shitty rented apartments because they're just too cheap to buy the nice mansion they afford?
Defined a "nice home" and affordable to who? Because no matter where you look in history the masses never ever had affordable "nice homes". The fact that millenials are always b***hing about not being able to buy a house when there's so much cheap land for sale where you can build your own is hilarious to me.
You fricking moron, I never said most people lived in nice homes, I said they were more affordable back then.
>The fact that millenials are always b***hing about not being able to buy a house when there's so much cheap land for sale where you can build your own is hilarious to me.
Genuinely sub-zero IQ.
but streamer said you can just build a house
>I said they were more affordable back then
Yes, but to WHO you fricking mongoloid? Oh that's right, to the same professions that have no problem buying a house today.
>Genuinely sub-zero IQ.
homie you can literally build a house for 1/4 of price of buying one
To anybody, dipshit. Homes were overall cheaper.
>homie you can literally build a house for 1/4 of price of buying one
Where? Rural Alabama? You can't buy cheap land in any city.
>Homes were overall cheaper.
They were, but wagies were not buying "nice houses". Even back then the property ladder is a thing. Couples had to pool their money to buy something shitty and work their way up to a "nice house".
>in a city
lmao
So what the frick are you even arguing over then, you moronic homosexual?
You agree people had an easier time buying a home, including a nice one and you also agree that modern cities are completely unaffordable.
ignore him, he's attempting to be subversive
>ignore him, he's attempting to be subversive
Spotted the israelite. When you're peddling the idea that everyone is hopeless and can't make a comfy life for themselves you bet your fricking shit stained kippur I'm going to subvert it.
yet you have no problem peddling a false image of the past
Because the homes people were buying back then in most of the west are exactly the kind of homes you can buy now as a wagie, but you've all been conditioned to turn your nose up at anything that isn't a fricking luxury. Btw this land is 40km outside Austin Texas, it cost $50,000.
You've been spoonfed the idea that everything is impossible now and you believe it.
Except we can see with our own eyes that property values shot up at least 300% everywhere just in the last decade.
>it cost $50,000
And?
>And?
And you build a fricking house on it anon. Voila, you now have an affordable decent property in a comfy area within commuting distance of a busy city. A property which will only increase in value. What the actual frick are you complaining about.
What exactly do you think it costs to build a home, anon?
You can build a 2 bedroom home for around $100k. If you honestly can't find a way to make it work for you in current day you're not cut out to have a family anyway, it's only going to get worse as populations grow and with learned helplessness like you homosexuals have, your kids won't stand a chance.
Sure, if you make it tiny and made out of cardboard.
> learned helplessness
When the frick did I say I'm helpless, you subhuman piece of zoomer garbage? have a nice day, trash.
You don't have to say it when it's implied in everything you argue about. You're an entitled homosexual who thinks being a janitor should get him a 3 bedroom penthouse when you could buy a crappy little property like every human not from wealth has had to do, and work your way up.
>cherry picks the most unfavourable result
>"Sure, if you make it tiny and made out of cardboard"
See, learned helplessness.
>posts an image about a bungalow, a home literally defined as being small
Are you actually moronic? That's literally what I said. You can make a little bungalow for cheap, so what?
>implied in everything you argue about
Frick off, subhuman. The conversation started with me saying buying a home in the 1980's was more affordable than today, which is something you yourself ended up agreeing with. Don't project your insecurities onto me.
Ackshully when you look at the median household income, median home price and interest rate in 1980 compared to 2024, buying a house inlcuding the principle and interest in 1980 would have took up 58% of a buyers income compared to the 53% it is today. Skill issue.
Shut the frick up. If you're buying a house in 2024 it was probably built before 1990.
It's just a zoomer talking about an era he's never lived through.
But enough about England.
>Go back to 1980 and learn what oppressive decay and decline actually looked like
Unironically worse, now. We have,
>Oppressive decay and decline
>Declining wages
>Unaffordable houses
>Black folk
>Go back to 1980 and learn what oppressive decay and decline actually looked like
I grew up in the early 80s, it is worse now. Posting pictures of a NyC slum won't change my opinion.
Maybe it's worse for YOU now but I guarantee you it's not 1980s shithole britain or NYC bad. The world changes and all the millenials with their oversaturated skillsets crying about their boomer parents holding onto the very properties that paid for the millenials education is clown world. People really think they're entitled to a fricking mansion because they sit at an office desk all day.
I'm noticing you keep hyperfocusing on NYC. Were there no suburbs or rural areas to live in back in the 1980s?
Of course there were. The same as there are now. But most of the west wasn't experiencing the golden age of American suburbia you're probably thinking of.
>you're probably thinking of
I'm not thinking of anything, I'm just asking a question.
No, don't you see you can by a method shack in rural buttfrick nowhere for pennies! It doesn't matter that all the local towns are dead or dying, that most of the populace is addicted to meth or oxygen, or that you have to pay a fortune to have local utilities restored.
Bu bu bu stop talking zoom zoom, you're embarrassing yourself
Comfy
How come they don't call these laminal spaces?
I FEEL ALRIGHT
I FEEL ALRIGHT TONIGHT
Some Amiga games had the backrooms aesthetic and it was creepy back then as a kid in the 90s so I can see the appeal. They had monsters too tho not just empty rooms
I don't get it. Liminal spaces are extremely cool and eerie. Backrooms are the greatest thing that could have happened to the horror genre.
