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I would love to upvote. And then this happened: "Please give my regards to Director Eskobar on his birthday."
Come on, really?
I like how the company is taking advantage of people because of its own faults. +1 I might be wrong, but I am pretty sure Moh's Hardness is on a scale of 1-10. Diamond being 10. Other than that, good job!
I feel this is less a mistake than it is some type of protection racket. Which would explain the oh-so-inconvenient static over the company name.
Read the other comments, it is a con! Alien conmen! Yeah! I understood the concept!
I like to think that it is an innocent mistake on the alien's part. They say that on-site removal is free, but since you are so far away you have to pay, and since you are so far away, they have no way to retrieve the ball. I totally understand the Alien Con-men part and I am sure that is what it was written in mind with, but I like to think that not everybody is a money grubbing con-artists, even if they are. Now I have to go answer this email from a Nigerian prince wanting to store money in my bank account. :)
For something to be exponential, the variable needs to be the exponent. It's not enough to just have an exponent. Example: x2 is not exponential, but 2x is exponential.
y=v+x5.04 is not exponential growth.
y=v+5.04x, however, would be exponential growth.
Of course, if you make this change, the object will increase much faster than you've described, so you might want to reduce the value, 5.04.
It's technically cubic growth, but I didn't know if that was an actual term. What would you call the kind of growth described here?
I don't think there's a name for it. If it were y=v+x5 (an integer exponent), you could call it "polynomial" or "quintic", but I've never heard a name for equations of non-integer exponent.
What did it for me was the image of a woman somewhere laughing her head off because every time they test this SCP she gets richer $494.25.
+1
Well, her company. And the Foundation ain't exactly wanting for cash. MC&D would *kill* for these guys' business model.
I still don't like the 'lol anomalous capitalism'. There's nothing else of interest about it.
Living the dream, or dreaming the life?
Where's the lol? Other than the marshmallow thing, and that's more anomalous than lol.
But yeah, it's anomalous capitalism. It's a use of an anomalous item as a con tool, purely for profit. It's the use of the anomalous, the unthinkable, an object that violates the standard rules of physics, to make a quick buck and for no other reason. I didn't see anything really similar to it, so I thought it was neat.
Oh yeah. It's neat. I'll give you that. But such a stereotypical caricature of some chick chewing bubblegum, some guy getting overly mad/freaked out about the situation, payment though random-ass mashmallows and sheep bile? It sounds like the build up to some joke to me and there isn't much other than 'well, this concept is neat I guess' thing going for the article and that isn't quite enough for me.
(Maybe I'm just doing it wrong, I'll look at it again later and see if my opinion changes)
Living the dream, or dreaming the life?
Fair enough. A couple of things:
1. SCP-1750-A is supposed to basically sound like Janine Melnitz from Ghostbusters. Whiny, nasal voice, very bored sounding. Just a stereotypical secretary/receptionist type. She really is just a bored worker for a big company, doing a boring job. Stereotype, sure.
2. Let's say you wake up with a tattoo on your forehead with a phone number, you call it, and this same transaction happens. Someone who doesn't give a shit is who you're relying on to end a very weird, inexplicable, somewhat violating situation for you. It's just how I figured I'd react.
3. The payment methods thing is supposed to explain just how much they want their scam to net profit in literally any possible form. They accept *any* payment that the victims can produce in a hurry. And the ball isn't going to wait for, say, a peasant girl in Naples come up with several hundred American dollars. The examples in question are sort of silly, I'll give you that. That I might change if it bothers other people.
But judge as you will.
1. That incredibly common caricature is sounds like a build-up to somethingfunny or a joke. Aren't super bored secretaries played for vague amusement?
2. That's not what I'm saying. It's the fact that you the author chose to put someone losing his shit in an article, paired with common stereotypical and supposedly amusing caricatures, along with random shit like paying with marshmallows. It, again, sounds like the lead up to some kind of joke or amusing thing. Think about it. Guy freaks out, calls a phone, is losing his shit while calling a a secretary who's just chewing bubblegum obnoxiously and filing her nails, and then ends up paying in something random like marshmallows. It just sounds like a joke.
3. Oh yes. I realize that. But you see, marshmallows and sheep bile come out of complete left field and there's no need to specify random stuff like that over 'This SCP accepts any form of payment even if it isn't considered usual currency' or something, which tells you everything you need to know without throwing the reader for a loop with sheep bile and marshmallows. The fact that this random bile and marshmallows things even is chosen to be written just kind of adds to this 'okay so this is supposed to be played for ridiculous laughs, right?' kind of vibe.
Living the dream, or dreaming the life?
This is not anomalous capitalism, it's extortion. LOLOL SAME DIFFERENCE UNF UNF PUBLIC EDUCASHUNS
I love it either way, I find myself fond of SCPs that involve weird deals conducted with faceless people over the phone. It feels like we have a lot of such things, but I have no complaints about that. It feels like fertile ground for horror.
There's a very "lol u guise look at this it's a ball and there's a lady with a phone that calls people lol isn't that quirky? i'm so funny" vibe to this that I don't quite like. No vote, for now.
I inquire again as to where the funny is. I am absolutely hilarious in real life, so I may have brought the funny when I meant to leave it at home, but it's not intentional, I promise.
I kind of got the feeling you were trying to be ~whimsical~ and, whether it was intentional or not, I'm still holding off on voting.
There was some whimsy in the original draft, but it's mostly gone now.
NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH WHIMSY
I think it would be more useful, in-universe, to know the rate at which it increases in diameter than volume, since it's more important to determine what sort of container is needed to contain the thing at any given point in time than to know how much water it could displace at any given point in time. But yeah, I likes it.
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The idea is that the significant feature is how very, very visible this can become in a hurry. Containment is a cinch, as long as it isn't growing; that's why it's Safe. But when someone's touching it, it can get super visible. Volume seemed like the most important factor in that function. But I'll keep it in mind.
Counterargument: human beings are very, very bad at estimating "inferred" dimensions:
- it's easy to look at a car wheel and say "it's 2ft across," but most people will scoff at the idea that it's over 6ft around (even though "pi*D" is a suuuuper simple equation).
- a bathtub is about 5ft long and 18" deep, but you'll probably surprise someone if you tell them it can contain as much as 100 gallons of water (or that said 100gal weighs nearly half a ton!).
Diameter is a very easy number to parse. I don't know what 525 cubic meters looks like, size-wise. I can very easily imagine a sphere 10m in diameter (and it surprises me to realize that an 8-fold increase in volume is only a doubling of the diameter… 2^3, naturally!).
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