There is no cursing in this SCP -1
(I co-authored this with famine)
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
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I personally don't find this funny, which by itself is probably the coldest take possible for a joke article. However, I also take issue with the language used in the article.
a bird with the anomalous capability of producing human speech
Specifying the anomalousness of this ability is unnecessary.
subject is capable of speaking, its anatomy would suggest
This seems to be missing a conjunction.
SCP-@#%&! secondary effect
This seems to be missing an apostrophe and an s.
Other than grammatical concerns, the article just doesn't go anywhere I find interesting.
First one is deliberately redundant
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
Hmm, I see that now, although I'm unsure about why the joke is there. I'm not saying -Js should only have one gimmick, but there doesn't seem to be much connecting Swearing Bird and Foundation Is Confused By Talking Animals.
Yeah, I don't really find this funny. Maybe I just don't get it or something, but the joke basically seems to be "bad words funny," with nothing beyond the authors finding swear words to suddenly be super duper funny for no real reason. Nothing beyond that.
I'm having trouble expressing why it doesn't work for me, but it's basically like finding Elizabethan English super hysterical all of a sudden. Like… I can sort of see how someone would find the usage of it mildly humorous, but making an entire article themed around how funny it is would just fall flat. Because it is not intrinsically funny.
Now, one could make an article in which swearing is used humorously, just the same as how Elizabethan English could be used humorously. But it's not inherently funny by itself.
Maybe there's something I'm not getting or understanding here. But this is gonna be a downvote from me.
Smells like success.
It’s a satire of articles that use excessive cursing as a crutch and censorship of obscenity. That’s why there’s no actual cursing. Any foul language is your own imagination. It’s a Sega CD game because it was a supposedly obscene Sega CD game that triggered the ESRB.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
I thought it was because of Mortal Kombat and Night Trap getting undue political attention.
edit: Ah, Night Trap being the Sega CD game :P Carry on!
Any foul language is your own imagination.
Oooo, now this idea I could love! …
As it is currently, I got to the end and hadn't really chuckled, but a few comments on this page made me grin, and I generally love the full range of humors when done well, so I was a bit frustrated at not digging it, and kept thinking. I looked at the article again, and came to the conclusion that I could love it if there weren't so many 4-character ████s and especially "f" plus 3-characters for f███, which gave it a one-note melody of f███s.
If tweaked somehow, perhaps it could make the audience re-read/think the article once they got to the end, and realize (more easily?) that it could've been written coherently without a single normal-English swear-word.
[edit: Also one possible spelling error. "It is not know where SCP-@#%&! learned the words" should perhaps be "known"? Or maybe intentional :)
This is a kinda cool concept theoretically and like, I really want to like it but I just don't find it funny at all.
The Addendums being labelled according to film ratings is a pretty fun touch; but the actual content of them feels…too wildly all over the place? The way the piece flits between different short comedic skits feels kinda messy and a little like each one doesn't get the time it needs to make the comedic impact it needs to.
I'm also not a fan of the way the images are done here: the text feels, awkwardly aligned towards the top of each table row instead of being in the centre, and the third one overlaps with the quoteblock in a way which feels…kinda jarring? They really contribute to the feeling of this being all over the place because the reading order is being pinged all over the place between text on the left of an image and text on the right of the image. I feel like it's a deliberate stylistic decision here to give this a feel of like, a magazine article in place of a SCP article? It really doesn't land for me though.
I'm not sure if the edits have like, made this much better or if it's just grown on me more but I've decided this is charming enough that I like it enough to give it a +1.
I'm sorry to say this but its a -1 from me. +1 from me
Reason why is that I didn't find this humourous most of the time. It was just… random. Like I didn't find myself laughing at the concept of this being a rather rude bird. Negatives are basically the description and the addendums, which I say is just random.
That's not to say this didn't have the positives. Mainly it was the conprocs (Mainly the cell being flooded with soap in case of overswearing) and the addendum names as those got a good chuckle from me. However, it wasn't enough to make me upvote this.
PS: I'm looking at your comments and I guess I did miss the fact that this is a satire of articles with swearing, but still not enough to make me rethink on updooting it. I do apologise if I was rude during this comment and hope I helped in any capacity.
I enjoyed this version much better now. Granted its still random but its coherent random and easier for me to read now. ConProcs and Addendum is still the same and its easier to follow along now.
+1 from me!
it wasnt explained why the bird swears so much. downvoted.
+1
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