Why don't millenials understand this kind of horror? It's about being in a huge empty space and fear of getting lost forever. It's okay to not have any threats in these kind of games because it's already scary enough.
You'll starve to death if left there for long enough.
>>728500926It's a huge esoteric space to explore, like a dream. Who knows what you might find? Getting lost in such a place might not be so bad. It sounds interesting and kind of peaceful. What's scary about that?
>>728501176there are monster girls hiding around the corner who want to rape you [frightening]
>>728500926Back when we were kids it was normal to go outside and explore shit, woods, abandoned buildings, industrial zones, our school at night, etc. This doesn't phase us because many of us have explored places like that. >>728501531Now I'm scared stiff!
>>728500926 Because we have all been in pools on yachts
>>728500926We walk around in these places. Try leaving your room.
>>728500926>well lit>clean>nice comfortable temperature>cozy indoor pool to relax inthis is the least scary thing ever
>>728500926>Why don't millenials understand this kind of horror?Because millennials grew up without smartphones, retard.That's what drives zoom zooms mad, no distraction.You know it's true.
There's nothing scarier when every location looks cozier and cleaner than the average American wastedump.
>>728500926>want to swim>pool is only 6 inches deepWAKE ME UPCANT WAKE UP
>>728501970exactly, I find it cozy if anything
>>728501176It's only not scary if you know where the exits are and how to navigate it. And no, I've been lost before in a hospital and needed an employee to escort me to the room I had to visit. There was nothing creepy about that because without help it would have been a mildly stressful inconvenience. A minimal space hospital on the other hand going on forever, with the layout progressively making less and less sense, and being all by yourself should make you temporarily humble you and make you feel like a kid again but in the worst way possible where the world is big, scary, and mysterious.
How developmentally stunted do you need to be to actually find these places scary? I can understand a game front-running the premise of a monster being hidden somewhere and it's going to eventually pop out at you, but it's the same as an empty house. Do zoomers shit and piss their pants when they're in an empty house because "omg le people are USUALLY LE HERE?!?" This is just a case of teens wanting to fit in so they all pretend: "omg d000d this game is so heckin scary right you agree bro right? Yeah broooo soooooo creepy!" Fucking cringe.
>>728500926>It's about being in a huge empty space and fear of getting lost forever.No, it's about being alone and forced to deal with problems on your own. The sterile environment adds to it because it offers little in the way of sensory stimulus. It's not so much about what's there, it's about what's not there: Sensory over-stimulation and people who will hold your hand.
>>728502882I'd be more worried about being lost in a silent hill hospital than the whole liminal space thing.
>>728501176>Who knows what you might findprobably another fucking white tiled room with a random pool. I can get behind the idea of a liminal space but can people come up with some different environments already?
>>728500926How horrifying. I'm so scared, I think I'll take my shoes off, sit on the steps, and soak my feet while I read something. Maybe later I'll even have a snack.
>>728500926We don't worry about getting lost because we grew up in an era without relying on smartphones and GPS.
>>728503208bitch
>>728500926Because it's not scary. At some point it's either you come to terms with the fact you're not getting out or you just don't?That's not a scary thing. If I'm suddenly lost in a dream like alternate dimension im not going to get scared. I'm just going to get probably sad or angry I can't get out
>>728500926Never take a boat trip then, kid, that will probably be the scariest thing in the world for you
>>728500926This is cozy i don't know what u mean.
>>728500926AAAAAAAAAAAAA THE CHLORINE AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
>getting lost in a brightly lit pool hall or office>scaryThat's not even remotely scary. It's just frustrating that's where I die. I can't imagine how soft Gen Z is if that invokes real fear
>>728500926AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAFUCKING FAILURE OF A GENERATION HOLY SHIT
>>728500926>maybe this take on liminal spaces won't just be poolrooms and empty department store hallways>it's just poolrooms and empty department store hallwaysevery timeneeds more brutalism. most of this stuff just reminds me of fossilized childhood memories of going to the store with my mom.
THE LIGMINAL BALLS OHNOOOOOOOONOOOOOOO SLENDERMAN SAVE MEEEEEE AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Well, we know why zoomers are having less sex, they're literally women on the inside.
>>728504171i would mostly be upset about having to starve to death.
>>728500926Millenials invented liminal spaces
>>728500926it's so not scary you lazy hacks had to slap in a jumpscare monster
>>728501531oh no?!
SHAMONE
>>728500926But it’s not scary at all, if anything it looks peaceful as I don’t have to deal with retards.
>>728500926Because it looks comfy.
>>728500926>Why don't millenials understand this kind of horror?Not a millennial, but its probably because theyre not as much of a pussy as you are.Ever think the question may just have a simple answer?
>>728504367>most of this stuff just reminds me of fossilized childhood memories of going to the store with my mom.Living in an isolated complex for a couple of days was the theme of a bunch of movies. It wasn't scary, it was a dream coming true.>>728504424/thread
>>728504524Zoomers weren't even alive before the jews killed him.
>>728501531Don't worry. Play it online and you can be sure there are no women on the Internet
>>728500926dear zoomers, we invented liminal spaces
>>728500926Kids are scared of this because they spend so much time in their own house they can't comprehend a mall
>>728504330wait until you learn about "Menu Anxiety"
>>728504431Everything that defines a generation was invented by the previous one
liminal spaces have been common nightmares for every generation of people, just like slenderman (trees that look like people). it's a boomer meme to pretend it's bad.
