Is that a pool room?! AAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Am I the only onne who thinks these rooms look comfy as fuck?
>>724516926>it's scary because... you le CANT EXPLAIN IT!!!What causes this mentality? Liminal these days seems to just mean anything that the viewer is too dumb to explain.
>>724517301nothing good happens in these rooms
>>724517301>Am I the only onne who thinks these rooms look comfy as fuck?A mix of both. as long as you are not realizing you are alone in there, but I don't know what's worse being alone or not being alone.
>>724517698this is why these games never work. nobody can come up with anything more interesting to do with these locations than "what i u think ur alone but actually monster chase u"
>>724516926open na door
What you morose noveau abuelita aberzoombies don't get is that the backrooms are constantly shifting. You could go in for a dip one second and the next you find yourself with the ceiling against the water leaving you with no room to breathe.
>>724516926Liminal space crap appeals to one demographic, junkie dope heads that have absolutely FRIED their neurotransmitters.>bro it look like a space I been to if I left the house cuh>unc bro sit w me while I play this 8gb one room game shi crazy scary fr fr
>>724516926Save me Baywatchman!
These spaces are hotbeds for disease without constant maintenance.
>>724517301I hate them. Not because of the liminal space bullshit but because of the complete lack of anything natural. Pure artificial environment, lighting, even the air would be chlorine smelling. Shit puts me on edge. I guess the scary part is been trapped in an infinite space of that
>>724518330ALL YOU HAD TO DO
I bet it smells really nice in there though.
>>724519687WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN, CJ
>>724517301They look like safety violations and plumbing failures.
>>724517301nah, pool rooms are comfy as fuck even when designed to be surrealtakes me back to being a child in the summer having everyone's birthday parties at the local YMCA. the chlorine in the air, the smell of chicken chips from the canteen, the party pies and mini frankfurts drenched in tomato sauce, alternating between cordial or cheap offbrand orange drink/lemonade depending on who had the cooler parents, the feeling of cold tiles under your feet, going down the slide that was shut for like 3 quarters of the year. I miss it, bros. it's been probably nearly 15 years since I've stepped foot in that place and I can still picture the kid's pool in all its glory
>>724516926They're kind of creepy when you're actually walking around them. I really don't like any of the underwater parts because of my thalassophobia and some of the megastructures down there are freaky. It's not an outright scary thing, it's just eerie.
>>724521040>the chlorine in the airThat was piss. You're nostalgic over piss.
>>724520089this, I'm scared because those stairs are gonna be fucking slippery once you step out of the water onto them
>>724517698How the hell is being alone bad? Unless it's an "U ARE TRAPPED FOREVAAAAR", there's nothing more I'd like than to just get to spend some time completely and utterly alone in some comfy looking place.
>>724521882there's a difference between a chlorine smell and a piss smell
>>724519637https://backrooms.fandom.com/wiki/Hydrolitis_Plague
>>724519676I kinda like the smell of warm, chlorine-filled pools. Very nostalgic.
:)
>>724517451my idea is that people can't deal with loneliness because they are super connected all the time.Note that 99% of these "liminal" things are nothing more than fucking empty places. The inexplicable feeling that young people say they feel when they see these images is the old feeling of loneliness.In the past, you would spend several hours, or depending on the situation, several days, whithout manage to communicate with your acquaintances. Today, you are always a second away from communicating with anyone, because everyone carries devices that are connected 100% of the time and capable of exchanging instant messages.People growing up in the world of the Internet cannot even conceive of the idea of total isolation, and anything that makes them think remotely about it, such as empty backrooms, makes them feel a primal terror.
>>724518595I'll keep it in mind then to never dip my head in the water
>>724522327Well that's dumb. I'm a true and proper zoomzoom raised on screens and I fuckin love Isolation. Nothing more peaceful than total silence with nobody else even close to me.
>>724521882Chlorine and urea are totally different smells
>>724521330>>724516926game?
>>724516926that's just the anor londo swimming pool area
>>724516926>>you are completely alone in here!!!!! except youre not......AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>724522467drool of the killer
>>724522467It's a generic design but my screenshot is from VRChat, literally just called the backrooms made by some furry creator.
>>724522327good theory but I don't really think soI think there's legitimate ground for them being threatening. They're highly public areas with NO peopleit's not about them being lonely, but about areas identified with humanity and civilization being -unjustifiably- devoid of humans
for some reason there is a really big communication gap here. /v/ thinks everyone finds these scary. but no, the main appeal is that they are comfy.
zoomers are scared of the most stupid things
>>724516926Too shallow, also the stairs make no sense. Architecture is too postmodern, hate that kind of shit. And reading through these posts, people find it comforting or frightening, well that’s great, because I feel absolutely nothing, it’s just a pretentious looking structure. 2/10 would not go here for a swim personally but I slightly admire the vision.
>>724517301I literally came into the thread to post this.
>>724517658Perfect
>>724517301rooms with pools in them are very comfythese ones that are just big tiled rooms with water in them are kinda weird, I've never been in a place like that irl. I think it would feel strange, there's no edge to climb out at.>>724522134>>724521882it's chloramines, not piss itself but the chemical compounds chlorine forms when dissolving piss, or a lot of other bodily compounds, saliva, dead skin cells etc. There is basically no free chlorine in the air at pools. Chlorine itself smells noticeably different from the "pool smell" people think of.
