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[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 99 points 7 months ago

Everyone talking about the pit and I'm just here thinking "housing?"

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 15 points 7 months ago

The dream is still achievable. My brother and I teamed up with our spouses and bought a home. Between the four of us we were able to buy a house. Just the one.

[-] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 94 points 7 months ago

You'd need that space to go somewhere, so the rest of the floor would either need to be a meter thick, you'd need a big protrusion into the lower floor, or you'd have to have it on the ground level with nothing underneath.

You'd also be pretty locked into the floor plan layout, and there would be no place to put a TV screen that's visible from the whole seating.

Pretty cool looking, but also pretty impractical with modern buildings.

[-] Flying_Hellfish@lemmy.world 160 points 7 months ago

there would be no place to put a TV screen that’s visible from the whole seating

That was kind of the point, it was called a "conversation pit"

[-] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 128 points 7 months ago

Like, people would just sit around, look each other in their stupid faces and talk? Gross. /s

[-] Flying_Hellfish@lemmy.world 53 points 7 months ago

It sounds like a nightmare, but I'm sure the coke helped.

[-] Godort@lemm.ee 32 points 7 months ago

This would be absolutely awesome for tabletop games.

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[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 7 months ago

That’s a fun term for “cocaine pit”

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[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago

Naïve of you to think that this space needs a TV, when any house like this is probably large enough and expensive enough to have a proper home theater room with a proper projector and surround sound system.

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[-] tacotroubles@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

Dont forget the tripping hazard!

[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago

Just land on the couch problem solved.

[-] xpinchx@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

I think this is made for swinging lol.

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

Everything at the time was made for swinging, coke, or both.

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[-] Masterblaster420@fedia.io 14 points 7 months ago

i love floor plans that aren't centered around a TV. fuck your TV. try talking to people.

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[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 13 points 7 months ago

But it can also works as an indoor pool in summer.

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Pretty cool looking, but also pretty impractical with modern buildings.

It's funny because it's literally the opposite: "modern" buildings (read: of the "modernist" style popular circa 1930s-1970s) are the only kind that do have these things.

It's buildings that are newer than modern that don't have them because people realized they're impractical.

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[-] PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

You don’t need the tv visible from the whole seating area - that seating area is massive. You could put an 80” on a stand either along the side (where the flowers are) or on one of the corners, and still have room for an easy 8 people watching.

In my experience, you can get 6-8 people coordinated for watching a movie at your house. After that, you have a hard time finding something everyone is going to enjoy, you have bio breaks, and in general people like to just talk. Admittedly, we don’t watch sports, but even so I think rounding up 12-16 people (which would probably fill up this pit unless everyone were very close friends) would be a chore.

I have a lovely MCM house. It’s nowhere big enough to have a pit like this, but it does have an atrium. We throw parties pretty regularly, and once we get above 6-7 people, most of the time we’re just throwing on some music and letting everyone mingle. If we do put on a movie, it’s more of a background thing, and I honestly think most people prefer a good playlist and ready-to-go cocktails.

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[-] outer_spec@lemmy.blahaj.zone 82 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Readers added context they thought people might want to know:

Either these couches are really tiny, or room in this image is really big. It looks like the room is like six times the size of my college dorm. If the rest of the house is similarly sized, it’s probably also insanely fucking expensive. middle school gymnasium ass room

[-] Branch_Ranch@lemmy.world 40 points 7 months ago

Yea, I'm estimating that couch pit is about 15' square. So that room has to be close to double that in depth. It's probably a mid century ranch house, all 1 story. You could put a huge hookah in the middle. Or a console pac-man game!

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[-] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 71 points 7 months ago

If you stare hard enough, you can almost hear the keys dropping into the bowl.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

Silicon Valley horndogs are still absolutely doing this shit. They just do it in a room that's plastered floor to ceiling with giant TV screens, rather than in a soft velvet-lined passion pit.

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[-] DestroyerOfWorlds@sh.itjust.works 64 points 7 months ago

the money and cocaine ran out

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago
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[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 37 points 7 months ago

If I recall correctly, I think building codes surrounding tripping/fall hazards and railings may have had something to do with it unfortunately. I may be mistaken though

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 22 points 7 months ago

That would make sense because I can see a lot of tripping and falling leading to injury in a cocaine lounge.

[-] badlilpuffin@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

It was probably a falling hazard for children. So I'll blame the children for ruining the cocaine lounge.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

I can see the tripping and falling leading to sex and debauchery. This is what they've taken from you.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

This is the world OSHA has created. I say we return to Darwinism.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 10 points 7 months ago

To some extent that's how it is in the Netherlands, at least when compared to countries like UK/US with strict health and safety/codes. Railings to stop your car from falling in the canal? Fuck that if you can't park within a tiny space without falling into the water you deserve to die.

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[-] 3rdwrldbathhaus@lemm.ee 34 points 7 months ago

I built a conversation pit in Minecraft because I wanted one so bad

[-] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 34 points 7 months ago

Today that place in the middle would be blocked off by drywall and rented out for $1500/month.

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[-] Bombastion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 7 months ago

My spouse: I was promised flying cars, and I don't even get a conversation pit!

[-] mPony@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

The internet IS our conversation pit.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago
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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago

not gonna lie, I always wanted a home with a sunken living room table/couch like this.

Even today I think its bad ass and interesting... probably a pain in the ass to clean, though.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

When I was an installer for a WISP, I was installing to a lot of big fancy farm owner homes; and one of them had this. That house was swanky as fuck. It was practically custom built for partying. Place had 3 kitchens (2 indoors, and 1 outdoor), bars in nearly every room, etc. I wish I lived there... 😞

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[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

It's because folks kept falling into them at night and breaking their necks.

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[-] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

So I have some family that lived in a gated community that used to be a resort for Golden Age Hollywood types. Their clubhouse/community building hadn't been updated much since then, and it had one of these.

100% certain that a) group sex happened here, and b) at least one person broke their ankle in this thing. 90% sure there was at least one time both happened at once.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Probably the person who broke their ankle did it in some wildly adventurous sexual position mid intercourse and kept going until it was complete like a champ.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

Don Draper’s NY apartment

[-] antidote101@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

They took your own generations ability to have silly architectural trends - by the banks and Realestate agencies pricing most out of the market, and by refusing to mass build new towns for cheap.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 21 points 7 months ago

Sex pit or big TV. It's a tough call.

[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

IRL they mostly used these for group sex. It would be super weird to have everyone just sitting around talking all at the same time. Cult shit.

[-] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

I can only imagine what a pain this would be to vacuum.

Just use couches facing each other if you want to dedicate space to talking to each other. But I don't think most people have this much room available anyway.

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