>>728505142>liminal spaces have been common nightmares for every generation of people>source? my embarrassed seething zoomer ass
To me, it's not about being scared or straight up horror, but the atmosphere. I used to get crossfaded and jump into gmod vr to explore shit. There's a lot of intentional liminal maps but most maps in general work regardless. I'd just load shit up and walk around, look for secrets, take everything in. It's a very meditative experience. That feeling of getting lost in a place that I know is safe yet at the same time keeps my monkey brain instincts on edge.It's fun as fuck and the retards shoving monsters into it miss the point.
>>728504852>34% of zoomers ask somebody to order something for them>Not the Onion
What the fuck is OP smoking. Liminal spaces is a milennial horror concept. Liminality was already a concept in cultural studies and affect theory. Zoomers just made the unique affect of a transitional space into a lame horror world and killed the vibe.Most younger zoomers don't even understand the feel of liminality that older generations experience with this image anyway. There are probably uniquely liminal zoomer spaces but they can't introspect enough to figure out what they are. It's like the analog horror thing where they have unique generational expression and coopt the past.The point of the backrooms is the fear of infinity. Being stuck somewhere forever, completely alone, with absolutely nothing to do. It doesn't translate well into film and games for the same reasons cosmic horror doesn't either, it's unsettling but there's no action to build up to or create tension.
>>728505629Millennials know how to make horror that is actually scary.
>>728505375To me it's the atmosphere of exploring a building you shouldn't be in. Like peeking into the backroom of a faculty. I guess that's where the "backrooms" game literally comes from, in a way. I have some fond memories of exploring some big summer camp place, many floors and corridors.VR overall seems to give some of that feeling due to the immersion. In my experience, VR horror is more scary because things jumping at you feels more physically threatening. Boneworks (not horror game per say) gives a lot of that feeling since you are literally busting locks and climbing over fences to get to real-looking warehouses, offices, etc.It's also related to exploring a big, expansive area like forest and getting lost. The moment when you have turned enough number of corners and aren't exactly sure where you are anymore.I'm 29 and I find these things somewhat thrilling and extremely enjoyable in a childish way, but not really scary, but I guess something in the modern mind makes them more anxious and sensitive about it. Is it the fact of having lived in a padded room so the outside feels even more open and expansive? Related to the meme where a zoomer gets panic attack when they go to nature.
>>728505904is that the kojima face
>>728505629The fuck are you talking about, this shit didn't take off until zoomers.
>the backrooms were born in the 4chinzoh nonono milly bros, what now?
>>728500926When you grew up with every game being like this you got used to it
>>728506341>crediting 2019 4chan with "liminal spaces"This is so comically wrong and instantly disprovable that it's not even worth addressing.
>>728506562well then, instantly disprove it
>>728505487Is this about some kind of societal alienation? Sure, ordering something and stumbling some words can be a bit awkward, but we are all human beings and brothers stumbling together playing our roles of the society, we collectively understand that so it's okay? Is it because zoomers didn't live when sense of unity and community existed, so the new default is some kind of oppositional mindset where you can't fail in front of others?
>>728506631>jarvis, grab any popular "liminal space image">search the 4chan archives using the hash value>post a screenshot of the results dating back to 2010I'm going through the effort you faggot tourist.
>>728505904>creepy freak chase you>rip it's face off>it's pretty cool and your brain is so busy thinking "that's rad!" you don't defend yourself
>>728500926Unironically had a mild anxiety attack while playing Manifold Garden for that exact reason>lost forever in an uninhabited, endlessly looping, silent void maze, with no way to even kys myself
>>728506890it's probably bad parenting with stupid parents doing everything for their aging "babies"
>>728501531Now I'm scared erect!
>>728506903>these images existed before the concept was popularized and given a namezamn... I guess they should've gone out there and take the pictures themselves
>>728502882Basically the determining factor is in "being taken care of" vs "having to figure out big thing alone with nobody to guide you". I guess that's why many zoomers prefer to watch others play games, because they are too scared of playing themselves and not knowing what to do (unless the game holds your hand hard). This would fit in with the helicopter parenting which has made kids reliant on a caretaker, failing to grow up.
>>728505142>look, a black and white film where someone stares into space!>this means my mental illness about being scared of empty spaces is real!sad
>>728503129mind if i warm up your penis? im in pool already
>>728500926>infinite pools to pee in
>>728507387That game was great, very cool spaces.I actually would want to 'play' a game where you just walk around cool maps.Used to do this for some multiplayer games, just boot it up solo without any bots and wander around looking at everything.That would be a cool walking simulator instead of having some faggot narrator telling a story in my ear.
>>728500926dumb zoomerswe grew up in that space
>>728500926I understand it and I am milennial (30 is milennial right?). that's most of what powered the original backrooms concept but I also understand that most of these games aren't even really horror games, they're just really low impact walking sims (I use the term non-judgmentally) with maybe some light puzzle elements. beholding interesting and bizarre shapes in 3d space is a simple joy unto itself
>>728507387The looping was cool, but overall Antichamber is better, play it.
