The backrooms is a good idea, but anything beyond the basic premise of being trapped in a windowless office space is bad.
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The backrooms is a good idea, but anything beyond the basic premise of being trapped in a windowless office space is bad.
the endless descending staircase was scarier
I used to have frequent vivid dreams of walking down a staircase that spiraled endlessly and sometimes it would flip and I'd be walking down the ceiling.
>Live in war-prone country
>Shelters are part of building standard
>Elementary school uses shelters for special classes like music or English with activities
>Be elementary school age
>Dream of being in school by shelter
>Instead of a door in the wall leading to staircase there's a huge round hole in the ground
>No bottom in sight
>Stairs along hole's wall spiraling down
>No guardrail
>Start descending
>Lose footing
>Fall into abyss
>Jerk awake
This was my second falling dream that I can remember. The first was in kindergarten, and it contained a rollercoaster ride with various animals riding with me. Some speedy descending slope woke me up.
The massive spiraling hole in the ground was quite awe-inducing. In one of the I Am Number Four books there was a similarly described hole leading to the baddies' base. It's hard to shake.
Imagine descending an endless staurcase and halfway there you realise you're going the wrong way
>endless
>halfway
why is it so hard for people to grasp the concept of infinity?
there's different types of infinity, if you count from 1 to infinity you have a starting point after all
i liked it better when it was called "house of leaves"
Kino book but couldn't be made into a kino movie.
Hospitals at night are creepy as frick.
Same. It's hilarious to me that zoomers act like this is so original.
The difference which some people seem to have forgotten is that the back rooms are a glitched gmod map while house of leaves is a haunted house
That's a completely different idea (and isn't the first time it was used), and only shares similarities with the shitty YouTube stories people make about the backrooms.
I wrote a story somewhat inspired by Backrooms, about a guy trapped one night in a cabin that suddenly locks him in. I haven't gone back and looked at it/edited it since.
reminds me of Saki Sanobashi
>woah you have to read this page upside down! It's clearly a metaphor for Johnny's dysfunctional life
The book clearly made for unintelligent people to feel intelligent. I so regret wasting my time reading it.
Books for intelligent people to make them feel unintelligent?
Call of the Crocodile.
I read it as a pirated ebook and didn't realize I was missing out on the meme formatting and positioning. I bet it's really fricking frustrating to read, having to constantly switch font and positioning and a million footnotes in the margins.
it's really not, for a majority of the book it's just
>oh hey johnny here gonna have a footnote about this part. turns out this guy never existed
>anyway gonna ramble about that stripper i want to frick for ten pages in this footnote
the formatting really only gets truly bizarre towards the end of the book when the house is going full spooky. the one i remember is when will is falling down an infinite void and there's only one word per page
>Can't have fun with the medium you're using
What? Afraid "normies" will flock to your hobby? Dipshit.
Yes
Thank you the list of postmodern books in literature...
The book it adequate that way to resemble the box of scraps as well as the dude losing grip on reality.
Just cause you can't appreciate someone doing something different doesn't make it lame.
You should just have a nice day maybe and erase your patents mistake.
Is this actually a good book? I tried to read it when I was like 17 but I got filtered because I was confused
the book-in-the-book parts are good but I didn't really like the other parts.
Its just another one of those zoomer memes I just don't understand the appeal of
before it was a zoomer meme, it was a millennial thing. You're more likely to be a zoomer for not knowing about it until recently.
So it's kind of like how millennials made Minecraft and then zoomers ruined it.
Minecraft was made by an alt-right incel, now it's an LGBTQR+ game. Capitalism always wins baby
>Corporatism always wins.
ftfy
always wins.
I wish.
>LGBTQR+
what is R?
Right.
They've started labeling themselves a minority too, becuase of how many nazis are being killed in videogames.
every time you type zoomer or boomer you become less in touch with reality
Okay zoomer boomer
keep going redditor
Every time you post about reddit you become less in touch with reality.
Go back, you will never belong here
AHHH ANON STOP YOU'RE BECOMING TRANSPARENT I CAN LITERALLY PUT MY HAND THROUGH YOU AND BARELY FEEL ANYTHING YOU NEEED TO STOP AIEEEEEEEEEEEE
> tfw the Demiurge lets slip the secret of escaping the simulation
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Best post Ive ever read in my entire life
zoomers decided they needed something newer than SCP because they have physical pain when interacting with anything more than a few years old
It's not a zoomer meme. Zoomers just added the monsters and special rooms
Ganker came up with it, the zoomers created different "layers" or room types where you could be traveling around the yellow rooms for a few hours and then stumble across a public pool melded into it.
No, /x/ came up with it. Everything you newhomosexuals find scary, came from /x/. Backrooms, Skinwalkers, SCP… it all came from there.
It may be a larping shithole now, but pay some goddamn respect to what it once was, fetus.
Yeah and /x/ was only good for the first year and a half so have a nice day revisionist
/x/ has always been good.
/x/ hasn't been relevant since 2009. /b/ raided it to death and mods tried (and failed) to relocate schizophrenics off of /misc/ to it.
All of which caused /x/ to go from a creative engine for horror ideas to bunch of morons trying to tulpa force.
They are a non-entity, the last time the community did anything was make the SCP wiki. That was the last vestige of writers on /x/, they've all fricked off elsewhere.
>last group of X writers fricked off because /x/ was shit
>then their group got flooded by normalgays
and such is the way of life and death.
I used to have so much fun on /x/
I miss when /x/ was fun; Nobody actually believed 90% of the stuff they posted and stories they shared but they still posted it because it was cool, interesting, or fun, and other people entertained the ideas. You'd find some genuinely spooky images, read some unnerving stories, read theories that aren't exactly spooky but are engrossing to think about, etc. Occasionally you'd get a legitimate thread where something genuinely creepy happened that nobody can explain and it's plausible.
Now it's full of generals that consist of schizos writing huge posts explaining their new-age spiritual ideology, repeated entry-level existentialist and philosophical questions poised as threads for the thousandth time, discord-tier circlejerks of the same 10-15 people talking about their succubus girlfriends who come to them in their dreams, reddit-tier stories that sound like they were written by a teenager who consumes youtube creepypasta readers, religious debates, and political/historical stuff that's barely paranormal.
Try making a thread about ayy lmaos and within the hour some schizo (or bot) will dump tons of character-limit posts full of links to random shit and schizo images explaining about ayy lmaos are demons, space is fake and the earth is flat for the thousandth time
Last time I went to /x/ it was full of Christgays reeing and attempting to shut down literally any and every thread with the most bog standard crusader larp cringe and surface tier Biblical knowledge.
>Nobody actually believed 90% of the stuff they posted and stories they shared but they still posted it because it was cool, interesting, or fun
thats what its for, I pity the fool that takes it all seriously. its supposed to be about imagination not if you are a schizo or not. (no one used that buzzword before the most recent american election, very obvious why just look at what they haven't talked about since(hunter, "pornhub got mostly deleted for no apparent reason", ukraine involvement, etc ) but nooo you're schizo lol. not sure if im more disappointed or angry with people that you're dumb enough to allow that to have worked. inb4 ok schizo.)
also I like this song even if its all bollocks or turns out to be true.
>omg where are the streamers and door dosh help me zoomerman im going freakin menatal fr!!!!!
