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Keter seems to be the one that confuses people the most. To get straight the point: It's about it's potential to cause mass exposure of the true weirdness of the world combined with difficulty to contain once it's out. It might be pretty harmless but if it would get seen by a large amount of people with little to no way to stop it then it's Keter.
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Crane Fist posted:Okay that just makes it even better From the last interview I read involving that guy he is unrepentant to this day and dislikes how the site moved away from wacky self-insert adventures. The twat.
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Sexual Aluminum posted:Honestly, that Catgirl Harem article kind of put me off SCP stuff recently. I thought the wiki had grown beyond that sort of thing. Don't do this. Everyone needs to stop treating the bad SCP they just found as if it represents anything relevant. Even if it was new, which is isn't, it is transient like any other SCP. Just move on. There's over 3000 now and people still like to go "oh I read SCP such and such and SCP is now bad forever". There will be more good SCPs and there will be more bad ones. Speaking personally I find there are very few terrible SCPs that get over 200. I'm indifferent to the catgirl one. I've never read it and it doesn't interest me but it doesn't make me angry either. I'm happy for it to exist. I think the only 200+ vote ones i've ever had problems with is some of the 001 proposals. Those tend to be so gimmicky or weird or that terrible 001 which is basically "judeo-christian mythology is actually real there isn't a gimmick here god is real and there's this angel" which leaves me cold. Same reason I dislike the old "Able" stories. No one ever did anything interesting with him. He is literally Able. gently caress off. Regarde Aduck has a new favorite as of 12:51 on Apr 26, 2017 |
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Crane Fist posted:Hmm yeah that's a compelling read, I am very interested, my biochemistry PhD is in the mail I swear Sorry but you're just uneducated. I don't have a Phd in biochemistry. I just went to school and have a passing interest in science to the point where I've picked up a lot of poo poo. Stop being an arrogant little prick and try learning about the world.
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Ytlaya posted:Man, I'm reading these SCP and while a lot are fun/interesting, D-Class are almost always portrayed as "what a child thinks criminals are like" or something. Like someone went "hmm what are criminals like" and just made them aggressive people who curse a lot. Yep. It's lovely. And guess what, it's not as bad as it used to be. I've actually seen articles where the researchers tried their best to keep the D classes alive. They never succeed because grim dark rules but baby steps. In some scp' the foundation is written as the most repugnant irredeemable organisation ever. The problem? It's rarely intentional. Regarde Aduck has a new favorite as of 01:46 on Jul 28, 2017 |
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MariusLecter posted:Is this how other people felt about the fourth dimensional brain eating spiders one? Cause Zzzzz 😴 That one's great. Stop being bad.
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Sep 3, 2017 10:18
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MariusLecter posted:I liked the spiders one, I meant the people who didnt like it must have felt the way I do about the dentological one. Oops. Comprehension fail. Sorry.
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funmanguy posted:This one is real good. Solid spooks That one or red reality should have won 3000. Not that boring eel. No offense to the author or fans of the boring eel. It just didn't click with me at all.
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Sep 11, 2017 19:45
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Weldon Pemberton posted:Just assume all D-Class are talking lab rats unless stated otherwise. Lil foulmouthed criminal rats with grey and black striped jerseys. The foundation would still be terrible. It's still cruel to throw a lab rat into the dungeon dimensions or throw it into a giant sentient blender to see what happens (rat got blended - need to do it 150 more times to make sure). Most of their tests are so pointless and appear to suggest the researchers are really bored or trying to justify their paycheck.
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Sep 23, 2017 16:41
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Ariong posted:This one is not only a very well executed SCP concept, but also does something that very few SCPs do: The Foundation doing actual honest-to-god research. It becomes clear as you watch it that they have done a whole lot of boring, repetitive, comprehensive tests in order to figure out the exact parameters of the anomaly. One of the better writers. Rarely depends on grimdark as a hook. I really like the Dixieland canon as well.
