This has been knocking about on its own sandbox page for a while; the primary reason it's not been posted until now is that the coding has a tendency to just straight up not work on certain browsers. I can't find a suitable solution, so… here's hoping enough people are actually using good browsers for this to work.
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Okay, you know what? I approve of the "other" option in the containment class, and the notes. Plus, the thing oops format spoilering gave me a heart attack.
Despite this, I have to downvote, because it's nothing more than a gimmick. Now, I've upvoted gimmicks before, like Kate's advertisements, but they at least had some backstory and meat to them.This is nothing but the gimmick, unless I'm missing something.
You are.
Remember when we agreed that something wasn't a sphere?
That's a nice idea, and makes me look at this more favourably. Now, I'm not downvoting because of the concept, I'm downvoting because the execution is bad.
055 wasn't made by the admittedly-cool effect, it was made by the interesting ways the Foundation found to subvert and work around that effect. This is just a simple inversion, and the "nudge nudge wink wink" aspect isn't enough to make it good. The inversion should be interesting by itself, as opposed to because of something outside.
I don't quite understand what's happening here. Like, I looked at the page source, but I'm viewing this on mobile. Should I just wait for an opportunity to get onto a desktop and reread this, or what?
Pretty much. I don't want to spoil it, but this will almost certainly not work on mobile browsers.
I don't imagine SCP personnel using mobile browsers to access info. Although this is a problem, it's not a problem in-SCP-universe.
Personally, I don't mind. This might lead to downvotes in the future though.
Hopefully not.
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I used mobile and it worked fine.
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(account deleted)The idea for the formatting is a stroke of genius, and one of the more innovative tricks we've seen here in some time.
Unfortunately, there's nothing here except the formatting trick. And the vague references to an existing article are not nearly enough to carry this. I'm all about advancing the format of the SCP article into strange new places, but ultimately something has to be a literary work on some level, and not just a neat coding trick.
Told Randomini I was going to defend this to the death, and might as well start now.
Note: MASSIVE SPOILERS BELOW
If you disregard the fact that it's an exact anti-055 (thing what is a sphere, you can remember it but can't write anything down about it, etc), it's also, in my mind, a perfect circle. The fact that technology freaks out about it has entirely to do with the fact that computers can't handle the idea of computing perfect circles; they'd just keep pumping out numbers for an eternity (or until they broke down). The effect applies to other things for similar reasons, but not to humans, who can conceptualize a perfect circle without calculating it, because the human mind doesn't have those requirements.
Still fairly lacking from a literary point of view, since there isn't much else going on outside of the item. The item itself, though, is genius. The whole thing feels really old school, and I dig it really hard.
But that's just me.
Carry on.
The thing is, we have some other SCP (that I CBF to look up b/c I'm in class right now) which takes the concept of a "perfect sphere" to its logical end in a much more enjoyable way than this. The idea of something that cannot be understood in a strictly logical sense, and can only be recorded in a particular meaty, illogical storage system, is solid, but not as a perfect circle.
I'm inclined to agree with Kalinin, ultimately. This needs either expansion or a shift in concept.
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you just have a way of describing things mcpedro +1
…my God. I didn't even realize that it was an anti SCP-055. This is a stroke of genius.
The primary reason for its brevity was that in the draft phase, where it was substantially longer, people got sick of hammering keys on their keyboard. I totally agree with you - I'd really not have minded making this a fair bit longer and giving it more depth, but people seemed to get bored of the trick far before they got bored of the article. Not to mention there were a couple of issues with browser crashes and the like with longer phrases. WikiDot really hates code.
It is possible to get a large portion of text by holding down one key continuously. You don't have to hammer a bunch of keys to get a scip that way.
In some browsers/OS combinations, people claimed that didn't work. Furthermore, even if this method works, some people had trouble reading the content at that speed.
Yup, seconding (thirding?) all that. The gimmick is very cool, but the article underneath it is just way to bare. I personally wouldn't mind hammering the keyboard for a while longer if it meant getting a more filled out story.
I have a rule about voting on format screws: imagine the article as a plain unobscured text, vote on that, then take the format screw into account to adjust the vote slightly. This one, without the gimmick, is a single non-particularly-interesting paragraph that would go into negatives fast. For me, having a really cool gimmick is not enough to outweight that.
This looks like a great idea, and I enthusiastically upvoted, however, I did find a few problems:
The first portion before the interactive element could be in-character. This doesn't mean a re-write, but you could address the audience as "personnel" maybe? Just a suggestion.
After going on the page a few times: if you're on a computer, and it doesn't work, you can reload the page. Maybe you could mention that?
You could make it more clear that you're supposed to type in the box. I actually thought this was some quick-format SCP system and was ready to downvote before I checked the comments. You don't have to state exactly what you need to do to get text, but at least imply it somehow.
Is there anything here other than a ball-bearing that deletes data about it? Am I missing something else?
Reminds me of Hacker Typer, but more understandable. +1
this is one of the cooler format screw skips I've seen in a while
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