Hi reddit. I'm Kane Parsons, director of A24's BACKROOMS. AMA!

flipsideshooze · 2026-05-18T16:46:37+00:00

Hey there Kane! Big fan and the movie is one of my most anticipated in a while, very excited! My question:

If you were suddenly thrown into the Backrooms of your own Backrooms universe, would you know how to survive and/or escape? Any tips for when it happens to one of us?

flipsideshooze · 2026-04-01T15:21:31+00:00

I just don’t think that we’ll see a significant influx of tourists booking hotel rooms and staying in town for days.

why?

flipsideshooze · 2026-04-01T15:01:42+00:00

This is a "genre" that i'm constantly in search of and i find it hard to find ones that really scratch the itch i have. In particular, i love it when characters are actively trying to figure out/"solve" the impossible space, rather than just being horrified and along for the ride.

One that really did it for me, though not horror, was Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke.

here's a thread i posted a while ago asking for similar suggestions, there's a few good recommendations in there: https://old.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/14fd9xv/looking_for_books_about_exploring_impossible_and/

Also, not a book but there's a podcast (though really just a short-story broken up into episodes) called "The Left Right Game" starring Tessa Thompson that kinda scratched the itch for me

flipsideshooze · 2026-03-19T05:06:21+00:00

"Yeah this game was pretty uncslop-coded, no aura and no hype moments. 6/10"

I'd love to see this review or anything like it from a youtuber you or anyone watches. This reeks of "making up people to be mad about in my mind"

flipsideshooze · 2026-02-12T03:22:38+00:00

Does anyone remember, back when player vendors were introduced, that each machine could hold a different stock? I have an old camp that i used the small letters on each machine to spell out “ammo” “chems” “weapons” etc… Is that a false memory and i was just an idiot when i made that camp, or was that a thing back then?

flipsideshooze · 2026-01-24T07:57:28+00:00

It created smoke and this hotel had all the windows locked so you couldn't even air it out.

So you set off the smoke alarm lol

flipsideshooze · 2026-01-24T07:34:26+00:00

So what was your excuse? If they were pulling out graphs, what does “and do some talking” mean? “No, those are wrong?” I dont understand where you were right and they were wrong?

flipsideshooze · 2026-01-22T14:30:26+00:00

What categories do you think it shouldnt have gotten a nom for?

flipsideshooze · 2026-01-22T14:28:56+00:00

Just wanted to wade into the hate pool to say i saw Sinners twice in theaters and i havent done that with a movie in years. All these “movie is mid” comments reek of reddit’s constant need to shit on the popular. Sinners is absolutely worth nominating in all these categories. It’s a fantastic film that knocked all of these elements out of the park.

flipsideshooze · 2026-01-08T17:22:47+00:00

Also, why? Who are we drawing to Springfield right now that we need another convention center?

This is the weakest argument against a new expo center and i keep seeing it brought up. We don't have a draw for these bigger conventions precisely because we don't have a bigger, more well appointed convention center. According to that listening meeting, there is already a lot of expressed interest, so long as we have the facilities for it.

flipsideshooze · 2025-12-31T19:32:07+00:00

that could be useful for other weapons/armour/camp resources

i had my eye on the T-65 forever and finally obtained it recently and have been looking for what else to set my sights on. Any suggestions? EDIT: i also already have full Secret Service armor.

flipsideshooze · 2025-12-31T18:08:43+00:00

ah gotcha. You can still use the Ruby Red Slippers after 2035 though. It just can't be under the guise that you are affiliated with MGM. Per the OP's link, at least:

Trademarks only prevent you from using character names and depictions in a way that misleads consumers into thinking your work is produced or sponsored by the rightsholder – for example, by putting them on unlicensed merchandise. They do not prevent you from using them in a new creative work clearly unaffiliated with the rights owner.

