C: Hey thanks for the amazing maps, and the amazing Inno. Best ghost robot girl. If you can answer, was she made with ai or was she an intentional design? She's a great design regardless.
1:14:00 never before did I think I would hear anyone say the sentence "1980's haunted liminal mall GF" but honestly agreed. I'm not sure it's something I would actively pursue per se, but I also can't say I would be terribly upset if it came about...
C: OH! the one with our robot ghost loli waifu! YES! we will watch. Edit: I think you missed the intro since you did it out of order Edit edit: THe idea of interacting with a liminal space reality by watching cable tv too late is just pure amazing, imma borrow it lol If you like the idea of liminal spaces having personalities and needs, you might like liminal ranger which is roughly about cheering up depressed liminal spaces
wait until he figures out the music is AI generated but specifically tailored to this game's story I feel like parts of the map broke cus you did them out of order...
lol, is he just going to miss every time Inno sings? That's why she's so lovable though, she communicates through song. Ah ok took him a minute, he's starting to get it XD
I love how the music, over time, just sort of gets drowned out since you hear it so much, but when you listen into it it seems to actually take on meaning. Alone, in an abandoned mall, that SHOULD be empty but clearly has something happening within, and all you can do is "Look for answers".
Anyone else notice that the lyrics of the music are talking about the predicament you’re in? It says things like “I know this is confusing, I know you’re looking for an exit, so many doors so many windows, I know you’re feeling distressed”. Very clever!
I like how it slowly gets to you. It's very subtle. At first it sounds like the average mall song, so you naturally ignore it until you're wandering for a while and begin listening to it more closely.
@@cepheus3d the WOW moment I had once I noticed that the lyrics were actually "talking" to me xD. Inno's singing reminds me of the Edgerunners song "I really want to stay at your house"
Hey Librarian, a long time viewer here. I just wanted to tell you that I lost a relationship with someone I love and admire and your videos always let me have a moment of peace and comfort. Especially in recent days. I really appreciate the work you put to deliver us daily videos and you're a great help man.
If you can make her comfortable enough to unlock a door, you might be able to get food delivered, but you might have trouble convincing your drivers that they aren't being pranked...
@@Anastas1786 yeah but that requires money, and for someone to find the void space that leads there. I want anomalously provided food that is somehow magically cooked despite me never seeing any employees.
20:13 On this angle I imagined something different. Imagine you are just casually looking down that window, suddenly someone passes through and sees you, keeps his eyes on you. Then he starts running towards the room you are in. You would just feel the necessity to get out of that room before he gets you.
@13:55 I choose to believe that whoever runs the place wants people to say "Now here" (because it's the hip place to be or something) Mall rather than "No where" Mall and they were just too cheap to pay for the hyphen on the signs. Or too confident in their signage proofreading skills.
Speakers playing music in a bathroom above urinals isn't too strange. I know places like buffalo wild wings have mini TV's so if you're invested you wont miss the big play taking a piss.
there is a different spawnpoint in that map that continues the exit of gm_voidsplaces that cant be accessed from the other way I know this was recorded before playing the previous map but its a cool thing to know
Your remarks about defamiliarization resonated with me significantly. One of my favorite pastimes is looking at a place or an object and project it into the future some thousand, two thousand years. Long enough for all our modern civilizations to have died and been forgotten in a new Dark Age (in the actual sense of a Dark Age - loss of information about the time, not that the times get primitive.) What will be left of our world? What will anthropologists say to describe how we lived? Are we leaving enough information behind to maintain a record, or have we digitized so much information that the very nature of our society ensures that we will be forgotten? I actually got chills when I had the opportunity to see footage of the National Archives of England. You know what that building looks like? It's an IMMENSE complex, a warehouse of truly grand stature, in which every printed work produced in England or by English authors is stored. They print off Internet articles and blog posts to archive in there. The technology for preserving these books, newspaper broadsheets, internet ephemera is so advanced that most of the complex is off-limits to humans because it is kept under nitrogen. No oxygen. The longer I watched, the more I thought about those anthropologists who will not be born for many centuries yet, and realized that they will one day have no frame of reference for our society... until the dig sites begin to uncover the National Archives-style caches from around the globe. Nearly-infinite information about how we live and know the world to be, what we've discovered, the histories we ourselves have uncovered, all there. Ripe for the picking, so long as the oxygen never gets in. What's more is there WILL be a new Curse of Tutankhamun. The first anthropologist to open the National Archives may well fall victim to asphyxiation if he enters into the great vault unawares. Fantastic.
Meh. The universe has been around for 13 billions years, everything we know and love is just a slice of entropy within the past century or so at most (depends on how long you live).
if I had a nickle for every time I've seen a story about a seeming abandoned mall that's gradually revealed to be sentient and communicates via the PA system that's trying to keep people inside because it's lonely, I'd have two nickles which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice.
@@Oooze3424 Though the uniqueness of this one is this invasive Jimmy entity that makes the mall change it's mind and try to make you leave as if to try and keep you safe from this Jimmy.
I'll admit, when I played this map, I had my character dance each time the music came on. XD (I have most of Gmod's player gesture animations bound to my number pad keys. Stuff like waving, laughing, dancing, and stuff like that.)
I've had nostalgia for lots of things that are before my time. I truly believe that certain times, things, places were aesthetically beautiful, cozy, or nourishing. But legitimately so, in a way that transcends the disposable way we often think about style (somehow something can be "in style" and then not in style, as if we never actually liked the aesthetic to begin with and it was all about recency). Malls from the 70s and 80s evoke a sense of social interaction, adventure with friends, and the excitement of window shopping and seeing these amazing things you wouldn't be able to see just sitting at home, except maybe in a catalog. And I believe that's nourishment our brains still crave, but we simply can't get it anymore due to the state of modern life. So when we see it, our hearts ache for it, similar to nostalgia.
