>backrooms, but its a huge mall sized swimming pool to explore with pleasant lighting, and easy going music playingJesus christ how horrifying.
might kick my legs up on a floatie and take a nap
>>724125861It's chill until that giant snake bitch shows up
>>724125861jeffery epstein house
i like to imagine thats were all the gamer girl pee goes.
for me it's the slideroomshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrGsUZusM-U
Help me im going insane!
>>724125861Just like sexuality, comfort also goes hand in hand with horror.
>>724125861Omega comfy.
>>724125861just make sure there are 12ft~(+?) deep spots in places that lead into tunnels with uncertain pathwaysand don't forget to vary the lighting, but to always have at least some.
Why are they so oddly terrifying?
Dave is so fucking shit. Let Cory play at this point, fuck it.
>>724125861>suddenly hear a faint splash in the other room
>>724126413>find a log you didn't drop
We're watching his movie right?
>>724126413I thought it read a faint of spanish.
>>724126639if its an art peice and not a summer jumpscare cash in
Are you scared yet?
>>724125861>TFW someone made a pools game and the most horrifying thing is the protagonist doesn't remove their socks or shoes before going wading leading to a horrifying sloshing noise every time you leave the pool.
Is Dreamcore still the best poolrooms game?
>>724126681>suddenly hear a faint jajaja in the other room
I've had recurring dreams about walking through indoor waterparks for the longest time.I don't know what it is but it's a weird surreal combination of stimuli like that feeling when you've just got out of the pool and you can feel the water evaporating off your bare skin all over your body, but you're not exactly cold because the air is warm and humid, and the feeling of hard, cool tiles beneath your bare feet, the wet slapping sound of your footsteps, having to adjust your gait slightly so you don't slip, the extreme reverberation of sound and splashing within a wide open space surrounded by flat surfaces, the smell of chlorine etc.
>>724126335I'm going to be honest. I'm hating the "open the door" bit every fucking time
>>724125861Imagine what a pain it would be to keep that water clean.
>>724126902>ICE breaks through the wall a deports youdios mio
>>724126939open na noor is funny if you've seen bb. fuck "flynn".
>>724126902>distant but audible Arriba
>>724125861>Backrooms games where you just explore and enjoy the distant background sounds are comfy as fuck>current Backrooms lore is a fucking disaster where apparently you now need use a hazmat suit because the air is poisonous and there are thousands of different levels and they all have entities and you need to drink almond water to remain sane and this and that andFucking normalfags, we need more games like Pools that are just comfy sensory experience walking simulators.
>>724127161Quake had a Liminal Spaces Jam and theres some quality maps there that capture the spirit of something eerie but comfy with no monsters or jumpscares
>>724126938>I've had recurring dreams about walking through indoor waterparks for the longest time.Me too, and this is even waaaay back before all this liminal space shit. Ive had multiple dreams revisiting a place thats like a shopping mall, but all the main pathways where people would normally walk are waterways you can swim down with sidewalks on the sides to walk if you feel like it. Its not crowded at all with a few people here and there, and theres stores and everything. Multiple floors, all with water on them. All the water flowing, so you could ride a tube around the whole place.Very comfy.It gave me the same feeling I get when I see those super comfy places japanese artists draw. Where its like a cramped room, but its so cozy looking with bunkbeds and a nice computer desk and giant bookshelf and stuff. I wish I could go back there.
>>724126161That was the best one Ive seen from this entire meme genre
>>724126161I'm a boomer. Are these computer-generated or AI generated? Surely they are computer generated.
>>724126210>goat tower inside a backroom poolroomI'M GOINGINSAAAAANE
>>724126413
>>724127420aka a spiral staircase
is that an ai generated hallway?!?i'm going fucking insane!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHH
>>724126724I guess if I were lost in there I'd be pretty concerned about the potability of the water and where I'd find food. Might start getting scared pretty quick, especially if I start hearing noises.
>>724126724honestly if i woke up i'd assume i was in some water treatment or cooling basin for something and it would be best to bug out
>>724127369I think it's blender
>>724126210>water>stairs>no railingSlipping, the true horror.
How about for a cool limemenal space would be popular towns in videogames but no NPCs.
>>724127161I don't understand why this type of phenomenon is so popular with the current age. There's a weird fixation on there being hyper specific rules to controlling the behavior of weird deadly entities. From SCP to the Slenderman stuff to the Five Nights at Freddy's to the Backrooms to the Lethal Company type games and so on. What is it about this type of occult management that engages zoomers so much?
>>724127634i veiw like if a diety or god were to try to rebuild the world based on the memories of a few people
>>724127369it's real
>>724127876no whey
>>724127946I grew up there
>>724125861Man these water ones always looked really comfy to meWhen I look at them I get this weird longing, like I was always supposed to exist there instead, and that where I am and have been for my entire life is just one terrible cosmic mistake.
>>724125861It's d-d-d-DARK beyond the entrance.
but how do we make the backrooms sexy >hardmodeno characters
Dreamcore was really good.I haven't seen any other game attempt at it that looks even remotely competent.
>>724128461add in a giftshop type area that has non-character mannequins showing swimsuits. they just stand there, they don't move even if you stop looking at them.
>that video that one zoomer posted recently of him exploring the Cincinnati Mills mallI honestly love shit like this. Huge malls in the few years leading up to the retail apocalypse were peak pre-smartphone society. They are like the grand ruins of a prototype civilization. Having grown up in the 90s/2000s, it feels like going home from this gay alien society
>>724128650i was thinking an empty posterless smut shop but you could tell but the layout and the black walls, bead curtains, glass shelfs and clothes racks
>>724127634>slip>destroy your C1, C2, C3, C4>inch by inch you slowly slide into the water>inevitably drown because you're now paralyzed>they never find the body because you're in le backrooms and every couple of years, people wonder what happened to you
>>724126335I was watching that shit when I was outside on my porch and that death at like 14:50something made me jump.
