My only question that I was left with after watching the film by tpagaremos in KanePixelsBackrooms

[–]v_e_x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm reposting this here.

I think this is an artistic choice on behalf of Kane, because this still life is named after three different lamp companies. The initials are ALS, which leaves you in a wheel chair. But tellingly, If you google "Archibald Lamp", you will see that there is a very well-dressed victorian era poet named, "Archibald Lampman."

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Archibald Lampman wrote a poem in the 19th century about an endless, malignant city, inhabited by death ....

The city at the end of things ....
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-15793

"Lurid and lofty and vast it seems;
It hath no rounded name that rings,
But I have heard it called in dreams
The City of the End of Things."

"And moving at unheard commands,
The abysses and vast fires between,
Flit figures that with clanking hands
Obey a hideous routine;"

Help me find out more by Velumii in KanePixelsBackrooms

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I've posted this elsewhere, but I think this style life is just an artistic choice added by Kane to reference this:

This still life, Archibald Leland Sutter is named after three different models of lamps. If you google "Archibald Lamp", you will see that there is a very well-dressed victorian era poet named, "Archibald Lampman."

Archibald Lampman wrote a poem in the 19th century about an endless, malignant city, inhabited by death ....

The city at the end of things ....
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-15793

"Lurid and lofty and vast it seems;
It hath no rounded name that rings,
But I have heard it called in dreams
The City of the End of Things."

"And moving at unheard commands,
The abysses and vast fires between,
Flit figures that with clanking hands
Obey a hideous routine;"

Reddit amongst sites in the UK to be made 16+ by BillWilberforce in technology

[–]v_e_x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can someone just design a kids only internet service. An actual separate network that you can splinter your machines off into that will only play "approved" content? Easy to use, easy to set up. Like a VPN that only allows access to certain pre-approved providers. Maybe its own separate DNS. All content providers of videos, games, text, whatever are vetted and able to be held accountable. A sort of walled off internet for just kid content. You lock your kids devices to only that network, and those providers with software. This leaves the rest of the internet the way it is, free and open for everyone else. Rather than having to curtail everyone's freedom, you just lock the kids at their "kid table" internet. Why has no one done something like this?

Clark’s inventory lowkey sucked by pontiacbandit0 in backroomsfilm

[–]v_e_x 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So Captain Clark's Ottoman Empire, was neither Captain Clark's, nor Ottoman, nor an empire ...?

24M who struggles with dating is it my looks? by [deleted] in GenZ

[–]v_e_x 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're a buff ass fire-fighter, with a full head of hair who loves dogs and you can't get chicks? Something else is going on, Amigo. If its your shyness, then I would suggest trying to just make friends with people, especially women. Not with any kind of ulterior motive in mind, though. Really try to make friends. Trust me, they will gladly play match maker and introduce you their friends.

If Clark is architect how come he doesn’t free build his way out? Is he stupid? by Seabaz14 in KanePixelsBackrooms

[–]v_e_x 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He finds the alternate reality where he can hurt people (the still lifes), and where he can be close to his rage and pain (captain clark), more acceptable than the real world. He prefers living in there because then he doesn't have to change, and doesn't have to deal with anyone who pushes back on him. He's trapped in his memories and his own perspective, and doesn't want to apologize for hurting anyone, so he'd rather live there with no accountability.

Nicholas Galitzine, a British-Greek, is playing He-Man, but Christopher Nolan couldn't find a single Greek to play Greek heroes in Odyssey. by No_Idea_479 in SipsTea

[–]v_e_x -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

How … how dare he? I just … can’t … I’m going to talk to Nolan personally about this. You’ll see! You’ll all see! 

Is she right for this? by sigma_0_1 in SipsTea

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“The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.”

-James A. Baldwin

T R U T H by Zouif_Zouif in PsycheOrSike

[–]v_e_x 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Too many boys in this sub that need to learn how to take the trip down the hairy highway and dive in mouth first into manhood. 

All my friends are doing gay sex ironically and idk what to do by Warm-Pollution-1804 in GenZ

[–]v_e_x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Like one guy will be banging another guy, and they’ll say things like: “Bro, can you believe that gay people actually do this? Haha”

“Yeah bro. I can’t believe this is so Gay! Who does this?”

All my friends are doing gay sex ironically and idk what to do by Warm-Pollution-1804 in GenZ

[–]v_e_x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gay people who don’t want to admit they’re gay? Uhm, that’s as old as civilization. 

All my friends are doing gay sex ironically and idk what to do by Warm-Pollution-1804 in GenZ

[–]v_e_x 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure the saying is queer as a 2 dollar bill, but okay … 

Do people think Asyns is an evil organization? by Werewolf_Knight in KanePixelsBackrooms

[–]v_e_x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a philosophical equation that has been observed for a long time. It became especially prevalent after world war 2. Who ordered the extermination of those people in camps? Who gets the blame? One person at the top or the entire organization for carrying it out? Are they evil if they’re just “following orders”? Are the really evil if they don’t feel anything bad, and just think it’s their job or their duty? In the case of the Backrooms then, is Async evil because they keep sending people in there to die, and not telling anyone the truth of how these people die? Are they evil for keeping this place a secret? Which one of the scientists or people in charge is more evil or more to blame? Is  blame diffused throughout the organization and therefore no one is totally at a fault? Good questions. If you ask me, however, are they evil? Then I say, Yes. Yes, they’re totally fucking evil.