>>728505487 I do this for my wife.
>>728500926Seems comfy
>>728505142>ghost>liminal space2/10 made me reply
>>728507938You are not
>>728508274yeah, considering every liminal horror relies on a monster, it is really hard to say that the space itself is the horrifying part of it
>>728505904>tags: skinsuit
>>728500926It's not scary fucking faggot cringe groomed retard
>>728500926No wonder you tiktok people are always craving the attention and crowd if this is scary for you
>>728500926>It's okay to not have any threats in these kind of games because it's already scary enough.If you've ever played an actual implementation where the environment is the only thing going on, you'll rapidly realise "convoluted layout with repetitive assets" is just a maze by any other name and makes for gameplay one step up from watching paint dry.
>>728503051no dad you have to imagine the rooms they're not showing
>>728500926This is a joke right? A meme? Are zoomers really scared by empty pools?
>>728508862no, we aren't.
>>728507779All those games by the Journey devs sound up your alley
>fear of getting lost foreverBeing by themselves is a horror for zoomers.How did this happen? Are overprotective mothers to blame?
>>728505904this shit looks goofy. makes sense for the goofiest soiface gen to be terrified by it
>>728509426You would break if you were alone forever but keep acting Mr. Tough guy
>>728500926Thinking something is stupid =/= not understanding it
>>728500926Which would just make it a shittier version of cube or hypercube
>>728500926zoomoids are so fucking retarded, thank god they will never breed
>>728500926I'm never going to say anything positive about this type of horror (same as analog horror) because it's consumed and marketed towards kids where the first thing that comes to their mind when you say horror is five nights at freddy.
>>728504431based millenials scaring the shit out of retarded zoomer chucklefucks
>>728508862Yeah, it's a genre now
>>728508862>shit that make millenials vibe make zoomers piss their pantsbroken gen
>>728507938>30 is milennial rightWrong, that's the older end of zoomer. The youngest millennials are mid 30s.
>>728500926I really like liminal spaces. They always seem pleasant to me. I've wanted to do urban exploration since I was a younger to see big empty buildings like that.Only time I got 'scared' of liminal spaces was one time I was in a hotel very late at night and went to a floor that had a different layout than the rest of the hotel. It was playing normal hotel music and the place was completely dead quiet and empty. It weirded me out like I stepped into the Twilight Zone because I didn't expect that. It was actually pretty cool the more I think about it though.
>>728507574Not all of us have the luxury of being able to dick around in public places out our own free leisure, unimpeded by tight schedules and other responsibilities. Which one is more coddled, person A who sees visiting unknown territory like they would a video game quest or person B who sees it as an errand that needs to be completed in a timely manner?
>>728500926Because everyone born before 2000 recognized these places from when they once served a function and find them to be cozy and nostalgic.
>>728511202>unimpeded by tight schedules and other responsibilitiesWhat responsibilities and tight schedules? Are zoomers always planning to do things, and therefore don't give themselves time to relax and enjoy the world around them?
I was born in the 94what am I
>>728500926What's there to get? Everybody has felt this before just by walking through an apartment building.
>>728511562a faggot
Idk that looks comfyIt's like I trespassed a public place and got to the goods without the illegal partIsn't that pretty exciting?
>>728500926I used to work at an indoor pool so this is unsettling to me for a different reason.
>>728501176>get lost>can't find your way out>slowly become more and more dehydrated>slowly become more and more hungry>end up dying slowlyI'd imagine the reason vidya and shit throw spooky monsters and shit into liminal games is because it'd be hard to capture the horrors of dying from dehydration or starvation in vidya form. Shit takes days to die from. Most players are just going to get bored or annoyed and just quit long before they actually die from those mechanics unless you take the survival game route and make it so the player can only go like an hour before just dropping dead from thirst in which case it just becomes an extremely annoying mechanic to manage.
>>728509736No one using this site has a fear of being alone forever.
>>728511562A zoomer. Mid 90s is too young to remember the turn of the millennium and therefore zoomer.
>>728502328jeet post
>>728512037seems that way.
The water monster in amnesia is a thousand times scarier than the backrooms and the million iterations of it
>>728500926>put a zoomer in a silent room with no phone>scaryKeeeekaroo
>>728511940Why
>>728500926This is not even remotely scary HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
It's not about all that wacky shit about cosmic dimensions or whatever the fuck. It's not even about being lost. It's just that it triggers anxiety because you can get jumpscared by whatever is behind the corner. It's a place you're forced to go through in real life, but you really don't want to be at. That's why it's liminal. Not because it's between dimensions, but fucking common places. You either want to be safe at your house, or walking the streets, not in a fucking hallway where sounds are exaggerated and visual patterns are clear, both increasing the chances of anything causing a jumpscare. It's anxiety squared. And it's reasonable zoomers are the ones being mostly affected by it, since each generation is more stimulated than the previous, inherently making them more susceptible to being startled by things.
>scarythe only thing scary about that is the swimming pool
>>728500926the "liminal spaces are scary" meme is a symptom of some deep seeded neurosis in the zoomer collective subconscious that i don't fully understand. something to do with oversocialization/overstimulation via mostly interacting digitally, and never having had the opportunity to exist in real human society / hang out in public "third places" which had mostly been eradicated by the time they were born
>>72850092693` it looks comfy to me. I'd die there.