>>724128990i always assumed the backrooms was a bit like purgatory, you don't get to leave or die until its done with you
>>724126161>>724127326I've not watched too many of these since most of them are pretty bad but a friend showed me Rolling Giant and I have to admit I was impressed.especially when you watch the making of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWNMsZ44ooc
>>724128882I feel like they are one of the most blaring testaments that our (((society))) is an abject failure and wont be here in 100 years
>>724128882>a so called capitalist society cant maintain the meccas of capitalismlmao how do normalfags delude themselves that the future isnt going to be a disgustingly anti-human hell on Earth?
>>724126161>giant slides that go into a bottomless pit>sure I'll just go down the tube nearby surely it won't be the sameI guess that's the real horror of the back rooms, the truly random nature of it can easily kill you with one wrong step. So why would anyone explore it.
>>724125861>>724126210>>724126724the only "horror" i can possibly understand from poolrooms-related content is from its "essence". where are you? where is "this"? who made it, and why? why is everything so clean? and is something here with me? your imagination has to fill in the blanks somehow.but it doesn't scare me, i love indoor swimming pools, the poolrooms would be my paradise
>>724125861>>724126210>>724126724Die, boomer
>>724126698>>724128018I've been to very similar places on ketamine and it's exactly this feeling.
>we have it so bad irl that being surrounded by a non-hostile and non-oppressive environment is considered horrific
>>724125861i really don't understand why backrooms and liminal spaces became a horror theme, they look extremely comfy
Why do zoomers piss and shit themselves over this?
>>724132274It's probably more about the artificial, unnatural context, and being on edge at all times
>>724125861imagine the eye irritation
>>724132564zoomer horror isn't about overt scariness/fear, it's more about vibe-based unease
>>724132564Why are you asking this?, have you ever visited empty pool recreations?
>>724127818I think it stems from the "lore" aspect of so much popular shit now. No one wants to just have a story or be told about something cool they want the 800 page FNAF backstory. Might also be that it can be seen as lazy that something simply is or something bad happened not for any particular reason besides that it just occurred even if I disagree.
>>724125861>>724126210Now imagine you can't find the exit and have no food and can only drink your piss pool water.
I find all these backroom places to be very appealing. Especially when they're half filled with water. Something about them just makes them seem really comfy.
tbf, I literally just have malls and leisure centers from the 80's still up and running where I am, because I live in a post industrial town, and not a lot really changes or happens. My local church is some weird ass liminal looking 1950's building as well.What I'm saying is most of this stuff kind of just looks like where I live.
>>724132274I thought the whole point of this shit is that there IS something lurking in the spaces?
>>724125861Is it supposed to be scary? I really like pools it's relaxing especially with headphones.
>>724132949AFAIK they're supposed to empty, but naturally humans tend to invent monsters where there aren't any so you'll feel like something is lurking when there isn't. I don't think a lot of these liminal space bathhouses have actual monsters in them.
>>724125861it's scary because you can't escape
>>724125861>pleasant lighting, and easy going music playingthe thing is, zoomers have had their brains so rotted with "what if cute thing was... le scary???" from mascot "horror" that they immediately assume any innocent-looking thing must be a front for something scarier
>>724126413a fren!
>>724125861>>backrooms, but its a huge mall sized swimming pool to explore with pleasant lighting, and easy going music playing>Jesus christ how horrifying.OP, it's because zoomer/millenial shits haven't gone a second of their existence without being bombarded with relentless stimulation from the internet, so when you deprive them of that their minds implode from a lack of it, creating fear within their subconscious in regards to being in empty spaces!!!FACT!!!
>>724125861>>724126210>>724126724>>724131583I don't know how people find these pool rooms "scary." That looks fucking awesome, I want to swim there. I wanna explore
>>724133521no, it's just neat.No one is actually scared.
I tried a few of those and they're slow as hell.I want a Naissancee type of game with all these pools and stairs as locations.
>>724133560the danger of the backrooms is the fact that someone could accidentally slip past realities and find themself in a place where you would slowly die of dehydration and hunger. that is, if you don't find yourself in some regions of the backrooms where there's monsters and traps and other stuff that will toy with you before killing you.
>>724128018Your underwater ancestors from bumfuck long ago speak to you
>>724133769it's also scary because if you consider the fact that somebody specifically created these places, their intention is most likely to trap you and kill you>hey this place looks neat>let's go explore>*3 hours pass*>oh shit i'm stuck here with monsters lol whoops>guess i'll dieit plays on the feeling of vulnerability little kids had when they would walk through changing rooms by themselves, being lost and confused and scared of potential predatorsit's a very abstract horror
>Backrooms just gives me that dusty office smell>Pool rooms make me wanna go swimming in it as it looks fun>Zoomers find this scaryWhy?
Indoor pools are kino, still would suck dong to get trapped in an endless maze of slightly different rooms and hallways and probably starve to death trying to find an exit that doesn't exist. Problem is, that isn't an issue in a video game, so it's not scary. I've had dreams where I've been lost and trapped in endless playground crawl spaces that all look the same, that's a bad time. Would probably be a scarier game, too.