There are some cool ones, like the pools and infite grass camps.
i wish this wasn't ruined by zoomers and their "spooky entities"
You put a guy in the back rooms who doesn't know a shit about the backrooms and your in for a fun show
Possible same energy? We are at the fringes of what is possible with the backrooms
>Game like this but with scrolling world like old Animal Crossing
One of these days I will make a video game that has worlds like this. It reminds me of my dreams
don't let your memes be dreams
download an engine and start fricking around to make it real NOW
an LSD dream simulator esque game with maps like that would be easy
Good thinking, I really really should at least give it a try. If I were to pick an engine, is Source engine a good choice?
I want to make a game based off my vivid dreams. They all are fairly grounded to reality except for one or two odd things that are odd. Like there is a grocery store that has all the food on very tall shelves so you have to use ladders like a book shelf ladder to grab food at the upper shelves. Or a clothing store, but different parts of the store are raised up randomly so you have to watch your step.
molepeople exposed
I love images like this one, no "le creepy pasta" or slenderman knockoffs chasing you, just shit that evokes a specific sense of nostalgia/childhood that is not exactly otherworldy but still a little esoteric.
A feeling of homesickness for a place you have never visited.
I don't get it, why is this creepy?
it's not, this shit is just shilled as le spooky by gamedevs because it allows them to make shit low effort """"""""horror""""""""" games endlessly and have them do well because everyone pretends that it's unnerving and scary
half of the photo has the same general shape and colors as the windows hill background which makes it feel familiar, but it's also different enough that the brain is confused at why it feels familiar.
the sky is clear with nothing visible on the horizon and there's almost no shadows, which makes it feel unnatural
>which makes it feel unnatural
No it doesn't
you're fricking moronic
it feels warm
This. I would leave my wagecubicle right now and lie back down on that grass if I could
It's the extreme contrast of the curvature of the hill with the angular road, wall, and power lines for me.
Every time I look at one of these things I feel nothing initially. It's just a field, and there's plenty to see if the camera turned 90 degrees. Young me would have thought about what kind of skate tricks I could do with the drain.
But then after that, if I try and charitably "get into it," I can start to feel the eeriness. It's pretty cool. Basically, these zoomer horror images are not scary, but boomers who get mad about it are too low iq to abstract out of their perma no fun allowed mindset and allow themselves to get spooked.
The biggest "boomer" boogeyman here is saying that zoomers or whoever are scared of this type of thing, I don't think "fear" is the actual feeling these evoke or why these things are loved, sure, the whole knockoff SCP shit they "created" is lame but I like these, otherwise.
Unless you're a homosexual urbanite that can't live without hearing billions of car noises or people walking/talking outside on the street, this evokes happiness, not "a feeling of dread/eerieness".
Looks like the GTA VI leak.
Oh no a clear sky and my greatest enemy... grass. Gamers I'm going fricking insane!
It's not supposed to be scary.
It is not supposed to by anything, and you know what? IT ISN'T! It is just a fricking photo of a landscape.
just makes me think of windows xp
mosts zoomers aren't old enough to know what that is
I was a math tutor for a while and I still remember one kid talking to me about Windows Vista like it was some lost technology. He didn't even know how to pronounce it.
Black person every zoomer had a computer running windows XP for their first computer
I was 6 when vista came out
>gen x are millennials - society post 9/11/2001
>also millennials: I dont know what windows xp is
looks nice. i'd take a nap there.
>The backrooms
this the first level of stanley parable isn't it?
Yes the backrooms is a good idea if you do nothing with it.
Literally this.
it seems like zoomers from /x/ pretty much ruin everything
le zoomer boomer doomer xDDDD
>/x/
you mean tumblrinas.
no difference
who do you think created the backrooms
I always assume people do this because crossovers are fun but all it takes is one autist to turn fun into le epic everything is connected marvelshit, gametheory ruined a generation.
>bunch of autistic troons trying to outdo each other where their 'backroom' is the most scariest and unqiuest and interesting and bestest
SCP'd
SCP was always cringe reddit shit
SCP is anti-reddit.
>create monster that can scream so loud it would destroy the planet because4 some sperg doesn't understand how decibals work and just wanted to be edgy
>anti reddit
/x/ is pretty reddit
>literally started here
cringe
I rest my case
>I enjoy being wrong all the time
k
/x/ has always been redditcore
/x/ has some good stuff.
did anything come out of this? these are the stories that creep me out the most. the ones that are dropped and never discussed again.
assuming it's not larp anyway.
well yeah.. open ended was always the move. you just have to have a good base to stimulate the reader. i miss when skin walker stories first started popping up
so it's a larp? that sucks
my favorite greentext will forever be the one about the trucker that comes across an alien posing as a man. dont have it on this pc but you prolly know which one I'm talking about.
The one where the alien is next to a car in form but it isn't a car?
yes, and the alien's face is inverted. so good.
cope and seethe etc etc
>THERE WAS A CROW OUTSIDE MY HOUSE
>WAAAAOOOOOHHW
>but anything beyond the basic premise of being trapped in a windowless office space is bad.
and thats why its foolish to try and make anything with it.
if you stay true to the concept you get a boring walking simulator.
if you spice it up you get
I do like the idea of government spooks and other organization waging a secret war in some horror dimension. But at that point I feel like people should make their own thing rather than just butcher some popular internet setting.
Having a secret paramilitary corporate/scientific war of attrition in a sterile, liminal environment would be kino, however.
This is what happens when homosexuals are not bullied for being homosexuals.
Makes sense. Same shit happened to SCP because people can't help themselves. It has to become an autistic power battle for the dysphoric. People run everything into the ground in an attempt to insert themselves or their own spin on something, or to try to leech content or attention from it.
I agree. But kids on the internet think monsters are scarier than being trapped and losing your mind.
I'm okay with the idea of there being *something* else lurking somewhere in the infinite expanse, but the backrooms is so labyrinthian you would surely never encounter such a thing.
I like the idea that there are different areas of the backrooms, too, like the poolrooms.
>I'm okay with the idea of there being *something* else lurking somewhere in the infinite expanse, but the backrooms is so labyrinthian you would surely never encounter such a thing.
sounds like the premise of House of Leaves.
IMO the best take on backrooms "monsters" is actually something like this.
Basically other people, creatures, animals, ghosts, aliens, etc across time & space who also managed to clip out of the universe and are just as lost, desperate and confused as you are.
IMO getting chased down by a serial killer, a dinosaur or large animal, or a group of cannibalistic people who gradually went insane is much more terrifying than the generic squiggly-monster SCP zoomer shit that's prevalent in all of these games.
>Basically other people, creatures, animals across time & space who also managed to clip out of the universe and are just as lost, desperate and confused as you are.
>IMO getting chased down by a serial killer, a dinosaur or large animal, or a group of cannibalistic people who gradually went insane is much more terrifying than the generic squiggly-monster SCP zoomer shit that's prevalent in all of these games.
This. The prospect of finding someone/thing should be bother hopeful/terrifying, since you don't know who or what you'll get. There shouldn't be outright malicious entities, just animals and people in the same situation you're in.
I always assumed this was the case with those creatures in Kane Pixels videos, just some entities from across the universe/multiverse trapped and trying to reach out for help, try to eat you to stay alive or that just went mental.