I can sort of understand this too. Where i am from, the mall/shopping centre design is a lot different than the one in the gmod maps. Many of them are still open to this day, often unchanged. Some centuries old. Some places for the better, some for the worst. The old European shopping streets and open air foot walk passages through centuries old buildings are always a wonderful experience. They feel like as if they were built to last forever. I often think about the people of the past and how they lived and what items they bought there. I have relatives in Lithuania and in Vilnius, also a beautiful old city, but on the there is soviet era shopping centre that really looks like some sort of brutalist prison complex, a true eyesore. It is just a block of concrete. As a kid, i was afraid to go there. Even as a 32 year old nowadays, i really don't like this place at all. I really would not miss that one, if they would tear it down. Same with the soviet era apartment buildings. Ugly buildings from an ugly time built under the influence of ugly people.
I think I've finally cracked it - these last two maps use a combination of GoldSrc and Source mapping conventions. Some of the areas are "too simple" to be Source, yet there's very smart use of lighting and geometry that can only be Source
In my perspective, as much as I LOVE these GMod explores, I feel like there's going to be times where there aren't any good maps to play for a while, so the space between videos has allowed for more good maps to come out. Happy that there'll be more of these vids tho :).
As someone who was a teen in the 90s I can attest - yes spaces like this existed. But usually with a bit more 70s / 80s earth tone style stuff thinly hidden beneath the surface. >_
On second thought I stand corrected. Malls in my time did have a lot of fountains but they weren't all that big on all out swimming pools in the middle of the building. lol
Something creepy about the "voidspace": You enter it through a door with a clear warning not to enter the anomalous area. You exit through a normal door.
At the end, my interpretation is that she's trying to be scary so you'll leave, because she realizes you are not safe there. Same reason she let you go in the first place. She doesn't want to be alone, but she doesn't want to be responsible for you coming to harm. I could be wrong though, obviously. There are other viable interpretations.
How do you suppose you protect and "raise" the unquiet spirit of a _failed shopping mall?_ Seriously, that's an interesting thought. Would you need to _acquire_ the building and keep it from being demolished, burned down (accidentally or on purpose), or heavily vandalized? Would you need to bring the crowds back? (It looks like the place was cleared out fairly recently, which might be a good sign, and in one or two places it looks like they might have been trying to convert some of the maintenance space into guest-facing space, which I think could be a good thing or a bad thing.) Would it be enough that she has _someone_ to watch and talk to? Could she be _removed_ from the building somehow; helped to "haunt" a new place with more reliable traffic? Do _building_ spirits have any connection to the Afterlife?
@@Anastas1786 Trying to revive a dead mall to appease a child like spirit that is the building itself, honestly sounds like a great concept for an animated comedy series or something like that
That was perhaps the best gm map Ive seen you play. Fabulously well done. I love that the backrooms-esc vibe has been made into its own thing here (and elsewhere). And with such great characters! On the nostalgia aspect, I was born in a mid sized town in late 1970s and in my opinion the 80’s vaporwave nostalgia is more as if the style of the 80’s was perfected with an unlimited budget. Local malls where either 70’s (wood and copper which was nice actually) or vaporwave-lite. But I did see a huge mall in a bigger city that was much more like this map.
19:00 Shortly after you enter here, you mention it feels like you're not supposed to be here and that someone was watching you snoop. I'm not 100% sure if "here" meant "this specific strictly-utilitarian stretch of hallways" or "the sprawling, empty Nowhere Mall in general", but it definitely feels like at this _specific_ moment you've entered what was a staff-only area, like the "servants' corridors" in big, fancy rich peoples' houses. A kind of "highway" to let staff, delivery people, and security cross the mall quickly with clothing racks or pallet jacks full of inventory (or just to the exits or food court) without being seen or having to dodge around clusters of guests or kiosks or slow down for walkway-clogging groups of slow-moving friends. I suspect things like the Building and/or General and/or "Business" Manager's office(s) and the Maintenance/Janitorial offices and breakrooms would be tucked away somewhere in these webs. 59:30 Speaking (later) of actually _listening_ to the music as the voice of the "Mall Spirit": _I know it's confusing._ _I know you want answers._ _I know you looking for answers._ _I know you're looking for the answers!_ _I know it's_ [You're just a little too loud for me to make her out at this point, but I don't _think_ it's a repetition of the first line.]
1:06:43 I may be looking into this too much But does That Shop next to the “1980s abandoned mall gf” look Suspiciously similar to The Shop Wyatt Exited out of in the oldest View. I might be Wrong But it just Kinda stood out from many of the other shops.
And thats why you dont put trust on girls with pink hair, natsuki being the only exception. Also this one(i named her temmy) reminds me of giffany from gravity falls
I think vice city is more simply "miami life" as it's called, it's still kinda like that on boardwalks. It's like how Vegas hasn't really changed. Now that being said as one of your older viewers in my 40s I was a mall rat in the 80s and 90s frequently at least 3-4 large ones in Michigan regularly and there was some aspects of the 80s neon aspects yes,it was very as you see in 80s movies ,cant say I've ever been in an abandoned mall but I have been in some that had ya know 10 or 12 people and feeling very too open, empty, and at times creepy, not seeing anyone but workers for 20 to 30 minutes does give you this kinda "im the last customer on earth" vibe,especially as a kid or teenager. It was also though a good excuse to be an idiot running around yelling then getting in trouble from security lol
I am pretty sure the music in these worlds are entirely AI generated, so doubt you should worry too much about any copyright. And I think it works really well with liminal maps like these.
