See! Templin understands the poolrooms. It doesn't need weird entities, le spooky tall man or comically floating smiling things. The poolrooms is a lonely existence devoid of any life. It is a dreadfully warm limbo of tiled infinity painted in the familiarity of childhood memories, but with an growing sense of hostility. Not from any immediate danger, of course. This is the most definitive and descriptive video on the poolrooms I have ever seen.
The halfway point of the narrator describing the scenery has me suffocating because my mind is describing the atmosphere in so much detail, they know what they're doing
@@Crawdithe98 I agree, to a certain extent. sometimes creatures add a lot to a Backrooms level, but sometimes the creepy emptiness of liminal spaces is enough and creatures can become unnecessary
SCP: Fragmented Minds is due to come out soon, it looks pretty good. They had a demo out for their Kickstarter a couple years ago, The Exploring Series played through it on his channel. Decent looking game for what it is. Control is probably the closest you'll get from a AAA game, for licensing/IP reasons, the license for the SCP Foundation wiki is CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons, Attribution, Share-Alike) so while it's _technically_ doable it's really tricky and not something a big company would want to do, especially since if they made a big hit with it, they wouldn't own the IP. That's an oversimplification, of course.
Testament to how well this level was crafted and how good this narration is that the last shot is close to a jumpscare simply by having something different from the rest of the Pools.
The unusual quiet of the video really captured something. Even the credits card was just filled with quiet water. This is the best description ive seen of the backrooms, this concept of liminal spaces well executed
You know you've made it when the Templin Institute creates an entry on you as an alternate reality! A moment for all those researchers who brought us this information...
Chlorine still smells in its uncontaminated form. The smell of the contaminated chlorine is nitrogen trichloride produced when free chlorine is outnumbered by contaminated chlorine. When your eyes are stinging in a pool it's because there isn't enough free chlorine - not too much. Obviously pH is a factor as well.
Never thought I'd see you make a backrooms video, and on the best one as well! I actually find the poolrooms super comforting, but you can still get a sense of unease and loneliness from some of the areas
Fun fact: sweat and urine are chemically extremely similar. Both contain about 1-2% urea, the main difference is that urine contains about twice as much salt, a little more water, and uric acid. The "chlorine" smell is actually the smell of chloramines, which are created when free chlorine reacts with (nitrogenous) organic compounds like urea. Both also contain various other organic compounds in trace amounts, many of which react with chlorine similarly to urea.
I think that's the only situation where this place would be scary. It just looks like an enormous boring and empty swimming bath. I swear zoomers just get anxiety from anything that isn't their phone screens.
I suggest videos on: Imhotep (The Mummy) The Last of The Mohicans Naboo Skynet NUMA (Clive Cussler) RDA (Avatar) The Trade Federation Redemption (The Quick and the Dead) Wayne Enterprises The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The Star League (The Last Starfighter) Ready Player One Krypton The 10th Kingdom Troy
Pretty good choice to resist the youtube's channel impulse and leave the ending with no voiced-over "call to action" at the end. It would have kinda ruined the foreboding ending.
It will be interesting to know the Institute's response to the more daringing dangerous and deceptively famiiar levels of the Backrooms such as the closed hotel space, the suburbs and the mall.
Remimds me of an architectural history and philosophy class I had to do in masters. Thanks, now I'm going to have nightmares about my totally not stoned philosophy tutor who somehow managed to swing a job in an architecture school and how everyone is always wrong, except him. Always.
That's one of the best stuff that there is. Which would you choose? Being with unknown company in the dark, or being alone in the light? Nightmare fuel. There is a mod for Minecraft that adds the pools as an infinite dimention, and there is a giant difference of exploring it with friends, or exploring it alone. Even if you are just in front of a computer, you are constantly nervous, as if you were not able to just close the game and exit it.
As you travel and your old memories fade, you are filled with a sense of purpose. A growing awareness that whatever this place is, it does not go on forever. It leads...somewhere. And you are getting closer.
The Backrooms could be an alternative afterlife location in fiction, I think it would be interesting to explore the possibility of this in a fictional setting.
I had a pool room in my dreams, that u visited so often that I was wondering and scared everytime I visited. It was really a transition place to another part of my dream, till I finally was able to close that dream...still, the pool lingers in my memories
Great way to remember what it felt like to be lost as a child. You may know it can't actually go on forever. But everything feels so vast, and you're not sure if you've been there before. You just want to find your family again and go home. But you keep getting turned around.
Jared Pike strikes yet again. Incidentally, I've finally been reading House of Leaves after years of meaning to. These piscīnae somnī might not have a five-and-a-half-minute hallway like that ʰᵒᵘˢᵉ on Ash Tree Lane, but their construction betrays a certain sense of blame, if you catch my drift. Also, Davis of the Warp Zone dreads the presence of those rubber duckies.
When i was 6 years old i remember having a similar experience once in a hospital... When i realized where i was suddenly no people no wind or bird sounds endless corridors and silence ...and this wierd feeling of being followed and being watched...
The emptiness is far more unsettling that having any kind of monster. It will make you go crazy and have an irrational fear, a fear far worse than anything rational.
I can smell this video... and yes, this is a common occurance in my dreams since they all take place in the same few places. It's not as bad as the impossibly large room completely filled with impossibly large pendulums swinging impossibly slowly
I kinda expected a video of something else, but i'm not complaining. The backrooms are a really interesting concept that would 100% be subject of Templin investigation and fascination. Anyway here are some recommendations for future videos: Saiyajin Race, the Institute (fallout 4), Empire of Tamriel, Grimm Hunters (RWBY), Gotham Mafia Families, Metropolis, Fire Nation.
Fascinating 🧐 curious about the other floors of the back rooms or what lead to this floor in particular! This is neither the first nor even close to the first floor, so why this floor of the back rooms in particular?
I just thought of this anime idea of a group of people waking up in the back rooms and having to find their way out each night in set areas those that dont get out end up never waking up and every week they must enter once and each time they get to a deeper level etc uncovering the mystery
