Realistically speaking, how would you prepare to spend 6 months alone in a hotel during winter in the year 1980?
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Realistically speaking, how would you prepare to spend 6 months alone in a hotel during winter in the year 1980?
Realistically speaking, how would you prepare to spend 6 months alone in a hotel during winter in the year 1980?
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Books?
1st and 2nd posts, best posts
Bring alcohol, bring a mini library of books. Bring a notepad to write/draw stuff.
Bring your wife to boink when you're bored.
Don’t bring your wife, that’s what made Jack go insane. He needed a break away from people and his wife. Just his wife’s buggy annoying presence distracted him from writing his book and ruined the tranquility of the experience
Unironically this. The concept of being in that big ass hotel by myself with booze, books, and a typewriter for 6 months sounds amazing. Granted I would probably still go insane but like the good kind of insane. Walking around naked building castles out of empty whiskey bottles; making friends with different walls based entirely on their shade of paint, discriminating against the shades that are too dark; trying to have sex with all of the meat in the freezer; and attempted to construct peepholes in all of the bathrooms of the hotel rooms. Having a wife there would ruin all that.
It was the Married WITH Children that drove Jack insane, if it was just the wife there with no kid getting underfoot he could he fricking that wife.
Ngl I'd rather jerk off than plow that fugbeast
Wendy's got really big pretty eyes, 100% would rape all over that hotel all winter long, in the elevator, over the bannister, against the wall -- and on the floor. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
homosexual
Is that sitcom really that bad?
Married With Children is a fun show to watch, but you don't want to be Al even though Peggy looks hot, because she doesn't cook and she doesn't clean and she doesn't work and she doesn't mother, so the kids are brats, she puts down Al all the time, and Peggy is a hoarder.who spends Al's money on stupid junk. Al is a shoe salesman but he doesn't have a foot fetish so his life sucks.
>even though Peggy looks hot, because she doesn't cook and she doesn't clean and she doesn't work and she doesn't mother, so the kids are brats, she puts down Al all the time, and Peggy is a hoarder who spends Al's money on stupid junk.
What used to be a comedic exaggeration of a woman is now most zoomers and millennials, but they're obese. I've given up on the 'eat hot chip and lie' thot and just go for milfs.
Make sure the MILF in question can't get pregnant because hardened thots are now realising that it's easier to prey on younger guys.
I don't think her idleness is that bad, it's the abuse and spending.
>plural
It's only six months.
How slow do you read?
They had television too
Yeah.
All the good books were already still written back then, even sci-fi. Especially sci-fi.
6 months worth of whisky
12 months worth of whisky
the "im good" zone does vary vastly. i go through a handle a week and suffer no hangovers. for some this is nothing, for others it is a shit load.
>i go through a handle a week
lol wtf is that supposed to be a lot or something?
I'm immune to hangovers no matter how much I drink, but it's being drunk itself that feels bad for me, always makes me puke or disorients me in a way that's not fun.
Yep. You need to plan for any changes in tolerance. The worst thing you want to do is work your way up to 2 bottles a day (like my father and grandfathers) and run out. Before you know it you're spreading shoe polish on bread and drinking out of perfume bottles.
I heard you can get pretty drunk on dollar store mouthwash.
he was a recovering alcoholic moron
yeah and he was a boring butthole because of it. shouldve stopped being a b***h and kept drinking
rape
The hotel have a fully stocked kitchen, and the wife is there to do her wifely duties
, the only thing left to do is to drop off the kid off to the first babysitter you can find on craigslist.
Only 6 months? That's fricking nothing. Just take a bunch of porn mags, booze, and a TV and you're all set.
>Cinemaphile
>in the mountains in the 80s
You’d be drunk screaming at your rabbit ears when the best thing you can hope for is less static
Bro satellite tv has been around since the 60s. A nice hotel like that would have tv in 1980
Weren't they watching shit in the movie? Maybe it was movies, but I recall them watching a CRT near the end of the movie.
I would be completely fine. I would probably thrive, maybe finish my writing my book.
>all work and no play makes jack a dull boy
>all woRk and no play makes jAck a dull boy
>all work and no pLay makes jack a dull b0y
>all work and no play makes jack a dull boy
>all work and nO play mAkes jack a dull boY
>all w0rk and no play makes jacK a dull boy
^ the book
Maybe if he buckled down and did his work he wouldn't have time to frick around typing nonsense.
Lots of blow and gundam model kits. Maybe a sled too
Prepare? Like what did I pack? What am I doing in a hotel?