>>724125861>original point of the backrooms was to be a complete empty endless maze or boring plain corridors with fucking nothing in them>turns into a mall full of monsters and entire societies of backrooms dwellers who love almond milkwhere did it go so wrong
>>724126007this, that bitch is scary
>>724131583>where are you? where is "this"? who made it, and why? why is everything so clean? and is something here with me? your imagination has to fill in the blanks somehow.you just described the entire point of liminal space horror
>>724125861These are the sort of places I see in my dreams and while they can be a little eerie because nobody is around, they're actually more peaceful than anything else.
>>724126007>>724134161
People talk about zoomzooms being scared or at least uncomfortable about these but I'll be honest, I felt similarly about games like realMyst 2 fucking decades ago, despite knowing it wasn't horror
>>724134338>Billie Jean starts playing
>>724128461boobs everywhere
>>724134338ayuwoki
>>724133939They can't handle being alone in their own thoughts.
>>724134579you are choosing to ignore the practical side of it where a character is TRAPPED there and at risk of dying from thirst/hunger and/or being hunted by some otherworldly demon. it's le r/comfycozy because you're imagining it as a mcdonald's playplace where you can visit and leave at will
>>724134059Reddit.
SKIBIDI BACKROOMS
>>724134730>agenderhuman.jpeg in your path
>>724126413I'M GOING INSANE
>>724134912>i am too autistic to wrap my mind around a straightforward concept so you are a trannystupid little nigger
>>724131583>your imagination has to fill in the blanks somehowThe only effective horror is the type that just abuses this over and over again. If you scare the audience with the scariest thing they can think of, you get a spook rate of 100%.
>>724134338
>>724126007I masturbated to that snake bitch. I imagined her gripping me like a snake grabs a rabbit while she milks my cock with her mouth. hot.
>>724134730>a character is TRAPPED there and at risk of dying from thirst/hungerI never really got the impression that this was a threat. You fell into another world and maybe it might take a little while, but you could eventually find your way out. Maybe there could be a story or something about this actually happening and that would be more scary than just being chased by a monster.
>>724135046I'm not implying you're a tranny you double nigger. I'm referring to an image of an "agender human" explaining how they start to cry when they're not in a populated area. Nothing to do with thirst/hunger or getting chased by a monster.
>>724125861The water level looked neat imo. The people I was playing with knew exactly where to go somehow so I just tagged along for a stroll in the waterpark.
>>724126724No slides? wtf?!
>>724135348in each of these games i've played, the implication is exactly that and at some point you find a dead person who was stuck there before you. but i have only played 3 games of this genre and not the chink streamerbait ones.>Day 7>The Complexboth of these being story driven and the main character never escapes
I just think swimming pools are comfy as fuck.
>>724135348The only way people tend to escape the backrooms, is falling out of them thousands of feet to their death, though usually, it's only their camera that escapes
>>724129054Correct. The original image implied some kind of monster was also in there with you but the primary fact was that you've been banished to the fucking shadow realm to die of dehydration in some corner forgotten by the universe or to wander its endless halls forever searching for an exit that doesn't exist
>>724136668They would be if other people didn't exist.
>>724136981Ta-dah!
>>724126413that's just me taking a dump
>>724125861Zoomer horror is confusing.
>>724125861serious question, I haven't played these types of games. is there a win condition or you just walk until you die?
I liked the one in abiotic factor, didn't overstay it's welcome and wasn't some ooga booga jumpscare. Could even miss it because it's just random side content
Being trapped in a place that would be impossible to build is slightly spooky. Zoomer fags really ran this backrooms shit into the ground, but as a concept it's solid.
>>724135113>>724134338What's xir's problem?
>>724138609>what the hell! that partition wall doesn't reach the ceiling...NOOOOOOOOOOOO I'M GOING INSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE
>>724138368Usually the objective is to find the exist while navigating a maze like structure (in this case, a massive underground pool). There is rarely if ever an actual threat. Just sounds and music making it feel like there is. In short, its a walking simulator.
>>724127818It started from SCP. SCP used to be cool you know? Before it got swarmed by redditors.
>>724138773>SOMEONE INSTALLED CROWN MOLDING WHERE THE BASE SHOULD BE>NAAAAAAANI?!!?!
>>724138609the very original post should have been the only interpretation of the Backrooms. just you, literal millions of miles of this wallpaper, this carpet, these florescent lights, and the implication that *something* is here with you. that should have been it.and it was, until people started expanding on it, adding more levels and monsters and making fanmade interpretations "official". and then it died.when you give someone an empty dark room, what their mind thinks could be inside is a thousand times scarier than some retarded-looking noodle monster ever could be.
NIGGERMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
>>724125861The Backrooms is meant to be more eerie than horrifying. There is still the fear factor of you being caught in an endless roach motel with nothing to eat or drink but pool water.
>>724138773Yes. Most of these backrooms shits are made by people in blender who know nothing about architecture. Everything looks off and no one would make something like this. Both due to the size of the area and a lack of any kind of sense.
>>724125861I want a backrooms game thats just chill and fun, no spooks and no attempt to scare you. Gen Zers would still probably lose their minds, but thats not the point.
>>724139023nah bro having 200 different "spooky" entities is actually way scarier and definitely not just comedic or vidya baiting
>>724139023The only thing I like about the 'extended' setting is the idea of increasingly more fucked up architecture and layouts, and differing 'biomes' of similarly uncanny spaces. Some will argue that visual variation is bad, because the repetition is part of the horror, but honestly the idea that you can start seeing different stuff, get excited that maybe you've found your way out, only to realize it's more of the same incomprehensibly vast space, just different looking, is worse than just monotonous yellow fluorescent humbuzz forever.
ooooooooh scary monsters
>>724139023The other thing that pissed me off is all the renditions of it often messed with the lighting. If it's just dark and "creepy", it's not liminal
>>724125861>go to mall/shopping centre during covid, it's nearly empty with quiet backing music>absolutely love it>friends universally hate itWhat gives?
