idle thought #590

Also, my exposure to the Backrooms came far before the talented teenager took over the stage and convinced everybody he’d invented the concept. Somehow. (People don’t do research.) He did a good job, but there’s some amount of ‘there was a community storytelling here and that got lost in the fame’. For me, it was the Puppet Combo patreon game, and I really liked that one. I didn’t fall back into it really until the 2020 election, at which point I was like ‘yeah eldritch horror is less scary than the possibility of coming under a dictatorship in my lifetime, I’m gonna dive full in’. ...Honestly, that might happen again this November.