Well, I mean I'm writing a novel so it would probably give me some good alone time. Some time to think.
And the change of scenery would be nice for my son.
And my wife is a confirmed horror movie addict so she'd probably like the spooky aspects of it.
>I mean
Why didn't he watch tv?
One of the best answers ITT for sure
>goes insane
Watch TV
Read
Write my book
Use the hotel gym and swimming pool
Maybe get into ham radio (I'm sure the hotel has the equipment)
Reading this classic
hehe i was in that thread
spoonfeed me, anons
I go through about a handle of gin or vodka a week, as well as a six pack or two. So I guess I'd need about 24 big bottles of gin and minimum 24 six packs, maybe some absinthe as well.
I'm glad I quit drinking, but that would've been my plan also, except bourbon.
Currently I'd bring books, guitar, notepads to write stuff, guns/ammo/cleaning supplies.
holy shit you're a lightweight
I’d bring a frick ton of books, and my wife(non existent) would have to come too because I’d need pussy, and definitely a gym. But I’m on tren, so I’d end up going crazy and freeze to death while trying to kill my family before the end of the 6 months, without a doubt.
my ps1 and one of those shitty 1 zillion in one discs
jerk off
>6 months alone in a giant hotel with industrial kitchen and filled pantry
Literal heaven
>same thing with wife and kid constantly telling you they are bored
Literal hell
In the middle of the film, Wendy and Danny find endless ways to pass the time. Neither of them ever says that they're "bored" of the place, or complain to Jack of same.
Jack didn’t want to be there, really. Stupid hotel took his soul and mind when he got too comfortable for a sec. He was always there, it’s not his fault. But he initially didn’t give a shit about the beauty of the decorum and the view of Rocky Mountains- he was just focused on his job, his money, and his book.
at least bring a second wife to keep the other wife from continuously walking in the room and bothering me while I'm trying to write my book. they could take turns blowing me so then at least they both couldn't talk at once.
His wife is with him, i would just frick all the time
He wasn't alone. There was a clear difference between staying here and staying in your regular home.
It's not hard to entertain yourself
>bring cassette tapes
>bring books
>bring a musical instrument
>bring all weather gear
>bring cocaine
Not like the 80s were the dark ages...
You could get really good at Atari 2800 games
Take walks around the property- enjoy the nature- all while being completely naked the whole 6 months.
homie u would freeeze
Nah, I’d wrap myself up in one of them big Indian rugs. So, yeah I guess that’s technically breaking my nude rule.
>all while being completely naked the whole 6 months.
I'll probably have to put clothes on when it gets cold outside, but absolutely this, if I had a giant hotel to myself for 6 months I would totally run around naked or barely dressed. Especially during the pandemic, I was so jealous of Jack who got a whole hotel to himself (almost), plus that guy in The Night Eats the World who had an entire apartment building to himself too, but Jack got the full kitchen. I'll bring movies on video tapes, music, books, but mostly I think I'll have a lot of fun just looking around the entire hotel and experimenting with cooking different stuff from the kitchen all day every day -- since a lot of good cooking takes hours, but lucky Jack was pretty much just paid to stay there.
Maybe I'll make a mini snowman for every windowsill, I miss having a balcony.
>tfw not the only nudist on Cinemaphile
This pleases me.
I'd be fine being indoors by myself alone for 6 months. Problem is that hotel was fricking creepy.
I'd unironically rather a 20x20ft log cabin.
sex all the time with my wife
you’d be surprised how often and how long you can have sex for if you’re fit, healthy, and the woman is willing to suck you off to get you hard again
I'd jerk off in every single room in the hotel.
I think all of the guest rooms were locked except for the Caretaker suite and room 237.
Maybe, but that wouldn't make any sense in real life. If you're trusting the guy enough to look... over... the Overlook and not trash the place, then you trust him enough to access the entire building outside of like a safe or something, because that's a core job function. If a window breaks and snow starts getting in, if there's a fire, etc, the guy needs to be empowered to try to fix it/stop it and protect the property. If your job is to protect a property and prevent it from getting ruined, or minimize damage if some damage occurs, you need to be able to physically access pretty much the entire property. Even if the rooms are kept locked he should have access to a master key set, again barring maybe little stuff like a safe, etc.
