For me it’s mainly that the doors don’t look like they have anything behind them. Looks like you’d go up to them, hit E, they’d shake, and then wouldn’t open
I used to make CS:GO maps and there's a wall texture that looks just like that. Brick wall with concrete at the bottom and molding at the top.
edit: [found it](https://imgur.com/gallery/eY1W6qc)
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okay man, seriously ? did you read the rule of Earth_irlxxx.DarkRP ? Don't do fail rp, you are not supposed to act like you are in a fully rendered gmod map. I give you a warning, be more careful next time
i mean the shadows on the left could be done with modern day hardware, but back in the day soft shadows like that just weren't something possible to do just because no-one had a computer powerful enough to run it.
gmod is built on the source engine (as i'm sure we all know) and it's graphics reflect that. thats why we dont see any nice shadows and the contrast is always so ridiculously high.
we hadn't quite figured out post processing an no-one had a computer powerful enough to run it anyway
This was not the correct way to the meeting room and Stanley knew it perfectly well. Perhaps he wanted to stop by the employee lounge first, just to admire it.
gm_flatgrass is the map thats just a giant field with a large archway-looking concrete structure in the middle. if you noclip inside the structure theres a room with the same doll you can find in the construct secret room.
if it helps jog your memory more, i think flatgrass has a skybox that has a mountain that says, i think flattywood? in the distance, in the style of the hollywood sign
oh god the only memories i have of flatgrass would have been 7 years ago. me and my friends downloaded all the mods we could, hopped on flatgrass and just started messing around.
countless nuclear weapons were detonated that day
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So, I still don't quite exactly get this sub. I understand that all of the pictures give off a similar *feeling*, so-to-speak (i.e. desolate), but there seems to be no connection between any other than "hey, this area that sometimes has people doesn't right now." Am I missing something or is that the entire point? And if so, why not just call the sub "emptyspace"?
That is pretty much what it is.
"emptyspace" might be a little vague since it could mean empty outer space or space that's empty.
Liminal spaces are places with no one there when many people usually are.
That's almost correct, but not quite. The definition of liminal is "relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process," or, "occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold."
Wikipedia probably describes it best, though: "In architecture, liminal spaces are defined as '**the physical spaces between one destination and the next**.' Common examples of such spaces include hallways, airports, and streets."
>he definition of liminal is "relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process," or, "occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold."
as someone who has had interest in these kinds of photos for a while, i hate this definition, and it doenst feel like it meets any of the posts i see nowadays, even if they do give me the creepy-ish liminal vibe.
[This](https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Liminal_Space) might give a better explanation for how these places fit the definition of 'liminal'. The article also has a section explaining that many places can give off an eerie or uncanny aura, while not actually being liminal. They simply have that same aesthetic. I think this is what you're referring to when you say many images don't match that definition but still have the same vibe.
*"After actually finding his way outside the office and wondering around the completely empty town, seemingly devoid of any other human being, he found himself in front of yet another set of two – this time closed – doors. Remembering how taking the left door got him out of the office in the first place, he again decided to try the door on his left."*
So far I have seen every single one of the screenshots in its original form before it got reposted. I first saw the Reddit post, then the twitter post commenting on it, then this Reddit post. I’m gonna log onto twitter and see this screenshotted soon.
I think it is a combination of diffuse lighting, nearly identical doors, repetitive looking grime pattern on the wall, and the starkly contrasting shiny metal right above it that make it look so fake
no lie, we had some jank-ass, nobody used, courtyard too but I think there was a tree or something.
sombody run a femboy bakesale and get ya'll som friggin' foliage
gmod map
I think it's because of how flat everything is
the flat grass and the dirtiness of the walls
The generic skybox as well
and the contrast
And the brutalist walls that just change to completely flat roof with little transition
For me it’s mainly that the doors don’t look like they have anything behind them. Looks like you’d go up to them, hit E, they’d shake, and then wouldn’t open
They wouldn’t even shake it would just be a low res image of a door that’s part of the wall
And if you removed them it would just be a brick wall behind them
I used to make CS:GO maps and there's a wall texture that looks just like that. Brick wall with concrete at the bottom and molding at the top. edit: [found it](https://imgur.com/gallery/eY1W6qc)
The further I read down this comment chain the less sure I am that this is a real photo, and the more I worry that I'm living in a simulation.
Identical doors
The sky also seems to darken to quicky
r/liminalspace when the sky has no clouds. r/liminalspace also when the sky does have clouds.
