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136 points

Am I too millennial to understand WTF this meme is talking about?

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96 points

House of Leaves. It’s a book that’s been around for a bit, but I believe that it got popular with the zoomers because it was an inspiration for myhouse.wad

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11 points

I suddenly find myself downloading doom II, cool

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2 points

Remember: happiness has to be fought for.

I watched a few good playthroughs rather than playing myself, but do yourself a favour and go into it as blind as possible.

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8 points

Oh heck,

Awesome! Thanks for sharing this.

House of leaves has been sitting on my shelf after I felt that it was really messing with my head.

I’ll be checking the wad out

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72 points

This is a meme about a scary book called House of Leaves. It’s a book that will make you feel unwell.

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47 points

Thanks but I don’t need books for that

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It’s an abnormaly written allegory for loneliness. Theres a lot going on in the book, but the terror starts when a journalist discovers that his new house is a fraction of an inch bigger on the inside than the outside. After that door leading to a pitch black room just shows up in their house.

It’s a great book. Gave me nightmares.

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18 points

Why is no one asking about 1/12th of an inch?

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It’s a reference to a horror book that starts with a protagonist discovering his house is slightly bigger on the inside. Spooky hijinks ensue, and somewhere along the way you loose your mind reading that book.

10/10 would recommend.

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I mean it starts with someone talking about finding a book in the apartment of a dead guy, but

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8 points

No need to ask, that is simply the length and girth of my micro penis

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I don’t know anything about the book in question, but I assumed it was because of the way the hook at the end of tape measures has a little play to it. If it’s a poorly made tape measure that doesn’t account for this properly, you get slightly different measurements by hooking around something versus pushing it against a surface.

(See point #5: https://www.ustape.com/hidden-features-of-measuring-tape/)

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4 points

That wiggle is an 1/8". 12ths of an inch aren’t really a thing.

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Don’t forget the 1/2" drywall, 3.5" studs, 1/2" foam thing, and siding.

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2 points

Seems like a fantasy metric like all the others, what is wrong with it?

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It’s not your generation that makes you unaware of the popular book house of leaves

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