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Rocketlex posted:My assumption is that the majority of the people working for the Foundation's front companies have no idea what the Foundation is, and think the fronts are legitimate. The Foundation recruits people from these companies if they think they'd be a good fit. Basically your boss pulls you aside one day and shows you the secret elevator in the supply closet. Presumably, they recruit prisoners with useful skills (as opposed to ones without, who get D-classed), governmental employees from governments they're allied with, and specialists from outside. They probably have an entire site that does nothing but do background checks, and another site for agent training. They've also probably got several specialists in bizarre fields or professions you wouldn't normally expect- cabinetmakers, comic book artists, people with dual doctorates in theater and epidemiology, experts on the history of Coca-Cola, and the like. Basically, they're a intelligence agency with higher demand for academics and military personnel.
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Friends and family told me that my degree in basket weaving would be worthless! Little did they know that after graduating I was recruited into a secret organization so that I could weave the baskets to hold the offerings required to satisfy a homicidal harvest god.
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Death Himself posted:Friends and family told me that my degree in basket weaving would be worthless! Little did they know that after graduating I was recruited into a secret organization so that I could weave the baskets to hold the offerings required to satisfy a homicidal harvest god.
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Of course, I'd bet that some people might be recruited specifically to immediately become trusted D-class personnel- someone who has rare or unique skills necessary for sensitive work, but is also either too untrustworthy or too much of a dipshit to be allowed to walk around freely.
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Ratoslov posted:Of course, I'd bet that some people might be recruited specifically to immediately become trusted D-class personnel- someone who has rare or unique skills necessary for sensitive work, but is also either too untrustworthy or too much of a dipshit to be allowed to walk around freely. I would imagine these special people, different from the others, would be assigned to a different class rather than D.
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| # ? May 17, 2012 04:36 |
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Cardiovorax posted:I don't know why you people haven't been doing the obvious thing for years. Have two types of accounts. One that's easy to make, for the people who just want to vote, and one that requires actual reading comprehension, for the people who want to write. Everyone gets to have a say on what they like or don't like without having to pander to your ridiculous standards as to what kind of person you want on your amateur fiction site. Everyone's a winner. 1: Wikidot doesn't work that way. 2:It's not something we're interested in doing. If you want to just read the site, you don't need an account, and if you want to vote, well, we'd prefer you be somewhat competent.
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| # ? May 17, 2012 05:03 |
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DoctorBright posted:1: Wikidot doesn't work that way. To be frank, your application process doesn't form an adequate filter for competence. See for instance the ceramic lava skeleton monster from a page or so ago. Keeping the voting internalized only ensures that the results end up cliquey and skewed towards the preferences of a small number of die-hards instead of the actual site audience. If that's what you're going for, well, great, but it's ultimately going to end up alienating the greater public.
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Sagebrush posted:To be frank, your application process doesn't form an adequate filter for competence. See for instance the ceramic lava skeleton monster from a page or so ago. Keeping the voting internalized only ensures that the results end up cliquey and skewed towards the preferences of a small number of die-hards instead of the actual site audience. If that's what you're going for, well, great, but it's ultimately going to end up alienating the greater public. If voting wasn't internalized, then anyone on the internet could vote, and if you can't see why that is worse than the current system then well I just don't know about you, Sagebrush.
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Little Blue Couch posted:If voting wasn't internalized, then anyone on the internet could vote, and if you can't see why that is worse than the current system then well I just don't know about you, Sagebrush. Counterpoint: this is the highest-rated Keter class SCP. (To be fair, that is Keter, Euclid and Safe both have much higher-rated, and better, entries)
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| # ? May 17, 2012 06:32 |
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Starmaker posted:Counterpoint: this is the highest-rated Keter class SCP. Technically, this is the highest rated Keter. Well, Euclid/Keter. Close enough.
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Starmaker posted:Counterpoint: this is the highest-rated Keter class SCP.
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| # ? May 17, 2012 06:50 |
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Yup, one of our best SCPs is the highest rated Keter? I don't see the problem with the system as is.
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| # ? May 17, 2012 06:56 |
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Strudel Man posted:In fairness, the hate-on that SA has for 231 is pretty much our own cliquey, skewed preferences. Not... really? This is a surprise sex culture, sheltered white male nerd style idea. I'd go on, but apparently the topic has been discussed to death and I don't want to drag up old conversations. But saying it's limited to SA, or is somehow cliquey or skewed, is ignoring larger social realities and diminishes the validity of these objections to mere personal opinion. DoctorBright posted:Yup, one of our best SCPs is the highest rated Keter? I don't see the problem with the system as is. Oh. That's... that's really upsetting...
