Like an old game with very few assets

The best description I've seen of hotel art is what happens when you go to the store and say "One Art, please"

You have to appeal to everyone and no one.
that's so true
We got an apartment with deep pile carpets and a couple of paintings from Sears.
They should just get realist landscape paintings. You can't go wrong and they're all actual art.

This screenshot is showing its age. Just immerse it in hydrogen peroxide for two minutes, wash it thoroughly, and it should be like new!

I think the green must be mold.
- I was just thinking this is the perfect compromise between dark and light mode, actually!

As nobody has posted it yet, this vibe is often referred to as !liminalspace@lemmy.world

Why was this fucking image dyed the same color as Yoda's fucking foreskin?

Hotel wallpaper
You know way too much about whatever happened to that puckered flag of skin after it was separated from its original owner, it seems.
- Sounds like you know even more.
- I have seen what Yoda did on Dagobah when he got bored, I feel sorry for those rocks.
I think it's some sort of game. Since you noticed it, this means that you just lost the game! 🫵

Hotels are quite literally liminal

They aren't the destination, they are the waiting room

This is the same reason why I don’t like staying in hotels. Makes me feel like nothing, dehumanized.

I think it’s quite interesting we can have such opposite reactions to the same thing. I’m more in line with original author- I rather enjoy it. If I reflect on why this may be, I think it’s because I find human-ing pretty exhausting, so a break from that is rather welcome!
- It's nice, until you are on constant business trips and stay in hundreds of hotels.
and for those using them as emergency shelter, from domestic abuse or homelessness, they are salvation. different strokes, huh.

love this vibe. and when you get back to the hotel after a long tiring day of adventure, it becomes a welcoming sanctuary. ah I wish I could go on a trip, it's been so long!

I've been staying in Airbnbs a few days a month about an hour and a half from where I live each time. It's a strange vibe, too, being in someone else's house that's now used to host strangers. Laying flat on your back, looking up at the ceiling of what was once some kid's bedroom is wild.

The last sentence alone, taken out of context, would open a mystery novel like few others.

ContraPoints has a great Tangent video about liminal spaces, FYI

I like when I open the night stand drawer and there are like 16 different religious books in there.

I've got bibles for taoism, Buddhism, Islam, even a copy of Dianetics all courtesy of the Gideons.

My pastime is vandalizing the bibles. Criticisms, corrections, changing names, signing it as Jesus, drawing pentagrams and devils, that sort of stuff.

It’s the most basic Dasein

I disagree, is most essentially 'das Man' what Heidegger supposed to be the opposite of Dasein:
The opposite of this authentic self [Dasein] is everyday and inauthentic Dasein, the forfeiture of one's individual meaning, destiny and lifespan, in favour of an (escapist) immersion in the public everyday [das Man or the They]

hotels are the ultimate expression of third space

PKD has a brilliant description in We Can Build You.

Man, I just got back into reading his stuff and I instantly remember why he's my favourite author. Poor guy, though.

Feeling like I can fall out of reality and into the backrooms just by taking the wrong corridor or waking up at the wrong hour.

Have you people never tried to sleep in a hotel?

There is always, always, somebody screaming next door

You must frequent some strange hotels.

This is exactly why I hate hotels. They are the same everywhere and tend to be located near the same shit everywhere. I much prefer a short term rental so you get to really experience a neighborhood in the city when you travel.

Short term rentals fucked up the housing market.
- Short term rentals definitely made things worse, but the housing market was fucked up before short-term rentals became commonplace. They just poured more fuel on the fire. The main problem with the housing market is that homes are used as financial vehicles for investment and speculation.
- Then regulate them, but I think this is pretty overstated tbh. There are no short term rentals near me, because it isn't a tourist district, and the housing market is still ridiculous. Likewise, property values in tourist areas have always been absurd.
  In reality, there is definitely some overlap, and short term rentals definitely impact the housing market in some places, but it is far from a primary cause of broader housing scarcity.

I read that in a gravelly noir detective voice.

Everything except chatting in the hall is great