>>724522767I actually spend a lot of time in VAM just wandering around maps and goofing around with the physics and lighting I have accidentally given myself some good spookings though
>>724522327Hard disagree. People crave isolation more than any time in history BECAUSE we are so connected with each other. These spaces are eerie and unlike >>724522437 I’m a boomer. The reason they’re eerier is because those environments normally have activity or make sense on a structural level. An empty office building at night is weird because it’s a total shift in its normal state. I worked as a lifeguard at a summer camp back in the day and it was weird during the winter when I’d rake leaves and do handyman work because it was normally filled with screaming kids. OP’s image is pretty but design wise it makes no sense whatsoever and invokes a dreamlike undertone due to it being devoid of any real meaning. People who find it terrifying are absolute mental cases, however. it can look weird and make you feel weird but scared? Gay.
>>724521040>those jagged edgeswhat is this an N64 game? i thought devs these days could render curves.
>>724516926Reminds me of the castle basement area in Super Mario 64. Looks comfy.
>>724517301I love glass blocks so much bros
>>724516926videogames?
>>724517301its the same as having a swimming pool, very comfy until it comes time to do all the maintenance.
>>724516926You call that a pool room?!I'll show you a pool room.
>>724516926These are my personal cozy games tbqdesuwy. I play these just to spend time in there and wish I was also in a totally sterile massive pool where I can do whatever the fuck I want for a while. This, Manifold Garden, NaissancE, and Fugue in Void. Most relaxing vidya genre of all time
>>724523291I have tried playing some scary shit from the Halloween contest this year, haven't really tried that kind of stuff in years and almost pissed myself. They've really made strides in terms of models and NPCs, it used to just be shitty nextbots and corny crap. I have been microdosing and exploring liminal worlds to build myself up to trying more of that shit but I'm way too much of a wuss. Shit like picrel makes me nope out instantly.
>>724516926I'll be honest, everytime I see these liminal space pool rooms, I get extremely horny for some reasonI don't know how to describe it, suddenly waking up in a room like this, exploring it and finding yourself completely alone, taking a dip within the pool itself. If it's like any inside pool I've been in where it's heated, it would just feel amazing to start getting naked and jerking off as much as possible in those pools. Everytime I see more pictures of them, I just see myself on the steps, halfway in the pool and just going to town, moaning and hearing the echo throughout the empty rooms, especially when you climax and just cum inside the pool, seeing your swimmers try their best in a unknown environment. Maybe sometimes you just lay yourself flat on the tiles, the cold on your back as you jerk off and just feeling the air on your chest. I honestly don't know why I get horny when I see these liminal pool rooms, but I have came buckets because of them.
>>724524970Really deep water in big industrial concrete facilities does scare me, especially having read about actual incidents that occur in said places, but I think that's a pretty rational fear. Most of the zoomerhorror is just wading pools and stuff.
>>724524970I am exploring using finger tracking movement which is clunky as hell and doesn't help either, it feels like some 2001 Silent Hill 2 type of shit.. piloting a humanoid mech
>>724524585Kek
>the mall abandoned since the 90's that i visit to take free shit causes zoomies to piss and shit themselves.U kids are dumb, the only danger is if you don't mind your step and fall down a cleared out elevator or escalator shaft.
>>724525123I think that's a symptom of being raped at the pool
the Xi Jinping blasting K-Pop and agreeing to pose for a selfie kind of helped ease the tension before he disappeared into a nearly-pitch black chasm of water
>>724525123This guy is the monster that hides in liminal poolrooms
>>724517301Bruh, it would be exactly like indoor pool at a gym. Smell like chlorine and piss, humid as fuck.
>>724525123>getting aroused by a room covered from floor to roof with Tiles>Jerking off
>>724519676I love chlorine smell
>>724517301No, I was at peace when I saw this image.
>>724525429Nah I never had anything like that happen. I do remember when I was younger though I jerked off a lot in my parents hot tub before it was cleaned the next day.>>724525682I am not tile man. I am not aroused by tiles
>>724517301fpbpReminds me of places I've visited in my dreamsI love dreams, even the scary ones
>>724516926I WILL sit in the red chair and you can't stop me, Manse.
knew a guy who had a indoor pool, and alongside it was a staircase going up to the rest of the house, and at the third floor there was a door that just opened to a small metal plank and you could jump off it into the pool, was pretty neat
>>724516926>>724526083I want to climb the stairs and see what's above more than anything.
>>724526581Is it actually possible to set up a base there or does the invisible monster kill you no matter what?
shut the fuck up, you already posted this thread
>>724523435Bro it's a Garry's mod TTT map
>>724517301No. I think they can be slightly creepy and very comfy. I'd love to be able to visit the poolrooms, get naked, and swim around for a few hours exploring until I get bored or too creeped out by the endless solitude.
>>724527831I'm pretty sure there's one spot somewhere in there where none of the invisible enemies can spawn, wiki says so too so you probably could set up a base there if you wanted to.
>>724526445Go buy one of those weak nicotine patches and put it on before bed. Nicotine on its own is a nootropic drug, it stimulates blood flow and neural activity. On the back of the box there's a warning not to wear them to sleep because a side effect is "vivid dreams" which is an understatement, because the dreams are so lucid that you realize you're dreaming, and then you wake up, but its a false awakening, four or five fucking layers deep until when you finally DO wake up, covered in cold sweat you're wary that its just another false awakening.
>>724525648was just thinking that, fuck that
>>724516926why are zumszums so low t
>>724525361i wouldnt be scared of a heckin scary monster, but rather a crackhead thats stowed away in therealso what's left to take if it's been there sense the 90's?
