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[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 119 points 4 days ago

He's just worried about the power bill. It costs a lot to heat and light an infinite number of rooms.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago

Open for business as a hotel and make infinite revenue.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago

Oh I've heard this one. What if it's already full of infinite people and infinitely more arrive?

[-] mech@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

It's fine unless they have weird names

[-] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 days ago

With infinite lawsuits

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 25 points 4 days ago

Surely several of those infinite rooms contain large nuclear power plants providing at least some of the infinite power required ..

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 21 points 4 days ago

in the lore, the source is unknown but we know that the lights and power grid are designed for indefinite use, in lighting and tile survey

and if theres the null zones, the sun, etc

[-] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

also a major fire hazard

Honestly, perfect place for datacentres. Unlimited water in the pool area, electric sockets are likely live, unlimited space, no noise pollution, just have to put a data cable though the threshold.

I'm pretty sure the backrooms if they were real, they wouldn't be a horror thing, it would be full of people mapping it and living there. there would be a small organised millitia to neutralize dangerous stilllives. Plenty of hydroponic agriculture.

It would be interesting to see cities in the backrooms, where being there is just a normal thing... Nevermind, it already exists, it's called the Toronto Path

[-] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 days ago

Well, there was something similar: Kowloon Walled City

A truly fascinating place.

I guess the backrooms would be quite similar.

i heard that when it was shut down. despite how inhospitable it looked, many didn't want to leave. they liked living in such a tight community. It didn't seem dystopian to them.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

When it’s all you know…

I mean, people pine for living under awful dictators, too.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 days ago

there would be a small organised millitia to neutralize dangerous stilllives

Yes, but the still lifes aren't the only danger. There is still the time warps, instability of walls and flooring with the null zones, the bacteria.

And IMO contact with the backrooms clearly a induces a form of paranoid schizophrenia, as seen by some of Kane's work.

So it would be an inevitable disaster to use the backrooms for any useful purposes.

I'm obviously only going be the movie lore, I have not consumed the entire backroom corpus

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago

Fair enough, it's quite a bit of content to watch through

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 10 points 4 days ago

thats Async's vision ASpace

[-] festnt@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

i think the randomly appearing and disapearing chairs and stuff might mean a datacenter would need a lot of maintenance

We can study it and use it? what if we get multiple server racks and clip them all into each other, triple the compute power on the same space, although cooling would be the limiting factor.

[-] Yaky@slrpnk.net 28 points 4 days ago

Barbarian had a joke with landlord getting excited about such "additional square footage".

[-] zammy95@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I whispered to my friends that Justin Long would have been ecstatic

[-] Star 12 points 4 days ago

Didn't watch the movie, huh?

[-] eestileib 6 points 4 days ago

So is Backrooms an adaptation of House of Leaves?

Cause the premise seems very similar, and I'm wondering whether I should bother watching it/recommend HoL to people who liked it.

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 days ago

no, but its inspired by it

[-] megopie 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Backrooms (the movie) is based on the backrooms(a collection of of internet fiction written by a lot of people in a shared setting with a shared premise), which was inspired by a lot of things because the concepts behind it were built up by a lot of people. House of Leaves probably had an influence because it’s decently well known but there is no direct relation. I’m sure if you dug through some forums, boards and subreddits you could find someone talking about a direct inspiration for a piece or two, but it’s not really a formalized set of works

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 days ago

its baeed on kanes backrooms, not the wiki one

[-] Cratermaker@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

Definitely some major similarities, but HoL has a lot more depth (no pun intended).

[-] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Fuckin landlords when they watch backrooms

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Including the magic door annex, rent now comes to $∞.99 per month. Plus tax.

[-] silicon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Sounds like a great place to start your own storage facility.

[-] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

Borges: infinite number of rooms you say?

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 3 points 4 days ago

there are yellow suits, I can get lost, there is something else

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 4 points 4 days ago

and null zones connect to different parts of the world, and the DoE and Async are already on it

this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2026
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