you know the music that keeps playing? I caught a line in it 'I know you're looking for answers' among other bits. I think its talking to the player directly lol
When you were Talking about You and your Friends or Whatever about 10 years Ago I Got the Chills You Probably Witnessed a Murder Or Something Because The Van Is Most Likely a Kidnapping Van So Good you got of of there and I love these creepy Videos❤
I think I have an explanation for nostalgia for a time you never lived. On the stuff we grew up with, we are nostalgic for, and we sometimes wish to share it in hopes of recreating the feeling. So most likely, during a time we most likely don’t remember, our parents did the same of sharing nostalgia. Even though we don’t consciously remember, our nostalgia is for the feeling of sharing the nostalgia of the time we didn’t live. In 30 ish years, that feeling will be shared to finding Nemo and Bambi, with the longing for Snow White and chalkboards.
Your thoughtful commentary is a perfect match for these sort of slow burn creepy/comfy exploration videos. Hearing your plans to do more of them (in VR no less) this year has me excited
I live near a very large mall, and in the atrium area it's 6 floors high. The highest the public are allowed on is the 3rd where the movie theaters are, but one time me and friends were in the elevator and it went up to 5. That must be break rooms or something because a couple security guards got on and we went back down to 2. You're right, it feels weird knowing that the mall has a network of hallways you'll never see
just arrived and OOOH PRETTY NEON LIGHTS AND COLORS AND IT'S A LIMINAL SPACE MAP? HFJERBHFERU Edit: OH MY GOD. This was so cool! I am in love with this story so far. The fact that custom music was made to give you hints on how to continue alone just shows how much passion and effort was put into this map. I don't have gmod, so I do hope I get to see Librarian play future installments in this little series. The way the map makes the player come to conclusions until you're like "OH." Is so good. I love the neon pink "Sun" and how the color seems to be a big representation for Nowie (My nn for the pink nowhere mall personification. idk if she has an actual name or not) also ties everything together really well. HHHHH THIS IS SO GOOD IHDUIEQ3LIUQ34E
a theory: the girl, which is the personification of the building are trying to protect the human inside it from the pink sun, the building itself is slowly affected by the pink sun, causing anomalies, but the human cannot understand and keep on trying to exit the building note: I can't hear the music well so this theory has no base whatsoever update: wait, is that why you keep finding pink sun or pink room in maps after this video?
Day 1: Librarian, there is this VR Horror game called Lies Beneath. It's a game in a comic book style, which is really cool looking. The story is that you're a girl returning from college and you have to save your father from these creepy people and monsters infesting her hometown.
There are probably several comments saying this but when you talk about the strange feeling you get having nostalgia for these places you've never actually gone to, it reminds me of the term anemoia, which means feeling nostalgia for a time you've never known.
Awe, that rich guy's house anecdote is so adorable. My parents and I would kayak in those little channels around the island, and I can absolutely see those houses you mentioned.
One of the ambient sound effects in this (wonderful) map comes from the Panos Cosmatos film 'Beyond the Black Rainbow', which I recommend to you if you haven't seen it. Also, this map will load gm_voidplaces in certain areas, I used the Sonic Screwdriver addon to open doors in a later playthrough and it loaded said map.
There was a mall very similar to this in a dream i had a while back. There were people in it but i remember being chased by something and nobody but me noticed.
Hi Librarian! Recently I've played a game called SOMA from the same developers that made Amnesia games and it is quite literally an existential dread incarnate. Even if you're not gonna record it i still recommend you play it if you haven't already
You know, at the end, to signalize that all events have been triggered, should have been for Caramelldansen to start playing over the speakers when you returned to the main area
so i have a theory: imma call her Mally (pronounced Molly) Mally is the mall protecting you from the outside sun as if she knows you from the times you went to the mall as a kid, but Jimmy got in, so shes leading out to safety but shes slowly being corrupted by jimmy, and her sadness of your leaving turns to anger becuase of it
That darn potted plant in the middle of the hallway at 10:23 nearly spooked me half to death, really had me thinking someone was standing there all of a sudden
Just found your channel. Your voice is oddly relaxing. And I love the way you just start talking about nothing, but it's entertaining😂 Will keep watching your vids.