>>724522327That highway would terrify me. I'm really bad with heights and that thing's taller than high-rise buildings. I don't even like an overpass over rail tracks.
>>724525123i get itbut for me it's because i like to imagine the afterlife is like a gmod sandbox serverand you can just wake up one day, load into one of these liminal source maps, and spawn a bunch of big titted foxgirls to have an orgy with(until you get bored after 100,000 years and turn into a light being or whatever)
>>724517301unbothered. moisturized. happy. in my lane. focused. flourishing.
>>724517301No. I have a whole folder of serene environments like this.
>>724522327You're forgetting a core thing. These are places that are highly public that should have people in them. They're places for facilitating the presence of large quantities of people. Offices, malls, pools, hallways, and hotels.
>>724528998waitasecond that pool
>>724531432I like these places regardless but I guess for some people it's>place = scary>place with people in it = :D
>>724532060it is not scary if it is well litbut make it dark and add brooding bg music and it gets creepy
I always describe liminal spaces as how it felt as a child to go into your school after hours.
>>724528564I'm already hopelessly addicted to nicotine and have tried the patchThe dreams I got were pretty awesome, silver lining to quit attempts
>>724516926I'm going as this for Halloween
>>724526083If they fill it up more you would have to dive to reach the stairs, would be a pretty neat way to get out/in.
>>724517301I always think about the fortune in tiles.But yeah, pool rooms are comfy. And if they aren't comfy, I still like the look of them.
>>724530981post em
>>724516926Would to be neat to have if you live in a hot climate, just going into the pool basement to cool off dear!
Backrooms became so incredibly fucking gay immediately after the initial /x/ post.
>>724516926I want to colonize the poolrooms.
>>724534406>every time I am forcibly reminded of the backrooms theres somehow more stupid bullshit
>>724534495
>>724534495That tends to happen with completely open communal creative writing projects. it will eventually devolve into esoteric trash. This is why most authors have fucking editors.
>>724534495>>724534629Liminal Archives is the least retarded interpretation of the Backrooms right now out of the three wikis, but all of them are way too developed. It should be surreal STALKER instead of three different versions of the same UN which all have a central server ran by an AI keeping them in touch across separate levels. I want weirdos dressed in indestructible snack containers or whatever material is most durable due to the weird physics of a given level wielding weapons made out of the surrounding environment painstakingly attempting to adapt to live off their peculiar lands, with contact with another policy outside of their sphere being a major event.
>>724534968>It should be surreal STALKERit should be a post on /x/ at 3am.
>>724534968new Marathon looking dope
>>724516926>>724526083it's all fun and games until someone backs up the toilet and brown shit gushes out of the septic pipes. Have fun escaping.
>>724516926>you hear something swimming in the distance
>>724534968>Liminal Archives is the least retarded interpretation of the Backrooms right now out of the three wikisWhat are the other two and what's the difference between them?
>>724516926Ok. Then where you find food, drinkable water and that kind of stuff. Fear of backrooms comes to fact that you can he stuck there and simply die of starvation and dehydration with no hope
>>724519782I can't TAKE this shit no more man!
>>724531432I love empty public spaces. Public schools in summer, closed factories, empty airports, empty cathedrals, etc. Lonely cavernous buildings are comfy as fuck.
>>724535605i have a theory that these liminal spaces act as a sort of purgatory. where you cant get hungry. cant get thirsty. cant die of anything. youd just be stuck there wandering for eternity, and thats a fate worse than death.
>>724535605actually theRES A MONSTER AAAAAA HE'S GONNA GET YOUUUUALSO THERES 45274329 MORE LEVELS TO THEBACKROOMSGOODBYEEEEEEEsubtomypatreon
>>724522327does city skylines require a good computer to run
>>724535605>>724535942>>724536047there's a huge retarded zoomie fanwiki about the back rooms where it's divided into different levels, and each level has their own retarded OC NPCs and monsters that roam them, with various places to find almond juice for sustenance. I'm honestly not sure if it's taking the piss or if these people are legitimately trying to form their own SCP type lore.
>>724536584>I'm honestly not sure if it's taking the piss or if these people are legitimately trying to form their own SCP type loreThe articles are too long and detailed to be a joke.
>>724526083I got the old hotel backrooms thing being mildly creepy but this stuff does absolutely nothing for me
>>724516926Why does this piss people off so much?
>>724536890102% of "games" have no substance so probably that's why
>>724536693I think the draw of this shit is the idea of "what could this room possibly be used for". I kinda get it, but for whatever reason, people haven't been able to come up with anything else for this genre besides "weird empty indoor waterpark" and "abandoned mall that's still lit up".
