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This was both mind-boggling, and chilling. A great hook with a hell of a wham line near the end.
+1
I like it. One question, what would happen if the Earth-bound humans moved to a different universe? Or am XK scenario actually wiped out humanity?
This is a possibility. It would depend on how many people/resources they intended to move through and what universe they were planning to settle in.
That being said, moving between dimensions is extremely difficult in the article's canon. For example: the Foundation, which can summon multipotent entities to do their bidding, can barely enter a ⊆-class pocket reality.
Sorry ):
This doesn't feel complete in any sense of the term. Very rarely do I suggest that an article be lengthened, but this one could use it. These are huge existential questions that are dealt with in just a few paragraphs each. With that, the dialog with the Ambassador comes off as prose over patter.
I get where you're heading with all this, but I don't think we get there.
Thank you for the critique. I agree that dialogue isn't my strength. I have tried making it sound as natural as possible, but I understand that it has issues.
I was under the impression that although short, the article has developed all of its main points. If you have any suggestions on which sections could be expanded/added, please let me know.
This does a lot of things right; I think the idea is already solid and the presentation of it enforces this. The definite meat of the article are the dialogue though, especially the one between the astronaut and the ambassador. It was really interesting to read through their lines, seeing why exactly this was happening.
Then the O5 vote really sells you on the point of all this. I really liked that you added their thoughts on the voting: For such a moral quandary, I think it really helps that you should why they voted either yes or no.
Overall, it was a really good read. Easy +1
The ideas presented here are confusing. I don't really understand the concept of why these advanced humans have these humans in a loop or how the humans in the loop cause entropy/chaos. They're interesting but not really explored or presented well here.
It also isn't the focus of the article. We get all this grand stuff but it's mostly composed in one log that, again, doesn't really explore it well. Instead, we get logs with a great amount of info on ships and how they fail—which probably could've been cut down.
I would have liked to see a more focused and explorative article on these concepts you touch on because right now their just a backdrop.
I think I've just had a run of "Random SCP" (I click that link when I'm bored, and try to read whatever it gives me) bad luck lately. I find what seem to be nice, simple SCPs, then discover links to enormously bigly huge logs\transcripts\texts that don't mesh well with my current ability (er, lack thereof) to process large amounts of dialogue and technospatialparapsychobabble (I don't mean "babble" in a negative sense; it just fit better than "jargon").
I guess I have to no-vote this, and thank you for reading my scp-blogpost. 😬
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