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this drug had mnestic properties,
Perhaps you meant to say amnestic? I don't know, maybe you meant it. Correct me If I'm wrong.
an ██████████ rate of stillbirths.
This came off as kind of awkward, it can only be increasing or decreasing, really…perhaps not.
Also lot's of censorship in the end, I don't know, maybe a bit unnecessary.
Other than that, quite good. In my opinion.
Perhaps you meant to say amnestic? I don't know, maybe you meant it. Correct me If I'm wrong.
I'm fairly sure he meant mnestic. The islanders have a drug which helps them remember things that are hard to remember, like these creatures.
This came off as kind of awkward, it can only be increasing or decreasing, really…perhaps not.
It's not deliberate censorship, but the antimemetic effect. Down-thread the author explains he wrote a program to randomly censor.
Also lot's of censorship in the end, I don't know, maybe a bit unnecessary.
That's kind of the whole point, it is the antimemetic effect of these creatures doing it.
It made me believe in giant invisible stilt-walkers. +1
I wonder why the observation by Polynesians didn't drive them into extinction before the Foundation ever got into it though.
As far as I can tell, the Polynesians knew about them, and talked about them, but didn't closely analyze their behavior, record things about them, or attempt to attain photographs or sketches.
…the antimemetic properties are unnecessarily censoring the SCP documentation? Subtle, and a wonderful subversion of the medium.
Bravo. +1
It's also fun to guess the blacked out words. I think I've figured out the final sentence.
It is [estimated] that [full] contamination [will] [occur] [within] three to eight years.
You are correct! The "cleaned" version of this SCP can be found here.
I wrote a computer program which accepted the full SCP entry as input and then randomly redacted words, with the density of redaction gradually increasing towards the bottom of the entry. I had to run it a few times before it randomly came up with a combination of redactions which I liked, and then I had to manually tweak the results just a little bit.
http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-966567#post-2232893
Here's a cool coding thing, if you feel like making Easter Eggs out of that.
qntm, are you planning on editing the entry on a regular basis with a 'redaction level' that increases over time so that, between three and eight years from now, the entire entry is redacted?
That could be cool (even though there is always the edit history).
that's a really, really fun and immersive method. I love it.
qntm, you do good work. Very fucking good work.
+1
This is really good.
Also, this is the first time in forever that the containment procedures worked as a hook to make me want to read the rest of the SCP. As this is the platonic ideal of how containment procedures should work, this makes me very happy.
Man. This WILL be a pain for the translators, especially for the Chinese translators, since all kinds of different words can occupy the same amount of blackboxes, causing problems with the readers' understanding.
The first bio-themed SCP I've enjoyed in quite awhile. Nice work, qntm.
All the blackboxes make this a bit difficult to read, but it's still good overall. +1
The idea is neat, but the tone is iffy at times.
They called SCP-2256 polo'ongakau, "the ones who walk very slowly".
Thanks to their enormous height,
Tone kinda shifts to a documentary rather than an analysis with both of these quotes.
They believed SCP-2256 to be wandering spirits whom the gods had charged with maintaining the horizon, to ensure that the sky and the water never mixed. They believed SCP-2256 were well-meaning and friendly
This part is more of the "they believed " redundancy.
SCP-2256 observation program
This sounded funny to me, mainly because there's hundreds of SCPs that require "observation programs". I don't think this requires fixing, may just be me.
As a final note, is this SCP completely gone? If so, I think the foundation would throw on the Neutralized tag.
I love the article, but fully agree about the tone here. I do think that Euclid is warranted, given that the aftereffects related to 2256, which are an anomaly in its own right, are affecting documentation about it.
As a side-note; I believe "mnestic" is correct here, given qntm's continuous use of it in his other works.
Definitely not Neutralized. Part of the anomaly is still very active indeed.
I've changed the passages you mentioned.
Because of their enormous height,
In Maikitian mythology SCP-2256 were wandering spirits whom the gods had charged with maintaining the horizon, to ensure that the sky and the water never mixed. They were characterised as well-meaning and friendly
In 2003 observation of SCP-2256 was scaled back
Hope this is an improvement.
We discussed the tag in chat. I wanted to call them Safe because I didn't realise there was a "Neutralized" tag. But it was felt that the lingering antimemetic effects rated a Euclid.
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