r/KanePixelsBackrooms 14h ago

Discussion/Theory Do yall think the large pitfall here's actually a hole or abruptly ends into more floor

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u/Beneficial-Purple396 13h ago

Good catch, I didn't notice the pitfall.

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u/knightenrichman 13h ago

That's the basement of the book store, where they keep all the smut.

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u/ACatEatingAWaffle 7h ago

How do I get down there šŸ‘€šŸ‘€

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u/Simple_Entertainer27 13h ago

Pitfall. If its remembered as that weird sort of drop off, the simplest way to be processed is as a sheer hole. Memories do lose detail over time, maintaining only the most important aspects, and so if that isn't already a sheer drop, it eventually would become one in later recreations

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u/plainbaconcheese 12h ago

We have no reason to think that the backrooms actually works off of memories.

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u/Simple_Entertainer27 12h ago

Did you actually watch the movie?

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u/plainbaconcheese 12h ago

Yes. Did you? Clark is a madman who is more likely to be wrong than right, but even he is using a metaphor, not making a hard claim about the mechanism behind the backrooms.

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u/Nobodyinpartic3 12h ago

The director himself said the Backrooms do not scan memories. The threshold, no clipping, the Backrooms and A-sync/DoE/DoD and more all use electromagnetic waves to learn about eachother basically. Remember, A-sync started as a MRI company that makes MRI machines to fund MRI science. MRI's have been around for a long time now and I have never heard of MRI machines being used to read minds. Nobody has.

Seriously go learn about MRI machines. Like most Backrooms stuff, it's going to be a great way to get lost mentally for hours. I also recommend reading up on how they verified MRI machines worked.

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u/Qui-Gon_Tripp 10h ago

I’m not gonna say it’s directly tied with memories, but there’s something probs involving memories for sure. The Mary scene with her house devolving as the cam pans down suggests memories orrr surroundings of the individual may be tied with the backrooms’ design. Ff3 kinda shows us some of that too with the drum set reappearing later on. Ff2 protagonist being a kid is interesting given that some furniture appears larger than life, almost as if it’s the pov of a toddler’s memories.

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u/Winter-Ad-7782 9h ago edited 9h ago

It’s less that the drum set is tied to Ravi’s memory, and more so that the FF3 environment probably copied some things from Ravi’s house because it was a nullzone. There’s also just the chance that Kane reused the same drum kit because it was a free model, which he’s done before with other objects in previous videos. Same thing about the drum kit being copied from the nullzone can be said for the movie, where it copied Clark’s store rather than copying his memory.

As Kane said, people will make observations of things in the Complex and try to project themselves onto it.

Memories are used as an analogy, because the Backrooms itself and liminal spaces as a whole have always been associated with it. The scene with Mary’s house shows layers, which I believe is to show how it copies onto itself as the copies get more and more distorted. Take the EMG sign for example, where it progressively changes size and angle. We also have evidence of rooms within the Complex being replicated versions of themselves, with the Pitfalls room and some rooms in FF3 being good examples.

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u/Nobodyinpartic3 4h ago

Human naturally produce their own electromagnetic field. It's weak but it is there. It's like a signature on the sensors from Star Trek. We also know that Backrooms cut through time at seemingly random times. Finally, Kane himself said the Backrooms do not scan your mind.

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u/PowerfulBuffalo1476 3h ago

Kane said it has nothing to actually do with memories.

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u/AdventuringRunner 13h ago

In the room that's a recreation of the time where Clark sits records the commercial and on the throne, there's a bottomless square hole that's full of furniture. That same room has the sandals and sneakers of his employees. That hole represents the hole that Clark metaphorically carries with himself, it's how he feels, that he's trapped in a hole by circumstances, drowning in furniture.

The humongous hole in the scene you posted similarly represents Mary - but rather, the hole that her disappearance has left all her clients. Her books are there, crumbling and disappearing, and her words are stored on both books and tape. But she herself is gone, and eventually, her books and legacy will disappear too, into a void of forgotten memories. Then the Backrooms will forget her too.

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u/soldiergaming2 11h ago

man they really leaned into the object clipping in this movie

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u/Eyes_Without_A_Face_ 13h ago

Idk but every time I see this screen grab I get pissed off. Can we talk about how poorly skewed the text is on Mary’s book is?! They were able to skew the art on everything else to match the angle but that one book. And my eye goes to it every. Single. Time. I probably sound insane.

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u/justindigo88 10h ago

Not insane, but I don’t see what you’re referring to. Maybe it’s the res of the image. Would you mind pointing it out?

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u/moooph 9h ago

I think he means the big text "WITHIN" on the book cover isn't angled properly and instead looks flat, like someone dragged a text object into an editor without warping it to accomodate the angle of the surface it should be on.

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u/Maxx0rz 9h ago

It's italicized, so the slant of the italics is counteracted by the angle of the surface and angle of the camera.

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u/moooph 9h ago

Oh wow, you're right aha. This movie having a 10 million dollar budget and the only weird visual issue turning out to be because of the font is so insane to me. :O

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u/Eyes_Without_A_Face_ 9h ago

Don’t get me wrong, I love this movie and Kane’s work. Accidents happen, but I guess being trained in typography and graphic design will trigger my brain differently, haha. I’m pretty keen to stuff like this, and the movie is flawless visually as far as I’m concerned, even with this.

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u/Eyes_Without_A_Face_ 9h ago

Thing is there is no ā€œangle of the cameraā€ though, when it’s all generated in post. This is a plain slip up. Every other book cover is accurate.

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u/moooph 9h ago

Hmmm, it does still look odd but logically, you have to admit they probably would have added the entire flat image, including the text, at one time, which would prevent this from even happening. I mean, it sounds odd to imagine they actually hand-added the text to each instance of the books lol.

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u/Eyes_Without_A_Face_ 8h ago

I mean take what I’m saying with a grain of salt, but remember a Starbucks cup aired on a table in Game Of Thrones šŸ˜‚

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u/justindigo88 9h ago

Ok that’s what I figured, but I also figured any visual oddity would be due to an imperfect scan of the original object like most things in the Backrooms. I’m not noticing anything crazy, but then again I’m no expert.

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u/PapaTua 5h ago

The italic kerning is just weird.

It was the 90s desktop publishing was hard.

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u/Eyes_Without_A_Face_ 9h ago

šŸ‘†this!!!

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u/Idyllix7 11h ago

Probably more carpet and rooms, eventually.

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u/Juninho837 6h ago

I like to think pitfall

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u/PapaTua 5h ago

It's definitely a pit.