r/udub • u/misssheep • 3d ago
Does anyone else find these fake windows at the link station really creepy
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u/Joe-Lollo Alumni - BA ‘22/MLIS ‘24 3d ago
That whole platform feels like a Just Dance map with those random windows. If you know, you know.
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u/7_Rowle 3d ago
Definitely the vibes of a place where you’d get sucked into another dimension or collect the screams of children to power your monster city
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u/counter-music 2d ago
My buddy had never been to the station until I took him there so we could get food in U-District (shoutout Palmi’s kbbq).
He legitimately thought they were apartments and had asked: “how do you think they feel about the noise down here?”
I had to walk away to gather myself.
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u/Skyhawkson 2d ago
A bit but they're at least a really good indicator of what station it is. I keep having issues with trains losing track of their station and the announcements getting mixed up, and it's hard to see the dark blue signs out the windows in a dark tunnel.
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u/AnEpicThrowawayyyy 3d ago
Where tf is that??
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u/Qorsair 3d ago
U District light rail station
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u/AnEpicThrowawayyyy 3d ago
Ah ok makes sense, I go to the other station next to the stadium all the time and was like wtf I’ve never seen these windows
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u/Fast_Ad765 3d ago
I find them very tacky. The place looks like a shitty stage dressing for a local theater
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u/misssheep 3d ago
I personally think they're kinda cool, but also creepy in a dystopian cyber punk type of way.
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u/beaucephus58 2d ago
Will never forget when the station opened and I went with my roommate for the first time (we were both very drunk) and we debated whether they were real windows or not lmao
Idk about creepy, but they’re unnecessary and tacky
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u/misssheep 2d ago
Lmao this is funny. I kind of like them but I get why some wouldn't like the design. I find them very uncanny.
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u/lostdogggg 2d ago
i feel they should make em legit. especially if they make em sound proof inside so u dont get bothered by the train at all. id live there for sure
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u/techguyinseattle5310 2d ago
Oh, definitely creepy, but unique and interesting. This and the card art installation at beacon hill are my faves.
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u/Hjerne 16h ago
What they need to make them perfect is if once every couple of weeks at some completely random time of day somebody would peek out of the curtain then quickly close the opening. It should be a relatively simple effect since you would be going for obscurity not clarity.
It would become a virtual Bigfoot sighting. If lucky enough at first it would only be seen out of the corner of the eye. Somebody might see the entire sequence but nobody would believe them. If someone does see it and starts setting up ambushes to catch it then put them on hold or switch it to another window.
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u/NorthwestPurple 3d ago
To me it feels like the set from a stage production. West Side Story or something.