>>724523202Bud my family had our own pool. I remember helping dad install it, filling the water and setting up the filter and then PH testing it. That same chlorine smell is what underlies every public water park and indoor one I've been at, as well as hotels. You're absolutely full of fucking shit, acting as if people are swimming in piss filled jacuzzis
>>724537317>he doesn't swim in piss filled jacuzzisngmi
>>724522327Thats true, but its gotta be empty spaces that normally have a lot of people. Thats why its usually schools or malls that are used for liminal spaces. However, your picture doesn't apply. I know its empty, but since you are giving me a whole fucking city its not hard for my brain to go ''well its a big city, there is people there I just cant see from here''Shit lightning also helps
>>724516926nah billiards
>>724517301looks fucking cold
>>724535503>backrooms.fandomMost mainstream of the three wikis and the one with the most lore written about it, ergo it suffers the problem of SCP in that you can't throw a stick without hitting someone's cool entity OC and/or small country. Running with the assumption people have been getting lost in these places since medieval times, there are hundreds of factions who have sufficiently mapped out routes to and from levels to consistently trade and war with each other over the centuries, usually residing in places that are closest to regular terrain while leaving the weird infinite offices and hallways as transit points, or at to slowly mine out bringing useful things to aforementioned "earth-like" levels.Most notable for the The Party Rooms, where a contagious virus that turns people into a combination of juggalos and the Crossed constantly leaks out of Level Fun to be contained by the Party Crashers, guys who dress up like Shy Guys and wield guns; if you've ever heard about the latter context to the backrooms, it's referencing the .fandom continuity.>backrooms-wiki.wikidotBranched off of .fandom some years ago, possesses the same general layout in major levels as the former but with aliens, because the main thing that sets it apart from its parent is the sheer number of sci-fi bullshit you're liable to run into that the aforementioned centuries of factions have used to not only thrive, but achieve a higher quality of life than IRL, with at least one group attempting to terraform levels for human habitation. There are robots (dutifully automating away most of the danger of the setting when the aliens aren't causing a pickle), human-built AIs, lasers, wi-fi, and lots of gay people. Instead of Party Crashers, the main thing fending off Level Fun are Party Poopers, who are infected that kept their wits and get shit all support from the space assholes, leaving them to get massacred. Party Poopers are a surefire sign you're in the .wikidot continuity.(1/2)
>>724522327>>724517451Its quite simple liminal spaces are spaces where you feel anxious because you lack information. The earliest example i can think of is the first episode of the twilight zone. The first episode is about a man with amnesia wandering around a town where no one is there and trying to rationalize whats going on and come to a practical explanation for why no one is around, These pictures invoke the same kind of "its quiet too quiet" feeling like everyone is hiding from a monster you know nothing about and are about to meet it.In the most basic terms it preys on our herd instincts >everyone isnt here>you shouldnt eitheranyway if you guys wanna see boomer's backrooms heres the pilot filmed before the fucking moonlanding the ep actually starts at aroudn the 8 min mark https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x97haxy
>>724535503>>724538318>liminal-archives.wikidotSmallest community of the three with its focus split between the Backrooms and independent liminal spaces not connected to them, so it has the least rooms/lore written to define things, but the fewer writers means it's the most internally consistent. Unlike the above two, the earliest records of people getting lost date back to the 19th century and the closest thing to a government is a glorified telephone network that's been in existence for a couple decades to try and shove a wifi-terminal into every tribe of 50 individuals between attempting to figure out semi-consistent routes between them. Levels are more defined yet the total amount is vastly smaller than the other two continuities, with the majority of activity happening in the OG Backrooms level and "earth-like" levels generally having some major hazard to them that precludes preferred habitation over the several flavors of corridor.Though, since the fact that one wrong turn can strand you forever isn't compelling enough, there is also an eldritch horror a few hundred levels beyond what anyone has explored who occasionally screams at you for being puny and reads your thoughts like dollar-store Lovecraft.(2/2)
>>724523818https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0THUTX2lXps
>>724517301Same. I can just smell the chlorine. I wish I could get trapped in the pool rooms
>>724516926Anericans be like“I am just irrationally scared of public pools, must be because of liminal spaces haha”
>>724537317you can test it yourself man, chlorine smells noticeably different and much less strong than chloramines. Chlorine dissolved in water in normal concentrations is almost completely odorless, it doesn't evaporate easily. Mix up two cups of like 30ppm chlorine in distilled water, way over the normal concentration for a pool, spit in one of them and leave them sit covered overnight. When you come back the pure chlorine cup will still have very little to zero smell and the one you spit in will be extremely strong.It's not just piss, in fact it's probably very little piss relatively, but it is almost entirely because of biological matter being dissolved by chlorine and producing chloramines. Spit, skin cells, sweat, hair etc. for comparison, chlorine has an odor threshold of like 5mg/l when dissolved in water, dichloramine is 0.15mg/l and trichloramine is 0.02. source: Inorganic chloramines: a critical review of the toxicological and epidemiological evidence as a basis for occupational exposure limit setting
>>724538342for me, backrooms shit is just reminiscent of early childhood memories. the kind of shit that sticks with you because it was bizarre or surreal.>be 4 years old>walking around an aftercare/daycare center with some other kids>it's a dimly lit hallway>i think they were looking for a ball or something and heading to the gymnasium>we open the door>complete darkness as if the door opened to never-ending nothingnessmy dad would also take me to work sometimes when he had to work late and there was no one to watch me at home. so sometimes i would walk around his office building after most people had gone home. seeing how places are when no one is around is strange enough as a child to make you feel like something is off and that emotion sticks with you. i don't feel as strongly with the 'backrooms never ending hallway labyrinth' part, but i guess i never wandered off and got lost in one of those situations.
DUDE ARENT LIMINAL SPACES SO FUCKING HECKIN SCARY>No?Okay fine we updated the game, here are some monsters chasing you
>>724516926I can already smell it and imagine the loudsy echo this room would have, nothing comfy about it
>>724516926Any TTT maps like this?
>>724538784Buddy I don't know how you're not understanding that piss didn't just magically end up in the large above ground pool me and my dad set up in the back yard, and the water after we got everything right PH wise smelled like it would at pools I'd go to elsewhere. Maybe the public pool is pee if what you're saying is correct about the the cause, but in the case of a home pool where you know it's not been swam in than I have to imagine that smell would've came from other organic material outside that the chlorine would also react to.