I think its spooky. like yeah the places are "cozy" until you're lost there for days weeks months years so on. it brings on a fear of eternity in a sense. claustrophobia in a roundabout way because while the spaces are wide open, its all closed off into an eternal maze. like yeah I love the pool, went to the pool yesterday and swam for about an hour. great time, one of the cool things about the pool is that you get to go home and sleep in your bed sometime in the next week. I'm pretty sure part of these places even without the monsters is that its implicit you are stuck here. I like my bed, my computer is next to my bed and when I'm done talking to people about video games I lay down in my bed and sleep. it's pretty cool
>>728500926>>728501693this is actually a good point. before smart phones we just fuckin rode off on our bikes and explored shit. forests, ditches, construction sites, big drainage pipes underground.then eventually someone's parent would drive up pissed as hell telling them to get home.
>>728513379They sound like completely fucked retards. I mean seriously beyond fucked and fucking retarded.
Why even go outside when porn is free and everywhere even the steam on community pages
>>728513826Honestly it's for that very reason that I think the guys who are claiming to be boomers and acting like liminal horror only appeals to zoomers are actually just underage faggots. They live where everything they need is bbasically just within arm's reach of them. If they're thirsty, they can just get water from the sink. If they're hungry, they can just order food off Doordash or whatever. They don't even have to leave home to get any food they want, they can just have it delivered directly to their door. They can't comprehend the idea of being deprived of any of their basic necessities for survival or even the concept of dying from thirst or hunger. Ultimately that's where the real horror of liminal horror stems from, wandering these halls and rooms until you're just too weak to even move and ultimately dying slowly and alone. Your average zoomer can't understand that because they can't imagine being unable to just order up some food if they're feeling the slightest bit peckish.
what are you talking about I'm 31 and have been into liminal shit for like 5 years now, I grew up terrified of large pools and mechanical shit in water
>>728513401I was thinking about this chapter too. Imagining an endless series of poolrooms with way too high humidity and really strong chlorine smell made them seem unenjoyable to relax in.
>>728505142I see you pissed off some uncultured zoomers that think they invented getting lost
>>728514595I think that anyone who is not afraid of machinery inside water was born without a soul.
>>728514437what are the 7 mistakes??
Ayo that shit scary, cuh.
>this made boomers shit their pants in frightBruh it's literally just a house, what's more frightening is knowing that I'll never be able to own one because of my vape pen & fidget spinner addictions.I need to rewatch the Evil Dead movies.
>>728514683>>728514595So you must love wavepools then
>>728514817Probably random ass AI scraped shit that may or may not be even possible given the rest of how that image looks. Pretty sure it's an ai sloppa channel.
I know its bait but its not a new trope. Silent Hill was liminal spaces the game
>>728514883What would you eat? He says nothing.>>728514980The fuck it was. Silent Hill was mostly tight hallways and oogaboogas trying to kill you,
>The Greatest Generation 'Oomers were like "damn bro that's terrifying".
>>728514920why yes, this is the kind of stuff that gives me a deep sensation of dread when looking at it. I also seek it out to inflict myself with that.
>>728500926>It's okay to not have any threatsThat sounds gay and boring
>>728515064library of babel is a kino storyhttps://dn790003.ca.archive.org/0/items/TheLibraryOfBabel/babel.pdf
>>728515028Stop using AAVE
>>728514883idk man, that shit SPOOKY. I'd prob just last like two days or smthin (then die of dehydration)
>>728515162The fuck is AAVE? Speak english faggot.
>>728514883Im gonna conjure a War and Peace type of epic using each square if that room as a placeholder for each character, chapter, etc. id nip my nails and pull strands of my hair to identify which is which. Gonna lose my mind but i think i can make it work and get my money
>>728515286African American Vernacular English. AAVE is literally in the dictionary so that anon was speaking English. Read a book sometime faggot
>>728515286
>>728515148Yeah it's hard to ignore the throughline from Borges to Dark Souls/Ico
>>728515456Sorry, I don't keep up with all your zoomer slang. Go jump in a pool.
>>728515286The fuck you jus say to me cuh? SHEEESH bluh.
>>728501531oh thank god.
>>728515286>>728515028Stop trying to sound like a black guy
>>728515493>Tyrone pulls out his phone and checks coinbase>"shiiieeeeeet"
>>728514883with food, water and a toilet would be okkind of like being an enemy of the state in torture prison but still totally doable, not even that hard for someone as fucked up as myself
>>728500926Without water your dead in 3 days. With water your dead in a month. Absolutely wise case you wander aimlessly for a month then die. Functionally the same but significantly less scary as being dropped in a random desert or whatever which is a real place
>>728515537I accept your concession
>>728514883Easily. I don't like sitting around doing nothing most of the time because I feel bad about wasting my life away. If I'm actually benefiting from it (e.g., 30 billion dollars on the line) then I don't have any of that guilt and anxiety because I know it's time well spent, and I can relax and daydreammaxx.
>>728515667>as being dropped in a random desert>>728515064>>728515148Speaking of Borges and liminal spaces here's another good one.
