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Post by shard »

outsidetheparty wrote: post #68

SCP Wiki has really matured over the years; it started out as creepypasta and murder monsters -- many of them well-written, to be sure, and an interesting setting -- but still just basically straightforward horror stories. In recent years some of the writers there have really upped their game, they're tackling much more nuanced and complicated issues than "SCARY THING WILL DESTROY WORLD". I'm particularly fond of htt…

Very cute story, although I was hoping by the end of the story that SCP-5031 would be fully rehabilitated and inducted into SCP as an operative or something. It'd be cruel to continue to imprison this sentient being who has learned not to kill. Also, why Keter class? It doesn't seem to have any magical ability to escape captivity.

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Post by ta988 »

sxp wrote: post #38

If you're new to SCP, I suggest starting with qntm's Antimemetics stories. They're well written and self-contained. You can read them for free online or buy the ebook: https://qntm.org/scp

The ebook is inexpensive and drm-free. I totally recommend if you never read anything from SCP.

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Post by ta988 »

jerf wrote: post #104
silicon2401 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any recommendations on those hazardous things?

Obviously, by the nature of the question, existential horror trigger warning. Further, bear in mind that your reactions may vary; none of these particularly bother me because for better or worse I have my own solid opinions on such matters. A lot of people have a bad reaction to http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2718 . An entire "canon" (collection of stories and sometimes some SCP entries) that can be similarly rough…

You talked about SCP-2718. Don't waste time clearing your cache.

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

science4sail wrote: post #143
pantalaimon wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What if each person on earth simulated one neuron in your brain, communicating by passing little slips of paper around? I do think this kind of group consciousness or meta consciousness exists, on many layers even. That's how society works.

That does raise the question of where group consciousness ends though: * Is my immune system conscious? * Is my family conscious? * Is my community conscious? * Is my country conscious? * Is the universe conscious?

Panpsychist and pantheist here: yes.

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Post by euske »

geoah wrote: post #15

> SCP-2521 (also known as ●●|●●●●●|●●|●) is a Keter-level SCP not currently contained by the SCP Foundation. He is a creature who steals every piece of information about his nature, as long as the information is expressed in textual or verbal form. Because of that, nearly everything about him is registered by ideograms and pictures. from https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/SCP-2521

But ideograms and pictures can be also pronounced verbally. So what the SCP does is to steal any encoded information about him?

But then it would stole every random bit because any information can be theoretically decoded as random bits!

Okay, then, we put a random text on a paper and observe if that thing steals the paper. If not, that is truly a random number that cannot be decoded in any meaningful way.

Which means we found the Chaitin's constant which could be used for solving any problem. cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant

See, Sci-fi is stupid.

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Post by askvictor »

Jarwain wrote: post #152
abacadaba wrote: post #147

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browsed the site for a few min, understood nothing

The SCP Foundation is a fictional wiki describing paranormal objects or entities (each labeled SCP-##), written from the perspective of the "SCP Foundation", SCP standing for Secure, Contain, Protect. Each page describes a new object, research done on the SCP, and containment protocols. It's a fun read and easy to get sucked down a rabbithole

SCP also stands for "Secure Containment Procedure" when used in the context of a numbered SCP, as distinct from the SCP foundation.

I really like this from the idea of conveying information - the containment requirements come first as they're most important. It's a useful thing to think about when writing and email. Also really like it as a global collaborative writing project.

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Post by menmob »

tywkeene wrote: post #62
pkulak wrote: post #56

My 11-year-old son is absolutely obsessed with SCP stuff. Never in a million years did I think I'd see something about it here. Wow.

It's definitely not "just kid stuff" if it gives that impression. There's some seriously talented writers out there that can really grab your imagination. I recall one "tale" that about a time when SCP failed to secure everything all at once, and a normal guy is detailing the world basically falling apart as long as he can. In the right hands a lot of these stories could make magnificent movies, but that's a long sho…

I believe that’s “Document Recovered From the Bottom of the Mariana Trench” - http://www.scpwiki.com/document-recovered-from-the-marianas-...

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Post by fctorial »

rory wrote: post #12

Could the person who made the entry write in abstract? Like what if I say: you shouldn't write or talk about beings that don't want to be written or talked about.

They aren't scientists doing research, they are cops keeping dangerous things in prison. Secure, contain, protect.

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Post by [deleted] »

hatsuseno wrote: post #129
kevinmgranger wrote: post #94

For additional context: this was the winning entry in the SCP's Short Works Contest[1]. The idea was: can you make a good SCP entry in under 500 words? Bonus points if it's under 237 words, the length of the first ever entry. Of course, the entry with zero words won. [1]: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/short-works-contest

Seems like that's a common thread for 'shortest X' contents, like that 0-byte IOOCC entry.

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Post by Thorrez »

zerocrates wrote: post #146
selestify wrote: post #144

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What's IOOCC (no Google results), and what was that entry? Could you link to it?

They probably meant to say "IOCCC," the International Obfuscated C Code Contest and they're referring I think to this entry: https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#1994_smr

Wow, that Makefile rule...

    smr: smr.c
        @${RM} -rf smr
        ${CP} smr.c smr
        ${CHMOD} +x smr
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