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| # ? May 17, 2012 07:01 |
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The only surprise sex in that article is what you put there. But, let's not start this argument again. PS: Shadowcast. Rocky Horror. It makes so much sense!
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Starmaker posted:Not... really? This is a surprise sex culture, sheltered white male nerd style idea. I'd go on, but apparently the topic has been discussed to death and I don't want to drag up old conversations. But saying it's limited to SA, or is somehow cliquey or skewed, is ignoring larger social realities and diminishes the validity of these objections to mere personal opinion. DoctorBright posted:PS: Shadowcast. Rocky Horror. It makes so much sense! edit: New item further confirms that I utterly loathe Are We Cool Yet. It is poison. It is a poison concept. It destroys items I might otherwise find intriguing. I know what it is, too. Dangerous, bizarre stuff is okay if it's supposed to have come about by happenstance. Other dimensions creeping in, unknown facts about our universe, eldritch Things...all fine. But the idea of a group of people deliberately creating monkey cheese random anomalous devices to kill people in crazy ways, like a bunch of malevolent hipster sorcerers, is just totally noxious to me. It's not "The world is stranger than we think," it's "People are stupid bastards." And I already know that. That's not interesting. Strudel Man fucked around with this message at May 17, 2012 around 07:29 |
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I'm referencing the fact that every time someone asks me what 110-Montauk is, I tell them it's an amateur Shadowcast of Rocky Horror Picture Show. In my personal headcanon, that's it. Amnesiacs are offered for two reasons: 1: to the D-class, who are not the type of people who normally do such things as RHPS, and would rather not remember being in drag and such. 2: to the researchers because do you really want to remember D-class in drag and such?
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| # ? May 17, 2012 07:31 |
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So, hey, (he said, changing the subject with all the subtlety he could muster), how about SCP-1143? Some sort of meerkat monolith thingy. Seems pretty interesting, huh?
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DoctorBright posted:I'm referencing the fact that every time someone asks me what 110-Montauk is, I tell them it's an amateur Shadowcast of Rocky Horror Picture Show. In my personal headcanon, that's it. Amnesiacs are offered for two reasons: Hahaha, I know right? Being in drag is just like the worst thing, just the worst.
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Did i say that? No, you did. I said the D-class would be the type not to want to remember such things.
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| # ? May 17, 2012 08:09 |
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genesplicer posted:It really is a problem. We have well over 1000 SCPs. If you assume an average of 5 D-class individuals per SCP, that's 5,000 per month, that's 60,000 D-class people per year. I know there are lots of prisons, but that's still a lot of people just disappearing. I prefer the idea that they don't all get killed at the end of each month. All I can say is thank god for marijuana prohibition. I'm sure that the foundation makes sizable government donations to keep the supply of felons rolling in.
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Starmaker posted:Counterpoint: this is the highest-rated Keter class SCP. That's a terrible counterpoint to my point that the internet as a whole is an abhorrent voting community. A good counterpoint would have been longer. Maybe with some jokes, to put me at ease and make me more receptive to your point.
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DoctorBright posted:The only surprise sex in that article is what you put there. But, let's not start this argument again. On a lighter note: SCP1164 posted:If the absorbed subject was male, the 'lead' face shifts to resemble that of the tenor, the tenor to that of the bass, the bass to that of the baritone, and the baritone face transforms into the face of the absorbed subject. Splicer fucked around with this message at May 17, 2012 around 09:57 |
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JackMann posted:So, hey, (he said, changing the subject with all the subtlety he could muster), how about SCP-1143? Some sort of meerkat monolith thingy. Seems pretty interesting, huh? That is quite weird; I'm sort of disappointed at first that the 'increased intelligence' doesn't seem to do much- but the SCP more than made up for it with all the tactics that affected meerkats would use to get other meerkats exposed to the thing.
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| # ? May 17, 2012 09:56 |
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Starmaker posted:Oh. That's... that's really upsetting...