>>724522327So, would Mars be a liminal space? The moon, perhaps? I mean, what are we talking about here?
>>724539262uhhkind of actually
>>724536890most people who hate backrooms do so because it became popular and has been overdone. also a lot of it felt like people sperging out about trypophobia to the point where it felt performative.
>>724538318>>724538439Damn, all of them sound like complete cancer. A while ago I found a chart of SCP and backroom splinters that listed the wikis you mentioned along with another one called Timeless Places that supposedly abandoned the original premise of backrooms to become its own thing. Have you heard of it?
>>724539489also i doubt there's as much 'hate' for it as there is shitposting/making fun of how dramatic people get about it. backrooms are spooky but they've been so overdone it's harder to take them seriously, making the fear seem silly in the first place.
>>724530224>trapped in the pool rooms forever>it is full of vaporeons and they never leave you aloneWhat would you do?
>>724516926What do they eat?
>>724522327No, you retard, it's how unusual it is to have a normally full and active place be empty instead. That is naturally uncanny.
>>724526083This is comfy as shit dude I'm so there.
>>724516926When i was a little kid i remember having many pool rooms dreams, is this a common phenomenon?
>>724526083I am gonna render some shit like this in povray. There's some sweet water caustics code I found. These rooms are perfect for that program
>>724539489t.
>>724535748On one hand, they are comfy. On the other hand, they are depressing because they aren't being used. A closed factory is a place that used to have lots of work being done and made lots of stuff, then some richfags got greedy and moved all of it to China.
>>724516926I thought poolrooms were supposed to be comfy, backrooms are supposed to be a bit unnerving.
>>724539491a single post lead to an entire concept to form, hell some guy is making a backroom rpg for some reason
>>724539721All I would say in every scenario like that is "FINALLY!"
>>724540112You say that, but it's a pretty base impulse that would override even your faggy social anxiety or whatever makes you incapable of functioning around other people
>>724516926>I'm le human... but I'm NOT MUAHAHAHHAHAHA>AAAAHHH SAVE ME NIGGERMANHorror is dead.
>>724539491I haven't been keeping up with the newer Backroom splinters, but taking a cursory glance, it looks a lot like the secondary liminal spaces of Liminal Archives if they had jettisoned the Backrooms articles and focused squarely on them. Main benefit of not connecting the spaces means that if someone shoves an evil whale god or aliens into theirs' it (likely) won't bleed over into the rest of the setting, and anything overly crap can be written off as a tall-tale, hallucination, or embellished account by everyone else.
>>724540112gigachad>>724540171cringe projector
these rooms are so comfy irlany time theres a cool cave made of bricks like these and you cant see the place you came from
>>724516926you know who cant swim
>>724539491Reminds me of that electronic music history page in hypnospace outlaw that the guy refuses to maintain any more because of the massive increase in random people telling him to add their 'new' genre offshoots.
>>724539192got some bad news about what your mommy and daddy were getting up to in that pool
Any game where you can just walk around procedurally generated levels? I love games without purpose and the backrooms look so comfy.
What the fuck is scary about a cool ass pool room or a empty city or whatever the fuck? I'd fucking kill to be all alone in a area like that, like imagine an entire island to yourself, I'd never get tired of it
>>724540518Here's a comfy driving simulator. You can change the world type and put it in auto.https://slowroads.io/
>>724534554isn't it super ironic that this image is made with voyjacks
>>724540654>what the fuck is scary about a spatially inconsistent mega structure that is completely abandoned Do you niggers just pretend that a busy place being eerily quiet means nothing or are you actually so removed from both intelligence and instinct that you see nothing wrong with the concept?
>>724516926this is just a CS:S custom map
>>724539192to be honest, I think it's probably 30% your childhood memory being unreliable and blending public pool smells with your home pool, 30% being around chunks of pure chlorine which don't actually smell that much like a public pool but do burn your nose a bit in a similar way, and 30% yeah there's a fucking lot of biological matter floating around outside, which is especially relevant when you're doing stuff like a first fill and shock the shit out of the waterAnd like, maybe you're completely right and your pool at home smelled exactly the same as a public pool and it was the water/chemicals dissolved in the water you're smelling instead of the puck of chlorine you were handling etc, but it's still true that if you go to a public pool and measure the air there's very little free chlorine and a decent amount of chloramines(mostly tri) and what people associate with the pool smell is almost entirely chloramines which are created by chlorine binding with ammoniawhich is a good thing, for the record. The reaction consumes the various ammonia compounds producing various kinds of NHCl(chloramines) and H2O, that's why we use it. If the pool smells like chloramines it's because the chemical concentration of the water is biased towards chlorine and not ammonia.
>>724540730Pretty kino, thanks anon
>>724541134no problem, enjoy!
>>724517301It reminds me of going to gyms and community centers as a kid with pool areas and stuff. It all seemed so huge when you're small and sometimes you'd wander into unused areas. It was more mystical than scary. As an adult I sometimes have dreams about such spaces.
>>724540518There's a backrooms game called Dreamcore where you just wander through huge levels trying to find the exit (an elevator). There are no monsters, time limits or hunger meters, just you, the endless corridors and yhe sound of your footsteps.
>>724516926>Is that a pool room?It's a cistern.
>>724517301Nope. I would love to explore such a place, brings to mind my childhood and when my parents used to take me to spas and swimming halls.
>>724540730If you go too far off road.