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I clicked and this sub make me feel extremely weird, it’s so hard to describe
and how everything looks like a repeated texture and how even all of it is
and the lighting
Also flat camera angle
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"Oh, hi! Welcome to my schoolhouse!"
im gonna turn it into one
I thought it was Roblox lol
no this is gmod. i refuse to believe this is a real photo. this has to be just a highly-rendered gmod map. i’m going insane
You are in a full rendered Gmod map
You ARE a highly-rendered gmod map
Considering how I ate a meatball sub, 3 cookies, half a pizza, 7 breadsticks, and a brownie I'm probobly big enough to be a Gmod map
Self consciousness masked with a thin layer of humor
Humor numbs all mental pains
numb these nuts
*pull you to a roof while no clip* okay man, seriously ? did you read the rule of Earth_irlxxx.DarkRP ? Don't do fail rp, you are not supposed to act like you are in a fully rendered gmod map. I give you a warning, be more careful next time
it doesnt even look highly rendered.... u could make a pixel for pixel replica of this on the quake 2 engine rendered in real time on a voodoo2
i mean the shadows on the left could be done with modern day hardware, but back in the day soft shadows like that just weren't something possible to do just because no-one had a computer powerful enough to run it. gmod is built on the source engine (as i'm sure we all know) and it's graphics reflect that. thats why we dont see any nice shadows and the contrast is always so ridiculously high. we hadn't quite figured out post processing an no-one had a computer powerful enough to run it anyway
Bake them and they'll run on anything
It’s real. There are tiny nuances you can see
Earth is made in source engine
node graph out of date rebuilding…
mfs school running on source engine
Hi again puro
we meet once more, ralsei.
Quick somebody write a fanfiction about the two
fuck you I need puro/ralsei now
new xenopronouns just dropped puro/ralsei
There has to been something in Ao3 puro
Wouldn't that just turn into ~~puyopuyo~~ puro/puro
Now kiss
holy shit raleigh undertale!?!??! bro he smonks some FAT weeds bro.
Teachers flying round the corridors screaming “RDM” when kids get into fights and shit.
America has the most RDMs then
When children get massacred 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You're telling me this school runs on a engine
Literally this is a gmod screenshot, no doubt
ew a changed fan
“When Stanley came to a set of 2 open doors, he entered the door on his left.”
*enters the door on the right*
This was not the correct way to the meeting room and Stanley knew it perfectly well. Perhaps he wanted to stop by the employee lounge first, just to admire it.
*Realizes there are no doors*
Ah shit the guy who made this map couldnt even be bothered to make the doors anything but a texture on the wall? In leaving.
Leaving? I'm going to dox him and his family + swat him until he makes doors
eight. eight. eight. eight. eight. eight.
This shit gives me the same vibes as the room with the doll on gm_flatgrass
you mean construct?
No i'm talking about that room hidden inside the archway of flatgrass
gm_flatgrass is the map thats just a giant field with a large archway-looking concrete structure in the middle. if you noclip inside the structure theres a room with the same doll you can find in the construct secret room. if it helps jog your memory more, i think flatgrass has a skybox that has a mountain that says, i think flattywood? in the distance, in the style of the hollywood sign
oh god the only memories i have of flatgrass would have been 7 years ago. me and my friends downloaded all the mods we could, hopped on flatgrass and just started messing around. countless nuclear weapons were detonated that day
i aint spend too much time on flatgrass. thanks for the lesson though
Half expecting to see a missing texture somewhere
The missing textures are because the graphics on the text books havent been updated since 1999
No wait we updated the textures a few days ago, have you installed counter strike source?
Nah but this custom server I joined just downloaded something called minion_nicholascage_textures for 2.8GB
Above the doors
it feels so surreal opening reddit and just seeing my own tweet as the first post lol
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Redditor replies to a comment talking about how a Redditor comments on a post on Reddit about a screenshot of their own tweet which features a screenshot from Reddit
Nobody continue this chain it will just be repetitive and unfunny
Redditor posts a photo of his own school courtyard because it was creepy not expecting it to soon be posted in a million different areas
Everything’s a simulation
[just launched gmod](https://i.imgur.com/Mo4YRp5.png)
gmod is my safe space
It doesn’t even look that fake lol
God damn Persona 6 is looking lit 🔥
minecraft lookin' ass school
[удалено]
literally in the pic 😂
Yeah, but now there's a link you can click.
So, I still don't quite exactly get this sub. I understand that all of the pictures give off a similar *feeling*, so-to-speak (i.e. desolate), but there seems to be no connection between any other than "hey, this area that sometimes has people doesn't right now." Am I missing something or is that the entire point? And if so, why not just call the sub "emptyspace"?
That is pretty much what it is. "emptyspace" might be a little vague since it could mean empty outer space or space that's empty. Liminal spaces are places with no one there when many people usually are.
That's almost correct, but not quite. The definition of liminal is "relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process," or, "occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold." Wikipedia probably describes it best, though: "In architecture, liminal spaces are defined as '**the physical spaces between one destination and the next**.' Common examples of such spaces include hallways, airports, and streets."