If I were actually doing it, I would walk mid-day daily rounds for like two hours or so. Not absolutely everything, but a kind of rotation, maybe cover the whole place every 3-5 days or so. Check like 20 or so units, walk the big halls and main utility areas, have a look at the exterior. How we doin', here. A little daily routine would be good and then you spend the rest of your day at leisure unless something breaks, in which case you do what you can to fix it. One of the main things I would look for would be broken windows.
IRL I think they'd give you an annoyingly long checklist of shit to do every day and it would end up being a real job + horrible loneliness and boredom and not just loneliness and boredom
+they'd keep the rest of the hotel at 50 degrees outside of your sleep room
Jack's job is to rotate the heating from room to room on a schedule to stop mould etc
>constantly changing the temperature and humidity levels on a day to day basis
This is the best way to make mold you simpleton
i meant this
i live in a hot country, i don't get mould
I think it's to stop the pipes from freezing.
You'd need some sort of job to keep yourself sane though
How would you even fix a broken window in the dead of night at an isolated hotel in the winter of 1980? The only thing you could do it board it up as a temporary fix but I doubt they would they even let you do that as it would damage the walls/architrave around the windows
they'd probably just expect you to minimise the damage. Expecting a random watchman to be a skilled glazier on top of everything else would be unrealistic
Duct tape and tarp or plastic wrap.
ok, that covers the first day, what about the next six months?
well thats a given
Bring a bunch of cookbooks and learn to perfect some recipes using the well stocked kitchen.
Bring a shitload of comic books. I assume tv reception might be shitty, and VHS is still really expensive for the time. But a fancy hotel like that might have it's own movie projector and some kinos. I'd also bring a 8mm projector and as many titles I could get for cheap.
Lots of sex with Shelly Duvall.
ages horribly, in your path
Yeah Jack looks real good these days.
Jack Nicholson looks like a fat toddler nowadays
>74 year old looks 74
AAAAAAAAA SAVE ME Black person COOK
>A Black person?
Dick off racist sludge
You’re the first person to say Black person. Maybe you’re the racist
I'd probably go out and build snowmen and igloos all winter. Bring a good sled also in case there's a big hill, building sled paths and ramps is pretty fun.
When there's no snow I guess I'd play atari all day. 1980 is a pretty rough cut-off for games but at least you still get space invaders.
>be paid extremely well to be alone in a MASSIVE resort for half a year
This drove boomers insane and made them shit their pants in the 80s
Same as right now and I've been living like this for years. Only normies going insane if they can't pester someone or frick just for few hours.
You’re not truly isolated if you’re posting on Cinemaphile, so you haven’t been living like it since Jack had no internet
It doesn't really matter, I would find other way to entertain myself anyway. Only normies start panicking while isolated because they're moronic and always have to follow their instincts instead of logic.
would is different from actually doing it
a Black person cook?
Indeed. A Black person
Toaster oven, hotplate, The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, Joseph and Hs Brothers, colored pencils and notebooks, chocolate
A lot of guns and ammo as well as numerous bottles and cans to shoot
>6 months of winter
Huh
t. Never lived in the upper midwest
In Estes Park (where The Shining is set) you can expect snow from August through June.
As long as it has a goon cave I can do 5 years
Books. I just started reading a five-volume history of the Hundred Years' War. That would get me through at least the first month.
He wasn't alone, he brought his family and his typewriter.
Were TVs not a thing in 1980?
They were, but getting reception for an aerial antenna on a mountain top would be a gigantic pain in the ass.
They're watching TV in several scenes iirc
Yes but home entertainment electronics were expensive at that time. Most people still used record players and shit from the 70s until the cassette tape took off in the early 90s. Very few Americans owned VHS when it was released.
bring my family if I could, maybe finish the play I've been working on. It would probably be good for me since I'm trying to quit alcohol anyway
Clean it.
It would give me something to do, generate enormous reward, and improve the lifestyle/comfort of myself and anyone else residing there.
Maybe spend each supper meal learning how to cook.
dude weed
I'd do meth and hang out with Shelley Duvall.
I've been preparing for it my whole life
Why was every man in the 70's balding like this?
They faced stress and hardship unlike you whippersnappers
its just the swept back look. men weren't afraid to look like shit. it was considered unmanly to obsess over your hair and combovers were embarassing. a man with the same hairline today would be on finastrinide or whatever its called, have it strategically combed over in different places etc. back then nobody cared, once you hit 30 as a guy, you already have wife and kid, no reason to give a shit about having hair, the b***h is stuck with you. only a gay would worry about such a thing
I impulsively whispered the n word while stuck on a calculus test problem, but my mouth was closed. do you think they heard me?