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Jan 1, 2018 12:53
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andrew smash posted:Thanks all, yes the dead/not dead thing is pretty clear. The "it looks like there is meaning but actually there isn't any at all!" is pretty stupid though, in my opinion. Why? In a world of anomalies there's going to be things that we just can't comprehend. Something is going on. Something has gone badly wrong. But the anomalies ability to warp conceptual perception makes it extremely hard, if not impossible, to fight against. In fact that's the only problem I have with it. It's so powerful. Reminds me a bit of 3125 but that saga did have a win condition even if it was going to be very hard to reach it.
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Mar 23, 2018 06:47
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yook posted:Part of why the perceive as live/dead infohazard SCP didn't jive for me. Half the log is a red herring that should be thrown out, ok, whatever. Then it sort of tries to halfway follow that the viewer is experiencing the infohazard but not all the way. The interviewer "expires" (how do we know this?) when they realize the truth, but we still see their dead body as requiring multiple guards to restrain? The corpse's lips start rotting when they state the unspecified (huh?) 3 words, but they're still seen as alive when they're dragged away? The infohazard is conceptual, not perceptual. It’s not inconsistent to notice the lips rotting off. The hazard is that what is obviously a dead body no longer registers as a dead body. There’s no illusion. Under the effect of the infohazard it is consistant that the interviewer is both ‘dead’ and requires four guards to restrain him because dead and alive have been hosed with as concepts. He’s not ‘seen as alive’. He’s seen as moving which no longer contradicts the concept of ‘dead’. Other than that yes reading all this outside of the anomalies range is going to make little sense. It’s like a similar scp where there was a hosed up conceptual space in a basement and a load of things got their identities swapped. The foundation ended up wondering why one of their agents, a small leather wallet, wasn’t reacting. The real agent died, locked in a cell somewhere because they identified them as a washing machine. It’s important to realise that in this, like the scp above, no one was seeing the items differently. No one actually saw the agent where it was intact a wallet. It was all conceptual id’s being mixed up. As above so below. If I’m missing your point then maybe I’m just dumb enough for this to work for me. Small victories.
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Mar 26, 2018 10:03
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Zereth posted:The solution was, of course, not to abruptly make Telekill extremely hazardous, without changing any of the articles which slathered it all over everything remotely psychic. Yet that's what they did. The thing about reality anchors is something like them would need to exist in a universe with thousands of reality bending life forms/objects. People have wrote a variety of scps and tales trying to make them super dangerous, faulty or just useless. I think that over complicates things. Just make it so these things cause your local area to turn into silent hill if they get even a mundane electrical fault. You give control of local reality to a machine you better keep it maintained.
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Jun 17, 2018 12:48
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Funxion posted:It seems that SCP is beginning to suffer from its multiple self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Is this you saying you're joining RPC so you can read spooky stories about how "gay people" are actually anomalies?
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Jun 28, 2018 04:03
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Ariong posted:Of the SCP-4000 candidates, my favorite is Socratic Containment Procedures. It's drat good. Destiny, Manifested was alright. I disliked all the others I've read except for two. I feel the same. I don't mind grimdark entries but I hate it when it's nihilistic wankery. It's why I hate Kalinin's proposal. A whole SCP about how no one can do anything and the big bad are going to force all of humanity to live on hell planets forever. Great. What a pointless story. Alas it's pretty popular.
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Jul 4, 2018 01:40
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Freudian posted:And it's a first post. A coldposted first post. A coldposted first post X000 contest entry. A coldposted first post X000 contest entry Thaumiel. Good. The idea that you HAVE to have your scp vetted by a crack team of professional scp critics was dumb as gently caress.
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Jul 24, 2018 16:00
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TheRagamuffin posted:Ahahaha what an enormous stick in the mud The grim dark crowd are usually "only scp series 1 are good" types and funnily enough skew towards 4chan/RPC. They're just big angry babies. Every dickhead who hated the pride logo had at least one reddit post about how no one has ever managed to make something better than 173 or 682. It's amazing how much they overlapped.