Looks like it could be a good rp map. Like, an anomalous event makes the sun deadly to anyone outside, and people are trapped in this mall, and they splinter into factions controlling different areas, scavenging scrap and supplies from the stores. Pool area could be water resources, the green grass anomalous area could be used to grow food, but scarcity and control of both resources would ensure conflict
Okay; this map has been stuck in my head since I watched it, so I might as well try to put some pieces together. I'm not super familiar with the whole Void Places series, so this will be focused on this map in particular, independent of the other maps. Before the events of the map, the sun was replaced by a pink "sun", and it began causing "non-euclidean temporal anomalies", such as real-life Bernard's Doors. Those who (knowingly or unknowingly) enter an anomaly and wander the void are called "explorers". Inno was an explorer who, out of desperation, began trapping and killing explorers, using her singing as a lure. (To what end? Unclear.) Either way, the void changes everyone, and Inno had become a void entity, scarcely any different than those that terrorized her. ...but she retained shreds of humanity deep down, and in a moment of clarity, she realized what she had become and felt remorse. As a result, she made her slice of the void, the Nowhere Mall, into a safe place for explorers. When the player insistently tries to leave, she's disappointed that the Nowhere Mall wasn't good enough to keep you, but she knows well that desire to explore ever-forward into the unknown from when she was a void explorer, and, so, she relents. Other notes: - I believe it was stated that Inno does still kill, just not in the Nowhere Mall. I don't know if it's out of necessity, instinct, or bloodlust. It's unclear from VoidMall alone how the void and the pink sun affect people and how exactly void entities work. It's possible that she became a cannibal as an explorer to keep from starving, and she still needs to prey upon explorers, but it's entirely possible that hunger isn't a factor in the void. - It seems like the cute face Inno puts on may just be a façade she chooses to wear (a cute caricature of humanity, a face of Inno-cence), and her real appearance at this point is far more horrific. The façade slips sometimes. - I'm not 100% certain who the dark figures painted on the walls depict going off VoidMall alone. It is likely that it's Jimmy, but it could be anyone. - Oh yeah, Jimmy's there, too. If you're super fast, you can catch a glimpse of him. I don't think he can hurt you in the Nowhere Mall, though. ...I think that dark figure is Jimmy, anyway. Again, could be anyone. If the dark figure is Jimmy, it would make sense that the painted dark figures depict Jimmy. I choose to believe that Jimmy did grafitti before becoming an explorer and continued to do so as an explorer, and, as a void entity, he likes scaring people for the laugh. That could be contradicted by other maps in the series, as I **think** I heard he or his grafitti appear in other maps. It's possible that he would go in for the kill anywhere else. - Also, I really like the neon aesthetic of the map. The bright pink, blue, and green lights illuminating a mall in the middle of an urban center-- It's like it was designed to trap *_me._* The occasional yellow lighting and the dimly-lit/dark back areas (especially the Hell room) make me feel a bit repulsed, though. The areas that the public would be in (were it a real mall) are very soothing to me, though. I adore it. There's electricity and computers around. I wonder if they have internet...? Could you access the regular internet from a void accessed through a non-euclidean temporal anomaly? I would say "doubtful", but a girl can dream. Okay. Now that that's out of my system, maybe I can move on from this. ...I mean, probably not, but... y'know, worth a shot.
Lets Go AGAIN! THX SO MUCH MAN 💕💕 LOVE YA
C: Hey thanks for the amazing maps, and the amazing Inno. Best ghost robot girl. If you can answer, was she made with ai or was she an intentional design? She's a great design regardless.
What's the "i entered a door that didn't exist in a world where reality twists" song??
@@ArAsDeCos Inno - Enter a door
th-cam.com/video/4aMcjQmiH5s/w-d-xo.html
Its in their channel @@ArAsDeCos
NICE MAP!
1:14:00 never before did I think I would hear anyone say the sentence "1980's haunted liminal mall GF" but honestly agreed. I'm not sure it's something I would actively pursue per se, but I also can't say I would be terribly upset if it came about...
truth
I feel bad for little pink mall ghost. She just wants a hug. :
C: OH! the one with our robot ghost loli waifu! YES! we will watch.
Edit: I think you missed the intro since you did it out of order
Edit edit: THe idea of interacting with a liminal space reality by watching cable tv too late is just pure amazing, imma borrow it lol
If you like the idea of liminal spaces having personalities and needs, you might like liminal ranger which is roughly about cheering up depressed liminal spaces
wait until he figures out the music is AI generated but specifically tailored to this game's story
I feel like parts of the map broke cus you did them out of order...
lol, is he just going to miss every time Inno sings? That's why she's so lovable though, she communicates through song.
Ah ok took him a minute, he's starting to get it XD
Who's the character?
The pink robot ghost girl seems to be named Inno. at least according to the music video.@@Puroboi8894
@@storytimewiththecrimsondm1318music can be AI generated? Is it just the voice or the instrumental music too?
in the middle of... Nowhere, you say? I wonder if there's a small farmhouse on the outskirts of town...
I love how the music, over time, just sort of gets drowned out since you hear it so much, but when you listen into it it seems to actually take on meaning. Alone, in an abandoned mall, that SHOULD be empty but clearly has something happening within, and all you can do is "Look for answers".
Anyone else notice that the lyrics of the music are talking about the predicament you’re in? It says things like “I know this is confusing, I know you’re looking for an exit, so many doors so many windows, I know you’re feeling distressed”. Very clever!
I like how it slowly gets to you. It's very subtle. At first it sounds like the average mall song, so you naturally ignore it until you're wandering for a while and begin listening to it more closely.
@@cepheus3d the WOW moment I had once I noticed that the lyrics were actually "talking" to me xD. Inno's singing reminds me of the Edgerunners song "I really want to stay at your house"
What was the song again?
I really wanna stay at your house? From cyberpunk?
Hey Librarian, a long time viewer here. I just wanted to tell you that I lost a relationship with someone I love and admire and your videos always let me have a moment of peace and comfort. Especially in recent days. I really appreciate the work you put to deliver us daily videos and you're a great help man.
Hope you feel better man.
@@eddythecoolguy it always gets better, thank you bro
He's one of the best comfort channels
@@duckling8 On point 💯
Very wholesome message. Stay safe and get better.
poor Nowhere, she just wants a friend. if the food court wasn't empty and the computers still connected to the internet I'd stay with her.
If you can make her comfortable enough to unlock a door, you might be able to get food delivered, but you might have trouble convincing your drivers that they aren't being pranked...
Her official name is Inno, according to the map creator: Pink Black. But yeah, I'd be her friend too. XD
@@Anastas1786 yeah but that requires money, and for someone to find the void space that leads there. I want anomalously provided food that is somehow magically cooked despite me never seeing any employees.
Skill issue, just become self sustaining and disconnect from the web to give Inno some company :3
@@Sparrow_Bloodhunter I mean. I'd rather be stuck with her than the Jimmy entity which seems invasive and hostile.
