GMOD VR: Exploring gm_Liminal_Gallery 2

A successor to the previous Liminal Gallery, this map showcases many locations and concepts related to the liminal space phenomenon. This one seems somehow more hostile than its predecessor. I don't like the look of that statue...
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[@shadymilkman8635]

Heck yeah, the sequel! Thank you for playing the second Liminal Gallery 2. Since last time, the map has definitely evolved into much more than the title suggests and I’m happy that you enjoyed this as well. The previous gallery was actually the first map I ever made in gmod and I probably never would have done that without finding your channel. Admittedly the first map was not that good, but ever since it’s release, hundreds of hours of work went into the sequel. It feels incredible to finish your project and actually get the result you’ve been hoping for all this time. Also I don’t think I’m quite done with hammer, so I guess we’re going for a trilogy? Liminal Gallery: Return of Philip? Liminal Gallery: After dark? And by the way you missed my favorite jumpscare in the “voidspaces hotel” you should check it out

[@Carlos_Andre18]

Hi

[@ChefPrownlos]

Mr.Creator

[@V0ID_X5]

This map was amazing! A definite improvement over the 1st! So surreal and intriguing and fun to explore! Kudos to you!

[@zsombor_99]

Don't stop the good work, sir! 😉

[@dr.consumerock6798]

did you work alone or with help?

[@cavejohnson5455]

everytime he uploads i get comforted knowing that he didnt get lost in whatever weird and wacky scenario he tried to visit this time around. who knows, maybe one day he gets stuck in a gmod liminal space and never uploads again.

[@DkCr-99]

Confused? But yeah xd that would be ironic.

[@cavejohnson5455]

@@DkCr-99 confused? nah mate everyone knows that if you get lost in a gmod liminal space map you cant get out. many people have gone missing. its common knowledge really.

[@fusrosandvich3738]

@@DkCr-99 I think he meant "comforted".

[@OfficialSalad21]

Why not just take off the headset and close the game

[@cavejohnson5455]

@@OfficialSalad21 taking off the headset does nothing. when you take it off you appear back at where you were lost. there is no escape.

[@mycelium_moss]

50:04 Not only i was genuenly scared more by your reaction than by jumpscare, but your immediate transformation into minecraft villadger made me then laugh trough tears, and now i'm confused of what to feel

[@mycelium_moss]

also - The Lirbrarian is the only youtuber that... how to phrase that? like, when he is startled/unnerved or tense, i can feel that exact feeling immediately with him, and it makes my heart jump/my stomach sink or my body tense, while i never experienced something like that with other youtubers, despite watching scary stuff for years

[@thedukeofweasels6870]

The cool thing about the design of the statue is its simplicity actually works in its favor because it has no actual face it always feels like it's staring directly into your soul no matter what angle you see it from truly unnerving

[@thedukeofweasels6870]

I paused the video to leave that comment literally 2 seconds before you said the same thing

[@OfficialSalad21]

Some punctuation would be nice

[@staffelgren4508]

Did you just reply to yourself?

[@VoltronEpic10819]

​@@thedukeofweasels6870...forgot to change account?

[@anoriginalname410]

52:59 You guys ever build big ships in Minecraft? That looks like this inside of the ship, when you didn't want to make the interior. Just a dark hallway, slowly leading into a narrow corner.

[@shadymilkman8635]

Oh wow i definitely see that lol

[@rebeccapilcrow]

you've nailed it. i have seen that exact sight MANY times making ships in from the depths

[@holojet]

50:03 that scared me so bad, I never expect any actual hallway jumpscare so that really caught me off guard.

[@Dwoogos]

It was building his trust with the no jump scare hallways but then tricked him

[@Kratos_Messi7050]

That also scared me when i first played this map 💀

[@lorenatorrez9824]

Same

[@Nahobussyino]

Me too 💀

[@Greenhand1516]

Because there’s a flickering bulb

[@StitchPen]

Huge step up from the last map. In my opinion, Source really masters the concept of uncanny and liminal spaces. In fact, the Half-Life 2 Beta in itself sort of captures that feeling pretty well, even if it's usually unintentional.

[@delta9685]

Half Life 2 Beta overall is very creepy, much more creepier than the release version. I think that Dark Interval mod really captures that feeling perfectly.