That would be the only good way of doing it, tbh
Wasn't there that quantum physics theory that somewhere out in the universe there is a version of you that is doing the exact same thing you're doing at the exact same time in a place exactly like the one you're in, just on a different planet identical to the one you're on? I'd like to see that incorporated in this instance.
original post should've never mentioned any kind of entity
House of Leaves did it better.
Is this worth reading or is it mostly just a novel gimmick?
obviously it's a novel gimmick, it's not a movie
I chuckled.
the story is interesting and the satire of academic writing is funny if you've been in that space.
the Navidson Record is an excellent horror story (the book within the book). the other layers of abstraction depend on how much academia you've read/stomached in your life. if you've turned in/read a few thesis papers then you'll probably get the satire and have a good laugh. as for the Johnny Truant stuff, when it ties into the Navidson Record it can add to the spooks.
my recommendation would be to read the Navidson Record and ignore everything else, and then if you want to, try reading again but with the Johnny Truant prose included. this book is absolutely meant to be read more than once, and you'll get new themes and new ideas with each layer of abstraction you engage with.
>this book is absolutely meant to be read more than once
Damn, that's too bad because I read it once and the idea of going through it all a second time makes me feel fricking exhausted.
Definitely worth reading, I didn’t feel like it was a gimmick when I read it way back. It’s a genuinely interesting novel with multiple stories running and the constant references and appendixes feels like you’re reading the Bible or something. It’s pretty cool. And a good horror novel.
Yes it's worth reading.
The concept and story is good and it's worth the experience.
The only problem with House of leaves is how intertwined it became with hipster dorks.
>The only problem with House of leaves is how intertwined it became with hipster dorks.
This
>Some idiots you will NEVER meet in your life enjoy the same thing you do.
Oh, the horror!
I can enjoy something while not wanting to be associated with the stereotypical person of said fandom.
So? Stop giving a frick about what strangers think of you.
Did this not have a movie? I recall one bug I'm not really sure
Haven't read this but I love stories and media that take full advantage of the medium they are created in to the point that it'd be almost or downright impossible to translate into another type of media.
Piranesi had a similar concept, although didn't require you flip the pages around. Bottom floor was flooded with seawater, middle floor was loaded with statues, and the top floor was in ruins.
Good book, I shill it. If you like weird spaces you should read it
Oh nice, I loved House of Leaves and I have Piranesi on my shelf because my gf read it last year. Your post has bumped it up to my next read.
Sorry The Lost Metal.
The book is bigger on the inside than on the outside.
Reminds me of the old maze screensaver on Windows 95
Who are you running from?
YOUR MOM HAHAHAHHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
It starts with N
one day there will be a good backrooms game, and none of us will ever know
AHHHHHH IS THAT A BUNCH OF WIRES OMG SAVE ME
Yes, a bunch of standing caboes chasing you and screaming really loudly would be scary
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SAVE ME troonyMAN
KanePixel's videos are the only Backrooms I like. He gets it.
Yeah I like 'em too. They're quite a bit different but it gives me the same feeling I had watching Marble Hornets for the first time over a decade ago.
>Marble Hornets
Oh man, that brings me back. I stopped watching those a long time ago for some reason. I think I just got exhausted from everyone else making Slenderman stuff at the time.
Reminder that the weird ass youtube slenderverse will never be finished because the TribeTwelve MC is a groomer irl
Wdym? Marble hornets is the only one and it's finished
Everything else sucks. In all that shit I only somewhat liked everyman hybrid for being bad slender pranks, WHOOPS REAL SLENDER and the one kid with the knives actually not being a pussy and charging shit every time, but then they all got super powers, we're the chosen ones, and I stopped caring
>the same feeling I had watching Marble Hornets for the first time over a decade ago.
I remember https://youtu.be/0q3cQjeerNU fricking me up for a long time, it's such an effective way of scaring you. Wasn't big on it when it stopped being about posting a bunch of scattered tapes from a weirdo the poster met in college though.
Out of everyone trying to jump on the "Backrooms" bandwagon, I thought Skinamarink did it best. A lot of people hated the film, but it avoided the convoluted backstory and lore that's been associated with a lot of Backrooms stuff, and analog horror in general.
Good idea as a video series but bad video game idea because you can die and respawn.
Is this real or that AI shit
It's real.
Thank you I appreciate it. It's getting hard to tell these days.
What if that anon isn't real?
I am.
thats what a bot would say...
ofc
anyone trying to prove they are a human on the internet is either a bot or an idiot.
>zoomers are afraid of work environment
It all makes sense
Dammit
I love the idea of the different levels, but the monsters ruin it.
A game based on these images in the style of INFRA and LSD Dream Emulator would be bretty kewl tbh.
Why haven't you played Infra yet, Ganker?
What is this, anon?
Infra
Yes, that is its name. But what is it about, where could I find it?
It's an adventure game where you solve puzzles. The atmosphere and aesthetic is a lot like the sort of pictures in this thread. If that sounds interesting to you, then it's worth checking out. There's no combat though.
I think I've had enough of Combat for a while. It sounds like MYST, but with more liminal spaces. Its even on Steam, I'll check it out. Thanks man.
I took a break after the raft level ruined the mood. I'll go back to it eventually.
Anything else like it?
>ENA style game with those said images
Now THAT would be kino, hopefully the actual ENA game can provide something similar
1st person or 3rd? or 2nd person over the shoulder style?
Hmm
1st Person, like the ENA animations. the actual ENA game being a legit FPS is wild to see too
SEXO
WITH
ENA
Kane Pixels actually made this worth a damn, even if it is a generic "CAPITALISM IS THE REAL MONSTER" story
holy frick this is good
also there's no fricking way Trench tripped and hit his head, they definitely shot him
I don't think he is dead at all.
Can't bench the Tench
Of all his videos, I think one of the best was seeing the scientists watching the found footage of the street video. Then you see them decide to board up just that one wall on their side. To me that humanizes Async as not knowing what the hell they are getting themselves into, and also making a worthless reactionary response to the situation. Then when they do go back there they just bring a single shotgun with them.
I love the dialogue when they get back to the pitfalls room.
>no sign of marvin's friend
>we're not calling it that
>wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of that thing
>you wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of any gun
its not "capitalism le bad", he explained it in a interview, it's just that humans like le researching
Kane Pixels stuff is really good. Given how young he is (he's like 16 iirc) it's almost a relief that he clearly saw the original concept and decided to work with that (even if making it more of a sci-fi series rather than just a 'glitch in reality' vague thing) rather than rolling with the moronic levels and entities.
Here's how I'd do a Backrooms thing:
Parody how it's going and how people have basically taken advantage of it to live out their fantasies
I wish Liminal spaces never got conflated with being creepy, a lot of pictures I see remind me of dreams that I wish I could've stayed in
could be a fun tdm map
As always, millennials are the biggest homosexuals
when did horror games decide you didn't need actual tools or objectives?
>tools: feet, eyes, and vocal chords for screaming
>objective: survive
hello??
I'm sorry - although not really - but is this what passes as a video game thread? A thread about an idea that might be usable as a video game setting? Any idea can be used as a video game, i mean really, the only thing anyone can play in this case is you, playing yourselves, like a fiddle
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If you're over the age of 17 and engage in this backroom shit at all then you really need to reevaluate your life priorities.