20:13 On this angle I imagined something different. Imagine you are just casually looking down that window, suddenly someone passes through and sees you, keeps his eyes on you. Then he starts running towards the room you are in. You would just feel the necessity to get out of that room before he gets you.
Funnily enough that's almost the exact angle of the selene delgado nextbot video when the nextbot notices the player
That's awesome.
Great video! 1:02:00 Of course you didn't notice her, she wasn't there before, it was blank.
@13:55 I choose to believe that whoever runs the place wants people to say "Now here" (because it's the hip place to be or something) Mall rather than "No where" Mall and they were just too cheap to pay for the hyphen on the signs. Or too confident in their signage proofreading skills.
Speakers playing music in a bathroom above urinals isn't too strange. I know places like buffalo wild wings have mini TV's so if you're invested you wont miss the big play taking a piss.
when he said "heblub" THE CROWD WENT WILD
13:04, for reference
I couldn't help but think of The Oldest View when he stepped into that big open atrium and it suddenly sprung to life
was looking for someone talking ahout TOV
12:51 I love the going underwater noises 😂
43:30 Is she a character from something? Or an original creation by the map creator? Either way she's freaking cute and I love her design!
She is my creation! it was from another project, I reused it in this map, and now it is part of all this
@@PnkBl4ck That's so cool! I love her design :D
@@PnkBl4ck Who did the voices and the music?
@@samsanimationcorner3820 My Man! Inno's songs were made using Suno AI.
is a music creation tool, based on artificial intelligence
@@samsanimationcorner3820 AI, but don't let that deter you away from the BANGER of a song, 'Inno - Leave Me Alone' by p'nk black.
9:30 Just casually telling us one of the creepiest real mall stories I have ever heard, like it’s nothing.
there is a different spawnpoint in that map that continues the exit of gm_voidsplaces that cant be accessed from the other way
I know this was recorded before playing the previous map but its a cool thing to know
What a surprisingly colourful map…. Usually they’re dark damp with the smell
Of mold
Your remarks about defamiliarization resonated with me significantly. One of my favorite pastimes is looking at a place or an object and project it into the future some thousand, two thousand years. Long enough for all our modern civilizations to have died and been forgotten in a new Dark Age (in the actual sense of a Dark Age - loss of information about the time, not that the times get primitive.)
What will be left of our world? What will anthropologists say to describe how we lived? Are we leaving enough information behind to maintain a record, or have we digitized so much information that the very nature of our society ensures that we will be forgotten?
I actually got chills when I had the opportunity to see footage of the National Archives of England. You know what that building looks like? It's an IMMENSE complex, a warehouse of truly grand stature, in which every printed work produced in England or by English authors is stored. They print off Internet articles and blog posts to archive in there. The technology for preserving these books, newspaper broadsheets, internet ephemera is so advanced that most of the complex is off-limits to humans because it is kept under nitrogen. No oxygen.
The longer I watched, the more I thought about those anthropologists who will not be born for many centuries yet, and realized that they will one day have no frame of reference for our society... until the dig sites begin to uncover the National Archives-style caches from around the globe. Nearly-infinite information about how we live and know the world to be, what we've discovered, the histories we ourselves have uncovered, all there. Ripe for the picking, so long as the oxygen never gets in.
What's more is there WILL be a new Curse of Tutankhamun. The first anthropologist to open the National Archives may well fall victim to asphyxiation if he enters into the great vault unawares.
Fantastic.
Meh. The universe has been around for 13 billions years, everything we know and love is just a slice of entropy within the past century or so at most (depends on how long you live).
the Tutankhamon par caught me off guard, it's so true
The fact that the mall showed the stages of grief in the end kinda screwed w me lol
if I had a nickle for every time I've seen a story about a seeming abandoned mall that's gradually revealed to be sentient and communicates via the PA system that's trying to keep people inside because it's lonely, I'd have two nickles which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice.
What’s the other one besides this? I’m intrigued :o
@@bloodylambz the little nightmares podcast
@@Oooze3424 Though the uniqueness of this one is this invasive Jimmy entity that makes the mall change it's mind and try to make you leave as if to try and keep you safe from this Jimmy.
I'll admit, when I played this map, I had my character dance each time the music came on. XD
(I have most of Gmod's player gesture animations bound to my number pad keys. Stuff like waving, laughing, dancing, and stuff like that.)
how? i try but it fails
Watching a cool video, then all of a sudden librarian casually drops the possibility of hearing a possible crime happen.
I must've missed that, do you remember when it happened?
@@kaiyotee2475when he heard a scream in an empty mall, and the only person in the area was a guy in a van.
@@kaiyotee2475around 10 minute mark
@@postminchoppa thanks
I've had nostalgia for lots of things that are before my time. I truly believe that certain times, things, places were aesthetically beautiful, cozy, or nourishing. But legitimately so, in a way that transcends the disposable way we often think about style (somehow something can be "in style" and then not in style, as if we never actually liked the aesthetic to begin with and it was all about recency).
Malls from the 70s and 80s evoke a sense of social interaction, adventure with friends, and the excitement of window shopping and seeing these amazing things you wouldn't be able to see just sitting at home, except maybe in a catalog. And I believe that's nourishment our brains still crave, but we simply can't get it anymore due to the state of modern life. So when we see it, our hearts ache for it, similar to nostalgia.
I can sort of understand this too. Where i am from, the mall/shopping centre design is a lot different than the one in the gmod maps. Many of them are still open to this day, often unchanged. Some centuries old. Some places for the better, some for the worst.
The old European shopping streets and open air foot walk passages through centuries old buildings are always a wonderful experience. They feel like as if they were built to last forever. I often think about the people of the past and how they lived and what items they bought there.
