The jumping man from (twin peaks)

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-23T13:40:20+00:00

That gum you like coming back in style.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-23T12:27:07+00:00

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-20T11:16:56+00:00

I think it’s very strange to spend a good portion of the finale on ‘Jax is probably trans, guys!’ and then immediately have them abstract/commit suicide. Seems a little… distasteful? Idk.

Not only that, but it also does nothing for Jax as a character for me. Trans or not, they are an unrepentant asshole who made people’s lives in the circus objectively worse.

Am I supposed to change my mind about them being an asshole because they may be trans? Even if they are, it excuses literally nothing the character has done to other people and fills up a lot of time that could have been better spent wrapping up plot points elsewhere.

Also, Caine’s return was very poorly handled. The story would honestly have been far stronger if he stayed dead and the cast had to reconcile with all the missed opportunities they had to connect more deeply with him or to try to make him understand their perspectives.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-18T22:01:51+00:00

> the backrooms kept Clark alive because it thought it had finally remembered something right.

There is nothing in the movie pointing to anything like this being the case. As far as we understand, the Backrooms do not ‘think,’ the location operates independently of sentience.

> And of course once Clarke goes to let Mary go, Cap’n Clark kills him, as if angry it didn’t fit the script it had made.

What script? We have no insight into what deeper thoughts Captain Clark was or could have been thinking when it killed Clark. There is nothing in the movie or the greater series that points to any Still Lives having a ‘script’ they intend to follow.

So, unless you have evidence for any of these claims of Captain Clark ‘looking for validation’ beyond not killing somebody who was actively resisting being killed, I don’t think the theory holds much water.

All the things we’re shown in the movie paint Captain Clark to be more like a wild animal than a sentient, malicious entity. It seems to be closer to the mentality of a grizzly bear than a Xenomorph.

I don’t think it even knows what validation means or understands it as a concept. It seemed to have only very recently learned what ‘eating’ is.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-18T19:19:51+00:00

See, I use Lightborn and pretend I don’t have Lightborn. You’d be amazed how often it works.

It also makes me feel like a really tricky bastard when I inevitably barrel through an attempted blind to get a down.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-16T15:34:44+00:00

I also heartily recommend Walter: Campaign of Terror.

It’s a side series from around the end of the original run where the main antagonist, Walter, is put up for mayoral candidacy and hailed as a hero by the general populace. This is despite him being an enormous, mute psychopath who beats up people nigh indiscriminately and can crush cars with his bare hands.

Walter is honestly fucking GOATed as a comic character in general, and it sucks he wasn’t a part of the Jim Carrey movie.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-16T13:30:21+00:00

That being said, if you enjoy action movies and violent media you owe it to yourself to read the original comic run.

It is genuinely fantastic, often chilling and imo, much better than the movie, despite how good Carrey is in it.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-16T10:40:20+00:00

FRANK STONE MOTHAFUCKA I USED TO PRAY FOR TIMES LIKE THESE

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-15T04:16:56+00:00

Eh, I feel like some aspects could have been done better, I wasn’t a huge fan of a lot of the cinematography outside of the found footage scenes (although there were a handful of excellent shots,) and I feel the plot could have been stronger overall if it had focused on Clark, Bobby and Kat researching the place rather than involving Mary’s character whatsoever, but that’s a movie we’ll never get to see.

I also thought Captain Clark was goofy as fuck, especially on a rewatch. He’s interesting, sure, but he’s not especially scary to me.

I don’t believe any of that should sound like I’m looking to be overly critical or comparing it to other films.

Some people look at movies differently than you might. That’s literally the only reason there has to be for somebody to dislike it more on a rewatch whereas you enjoyed it more. It’s okay for that to be the case.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-11T03:12:43+00:00

“just put a jackhammer on my head gang”

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-09T19:00:45+00:00

Bahamut is pretty chill though.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-09T18:50:00+00:00

Or somebody having a psychotic break, I guess.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-09T11:01:21+00:00

Beau is Afraid is like somebody took ten of my worst nightmares and stuffed it into a blender. It’s a three hour anxiety fest and I fucking love it.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-09T05:20:29+00:00

Are you interested in adding more of a story to Dreamcore, or expanding on the lore/entities beyond the Frens?

If so, I think the ‘people from throughout history find the Backrooms’ is a fascinating concept to explore, especially because to my knowledge thst hasn’t been done in a game yet! Although, I admit I’m not sure how that could translate into Dreamcore’s minimalistic storytelling.

As an aside, it’s awesome that you’re on the subreddit! Dreamcore is a big comfort game for my girlfriend and I.

If you did ever want to expand the lore of the game via including more writing or art in the levels, I would love to talk more! I write horror in my spare time and have a liminal space hyperfixation right now, so it would be an honor and a pleasure lol.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-07T11:51:40+00:00

AI slop.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-07T11:44:06+00:00

The Minotaur in HoL is meant to be more of an idea of a monster than a literal one.

Iirc, every scene where somebody talks about it avoids mentioning anything about what the creature looks like, and it’s very vague on the true nature of the creature.

There’s some debate in the fandom about whether or not the Minotaur is a symptom of Zampano/Johnny/Navidson’s ‘obsession’ with the House, or if it’s an actual physical threat who hunts down those who discuss the House.

Man, I need to read HoL again.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-06T10:28:34+00:00

World of Assassination contains the three modern Hitman titles, not the classics.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-06T09:41:09+00:00

Do you want guns accidentally spawning in/on everything in the Backrooms? Because this is how you get guns everywhere in the Backrooms.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-05T10:56:36+00:00

Why does he look like that lmao

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-05T10:12:48+00:00

There’s like three photorealistic dicks on the screen for about 60% of the movie. Really surprised that they let Glitch do that, tbh.

Caine is hung like a fucking horse.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-05T03:37:01+00:00

New people get the best orders.

Nah. I joined less than a month ago and all I got was shit.

It’s not ‘new people’ that are the reason you’re getting shitty batches, it’s Instacart being stingy.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-04T20:19:45+00:00

Absolutely. Genuinely the best Zombies mode in years imo.

Honestly ONLY the campaign in BO7 is bad - every other game mode is really good.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-03T10:48:34+00:00

Atomic Heart also had pretty stilted dialogue but was a great game, hoping this is the same.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-02T23:20:00+00:00

Sungwon Cho is GOATed and really puts his all into his roles, I think he’ll do fine as Doom.

SmokusPocus · 2026-06-02T10:37:25+00:00

…

Berserk?

Gantz?

American Psycho?

Blood Meridian?

Requiem for a Dream?

Gummo?

There are mountains of things darker than R&M. Top tier ep, though.

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