• AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
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    He’s just worried about the power bill. It costs a lot to heat and light an infinite number of rooms.

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    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

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      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.

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

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        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.

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

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    Didn’t watch the movie, huh?

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    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.

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      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