[@Oooze3424]

something I love about The Librarian is that he has a very characteristic I-just-got-jumpscared sound which resembles the kind of heaving noise you make after hitting your foot against a wall

[@seagully9202]

i think you’ve built a very niche community up quite a bit in popularity

[@kleiner851]

50:04 my friend and I were on this map, he hasn't seen the video, I have, he actually *didn't* get scared, but instead used the paint tool to make the eye "sockets" and painted on eyes. it was hilarious.

[@kirbcake]

Plot twist: this entire vid was the librarian's trip to the principal's office at melon high school. it just has unique modern architecture.

[@prrrotean9627]

The room with the pyramid and the half-built sets made my heart stop when you walked in- it looks just like a dream I had once, a pyramid in a sort of giant hangar, and a bunch of sets built around it in a ring, all for individual one-room shows being filmed at the same time. Absolutely uncanny, such an odd feeling to see something so close to a dream I'd only ever put down in a journal and some private DMs. Really incredible map!

[@vendybirdsvadl7472]

9:05 this whiteboard is from Portal 2, it can be mainly seen in the co-op mode/dlc

[@chriscryer7087]

7:05 what you're refering to is called Trypophobia "it is an aversion to the sight of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps" especially in objects, people, animals etc where they shouldn't be :)

[@shadymilkman8635]

Fun fact: the prompt for that painting was “Do you like how my face disintegrates into chalk?” which are lyrics from Ruler of Everything by Tally Hall

[@SunroseStudios]

@@shadymilkman8635 lol that tracks also funnily enough that one doesn't really set off our tryptophobia

[@Snurbyy]

44:44 the top soil would come off and float but the roots would keep the soil in tact

[@timteecvhn]

I'll just say this Librarian, that billboard you encounter after getting past the first segment of the map, that's a portal asset. I think it's probably a portal 2 asset. not sure. Either way, the phrase "DO NOT TRUST HER" is referring to Glados if memory serves me correctly.

[@shadymilkman8635]

Yes, it’s not deliberate but I felt like it still fits. I thought it could seem like it refers to Philip the statue or some other yet unknown entity

[@SunroseStudios]

it's absolutely a portal 2 asset, we recognized it immediately

[@timteecvhn]

@@shadymilkman8635 Heh, well it's a nice touch. So I like it.

[@eternalwintress]

Yeah, it's from one of the multiplayer levels. The first one where you go outside the testing area, iirc. The whiteboard is next to the disc that you need to find to progress.

[@mcalkis5771]

I love how the first 7 minutes of the video is just the Librarian going to an art gallery.

[@zibbazabba905]

Place at 48:00 made me think, imagine if these liminal spaces smell of fresh paint and cut drywall

[@nilaier1430]

2:08 I'm pretty sure that this watermelon painting was generated by an AI. I can recognize Midjourney's style in here 3:08 Yeah, these are probably too 19:56 Yeah, that's certainly is

[@shadymilkman8635]

Every painting on the map is generated by Midjourney

[@nilaier1430]

@@shadymilkman8635 Yeah, I've suspected that. I can sniff out Midjourney's style from any image

[@bodyfullalead]

this just made me realize how liminal summer school felt, they had all the classroom furniture in the hallways making it extremely narrow to walk through, and nobody was there.

[@MrZilvis78]

Honestly I'm always impressed what people think up for these maps. This was very interestingly done and some thing genuinely surprised me like the room that turned from day to night was fascinating, so beyond "liminal" content to be inspired from but still kinda connected because I have posed the question "is this the backrooms?" This map reminds me heavily of The Stanley Parable, plus aspects of the ultra deluxe additions. Due to it starting fairly mundune then you end up find things like backstage designs, unfinished locations, outdoor stuff indoors, and I mean you could say carrying around a watermelon is a security blanket somewhat like a certain bucket ends up being in Parable. The sarcastic, controlling, an sometimes dark narrator has just been replaced with everyone's favorite Librarian.