I have relatives in Lithuania and in Vilnius, also a beautiful old city, but on the there is soviet era shopping centre that really looks like some sort of brutalist prison complex, a true eyesore. It is just a block of concrete. As a kid, i was afraid to go there. Even as a 32 year old nowadays, i really don't like this place at all. I really would not miss that one, if they would tear it down. Same with the soviet era apartment buildings. Ugly buildings from an ugly time built under the influence of ugly people.
That feeling is called anemoia! The feeling of being nostalgic for a time or place you never actually knew
I think I've finally cracked it - these last two maps use a combination of GoldSrc and Source mapping conventions. Some of the areas are "too simple" to be Source, yet there's very smart use of lighting and geometry that can only be Source
In my perspective, as much as I LOVE these GMod explores, I feel like there's going to be times where there aren't any good maps to play for a while, so the space between videos has allowed for more good maps to come out. Happy that there'll be more of these vids tho :).
The songs are so good. 🎵 If you want to leave so bad, go on! The key Is in the battroom ~ 🎵
1:07:48 is such a cool little moment
what a map
As someone who was a teen in the 90s I can attest - yes spaces like this existed. But usually with a bit more 70s / 80s earth tone style stuff thinly hidden beneath the surface. >_
On second thought I stand corrected. Malls in my time did have a lot of fountains but they weren't all that big on all out swimming pools in the middle of the building. lol
@@orionfl79Didn’t you know? The swimming pools were always on the rooftops back in the 80s and 90s. 😉🤭
"Why would there be speakers just above the urinals?"
To help you relax so you can pee more easily despite being in a shared room.
Something creepy about the "voidspace": You enter it through a door with a clear warning not to enter the anomalous area.
You exit through a normal door.
55:55
Is it just me, or does she look like that very specific blend of scared and sad that just screams "please don't abandon me"?
At the end, my interpretation is that she's trying to be scary so you'll leave, because she realizes you are not safe there. Same reason she let you go in the first place. She doesn't want to be alone, but she doesn't want to be responsible for you coming to harm.
I could be wrong though, obviously. There are other viable interpretations.
@@theuncalledfor And i'm guessing the increasingly invasive and increasingly hostile Jimmy is the cause for her trying to do so.
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is it bad that i want to raise her like my own child? it feels like i need to introduce her to the concept of "having friends"
Honestly same here, I played this map with a few friends and we had a ten minute debate over whether to leave or not
How do you suppose you protect and "raise" the unquiet spirit of a _failed shopping mall?_
Seriously, that's an interesting thought.
Would you need to _acquire_ the building and keep it from being demolished, burned down (accidentally or on purpose), or heavily vandalized? Would you need to bring the crowds back? (It looks like the place was cleared out fairly recently, which might be a good sign, and in one or two places it looks like they might have been trying to convert some of the maintenance space into guest-facing space, which I think could be a good thing or a bad thing.) Would it be enough that she has _someone_ to watch and talk to?
Could she be _removed_ from the building somehow; helped to "haunt" a new place with more reliable traffic?
Do _building_ spirits have any connection to the Afterlife?
@@Anastas1786 Trying to revive a dead mall to appease a child like spirit that is the building itself, honestly sounds like a great concept for an animated comedy series or something like that
@@notyourda yeeees
Voidmall-Chan 🥰
you think librarian is scared of automatic doors in real life too?
That was perhaps the best gm map Ive seen you play. Fabulously well done. I love that the backrooms-esc vibe has been made into its own thing here (and elsewhere). And with such great characters!
On the nostalgia aspect, I was born in a mid sized town in late 1970s and in my opinion the 80’s vaporwave nostalgia is more as if the style of the 80’s was perfected with an unlimited budget. Local malls where either 70’s (wood and copper which was nice actually) or vaporwave-lite. But I did see a huge mall in a bigger city that was much more like this map.
Librarian has got to be my number 1 all time comfort youtuber, his content is just so cozy and relaxing
19:00 Shortly after you enter here, you mention it feels like you're not supposed to be here and that someone was watching you snoop. I'm not 100% sure if "here" meant "this specific strictly-utilitarian stretch of hallways" or "the sprawling, empty Nowhere Mall in general", but it definitely feels like at this _specific_ moment you've entered what was a staff-only area, like the "servants' corridors" in big, fancy rich peoples' houses. A kind of "highway" to let staff, delivery people, and security cross the mall quickly with clothing racks or pallet jacks full of inventory (or just to the exits or food court) without being seen or having to dodge around clusters of guests or kiosks or slow down for walkway-clogging groups of slow-moving friends. I suspect things like the Building and/or General and/or "Business" Manager's office(s) and the Maintenance/Janitorial offices and breakrooms would be tucked away somewhere in these webs.
59:30 Speaking (later) of actually _listening_ to the music as the voice of the "Mall Spirit":
_I know it's confusing._
_I know you want answers._
_I know you looking for answers._
_I know you're looking for the answers!_
_I know it's_ [You're just a little too loud for me to make her out at this point, but I don't _think_ it's a repetition of the first line.]
I think the Pink girl is the friendlier entity. She's just lonely. While Jimmy seems like an invading evil.
1:06:43 I may be looking into this too much But does That Shop next to the “1980s abandoned mall gf” look Suspiciously similar to The Shop Wyatt Exited out of in the oldest View. I might be Wrong But it just Kinda stood out from many of the other shops.
16:49- All in all, it's just some random bricks in the wall.
I deadass started singing the song when he said that
And thats why you dont put trust on girls with pink hair, natsuki being the only exception.