>>724138737Too much HEE HEE
>>724139601Some people can't stand lack of external stimuli, whether that's sound or just the presence of others
for me it's;
>>724126639i just don't see how you turn it into a feature length film.
>the generation that grew up hooked to the internet and social media 24/7 all their lives are are terrified of being aloneMakes sense. Gid help us when the brainrot babies grow up and take over society
I wonder who keeps making these threads. Actual bots or just autists?
>>724125861That's the point. Not every level of the Backrooms is supposed to be horrifying or deadly. Some levels are meant to be relatively tame and just weird.Or at least that was the intention until SCPfags flooded the community. Now every level that is added or rewritten is basically retards trying to compete who can write most retarded and deadly shit.
>>724134338Shamone!
>>724139601i'm fine with quiet but i see shapes and expect crackheads/niggers
>>724139019>HE USED STANDARD GROUT ON THE TILED STAIRS LEADING INTO THE POOL>THAT WON'T LAST! HE NEEDED AN EPOXY!!!!!>AIYEEEEEEEEEEH
>>724136668Too many fat brown people populate those.
>pov camera follows the guy turning around at the monster over and over
>>724136668Public pools are just big tubs filled with chlorine and piss.
BILLIONAIRES could afford cool-ass pool dungeons but literally all they can come up with is boring rectangles.
>>724140140>>724140213Is this just how americans live? Everything that seems normal to me as an european seems like it's ruined in the US>Oh, we can just take quick, cheap and easy public transp...>THERE ARE CRACKHEADS IN THE METRO>Oh, what a lovely day to swim in a public po...>THERE ARE NIGGERS IN THE POOLS!>Oh, I feel sick, I should call the hospi...>THE JEWS WILL SUCK OFF YOUR MONEY WITH MEDICAL BILLSThe fuck, you muts can't enjoy anything civilized
man I miss the days in 2019 when this shit meme and concept didn't exist
>>724138609>>724138773>>724139019>>724140083I'd love to see a backrooms story where a tradesman gets stuck there and constantly nitpicks construction/building code faux pas as he's traversing them
>>724131860>i-is that a... fy_pool_day??!>AAAAAAAAAAAA NIGGERMAN SAVE ME!11111111 I'M GOING INSAAAAAANEEEE
>>724140213swim in the kiddie pool
>>724125861The Wonkarooms would be a scarier movie>>724140461>Async hires an architect to analyze The Complex>he spergs over the innane architectural "choices">once they reach previously unexplored terrority, the architect starts going insane upon seeing the worst mcmansion design ever>Async leaves him behind while he angrily screams and throws the furniture around like a madman>a loud "coo" sound is heard as a lifeform wakes up and starts chasing him down a hallway>he dies after running into a part of the complex that'd begun generating itself>Async later finds him and the lifeform, having fused with a impossibly stretched out couch that extends through a wall
>>724132564Zoomers have imagination, unlike boomers who need Jason type of serial killer horror.
>>724140845>see a swimming pool>piss yourself>"u-imm t-that was actually a power of imagination, okay!"
>>724134338>>724135113Is this really all it is?
>>724132564This stuff makes me cum and vomit though
The Backrooms is scary because it's the dimensional equivalent of the Paris Catacombs that really does go on functionally forever and unlike the catacombs there is no way out and no one coming to look for you
>>724141062>no way out and no one coming to look for youBoth are false you retard.
>>724139946Gen alpha wont really inherit the world. They will be dependent on AI to do literally anything. The people who own the AIs will be our new overlords, aka, big tech bilionaires. Thats how our cyberpunk dystopia will start
>>724126007The normal ass milquetoast horror game gets scary when the scary thing shows up?! Woah, how revolutionary!
>>724141109*no one friendlyAlso the original post makes no mention of an exit
>>724141109says who faggot? if we are going by the rule of following the original 4chan post then yes there is no way out and nobody is coming to save you. only in zoomer headcanon renditions does that change
>shitllenial sees zoomers enjoy anything>shits and pisses xerself in angerWhy are they like this?
>>724140845>millennials gave us SCP, Amnesia, Penumbra, Outlast and similar>zoomers gave us a dozen iterations of empty nothing and they unironically shit and piss themselves to thatI think I know which one I prefer
>>724125861the very thought of an extrovert being alone is enough to make them make brown in their pants, so yes, it absolutely IS horrifying to them.
>>724141414>SCPthe same slop you claim to hate>Outlastoverrated garbage
>>724142086>the zoomer only knows nu-SCPOf course
>>724141174>seething 6 hours laterCalm down pajeet
>>724125861the soul yearns to see the sky at all times it's a liberating feeling to have a constant reminder of the universe high up above these liminal spaces encases you in an endless box that denies you this basic principleif you don't understand the horror of being severed from God you might simply lack a soul
>>724142146old SCP wasn't that great either retard>holy shit it's a stairway that goes on forever... IM GOING INSAAAANE>if you look away from the statue it moves closer... AIIIIIEEEEEEEEE>the heckin giant lizard that regenerates and can never be killeded... NOOOoooOo00o0oooOo00oOo0kys nitpicking niggerllenial
>>724131583The true horror is being in the poolrooms without shoes on so you're slowly but surely eaten alive by fungus.
I watched OneyPlays too
>>724131583it's an indoor pool you human mulligan
I work overnight at a drugstore and it's dead quiet yet there's nothing unsettling about it.Zoomers are fucking cowards, and they ain't fucking pussy.