Procedurally generated horror games > "funny" cartoons made by suicidal israelite perverts (who aren't even edgy at all)
>HURR DURR DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN NOCLIP IN REAL LIFE JUST LIKE YOU CAN IN VIDEO GAMES? EXCEPT WHEN YOU DO SO YOU GO TO A SPOOKY BEIGE ROOM!
The backrooms is not a good idea. It's one of the most stupid ideas I've ever heard. I have no idea how it became a thing people apparently take seriously.
>take seriously
It is called 'fun' and 'imagination'.
>'imagination'.
What the frick is imaginative about the backrooms meme?
Goddamn guys, breath.
You don't get it cuh it's straight up a hallway bruh fr you a goofy mf fo dis one
>'fun' and 'imagination'.
reddit
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1522960/Anemoiapolis_Chapter_1/
>takes a cool indie project from way back when
>makes it hipster and edgy and appealing to zoomers
>le jumpscares
>Concept is forever ruined
Wow, I'm so shocked this happened....
Peter Tench did not kill himself.
Folks, I know these are trying times. Peter Tench was an important member of our team, and we saw him as a brother. This is what happens when we play fast and loose with the rules, and we will be more diligent next time. It is a lack of training on our parts that made Peter Tench lost. I can't emphasize how important our training is to avoid these scenarios. As a family we can synergize our efforts and continue what Peter brought to this team: Unity. We are innovation. We are Async.
Also don't forget this Thursday is Team Thursday and you can wear your favorite sport team shirt. All other apparel must fall within dress code.
Sincerely,
- Ivan Beck
He was murdered by this rock we found. What a klutz tee-hee
UE is cool but there's really what you can do with it. There used to be store in west Houston where they had a huge store without much staffing, but it also was the old corporate headquarters so half of the building was abandoned and you could go in and explore.
Zoomers when they see an empty space that would otherwise be occupied:
AWOOOOOOOOOOOGGGG! I AM SCARED! AN… E-E-E-EMPTY SPACE! I’M ABOUT TO FLIP OUT! U GOTTA BUY THIS SEASONS BATTLEPASS ON FORTNITE TO QUELL MY ANXIETY FOR WHICH I AM MEDICATED BECAUSE I CANT COPE WITH EVERYDAY SOCIAL SITUATIONS! HEEEELP!
You better hope there are some floor puddles every so often otherwise you aren't gonna survive dehydration for long
How long do you really want to survive in an endless office building?
As long as I can
My curiosity can never be satisfied, so as long as I can.
>backrooms wiki is a shitty SCP knockoff
>bunch of moronic named entities with no rhyme or reason to their appearance and capabilities
>writing is akin to a 4th grade horror story
>Almond water is some magical curative to multiple problems
>references Reddit users constantly
> References to Reddit users
You cannot be serious.
unfortunately he is
>he doesn't activate his almond water
The risk of running into a spider or a hobo
That is certainly activating my almonds.
SCP is itself quite shitty
why did the Dogscape not reach this kind of popularity
Because Dogscape wasn't real.
I like the idea of there being a fricking up dev room area IRL what I hate is when you put a fricking slenderman like monster in it.
An infinite shopping mall would be an interesting place to be trapped in.
>reddit reddit reddit
Here's your (You)
I want a game where you explore an abandoned shopping mall
You know you don't need a video game to go to mundane places right?
see
Dead Rising
I guess nobody remembers You Are Here
Favorite part of house of leaves was that dream about the room with a well in the center. If I remember correctly it was like the path to the afterlife and you had to jump down into it and if you lived a good life you would fade into blue light, and if you were bad you’d plummet into endless dark water. There were people who refused to enter the well and remained in the room since antiquity rather than face it.
how do the people know what happens if you enter the well though
>a good idea
It really isn't. The original premise was moronic and uncreative to begin with.
>WOAAAAAH DUDE WHAT IF YOU CAN GLITCH THROUGH WALLS IN REAL LIFE LIKE IN VIDEO GAMES
I really loathe the moron from /x/ who came up with this reddit shit.
The concept is fundamentally anti-reddit.
How? It's about getting scared over the most mundane and pretentious shit imaginable. It's the epitome of reddit.
You're right. An infinite garbage dump is some bussin' creeps.
yeah on my floor 112-b (secret), its so crazy bro you can't even comprehend it. oh yeah you gotta watch out for skinstealers, creepers, tormenters, entity #1992, shadowstalkers, mindcontrollers, hounds,
Don't forget penistwisters, foreskinners, vagivores and analasers.
Who's he?
Ricky Berwick. King of the Thot Patrollers.
>space is the ultimate liminal
>so much nothingness that it takes 5 and a half hours just to reach Pluto, assuming we're going the absolute fastest possible speed
>occasionally crypids comprised of city-sized atomic nuclei act like intergalactic lighthouses
>some warp spacetime so much light can't even escape
homie it takes me 5 amd a half hours to get to philly on my civic
Why would you want to go to philly tho
Shut the frick up, that's terrifying
Space is calming to me even with some of violent shit that is in it, now oceans that go on forever in depth on the other hand...
>so much nothingness that it takes 5 and a half hours just to reach Pluto,
Importantly from the perspective of someone staying 'still' on earth.
If you go fast enough you can go there and come back and experience it in a much shorter period of time while the clock on earth tells you it was 11 hours.
>but anything beyond the basic premise of being trapped in a windowless office space is bad.
there's nothing wrong with expanding the idea into something new.
It's the point where you introduce something so ridiculous to the plot does it become unrealistic.
Like for example, have a video about just walking around the backrooms with dark areas, being subtle is good, but the moment you put in a stupid walking bone monster that's constantly chasing you then you have stupid slides, a pool area, mall, ect does it look idiotic.
That’s because they combined it with vaporwave shit
>vaporwave
That's a late millennial thing and has nothing to do with backrooms
You are a dumbass if you think there is zero overlap between the ideas of nostalgia, creepy vintage environments, malls, liminality, and analog horror that vaporwave revolutionized
>that vaporwave revolutionized
kek imagine discovering music as an artform through Ganker
Protip listen to some Boards of Canada if you just want the most entry-level stuff
I’m not talking about music. Its the memetic concepts that vaporwave brought up such as liminality in its aesthetic
>I'm not talking about music
>I'm talking about a music genre which incorporates concepts that have existed for well over a century
Ganker truly has some of the most plebian misers
Yes the concepts existed but vaporwave brought them to the public consciousness and popularized them
>nostalgia wasn't popular until the early/mid-2010s
How fricking underage are you?
You're right
It's not just "nostalgia," but a very particular brand of it.
Even thrash metal bands were doing vaporwave by accident in the 80s, you're completely underage if you think there's anything new about vaporwave and its approach to nostalgia
Black person where did I say vaporwave created these ideas? I just said that vaporwave was the first to popularize them amongst current internet culture.
>amongst current internet culture
You never said that prevoiusly
I said vaporwave revolutionized the ideas, not that it created them
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They're moronic but they have a point. The whole "nostalgia vibe/aesthetic" wasn't really a thing people actively tried to do until fricking yung lean cloud rap shit and vaporwave started becoming a thing. It's certainly become a brand compared to the times you're referring to.
