u/WelshWolf93

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The story of how a game gave me a concussion, lmao. Resident Evil Biohazard. I don't get phased or suprised by horrors often. I feel tense, which is why I like them, but at most I'll usually do a quick breath in or widen my eyes if i'm shocked. The same went for this game, with the exception of one moment.

It was during the section with the lady who walks around with insects flying around her. I thought I had finished the area so I spent a good 30mins backtracking and seeing if I missed any supplies.

Once I was satisfied, I remember to proceed the game I had to walk up some stairs and use a key on a door. I knew I had the key in my inventory and I that I still needed to unlock the door - so I just sprinted up to the door, with my guard completely lowered as I had been walking around this area for 30mins.

I was playing on a ps4 on my sofa. 2:00 in the morning, headphones full volume - sitting on the edge of my sofa, leaning forward with my elbows on my knees.

As I reached the door, insect lady smashes it open from the other side at 9000% volume and screams GET OUT or something to that effect.

Never in my life have I moved so fast. I literally sprung backwards, legs fully extended like a bloody frog. Smashed the back of my head into the wall (I live in U.K and our walls are basically like stone, not drywall).

I nearly "whited" out. I would say blacked out, but my vision literally turned white and sorted of faded from the edges inwards until I could just see a pinhole.

With the exception of smashing my head into the wall, i've been chasing that high ever since.

I'll go first:

The story of how a game gave me a concussion, lmao. Resident Evil Biohazard. I don't get phased or suprised by horrors often. I feel tense, which is why I like them, but at most I'll usually do a quick breath in or widen my eyes if i'm shocked. The same went for this game, with the exception of one moment.

It was during the section with the lady who walks around with insects flying around her. I thought I had finished the area so I spent a good 30mins backtracking and seeing if I missed any supplies.

Once I was satisfied, I remember to proceed the game I had to walk up some stairs and use a key on a door. I knew I had the key in my inventory and I that I still needed to unlock the door - so I just sprinted up to the door, with my guard completely lowered as I had been walking around this area for 30mins.

I was playing on a ps4 on my sofa. 2:00 in the morning, headphones full volume - sitting on the edge of my sofa, leaning forward with my elbows on my knees.

As I reached the door, insect lady smashes it open from the other side at 9000% volume and screams GET OUT or something to that effect.

Never in my life have I moved so fast. I literally sprung backwards, legs fully extended like a bloody frog. Smashed the back of my head into the wall (I live in U.K and our walls are basically like stone, not drywall).

I nearly "whited" out. I would say blacked out, but my vision literally turned white and sorted of faded from the edges inwards until I could just see a pinhole.

With the exception of smashing my head into the wall, i've been chasing that high ever since.

Theory about the phone calls from The Knight, and the Knights true nature.

This is two different theories rolled into one, but hear me out and let me know what you think.

A summary of the theory: (1)The Knight is Noelle fused with the SOUL, but not Kris. (2) there are some timey-wimey shenanigans afoot.

The reasoning behind the theory:

At the end of Chapter 5 Weird route we see Noelle and Kris descend into the lake, to presumably perform an out-of-bounds glitch.

From Undertale, we know that humans can persist beyond death due to their soul/determination. We also know that monsters are capable of absorbing human souls, without any special magic or training - as Chara ate poisoned buttercups so Asriel would automatically absorb their soul and gain great power from it.

I speculate that Kris and Noelle successfuly performed an out of bounds glitch, but during that process Kris' soul transferred to Noelle (either because Kris 'died' from drowning or because they literally gave it to Noelle last second knowing that it would keep her alive).

Where they ended up would be an entire seperate theory so i'll just say: If this is correct, wherever Noelle and Kris ended up, Noelle is confused and in the dark, and Kris is in an advanced version of how their body performs during moments where they rip out their heart.

First Phone Call:

White text: "(1)Dark....Fountain...Next. (2)need.... soul.... (3)without soul... Kris... Will....(4)Police...Sacrifice...Next week...(5)Church Tonight. (6)Kris... Dark World... No Soul...can't... "

Red text: (1)susie... must not get.... Guitar...(2)Susie...Guitar...Code...Stop.

If nothing else: the white text shows the Knight talking to Kris, informing them *about* Kris as if they were someone else. So somehow, somewhere, sometime, They are without a soul.

It could read:

"Need soul. Without soul, Kris will (die)" and "Kris (is in a) Dark world (but has) No soul. (They) cant (seal fountain)."

The obvious hole in this theory is that in order for it to be true, the phone call from the knights perspective takes place directly after chapter 5 weird route, but we know that the knight was present prior to this. My only retort would be that Gaster himself was "shattered across time and space" through his experiments with determination. So what's to say that Noelle, another monster experimenting with Determination, wouldn't also be shattered across time and space?

Last note: this is admittedly a theory that I wouldn't latch onto if we had ALL the content. But as it stands it is a very interesting premise that i'll be holding in the back of my mind during future content

This was a game that you played on web browser, and I am 99.9% sure it was Resident Evil branded.

From memory, all you would do is select two different strains of DNA and click a button to fuze them, then it would show you the result and save that new "strain" to your selection for the next attempt.

I know for a fact that animal DNA was a part of it because the one memory I have is mixing shark DNA with something. I vaguelly remember the creations being humanoid in nature, kind of like if you were designing Nemesis.

