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Dado needs no backstory. Every lightning-in-a-bottle sci fi or horror character who gets more backstory gets worse over time. The weeping angels from Dr Who, the Borg from Star Trek, the Sith from Star Wars. It just takes a fun thing and reduces it. One of the joys of the scp format is the incomplete information. We usually don’t know the history or the why, and if we did it would make the story less compelling. Leave dado alone the banana pill is one of my favorite scps. Dude was both technically correct and, in the end, effective, and that’s fun.
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I hope dado dies in real life.
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dado's backstory is that dado wants to be a successful businessman like jeff bezos and dado has a broken shift key and a hamster
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Apr 16, 2024 12:35
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This is better than “dado talks seriously to the Marshall Carter dark rep” but much worse than “we have no clue who or what dado is”
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Apr 16, 2024 14:48
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If you can explain an anomaly like dado, dado is no longer an anomaly. "He's a demon summoned to take over the weird drugs department" is a terrible backstory and removes what makes dado dado.
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Apr 16, 2024 18:07
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I feel like being the dude who made GAW means I shouldn’t be throwing stones in my house made of incredibly fragile glass, but I can’t loving take dado even a little seriously.
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Apr 16, 2024 18:26
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I really don’t think you’re supposed to.
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dado is excellent as a two-or-three time joke concept, minimalist and clean: the second you keep forcing it to go on the entire structure of the concept evaporates and the magic is killed
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Apr 16, 2024 18:42
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dado works great if you can keep your article a) funny and b) under 2000 words
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Apr 16, 2024 18:55
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I stopped finding dado funny after the first article, so it's at least a nice change of pace from the status quo for him. I don't know if I would particularly care about the article otherwise, though, and giving lore to one of the most annoying recurring characters on the site seems kind of pointless.
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Apr 16, 2024 19:17
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Dado takes all the weird sketchy possibly ai generated amazon stores and other weird semireal businesses just a little further. Making him a demon misses the point
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Apr 16, 2024 19:19
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Tunicate posted:Dado takes all the weird sketchy possibly ai generated amazon stores and other weird semireal businesses just a little further. Making him a demon misses the point Except he does give you exactly what he said he would.
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Apr 16, 2024 19:32
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Zereth posted:Except he does give you exactly what he said he would.  I rest my case
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Have... have there always been two shift keys on a standard keyboard? I swear that this is some Mandela-effect level nonsense, there's two shift keys? Absolutely not.
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Apr 16, 2024 20:31
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Yes, but no one I know ever uses both, only one. Also digital keyboards only have one shift key.
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Apr 16, 2024 21:05
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RC01214 posted:Yes, but no one I know ever uses both, only one. Also digital keyboards only have one shift key. Now you've got me thinking about whether or not I use both shift keys when typing.
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Apr 16, 2024 21:07
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Right shift is for conmen and, like, virtualbox.
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Zereth posted:Except he does give you exactly what he said he would. Yeah, I also think making dado a Faustian-bargain figure is missing the point. If you want to do a serious dado (which I'm not sure you should, since I'm on the "this concept works when it is brief, funny, and in very small doses" train), the most interesting part of him is the idea that he's legitimately trying to do business and provide a quality service as requested, but whatever paradigm he's working under is so inhuman and his communication skills so lacking that you get Dado Results. Just making him a demon that fucks with people is boring and obvious.
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I don't think I've seen it in here, but there's an ongoing series of short films for the "There is No Anti-Antimemetics Division" stories. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm3ywOKVBeAp1CmOhpsfueY2U5cLN84wN
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postmodifier posted:Have... have there always been two shift keys on a standard keyboard? I swear that this is some Mandela-effect level nonsense, there's two shift keys? Along similar lines, have you ever noticed there's a "Fax" printer in your printer dialog on Windows? Even on Windows 10/11, and even if your computer doesn't have a modem (like pretty much every computer made for the last 20 years)?
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dado's entire concept seems it'd work much better if *he* was the one accidentally entrapping an ancient mega demon with wild deals and oddly-worded contracts, with the demon thinking it's winning the entire time until suddenly it's now the Customer Complaints hotline agent
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Apr 16, 2024 21:47
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It's pretty simple. An eldritch god somehow got a hold of an Earth internet connection and their inability to understand normal human wants and motivations confused it into thinking humans needed a backronymed dado.
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Nitrousoxide posted:I don't think I've seen it in here, but there's an ongoing series of short films for the "There is No Anti-Antimemetics Division" stories. LOL, from the last part: 
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Mr.Radar posted:LOL, from the last part: 
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This one gets creepy fast.
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