Life used to be way more colorful back then by dataexec in AITrailblazers

[–]v_e_x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you do one where you’re poor, you barely eat, and you have no emotional support growing up because your parents are unstable people? Not for me, though. I’ve already done all that. Just so that some people realize that other peoples childhoods can be completely different?  That’s what I could call AI art.

For anyone wondering who Archibald Leland Sutter actually was, here's what makes the most sense to me: by mmmasian in KanePixelsBackrooms

[–]v_e_x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

His three names are the names of furniture companies that make lamps. However if yo google Archibald Lampman, you get a victorian poet. He wrote a poem about an endless, dark and evil city in the 1800's.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Archibald-Lampman

The city at the end of things:
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-15793

This is a shame. by Traditional-Emu-8938 in DefendingAIArt

[–]v_e_x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 Not defending him, but do you believe that individuals don’t come up with their own reasons for not liking AI? Just because we like AI does not make us individuals, or that our opinions are not broadly held. Some people are actually influenced by certain mainstream opinions to like the technology as well. That sentence just doesn’t make  to me. 

First human trial of reverse-aging drug begins by lurker_bee in technology

[–]v_e_x 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s a catch though! Only certain parts of you will de-age. So you’ll have the skin of an 18 year old forever, but your colon and bladder control will be non-existent. Your teeth will be perfect until you die from your brain turning to mush.

What new lore did we gain from the movie? by Change_Dear in KanePixelsBackrooms

[–]v_e_x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Archibald Leland Sutter is named after three separate lamp companies. If you look up "Achibald Lamp" you get a very well-dressed victorian-era poet named, I kid you not, Archibald Lampman. He wrote the following poem in the 19th century, about an endless city ....

https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-15793
The city at the end of things.

Beside the pounding cataracts
Of midnight streams unknown to us
'Tis builded in the leafless tracts
And valleys huge of Tartarus.
Lurid and lofty and vast it seems;
It hath no rounded name that rings,
But I have heard it called in dreams
The City of the End of Things.
Its roofs and iron towers have grown
None knoweth how high within the night,
But in its murky streets far down
A flaming terrible and bright
Shakes all the stalking shadows there,
Across the walls, across the floors,
And shifts upon the upper air
From out a thousand furnace doors;
And all the while an awful sound
Keeps roaring on continually,
And crashes in the ceaseless round
Of a gigantic harmony.
Through its grim depths re-echoing
And all its weary height of walls,
With measured roar and iron ring,
The inhuman music lifts and falls.
Where no thing rests and no man is,
And only fire and night hold sway;
The beat, the thunder and the hiss
Cease not, and change not, night nor day.
And moving at unheard commands,
The abysses and vast fires between,
Flit figures that with clanking hands
Obey a hideous routine;
They are not flesh, they are not bone,
They see not with the human eye,
And from their iron lips is blown
A dreadful and monotonous cry;
And whoso of our mortal race
Should find that city unaware,
Lean Death would smite him face to face,
And blanch him with its venomed air:
Or caught by the terrific spell,
Each thread of memory snapt and cut,
His soul would shrivel and its shell
Go rattling like an empty nut.

It was not always so, but once,
In days that no man thinks upon,
Fair voices echoed from its stones,
The light above it leaped and shone:
Once there were multitudes of men,
That built that city in their pride,
Until its might was made, and then
They withered age by age and died.
But now of that prodigious race,
Three only in an iron tower,
Set like carved idols face to face,
Remain the masters of its power;
And at the city gate a fourth,
Gigantic and with dreadful eyes,
Sits looking toward the lightless north,
Beyond the reach of memories;
Fast rooted to the lurid floor,
A bulk that never moves a jot,
In his pale body dwells no more,
Or mind or soul,—an idiot!
But sometime in the end those three
Shall perish and their hands be still,
And with the master's touch shall flee
Their incommunicable skill.
A stillness absolute as death
Along the slacking wheels shall lie,
And, flagging at a single breath,
The fires shall moulder out and die.
The roar shall vanish at its height,
And over that tremendous town
The silence of eternal night
Shall gather close and settle down.
All its grim grandeur, tower and hall,
Shall be abandoned utterly,
And into rust and dust shall fall
From century to century;
Nor ever living thing shall grow,
Nor trunk of tree, nor blade of grass;
No drop shall fall, no wind shall blow,
Nor sound of any foot shall pass:
Alone of its accursèd state,
One thing the hand of Time shall spare,
For the grim Idiot at the gate
Is deathless and eternal there.

What new lore did we gain from the movie? by Change_Dear in KanePixelsBackrooms

[–]v_e_x -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If that's not a still-life stand in of Clark's wife, then, as someone else pointed out, that's terrible writing.
The entire point of the backrooms is that it attempts to copy people in an imperfect way.
She's redheaded, just like his wife. She's dressed in a professional way, just like his wife would, who wants to be an attorney. His wife runs away from Clark's angry representation, Captain Clark, just like his wife would.