r/interestingasfuck • u/Dismal-Display-370 • 18h ago

Everyone is too happy around this guy

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u/mastershake04 18h ago

Why does every building in NK seem to be designed as a liminal space? Something about the colors and lighting, and lack of windows maybe? Even with a room full of people it gives me that weird feeling.

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u/Dr_McPogi 17h ago

Look here, guy.... I don't know what liminal means.

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u/Bridgebrain 16h ago

Imagine, if you will, walking into the back hallway that connects stores in the mall and the trash bins out back. The area is purpose built, utilitarian. The walls are sloshed with different ages of stains, there's a little bit of random litter, not anything big enough to be worth bending down and picking up yourself. The lights are bright and buzz annoyingly, because they're cheap and durable and the customers will never see them. There are doorways everywhere but they're all locked. 

Anything happens.  One of the lights flicker. Someone opens one of the locked doors (to also go throw their trash). A breeze comes in from the trash area and makes the paper scatter. You are immediately out of a utilitarian space, and for a moment, in a horror movie, about to be horribly murder by a ghost or a slasher. and then the moment passes and you go to throw away the trash. 

And that moment happens every time you go there, building more and more dread, even though it's completely benign and nothing really has ever happened there. 

And then the Internet picks it up and makes a whole genre playing off that dread, because other people have been walking through the empty office after hours, and others have been at amusement parks alone doing the dry run, or walked around their empty house after moving out, and felt the same strange dread build for no particular reason. 

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u/Crazy-Present4764 11h ago

Never thought I'd enjoy reading about a trash alley.

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 8h ago

Thats the name of my porno!

'Reading Trash Alley'

It isn't good, its fuckin' trash

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u/Mostly-Moo-Cow 8h ago

I hate movies set in PA.

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 8h ago

Dude, spoilers.... and rims!

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u/HVAChelpprettyplease 44m ago

This is what we had instead of reading rainbow or shining time station. We were poor.

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u/MaximumSubtlety 8h ago

Why read when you can rent?!

May ai interest you in Trash Alley™

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u/littlecomet111 10h ago

You should try the Green Bay Packers sub Reddit. Heyoooo!