>thrash metal
wut
This song has basically every aesthetic element of vaporwave, just without the sampling
That looks like what a lot of stoner/doom bands do. Not sure if I'd quite call it vaporwave but I see what you mean lol
This is not at all what vaporwave is.
This is great. Can't believe I'm getting into vaporwave from a Ganker thread. Got anymore?
There's so much vaporwave because most of it is very easy and quick to make, but here's a couple.
(this actually evolved into a different genre called dreampunk)
Vaporwave has many offshoots and subgenres, like future funk:
Ok fair enough I used the word wrong. I’m adult enough to admit my mistakes
Vaporwave most certainly didn't exist in the 80s. One good reason being that vaporwave centers on the 90s, which hadn't happened yet or become the past. Vaporwave borrows elements from pre-existing things, but is still its own thing.
vaporwave was just millenial nostalgia for an 80s synth music aesthetic that they didn't get to live through first hand. it had nothing to do with "creepiness" or "analog horror" or "liminality"
Is this vaporwave or is this liminal?
The ceiling says trans rights
Trans lights
That's a Disney hotel, isn't it? Something like Pop Century at night?
Are you seriously implying that vaporwave, the genre with cut up vintage 80s commercials and music videos had no effect on analog horror?
Are you seriously implying that The Blair Witch Project wasn't more relevant to analog horror than vaporwave?
I never said anything about Blair witch’s relevance. Now answer my question dumbass
You're confusing vaporwave with synthwave, which happens a lot. They have some overlap, but mostly they're completely different.
>Some trend involving a music genre is the reason a meme that originated with gmod exists
Ganker - glue eaters
yeah it was an inherently limited surreal horror premise, but people wanting to capitalize on it tried and failed to come up with anything that didn't just kill the entire concept.
They ripped off the No-End house where you may end up opening a door and find yourself outside only to realize you're still in the Liminial space when the suburban neighborhood you've stumbled across is full of logic inaccuracies and the sun never rises.
>OOoooO I'm a preschool doodle
>I'm gonna getcha!
>*honking noises*
I thought it was supposed to be a man made out of electronic cables.
On their instagram it's called a bacteria
>instagram
Not canon.
Its their official instagram channel. It is called that on their youtube channel too..
Kane really should've gone with the corrupted camera idea for these things.
Mario if he real
>gets mogged by a fricking Pokémon
https://twitter.com/PokemonGoApp/status/1563002704049635330
People should watch the rest of the series too.
is there more "lore" about that creature?
Its people because of course its people.
The black squigly line creatures? They are called 'bacteria' according to a filename on his youtube channel. They are aggressive and can mimic human voices like skinwalkers (ex. "hOoOw arrr yooouuh?!"), stuff like that. They seem to be tied to the black mold seen throughout those videos too.
I like the idea that the backrooms are the result of some kind of entity that's trying to mimic humanity but just can't get it quite right, hence the unusual architecture, furniture, and presence of these bacteria organisms that attempt to synthesize human speech.
now the question is, did async create the backrooms or did they merely create a gateway to some previously unknown realm?
nta but im pretty sure san andreas created the backrooms with the noclipping through walls with a jetpack and ending up in, the backrooms, or unused dev spaces.
very interesting
Honestly, most of the lore he made up was about the organization and their goal of what to do with the backrooms, which is pretty interesting.
bump
shin megami tensei?
What about endlessly descending into lower and lower floors, each one being more and more different?
No. It's all the same. There's no levels. Anything else ruins it.
No idea why they want to add logic and structure to surreal horror. It is literally antithetical to what makes it good.
Suppose that's fair. Could use those liminal spaces for other stories, other games even.
Personally I don't like the idea of organized floors becaue it implies organization and order. I like the random and nonsensical nature of it being an endless maze that will change without warning. It makes it a surprise what is around the corner. Some depth makes sense, like being able to climb or fall into a room above/below. I just don't like when there are themes like Floors 1 thru 5 are this, and Floors 6 thru 10 are that.
Two types of people on Ganker
> The original didn't have monsters, an-and its suck because more floors suck....it was implied sh shut up..
> It SCP. i hate change. stop taking whats mine.
garbo creepypasta and seething posters
I never got into this shit but it's not hard to understand why people trying to show and explain things that were left as a mystery takes away the appeal.
Same thing happened to SCP. There's a reason the top rated page besides Peanut has literally no words, and Peanut's article is (was) basically just two paragraphs with a creepy picture.
The OG SCP was pure Garbo that was short and lazy. It was so short and bad that the creators of penut,doc and larry wanted to delete it before they left only to be stopped by begging creators. We now have edited OG scp from well-known posters. We also had mystery with SCP and people are too fricking dumb to understand it.
Scp and blackedroom are the same here. Both made on Ganker, both taken by people and expended on, both famous and now Ganker hates it like always
I read SCP then, when Abel and Iris and the succubus were still things and every other entry had some goofy bullshit with the Doctors. I prefer that as the default than the way it is now, with most entries being failed creative writing students jerking off on the page for 4000 words, giving every entry five experiment/exploration logs about their gay researcher OCs or a fricking cybernetic warrior task force which is somehow not Omega-7 Mary Sue bullshit or doing METANARRATIVE
Even the few good ones like The Sun 001 can't help themselves from indulging in it for some cheap drama, can't just do straightfoward horror
>Listen to some narration of some SCP's well into the 1000's category
>Most of them aren't even SCP's but events that happened or things that exists solely to further push an already existing idea without adding anything onto itself
>Other's are world-ending SCPs that the Foundation is too helpless to go up against and just have stand around with their thumbs up their ass and wait for the bad thing to stop happening
It's gross. There was one SCP that had to do with the Hanged king and a irl painter where the irl painter painted some 12 paintings relating to the Hanged King but then did a secret 13th one that the foundation doesn't have but the article doesn't go into detail about what even makes this SCP an SCP and rather just jerks off more lore revolving around NOT King in Yellow
>Exploration logs
>Meta
>Canons
These are the things that absolutely killed SCP. It started going to shit fairly early on with the goofy doctor OCs and endless Cain/Abel types, but it bounced back briefly when it was starting to get into the 2000s.
Exploration logs have just become an excuse to write out poorly formatted stories with absolutely minimal attention given to the SCP itself.
Meta stuff is almost always fart sniffing. There's good stuff like the 'this narrative ceases to exist if these elements are in it' but then there's absolute dog shit like 3999 which is regarded as one of the best things ever when it's literally just an edgy masturbatory blogpost about the writer struggling to come up with a good SCP.
Canons suck shit because you'll be reading a good SCP and left with questions except it turns out you need to read five other SCPs and twenty stories about the author's elaborate headcanon.
People always shit on the doctors but they were in the hands of smart fricking people. They realized they were becoming too powerful by dealing with the Mary Sue OCs and they themselves stepped back because they realized how it was negatively impacting things in the long run, leading to the 2000s era and things like the able line.
People have too much ego now, there will never ever again be a movement, in anything, to minimize self importance like they did. It's fart sniffing all the way down
You forgot the 3rd type.
homosexuals like (You)
expanding on the concept kills the already limited appeal it has as being slightly surreal version labyrinth myth complete with its own Zooomataur.