I'll say it
Pool rooms seem cooler to explore than the Backrooms
Why do the younger generation want to ruin everything?
I dont care that they like the same things or have their own things.
It's normal.
It's more like they see something and bastardise it, try to censor it. Or change it to their liking, and remove any originality.
It's like everything becomes the same, like there's a standard of things that they want everything to be and anything they like needs to conform and change to it.
Like every single horror thing just becomes an escape from 2000s kid mascot horror.
What's more is that anything they dont like needs to be cancelled and hated, even ignoring the time period, context, or whatever.
Like before, you had some kids playing some shooters with some old man online and having a ball yelling racist shit and having fun. Well now it's gross and problematic now, regardless of if there's any sexual groomer shit or actual racist undertones.
Even old shows are too sexualised, sexist and racist and need to be censored but some troony can strip naked in front of preschoolers and be seen as brave.
I know I'm digressing here but frick this bothers me.
It gets worse and worse, this generation is ruining culture and the world based on their little experience they had with the world.
Shit is getting more and more crazier.
How did we end up like this?
no frame of reference. they don't care about ruining things because they don't know they are ruining things.
It's just a failure of a generation.
Its just a game about pool rooms you big b***h
look at how much shit you wrote
They have nothing, you know how some nogs try to we wuz n shiet? It's the same thing
They want to fanwiki everything and sort everything into categories and power levels. It's weird. No matter what it is, it devolves into exactly that.
Why are people confused about liminal spaces? A hallway is liminal because it serves as a location of change. You’re going from A to B, that is a liminal space. The horror that comes from backrooms is that you never complete that journey from A to B, you’re stuck in a transitory state.
I guess it speaks to a lot of people who feel like they’re stuck in life, trying reach the door at the end of the hallway, only the hallway stretches on forever.
A good example of a liminal space is when in tribes, young men have to go through a rite of passage, and the few days in anticipation of the completion of the rite, they are in that liminal space, not a young boy, but not an adult either. Imagine some young teen in a tribe, never being able to complete his rite of passage. It would frick him up forever.
It’s a fad, just like slasher, zombie and superhero films were a fad.
Whenever some original backdrop appears, there’s always imitators that want to give it their own spin to it.
Tale as old as time.
Just wait until zoomers discover mezanine floors.
great album, what about it?
Now I had to go listen to Angel, like I do every time I'm reminded it exists.
God I love that song.
The first level of this one also has pools.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2453060/Dreamcore/
I from the older generation and I find liminal spaces and these pools creepy as frick.I was always interested in this kind of thing, but there was no name for it at the time.
>This made boomers shit and piss in their underpants
yeah I can't believe boomers prefer a movie with a plot and events that is good and entertaining over looking at pictures of pools when it's obviosly the exact same thing
Go to sleep Stephen.
stanley, dumbass.
Kubrick's vision, King's story.
>King's story
you've clearly never read it
Kubrik movie about faking the moon landing?Nah, still a masterpiece of a THRILLER.
Man you guys can't stop being wrong huh.
why is there so many zoomerBlack person trannies in this thread? or are you guys just pretending to be moronic
Ironically a game where you destroy the frick out of the Backrooms and Pools just came out.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2248330/Backrooms_Break/
does this literally exist just so little timmy can get over being afraid of this moronic concept? jesus christ
NOT THE POOLS
AHHH THEY'RE IN MY EYES THEY'RE IN MY EEYEAAYAYEAS
>Very positive
>174
Wow,what a numbers!
Buy ad, you homosexual
Just because it's digitally interactive doesn't make it a video game.
i hate how slippery wet tile is, that's the real nightmare. they couldn't come up with something better for bathrooms and other wet spaces? frick man
Two words: rugs and slippers.
You all seem so mad about this game but it honestly looks really comfy to me
I can totally see myself playing it while smoking some weed
I love the way liminal spaces look they remind me of comfier times
It will be so fricking boring with weed. You could do something more fun.
i started smoking weed again. very small amounts. it's pretty fun with vidya
I've enjoyed liminal spaces long before the backroom shit as a concept, it looks beautiful and nostalgic. But I don't like what people are doing with it, it's all le creepy monster stalking you in an empty closed space.
The only game I liked was one with no monster and shit, just exploring and stumbling on an abandoned supermarket and the mall music going weird. Creepy experience but also extremely comfy somehow. Very calm and it's fun to let your imagination run wild even though it's just a supermarket, as weird as it is. Kinda like reading a book : they're just pages but can evoke feelings.
I love indoor swimming pools so much. Ever since I was a kid.
I never saw them as creepy though, and I'm not sure why zoomers do. Even the ones without windows and little light
>haha stupid zoomers and their liminal spaces
>my favorite manga? why, BLAME! of course!
same shit different generation
Blame had sexy chicks in latex.
Everyone in blame was fugly.
Nah that's Gantz
I love thermal baths.
what's with those blurry people in the middle?
Spooky
Last summer I spent a whole day just moving from pool to pool there, it was so great. Talking to some random people or just relaxing.
I don't get it. When I see a large empty pool I think "frick yeah, got this whole pool to myself".
God I'm glad the life expectancy is dropping, zoomers don't deserve a full life.
I actually feel nostalgia for a lot of this liminal stuff like when you're a kid and you wander from your parents into parts of buildings nobody's in. Especially these pool ones with the tile because there used to be a huge gym I used to go to when I was a kid that had parts of it unused most often.
You must save the poor zoomers from the horrors of laminality by shitting in every pool.