>>728501176>Who knows what you might find?literally nothing
>>728515873>>728515502based Borges bros, on /v/ of all places
>>728500926backrooms was conceptualized by 4chan millennials and given popularity by youtube 9gag zoomers
>>728500926Oh, I get it. Which is why I'm not hiring you.
>>728500926>zoomies got traumatized when they're moms were too busy taking selfies on their phone to watch them and they got lost at the mall
>>728500926Its just not scary. I do like liminal stuff though. I find them comfy.
>>728516889Did malls even exist when zoomers were kids?
>>728517019Barely. Zoomies getting lost in dying empty malls is making even more sense.
>>728500926I like exploring backrooms games but I don't get the horror aspect, or the autistic seething.>waahhh why can't this meme die aleady
>>728515873>and those who entered did They were losinggreat story bro
>>728517203>I like exploring backrooms gamesI too like to load random maps in gmod and then run around in them for hours. It's peak fun, especially because I can browse tiktok on my phone.
>>728514883>1 free year to get /fit/Where's the downside?
I mean makes me a little sad but not scared.
>>728500926>Why don't millenials understand this kind of horror?Millenials invented it, dumbfuck.
>>728500926I'm not even a millennial, the liminal meme just isn't scary.At worst, it's melancholic. Something like the backrooms gave the air of a life moved on, like a house after you finish packing to move.At best, it's comfy, like the proto-liminal pool people used to post. A private open air pool with inviting blue water? Hell yes I would be soaking.Whatever's supposed to be scary about it is just too abstract. Probably most people need the tension of "something will happen" to be spooked
>>728517452No food means no gains.
>>728517712no we didn't, we created scp
>>728517794my best guess is that nobody actually thinks it's scary, they just want to explore a mysterious place, but nobody wants to admit to it because they believe everyone thinks they are uncool fags, so they go>no guys, you don't get it, it's totally scary and horror stuff for mature kids like I am, I'm not a wuss guys, scary horror monster that wants to kill you etc etc
>>728517937are you fucking retarded, the original image that started the whole backrooms thing was a screenshot from 4chan
>>728517937The Backrooms is an SCP.
>>728500926You mean I don't need to go to work? Or talk to anybody?Sounds like a dream come true.
>>728514920The only thing scary about this image is all the gross bacteria sitting in that water with how dirty that all looks>>728517794Agreed, this one is max comfy.I can picture it now, the pure relaxing bliss of listening to the water while feeling a nice breeze
>>728500926Millennials understand liminal spaces just fine, and the horror that goes with it. We invented the whole concept.It's your fellow zoomers who have been so triggered by it.
>>728500926Millennials grew up with malls.
>>728500926because many of us can survive 3 seconds without having a phone screen in the face
>>728500926>millenialsWe made the backrooms, your generation was the one that filled them with ookie spookie shadow monsters and almond milk.
>>728517987extremely
>>728518591fair enough. good luck out there
>>728514920yeah this is what I meant lol. put me in any horror game or anything other than this and I'd take it
>>728514883Sorry but I could not do this in good conscience without knowing if my family was alright for a whole year.
>>728501693Most logical point itt. If you're over 30 you most likely had a big chunk or all of your childhood spent outdoors. This terrifies the zoomer because they've been helicopter parented and unfortunately grew up in an extremely low-trust society.>inb4Yeah nobody gives a fuck thirdies
>>728521326I spent most of my childhood indoors, why else would I be 36 and on 4chan talking to massive retards?
>>728501693It's fucked up because back then it was whimsical and unironically safe. Now you'll run into a druggie almost fucking immediately who ruins the entire experience>oh three crackheads live here, let's just leave :/And not just houses, these fucking druggies took over the wilderness too.
>>728523605Pretty much. If I had kids I'd never let them do the shit I did as a kid. They would be raped and killed and have their organs harvested by mexicans or something if they wandered around the places I did as a kid. The consequences of going from a mostly white high trust society to a diverse shithole.
>>728523739in Australia it's all the fucking African and Arab kids that are a massive danger, for whatever reason these little cunts think it's great to stab each other with knives.my opinion is these faggots should be deported along with their entire family so then at least other families will make sure their dumb fuck shithead kids stop murdering and stealing cars.Just so it's still vidya related I love exploring liminal spaces but the monsters ruin it for me because you can't really soak in the desolation.
>>728508862>empty swimming poolMaybe black people? Yeah I don't get it either
>>728518201This we also went to public pools before they were filled with Indian pedophiles.
>>728500926I like pools but I hate crowds so this is maximum comfy
>>728523948Deportation isn't enough. Extermination is the only solution. If you send them back someone will just import them again. We should all take a note from good old Vlad's playbook and put them up on pikes along the borders/shores of whatever place we live.
>>728524497They're just shitting in the pool instead.
>>728511562You have to be over 50 to not be a zoomer according to this board's primarily 60+ userbase.
>>728509665>not pictured: the absolute mindfucking she just got for an hour that led to her mind breaking
>>728514582nigger you don't need liminal spaces to be scared of starving and dying slowly, that's its own scary, liminal spaces themselves are not scary and you're basically admitting it
>>728500926Zoomers are afraid of liminal spaces because they resemble blue collar jobs like construction and renovation
>>728525041zoomers don't know what the word "liminal" means
>>728524881No, you just have be born before 91-92 or so.