>empty backroom pools>empty buildings at night>late night city streets with little to no carseverytime i see an image like that it makes me long for that comfortable feeling
>>724517658Swimming in comfy water is good.
>>724541970Damn, yeah it doesn't like that. And if it doesn't crash the world kind of just cuts off.
>>724523304>I worked as a lifeguard at a summer camp back in the day and it was weird during the winter when I’d rake leaves and do handyman work because it was normally filled with screaming kidsI work in schools and FUCKING LOVE when it's a half-term or end of term break.I still work over the break but there are no teachers or students in, just an empty big school where I can work at my own pace and not worry about being distracted to come help fix a teacher's computer.out of curiosity are you religious or do you believe in the supernatural at all? Because I don't, so the only thing that could potentially scare me in a setting like that would be the idea of an intruder being on-site, but it's all so well locked down that I don't even have to worry about that
>>724536412Pretty sure that's a game called A-Train
I've never actually seen anybody say that they find liminal shit scary, it's just cool. As a kid I liked playing Supreme Snowboarding just because you could go off track and see the map breaking apart around you, imo the vibe I got from that is similar to what kids get out of this trend nowadays
>>724541970well, I respect that they just let the variable overflow instead of putting up invisible walls at least, much more interestingI miss the days when people would roll up their own weirdly robust engines for this kind of thing that would just get more and more broken the farther you went though. Like in early minecraft when you went way too far in one direction the terrain gen would just get fucking insane.
>>724542426>swimming in comfy water is comfy.FFTY
>>724516926This looks AI made it's so bad
>>724517832Well, there's that, but fundamentally you're making a game about what used to be considered the worst level design possible (featureless mazes using the same wall, floor, and ceiling textures throughout)
>>724542907>Like in early minecraft when you went way too far in one direction the terrain gen would just get fucking insane.The Far Lands. I miss those, always wanted to settle down out there. Anomalic terrain has always been comfy for me.
>>724519676That's kinda the point of liminal spaces tho.
>>724516926a zoomroom
was working on something related to this in HL Alyx but the fact there is no real water shader or even water entity makes it not as appealingI could do it in Source 1 and easier, but HL Alyx's mechanics compared to HL2's (with the VR mod) are much more conducive to the type of gameplay I wanted to do where it was more than just an exploration map devoid of actual gameplay
>>724517301No I actually feel the same. POOLS is actually what I wish more Walking Simulators where like. Atmospheric, Interesting, and to look around, interact and explore. Nothing major like jump scares, or objectives, just having fun trying to find your way out of the labyrinth.
>>724546394and obligatory backrooms since that's what I started out making trying to de rust and relearn the little bit of Source 2 experience I had
>>724516926Recommend me games where I can explore rooms like these. I don't want a monster I just want to chill in the environment.
>>724521330>thalassophobiaThis isn't a real thing.
>>724546442That looks decent
Fake painted-on skies is both comfy and eerie at the same time
>>724548274Source 2 lets you make some really nice stuff but half the time I am thinking I can make this faster and easier in Source 1
>>724548428Yeah, I used to make maps for CS:Source and the lighting and texture work here is a huge step up. Even using custom textures in Source, the engine lighting let's it down. This looks great.
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I think this is the aesthetic or style that gets the least hated compared to shit like weirdcore or dreamcore or vaporwave or whatever other thing some bored bitch made upExcept vaporwave that was always a thing in music at least
>>724517301It almost completely panders to my fetish. If anything, i'm more annoyed there aren't as many fanfics taking advantage of them for it.
>>724547790It's literally one of the only real phobias. Like fear of snakes, heights. Imbues on humans for a reason
>>724539491Worth mentioning is Redwood Bureau, a fairly popular audiodrama slop employing none other than TOMAR as their main VA.Though they do so poorly. They had him do intros and SOME of the narration, but 80% of it is AI slop.
>>724517301It make me want to go swimming
>>724549416>Like fear of snakesNot real. They're so cute with their big beady eyes. Heights are scary but for a good reason. Being afraid of deep water is silly unless you can't swim.
Ok so it's clear that many people would love to go to place like the pool rooms but why? What's the name of the feeling you get when you imagine the places since it's not just relaxation
>>724549740I love the smell of chlorine. Swimming is fun and it's even more fun if the pools are all dressed up with slides and stairs and shit. Make it the fucking labyrinth with the minator or some shit if you want me to be scared of it, I don't know. Make it look like abandoned dubway tunnels or something.
>>724549713>fear of snakes>Not realhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_detection_theory
>>724516926>Zoomers worst nightmare is being alone with their thoughtsGrim.
>>724517301They're both comfy and unsettling at the same time, that's the point of Liminal Horror
>>724517301Most of these backroom pics looks oddly comfy
>>724549193Dream/weirdcore I like because it's even more surreal than regular liminal space tends to be
>>724550331I have seen it, it's usually just the same pics that one would call liminal but with a filter and tons of eyeballs and petals lol
>>724550201What a load of dohicky. I feel that primal fear of spiders and heights, but when I see a snake I just want to pet and kiss it. They're so cute.
>>724516926Any cool YouTube channels for Pool / Backrooms? I only know Kane Pixels and Async Research
>>724551343Those two are the peak of the 'found footage' type stuff but there's dozens of smaller no name channels you'll see eventually if you watch this kind of stuff regularly
>>724517301dunno if comfy is the word i'd use, but reminds me of going to a local hotel's pool area with family as a kid so that's nice.