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Fivemarks posted:Not gonna lie- I'm a big fan of David Cronenberg, "Weird Antediluvian civilizations", Lost lands, Evil Gods, and evil things crawling beneath the earth. That last one IS a Sarkic SCP.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:I actually sort of dislike the deeper antimemetic "lore" because of that. Like I think they're well written and interesting stories, but they don't really fit the essential concept of what something that's "memetic" actually is. A meme is just an idea, but the concept is that ideas can evolve and spread the same way genes do. An antimeme would therefore be an idea that's "evolved" to be the opposite - an idea that CAN'T spread, even when someone deliberately tries to spread it. You can't really make an "anti-memetic bomb" any more than you can retroactively change reality to make everyone forget the idea. Which is to say, in the SCP setting, you absolutely can do that, but it's not a purely "memetic" effect anymore. I feel like there's a lot of potential in really digging into the ways that an idea can affect a person, and the way that information itself kind of has a life of its own, but the antimemetics division stuff doesn't really do that. It's just kind of like... what if the information is a MONSTER? Well yeah we’re dealing with a setting where conceptual spaces absolutely do have an effect on physical reality. There are layers of reality and a hirachy in play. In such a setting of course antimemes become much more dangerous. Of course antimemetic bombs are a thing. It goes bang, wipes you out conceptually and as above, so below. Also I’m not sure what you mean by ‘what if the information is a monster’ as a criticism. The definition of what’s in the conceptual space and what’s a physical thing has not been fully defined. All we know is that infected people are, in their last moments able to perceive... something. A guy riding a ‘spider’. The ‘spider’ being the idea of some larger ‘entity’ on a much higher plane. And yet it can do nothing to a person that doesn’t know about it. The main danger now being the fact that the thing is constantly seeding reality with conceptual spores. It’s only a matter of time. I mean I get it, why not reign it in and make this purely in people’s heads. But I think if that’s the case then you’re essentially no longer writing scp style weird fiction and instead writing mundane mental health issue fan fiction. People with ocd and other compulsive disorders can really tie themselves up with thought patterns that oppress and terrify themselves to the point of heart attack. But you can read these stories in medical journals. Without that extraordinary situation where concept is reality and reality is concept we have a load of people thinking themselves to death. So yes, information is a monster. Just literally. Because the real world interpretation is a first year medical student reading a dsm manual and becoming overcome with the symptoms of all the disorders he reads. Something that really happens. Splicer posted:Iirc it's explicitly malicious and hates us and is doing it on purpose. That's what makes it an ooo so spooky monster. It'd be more scary if it was just so weird that thinking about it killed you and made you go crazy just because it's so weird. Yes it’s called schizophrenia and it is scary but also real and there would be no point making up weird fiction stories about it. Regarde Aduck has a new favorite as of 14:38 on Dec 29, 2018 |
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There have always been people that looked at skulls and thought "that's hot". Now there is the internet and they can tell each other. It's really not a big deal. Most of them will be confused young people. And most of them will grow out of it and it'll be a 'quirk'. Now the ones that let it become their whole identity, yeah now there's a problem.
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Feb 6, 2019 18:24
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Mad Hamish posted:This is great, but I'm not understanding why it's Keter-class? Because it's a website that anyone can access. The potential for masquerade breaking is high. Also unless i'm misunderstanding it's not totally contained and can keep popping up.
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Bear Enthusiast posted:This was rad but I think I'm completely unfamiliar with anything it's referencing. Could anyone point me in the right direction? http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm Unrelated but while you're there read http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm Regarde Aduck has a new favorite as of 02:24 on Feb 14, 2019 |
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GeneX posted:Nah, the “twist” there is bad and keeping it away from everything else is good Why is it bad?
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PMush Perfect posted:Jesus Christ. What IS the timeline? Was the bit where Marion detonates the antimeme bomb the end of the story? qntm posted:For what it's worth, I'm as concerned about that as anybody. I find it insanely hard to deliberately not explain things. So, stay tuned and we'll see if I can stick the landing. For what it's worth I like when things get explained if the explanation is interesting. I really don't go for the 'it'll never be as spooky as what you can imagine' because well, i'm not a writer and it's very possible the writer HAS imagined something more interesting than I did. I think I might be in the minority on this. For example the story "the young man" only improved 106. It wasn't spoiled by having a background and origin. Because the story was interesting and well written. Regarde Aduck has a new favorite as of 20:23 on Apr 16, 2019 |
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Acute Grill posted:lmao that you think this is a point in your favor. 2721 is on the same tier as 231 in terms of poo poo quality and weird nerds dying to defend it. What's your favorite SCP?