I think Matt Studios executes the idea pretty well. His videos are pure exploration kino.
I like Kane too but he has a different approach.
To me the more scary concept was to be in the open field that is facing a forest.
I lived in a village, in an area where bears also live.
In front of the village there is a river and across the river there is a field people used to plant crops.
Whenever I was walking around the outskirts of the village or went to the fields to which the only one small bridge led over the river I constantly reminded myself how scary it would be if at one moment I will see a bear running out of the woods towards me and there will be no way for me to run away in the open field. To reach the village I had to cross the bridge and there is no way I would've made it in time, especially not after I learned how fast bears can actually run.
So these empty hallways are so silly to me and zoomers being scared of them makes me laugh.
To put it into that context: Imagine if you were transported to an endless forest (without warning) and there were a few bears somewhere in that forest roaming around.
Best version of The Backrooms is the one where it was a particle accelerator accident by some corporation who tried to sell it as an infinite storage warehouse to the Government before the weird shit started happening and they had to shut it down. But it's already too late and it's bleeding into our dimension causing a rapid rise in missing persons cases.
>being trapped in a windowless office space
It's called "getting a job." You should try it.
No.
Okay. Where?
>Dude lmao everyone is hiring!
Yeah, they have diversity quota's they have to hit.
That excuse is gonna wear thin sooner or later, tubby. Not even you buy it anymore.
It seems to be there is an archetype out there who lives for cheesed out versions of these concepts. Creepypastas, urban myths, cryptids, etc.
I cannot understand the mindset.
Silent hill 4 and P.T. did it better.
homosexual zoomers will never understand what horror was truly like.
homosexual zoomers make threads asking about "How can anyone be afraid of a video game lol"
Literally nobody is making those threads except boomer shitposters.
So hang on, if someone made a game where you just wandered around procgen spooky places and maybe occasionally some sort-of creepy noises happened in the background, but then NOTHING ELSE, would you be interested?
>create a scenario that prays on intrinsic fears like having no positional frame of reference while desperately seeking an exit
>fandom populates scenario with edgy monsters and meticulous lore
Why does this always fricking happen when a simple but effective horror premise gets big on the internet?
It's like whenever something gets popular everyone in the community decides to engage in a game to sand off all the edges and demystify every facet with wiki pages.
Because some people just straight up don't get liminal space horror. It's a mystery to them so they think it's better if you 'make it scary' with spoopy monsters.
I think it depends entirely on whether you've personally felt it. With me, the thing I always go back to is when I was a kid, I was in a car accident. Woke up in a hospital bed at about 4AM, all the lights were off. I got up (was mostly fine) and had to walk all the way down a hospital hallway to find a reception desk with a person at it. That hallway terrified the shit out of me. Nothing WRONG with it, just absolutely unsettling as frick.
It's because we live in an age where the default philosophical position is naturalism and EVERYTHING has to be explained as a physical phenomena or with treated with skepticism.
Isn't it mostly just a "The Stanley Parable meets The House of Leaves" setting for people that think actual scary things are cool?
I hated SCPs when they stopped being weird haunted objects.
What the frick is with the never dying one that talks?
The backrooms themselves were scary because you'd be trapped in a place you clipped into without knowing how to get out.
I think seeing shit peak around or glimpsing something leaving behind the corner is good if its very questionable whether or not the person is going nuts. Too bad cthulhu homosexuals ruined maddness.
The mall-world dream phenomenon needs a horror game. In fact, the mall-world dream phenomenon predates the backrooms, and most likely gave rise to it.
We also desperately need a high-budget horror game based off of aliens and ufology lore.
And by ufology lore, I don't mean the basic-b***h normie "area 51 top-secret coverup involving little" shit. I'm talking the Jacques Vallee, high strangeness, woo-woo, interdimensional, mind-altering, abduction-related shit. The amount of horror material to work with in that field is pretty astounding; literally a horror content goldmine waiting to become the next big scare-factor fad for zoomers.
>The mall-world dream phenomenon
Talk me through that. What's that about? I'll open up Unity, get you something in six weeks.
Not willing to explore it in full detail but /x/ has threads about it on ocassion.
Basically, it's an IRL phenomenon that often involves people having dreams that take place in giant, endless, fantastical indoor and outdoor malls, hotels, casinos, theme parks, train stations, indoor pool areas, aquariums, beach resorts, schools, college, airports, so on and so forth. Which doesn't sound very frightening or unusual - at first.
What makes the phenomenon, well - an actual phenomenon with some real-life clarity to it, is the fact that a MASSIVE amount people keep dreaming up mall world-related dreams involving the EXACT same scenarios, locations, characters, situations, so on an so forth. As if their consciousness is actually sent to some weird, procedurally-generated and simulated astral dream world or when they fall asleep, by some unknown, higher paranormal force or entity.
Some worlds are sprawling, bustling metropolises teeming with a variety of normal or bizarre characters, while others are empty, eerie "liminal space" locations.
A few common examples: it's almost impossible for people to escape or the mall worlds within their dreams. Once they become lucid or aware that they can't escape, it's incredibly common for the surrounding NPCs to turn against them, for the world to become increasingly distorted, disturbing and surreal as they attempt to escape it, only to find themselves suddenly being chased down by a crazed serial killer, a kill-on-site SWAT team, so on and so forth. There are even cases of people meeting each other in the mall world before they meet each other in waking reality.
Or you can just google reddit /r/themallworld and read up on all of the stories there and figure out what makes it so eerie. Either way, should make for an easy game to cook up if you amplify the psychological mindfrickery and horror aspects and don't go crazy on the generic creepy entities and SCP-shit that inevitably ruined the backrooms.
Just gonna see if I can get an empty mall with some slightly eerie things about it then, and have you just wander around that for a bit.
Yeah my malls are usually dark and they have brothels.
>google reddit
>unironically tells people to join him in redditdom
Yes, my friend, it's time you went back.
Unfortunately, it's literally one of the best places to talk about the phenomenon right now, the rest of the paranormal fringe community still hasn't really caught up on its relevance or importance just yet.
Also backrooms devolved into reddit-tier zoomer shit years ago, so it only makes sense in my mind to link it to a literal reddit board.
>it's almost impossible for people to escape or the mall worlds within their dreams.
I must be ascended because at first that was true for me but now I always escape.
Basically there's a time limit you have to escape while it's going into "lock down" ( usually as soon as you 'spawn' in the mallworld) but after that yeah you're stuck.
That's weird.
I go to similar places in my dreams all the time, but they're never "infinite" and it's never scary.
Depends if you were lucid during the dreams.
In most cases, the dreams don't become eerie or scary until you try to leave or something upsets you.
I'm almost always fairly lucid in dreams and they don't tend to bother me. I never think to escape because there's always some in-dream priority that I'm trying to achieve.
The places are never exactly the same, but they always have similar characteristics and are usually supposed to correspond to a real-life location.
Paranormal stuff is just way too underused for games considering how it can go from somewhat weird, to silly, to horrifying. Imagine trying to pull some MIB/Black Eyed Kid encounter where the player realizes something is wrong with them and has to avoid ticking them off so Bad Things Do Not Happen.
