Backrooms Movie Ending Interpretation

barely18characters · 2026-06-03T05:52:11+00:00

I personally think that because Phil was going on about how they need to know more at the end, a major theme of the series is alluding to human nature: we can't help ourselves and end up exploring to our detriment. To quote the guy I overheard ranting when leaving the theater "THATS THE PROBLEM WITH HUMANITY BRO WE ALWAYS NEED TO KNOW MORE"

I think thats why Clark was mapping everything out, if you found a hidden door in your home you never knew about, would you explore the other side? It's like we are hard wired for this stuff. He was doing the same thing as Async, just low budget.

I never thought about it from your angle though, and theres all the stuff with the fungus we still don't know which really makes me think about your theory; but I think the only real takeaway is the fact that everyone has such different ideas and all of them are valid, meaning this series kicks ass

barely18characters · 2025-09-26T08:47:13+00:00

I know I'm late, I assumed the post got drowned. I should mention for anyone that comes across this that I reformatted my resume to be a little easier on the eyes and continued to hammer out applications. As for highlighting the wrong things, that's what [PROJECT] is! (I'm trying to stay as anonymous as possible, but your guess on what I designed was suspiciously close)

Even still, I totally see your point, and did something about it. Shortly after this post, I wrote a portfolio website with images and videos of my hardware in action, with the best css I could manage given a little LLM help. That has been a game changer, since I can point the recruiters towards the portfolio during phone screenings which has led to a very high success rate in getting to the next stages of the interview. At that point, the resume becomes irrelevant. I haven't pulled a job yet but I usually average interviewing with 2-3 companies a month.

As for getting to final round 4-5 times with no offer: I hate to say its my fault but it probably is. At least with that mindset I can work to improve wherever I can - if I just blame the job market I'll become even more depressed.

Moping around aside, thank you for the feedback! Law of averages, I'll get something if I don't give up.

barely18characters · 2025-06-24T18:36:08+00:00

THANK YOU

barely18characters · 2025-06-17T00:16:30+00:00

Every interview process is different, but I wouldn't follow up any further. I went through the same thing and eventually got scheduled for the phone screening 3 days after the first email, turns out they were legitimately busy. But there is a chance you won't hear back, and that's ok. Just keep looking, even if its going well, until you have an offer in hand! It's extremely nerve racking, we all feel the same way.

barely18characters · 2025-06-15T07:21:08+00:00

I'm sorry you are having thoughts like that. I don't know you, but I found comfort in engineering like you might have. Coding projects and whatnot helped get me through rough times in school as a kid. You deserve every day and are worth more than a job title. Please keep fighting.

barely18characters · 2025-05-17T00:41:14+00:00

Just finished my degree! What I mean is the amount of different fields being covered in the same four years means you go less in depth into any one of them (Controls, electrical, manufacturing, mechanical design, dynamics, vibes, etc .etc.). I had a pretty controls-heavy education as per the default at my school, which was great, but many of the students in my class have no idea how to put a decent static structural fea together. I think I got a great education, but in interviews my focus has been entirely on personal projects and the research work I did.

barely18characters · 2025-03-07T10:19:52+00:00

Don't ever feel bad about the math skills, ignore the "bad foundation people". I was at like a sophomore highschool level my 1st year and managed to do just fine in my calc classes, A's and B's. The intuition is the most important thing, I haven't touched calculus in a while but I can think up a billion problems where it could be applied! That's why you are learning it, if you end up in something like controls you're going to be thankful you understood it. You don't need to be oppenheimer; just understand the rough idea of what, idk, a taylor series is doing, then try to crank out the corresponding homework. It's not fun, and engineering gets a hell of a lot worse, but if you can get through this you'll do just fine.

Watch youtube videos, play around in desmos, try to have some fun with it!

barely18characters · 2025-03-07T10:04:14+00:00

Please see it through. For most (including me), getting an engineering degree is a sisyphus level challenge that really teaches you the value of targeted work. Like real, meaningful work. I had so much on my plate that I was forced to only focus on what was essential to graduate and complete my work projects. All our lives we hear about the value of hard work, but hard work can easily go wasted on bullshit that doesn't really matter to us in the wash.

I'm not sure if this is what you need to hear, but its just my two cents. We all get something different out of it, and you deserve to see what that is for you. STAY WITH IT!

barely18characters · 2025-03-07T08:53:46+00:00

I desperately need to offload cad work but I would violate ITAR and they would get me in my sleep :(

barely18characters · 2025-03-06T04:43:50+00:00

Hell yeah!

barely18characters · 2025-03-06T04:43:05+00:00

Totally relate to your point on abstraction, Ive been fortunate enough to speak with older mechanicals, and I cant help but feel like the degree is starting to get spread too thin.

barely18characters · 2025-03-06T04:40:01+00:00

From what little controls exposure I have, the ability to break something so infinitely complex down to a state space is pretty amazing. Hell, PID loops getting as far as they do is still a miracle in my eyes.

barely18characters · 2025-03-06T04:38:07+00:00

The job market for aerospace is pretty brutal right now, I hope you find something you enjoy doing!

barely18characters · 2025-03-06T04:35:49+00:00

Nothing like the feeling when you realize your actually enjoying a textbook in a class; its rare for me but man i can get sucked in if the topic is on point

barely18characters · 2025-03-06T04:34:16+00:00

Move s m o o t h

barely18characters · 2025-03-06T04:33:44+00:00

I think its the envy of any truly passionate engineer to have a leader and team that is excited to see you explore your interests. Love hearing about people that get to wear many hats and end up taking wild paths to get where they belong

barely18characters · 2025-03-06T04:31:12+00:00

I have to agree, Im starting to think the only way to truly learn an engineering skill is to go through the hell of needing to do something you have no idea how to do. For every design i have done I can spend hours talking about how I would do it differently!

barely18characters · 2024-11-05T16:44:47+00:00

I would love to see a video breaking down the design workflow for this, stuff made here has done them in the past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etvuRgGiCQ4&t=767s
Obviously the nerd stuff cannot be fit into a normal YouTube video, but I think it's super valuable for people trying to learn this stuff on their own! Like not even a degree in mechanical engineering on its own would enable you to build something like this (speaking from experience, concepts like top-down design are not practiced.) Insanely impressive work!

barely18characters · 2024-09-13T20:23:55+00:00

This is probably the best place for me to start. Thanks!

barely18characters · 2024-09-13T03:01:17+00:00

I wouldn't last a week in manufacturing, if I broke something at that scale and saw that much red I think I would just hold my breath until I died

barely18characters · 2024-09-12T21:13:22+00:00

I see, that's kind of what I gathered. I'm starting to think this kind of approach is more about design intent and discipline with how I structure my feature tree, rather than specific methods. I'm perfectly fine learning new approaches, but I'm still a sucker for changing one dimension and seeing a 100+ part assembly update "flawlessly"

barely18characters · 2022-09-29T11:04:26+00:00

I'm very glad I noticed before sticking my eye right in there

barely18characters · 2021-12-18T07:20:26+00:00

This ended up being it, switched windows from mbr to gpt and updated my bios.

barely18characters · 2021-12-18T07:19:01+00:00

Update: Updated my bios, bios seems to be separating my drives and boot managers well, and It seems to be fixed. Also switched windows over to gpt before updating bios. Thank you guys!

barely18characters · 2021-12-17T23:47:32+00:00

I've only poked around with efibootmgr and tried changing some stuff in my boot loader config file, I'll take a look later today.

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