>>724142817t. man sitting behind bulletproof glass and reinforced steel doors, with a panic button under his desk
>>724142921nigger its a CVS you just walk right in
>>724142519Even worse it, mocks you by showing you the sky, but clearly artificial, either painted on the walls or those faux sky print light diffusers, or just out of reach, and even if you could get there, no matter how convicing it looks, it'll never be a real sky you reach
>>724142817>i work for minimum wage in a store, look how badass and tough i amthe absolute state of (You)
>>724142519I put a layer of cardboard followed by aluminum foil and then blackout curtains over my windows, fuck you and your skybulb
>>724142921Those are there because of roaming niggers, not because empty drugstore is scary by itself.
>>724142971Great now I have Ride On Time stuck in my head thanks anon.
>>724142817>i'm at my familiar place of employment, which is brightly lit, staffed with others, and small enough that i am familiar with its every detail>these people are cowards to fear the concept of being transported to some nebulous, labyrinthine area with no explicit purpose but seemingly designed to hold hundreds, if not thousands of people at once yet is starkly empty and covered in just enough shadow and sight breaks that you can't be sure you're not being watched
>>724143057>20/hr to play snes games on my phone so I can live in peace makes the guy afraid of a building at 12am madkeep seething salarycuck, remember to keep your goybox charged incase the boss needs you to work an extra day
>>724125861>get tired of swimming>zero places to get out of the water
>>724143121have you never gone and explored abandoned buildings? There was a defunct mental ward near my house back when I was in highschool we'd roam around through after sneaking out, the only thing scary was stumbling upon a vagrant but he was actually pretty chill and we'd steal chips from sheets for him.
>>724142201Are those "pajeet" in the room with us now?
>>724126161That was fucking awful, give me my ten minutes back.
>>724143154>i work for minimum wage in a store, also i have no marketable skills and wouldn't even qualify for cleaning toilets, look how chad and based i amthe ABSOLUTE state of (You)
>>724126724this is literally that one mario sunshine level where ride a blooper
>>724138415sit in the fucking chair that I picked up especially for you, friendi totally got this from the furniture store anteverse, trust
>>724143345>seething salarycuck thinks $20/hr is minimum wage>has to work 40-60 hours per week>has to do work at work and attend meetings>thinks this makes him valuablelmao
poolrooms are comfy. it'd suck if you slipped and broke a limb though.
>>724125861what gets me with this picture are the wall lightsIn a regular room those would be windows lookjng outside, but here they are these video game ass faux-window lights because there is no "outside". You could put me in a windowless room with any other kind of lighting and I would be fine, but this shit makes me claustrophobic
>>724143264>the only thing scary was stumbling upon a vagrant but he was actually pretty chillAnd if he was a feral crackhead you could be dead or crippled right now.But no, having large abandoned complexes is not a common thing, the only times i have ever seen abandoned anything were homes which had obviously become crackdens or outlet stores that you could see the entirety of from the exterior.
>>724143505Yeah, it's a weird, comforting setting. I liked it back when people focused on it being surreal and not everybody making a game about a monster in them.
>>724139972>SCPfagsFunny, cus early SCP was supposed to have a lot of tame or just weird anomalies in storage alongside the crazy deadly ones.And yet here we are.
>>724143079>I cook methCongrats?
>>724126161I always wondered, how DO they make these? Obviously these places aren’t real, so how is this footage made? Do they use Unity and some cute little camera trick or something? It just looks way too realistic
>>724144568It's basically the same shit that happened to SCP. It starts with people writing cool stuff that is not necessarily powerful or deadly. But then normies start joining and they always seem to have this fixation where their entity has to be the strongest and deadliest one.
>>724143457>has to do work at work and attend meetingsKek you really believe this? Put the chips in the bag, wagie, my second lunchbreak is running short.
>>724143268Thankfully not because I don't live in a 4th world shithole like you Ranjeesh.
windows with white light pouring in always make a space feel more dreamlike
>>724125861>zoomer retard opens up blender for a first time>shoves his ugly models into ue4/5/6/whatever>retards eat it up/pretend to play itwhy this keeps happening?money laundering?
>>724143264I still remember that anon who went around exploring abandoned buildings and after he posted the photos people pointed out the artifacts on his pics looked like they came from radiation so he went to ER and guess what? he got mild radiation sickness from that building and later found out it was abandoned exactly because of some radiation leakIt happened in US btw
the only thing scary about this is the maintenance required to keep that shit clean.
>>724144864>unityThey used AI you stupid fuck.
>>724145116And this "Ranjeesh", when have you started talking to your imaginary friend?
>>724145847I don't have any imaginary friends Sanjay. Keep coping however though.
Maybe I should revisit that 'liminal spaces....in space' idea.
Silent Hil 3 used the whole backrooms/liminal space concept much better because it has an actual game attached to it instead of making it the whole game.
>>724145789The spaces are anomalous and either don't decay as one expects, either due to their anomalous nature or lack of circumstances that normally lead to decay, or are sustained by unknown processes
>>724143505what's it called? Just liminal space?
>>724140804>The Wonkarooms would be a scarier movie
>>724133939It was built for us and these places were filled with kids of our generations. Zoomers only got to experience them when they were already half-empty or just abandoned to ruin.
>>724127838i like that view
>>724125861>>724126210>>724126724I had a dream that took place in an infinate bath complex years ago before this was a fad. But in my dream I was living an immortal life pleasure anf had sex with any women I could imagine.
>>724134338>>724135113You know I was going to post R34 of this bitch but there genuinely doesn't look like there is any...