That sounds really good. Like yoi are at your front door and the Black Eyed Kids are there. You have to keep an eye on them and not get distracted or else they come in and its game over. Exhaust the dialouge till they leave or if you say the wrong thing they get in (game over).
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I think the idea of an eldritch location with its own rules can work if you don't turn it into a video game where you know you can get to X or avoid Z if you do Y. Kemono Friends: Raccon-san Mansion does this pretty well where the readers only gets hints on how things work in the apartment and even then it's clear that trying is figure things out is a massive struggle.
> Appeal of that image was that it looked familiar yet ominously mysterious.
> morons proceeds to make a whole shitty fan-fic lore about it not knowing what "mysterious" means.
Why can't we just appreciate the funny photo and move on. Why do we have to milk the frick out of everything that's remotely interesting? What's puzzling me even more is that they aren't milking it for money, they are milking it for a clout.
If you present people with a mystery or fictional world they're going to want to know more and they'll imagine what else there could be. It has nothing to do with "clout."
Watching Ganker tear itself apart over whether
>We invented backrooms, they're cool!
>Backrooms are fricking rooms. Zoomers are moronic.
is the correct edge to assume.
/x/ invented backrooms, not Ganker.
>The backrooms
Is this the new zoomie horror genre?
It's from 2019, so not exactly new. Something isn't zoomer just because you don't like it.
zoomers ruined backrooms like everything they touch with their reverse hand of midas
where is this from? fan made?
Looks like a map for the Backrooms series by Kane Pixels.
Fan made from what we saw and what can be gathered from the bit-mashed mess that was peters map.
What did he write it with exactly?
Lets just say it was a good thing Marvin and his pals were in hazmat suits.
This when they SCP'd with 1000 billion different floors and finding other survivors it turned gay, but that's the communities fault the OG videos about it were great.
You Black folk are so stupid my horror dreams consist of being loved and greeted by friends at bright, hopeful places
that's not as scary as...being in a MALL!!!!
Of course it's scary, you have to wake up.
Well...what if those bright hopeful places had other floors and areas? Maybe some sort of CREATURE in one of them...I'll go make the wiki, hang on.
>endless empty building
Who gives a shit? All this shitpost did was give kids a new thing like creepypastas
>dude but think of the dread or empty feeling
Its not even real and such scenario is impossible
Almost every horror story is about something that would never happen.
I know, I don’t like horror much at all either. Last three i tried watching had me laughing my ass off at inappropriate times (m3gan singing and freddy krueger blood fountain). Ruined the mood for other people i was watching with
i'm shidding and farding in fear
you invent a time machine and go to the past but the people have left it
This makes me laugh because if you search videos about it, people will be act like it's the deepest fricking thing and will proceed to read a shitpost about nocliping irl
That anon made a moron magnet and it worked
I can get the same experience with the windows 98 3D maze screensaver
>Friday Night Funkin' mods
it's just mildly interesting to be honest
I've never even wrote a post about backrooms until this very moment, just because it's not worth even talking about it
I once had this idea for an FPS/point and click adventure combo
I dont mind some of the variants but all the "lore" for it is just plain autism.
for example "its impossible to get to B layer without staying arbitrary days in A layer and falling through the floor will put you in C layer, no one has ever come back from this layer. on the next layer..."
it gets progressively more bullshit as you go like no one is ever really going to get passed the 5th layer tops as any kind of human being simulated in a video game or even pen and paper
to say nothing of the "mostly abandoned layers" (every single one) having swarms of "creatures" that also get worse as you go, yet basically dont exist due to their rarity.
the le jumpscare vibe to it all got boring real fast, and complete unsolvability makes for shitty games.
ikea sueing that guy is the icing on the cake, so dumb how do you copywrite a chair.
Is that an empty office space?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SAVE ME Black personMAN I'M GOING INSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE
>"I am a shitpost"
It's a pretty good concept. I imagine it messes claustrophobes up just thinking about it. The monsters don't need to be a thing, though. It's trying too hard to be scary that really undermines the unsettling atmosphere, at least to an observer.
The backrooms is just Infinite Ikea but boring
Backrooms are fascinating because they give off the "I shouldn't be here" vibes. They're called the backrooms because regular people aren't supposed to be there, and you stumbled into something alien and unpresentable.
The closest game I can think of that pulls of the feeling of being stranded indoors is Ib, although Ib has hazards and is much easier to navigate. Also it has artwork so you're not force to see monocolor.
Now which ones are good?
none
Oh
The Complex: Found Footage
>No jumpscare shit (A little at the end but not exactly a "le monster popped out xD"
>No lame "expanded universe" bullshit, it just slightly touches upon the subject but mostly left to your interpretation
>No monsters or shit like that, maybe just some shadows you can barely make out (I didn't evne notice them the first time around)
>Only you, run and crouch actions, that's it.
Yes, it's a walking sim, but it's what you'd expect from exploring such a place.
>Every single one has le spoopy munster!!!
I fricking hate zoomers so much it's unreal.
I don't know whats worse, the unoriginality of it of it being another yellow office complex or the 2spooky monsters or it being minecraft. Why would you outright say you got a monster trying to kill you in the first place.
minecraft already has liminal-type spaces, they're called abandoned mineshafts, nether fortresses, and strongholds. imagine a map that's an endless series of stronghold corridors.
why the frick would minecraft's backrooms be an office complex with yellow wallpaper, there's no wallpaper in minecraft
Ah yes,Football Manager 2023 kept me up at night too.
having to work 9 hours in an office is arguably worse than being stuck there without anyone until you die
the homosexual redditors who had to write their shitty fanfic about monsters and spooky scaries in the backrooms made it entirely gay and cringe
I'm glad people here realize that have 50+ crappy monsters chasing you around ruins what backrooms is supposed to be. You can easily utilize the environment itself to be a threat. If you still really want spooky monsters don't catalogue them and don't make so many of them.
Monsters can exist, but they should be ambiguous about their existence. Their existence should be implied, like furniture topple over behind the viewer's back, or passageways suddenly disappearing. Make it where the protagonist is more likely to get killed by falling into the void by mistake than whatever might be stalking him.
Lights shutting off and having darkness approach is a great threat because the darkness itself won't kill you but you DO NOT want to be in it just in case something that can is in there.
Having messages from other explorers in various colors, sometimes overwriting one-another, also gives players something to solve to find out who is reliable and who is not. Disinformation is a great way to doom a player or make them untrusting of the victory conditions.
Anyone else a fan of empty gas stations at night?
Where's the actual station? I've never seen standalone pumps with not even a small kiosk.
South Bend, Indiana
based on the fact that the road is off to the right i'd say it's probably off camera on the left.
Took this a few years ago.
Too bad you ruined it with your shadow
Quintessential zoomercore horror
scared my wiener stiff
Spooky
Why'd he do it?
He wanted the masterworks for himself.
why are you scared of hallways and lights
I guess a lot of kids haven't had to go into a building that isn't a house or a grocery store yet.
I'M
GOING
INSAAAAAAAAAAAAAANEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
You guys probably dont even know about this but like 7-11 yeras ago there was even more moronic fad - midday horror. It's about being spooked by a sunny midday when the sun burns the most and it's usually pretty quiet because even animals are hiding from the sun or just sleeping.