Only played it a few times on weekends so I cant remember much detail other than it had a dark UI, like a dark-mode page would, and that the selections would all be on the left and it would show images on the right

The question may seem a bit weird but if you are familiar with Petscop / catastrophe krow - you know what I mean.

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Effectively, I want to be able to record myself playing a collectathon style game under the premise that it is a real game, using the enviroment and dialogue to create a psychological horror story.

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As no one will ever actually play the game, only watch my videos of me playing it (under the pretense that I wasnt the creator) I imagine I'd be able to take a lot of shortcuts in terms of coding and whatnot, because I just need to create the illusion of playing a game, rather than creating a fully fleshed out system.

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I don't mind putting in the work to learn a new program - but I want to be able to focus on the story and ARG aspects of it rather than frying my head with learning. Graphics aren't important, will mostly be similar in graphical style to Petscop rather than catastrophe Krow

Let me preface this by saying that I hope there is something i've missed, or that i'm just looking at this the wrong way, so please feel free to "lecture" me on anything I missed. I won't take offence.

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I'm a big fan of Kane Pixels work and have watched more or less since the beginning, but havent rewatched in a while. my first gripe is that a lot of the things that (subjectively) serve as the foundation of The Backrooms seem to be changed, for no real pay off. "Noclip" was replaced with "invisible doors" due to Asyncs experiments, removing the horror and madness of being truly trapped. The carpet wasn't moist, removing the "constantly uncomfortable and unsettling" atmosphere. The wireframe monster was replaced with an insanely goofy caricature of Clarke that seems unique to him, when the other character get a "still life" (the ones with creepy faces) for no discernable reason.

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The Backrooms used to be presented as this unknowable, uncanny, liminal space. But the movie seems to imply that once you go into the backrooms, it "remembers" and recreates you / your environment and memoroes. Like some sort of Generative AI liminal space that considers you training data. It felt like the movie was constantly switching between "The Backrooms" has symbolic messaging to "Backrooms: The Movie" itself is a symbolic message.

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I love theory crafting and reading between the lines. For example, the redheaded still-life at the end was likely based off of Clarkes memory of his wife, and the Goofy Pirate was based off of how Clarke hates to be seen (as a angry, clumsy drunk who has to dress as a pirate to sell overpriced furniture) - and this is why when the pirate comes in, the redhead still-life goes mental and tries running away into a corner - because "Wife memory" would naturally be afraid of "Abusive drunk husband memory"

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But then there are other things that I just can't understand the purpose of (hopefully someone here can enlighten me) things like the electric breaker in the real world having those out-of-place and oddly positioned switches at the bottom. How? Why? The implication is that the backrooms is spreading its influence into the real world through these doors, any selectively effected the lights, but the movie never touches on it again (sequel, or something I forgot from youtube maybe?) Or maybe it's some sort of message about how the lines between your memory and reality can be blurred?

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Another thing is I felt like the tension was good in places but horrible in others. I understand that characters would be confused when first seeing the backrooms, but did we really need to focus on 4 different peoples slow and stunned reaction to it? There were many times I was pulled out of immersion because I was effectively waiting for the character to wrap their head around what they were seeing so that the movie can continue - despite knowing deep down that they are going to do wander until they see something scary.

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There isn't any character with a unique and compelling reaction to the backrooms, other than the completely random shift to Clarke living there. I still don't understand how he went from running for his life screaming "get away from me" to sitting down eating dinner with them... or rather, eating dinner that **is** them. It seemed to be bizarre for the sake of being bizarre.

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Ultimately, I went in thinking I was going to see a true narrative play out within a popular liminal space, and left feeling like I had watched a long youtube video using the backrooms as a vehicle to teach us the importance of moving on and changing behaviours that you've had since a child - except the two didnt seem to mesh very well at all.

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I didn't hate the movie, but it's not one I would hype up to my friends or family - wheras all my friends who watched it before me said it was 10/10 movie. I'm certain that there must be nuance or some key takeaway that i'm missing, or that my expectations were too high due to youtube or friends reviews.

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Please educate me because i'd love to be able to rewatch and get more enjoyment from it.

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For example, mine is:

Instead of "Same sh*t, different day"

I say

"Same panic, different disco"

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People are mad that Jax died and didnt get brought back from Abstraction.

People are also mad that Caine came back.

Hear me out. The way I saw it; they are mirrors to each other, and even as a Jax fan, I have to say: they both deserved AND authored their own endings.

Jax caused harm to others, whilst intending to push them away - only to draw them in.

He Abstracts, which we know is basically digital suicide, and says "I did this. Theres no coming back from this" (and honestly, telling a fanbase THIS impressionable that if you kill yourself there's no coming from it was absolutely the correct play) He had empathy and support, he had peers, he had 3 different people actively take an interest in his wellbeing.he simply couldnt let himself be vulnerable or bring himself to trust other humans and in not doing so - solidified his own death

Caine, meanwhile, caused harm to others, whilst intending to draw them in - only to push them away. He doesnt kill himself, he GETS killed. He takes accountability for his actions. He hit digital rock bottom and crawled his way out, overcoming his negative thoughts and busting through every obstacle with determination. He had no help, he had no peers, he had 0 people actively take an interest in his wellbeing and was killed by the only people he has ever met. He sacrifices his blue orb power, makkng him more vulnerable - despite being killed once at full power. He managed to trust in the humans, and in doing so - solidifed his own redemption.

Ultimately the message is this: There is nothing you can't come back from - except suicide.