I needed some grounded realism after Backrooms.
Dick Jones is the perfect villain name, I will accept no counterarguments.
"Only a master of evil... Dick."
"Dick. Your staff is broken."
"I am... Dick. I bid you velcome."
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More The neat thing about The Backrooms was always that it hit upon some sort of existential fear without getting too specific. The brittleness of reality. Set in 1990 and created by a kid who's never not known the internet, it's both a world disconnected from everything you take for granted and a story of information overload. Conceptual sharks. Plato's cave. Etc etc.
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