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u/InactiveMedusa 12h ago
...aren't the Backrooms based on hotels?
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u/TimidDeer23 12h ago
Backrooms is based liminal spaces, aka spaces you're only meant to be in temporarily. Long airport hallways, hotels, cleaned out houses right before moving, etc.
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u/Channel250 12h ago
My father used to work for Pan-Am that was merged into Delta. So, the vast majority of our flights were free.
One time, we boarded a plane that was meant for staff on the return trip. So, not a ton of people.
Let me tell you. An empty 747 as a kid is easily the scariest thing I've ever encountered.
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u/dirtyshits 10h ago
And it’s easily the happiest place an adult who has to fly has ever encountered.
Every so often I get a flight where it seems Theres 10 people on it and Theres just something beautiful about the emptiness.
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u/Hybrid_Johnny 10h ago edited 9h ago
I never knew bliss until the one time I got an entire row to myself on a red eye flight. Oh my god I slept like a baby. Only downside was having to wake up when we landed in Indiana (our destination)
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u/scrumbly 9h ago
Indiana as a destination also sounds like a downside
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u/Hybrid_Johnny 9h ago
Yeah, three day business trip for marching band/drum corps
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u/Fishface17404 3h ago
As a former marching band student. Nationals was great but Indianapolis we called the armpit of the country. It always rained when we were there. At the time we were the only band west of Kansas the years I went. So that was fun. The most questions we got from other kids in other bands were, do we ski to school or do we ride horses everyday to school. The answer no.
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u/TimidDeer23 9h ago
The fastest flight I ever flew was when I was sleep deprived and had a 2 hour flight with 3 seats to myself. We took off, I passed tf out, and we landed. It was like magic.
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u/TriumphDaWonderPooch 1h ago
Brother's friends flying to the East Coast from Denver many years back. 747 all to themselves - they went upstairs and tossed a football around.
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u/ermagerditssuperman 1h ago
I took some flights in July & August of 2020, aka prime lockdown, because my father died. Airports included major hubs like San Francisco and Chicago. They're also airports I'm very familiar with.
Going through those huge spaces so empty, and then sitting in huge empty planes with middle seats blocked out, was too surreal to describe. It was the first time COVID felt like the Apocalypse to me.
My hometown airport was weirder in a different way. The big hubs at least had some amount of emergency travelers like myself - we would pass each other with a wide, paranoid berth, but you did see other passengers. The security line was distanced, but it was a line. And the absence of people made the space feel bigger and almost oppressive. But the regional airport was down from a whopping 80-100 daily flights to, like, 10 of those little crj jets at 1/3 capacity. There was one gate agent instead of the usual two dozen, one TSA guy instead of the usual ten, and maybe 6 fellow passengers. Every store in the atrium was closed - and the hallway walk to baggage claim was just the soft sound of you and 6 other people walking on carpet, instead of airport bustle. The absence of people made the space feel smaller.
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u/InactiveMedusa 12h ago
I know that, I meant the yellow walls brown carpet bit of it
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u/TimidDeer23 12h ago
Oh! Then no, it was based off a space that is now an RC racetrack and was formerly a department store.
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u/Sudoku_Onlyplans666 12h ago
The original photo was of a water damaged furniture store in Oshkosh, Wisconsin but hotels do give off the vibe for sure.
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u/LoopsAndBoars 11h ago
I guess a furniture store is a free hotel of sorts, so long as youre invisible at closing time. Complimentary mandatory 4am wake up call sponsored by mag-light and security personnel.
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u/CJ-MacGuffin 12h ago
Why are the windows facing the hall - is this underground?
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u/Sudoku_Onlyplans666 12h ago
This is the 5th floor up, I actually want to take a picture of the open interior, you can see every floor down. Its an old office retrofitted to be a hotel, its quite spacious honestly.
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u/turtletechy 2h ago
Might be interior rooms with no external window. Rare, but they exist in some hotels.
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u/semioticmadness 9h ago
…this just looks like the hotels when I visited southern cities with names ending in “-burg”
Guess some people don’t get enough stale-cigarette aromas in their life.
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u/nobody_cares9 12h ago
For some reason I find this comfortable!
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u/Sudoku_Onlyplans666 12h ago
I enjoy the open space of it, the rooms and bathroom are quite large, this used to be a commercial use building with offices I believe. You can definitely turn offices and commercial spaces into spacious living areas, maybe even as affordable housing.
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u/F0xtr0tUnif0rm 11h ago
That's funny I've read media saying they can't transform commercial spaces because it'd be impossible to redo the plumbing to give each habitat its own, etc. But I guess it can be done. Unless all of these offices had toilets. In which case... My kinda office.
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u/chargernj 3h ago
It's not impossible, just expensive. Combined with all the other structural changes needed to turn a commercial space into housing, often not worth the expense.
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u/Grooviemann1 9h ago
I don't see anything Backrooms themed beyond yellow walls. Is this actually purposely themed around it or does it just remind you of it?
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u/atomfullerene 9h ago
I love the idea of a hotel manager coming up with the idea of going all in on a backrooma theme, with the key benefit being they don't have to update any decor
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u/opopkl 8h ago
Where I used to work, I found a space like this on a high floor where nobody ever went. I managed to move an armchair and a side table in there from another part of the building. I used to spend my lunch breaks in there, reading. Nice and peaceful, particularly calm when there was raging weather outside.
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u/Megalo85 12h ago
Night janitor for a while and one whole side of the building looked like this. I refused to clean it. This was 5 years ago well before the movie.
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u/TheBatemanFlex 12h ago
How is it backrooms-themed? Backrooms is based on spaces like these.
It’s like saying you visited a Nemo-themed aquarium or something.
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u/Sudoku_Onlyplans666 12h ago
I don't know man its alright lol
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u/sexisdivine 11h ago
Reminds me of Great Wolf Lodge
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u/Sudoku_Onlyplans666 11h ago
I remember going with my grandparents as a kid to the one near Williamsburg for Thanksgiving break and during Thanksgiving dinner banquet some wife confronted her husband about cheating with a massive argument with crying kids at the table. Cops were called, grandparents had conversation for the rest of the stay lol
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u/MilleniumPelican 57m ago
Holy shitballs It's the 8th floor of the Eternity Devil hotel from Chainsaw Man.
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u/n0tz0e 4h ago
I haven't seen the movie but I just learned that one of the dudes from whitest kids you know directed this film! And he's quite a successful director in Hollywood actually. And here I thought he was just a sketch comedian.
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u/jarvisesdios 1h ago
... No he didn't... The director was a really young guy that's 21 years old.
That guy that you're thinking the about, Zach Creggar, directed Weapons.
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u/Certain-Singer-9625 27m ago
(calls down to the desk)
“There’s a monster outside my room.
And it’s making too much noise.”
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u/TyrannyOfBobBarker_ 11h ago
I think this is just called a hotel