>>728525375they don't know much in general to be fair
>>728514883anon, it's an established torture technique that, if you're not in a hurry works better than waterboarding.
>>728515064Library of Babel has some genuine philosophical horror in it, but it's not really a spooky story.
>>728525626Only works on browns because they can't exist outside of their tribal community, and isolation triggers the same dread white people feel when looking at an empty savings account.
>>728525718You sound like Golden Gate Claude.
>>728500926Because empty swimming halls aren't scary
What the fuck is OP talking about
>>728500926It's comfy thot. millenial
>>728500926If the only problem is the eventual starvation then there are plenty of places far worse to be stranded in that you'll die out slowly in.Its a very mundane kind of scenario because nothing about the place itself is particularly horrifying, its just kinda weird arichitecture, that frankly comes off as more intersting/calming than scary.And if there IS a monster then the threat and fear is whats stalking you in this infinite labyrinth, and lad, thats been a thing since at least as early as the greeks and the minotaur.
>>728508862yeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twc6QggZZpM
>>728525832He's explaining to us uncs why waiting outside in the hotel hallway while his mom cucked his dad is the essence of horror because lingering in a transitional space that exists only to connect other areas creates an eerie and mysterious atmosphere.
>>728500926Because things that millennials experienced as normal life as kids like staticy VHS tapes or Chuck E. Cheese animatronics is treated as horrifying by zoomers.Look at how all the comments in this vid of the SpongeBob end credits is people going "OMG THIS WAS SO SCARY IT CREEPED ME OUT SO BAD AS A KID": https://youtu.be/WyemTfxY7oM
>>728500926Because i find liminal spaces comfortable.I love them i don't feel scared because of them.
>>728526098What the fuck you're not bullshittingZoomers really are just retarded beyond belief
>>728526206>pic related, me chilling out in a liminal space pool while zoomers are having an existential crisis
>>728500926that's comfy. i hate mankind and every cozy empty space is welcome.
>>728526296>every cozy empty space is welcome
>>728526098I mean to be fair to them I find things that were normal in the middle ages like people being tortured and burned alive in the public square horrifying. Maybe each subsequent generation will become more and more pussified and zoomers grandkids will be 100% terrified of houseplants and candy wrappers and make three hour long video essays about it.
>>728526098>Had a small TV in my bedroom as a kid>Falling asleep while this played quietlyI don't feel nostalgia very often, but if there's anything, it's the Spongebob creditsI didn't realize some kids thought it was scary. Is that why they stopped playing the credits or something?
>>728526034Is starvation actually an issue? Most of these spooky stories tend to have other people or things wander in too. Worst case you can just kill and eat shit. I'd worry more about being poisoned by eating or drinking something funky than starving.
>>728512037>>728501139>You'll starve to death if left there for long enough.I don't think this is relevant to the concept since not a single "liminal horror" game includes any mechanics for hunger/thirst. It seems much more like it's meant to be scary because it's boring.
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>>728526271I actually find it hilarious that some people feel upset over the lack of a "third places" or whatnot in the US. As if there's not enough human interaction.Like man, if you feel lonely try living in an actual megapolis like NYC instead of a bumfuck village, you will hate people within a month and wish you were back home in Kansas.I feel like this liminal space fear is the part of the same mindset "oh god there's nobody there"
>>728514883It would be rough and I wouldn't want to do it, but for 30 BILLION? If I'll get food, water and hole to shit and piss in, lock me the fuck up.My mind can entertain me three hundred sixty five different ways, this is the difference between actual humans and soulless bugmen automatons
>>728526395>Is that why they stopped playing the credits or something?I haven't watch Nickelodeon in years, but in TV there's been this trend for years where they don't really play the end credit music to shows because it's considered lost air space. So instead they shove the credits to the side while playing a commercial, or ad for another show, or letting you know what's coming up next, etc.So you're not as likely to see end credits in their original form with the end credit theme song. Random aside, but I always did like the sound of the Ren and Stimpy end credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glwny2JF-iE
>>728500926Is doing generational bait a new meta for yous?
>>728526830always easiest to cast the widest net
>>728526481>if you feel lonely try living in an actual megapolis like NYC instead of a bumfuck villageWell yeah because if you're in a small town you might recognize lots of people there, so being friendly and going "OH HI TED" when you run into people you recognize at the local hardware store or whatever can be normal. But if you're in let's say New York, if you try to be friendly with a random person on the street they'll be like "WTF WHY IS THIS GUY TALKING TO ME I DON'T KNOW HIM".This sort of thing has gotten worse over time because in the past it was normal to grow up in a small town where you'd see people you knew from your years in high school working random jobs in your small town. But the modern economy has lots of people switching jobs at an increasing rate and driving like an hour away from where they live. Like how many of you think you can do the old trope of knocking on your neighbor's place and being like "hey Bill can I borrow a cup of sugar?"Even having kids knocking on neighborhood doors for Trick or Treating is increasingly rarer.
>>728526830Shitting on zoomers isn't bait, it's a pastime.