[@shadymilkman8635]

It was very much inspired by games like The Stanley Parable and Superliminal

[@MrZilvis78]

@@shadymilkman8635 Ok makes sense then, haven't tried superliminal though I've owned it forever but between the original and ultra I've likely put 500 hours into Parable lol

[@MrRefaler]

The watermelon at the end of the tunnel to make it look like a light was pure genius lol

[@mycelium_moss]

9:34 actually, my parents apartment have curtians instead of doors, i didn't have any doors from the moment we moved out our own home, not for bedooms, nor for bathroom or toilet room, even now the only doors in apartment are balcony door and entrance door, that's very uncomfortable, because if you just want some privacy, or scared of the outside of your room (i have a certian fear of darkness and night), you have that feeling, that everything that separates you and unwanted guests - a mere cloth piece, that could be easily swung open by whoever or whatever would feel like staring at you, easily invading your fragile safe space and if it's, for example, closed curtians of the living room entrance, they give the feeling that something could very well be in your house without you knowing and seeing it (kinda like a cat effect, they don't like closed doors for that same reason) (edit: fixed a typo; edit2: added more stuff)

[@nathanligon6666]

Dude that's so weird, in the break room at 21:48 for me there was a casket with watermelons inside but for you, it's a hospital bed and blinds! Wtf!

[@higherbeing1768]

7:03 Ik someone has probably already commented this but that feeling of discomfort/fear is called trypophobia which is the irrational fear of small clusters of holes like this I hope this helps

[@declanedmison5442]

This map really did feel like an adventure.

[@nathandez1108]

I love your commentary on these videos, and your analysis of settings. Very nice.

[@adlertolentino8256]

Liminal Spaces became my favorite part when comes to big maps like these, it gives a feeling of being alone and sometimes it can be comfy. I don't know if some maps in Half-Life 2 is considered as liminal. I would like to say this but, it makes me feel good when you post videos every 4-5 am (GMT)

[@kajaweraarek]

Just what I needed to snooze to :) your voice and the way you talk is so calming and still keeps me so interested

[@captain_fish_head]

"Can the watermelons form a megazord?" *BEHOLD THE INDESCRIBABLE POWER OF MEGA MELON*

[@shadekerensky3691]

That one with the shadow figures in the, what looks to be a, prison yard seems like its an old man whose gone back to the place and, now, all that's there are the ghosts of things he knew. Also I'm a simple dude, I see a Librarian upload, I fuggin click.

[@ProtoPerson]

The AI generated images were an absolutely genius move for this map.

[@JeriSmiler]

Someone should make a map that will dump The Librarian off a platform into the darkness, then drop him into an ocean with blind corner pillars

[@spudneythrulens]

i love how The Librarian talks to the melons as if they're his neighbour who he feels he has to talk to or else society will kill him.

[@chymty6603]

38:56 litterally the most iconic quote ever

[@Locarpus]

Hey Librarian! Loving the VR content you’ve been doing recently. I would love to see you do a play through of Amnesia: The Dark Descent, the horror in that seems right up your alley.

[@EmperorSquidysChannel]

An hour of liminal spaces? God, yes.

[@V0ID_X5]

Sounds like a great time 2 me!

[@worlds_worst_tf2_player]

I love the fact that i can always be ready for jumpscares since they're always the most repeated moments in the video

[@multigrandmarquis]

immediately recognizing the portal 2 asset early on...

[@therealnumber7]

im so glad that the creator made a second one, i loved watching you play the first! this is definitely a step up. also, when phillip disappeared for the last time (coincidentally in the room with all the miniature classic rooms) it almost felt like he just, left. like you somehow defeated him by walking around or something.

[@dgtle_]

I think you should try rp_unioncity. It’s the map that came before southside and is very similar. Although there is less indoor area, it’s still a really good map!

[@AsrielDreemurr56]

10/10 Love watching someone get legitimately scared by an oversized Game of Life peg

[@lizardinsurance]

Always love watching your videos. They have such a casual relaxed vibe and they're fantastic to sit back and watch. Keep at it! :D

[@Electron86]

You know its gonna be good when a liminal space map video starts with a jumpscare warning

[@ringer1324]

I loved the first nap had no idea there was a sequel

[@zsombor_99]

I subscribed to the map immediately ‒ I need to see this map myself, absolutely! 🙂 I like the liminal feeling of Gmod maps, being just by myself in a fictive world, that's a very special feeling... 😏

[@V0ID_X5]

Here are 2 game suggestions: The Complex: Found Footage (A realistic looking and very highly reviewed liminal space game, taking some inspiration from Kane Pixels ) Just More Doors (A tippy game where all you have to do is find out how to win by going through door after door after door. Definitely up your alley!)

