Seth Largo

California supremacist. Climber. English prof. Urbit: pasmul-hopnel. Author of "Excavating the Memory Palace" and "The Last Mixtape." Blog at link below.

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@AVARY I hope he's doing a little performance artistry here

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@AltCulture A good lesson for a little kid. None of you has proved yourself yet.

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@bghorror It was Good.

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you all need Jesus

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@zuki_2024 tiny wittle wegs on him

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The idea that your mind is a series of rooms goes back to the Greek memory palace. You could wander them at will. The "backroom" horror-fying of the idea is interesting.

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@TheMindScourge Yeah but the de-skilling effect has been real since Plato berated writing, and we do rely on those machines now. When the machine stops . . .

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@auyonomous The computer science profs at my uni are ironically not thrilled about the "coding agents" thing either. Some are asking students to write code by hand or on white board, for tests.

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@AVARY His foundation is making the move, not Wim himself, who appears to not entirely agree with the move.

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@zach_vasquez @auteurtheory__ @intothecrevasse Malick went to AFI as well. Nolan went to UCL and majored in English but is on record that he chose UCL so he could use its film program's equipment.

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I like him even more now.

[Matthew @NEEMOAHTOAD]

Kane being interviewed asked about gen AI during an interview for the film basically confirmed for me that the AI readings ppl have had for the film are 100% intentional

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@jacobkleinman Didn't the accounting students who made it turn down an offer from Cartoon Network back in the day? They wanted to keep it pure.

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@markgadala Every. Single Time.

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Think I've found my next writing project: the origins and evolution of The Backrooms. It's like the digital kids speed-ran a folkloric tradition, something that used to take five hundred years to take shape.

[Alice @AliceButcher875]

@BrainDamageReal At the VERY beginning, levels weren't so bad, because it wasn't like levels to a video game, it was just levels to a building. You go down a level and it gets more decrepit and weird, but very quickly it became-

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TLDR, the antagonist is a black guy (and brilliantly played by a black actor who, thankfully, does not share the racist assumption that black guys should never play antagonists because of the optics).

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

Backrooms is racist film. It’s technically brilliant, but racist. And it’s a shame during a time where Black studies is being eliminated on college campuses because I fear people are overlooking the obvious tropes and racist callbacks the film ridiculously displays.

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@pixsym @hthieblot How did I have to scroll so far down before someone posted Homestar?!?

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@robertlasagna1 You'd need a 40 year old for writing a good narrative on that theme, too.

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@akoustov Yes.

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@Empty_America I would take it a step further and note that the only films that have attempted to involve phone life are horror films.

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@PaulSkallas @whim_sy_ My ex will never leave SF. She struggles so badly that at times she will just live in a hostel between jobs. I will admit it gave her an "aura" among her friends who never left suburban LA. But that aura seems to have a sell-by date of 37.