Also this one(i named her temmy) reminds me of giffany from gravity falls
Legitimately, like one of my dreams, I have this reoccurring dream of a very odd mall.
It's not a dream
Wake up
I think vice city is more simply "miami life" as it's called, it's still kinda like that on boardwalks. It's like how Vegas hasn't really changed. Now that being said as one of your older viewers in my 40s I was a mall rat in the 80s and 90s frequently at least 3-4 large ones in Michigan regularly and there was some aspects of the 80s neon aspects yes,it was very as you see in 80s movies ,cant say I've ever been in an abandoned mall but I have been in some that had ya know 10 or 12 people and feeling very too open, empty, and at times creepy, not seeing anyone but workers for 20 to 30 minutes does give you this kinda "im the last customer on earth" vibe,especially as a kid or teenager. It was also though a good excuse to be an idiot running around yelling then getting in trouble from security lol
That sounds awesome honestly
Librarian! You should play Construct 15 Void Machinima. It has the creepy & Comfy feeling.
I am pretty sure the music in these worlds are entirely AI generated, so doubt you should worry too much about any copyright.
And I think it works really well with liminal maps like these.
I doubt the full song is, the music itself might be
you know the music that keeps playing? I caught a line in it 'I know you're looking for answers' among other bits. I think its talking to the player directly lol
When you were Talking about You and your Friends or Whatever about 10 years Ago I Got the Chills You Probably Witnessed a Murder Or Something Because The Van Is Most Likely a Kidnapping Van So Good you got of of there and I love these creepy Videos❤
I COME BACK FROM SCHOOL AND WHAT DO I SEE? MY FAVOURITE TH-camR PLAYING MY FAVOURITE GAME AGAIN! WONDERUL!
Love that the lyrics to the song playing said "go away leave me alone"
round physics objects tend to roll around endlessly on a flat surface in the source engine, that tennis ball behavior was actually normal
if I was actually there, I'd try to actually talk to her. It kinda seems like she's just lonely.
the mall is alive, and has muktiple personalities
A really mean thing to do would be to make some of the doors (1-10 or 1-20) auto close on a long-ish timer and the rest stay open.
This map gave off some boneworks/bonelab vibes though not being in similar genre's. Maybe its because of the VR and neon lights.
I interpreted the arms as being spread in a welcoming gesture.
When the Librarian releases a prequel
I think I have an explanation for nostalgia for a time you never lived. On the stuff we grew up with, we are nostalgic for, and we sometimes wish to share it in hopes of recreating the feeling. So most likely, during a time we most likely don’t remember, our parents did the same of sharing nostalgia. Even though we don’t consciously remember, our nostalgia is for the feeling of sharing the nostalgia of the time we didn’t live. In 30 ish years, that feeling will be shared to finding Nemo and Bambi, with the longing for Snow White and chalkboards.
45:15 resident evil village baby is back, back again.
Aw I wish you could actually talk with the Mall since I felt really bad for her.
My favorite liminal spaces are always malls!
NEW VID!!!!!!!!! been waiting 4 this eagerly since you mentioned it last!! keep up the good work, man!
Day 9 of recommending Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
What is the name of the song playing?
Whats the music name?
the 'haunted ball' thing you've come across a couple of times now is just gmod physics not handling spherical collisions too well.
Your thoughtful commentary is a perfect match for these sort of slow burn creepy/comfy exploration videos.
Hearing your plans to do more of them (in VR no less) this year has me excited
I live near a very large mall, and in the atrium area it's 6 floors high. The highest the public are allowed on is the 3rd where the movie theaters are, but one time me and friends were in the elevator and it went up to 5. That must be break rooms or something because a couple security guards got on and we went back down to 2. You're right, it feels weird knowing that the mall has a network of hallways you'll never see
just arrived and OOOH PRETTY NEON LIGHTS AND COLORS
AND IT'S A LIMINAL SPACE MAP?
HFJERBHFERU
Edit: OH MY GOD. This was so cool! I am in love with this story so far. The fact that custom music was made to give you hints on how to continue alone just shows how much passion and effort was put into this map. I don't have gmod, so I do hope I get to see Librarian play future installments in this little series.
The way the map makes the player come to conclusions until you're like "OH." Is so good.
I love the neon pink "Sun" and how the color seems to be a big representation for Nowie (My nn for the pink nowhere mall personification. idk if she has an actual name or not) also ties everything together really well.
HHHHH THIS IS SO GOOD IHDUIEQ3LIUQ34E
I feel bad for the poor little pink eldritch girl.
@28:25 oh, so EVERY house is a House of Leaves. Neat!
I love watching your videos cuddled up with my boyfriend ♥
a theory: the girl, which is the personification of the building are trying to protect the human inside it from the pink sun, the building itself is slowly affected by the pink sun, causing anomalies, but the human cannot understand and keep on trying to exit the building
note: I can't hear the music well so this theory has no base whatsoever
update: wait, is that why you keep finding pink sun or pink room in maps after this video?
Can anyone find the song the doll sings in the video ive been trying to find it so bad im loving it
Is the last thing I upload, enjoy
You should play gm_br_pitfalls
_Go away! Leave me alone!_
pause on 55:05 WHERE DID THE DRAWING ON THE WALL GO???
UPDATE: it's ok, just an identical room.
4:17 This area reminds me a lot of a certain 90's fps arena map, but i don't remember which one exactly
Day 1: Librarian, there is this VR Horror game called Lies Beneath. It's a game in a comic book style, which is really cool looking. The story is that you're a girl returning from college and you have to save your father from these creepy people and monsters infesting her hometown.
the map itself being a sad lonely cosmic entity is something I've never seen before. very cool concept that advances the spooky liminal genre.