>>728501176This. This is the millenial mentality and why zoomers can't understand it. Millenials see strange wide open spaces and think "oh shit this looks kinda cool to explore. I wonder what I can find in this place".
>>728527019That latter one is because trick or treating in anything but the nicest neighborhoods is asking for the kid to get kidnapped, raped, murdered, and their organs sold for drug money.
>>728500926generation memes are stupid, you should feel bad
>>728501983Let's settle it once and for all:https://poal.me/pkth59https://poal.me/pkth59https://poal.me/pkth59
>>728517794liminal just got severely overused, just like every niche thing that went mainstream.the actual "scary" such things were being in a vast space like a closed down mall or school at night, or in major public places that you feel should be full of life but are completely void of it (same reason empty multiplayer maps can feel eerie).at the end of the day they're just creepy or mildly unsettling at worst, the feeling that something bad has happened or that something is severely off - not "duhhh i am le losing my heckin mind duuhhh too scary to function duhh"
>>728504151This but unironically that shit ruins my hair
BRO don't ever post that again this shit is skibidi scary!
>>728527019I still remember when it was normal to just show up at your friends house randomly, i don't think zoomers do such things lol
>>728527160>trick or treating in anything but the nicest neighborhoods is asking for the kid to get kidnapped, raped, murdered, and their organs sold for drug money.Yeah people are paranoid about that now but not too long ago when millenials were kids it was perfectly normal for kids to spend all day riding their bike around town with zero adult supervision. Getting into all kinds of little kid shenanigans. But nowadays it's like adults have such paranoia of every dude being a pedo they can't even let the kids go out to an Ice Cream Truck without being like "HHM... I DON'T TRUST THIS GUY..."
>>728527506I think it can be a pretty cool setting depending on how you work it in. Echo is a game that would come to mind in making liminal spaces work as a setting, it's just too bad the rest of the game wasn't that great.
>>728527616I genuinely miss these daysfriends just show up at your house unannouncedor maybe someone would call on the landline, but not always. We can never go back to the days before everyone was glued to smart phones and social media. I'm coping alright by just playing games or whatever, but let's be honest this is just worse, especially for young people
>>728527617When we were kids shit was much safer. It's sad by true. It's not some dude in ice cream truck you have to worry about, it's jose, jamal, muhammad, and rajeesh.
>>728500926Now that I think about it: Zoomers grew up with navigation systems anywhere. They grew up in a post "GPS for everyone" world.No wonder "getting lost" is more of a horror to them: they have zero navigational skills. They never trained them as GPS (and minimaps in video games quite frankly) is actively detrimental to that skill.Because of that the moment you remove any means if quickly finding out where you are they are just lost entirely with no ability to use i.e. context clues to figure out a way out.A central, millions of years old instinct and skill, straight up doesn't exist anymore in Gen Z.
>>728527790Not to mention every single game holds your hand and tells you exactly where to go these days, and has built in minimaps etc. Older games were more archaic in their navigation, less handholdy, easier to get lost and that sort of thing. people who grew up without having their hand held in-game are less likely to be afraid of muh liminal space games. It's based on how people react on the freedom to figure things out on their own. It should be excitement, not fear.
>>728527790>b-but how do you navigate THE GRID???it's actually really easy you just remember the main streets and highways and where they connect and then in your head you split the entire city into sectors and you always know the rough location of where you need to go.
>>728527790>No wonder "getting lost" is more of a horror to them: they have zero navigational skills.It's been scientifically proven that men are better at knowing where the fuck they are and navigating back home than women do. This is due to evolution creating the hunter/gatherer dynamic. Where dudes would go out walking miles to find some animal to hunt and then also somehow find themselves back home at the end of the day. This is before maps, lets alone GPS. I remember walking around in nature in da woods and as it started getting dark my male brain just somehow knew the way home.
>>728500926what's the horror here?
>>728527790It exists it's just untrained.The human mind is built for navigating landscapes and language exists to describe landmarks, journeys and the locations of resources.You can't lose something so fundamental.Your eyes don't vanish if you live all your life in darkness.Your legs don't fall off if you never stand.Although now I've written this I think I can probably detect zoomer posting from the lack of relational and positional vocabulary."Let's go" for instance is not alpha or zoomer lexicon since it implies travel or traversal, it's purloined from millennials. It's something they must say with a sense of irony.
>>728528214>"Let's go" for instance is not alpha or zoomer lexicon since it implies travel or traversal, it's purloined from millennials.There's some nigger zoomer streamer/youtuber who tries to get PlayStation trophies and every time he succeeds in something he just repeats>LET'S GO>LET'S GO!>LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO BRAH!"
>>728500926we have the paris catacombs that are basically exactly what you describe and yet most don't consider them some pants pissing level of horror
>>728507589The fact that you couldn't even be bothered to watch the entire 46 second long video without being distracted is proof of how rotten your brain is.
>>728528195the drone of the flouro lights
>>728500926Empty space is not enough to be scary on its own. I know I won't be lost because it's a game. And there's nothing to latch on to if I want to immerse. It's just an undercooked execution of a good idea.
>>728525689what's the philosophical horror?
