I'm anything but a backrooms fan but I particularly enjoyed this movie. I think it's best appreciated coming from the perspective that the backrooms is one of those ownerless shared fiction universes that almost never get adaptions with any sort of budget behind it for obvious reasons, much less when they have very niche or novel premises like 'noclipping out of reality to end up in procgen horror hallways'

I was keen to watch it because it made me fantasize that we might get some decent money behind an SCP project one day, they feel like very similar universes in how they have evolved.

I don't wanna contest your take just for the hell of it but this feels really incongruent with what I watched. Whether the movie is great or mid is less of a concern to me than the video game comment. The movie felt very traditional to me, translating a very loose 'creepy-pasta' idea into a traditional horror movie format.

To that extent I personally thought the movie did great, but I guess I'm highlighting my disagreement because I don't think there's any video game influence on this movie. I know there are a lot of games themed after the backrooms but the concept itself is agnostic to video games, it's a communal/shared universe like SCP that spawned from a particularly fire paragraph-horror story.

You might appreciate it a bit more if you see it as less of a 'video game' movie and imagined it more as one person's big-budgeted interpretation of a cultural horror idea. Sorry if I've read the wrong implication from your post and you already knew all this stuff.

Yeah I agree, I feel like physical media has been dead for awhile outside of the ability to put a bunch of plastic cases on a shelf. The discs almost never contain the full game and you are still dependent on the digital license in most cases. So its just a more expensive way to buy the same product, with all the plastic waste physical media entails

I think the (long abandoned) pokemon bootleg cruelty aspect just didn't sit right with some people, despite the fact you probably have more opportunity to care for the Pals than Pokémon offers their creatures.

Pocketpair is not only taking Nintendo on in the courts but have a goated working culture with far more time off available than other Japanese studios, and fully flexible policies. Despite the crass product they developed, I think they are a pretty respectful studio.

To be fair, they seemed to have identified the limited novelty of the edge and have leaned away from that idea over the course of development.

me when I use the potara earrings with my racist uncle

the moot-/pol/-epstein conspiracy finna make me disassociate

Tf man, wildest twist. Has me even angrier, all that damage and (presumably) loss of life to kidnap a world leader. Americans are going to use the fact they were so 'precise' and 'just went after the president' to justify forgetting about it all and leaving Venezuela to rot.

your tesla steers into a group of children crossing the street b/c its grok-based brain deduced it was a woke mob of protestors attempting to box you in. you try to apply the brakes but grok has a prompt hardcoded in urging it to not shy away from politically incorrect actions. seven children are instantly killed and another two are splattered across your windshield. your tesla dings that its time to replace the wiper fluid.

elon retweets the news story weeks later with a one word reply. another twitter user asks grok if its true. grok replies by questioning the veracity of the holocaust

Oh, sweet, cause-and-effect in my assassination narratives.

history repeats itself