I like how this one develops from initial experimentation to current fate. It's one of those things that should be useful, dammit!
Also, Subject 30 made me giggle.
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Random information has been done before. Not that interesting. Downvoted.
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I don't think this is all that similar to 028. There are some similarities, yes, but I feel they're very superficial.
In 028, the random knowledge is the whole and the entirety of the thing. The concept begins and ends there. This isn't criticism; it does it well. However, it works very differently. The knowledge is truly random, having no limit, and having essentially no cost. The only reason it isn't used more often is the danger that it will produce something dangerous. The main element is the fact that you can learn anything from it, and the fact that there is no explanation behind it. That is the main thrust of the entry.
Here, the knowledge is from a fixed source. It's random, but it still draws from a set number of entries (if from a rather large number). It also has a cost that's detrimental to the user.
028 is essentially a curiosity. Not in any pejorative sense, but insofar as it's a "weird" item before anything else. 769 is, if I have done it right, a horror. It destroys part of the victim's memory, and the Foundation chose to throw thousands of people through it before deciding it wasn't giving good returns. The randomness of the knowledge is a side-point, rather than the focus of the SCP. The fact that the information is random and useless is just there to keep it from being useful to the Foundation (which doesn't need more win-buttons).
Except they're the exact same. This one is just worse.
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You're not putting enough weight on the treatment. I wouldn't care if they were exactly identical in function, the treatment appears to me to be the point of the entry, revealing interesting aspects of the Foundation and making a case for the entry — irrespective of how many other Magic Knowledge Beans might exist elsewhere in the archives.
I agree that the experiment log makes this one. The actual SCP isn't really the point of the article.
Not all that similar to 28, except on the most superficial level. Treatment is very different, source of info is specific and different, and the fact that the info when taken as a whole may have an overall significance make it sufficiently unique.
Don't listen to the vocal minority who just like to insult things they can't be bothered to understand.
Thats right, you should instead listen to the people who run the site, and insult things they found to be of low quality. You totally shouldn't listen to the idiots who can't be bothered to actually stick around the site and make it a better place.
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Look, I'm the last person in the world to change my mind *merely* because everybody else in the world is wrong, so I can respect a flat assessment of incorrectness, and okay, I'll give you that mistaking "the admins" for "a vocal minority" means he's got it coming.
But I'm not gonna let somebody who runs a character wave away all meta as irrelevant and say that uniqueness overrides all possible considerations. This is a genuinely clever and unique piece.
I have no idea what you're trying to say.
And, back on track, I find this piece horribly un interesting, especially compared to the original.
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Don't worry. Bright tends to hate most SCPs, and you have a positive score so blah.
To be fair, I only hate the bad ones.
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As the creator of SCP-028, i may as well toss in my two cents…
SCP-028 makes you suddenly know something. This could be good, or bad, but you now have total and complete awareness of the topic. While not having a immediate drawback in theory, the sudden inclusion of things can have a detrimental effect. What if, suddenly, you knew about a affair your significant other was having…every incident, every word, every action, in perfect, crystal-clear detail. Or you were suddenly made away of every single work of fiction in the Library of Congress, at the same time.
I had considered adding a "memory eating" aspect, but i honestly felt it was a little too easy. It's simple for something to just push out the old to make way for the new. Cramming the new in to the old, and letting the pressure build, is more interesting, at least to me. That's not to say 768 is in any way lesser or greater then 028, just different.
I've seen what sudden knowledge can do to a person. Many of us are equipped only to absorb things at a slow, measured pace. A sudden leap can send someone spinning in to shock, or far worse. 768 takes a more direct approach, while 028 is more subtle.
I'm…not a big fan of SCP-768, but I feel i may be a tad biased, so I'll abstain from voting for the moment. Just tossing some thoughts out there.
Actually, I like SCP-769 more than SCP-028. With 028, you're tempting fate if you choose to subject yourself to it: risk of insanity or death in exchange for some hopefully-valuable knowledge. With SCP-769, you pay an enormous price for something which is to you not particularly valuable. In other words, while 028 is a simple "be careful what you wish for" piece, 769 is an ongoing sacrifice of people's memories, their very self-identities, in the service of the Foundation. There's something altogether unsettling about losing a portion of your being, I think.
Still, though, this is the first mention of the Administrator that we've heard in a long time. I had assumed the office was subsumed by the Overwatch Council.
I thought of a funny one.
Subject gained knowledge of how to roll cigars of exceeding quality, but lost the memory of how to smoke.
Guys, I'm glad most of you like 769, but let's not play "Bait the Admins." It's okay to disagree with them, but let's keep it polite.
Um… what's the difference between this and SCP-713?
Well, you see person-I've-never-seen-here-before, one is a wig, the other is a cup.
And there you go, another SCP this one has ripped off.
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Ya got me here Bright, although I do like this one a bit more.
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