>>728504524Editor play a super loud mario jump sound effect thank you
>>728500926It's just not scary, it's almost comfy. Pools especially, I WANT to explore that place (actual irl concerns like food and water notwithstanding).I think millennials might just be the most fearless and the best, we laughed at the Exorcist which gen X found utterly terrifying, and we're not afraid of isolation and quiet.PS. I'm a millennial but I'm not biased
>>728500926>zoomers think baths are scaryjust go take a shower. i'm begging you.
>>728523605it was never safe dude, you just only heard about bad shit on the news back thenthere were still predators living down the streetpeople just lived in blissful ignorancemy dad met Gacy beforeI had a guy invite us inside and give us a dollar on halloween, probably decided not to kill us
>>728504424i mean, if i had a woman inside me then my goal of sex would already be accomplished.
>>728500926it's scary because there's no way out, but you still insist on exploring, in hopes you'll somehow surviveit's a parallel to zoomer mental health
>>728500926because we lived through it bro.everything you guys post about meme spaces is just shit we saw in our childhood.and it was creepy as shit at times.but also it's just a fucking place.
>>728500926>It's about being in a huge empty space and fear of getting lost forever.How would get lost forever? It's just a building nigga, like ipen the door and walk outside. What are you, retarded?
>>728529797this reminds meparanormal shit seemed way more real back thenyou didn't know what was out there without the internet and video recordings happening everywhere
>>728517794The Backrooms was scary as a concept because it's the dimensional equivalent of the Paris Catacombs except there is no way out, no hope of escape.
>>728500926I like the liminal space/backrooms thing, but I don't really consider it horror. There's probably some proper term for it. There is a certain horror element waiting outside of what this is, but it relies on the horror not making itself clear. It is possible to add direct horror to it though, such as in the Kane Pixels mall video series with the rolling statue. It's hard to add the horror aspect in a truly intimidating way, because there has to be a build up to it, and it has to feel like it belongs to the environment.
>>728524974Starving and dying slowly is scary but there's nothing inherently scary about it happening in the desert or on an island because those places are where you would expect to starve to death. The liminal space areas on the other hand are creepier in the way that they lower your guard by making you think they're some chill place based off areas you always wanted to have all to yourself to explore only for that dread to slowly creep in once you realize that you're in a death trap.
>>728529797experiencing these places in real life is actually a requirement for understanding the appeal of liminal spaces. if you grew up on an amish farm or something, you would've never e.g. seen the endless carpeted, dim halls in a movie theater complex or convention center stretching on endlessly and imagined getting lost somewhere in it. being into the idea of liminal spaces requires you to take that naive, childish perception of human infrastructure and imagine it as real for a moment.
>>728500926Millennnls want chungus zombies in that
>>728500926>well lit>clean>no fucking idiot retard people aroundSeems peaceful
>>728529695Safety isn't binary. Anon's not saying no one ever died or got hurt, the chance was just much lower.
>>728504852Made me think of this.
>>728500926I’m a millennial and it looks kind of spooky to me>>728503049It’s empty, but shouldn’t be. Unless you’re, like, a maintenance guy. It’s a little spooky. If there’s a good, non-spooky reason why it’s empty, then it’s not spooky, but that’s not obvious from the photo.Indoor pools are a little bit alien in Southern California. That makes it a little weird and spooky.On the other hand I can look at my gym’s outdoor pool when it’s empty and it’s not spooky at all, because the cardio room is alive with people in it.This seems way less spooky, like a sheltered tiny lap pool for a $10M house in the hills overlooking Los Angeles >>728527506>same reason empty multiplayer maps can feel eerieThis
I love this stuff. It's not scary though. It's cosy.
>I will not surrounded by retards/v/ is full of narcissts lol
>>728500926For me, this shit is comfy, not scary.>>728501531Don't threaten me with a good time
>>728529948because zoomers have an excessive need to have the mystery ruined due to ADHD brainrot.something is only scary when their is an unknown, humans even in the worst of situations have a tendency towards stoicism in the face of total obliteration even out of spite it seems.I digress, things seemed spoopier when you don't know every factor.>>728531296Rivergate mall, nashville TN direct citation.the mall is quite literally closing down as we speak. last week week I went into it and it was surreal.a mall I had walked hundreds of times as a child in the 80s/90s now reduced to weird carpeted twist and turns with no one in the building.it was actually creepier because it had the lights on still, but just endless closed stores.made weirder by the fact a decade ago they had already closed off half the mall and I was only experiencing 1/2 of it.
>>728500926Whenever I see these images it just makes me want to float in the pool and listen to the sound the moving water. Very comfy.
>>728500926This game rocks, and is not at all scary.
>>728500926Why are zoomers so obsessed with millennials?
>>728526345those woods are literally a cosy empty space.
[casually goes insane]
>>728514883I'm assuming you aren't literally locked in for the full year (can leave at any time, just won't get the money), so I'd certainly give it a try. I may be overestimating my autism brain, but if lacking outward stimulation I can find it other ways. At the very least, any music or movies I'm very familiar with I could attempt to recreate internally.
>>728534541trying to take shots at people half a decade older than they are, is all they have sometimes.They were calling us old when we were 25 and they were 20, and now they're 28, and the reality hasn't caught up on them yet.
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>>728500926>I need to get out of here! >start running >slip>break neckTrue horror