They did
was there no tv? what about VHS tapes
Instrument
History books
Female
A fricking ton of rum and several kegs of beer (I'm assuming the hotel has a proper bar with a tap)
Is mayonnaise an instrument?
Get a computer, download some game, a few movies, maybe a few books. Then enjoy my time away from everyone.
You’re in 1980
>You’re in 1980
so how are you seeing his post?
I’d probably start by checking for dead injuns under the floorboards and taking a lot of outdoor snow activities.
Lots of books and coming up with stories in my own head and daydreaming about them. I could get second-hand interaction through my characters' interactions. I'd also bundle up and go for short walks in the snow then come in and have dinner sitting on the floor in front of the fireplace.
he wasn't alone, he was with that b***h and that little son of a b***h
pay a kid to deliver the news paper every day
Is newspaper the new slang for hookers and blow?
imagine if yahoo.com was printed on paper every day, thats basically what it is
what's a yahoo?
Cant lie, alone that long in a big creepy hotel Id probably bug out at some point. The nighttime would be creepy as hell.
>would be creepy as hell.
More like comfy as hell. I don't get how normalgays get creeped out by a lack of people. Having all that shit to myself including the kitchen sounds awesome barring any actual supernatural murder ghosts.
Was any of that shit actually confirmed to be happening in the book or were the wife & kid just schizo while the guy was suffering from isolation.
As a neet, I feel that I could pull that shit off easy (nowadays). As long as they have internet I'd live on the moon
A Starlink connection, and my onahole.
Having a wife and a kid to interact with would make it a lot easier, having a huge project to work on like writing a novel, bringing an entire suitcase filled with books to read. I'm sure there were some snow sled type vehicles or even just flatened cardboard box to go sledding in the snow. Dressing up snowmen into a little platoon with a commanding officer, throwing snowballs at targets you hand up on tree branches, the maze is inherently a bit interesting.
And in the end if you're still bored you can just go insane and watch tv's that aren't plugged in.
comfy 80s and 90s action thrillers, 00s shonen and seinen anime, higurashi and umineko and fate stay night and clannad VNs, 19th and early 20th century novels, shakespeare audio dramas.
and ramen. bags and bags of ramen.
You got any more of these infographics anon? I lost a lot of my Cinemaphile recipes. I wish someone would just make an ecookbook compilation already.
I remember a Cinemaphile post a while ago, some online American national library actually have a lot of vintage cookbooks you can download.
That's interesting too, but I always liked the Cinemaphile recipes because unlike cookbooks, they tell you upfront what you need to buy from the store and how much it'll cost. When I open a cookbook there's like 5 ingredients idk where to even get. What the frick is saffron? I just want to make a burger.
Saffron is the most expensive spice ever I think, delicious in ice cream and rice pudding, I think it's in drinks as well, but probably wasted in burger or even meat. Saffron is so expensive it's frequently faked.
Feeding America: the Historic American Cookbook Project
https://d.lib.msu.edu/fa
- Michigan State University
Also thank you, I'll still use these, even with my complaints
>the minds of Cinemaphile
>instant noodles
Kubrick was right to edit King's shitty le haunted house book
>zomg boiler will explode if you don't turn knobs everyday. Good luck getting any insurance company to sign off on this shit
>moronic hedge animals which are laughable even when reading the book
>yet another "muh alcoholism" story where the main character is yet another Stephen King insert who dindunuffin but was corrupted by evil outside forces...into drinking
get sober.
I'm sry annon. I never get to post this and you gave me the perfect opportunity.
Looks like a Buffy vampire
Hookers and enough food to-
>realistically
Oh. Books, vinyl, porn, your musical instruments
Frick Shelley Duvall for 6 months straight in room 237 and have kinky threesome with ghost prostitute
Meanwhile I'd send Danny to go watch TV with the ghost twins
I think this ghost, which horrorified him later as a dead old woman in the bathtub, was actually trying to warn Jack from the hotel, in contrast to the friendly bartender who axe murdered his family that appeared as a tempting devil to Jac and never scary. The bartender said his daughters were naughty girls who tried to burn down the hotel, those girls were trying to warn Jack's son as well by showing him that they were murdered there.
Bring about 25 novels I have not read. And some lingerie and shit for my wife that she dosn't know about. And a polaroid camera. KEK.
All the books I purchase with my paychecks I never have the time or energy to go through
Exercising and eating proplery
Learning a new skill, language, martial art, etc.