I don't like Kane Pixels's work. I don't like Mandella catalogue either.There's good ARGs out there tho
>>724528998>>724531668
>>724553725so what's the joke?
>>724553868sex
>>724522437You've never experienced true isolation.
>>724550510>I am personally not afraid of something so it isn't realI'm not scared of anything described and my mother is petrified of snakes. She goes into a shrieking fit if she sees one
>>724523818I've had a nightmare about a place similar to this but the pool was bigger.
>>724522771i think it's more of an uncanny valley thing. it's like seeing an empty room, there's something weird about it. where's the furniture? no decorations? no people either?
>>724516926I remember these rooms from parts of half life 1
>>724554008What a pussy.
> So used to being abandoned that these places feel normal to me...What's it like, anons? For these not to feel ordinary?
>>724555521You don't know shit about loneliness. Just the fact that you post here makes you feel a perverse sense of community and kinship. When you're in the backrooms, you don't have anything to interact with. Maybe you have an AI GF on your phone, but that battery won't last long. You'll be talking to imaginary people in no time.
>>724531432Have you not ever been in a empty place? Fuck I live in a rural town and theres barely anyone in public places sometimes. These places shouldn't give you anxiety
>>724541617>>724549193>>724550331Why the fuck did zoomers put the word core after everything. Its just coreslop
>>724557416I don't know they invented those aesthetics specifically and gave them those dumb names
I would like to go skinny dipping in the pool rooms
>>724530224This needs to be a game. Backrooms but you play as a Vaporeon.
>>724557416Like most things blamed on zoomers, it started with millenials doing it
>>724521330>>724516926These look like sick TTT maps
>>724557416corecore aah post
>>724516926What's the point if you can see the bottom of the water?
>>724549301What fetish? Are you tile floor anon?
>>724517301This.Looka very comfy.Zoomers have very soft delicate trigger warnings.
>>724555521My mom was a university teacher and my dad was a teacher at my school, I would often stay after school waiting for my dad or my mom would drag me to the campus during breaks. I basically grew up in this empty places, so I find them nostalgic.
>>724516926I wish I could go swimming in a place like that. The echoing splashes of water and the smell of chlorine. comfy if there was no-one else in it
>>724516926Is the Fear of the unknown(a monster being right behind a corner to rape you) and feeling alone in an endless place, but you won't get it
>>724518595If it can just decide to kill me at any point why does it matter what I do? Couldn't it just warp the walls around me so I'm trapped inside and can't move at all?
>>724553868Porn
>>724516926How do zoomers even play counter strike these days? They must piss themselves every time the server switches to fy_pool_day, lmao
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>>724517301Well, I certainly don't think the OP image looks comfy because where's the goddamn railing?
>>724521040That reminds me. There was this public pool that would often get rented out for birthdays and one time some kid had this birthday there and his mom brought hotdogs and they were the best damn birthday party / social gathering hotdogs i’ve ever tasted. Wish I knew which sausages she got but I was a kid back then so I wasn’t paying attention, I was just inhaling one hotdog after another
>>724553868It's the one pool used in every japanese porno with a pool.
>>724553921I have actually.
I wish I could visit the actual locations of these liminal/uncanny photos, or at least know where are they located. Many of them are aesthetic and pretty.
>>724534968>I want weirdos dressed in indestructible snack containers or whatever material is most durable due to the weird physics of a given level wielding weapons made out of the surrounding environment painstakingly attempting to adapt to live off their peculiar lands, with contact with another policy outside of their sphere being a major event.All of this is still completely missing the point.
>>724557416what isn’t slopcore to you, unc
>>724517301no, that's the point.they are not meant to be scary but more like dreamlike, op is retarded for misunderstanding >>724517832most games that that do this make them maze like which is nice
>>724539618...gangrape.
>>724522240Comfy liminal space exploration game with Cirno’s retard crew when?
>Is... is that... AN EMPTY ROOM WITHOUT WIFI AND CELLULAR DATA?!!?!?!? NO SUBWAY SURFERS AND FAMILY GUY FUNNY MOMENTS? OH MY FUCKING GOD THIS IS LITERALLY MY WORST NIGHTMARE I'M GOING INSANE GET ME THE HECK OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!
>>724535203>shit gushing is LE BAD!!!!Why the fuck you insult india culture you devil
>>724577104If I had a nickel for every time someone drew Cirno in the poolrooms, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't much>>724522240>>724534456But it's weird it happened twice.
>>724577217I’m a teacher and I’ve seen kids exhibit physical withdrawal symptoms after going without wifi for a few hours.
>>724517301>>724526083>>724516926for me it's actual photos like this
>>724543050Instead of throwing kooky rejected SCPs into the Backrooms, people should but that effort into expanding the terrain of a level to bend its basic properties into manners beyond what would be seen in reality. I'm talking fractal hallways, sheer cliffs of dingy yellow wallpaper and wood, things that double as environmental hazards and head-scratchers at the same time. Really lean into the fact levels are familiar places distorted into unfamiliarity.
>>724579780I work with a lot of students/18yos and they cannot believe that I do not have an active mobile phone, have never used Snapchat or Instagram in my life and don't have a Twitter. These same kids legitimately thought dial-up sounds were just a brainrot meme and didn't know it was an actual thing. I keep a landline connected if work needs to reach me.
>>724517451I mean I dunno, didn't you ever watch 28 Days Later? When Jim was wandering around that empty, quiet London, that's basically liminal spaces, a place that SHOULD be loud, bustling, and full of people...but it's just empty and silent instead. Seems to be a perfectly natural instinct for humans to feel a bit creeped out when they see a place that should be populated, yet isn't.