>>724146715>"I lied about there being an incinerator, Mr. Salt...">"There is only a deep hole and a hard peppermint stone floor at the bottom...heh.">A loud crunch is heard immediately after Wonka clarifies Veruca's fate to her father.>Much like the other two, they died approaching dead ends.>Augustus smashed under a rushing torrent of chocolate leading to a large room with no other entrance.>Violet, having been rolled down a maze with a fake juicing machine at the end of it, and exploding into a sea of sour blueberry juice that flooded its halls.>Only God knows what'd happen to Mike Teavee.>After all, Wonka's TV is the only one in the world with an infinite amount of channels.>It's not like the poor body would get lost.>....right?
some bitches call it weirdcore or dreamcore or some other made up shit
>>724148396First time I've seen that, bitch.
>>724148534used to be more present when liminal space shit was more popular
>>724126210>>724125861The spooky part is the fact that there is no way that water is being decontaminated, so all sorts of crazy shit like brain-eating amoeba and nematodes are free to grow.
>>724143264>have you never gone and explored abandoned buildingsAbandoned buildings have a structure and interior that makes sense.
>>724139457There is an old SCP that, once every 24 hours, doubles the size of any room/building its inOnce it reaches certain sizes, it starts copying the buildingEventually it starts breaking down, and the copies become wrong, corridors leading into more corridors, rooms leading into rooms, the walls being made of carpet, everything is suddenly glassIt doesn't need a spooky monster to terrify you
>>724148534>he's just discovering firsttimercore for the first time
backrooms is a gone fad.next fad is people dreaming of the toilet dimension
>>724125861Not only is this not scary in any way, I would pay to go here
I miss ReturnToRender's backroom vids
>>724135113skibidi-type face
>>724139023It's like that painting with the dark open door and the dog staring at it. You mind generates a thousand more scary creatures than whatever an artist could have drawn in the doorway.
>>724149113that's the toiletrooms, an indian's worst nightmare
>>724142684Take my gold kind stranger
>>724142817>I work overnight at a drugstore and it's dead quiet yet there's nothing unsettling about it.Nigger you're working at a store where customers constantly come and go plus you've got coworkers with you and a manager who's a phone call away. If you want spooky workplaces I've got quite a few from my days of working security>posted at a hospital we had a contact with>hospital was struggling really fucking hard, only areas that were staffed anymore were the ER, intensive care unit, maternity ward, and a couple parts of the main hospital that were only open during the day>everything from the third floor to the fifth floor was basically dead>shit was also kind of a maze that was easy to get lost in while you were doing patrols>pediatric ward was the worst to patrol because the lights were out up there so you needed a flashlight to find your way aroundThen there was an empty apartment complex that was under construction I was posted at as well. Did some Indiana Jones type shit there once>chilling outside having a smoke>hear the gate to the parking garage open>it's fucking 2 AM and there's no residents yet. Nobody has any business being there>take a look through the entrance, shining my flashlight around don't see anyone>decide to go in and check it out because there'd already been an incident of tweakers sneaking in and stealing tools and the company was on the verge of terminating our contract in>like 16 feet in I hear the gate closing>we don't have any means of opening the gate ourselves and the company that contracted us didn't give us keys so if that shit closes I'm stuck>turn around and sprint for the gate, probably unnecessary but I rolled under that shit as it was closing
Zoomer "liminal spaces" miss the point and are not scary at all. The hint is in the word itself. It needs to be a space that isn't the way it normally is. An abstract collection of almost-architecture is just shapes. There is nothing for your mind to use there. The animal survival instincts do not kick in because there is no strangeness to subconsciously recognize. An empty supermarket does have that. You have become used to always seeing it with customers shopping there. It's not supposed to just be empty. That's why it's scary. Your body releases adrenaline when your caveman ass steps into a part of the forest where suddenly none of the birds are singing. That's not how it's supposed to be, and evolving an ability to automatically be scared when something is near-inperceptibly off is what has allowed animals to survive. You can't induce that effect of spatial uncanny valley when the space is completely alien, like nonsensical architecture that can't possibly serve any purpose.
>>724151959What am I supposed to see here? That looks comfy if anything
I feel like people misunderstand the entire point of this shit. It's not that "empty room = scary" it's that the idea of waking up in an unfamiliar strangely dream-like environment with no visible means of escape. Nothing makes sense, you wander from one room to the next and get lost in a seemingly endless labyrinth of rooms that seem familiar yet wrong. Nothing is around to orient you, every door leads to some new room that looks similar to the rooms you just came from. It's like when you were a kid and would get lost in the grocery store, running from one aisle to the next looking for the security of your parents. Without anyone around, the rooms are dead quiet, and every new noise causes you to stop and listen intently. Is that a door closing or did you imagine it? Was that footsteps? Something else? It's like being alone in an unfamiliar home late at night, everything you hear that you can't explain causes you to stop and listen as you grow increasingly unsettled by the unexplainable. It's not in your face horror, it's a slow subtle dread that builds as you struggle and fail to orient yourself or feel secure in this unfamiliar and distorted space.
>>724126698It'll be a bunch of attractive college kids slip into the backrooms and slowly get killed by some random monster or it'll be a single dude gets caught up in there and meets a gorgeous woman who has been stuck there for a while who he is willing to sacrifice himself for so she can escape.
>>724152083Pigface
>>724125861The true horror is the friend we made along the way
>>724126724>Alligator feeding room
>>724125861The only thing I think when I see this is 'damn I would hate to do the tile for this place' and 'I wonder how much chlorine they needed'I have a fucking prole brain
zoomer horror is when phone goes low charge
>>724154020There's probably gonna be some intrigue involving Async as well, and its CEO who is intrisically tied to the Complex in some way that hasn't been revealed yet
>>724139795hehe
>>724149932I remember seeing a similar painting to this one which features a little girl drawing with some crayons on a large piece of paper while sitting at a desk. She's looking over her shoulder behind her into a similar, pitch-black void.