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I assume most of the people that left still post on SCP under a different name because there's no way they didn't come to regret it when their new community failed to actually attract any new non-nazis. Apart from CFoperator himself. He's one of those nazis that can't actually interact with people properly anymore because the world has become a quagmire of cucks, betas and jewish conspiracies. Regarde Aduck has a new favorite as of 20:58 on Jun 22, 2019 |
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:The gently caress is a pattern screamer Nothing at all.
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Kaktus’ new scp is amazing and everyone who hates it is a big baby. It’s basically a litmus test scp. I just don’t know what it’s testing. Haters range from chuds to very much not chuds. I think one side is angry about not respecting the office of the president of the United States and the other is angry that it’s not respecting the office of scp’s. Who knew this is what would bring both sides together. Can’t wait to see what dumb boring poo poo actually wins 5000.
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lol gravitas of a 5000 gently caress you guys
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alexandriao posted:Yeah but it's primarily a horror / scifi site and there's nothing even vaguely horrifying or scifi about this other than the magic, which isn't gone into with any depth. It's more of a funny story than anything else, the only thing that sets it apart from it's genre is the SCP format, of which it could be adapted out without losing anything. It's primarily about 'weird poo poo'.
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The better writers were definitely cribbing from spooky internet stories. There's that episode where there's a tardis like ship pretending to be the upstairs of a house and everyone that goes up dies. It's basically a take on the Dionaea house . Right down to someone downstairs noticing an odd stain on the ceiling.
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Chamale posted:I can't view the version history, what is it? The shortness could be good. The fetishistic misery porn wasn't. It still happens but series 1 had plenty of authors relishing in inflicting fates worse than death on their cast. Especially D-class. They couldn't hurt D-class enough.
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I just take the thaumaturgy as currently impossible to understand processes. No more or less scientific than anything else. Exploits in the laws of physics. For me magic only fucks a setting up if there are no rules. The majority of fantasy settings are like this. There are no rules other than someone might get a bit tired at a pivotal moment and be unable to cast a spell that they literally just made up. For the most part thaumaturgy in SCP seems to have plenty of documentation and rules.
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CJacobs posted:Hell I'd get rid of my eyes to have a cloaca I mean can you imagine how much time you'd save from the convenience? Unless it's on your face where your eyes would be, that'd be less than preferable. Yes but you're now a blind bird. It's not a great life.
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Tunicate posted:also, if we have a class for 'an object that you use to hold something securely', THAT is the class that should be named 'safe' They’re usually dangerous in their own right and the name is essentially the opposite of Keter.
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Have they tried not being so mean Leave the lizard alone
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Thing about 682 is that it’s an old article. So assume that the foundation threw it into acid before it showed itself to be dangerous. Maybe they threw some d-class into the acid to make sure acid is still acidy. Maybe the lizard makes acid not acidy. And it’s been mad ever since so they did what they do and put it into a tiny box in its own little hell. Ahhhh classic scp.
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I think dado understanding the suffering it causes is best left ambiguous. It might or might not be able to understand it, but the better question never answered is what it ever really gets out of these business ventures.
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SerialKilldeer posted:
Wasn’t the red light thing a theme for a number of scps dealing with layered reality? It comes up in the sopranos scp and a few others. Maybe they’re not related and just a coincidence.
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SerialKilldeer posted:Oh, the Pika-homunculus reminded me, what was that SCP where someone bought an ancient and eldritch tome (I think from MC&D) and successfully performed the demon-summoning rituals within, all to get revenge on his annoying neighbor? New head canon: This is how ALL scps happened. There are a lot of eldritch tomes out there.
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