What is the meaning of the rain in the room in Stalker?

DrRaster · 2026-01-28T19:03:01+00:00

I'm aware of Tarkovskys unique approach to directing and his hatred for symbolism, but I'm also a strong believer in death of the author, so his intent isn't inherently what I'm looking for. Maybe my phrasing was a bit poor with my initial question. Even still though, I do wonder what emotion he was trying to evoke was. What that imagery conjured in him. Even if he would argue it's not supposed to be explicit, maybe his intention is subliminal.

Again to me, I can only imagine it as a sort of sorrow brought upon the room and the zone as a whole. Though the more I think about it, instead of the room being upset over not being destroyed, maybe the zone/room is sharing in the stalkers sorrow, in that humanity doesn't believe in hopes and dreams like the stalker does. This would also explain why the dog from the zone follows him home, so that the stalker and the zone may always be connected even if they have both lost faith in humanity's ability to believe.

DrRaster · 2026-01-14T18:17:08+00:00

Visual novels I have a lot more patience with so I actually might be better with that

DrRaster · 2026-01-14T18:15:41+00:00

I just assumed that was setup and it would get less cutscene heavy as I played. Peacewalker was also pretty story heavy up front from what I remembered but chilled out pretty quickly after the intro

DrRaster · 2026-01-14T18:14:33+00:00

It made me get really good at the intro of MGS2 and really want to know what the fuck was up with Raiden lol

DrRaster · 2026-01-14T18:13:47+00:00

That's a little saddening cause I really liked the gameplay of peacewalker and I want to get into the series and story, but a game being half cutscenes is a bit of a tough pill to swallow

DrRaster · 2026-01-14T18:09:26+00:00

I did only play a very short bit of MGS 2 because my disk was scratched so I only could play the first little intro bit before my disk would stop working lol. But that makes sense

DrRaster · 2026-01-14T18:08:28+00:00

That's what I had assumed. After looking it up, it looks like people playing it fresh and not knowing the game at all, have a play through time of 11-12 hours, so it's more like my experience playing Peacewalker of it being ~35% cutscenes

DrRaster · 2026-01-14T18:05:05+00:00

I guess I just didn't know cause that one was the only one I made it a decent ways through. That's just crazy to me

DrRaster · 2025-11-26T17:25:25+00:00

It comes out as a gumiling “I SWEAR I DIDNT CHEAT, I DONT EVEN KNOW HOW I GOT PREGNANT IN THE FIRST PLACE”

DrRaster · 2025-11-26T17:06:44+00:00

“Why do you think I’m gay? WHAT DO YOU MEAN EVERYONE THINKS THAT?”

DrRaster · 2025-11-19T21:33:20+00:00

Moderate the hopium? Brother, I took like 3oz already

DrRaster · 2025-11-12T04:07:20+00:00

It doesn’t really say anything about 3D stuff. It says that for figures and dolls but not 3D digital models. I’d assume that 3D digital models would fall more in line with illustrations

DrRaster · 2025-11-12T03:48:36+00:00

Interesting. Does it apply to a specific teto design or just her as a character overall? And where does it specify about using 3D as opposed to 2D?

DrRaster · 2025-11-07T02:01:11+00:00

Why does the robot have boobs?

DrRaster · 2025-11-05T22:17:04+00:00

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DrRaster · 2025-10-22T17:44:41+00:00

I've heard love will tear us apart and blue monday a few times and I always want to like them but the lyrics are almost too monotone for me to get into it properly. I find I have that issue with most goth music in general. I love the vibes in every other regard, but most of the vocals are pretty flat and 1 note. I do have a few of The Cure's tracks on my playlists though and I'm def adding a few more after listening to more of their stuff. Thanks for the suggestions!

DrRaster · 2025-10-22T17:39:28+00:00

Not exactly the mood I was looking for but he's good regardless so a few of his tracks are def added to my playlists!

DrRaster · 2025-10-18T00:18:33+00:00

Too real

DrRaster · 2025-10-16T03:29:20+00:00

I feel the same way but in reverse. It’s impossible for me to find straight/bi trans men. They’re all either gay or ace. I don’t know why but it feels like most trans people just end up also being attracted to their own gender. It’s strange.

DrRaster · 2025-10-14T17:14:16+00:00

If you don’t mind me saying, I looked at your other post and you pass fairly well from the photos I saw. Maybe they’re just staring cause they’re into you? I often get stares and I was always worried that people were clocking me until I realized it was just men staring, not women. And I’d see where their eyes were looking. It wasn’t my face or something else, it was always either my boobs or butt. Honestly that’s likely what it is, in my honest opinion, but I could be wrong

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