>There's a crazy woman in one of the rooms, she tried to strangle Danny!
Honestly what would you do upon hearing this information?
The thought of my wife saying that to me in hysterics while we were supposedly alone sends such a chill down my spine.
"Well ... I better go take a looksie !!!"
Wendy theory:
...because either the ghost let Jack out after Wendy locked him in the freezer -- doing the only physical thing the ghosts ever do -- or Wendy have killed her husband with that bat to the head and imagined everything after -- and she might have been the crazy one all along.
The ghosts alter the photograph as well.
Considering Danny wasn't with her at the time my first interest would be in finding my son. I decide what to do after that, not before it. Really I don't know if I could ever forgive my wife for leaving the kid anywhere in that situation.
Danny could have also opened it, no?
Same way I'm going to prepare for tomorrow.
Could do it easily in a cabin with two or three rooms, plus kitchen, pantry, bathroom. One room for lounging, watching TV / playing vidya, one room for work, one room for sleep. Would be really cozy.
But I couldn't do it at the Overlook Hotel even assuming it's a totally normal hotel. It's just way too fricking big. I'd never feel at ease, that's way too many rooms to keep an eye on. I'd get paranoid and wonder if someone or something else is in the hotel and I'm just unaware of it. Sounds would start to freak me out.
>I'd get paranoid and wonder if someone or something else is in the hotel and I'm just unaware of it.
Good point, I've seen many a Japanese horror flick about someone living in someone else's apartment secretly, except I think that actually happened for real. Eh, any film where it starts like The Shining, people wonder if they are going crazy at first, but there is someone else in there with them?
Part of Fear the Walking Dead took place in a hotel, some creepy scenes at first, the zeds were locked in their rooms, but the rooms have balconies to the inner courtyard, and the first floor doors are glass...
Oddly Enough
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By Reuters Staff
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-closet-odd-idUSCOO06330120080530
Bring a dog
I simply couldn't. As others have said, that's too large an empty space for me. I'd never be able to sleep at night, imagining all those empty rooms, dark corridors, shadowed lobbies, vast ballroom, the massive basement and the fact that I'm surrounded by miles of uninhabited mountain wilderness in every direction. Every floor creak, every pipe gurgle, every time the wind howled, I'd be one step closer to snapping. Even this wouldn't help. Imagine the dog starts growling or barking at nothing.
just bring some books and art supplies
and a gun because i would be sprinting through that motherfricker obsessively making sure every darkened corner is free of trespassers probably once every few hours
I'd hunt those twins down and defile their bodies in so many ways for 6 glorious months.
I would bring my computer and acid.
>1980
>I would bring my computer
the computer
Rogue came out in 1980, should keep you plenty busy.
Castle Wolfenstein and many text adventures
Read a book Black person there's a fricking text adventure
Go for a walk in the snow Black person 6 months is nothing
Let me guess. You need more?
Wouldn't need to prepare. I live like a hermit anyway.
Shit, it would be the one job that could take me out of NEETdom.
just like normal? what's hard about it?
Im an artgay, so it would be fricking heaven on earth just to draw and paint all day and night. Would get huge gainz
Portable digital piano and become godlike in those six mon-
>80s
frick, digital pianos didnt exist did they
Alright then I guess I'd bring a gun and one bullet
>white man's burden
what did Jack mean by this
How could a hotel like that afford to only operate for half of the year? Especially when ones of the main activities of the guests would presumably be skiing
I'm guessing the hotel owns the land so they don't lose to rentseekers and the property tax in the middle of nowhere is cheaper.
>Realistically speaking, how would you prepare to spend 6 months alone in a hotel during winter in the year 1980?
I'd just bring my nintendo switch
What would you do when the battery goes flat?
Alcohol, books, a VHS player and lots of movies and porn.
The ultimate edge session
Only take the bible and learn passages. Become a tv preacher when you go back. Earn billions
>Bedroom decorated with nothing but pictures of hot black women
yeah I'm thinking halloran was based
Big bag o weed
12 months worth of Tramadol and Tapentadol. I suppose I'd watch television & film.
Might bounce a ball off the wall and play with a typewriter.
It sounds comfy as frick. Imagine having a huge hotel all to yourself. I'd do cartwheels down the corridors, swim in the pools and just have a blast!
I'd spend the entire winter doing prep work to fend off the property's rightful owners when they show up telling me I need to leave. Make Waco look like teatime in comparison.