>>724127369blender
>>724136668>try to find pic using google>first result is some redbubble miniature/preview shit with watermarks>close but still not the proper image down the listI hate the modern internet so fucking much, just reset the whole thing already.
all these liminal space shit look very comfy, especially the poolsI used to like hiding in those hidden spaces on those giant climbing things when I was kid though
>>724126335Chris is such a bastard.>"Ah! AHHH! Please take the controller it's too scary, I can't!">One of them graciously takes the controls.>Immediately starts doing jumpscare noises to try and freak the other guys out.
>>724126938Ive had similar dreams too since I was a kid thou more often their less lioe pools and more lioe gigantic showers that take up an entire room. Their usually kind of comfy desu thou sometimes they get weird. I had one were I was a businessman and to do business with the japs you had to meet them naked and in the gisnt shower complex. Then after the meeting there was going to be a penis measuring contest in the complex and i was pump because my dick was huge in this dream. (Nothing gay tho)
>>724157049Just make sure to save everything you can because one day it will be buried in endless amounts of slop.
>>724125861OK, but what if bathrooms, but its a huge mall sized public toilet to explore with pleasant lighting, and easy going music playing?
this shit is hella vaporwave, which reminds me... did people forget about vaporwave?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>724127287these types of dreams is where this sort of thing comes from anyway.
>>724157820Had those in my dreamsBut the stalls are like those round restaurant/diner booths but with a door and the piss smell is pervasive, like that's the constant beside the weird stalls, the distinct smell of piss
>>724158765It's weird how universal the poolrooms areEveryone's had a dream about themMakes me feel we really all do share a dreaming world and it's just so vast we never see each other except as vague background npcs
>>724147772I'm finding myself oddly upset at the idea of a Willy Wonka horror spinoff, you know this is the kind of lowest common denominator trash that Hollywood would love to develop.
>>724125861I've dreamt about swimming around in a building like this. It was such a cozy dream.
>>724141128I have hope and know your jewish dystopia will never happen and we'll end up living in Megaman Battle Network and later in Megaman Star Force.
Does MJ really haunt the pool rooms?
>>724159025pools are just exceptional spaces that burn themselves into people's memories.They are utterly unnatural and alien to the human experience.
>>724157049Keep whatever you can now — eventually, it’ll be buried under a mountain of clutter.
Other than Pools, what other games can I get that are just about getting lost exploring in the Backrooms/Poolrooms without OC donut steal entities constantly on my back?
>>724134212If only zoomers and redditors understood that too. But instead they had to fill every blank with some retarded monster.
>>724132949The idea is that there MIGHT be something out there. There COULD be something out there. But you can never know for sure.
>>724140324Most of central europe is also becoming like that because of mass migration. The pools are full of dirty unwashed jeets these days.
>>724125861But what if you were wearing socks in this endless poolscape? You can't take them off.
>>724152083Behind the grey car on the left there appears to be a man wearing some sort of mask staring at the camera
>>724144864it really doesn't look that realistic, look at the reflections
>>724157049It is of utmost importance that you diligently preserve every piece of material, information, or artifact within your reach at this very moment, for the inexorable passage of time will inevitably drown it all beneath an overwhelming, ever-expanding mountain of disorganized excess and digital debris.
I had a dream where I found a secret tunnel to something like this. The passage was uncomfortable and unsettling, but it was worth it.
>>724133560the first time i saw a video of those water filled corridors i thought it was asmr or something and only realized much later that it was supposed to be horror. it just seemed so relaxing and comfy
>>724140324Public pools are ruined in Germany too. Only possible to visit those in sub-50k cities.
>>724160908actually nevermind it's all unrealistic even the physics and camera movement
>>724151959>>724152083I vaguely remember the original post this image came from. Something about a rural dude stepping out for a smoke break, finding the view of his house comfy looking, and snapping the picture only to realize much later the dude in the mask was standing there.Definitely a staged photo because if it were real the guy almost certainly would have been flat out murdered but it makes for a decent spooky story
>>724151959
Ever had a dream about your own house, but it's larger and have all these extra rooms and shit?That's what these "liminal spaces" represent. A nostalgic, dream reality of things that exist in real life and usually something that is of interest and importance to a young child, like pools or play bins at the mall, but the dream versio where they are larger and more complex than the real thing.It's funny how many people get this wrong.
>>724159535My images folder hasn't been sorted once in 20 yearsIt's one folder of nearly 95000 files from 2005-today
the ichthyosaur pool in black mesa scares the shit out of me, there is something about very deep artificial indoor pools that gives me the jeebies
>>724161021I have a dream every once in a while of my old place but there's a door in some room that leads to whole wings of the house that don't exist and I just wander smelling the dust and mildew
>>724149932The highest form of horror is the unknown. Knowing that there is something lurking out there to get you but you have no idea what it is generates fear and tension deed down and that fear can sustain for a very long time. All the good horror books and movies reveal as little as possible for as long as possible, or at least make the horror incomprehensible to the rational mind, because the moment we know what the threat is we can reason about it, which gives hope that we can fight or avoid it.
