Like the kind of place you go in your dream when IRL your mouth is open and dry af, but you're asleep and all you know is that you're really thirsty. It's a cursed vending machine, where no matter how much you drink, your thirst is never gone.
Like the opposite of "the bathroom" dream where you really need to pee.
I generally struggle with this type of event so it's great to go explore with the kids and have an excuse for not mingling.
It doesn't really matter that the room is boring or liminal or whatever. Exploring is grade-A entertainment for toddlers. There's guaranteed to be a dropped paperclip or pen cap or some other treasure in here somewhere.
My dad had some powerful friends. They rented out an aquarium in Tampa for a wedding, and my family went. Because the place was completely empty, my parents just let me run where ever I want. I gotta tell you, that's some real backrooms shit.
they have nights at the aquarium at monterey bay in california. i'm not sure what they cost because i'm too lazy to look it up, but i'm sure you can throw enough money at them to give you a private night. the standard adults' night at the aquarium sounds fun tho.
This is so real. I got taken to so many MLM conferences and health/wealth events as a kid and this is 100% like the upstairs rooms we found to wait it out.
I used to play around in a mormon church when it wasn't in service because it was like one of these weird liminal spaces in the halls, and the main chapel part was like a space ship. I had access because it was where my choir class was held, since it had a music hall.
But yeah, the general point is well taken. They’re so value-priced institutional. You could just imagine the bean counters in Salt Lake revising the approved architectural drawings and paint colors for Tithing Generation Facility, model 1988, rev. 3.
Which is wild since they have 250+ billion net worth, including investment and property holdings, like malls. Which are also liminal. Oh snap, I think I'm onto something here.
My parents wouldn't have gone there, but my little brother and I would've explored the shit out of places like this. Seeing someplace so empty would've triggered our imaginations, we'd probably end up pretending the room is actually full of stuff but it's all invisible or something.
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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 91 pts · 47d
Perfect. They've got a place for me to plug in my Game Gear.
red_tomato@lemmy.world · 83 pts · 47d
Yes, but it’s this Pepsi vending machine
sheridan@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 47d
There's a car shop near me that still has one of these in use.
far_university1990@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 47d
Ask owner if can buy if break, then buy new machine and put old poster in.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 10 pts · 46d
Now this is podracing!
Apeman42@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 47d
That machine feels anomalous somehow. Like it only dispenses drinks that never existed or something.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 78 pts · 47d
It still contains fresh Crystal Pepsi.
protist@retrofed.com · 18 pts · 47d
It's a Pepsi machine that only dispenses RC Cola
charonn0@startrek.website · 16 pts · 47d
It's clearly haunted.
LostCarcosan@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 46d
cocks gun
Pepsi's haunted
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 47d
Dream Soda
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 47d
Like the kind of place you go in your dream when IRL your mouth is open and dry af, but you're asleep and all you know is that you're really thirsty. It's a cursed vending machine, where no matter how much you drink, your thirst is never gone.
Like the opposite of "the bathroom" dream where you really need to pee.
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 66 pts · 47d
My favourite part of the Backrooms movie is where he says "It's backroomin' time".
MrChewy@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 46d
Maybe the real backrooms were the friends we made along the way 😌
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 46d
That's actually a pretty good summary of the plot.
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 47d
"Backroom jockey!"
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 2 pts · 46d
Living rooms bedrooms dinettes!
Ulterior motives!
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 3 pts · 46d
"Where have you been, Clark?"
"There are some rooms in the back of my furniture store."
"Wait, say that again..."
fizzle@quokk.au · 45 pts · 47d
Dad here.
I generally struggle with this type of event so it's great to go explore with the kids and have an excuse for not mingling.
It doesn't really matter that the room is boring or liminal or whatever. Exploring is grade-A entertainment for toddlers. There's guaranteed to be a dropped paperclip or pen cap or some other treasure in here somewhere.
sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io · 3 pts · 46d
I feel seen. Love taking the kids with me literally anywhere. So much better hanging out them over adults.
EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml · 44 pts · 47d
Liminal pepsi
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 47d
B E P I S
TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 46d
C O N K E
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 47d
My dad had some powerful friends. They rented out an aquarium in Tampa for a wedding, and my family went. Because the place was completely empty, my parents just let me run where ever I want. I gotta tell you, that's some real backrooms shit.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 46d
they have nights at the aquarium at monterey bay in california. i'm not sure what they cost because i'm too lazy to look it up, but i'm sure you can throw enough money at them to give you a private night. the standard adults' night at the aquarium sounds fun tho.
kirkoman@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 47d
This is so real. I got taken to so many MLM conferences and health/wealth events as a kid and this is 100% like the upstairs rooms we found to wait it out.
prettybunnys@piefed.social · 9 pts · 46d
Holiday Inn hotels were required to have 2/3 conference rooms and an attached Restaurant.
All across America are holiday Inns with empty vaults like this, with some form of “top of the line at the time” conference room system in disrepair.
Smaile@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 46d
youve just explained the underlining concept of the backrooms
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 25 pts · 47d
Backrooms?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 24 pts · 47d
I used to play around in a mormon church when it wasn't in service because it was like one of these weird liminal spaces in the halls, and the main chapel part was like a space ship. I had access because it was where my choir class was held, since it had a music hall.
0ops@piefed.zip · 7 pts · 47d
I was gonna say this meme is super mormon-church-y
wjrii@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 46d
Can’t be. No burlap-sack wallpaper.
But yeah, the general point is well taken. They’re so value-priced institutional. You could just imagine the bean counters in Salt Lake revising the approved architectural drawings and paint colors for Tithing Generation Facility, model 1988, rev. 3.
littlewonder@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 46d
Which is wild since they have 250+ billion net worth, including investment and property holdings, like malls. Which are also liminal. Oh snap, I think I'm onto something here.
0ops@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 46d
Lmao scratching that shit was the only stimulation I ever got in there
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 46d
memories...
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 47d
My parents wouldn't have gone there, but my little brother and I would've explored the shit out of places like this. Seeing someplace so empty would've triggered our imaginations, we'd probably end up pretending the room is actually full of stuff but it's all invisible or something.
Ariselas@piefed.ca · 18 pts · 47d
I remember this machine, it was out of stock on everything but Fresca and wouldn't give me my quarters back.
comador@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 47d
or stocked with Mr Pibb in place of Dr. Pepper and Sierra Mist for Sprite.
db2@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 47d
Sierra Mist was superior, fight me.
HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 47d
7up crew
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 47d
Pibb is the shit
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 47d
Mine just carried different colors of "cola".
EnsignWashout@startrek.website · 2 pts · 46d
Yes. Cola, Orange Cola, Rootbeer Cola, Mister Cherry, or Zest!*
`*
All colas except Zest and sold out. Pressing Zest! delivers Orange Cola.cram42@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 47d
Giving me serious Black Mesa vibes.
Etterra@discuss.online · 9 pts · 47d
This must be where the almond water comes from.
TheFresh16@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 47d
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 47d
Ohhhh, Back Rooms!