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I was impressed by 1322. Not a single instance [REDACTED] or [DATA EXPUNGED], and still it manages to be more chilling than most SCPs, due to the sheer tenacity on display in the latter half of the containment log. I'm half expecting them to start sending SCPs through the hole any day now.
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CommissarMega posted:That is quite weird; I'm sort of disappointed at first that the 'increased intelligence' doesn't seem to do much- but the SCP more than made up for it with all the tactics that affected meerkats would use to get other meerkats exposed to the thing. e: You know what the foundation needs? More squid. Squid are pretty smart, they need cognitohazards and such. Splicer fucked around with this message at May 17, 2012 around 10:07 |
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JackMann posted:So, hey, (he said, changing the subject with all the subtlety he could muster), how about SCP-1143? Some sort of meerkat monolith thingy. Seems pretty interesting, huh? This one's a pretty fun counterbalance to all the "it only effects humans"-itis this thread was recently discussing. I like it. 
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JackMann posted:So, hey, (he said, changing the subject with all the subtlety he could muster), how about SCP-1143? Some sort of meerkat monolith thingy. Seems pretty interesting, huh? Wow, when you say monolith, you mean Monolith. It's not just doing the same thing to meercats as the one from 2001: A Space Odyssey was doing to the pre-humans (acting to speed up their evolution into intelligences by aiding the smart ones and removing the dumb ones), it's actually the exact same shape/proportions. MikeJF fucked around with this message at May 17, 2012 around 10:14 |
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Splicer posted:
The buff ones don't kill the smart ones. They may or may not kill other buffingtons though. I don't think it says. e. Everything needs more squids.
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Splicer posted:
One of the best cognitohazards is a squid.
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MikeJF posted:Wow, when you say monolith, you mean Monolith. It's not just doing the same thing to meercats as the one from 2001: A Space Odyssey was doing to the pre-humans (acting to speed up their evolution into intelligences by aiding the smart ones and removing the dumb ones), it's actually the exact same shape/proportions. I picked up the reference but didn't realize it was the same down to the proportions. 
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Namarrgon posted:The buff ones don't kill the smart ones. They may or may not kill other buffingtons though. I don't think it says.
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Splicer posted:Yeah no I got it, I misread -3 as -1 (because it came first) and got confused. I missed the reference too. I just saw blood fetishizing and child abduction and said "Oh, so it makes them Catholic." and moved on.
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| # ? May 17, 2012 10:32 |
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Having the numbers in the wrong order there is silly. People automatically assume things are in order and often don't check.
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| # ? May 17, 2012 10:36 |
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This is pretty tight mainly because it shows how incredibly ruthless the foundation is willing to be (the casual footnote really makes it too), and I loving love the idea of the foundation having witch doctors on staff, eating in the cafeteria alongside the biologists, phyisists, experts on mind viruses, and former Delta force security agents, talking about the next office party and their kids birthdays. It makes perfect sense too, they're probably one of the more ordinary specialties on staff.
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Strudel Man posted:edit: New item further confirms that I utterly loathe Are We Cool Yet. It is poison. It is a poison concept. It destroys items I might otherwise find intriguing. Are they creating them, or are they finding and repurposing them? Which comes first, the dangerous bizarre stuff or the idea for the art project? Who says they're "a group of people"? What if they're not just like "a bunch of malevolent hipster sorcerers"? Oh, and on a completely different subject: Larry the Loving Llama and Car Accident.
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Parahexavoctal posted:Are they creating them, or are they finding and repurposing them? Which comes first, the dangerous bizarre stuff or the idea for the art project? There are a number of potential explanations which make "Are we cool yet?" more interesting. I like to imagine some frustrated art student somehow had his mind fused with an eldrich god. Now fragments of his consciousness are leaking back into our world in the form of deadly, incomprehensible art projects.
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It's still an irritating tagline though. vv In that respect it is a drat good troll... Munin fucked around with this message at May 17, 2012 around 17:42 |
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AWCY's sole motivation as a group is to turn interesting and creepy ideas into lovely and obnoxious ones with a single namedrop.
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Parahexavoctal posted:Are they creating them, or are they finding and repurposing them? Which comes first, the dangerous bizarre stuff or the idea for the art project? quote:Who says they're "a group of people"? What if they're not just like "a bunch of malevolent hipster sorcerers"?  And anyway, given that their 'thing' is in English, there's no suggestion that they're anything but human beings, like the GoC or Marshall, Carter, and Dark.
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