That was so funny to me since I grew up in a village at the south of my country. City slickers are so used to crowds and constant noise that silence and emptiness are terrifying to them.
Midday horror can work but its the main issue that new backroom's also has, zoomies are too autistic to understand that this shit isn't scary to people who don't know about it and in a vacuum. For either to be scary you have to know the "lore" behind why it's scary, which is just being trapped in an empty building out of reality being chased by Freddy Fazbear next bot.
Funny that you mention this, but I have some sort of "late cloudy afternoons" (Not quite twilight yet) feel of uneasyness, or more exactly a HEAVY feel of nostalgia to the point that it becomes depressing.
Examples of this kind of thing for me are the movie "Melancholia" and the "Imitation of life" music video, can't quite explain it since there's barely any other examples I can think of.
Condemned/decaying places >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Liminal spaces"
The two aren't mutually exclusive.
The only thing even remotely scary about a dilapidated building is having it collapse randomly ontop of you.
Or maybe, I dunno, there could be a fricking homeless lunatic in it. Plus it's a health hazard and it also feels genuinely depressing
Hobos are disgusting and annoying, but not scary. Maybe I'm just inured to them because I worked downtown for years and had to step over bums on my way to work. Closest you could get is they can startle you if they start screaming for no reason or start screaming at you in particular, but I've never been afraid for my life around a hobo. Afraid for the state of my clothes, maybe.
Someone hasn't played Condemned
Third game when, lads?
hopefully 2025
What's the Next Thing and how can I capitalize on it before youtubers do?
I think "backrooms" are the first real cultural gulf between me and the younger generation. I've read up on it, I've watched videos, I've listened to people explain it, and it still makes absolutely no sense to me. It is not scary in the least. It doesn't even approach scary. It's barely on this side of "weird". It's not even interesting because the entire setting is deliberately vacuous.
It's like somebody tried to think up the blandest surreal horror setting possible, then proceeded to water it down even more with janky CGI monsters. Basically Gen Z's ultimate horror is a horror game from 2004 while it was still in alpha, without any textures in any of the rooms, or proper lighting, and none of the models have any animations yet, and you can't properly leave to any other location because none of the exits work yet.
It's so baffling to me.
Backrooms are boring. Basically they're terrified of being trapped in a boring place. Because they've spent theri whole lives being inundated with information on full blast, the idea of having absolutely nothing to do, in a space without any stimulation, is petrifying to them.
Not a zoomer, but for me, it's not about the "horror" and it was NEVER supposed to be about it, it's a different kind of feeling, a mix of nostalgia, loneliness and a little bit of esoterism (Not a fan of the monsters and shit that they added). This could very well be because Zoomers are now in their early 20's and as you grow the nostalgia and passing of time goes harder and faster, meaning they're probably coming to terms with that fact and the "monsters" they add is just a mask to cover their true fear of growing up.
See this makes more sense to me. I get kind of a weird empty feeling looking at empty office spaces. I saw it a lot during Covid. I was one of the few people that still had to go into the office, and there were entire floors they didn't even bother to turn the lights on, just a sea of empty cubicles and the occasional single halo of light next to a service entrance. I actually found it rather peaceful, actually.
I guess zoomers would theatrically fall to the ground shrieking in horror if they had to do the same?
ZOOMIE ZOOM ZOOM ZOOMER
half of those are just this post
>finding the first item of a game-long collecting quest
I like BLAME!
'moung in the 'rooms
Backroom is basically a horror greentext. When they started trying to pass the idea on to other media things got pretty ridiculous, there are even people openly making fun of the idea with footage where explorers are throwing themselves into mysterious tubes without worrying about possible death on the other side.
That floor looks like shit
The fear of "liminal spaces" is people's sincere reaction to modern architecture. It is so sterile, so contrary to anything that makes one feel comfortable, that when people are alone in it they feel terrified. Imagine architecture being so dreadful that it makes the younger generation shit in their pants with fear.
There's also the fact that guys sometimes don't really understand the feeling of loneliness. Many of the images that the guys say cause a strange feeling in them is good old loneliness, and the fact that there are people who can't understand this feeling says a lot about modern society.
Also note that the "liminal spaces" are the typical places that you imagine "there will be no wi fi here", and this is enough for teenagers to panic.
On the topic of large, uncomfortable spaces, I recomment BABBDI. It's free on Steam.
For me i realized im too used to confined spaces because the idea of walking alone in barren place at pitch black scares me.
Not having anything as an anchor or a landmark, just drifting uncertainty while I cant make out what that sound in the dark was.
That's not you being "too used to confined spaces", this is a normal human reaction.
I like liminal art/photos, but I'm not really sure why. I don't get the obsession with making them horror-themed. I just think they're nice to look at.
I find them more dream-like than anything. In a sense i can see the horror in them in that some dreams feel "off" and signal impending danger to me
I dunno how anyone who's been on the internet for even a little while can see this image as anything but hilarious.
This. I use them to help meditate and distract my mind; to escape for a while.
No it's not, it's a forced zoomer creepypasta. Almost as bad as "le negative aura from N64 backgrounds"
>the entire thread complaining about muh added monster
The original copypasta implies there is some kind of malevolent entity inside.
HEROBRINE?????????????????
Here is the original text in its entirety:
>"If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in
>God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you
That's the whole thing.
Who is paying the electric bill for 600 million square miles of fluorescent lights?
Anyone else used to explore empty multiplayer maps? Always gave me a weird vibe.
Nothing like booting up Halo PC and IP connecting to some of the MD servers to see if it's kickin' or not.
this image is very sexually charged and i can't put my finger on why
It's a semen farm, basically, young men stand there and those tubes suck them off, all semen goes to the government.
THE GLOWIES ARE STEALING MY CUM NOW?
WHAT THE FRICK HAS THE WORLD COME TO?
>Now
Bro, where do you think all that cum you throw in your sink goes to?
I FLUSH MY CUM DOWN THE TOILET LIKE A NORMAL PERSON
>he's letting the toilet witches get his cum
oh no no nonononono
BETTER THEM THAN THE GLOWIES
I've been on projects like that in the course of my job pulling cat6 wire, sometimes we'd go in late at night and when you're not working in the same area as your coworkers you can scarcely hear anything aside from the HVAC system, the buzzing of lights, and yourself. it's a weird, kinda comfy, kinda unsettling feeling.
Those aren’t people. The thought occurs to you like a breaker flipping, the idea stiffens you, you instantly stop in place, not even wanting to breathe, You’re glad you haven’t yet called out to them, you were about to make yourself known.
They haven’t turned around to see you yet, but where can you hide in the middle of the road? They’re positioned in such a baiting way, dated like the rest of your surreal surroundings. do they already know you’re here? You need to get across this bridge, the “city” is your only real hope, you saw them from far down the street and a wave of relief swept over you, you weren’t actually alone in this..place. But no, the two figures had stared silently at the buildings before them, still the entire time, turned away as if asking you to go tap them on the shoulder. whatever they are they definitely are NOT people.
But now they’re just paces away, and you’re outnumbered.
Pretty good, anon
AAAAAAAA HELP ME LUIGIMAN I'M-A GOING INSAAAAAAAANE
Anyone here seen the movie Cube? That's what I like to imagine the Backrooms are like.