There are probably several comments saying this but when you talk about the strange feeling you get having nostalgia for these places you've never actually gone to, it reminds me of the term anemoia, which means feeling nostalgia for a time you've never known.
Awe, that rich guy's house anecdote is so adorable. My parents and I would kayak in those little channels around the island, and I can absolutely see those houses you mentioned.
One of the ambient sound effects in this (wonderful) map comes from the Panos Cosmatos film 'Beyond the Black Rainbow', which I recommend to you if you haven't seen it. Also, this map will load gm_voidplaces in certain areas, I used the Sonic Screwdriver addon to open doors in a later playthrough and it loaded said map.
There was a mall very similar to this in a dream i had a while back. There were people in it but i remember being chased by something and nobody but me noticed.
Was expecting the rolling giant to show up and start following Librarian around in this one.
That was so sweet of you trying to hold a hand of crying girl, it made me cry ngl
The music in this is really nice. Is there a OST out there?
It's on the creator's channel, they're pinned at the top of these comments.
@@TheLibrarianYT - Thank you very much!
Hi Librarian! Recently I've played a game called SOMA from the same developers that made Amnesia games and it is quite literally an existential dread incarnate. Even if you're not gonna record it i still recommend you play it if you haven't already
You know, at the end, to signalize that all events have been triggered, should have been for Caramelldansen to start playing over the speakers when you returned to the main area
so i have a theory: imma call her Mally (pronounced Molly) Mally is the mall protecting you from the outside sun as if she knows you from the times you went to the mall as a kid, but Jimmy got in, so shes leading out to safety but shes slowly being corrupted by jimmy, and her sadness of your leaving turns to anger becuase of it
That darn potted plant in the middle of the hallway at 10:23 nearly spooked me half to death, really had me thinking someone was standing there all of a sudden
Good girl 🎉 best girl ❤
Day…. 16…? Of asking the librarian to lay what remains of Edith Finch
Just found your channel. Your voice is oddly relaxing. And I love the way you just start talking about nothing, but it's entertaining😂 Will keep watching your vids.
Looks like it could be a good rp map. Like, an anomalous event makes the sun deadly to anyone outside, and people are trapped in this mall, and they splinter into factions controlling different areas, scavenging scrap and supplies from the stores. Pool area could be water resources, the green grass anomalous area could be used to grow food, but scarcity and control of both resources would ensure conflict
waiting for someone to attempt to make the american dream mall in gmod
Day 2 of asking the librarian to play shipwrecked 64
Okay; this map has been stuck in my head since I watched it, so I might as well try to put some pieces together.
I'm not super familiar with the whole Void Places series, so this will be focused on this map in particular, independent of the other maps.
Before the events of the map, the sun was replaced by a pink "sun", and it began causing "non-euclidean temporal anomalies", such as real-life Bernard's Doors.
Those who (knowingly or unknowingly) enter an anomaly and wander the void are called "explorers".
Inno was an explorer who, out of desperation, began trapping and killing explorers, using her singing as a lure. (To what end? Unclear.)
Either way, the void changes everyone, and Inno had become a void entity, scarcely any different than those that terrorized her.
...but she retained shreds of humanity deep down, and in a moment of clarity, she realized what she had become and felt remorse.
As a result, she made her slice of the void, the Nowhere Mall, into a safe place for explorers.
When the player insistently tries to leave, she's disappointed that the Nowhere Mall wasn't good enough to keep you, but she knows well that desire to explore ever-forward into the unknown from when she was a void explorer, and, so, she relents.
Other notes:
- I believe it was stated that Inno does still kill, just not in the Nowhere Mall. I don't know if it's out of necessity, instinct, or bloodlust. It's unclear from VoidMall alone how the void and the pink sun affect people and how exactly void entities work.
It's possible that she became a cannibal as an explorer to keep from starving, and she still needs to prey upon explorers, but it's entirely possible that hunger isn't a factor in the void.
- It seems like the cute face Inno puts on may just be a façade she chooses to wear (a cute caricature of humanity, a face of Inno-cence), and her real appearance at this point is far more horrific. The façade slips sometimes.
- I'm not 100% certain who the dark figures painted on the walls depict going off VoidMall alone. It is likely that it's Jimmy, but it could be anyone.
- Oh yeah, Jimmy's there, too. If you're super fast, you can catch a glimpse of him. I don't think he can hurt you in the Nowhere Mall, though.
...I think that dark figure is Jimmy, anyway. Again, could be anyone. If the dark figure is Jimmy, it would make sense that the painted dark figures depict Jimmy.
I choose to believe that Jimmy did grafitti before becoming an explorer and continued to do so as an explorer, and, as a void entity, he likes scaring people for the laugh. That could be contradicted by other maps in the series, as I **think** I heard he or his grafitti appear in other maps.
It's possible that he would go in for the kill anywhere else.
- Also, I really like the neon aesthetic of the map. The bright pink, blue, and green lights illuminating a mall in the middle of an urban center-- It's like it was designed to trap *_me._*
The occasional yellow lighting and the dimly-lit/dark back areas (especially the Hell room) make me feel a bit repulsed, though.
The areas that the public would be in (were it a real mall) are very soothing to me, though. I adore it.
There's electricity and computers around. I wonder if they have internet...?
Could you access the regular internet from a void accessed through a non-euclidean temporal anomaly? I would say "doubtful", but a girl can dream.
Okay. Now that that's out of my system, maybe I can move on from this.
...I mean, probably not, but... y'know, worth a shot.
Just showing appreciation for the otherwise unnoticed analyzation.
Hello Librarian
Thumbnail looks like some custom zombies call of duty map lol