[@nathanligon6666]

That SCP-like obelisk reminds me of that big rectangle on 2001 Space Odyssey which had a very similar concept of warping the space time continuum

[@President-Barack-Obama]

Keep doing GMOD! Suggestion... Can you find another map like Ashville??? I like the apocalyptic scenario it had and how it gave us an empty feeling almost as if something was watching us.

[@delta9685]

gm_atomic is pretty good but hasn't he done that one yet?

[@Argomundo]

Hot damn. Map creator really didnt hold back

[@Techhunter_Talon]

I like regarding the melons in these maps as native entities that are just completely passive... but unmoving when in their direct presence. Unsure about that statue though...

[@Plain_Observer]

I like you don't swear and your calm and easy going nature is set apart from the normal nonsense on KZbin

[@moonmushi]

I’m wondering if the creator of the map is a Hideo Kojima fan. Hideo randomly has watermelon throughout his games, very noticeable in “Metal Gear Solid 4, Sons of the Patriots.” Thanks for traversing such a ominous map for us and bringing us along for the journey 🙏🏼🫂🥲

[@shadymilkman8635]

Huh I never knew that, I only ever played Metal Gear Rising Revengeance

[@Real_Moon-Moon]

32:25 For me I see it as a chapel in a really tiny little town. A few rows of chairs facing a raised area where a pastor could give his sermon. The lack of desks emphasizes this to me, it doesn't really scream small classroom.

[@Kratos_Messi7050]

Playing this map with background npcs kinda makes it a regular art gallery but some specific areas have less NPCs

[@genericwhitekidthesecond4330]

Can we just make Phillip Jefferies a reoccurring meme character in Librarian videos

[@dizzou7988]

That was kind of a map. So cool, especially in VR. Thanks for this amazing video

[@cirrusupdraft]

I love how the melons are becoming their own characters in these videos

[@rainofda0w024]

41:07 that featureless character sure likes following you about…giving them glowing eyes makes it seem creepier somehow

[@neill6585]

"I'm so excited to see where this is going to go" Flash forward Librarian's last upload "Escaping Skynet" XD

[@exaVolt13]

Watermelons being criminally insane is now part of my head canon of weird life "facts". Beware the 🍉.

[@sacarymoviesamu]

Your channel is amazing. I got you from recomendations and i loved it since the beggining

[@Evaisa]

My mood always goes up when you post a video, I really love your exploration videos, even when I just have it on in the background while working on my projects it is just such a vibe.

[@tehhypergamer963]

"Huh, watermelons float." Well, they ARE mostly water, so of course they float.

[@masterzoroark6664]

Love how you added in the MELON LORE to this. Like, you are not only at the wims of PHILIP but also from quite probably everpressent MELON overlords who can megazord

[@blizzard6544]

I don't know how or why but I got more scared of a water melon in this whole video then anything else when you were going up from the granny's basement ladder

[@Abcdefghhhh]

I genuinely love your content, very comfy to watch!

[@calvii_boi]

I love the way you go into detail about things in your videos, it reminds me of when I stay up at 3am and talk to myself about in-depth topics

[@holojet]

I've had a few dreams where I didn't actually wake up and it went on for a really long time and it was getting frustrating, at one point I was just trying to wake myself up, it was weird because I'm usually never really aware that I'm dreaming but I guess it was because I kept waking up, there was another time when I was really young, I went into my basement and it was basically a dungeon full of monsters, then I woke up, went downstairs and saw my dad in the kitchen, I told him about it but then I realized it was pitch black outside, I don't remember that dream as well as the first one but it was pretty creepy.

[@SpaceToastC2C]

With regards to your potted plant question, the lighter stuff in the soil will float but its going to make a mess. Usually when you place a potted plant below water (like in a pond) you use gravel to keep it together. Great vid man

[@kyrauniversal]

1:06:38 Of course I remember the Billy and Mandy episode Brains! It's my favorite Voltaire song, too.

[@mardonrahimov1740]

That fear in 7:13 is called trypophobia It also made me realy uncomfortable

[@am-180]

makes me very happy that you call the thing Philip Jeffries, i never see anyone mentioning twin peaks the return

[@SkeleTonHammer]

2:30 Careful. We're not gonna talk about Judy.

