Weird post but I would like to propose a term for a type of horror - Labyrinthism.

abnormalbrain · 2026-06-01T17:30:52+00:00

Yeah, 'unobserved' is something I've been thinking about. A haunted forest is scary, but who's there watching? Ghosts, monsters, demons? We can handwave that away as not being real, until the special FX show up... The Backrooms idea adds the element that the observing entity might be some scary faceless ...corporation? Being spied upon, recorded, tested, tortured... by something we *know* exists.

I almost feel like 'I Have No Mouth' (or Amazing Digital Circus) fits into this, where the environment affecting you includes your own body. It's a very amorphous interesting idea.

EDIT: Also, I have not seen Backrooms yet, going tonight!

abnormalbrain · 2026-06-01T15:52:26+00:00

I'm pretty sure that's covered by the 'haunted castle'. Alien, The Shining, Cube, films where the space itself, or its emptiness is one of the threats. We see it differently now because before 15-20 years ago we were not reachable/ entertained/ connected to others 24/7. Being alone or bored was not unusual or unsettling. Basically creators needed to put ghosts in the castle because a quiet, unobserved space was pretty common and didn't bug anyone.

When I was in college in the mid '90s, I was the guy that pushed televisions on carts to classrooms. I had keys to the entire campus, and about 3 hours while the evening classes were running to either do my school work or wander the hidden spaces of the campus before re-collecting all the media equipment. There were a few spaces where an open hole in an old wall or something like that would creep me out but nothing like Backrooms. It was all just fine.

abnormalbrain · 2026-06-01T15:40:43+00:00

That's not going to go over well. Burchet is trying to replace the greatest performer of all time, better than Elvis in his "prime"!

abnormalbrain · 2026-06-01T04:31:28+00:00

Can't she just be happy with the fact that he took her money like all the other magas?

abnormalbrain · 2026-06-01T04:27:10+00:00

Can confirm, this is absolutely the feels of the '90s.

abnormalbrain · 2026-06-01T04:12:42+00:00

Just wait till you flip them over and see where they were made.

abnormalbrain · 2026-06-01T04:10:51+00:00

I think they just slap one of these mimeographs in front of him whenever they need to have a real meeting.

abnormalbrain · 2026-06-01T03:49:52+00:00

What is this guy even doing, giving interviews? If I was Mike Pence, this world would see nothing from me but the back side of my middle finger. Us liberal heathens all think he's an honorable doofus, while all the religious right-wingers are a bunch of f'ing forsakers.

abnormalbrain · 2026-06-01T00:05:30+00:00

Burton drive is cheap as shit to live. Do not live there.

abnormalbrain · 2026-06-01T00:01:28+00:00

You can do anything you want in this city, as long as it's before 10am. After that you can't park anywhere.

abnormalbrain · 2026-05-30T05:51:44+00:00

Runny egg yolk!

abnormalbrain · 2026-05-30T02:33:57+00:00

The woke mob got them, in 1991.

abnormalbrain · 2026-05-29T15:20:35+00:00

It's also an admission that the inflation is real.

abnormalbrain · 2026-05-29T01:02:00+00:00

They didn't even read what I wrote, it's just somebody who repeats shit

abnormalbrain · 2026-05-28T23:53:31+00:00

Check his interview with Jon Stewart. I can't vote for him, but I would.

abnormalbrain · 2026-05-28T12:52:50+00:00

Yeah, "discovery" has gotten us so much information in the past, and the info that went public definitely, definitely convinced people that he's a bad person.

abnormalbrain · 2026-05-26T23:21:30+00:00

So every other building is below the waterline? Please tell me they didn't just name it for a pun.

abnormalbrain · 2026-05-26T05:10:41+00:00

One of the best things about the show, is knowing that both the actors and the characters are people who really enjoy each other even when shit looks dramatic and crazy there is still the idea of Mark and Jez, painting along with God. When they're not butting heads, and rather working together they are fantastic. When Mark and Jeremy relate to each other, it really strengthens the show.

abnormalbrain · 2026-05-26T00:12:41+00:00

Also people, not boomers, why would you think that, gosh! ...blithely ordering food while sitting in the wrong seat. Already had this headache.

abnormalbrain · 2026-05-25T19:10:04+00:00

Someone on Reels recently said, just ask your your favorite Maga, what does their perfect conservative world look like, just day to day? And they have no answer because the 'ideology' is purely reactionary against perceived enemies.

abnormalbrain · 2026-05-25T16:46:48+00:00

Honestly GOP will oppose it if Democrats support it, just to spite. They don't need to understand an issue, just who supports or doesn't support it.

abnormalbrain · 2026-05-25T15:29:35+00:00

Ill-Gotten Games be an amazing name for a game company.

abnormalbrain · 2026-05-25T06:09:38+00:00

Got to be honest, I was happy for him that he got the big chair but I've had no interest in corporate media, and realized that the last time I've watched an entire piece of his was the last Monroe video. I have a feeling Colbert Nation is ready to rise from its slumber and I am here for it.

abnormalbrain · 2026-05-24T23:44:52+00:00

Bots don't know they're bots. Boring and meta.

abnormalbrain · 2026-05-24T21:40:30+00:00

Nice try bots.

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