SCP-6942 / Discussion

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totallynotenby 25 May 2021 04:52

I love what you did with the contest theme. I think you stretched it in a very interesting way and took it to places people would not think had to do with nature. The ending got me and as someone who knows nothing about genetics, the article still captivated me. Good job mate and good luck!!
_-temmy

Funky beetles, funky mammals, funky... humans?

Aftokrator 25 May 2021 05:04

Special thanks to supremeyeet, totallynotenby, basirskipreader, TopDownUnder, and AmserTheTree for reading and reviewing my drafts, and to Joreth, Azamo does not match any existing user name, and Placeholder McD for their advice and helping me whip my ideas into its final form!

Oh and before I forget this again, slot preference in order: 6996, 6060, 6006, 6090, 6942

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Dr Balthazaar 25 May 2021 15:42

I really enjoyed this scip. The concept was fun and very neat, and the idea of our genes just deciding to go nuts one day is genuinely scary. +1

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+1

LordMetalton 25 May 2021 19:55

This managed to pack multiple successive shocking turns without any of them losing impact. Well done.

Blank-Minded 27 May 2021 08:51

Overall, it would be a neutral, if not a slight +1 vote from me, but the War of the Worlds (2005, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise) style of ending put me near on to -1. As that ending is just making me feel that the times I used to read the first two offset can be directly brush off as a glitch in SCP-2000's system.

All in all, this is just my personal dislike of this type of ending used in a serious-toned article. Good luck in 6k con.

Ethagon 27 May 2021 20:41

Both offsets took me a bit by surprise as I think both had been a good ending point, but this one is also good in my opinion. If there is one thing I'd have to critizise it would be that I think the standard "it's getting worse throughout the story" doesn't really come together with the "this is to fast and comes out of nowhere". I think it would have worked better if they just, as they slowly found out about how paragenetics (really cool idea btw), realized that there is already a large part of humanity infected. But that's really on nitpick territory. +1

J Dune 27 May 2021 21:41

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While I admire the scope of the story you told here, I’m afraid your presentation style did not click with me. I found it difficult to get invested into the narrative because I felt the scientific language was immpenetrable. The constant testing addendums felt redunant, and difficult to read because I had little interest in what was happening due to how unfocused the anomaly felt. There weren’t any strong, apparent themes I could glean from the core anomaly, and I think honing in on a tweaked concept that would better represent themes of unstoppable evolution rather than throwing everything under the sun into the article would have benefitted the piece greatly. There’s far too many moving pieces in the anomaly, such as the variety of abilities 6000 displays, 6000-2, and the paragenetic variations, that I can’t help but feel cutting them down and focusing on how the these things are affecting the world in a way that isn’t just giving brief summaries of events would’ve left a better impression. In a story about “normalcy” being replaced, its hard for me to get invested without a human element or characters I can relate to. Here, addendums do convey change, but are presented in such rapid succession, it was difficult for me to process what was happening. The aforementioned scientific verbage and odd details like the Soviet Union still being a political power, or refusing to mention what species was affected by 6000 in the second offset (Unless it was specified, I couldn’t tell if you were talking about humans, animals, insects, or something else in the incident logs.) did not alievate my confusion. I apologize, but I feel like this article prioritized complexity over a gripping story, and while I do think there is an exiciting narrative to be told here, what’s written leaves a bit to be desired.

DrHawkwind 28 May 2021 00:34

I love a good offset. +1

Brand new world

Maxyfran73 21 Jun 2021 22:53

I really like this article. It has a really fun concept of 'end of the world', reminiscent of both the cambrian explosion and, at the end, its subsequent mass extinction event. This idea that there's a genetic field that affects things in a dimension higher than our understanding and it slowly but surely begins modifying all living beings is extremely entertaining as an idea. Also a tad disquieting but, well, that's the point, en't it?

Furthermore, I really liked the execution of it. It felt a tad too dense at times, but it didn't feel tiring. Overall, really liked this one. Upvoted~

repositori 02 Jul 2021 21:12

It's definitely a solid article deserving of a +1.

I would like to note, however, that the SCP is still referred to as "SCP-6000" throughout the page; you might want to change that

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