Anon watches Backrooms

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AnyOldName3@lemmy.world · 130 pts · 72d (9 replies)

He's just worried about the power bill. It costs a lot to heat and light an infinite number of rooms.

Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 26 pts · 72d (1 reply)

Surely several of those infinite rooms contain large nuclear power plants providing at least some of the infinite power required ..

IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 22 pts · 72d

in the lore, the source is unknown but we know that the lights and power grid are designed for indefinite use, in lighting and tile survey

and if theres the null zones, the sun, etc

TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 72d (4 replies)

Open for business as a hotel and make infinite revenue.

davidgro@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 72d (2 replies)

Oh I've heard this one. What if it's already full of infinite people and infinitely more arrive?

justaman123@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 44d

Easy just have each person move to the next room. What's that there's a bus with infinite^2 people on board no worries just send each person up stairs or down stairs depending on whether the see an up ramp of a down ramp first

mech@feddit.org · 2 pts · 71d

It's fine unless they have weird names

napkin2020@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 72d

With infinite lawsuits

toxicbubble@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 72d (1 reply)

also a major fire hazard

WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 71d

Seriously. What happens if you set fire to the backrooms? Or are they just entirely made of material incapable of propagating fire?

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 72d (9 replies)

Honestly, perfect place for datacentres. Unlimited water in the pool area, electric sockets are likely live, unlimited space, no noise pollution, just have to put a data cable though the threshold.

I'm pretty sure the backrooms if they were real, they wouldn't be a horror thing, it would be full of people mapping it and living there. there would be a small organised millitia to neutralize dangerous stilllives. Plenty of hydroponic agriculture.

It would be interesting to see cities in the backrooms, where being there is just a normal thing... Nevermind, it already exists, it's called the Toronto Path

Xerxos@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 72d (2 replies)

Well, there was something similar: Kowloon Walled City

A truly fascinating place.

I guess the backrooms would be quite similar.

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 72d (1 reply)

i heard that when it was shut down. despite how inhospitable it looked, many didn't want to leave. they liked living in such a tight community. It didn't seem dystopian to them.

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 67d

When it’s all you know…

I mean, people pine for living under awful dictators, too.

Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 72d (2 replies)

there would be a small organised millitia to neutralize dangerous stilllives

Yes, but the still lifes aren't the only danger. There is still the time warps, instability of walls and flooring with the null zones, the bacteria.

And IMO contact with the backrooms clearly a induces a form of paranoid schizophrenia, as seen by some of Kane's work.

So it would be an inevitable disaster to use the backrooms for any useful purposes.

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 71d (1 reply)

I'm obviously only going be the movie lore, I have not consumed the entire backroom corpus

Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 71d

Fair enough, it's quite a bit of content to watch through

IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 11 pts · 72d

thats Async's vision ASpace

festnt@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 72d (1 reply)

i think the randomly appearing and disapearing chairs and stuff might mean a datacenter would need a lot of maintenance

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 72d

We can study it and use it? what if we get multiple server racks and clip them all into each other, triple the compute power on the same space, although cooling would be the limiting factor.

Yaky@slrpnk.net · 28 pts · 72d (1 reply)

Barbarian had a joke with landlord getting excited about such "additional square footage".

zammy95@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 72d

I whispered to my friends that Justin Long would have been ecstatic

Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 72d

Didn't watch the movie, huh?

FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 72d (1 reply)

Fuckin landlords when they watch backrooms

JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 72d

Including the magic door annex, rent now comes to $∞.99 per month. Plus tax.

eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 72d (4 replies)

So is Backrooms an adaptation of House of Leaves?

Cause the premise seems very similar, and I'm wondering whether I should bother watching it/recommend HoL to people who liked it.

megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 71d (1 reply)

Backrooms (the movie) is based on the backrooms(a collection of of internet fiction written by a lot of people in a shared setting with a shared premise), which was inspired by a lot of things because the concepts behind it were built up by a lot of people. House of Leaves probably had an influence because it’s decently well known but there is no direct relation. I’m sure if you dug through some forums, boards and subreddits you could find someone talking about a direct inspiration for a piece or two, but it’s not really a formalized set of works

IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 70d

its baeed on kanes backrooms, not the wiki one

IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 70d

no, but its inspired by it

Cratermaker@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 71d

Definitely some major similarities, but HoL has a lot more depth (no pun intended).

silicon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 71d

Sounds like a great place to start your own storage facility.

IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 72d (2 replies)

there are yellow suits, I can get lost, there is something else

IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 4 pts · 72d

and null zones connect to different parts of the world, and the DoE and Async are already on it

IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 72d
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Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 71d

Borges: infinite number of rooms you say?