>>724162291Based internet hoarder anon. I do the same thing, but I make a separate folder for every year. Keeps it somewhat tidy
Giant open spaces with nothing but sea on the horizon with empty point of interests, islands, bases, ports and empty controlled by AI ships are more upsetting than liminal spaces. Stormworks is spooky
>>724125861
>>724134059it's like this meme all over again
>>724161921I have this occasional dream where I am in a familiar place, like my home, and I need to get somewhere urgently like to the airport or to work. But no matter how hard I try I never seem to get closer and end up feeling like I am getting further and further away. I will leave my bedroom but instead of getting to my living room, it's my parent's living room. I try to leave the usual way but now I am back in my own kitchen, but it's double in size. It's the sensation of moving through familiar places that don't fully behave like you expect them to. You think you know where you are, but are still hopelessly lost. The creeping realization that this is not your beautiful house. And that thing over there is not your beautiful wife.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmZ9CJkfJSw
>>724140371I felt the same way about pepes and wojaks when they started popping up
>>724159025It's no real different to the sleep paralysis demon or the hag that for some reason people from all over the world seem to have seen.
>>724125861Picture this: the backrooms but with BEDS!I call it... THE BEDROOMSgive me one million dollars to make this happen
>>724139023The guy just took that from Fringe?
>>724162291Sounds like my 4chan folder. Finding specific reaction images becomes a bitch.
>>724164708Each bed is comfier looking than the last, and even though you are incredibly tired you never feel like sleeping! Truly horrific!
>>724164708Just make it a labyrinth of mattresses, like in that Spongebob episode.
>>724132949The absence of reason is how horror is invented. Who built this? Why? Is someone maintaining it? Is someone else there? Are you alone forever with no escape? People who can't think about these things have primitive monkey brain that only perceives danger as a chase and violence. They can't imagine the future or consequence and feel weirdly confident putting others down for thinking ahead.That is also the kind of person society wishes to cultivate because they are very easy to control.
JUST WANTED EVERYONE TO KNOW HOW NOT SCARED I AM HAHA. IN FACT I'M TOTALLY COMFY AND ALSO NOT SCARED. I DO NOT FEAR THE UKNOWN LITERALLY JUST DONT THINK ABOUT IT HOW HARD IS THAT? EVERYONE SAYS THIS IS SCARY BUT NOT ME I DONT FIND IT SCARY BUT YOU BOOMER ZOOMER GLOOMERS PROBABLY DO.
>>724145070>he's still seethingWelp, I'm off to bed after my vidya session, hope that extra day at the office today was productive lmao
it's not the pool itself that is scary it's the idea that you are stuck in an empty endless surreal place you retard
>>724164708
>>724132656>I think it stems from the "lore" aspect of so much popular shit now. No one wants to just have a story or be told about something cool they want the 800 page FNAF backstory.children yearn for Tolkien yet they cannot read
>>724143758Not likely unless you're a dipshit and don't bring weapons.And most of the time the aggressive ones eventually fuck off back to shivering and mumbling to themselves if you just pretend to be a nutter too and do the same thing. It's like the old rubbing zombie blood on you.
>>724166608Oh, my. How liminal.
>>724166657Tolkien is unbelievably overrated. Just nonstop irrelevant time wasting lore dumps.
>>724163281Megastructure...home
>>724166861Scared yet?
Zommers will never understand the existential dread this image invokes.
infinite airport waiting rooms
>>724166903Games for that feel?
>>724166970I miss this type of cubicle. My office renovated with glass cubicles and it feels like we're monkeys on display.
>>724126413It's such a simple idea and yet none of these slop dealers ever put it in their backrooms shitThey are all just creatively bankrupt grifters
>>724167460ai limit
>>724166970funny, seeing this, I remember this being the place you'd see in all the cartoons to represent a generic job a character works at, to the point 8-9 year old me thought it made up all jobs, and that my parents, teacher, etc. were doing what they did for most of the day just for the heck of it. After all, if they weren't working in front of a computer in a cubicle, what *were* they doing?
>>724125861this is the kind of place i pose my girl in honey select before she gets fucked
>zoomers think this liminal is scary because there's something wrong with themBoomers were afraid of liminal spaces in the shining. Natural environments do not have perfect symmetry. Lived in environments filled with humans do not have perfect symmetry. Liminal spaces are places that are neither natural or for humans. Each one is a forbidden place, a realm of taboo you know you aren't supposed to be in. Executed properly they hone in on the underlying sense of unease every one point perspective shot of The Shining is constructed to have.
>>724167460E.Y.E divine cybermancy
>>724125861Still sad the Lunchrooms never took off.
For me it's Vaporama Visionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATPOjcWTJx8
>>724166970>open cubiclesTruly the worst combination of all.
>>724168442Zoomers already experience worse in these rooms every day, there's nothing they could do to make them scary.
THE CHATROOMS
>>724159025I've had dreams about indoor pools, but never the poolrooms as they've been presented. Usually they're a massive indoor beach on like a spaceship or something.
>>724157478>I had one were I was a businessman and to do business with the japs you had to meet them naked and in the gisnt shower complex. Then after the meeting there was going to be a penis measuring contest in the complex and i was pump because my dick was huge in this dream. (Nothing gay tho)Quite hot actually.
>>724167460NaissanceE, kinda
THE ELEPHANTINTHEROOMS
>>724168712>there's nothing they could do to make them scary.Trying to leave one only to find that the door leads to another.
>>724169189pachyderms are cute, no exceptions
Realistically, what would you even do in this situation? How would you avoid starving to death?
>>724168882>>724169189I'm choking on my laughter.
Ok, I don't think there's any point in arguing with zoomers about the scary or not shit. Seems fruitless. All the backrooms and SCP feels like it's several levels of autism beyond me.But what's the actual game about?Is there an actual goal?Is it just a walking simulator?Does it have any actual merit playing by yourself vs just fucking about with friends?
>>724170179who didn't spend*** 3-5
