Done another SCP after god knows how long. Everything painting related here is me inserting random Wikipedia phrases so please, please correct it if necessary.
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there have been quite a few conflicts in Asia since 1977…
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis (1996)
Various minor China-India and India-Pakistan border conflicts
Tadjikistan Civil War (1992-1997)
Corrected some typos.
The Sino-Vietnamese war is in there, the Tajik civil war isn't in this SCP's area of influence (well there's the Afghan war but that's an anomaly I felt like chucking in) and the others aren't major incidents.
I thought the comment at the end was ok since it's just a casual observation, but I had doubts about that myself. It doesn't really add or take away much from the SCP imo so I'll leave it for now.
I don't like it. It's an interesting idea, but it's a little like any prophecy for me 'Oh, Nicodemus mentioned two great towers in flame, it must be the twin towers!" There's no concrete way we could figure out that these conflicts are what the picture is representing.
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The fact that it seems to have changed precisely in time with the beginning/end of certain conflicts does lend a bit more legitimacy to the interpretations, though. If it were just going on the word of old Mr. M███, I wouldn't think much of them either… but in this case the object was only classified as an SCP after Dr. █████████ observed it change at the same time a war broke out.
I know what you're saying about "self-fulfilling prophecies", but in this case it's more like a nicely decorated RSS feed (one that just happens to be able to make news as well as receive it).
In this case I agree. I like that it is sort of a current event marker, the fact that it has the 'potential' to change events is a nice little 'oooo, we better be frigging careful' with this thing, especially since the artwork is done in symbolic style. It means that even if you do alter it, you can't be 100% sure of the effect, which adds to the feeling that it's not something you do lightly, in fear of a catastrophic result.
I think the idea's a tad iffy, but the article itself is very well written. +1.
I was intrigued.
Then I saw the Khmer Rouge reference.
Then I was upvoting.
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