>>724538318>>724538439How on earth does the concept of "forgotten space outside of the universe that's not really supposed to even exist and you can accidentally noclip there and get lost forever" morph into this absolute underage turbocancer?
>>724581140no only zoomers feeled that way when they watcheded it on the netflix or tubi or paramount+ whatever its a zoomer feeling that only zoomers have ever felt ever not a grown up adult big kid feeling sorry not sorry babe
>>724525682I hate these because it's so obviously just a guy messing with /v/ and everyone thinking it's real. Like those folder names are handcrafted to be as ridiculous as possible.
>>724537317It's not just piss. Sweat also has urea in it. So any water that's been swam in will have the "chlorine smell". You can test this yourself, just pure chlorinated water won't smell. Drop some piss in and it will.That being said, if a public pool esp one that kids use has a strong chlorine smell, it's likely been pissed in. But it's not the smell of piss, it's the smell of the chlorine doing its job and neutralizing the piss.
>>724581268>Zoomer>Zoomer>ZoomerYou sound like a dipshit just repeating that over and over. Why would there be a scene like that in a horror movie if it wasn't meant to be creepy?
>>724517301Me too, but I think it might be because I grew up playing games like Doom or Quake.
>>724516926those stairs seem like a safety hazard
>>724581195SCP-wiki cross contamination. I've noticed even most backrooms games have you play what is basically just a researcher implying enough infrastructure for a dedicated R&D org that can supply its agents with identical yellow hazmat suits. Like you're a D-Class.
>>724531432>>724535748empty public spaces are the best setting for horror at least and very comfy to explore
>>724539489>trypophobiaWhat? That's the fear of a bunch of holes next to each other.
talking about fear i have the weirdest phobias out thereI'm afraid of gigantic objects. and i dont mean skyscrapersI mean something like lighthouses and towersidk why
People really think that empty places being spooky is some new phenomenon. Haunted houses have been the cornerstone of spooky stories for thousands of years.
>>724516926>>724517301>>724530224>>724558325someone please make this, I will fund it with the $20 I have in my pants
>>724549063This looks cool actually
>>724581812the only spooky thing about that is some storm or rogue wave dooming you when you're literally surrounded by a hostile environment
>>724525172check submechanophobiai have it and is kinda irrational most of the time
>>724540449is that game good? i only know that it has an interesting aesthetic
>>724553725wtf bros my girlfriend went on a trip to japan with a guy friend of hers and she took a bunch of pictures of this same pool. small world
>>724581403I was just trolling you dude, you got trolled on 4chan. Zoomers/Gen Alphas would call this ragebaiting.
>>724583639>Cuckshit out of nowhereBrown hands typed this post.
>>724517301Nah, I remember back in the day we'd post cool pools and sinks all the time.
>>724583838That bed looks like a burger.
>>724583346If you lived in that era of online-use it is very much a trip down memory lane (bleached of most of the racism/super dark humour.) It's a fun mystery and getting to experience the growth of the simulated online platform through the different archives you explore as a contract tech guy emulating a board moderator in the actual simulation. Your actions in the simulation can affect the emulated web pages further down the line such as cracking down on posting of specific digital likenesses or banning certain individuals for harassment and it can get a little emotional if you allow yourself to get invested in it. There's digital memorials to pets and people, earnest first-time users of the web service like tech illiterate mothers or overly patriotic ALL CAPS AMERICA FUCK YEAH MIDDLE-AGED FAT GUYS. You can discover mysteries within mysteries and unlock new tools and shit to further peel back layers of the emulated environment and find web pages not viewable to regular users of the service at the time hidden away by system admins at the time or hackers experimenting within the confines of the unique digital service. I would say if you don't mind a lot of reading, yearn for the simpler times online and miss the earnest approach to web page design during the web 1.0 era moving into 2.0. If the puzzles are too challenging you can access tools on your desktop outside of the simulated environment to help you without spoiling too much or even find assistance within the virtual environment itself or you can just look up guides if you don't mind straight up spoiling yourself.
>>724584079>food analogy
>>724584556It's not an analogy, it literally looks like cheese on a patty.
>>724522327I feel longing and despair at the future that was stolen, not fear.90's PS1 music feel mix
>>724584541>I would say if you don't mind a lot of reading, yearn for the simpler times online and miss the earnest approach to web page design during the web 1.0 era moving into 2.0well fuck you anon, made me spend money
>>724583774>out of nowhere watch the webm again anon
>>724522327looks like an SMT cutscene
Why has no one but a 12v12 shooter in the backrooms? Imagine capturing the flag on some of these maps.
>>724588015Main reason you don't see any big-effort Backrooms games is that as shown by >>724538318 >>724538439 people are still trying to figure out what the Backrooms fucking are and how to do a Backrooms that isn't just a Unity asset flip.C.E.A has kind of the same map design by coincidence, at least when it comes to surrealism. And whoa, the same fag who spammed /g/ with it must had spammed this board at one point, since saying what it stands for makes 4chan unhappy.
>>724584657it uses like or as so it's a simile
>>724517301I really hate them, not because of aieee muh liminal space but because they remind me of how much I hated working at an indoor pool as a teenager.
>>724516926https://store.steampowered.com/app/2663530/POOLS/
>>724588783>people are still trying to figure out what the Backrooms fucking are
Pornrooms where instead of being spooky every floor is dedicated to a specific fetish happening to a cute girl running through them.