[@ThomasGrillo]

Very cool. Again, I enjoyed hearing your analytical descriptions of this mod. I need to find some vids on how to get this, and install it, along with the liminal spaces gallery mod. Thanks for sharing this. :)

[@Haliceph]

Congrats on the shoutout! Love your Gmod VR vids. Also you guessed right at 8:58 that's from Portal 2

[@navoral]

31:29 Idk, if that's me hearing but i heard a small meow.

[@argonianguy6226]

I'm going through some tough shit right now and your vids really help out to relax, thank you

[@Dept_Of_Homeland_Security]

I've recently watched alot of liminality related eas scenarios, and now I'm afraid that if I fall asleep, I'll go on a murderous rage fueled by the will to be alone in the universe. Soon this is a nice break from that kind of spoopy

[@flawed1]

That’s exactly how I feel about AI images. Because it was made by a computer, the art doesn’t happen until humans try to interpret it. In other words, you make it art by trying to interpret it. It kind of makes you question the entire process of art. I find it endlessly fascinating

[@TSGC-2]

Man, your the best youtuber ever you bring so much joy to me by doing this thank you so much your content is the best keep it up. 🤩🤩❤👍

[@bluecube9515]

The Great Melon reminds me of the ships from Arrival.

[@orbix2645]

Thank u bro for releasing these bangers . I find ur videos so interesting, and satisfying. u have sparked a part of me that I didn’t know I had… exploration.

[@maikomarx]

56:59 there is normally a thing that appears here, but it’s real quick and you have to be looking in that direction when entering

[@masterzoroark6664]

Also- you have been had by both the giant pit and the plank. I was had to when I played this map, thought that you can jump in the pit because the architecture above it had the wholemark of "You jump in the pit and teleport up in the ceiling to make the pit feel infinite and yet work like in the old platformers", but nope- it's invisible wall. And the "drop" near the plank s just a shoe height dent

[@Marston687]

50:03 instead of screaming or jump, my brain felt electrocuted

[@Immolator772]

These ai generated pictures are so unnerving, it's like an completely different world that is there but we cannot reach it. Out of curiousity i decided to search for sex or porn and it was hella creepy.

[@elomthekiller]

50:00 I jump bc I saw that just barely in my vision I’ve been grinding on a Roblox game on me and my gfs account and watching a lot of ur vids all day so I wasn’t ready for that scare at all

[@BiBunOfficial]

Aw, mate, you missed a scary at 56:56 :( There was a monster that appear there when you look over the corner.

[@shadymilkman8635]

I was pretty disappointed by that, he was too busy obsessing over doors lol

[@thetexanhusky]

I did not see anything, and I replayed that part multiple times. Are you sure you're not seeing stuff?

[@BiBunOfficial]

@@thetexanhusky play the map for yourself.

[@c420blastin]

Ok at 8:45 When you enter that room and you look to the left at the dark corner I got an overwhelming sense of dread and terror for some unknown reason

[@IkesDaddelbox]

50:55 I would call it a screamer. The difference is that a screamer pops up when you watch something that's supposed to be normal, non horror based content. While a jump scare is used for horror content, which makes you expect it to happen, you just don't know when. This map isn't advertised as a horror map, so it counts as a screamer in my book.

[@dreamagination-infinite]

These liminal maps are just so exciting! Exquisite expansion /sequel to the first one! I thoroughly enjoyed this! :)

[@Zech84]

the painting that scared you in the pyramid looks like squidward.

[@Шпрот-в7и]

7:20 GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD

[@thedukeofweasels6870]

When you do your overnight VR stay you gotta sleep on that mattress for real

[@thinginground5179]

1:08:40 i love how it slowly became a dispute towards the principal

[@Galabeam]

You know it's a good day when he plays gmod!

[@HeadpriestPEPSI]

Played this by myself beforehand, deftly my favourite map.

[@atrane365]

At this point, I feel you could take audio from previous videos, do a gmod map, splice in old audio, and we wouldn't be able to tell the difference

[@Xboxshutdown1864]

dude i played it in vr too. by the end of it my heart was beatting so fast and i couldnt do it anymore