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stuff borrowed from 682 obviously, as stated in licensebox
my totally-definitely-a-meme can be found here https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/scp-682
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ADMONITION
This is the first episode of the collaborative high-concept anthology ADMONITION. This episode features Placeholder McD.
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CHAOS THEORY
And I live by that.
special thanks to placeholder mcgee for giving me moral support while i wrote this entire article by myself
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Big Ball Calm
SRA Disassembly
Big Ball Angy
There are some minor forgotten bits of wikidot code, but it's forgivable, given the timing. And holy fuck, this takes the tried and tired tropes of 682 and really puts an angry spin on it. Plus, the looping animations are fantastic.
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I love it so much. Hilarious frightening and well-paced. To say nothing of the art, which is SUPERB and my favorite part here.
If someone asked me "hey, can you get me the Placeholder McD skip", I'd show them this. I don't think anything else that you've written embodies your particular style as much as this. "High-concept" is too generous for this SCP, because the concepts seem to recursively go in on themselves until you need a 30-page essay just to understand all the words it throws at you. There's an emphasis on reality being fucked with, alongside a selection of people with remarkably clever dialogue that seem less concerned with the imminent reality-unfolded than they are with being witty. There's enough crosslinks to other SCPs that you'd need to read half of the damn wiki just to understand why SCP-6820-A responds in the way it does in the testing logs.
There's also a Placeholder McD level of polish on this article. That is to say, there is a lot of polish on this article. Every part is calculated and feels impactful. The pacing is superb; despite the density, I was never really bored with it. The testing logs are the part that drags the most, but it still doesn't really drag at all. In addition, the ending felt a little too referential for my tastes. Still, it's justified.
The animations are beautiful, too. I'm not an art guy, so I can't give in-depth comments, but they're fantastic.
+1
This is still great and polished work, but re:
"High-concept" is too generous for this SCP, because the concepts seem to recursively go in on themselves until you need a 30-page essay just to understand all the words it throws at you. There's an emphasis on reality being fucked with, alongside a selection of people with remarkably clever dialogue that seem less concerned with the imminent reality-unfolded than they are with being witty.
This is sort of this article's biggest weakness, in my opinion. There's no real sense of grounding. I read sentences like a hate-centric hyper-logical memeplex that can be roughly described as "the difference between life and death" and I don't really know why I should care about that. It's an accomplishment of spectacle, certainly, which is why I won't downvote — but this approach to writing does grate on me a bit.
The art is beautiful, and so is the theme. And, to be honest, I have to give this article props for achieving the kind of insane interwoven maximalism and crosslinking of existing series 3/4 concepts that I didn't realize I was aspiring to three long years ago in a different age of the wiki when I was writing SCP-3675, which I think is similar in spirit. Maybe I'll give this a bit more time.
This is most of my thoughts as well so I'm gonna "ditto" Modulum and add some of my other thoughts because I actually did -1 and I feel bad about it.
The spectacle of this is phenomenal and the art is amazing! However, I've been seeing the art in SCPD since like November so, when I got to finally see this article in action, much of the spectacle that would have drawn me along was lost. And while I don't want to come across as one of those people who sounds like "SCPs are all bad now that they rely on themes and art!" - mostly because I feel the opposite way - the art and theme was 2/3s of the spectacle and by the time the article was posted they were old news and I didn't get to enjoy them properly. And that sucks as a reader to get to some really exciting stuff and not care anymore. And this made it very hard to read without those aspects to pull me along + the very involved stylizing because my ADHD brain kept losing track of where I was reading and what was going on (which made it extra frustrating combined with it being such a high-concept article)
So for these reasons (mostly) I give a reluctant -1 but still want to say great work on writing a thing like this and especially to Steph and Azamo for the artwork
I don't think I understand your reasoning behind giving it a -1. I'm still working on my first entry, so reading discussions and reasons behind +/-'s is fairly important to me. The way it sounds is that you decided on your rating because you'd kept up with the progress on this article as it was worked on? Unless I misread and you simply don't like the content and the thing that would pull the article through for you was made somewhat stale by the release of it. I don't mean to sound… well mean or anything. And I'm sorry if I do. Just trying to get a feel for what you're critiquing here.
I personally don't agree with the fact that it's not grounded. I do believe that this type of article only attracts a certain type of reader, but for those people that it does appeal to, it's an incredible, almost perfect take on ye olde scp tropes that's really grounded in its own right.
Edit: I also don't personally agree with a -1, a no vote at worst for an article with this much depth and thought. I understand it's your opinion(s), however, I heavily disagree.
I didn’t realize the connections to 682 until I saw the last file and then put that and the designation together and went oh shit. +1 for such a brilliant article
Also that meme complex (6820-A) makes me think, at least in my head canon, that it could be 682’s original form, given the similarities (I could be wrong)
gull already said everything that I thought about this way better then I could. +1.
1. This may sound weird, but I was surprised when I realized that this didn't have anything to do with Site-43, despite it linking to one of its articles. But something maybe started to make sense when I noticed which canon this was a tagged with. Because Deepwell Catalog is probably one of the the most Grimdark canons on the site, right behind EoD. So it makes a lot of sense for a Foundation project that deals with erasing a concept that has so much to do with "digusting" would take place in a universe that's pretty much built off of badness.
2. At the end, 682 does not actually take over reality. Rather, it becomes so incompatible with our Noosphere but at the same time so incredibly everything that it becomes it's own Noosphere, probably with some extra help from the Starfish. (Also as a side note, I really like the idea that the Starfish wants to take over reality so bad because it also knows about The Entity from 5000)
somebody give 'em a medal!
oh wait, I get to do that
here you go: 🥇
(account deleted)I felt like the dialogue was a little stilted and melodramatic, and Gears doesn't feel that much in-character, but this is so fucking cool I'm willing to look past it. It uses the concepts of the Deepwell canon so well and builds off of 682's mythos excellently.
I'll be crossing you in style, someday!
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