SCP-4517 / Discussion

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MaliceAforethought 12 Apr 2019 18:18

Special thanks to DarkStuff and Mortos, who were part of the original brainstorming for this! DarkStuff's contribution to the Department is linked in the footnote, and if Mortos ever writes his, you can be sure I'll be adding it as well! Thanks also to the people who looked this over in chat — there were unfortunately far too many of you to properly credit.

Anyway, enjoy! Spoilers will not be provided!

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Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clawfoot_bathtub.jpg

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Captain Kirby 12 Apr 2019 18:25

This is actually really good. I feel that I have a bit of a better grasp on what n-ness actually is than was intended, but it was still really good.

DarkStuff 12 Apr 2019 19:06

Yayy! The second in the planned Department of Miscommunications trilogy! I like the puzzle this presents, [spoilers ahead…] and I’m still trying to figure out whose perspective N is from! Good job my man. +1

PeppersGhost 12 Apr 2019 21:16

Seems like there have been an increasing number of antimeme-type infohazards in Series V so far. The relative comparison hook sets this apart enough to make it worth for me, though.

MaliceAforethought 17 Apr 2019 09:52

Glad you thought so! I was a bit worried writing this one, to be honest — it's quite similar to a whole bunch of stuff (like DarkStuff's DoMC article, the semantic dissociator, and UNDEFINED). I'm very pleased that you thought it stood out enough from the crowd :)

rattles 12 Apr 2019 22:37

This is really good.

Lt Flops 13 Apr 2019 00:30

spoiler

Is this implying that Damien Pisk, the previous apartment resident, is dead in the bathtub and producing the anomaly due to his inherent uselessness, especially in comparison to his brother's success, and that he died from suicide?

Or am I reading way too into a single test log entry? In either case, that's an upvote :P

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DarkStuff 13 Apr 2019 01:33

That’s pretty much the conclusion I came to.

Mortos 15 Apr 2019 12:59

Been busy with other stuff for the last week or so, so I hadn't realised you'd written this. Good stuff!

Vooster 16 Apr 2019 17:29

This SCP is possibly the only time that Philosophy of Language class I took in college has ever come in handy, and I'm still not sure I "get it". I'll get to the one linked in the article later.

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Khaim 17 Apr 2019 05:54

-1

Objective isn't really a thing; humans just like to pretend. And you can't have it be indescribable and then say "but it's also not indescribable", because clearly it is.

MaliceAforethought 17 Apr 2019 09:50

One can certainly argue that "objective" is a concept that only exists from the human perspective, but then you're forced to apply that same concept to everything. SCP-2935 doesn't work because death isn't a discrete, meaningful state. SCP-173 doesn't work because 'line of sight' doesn't have concrete definition at the reductionist level. The SCP universe operates, and will continue to operate, at a level where human-created concepts have real physical meaning, and this article is no exception.

Adobe Bryant 31 May 2023 16:48

Damn if only we had a website on which humans pretend to analyze, categorize things that don’t exist. Alas

Modern_Erasmus 25 Apr 2019 00:09

Love this. This is an ideal example of test log based storytelling, and the amount of information conveyed in the short final two tests is extremely impressive.

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