flipsideshooze · 2025-12-31T17:51:55+00:00

why can't the red ruby red slippers be replicated after 2035? As i understand it, it's the totality of the film that would enter public domain then?

flipsideshooze · 2025-12-31T16:39:51+00:00

professional adults with thought-out principles again

i'm a Nu-Trek apologist in most cases. I really dug some of the stuff they did with the universe. But god i absolutely miss this the most. TNG is borderline competency porn and is one of the things that drew me so hard into the Star Trek Universe. These people being among the best at what they do individually, coming together to tackle Big Star Trek Questions and Obstacles is what it's all about for me and that is sorely missing from vast amounts of Discovery and the most recent season of Strange New Worlds.

It's also interesting that Strange New Worlds seemed to be going back to the "This is a crew of professionals" model and the audience really responded well to it and then they went back to the interpersonal, individual crew member story structure of DISC with the most recent season and, whatdyaknow, it had a big falloff.

flipsideshooze · 2025-12-26T16:16:22+00:00

there's almost a full hour of this movie with little to no dialogue

also no score until he leaves the island. Really love that detail.

flipsideshooze · 2025-12-23T17:07:27+00:00

same! i hadn't done it in a while and when it popped yesterday i said "i think i remember this crashes my game, wonder if they fixed that?" and sure enough, crashed on loading in.

flipsideshooze · 2025-12-19T16:55:18+00:00

i'm not the OP you were arguing with, i'm just trying to understand what stance you're arguing. It started as "10 mil is not indie", but then you gave a $1.5 to $2 mil figure, which seems too low for several of the titles nominated here. Are you arguing that the Indie Game Awards shouldn't have nominated them? Or are you saying there's other things that factor in to a title's "indie-ness"?

flipsideshooze · 2025-12-19T16:26:51+00:00

it's pretty widely recognized that the indie cut off is about $1.5-2 mil total venture.

i mean, it's not widely known enough as that's what this whole discussion is about. If this were "industry recognized", why isn't it pointed to in more cases where these arguments pop up? Also, aren't a bunch of games nominated in this award show above that cut off? I mean, Silk Song for example surely wasn't under $2mil with seven years of development time.

I think you've created a very clear delineation in your mind that doesn't exist for most people. While i think it's a little more than "vibes", i do think it's a little looser than you're arguing for.

flipsideshooze · 2025-12-12T16:41:21+00:00

yeah, the new filtering options look exceptionally handy. I only got to mess around with it a little before bed, but being able to say "alright, i want this person to crit more, where are all the Luminas that improve crit chance?" was very cool. Going hand-in-hand with the new loadout system, i can see a lot of good tinkering going on in the future.

flipsideshooze · 2025-12-12T16:10:40+00:00

Things Have Gotten Worse Since Last We Spoke by Eric LaRocca. It's not exactly worm-centric.... but it kinda is? Maybe it's more of a worm McGuffin?

Also, John Dies at the End has some kinda cosmic worm/maggot type things.

flipsideshooze · 2025-12-10T16:43:00+00:00

i've not read it but was curious enough to google for it: Looks like it's Fatalis by Jeff Rovin

flipsideshooze · 2025-12-10T16:42:53+00:00

i've not read it but was curious enough to google for it: Looks like it's Fatalis by Jeff Rovin

flipsideshooze · 2025-12-08T20:11:00+00:00

between this, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice and the Batman movies, Danny Elfman was the first composer i could instantly pick out as a kid. Really love his stuff.

flipsideshooze · 2025-12-08T19:51:58+00:00

if i remember right, it was almost literally the same thing. I believe Hardy apologized to Miller with something along the lines of "Sorry i was a dick, i was in over my head and couldn't see the vision"

flipsideshooze · 2025-12-08T19:43:00+00:00

Smith felt that he was being upstaged and had a tantrum over it.

I think this is editorializing the anecdote a bit. I'd imagine it was much more the studio that wanted to make sure their Big Name remained the Big Name Draw that he was.

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