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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10 points

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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1 point

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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2 points

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

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53 points

I need to read that book again. It was scary, but I finished it utterly confused. I clearly missed a ton from the appendices.

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17 points

Which book is this ?

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18 points

House of Leaves, I believe

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12 points

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.

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More like House of Leaves

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9 points

What book is it?

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27 points

House of Leaves maybe?

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13 points

House of Leaves definitely.

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3 points

House of leaves, perchance

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9 points

House of Leaves I believe

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1 point

Alright, thanks!

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2 points

Oh, I just started reading that. Any tips?

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23 points

Read each page from left to right, starting to the top.

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11 points

Usually pretty good advice for a book but actually not helpful in this book.

The real answer is to read it however you want to explore it.

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5 points

What if OP has a version translated into a right-to-left languages?

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2 points

Don’t look up too much the first time reading it. Just enjoy the weird ride. Feel free to page over to the relevant appendices every now and then, although they didn’t make a ton of sense to me. When you’re done, check them out. Apparently there’s various secret messages and stuff back there that reveal more of the story but like I said, I still need to figure them out myself lol. Once I finished the book my mind was too twisted up trying to figure it out to look into them, but I’ll come back… one day.

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I kind of found the book sort of teaches you how to read it if you pay attention to the structure in the first few bits. But multiple bookmarks can help.

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1 point

Don’t expect too much to “happen” and just enjoy the vibes. I would say the book is primarily a character study.

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46 points

I am guessing no one’s gonna give an actual answer to what the meme is about (yes I know it’s from house of leaves, I have 0 interest in reading it) so would be actually nice to have a more in depth explanation

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28 points

The story begins with a man doing the things described in the picture. He is puzzled and becomes interested in finding out more about it. His wife is not very happy about it. It’s easy to get lost in a new hobby. Other people have written their opinions on the strange house, and those are included.

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24 points

LEAVESPOSTING LETS GOOOOOO

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Oh oh oh, do one about “S” next! We love Ergodics!

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21 points

Was about to say I enjoy the subtle “house” reference, but it turns out - not so subtle lol.

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