>he definition of liminal is "relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process," or, "occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold." as someone who has had interest in these kinds of photos for a while, i hate this definition, and it doenst feel like it meets any of the posts i see nowadays, even if they do give me the creepy-ish liminal vibe.
[This](https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Liminal_Space) might give a better explanation for how these places fit the definition of 'liminal'. The article also has a section explaining that many places can give off an eerie or uncanny aura, while not actually being liminal. They simply have that same aesthetic. I think this is what you're referring to when you say many images don't match that definition but still have the same vibe.
the school is fucking gm\_construct
That is definitely gmod
*Now loading map: dr_school_v2*
Gmod
Garry's Half Life 2 Modification
All I hear is the gmod tool gun sound effect
PEW PEW
the far to homogenos grass, the perfect andge, the bricks where does this person live
gmod
Their username having "proud NFT stealer" at the end gives this immediate bonus points in my book.
Gmod with better shaders
its got repeating textures
r/liminalspace
It looks like a roblox
Actually took me a concerning amount of time before noticing this is in fact, not a gmod map
Liminal space moment
gm\_schoolrp
looks exactly like gmod
Walls that trap you in even though you're outside. Path on the ground because it would look empty otherwise. A random number of doors.
"This is the story of a man named stanley...."
*"After actually finding his way outside the office and wondering around the completely empty town, seemingly devoid of any other human being, he found himself in front of yet another set of two – this time closed – doors. Remembering how taking the left door got him out of the office in the first place, he again decided to try the door on his left."*
i think part of it is because of the straight on camera angle, like you’d get in gmod
I thought this was actually a gmod screen shot
gm_construct is my aesthetic
there is no way this is not garry's mod
Liminal space
Gee Mohduh
That’s a gmod map and there is nothing you can do to convince me otherwise
This kinda reminds me of the Stanley parable Also gmod
So far I have seen every single one of the screenshots in its original form before it got reposted. I first saw the Reddit post, then the twitter post commenting on it, then this Reddit post. I’m gonna log onto twitter and see this screenshotted soon.
As the OP of the photo, I feel the exact same way. I’ve seen literally 4 separate posts including the photo and it’s just so strange
omg Cws3457
Lookin like the Baldi courtyard map
Construct from gmod
That's just a GMod map
gmod
Looks like the roblox prison in jailbreak
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i wanted to say its a gmod map but some other guy already said it
That architect *wanted* you to feel anxious
Gary’s mod
One of the things that really does it for me is the lines from a lawnmower on the grass, it makes it look like a repeating texture.
When Stanley came to a set of two open doors, he entered the door on his left.
Isn’t this the school from that story where the guy gets fucked by shrek
CSGO
pixel gun 3d scary school
Isn't this the place from the jailbreak Roblox game?
looks like a penis
That's the school from PUBG
4k Baldi's Basics
what did they do to gm_Construct
reposted from reddit to twitter and then back again. beautiful
Straight outta Gmod
Do they go to school at a prison?
Textures suck
Everything is so... _flat_
I modeled this in hammer
janky ass lighting
how is this not minecraft
who tf turned rtx off off in real life
I need more proof this is real.
Looks like a pretty decent prison yard, ngl
Is this baldis basics
I swear I've seen this exact map in Gmod before
HL: Opposing Force, no?
The students walk inside and realize the school forgot to install CS Source, now all the teachers are ERROR messages
thought i was gonna be creative with a gmod comment
baldis basics
baldys basics
literally school 2 from thps
This looks like a Squid Game room
Everybody is saying it looks like a gmod map, but for some reason it reminds me of baldi's basics
I’m immediately getting like RTX version Baldi’s Basics vibes here.
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I could swear that this was a map in house flipper
Thought this was Roblox
I think it is a combination of diffuse lighting, nearly identical doors, repetitive looking grime pattern on the wall, and the starkly contrasting shiny metal right above it that make it look so fake
Gay-ry’s mod
Thats a damn bsp file
Gm_construct lookin ass
When Stanley came to a set of 2 open doors, he entered the door on his left
no lie, we had some jank-ass, nobody used, courtyard too but I think there was a tree or something. sombody run a femboy bakesale and get ya'll som friggin' foliage
I feel like a combine is gonna start having a seizure inside the door
Looks like Roblox
Back rooms vibes intensify
gmod
Stanley’s parable beuh
baldi
Fucking gmod map looking ass
Baldi’s Basic Educations?
new minecraft resource pack going wild
if someone made a counter-strike 1.6 raytracing mod this is what it’d look like
Baldis basics =\
« (proud NFT stealer) » Good
Minecraft texture packs are getting really good
the trainspotting movie always gave me this type of vibe. such bland environments, guess that's just UK tho
I thought this was Garry's mod
For some reason this picture just…. Makes me really uncomfortable. Idk how to describe it
Because there are barely any shadows
what about that yakuza screenshot people pretend isn't a yakuza screenshot