SCP-3028 / Discussion

This is the discussion related to the wiki page SCP-3028.

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"This should be the only SCP on the entire website."

Communism will win 08 Nov 2017 23:03

Biiiig thanks to Decibelles for reviewing this! I wanted to go for some sorta social commentary here (namely, 'there's a market for opinions that are meant primarily to be controversial, and the only real function of this content is to give people a way to stress themselves out), so, who knows what the reception will be.

The image is by Spencer Means; the original is here and under a CC BY-SA 2.0 license.

Thanks also goes to @nucleartakes on Twitter, for collecting posts that served as inspiration for a few of these.

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if your reading this your gay

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Edrobot 08 Nov 2017 23:33

If anything, this hits a bit too close to home, especially given the modern political climate in the US. +1

Weryllium 09 Nov 2017 00:17

Creative core anomaly, and Trevor's plan of exploiting it to make money off of an Onion-esque site is charmingly clever both in- and out-of-universe. I really like the first half of this.

The final note kills any entertainment momentum you had built up over the course of the whole article, stopping the story dead in its tracks in order to deliver some nonsensical 'point'. The idea that professional adults are actually affected by 'Chemotherapy is anti-feminist' in any way beyond 'amusement' or 'dismissal' (to the point of requiring an expository note about this) is almost as ridiculous as SCP-3028-2 instances themselves.

Within the note itself, this line

for one, most researchers are already subject to bigoted statements that are both aimed at their particular demographic and popular among large segments of the population, so SCP-3028's provocations do not compare

is jarringly out-of-place as far as the content of the note is concerned, at least to me, and feels almost like it was thrown in as an afterthought to try to connect the skip more to readers.

Downvote for now, for pig-flesh-arm-endings.

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Petrograd 09 Nov 2017 00:59

The idea that professional adults are actually affected by 'Chemotherapy is anti-feminist' in any way beyond 'amusement' or 'dismissal'

I assume they're reading the full-length essays formed from -2, rather than just the initial statements. It's the difference between seeing a partisan/conspiracy clickbait headline or tweet, and actually clicking through to the article to take in all the vitriol and nonsense. It's still an absurd premise, but not as absurd.

I actually had just about the opposite reaction. I thought the anomaly and setup was a little pat and decent if long-winded, and that the "hot takes" mostly fell short of being fun-random. The final note was the high point of surprising and engaging personal narrative.

Still thinking on this one.

Weryllium 09 Nov 2017 01:48

I assume they're reading the full-length essays formed from -2, rather than just the initial statements

Whoops, I did misread that. (Embarrassing!) However, I'll still stand by my initial point; I can't see the researchers being affected by either the headlines or the full essay that strongly.

Decibelles 09 Nov 2017 01:41

Do you think that quoted section is false though?

Also I thought it was pretty clear that they were affected by the essays and not individual statements.

Weryllium 09 Nov 2017 01:52

Never said it was false (setting aside any offshoot conversations about how the apparent demographics of the fictional Foundation compare to the real world).

It just broke the flow of the note for me.

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Genshed 09 Nov 2017 01:12

My favorite part was learning that anartists organized to raise money for charitable causes.

Mortos 09 Nov 2017 10:19

I enjoyed this and almost upvoted, but the random HMCL Supervisor include jarred me down to a no-vote.

Abettik 09 Nov 2017 13:34

+1

I enjoyed reading about this unique and interesting effect, and some details about its creation and further testing I also found enjoyable. Well done!

Toa_Vine 09 Nov 2017 16:17

I feel like the ending note isn't on the same level as the rest of the article, but it wasn't enough for me to think this SCP was ruined. I love the concept. Upvoted.

djkaktus 09 Nov 2017 17:57

I echo the point about the final note, but I don't think it's enough to make it a bad article. On the whole it's really pretty good; if anything I think the commentary wasn't strong enough. The last note does some work in attempting to make up for the overall absence of it elsewhere in the article, but I think i would've liked to have seen more of that last bit mixed in elsewhere, as opposed to dumping it all at once.

Still, the image of a man intensely studying plants in order to fill a buzzfeed quota is more than a little amusing.

TomatointheMirror 10 Nov 2017 12:10

Most of the article is good, but the final note just doesn't sit well with me for some reason. Neutral vote, but I would upvote if the final note was removed.
Edit: So, a lot of the time when people get mad about articles, they're getting mad about not the content of the article, but that someone genuinely believes these things and would post them online even though they are (from the reader's POV) obviously false. However, these articles don't come from anywhere. Nobody wrote them, so there isn't that hypothetical person who believes the information and thus nobody to get mad at.

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Nice Job!

Raccoon Launcher 21 Nov 2017 19:07

I liked this SCP, and I really appreciate how you walked the fine line that let you make the statements truly absurd without actually strawmanning anyone. Easy +1

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