While I like this article, and really like the idea of the Foundation pushing for the forced-obsolescence of a medium, this feels a little lacking to me at the moment. It's just a bit too short and underdeveloped for my taste. Tentative neutral vote, though I might swing either way upon reread tomorrow morning.
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While I like this article, and really like the idea of the Foundation pushing for the forced-obsolescence of a medium, this feels a little lacking to me at the moment. It's just a bit too short and underdeveloped for my taste. Tentative neutral vote, though I might swing either way upon reread tomorrow morning.
I'd imagine by some kind of statistical approximation? /shrug It's meant to be a lot, as a rare phenomenon that occurs barely under the veil of reality that could be summoned if you do something really really weird and obsessive, like stare continuously at static for six hours.
I don't understand this sentence: "As the appearance of SCP-2949 and SCP-2949-1 requires specific and unlikely conditions, its appearance is considered unlikely enough to be a major cause for concern, and does not constitute a widespread threat to normalcy."
I think you mean, "As the appearance of [SCP…etc] requires specific and unlikely conditions, it is not considered likely enough to be a major cause for concern, and […etc]", but as it stands, it almost reads the opposite.
Edit: I also need to know if static cats have normal meows, or if they go "kkkrrrrrrrrrrrshhhshhhhhh" all the time.
You're right, the wording is pretty bad in that one. Not sure how I can word it to basically reassure the reader that "don't worry, this isn't a breach because no one is going to stare at tv static for twelve hours straight"?
How about just exactly like that?
"Future appearances of SCP-2949 outside containment would require a civilian to have access to one of the few remaining affected televisions, and to purposefully observe static on said television for more than 12 hours. As this combination of events is extremely unlikely to occur, reappearance of SCP-2949 is not considered a major concern. Nevertheless, any instance of SCP-2949-1 reported in the wild… etc."
That's basically "Come on, no one's gonna stare at static for 12 hours" in formal-ese.
I really like this! I like the way it seems like just an odd natural phenomenon, doing its own thing. It works much better this way than if it were a single anomalous tv. Also explains why digital television became so popular!
At one point you refer to "an instant" of the scp— I think the singular of "instances" is just "instance."
Very nice idea, but why haven't the Foundation tried to capture and interrogate or experiment on these "Static Ghosts"? There's room for experiment logs.
Also, if it's uncontainable, and we're not sure it's harmless, shouldn't it be Keter?
As a kid, I used to stare at the static for what seemed like hours, trying to discern patterns amidst the random noise. Sometimes it was just the faintest ghost of a signal from some unidentifiable channel, more than once I was convinced I'd stumbled on a signal from an alien world.
I was a weird kid. That kid would have loved this article.
Short, sweet and mysterious. Really good stuff.
Only one critique comes to me. Having these surprisingly detailed statistics about 2949's occurrence right at the beginning of the description seemed like an odd order to present the information. You want to start off the description with an actual description of the anomaly, right? I know the story probably paces better this way, but it still felt a bit jarring.
I like that helping phase out analog TVs is part of the containment procedures. I'm also really intrigued that these things take a lot of effort to bring into reality, and then they just go somewhere else. Like, what's even going on here? It's fascinating.
While it's an interesting idea, I'm not a fan of the lack of a story behind it. I was hoping that the 'static cat' would do more than just find a place to go and disappear.
EDIT: No vote for now. Forgot to say that.
I wanna make a Nobody tale.
Probably gonna be bad.
Idk.
I agree with TL333s, the phasing out of analog TVs and their widespread replacement with digital TVs as part of the containment procedures is pretty groovy, and I can dig the concept behind strange acts (like staring at static for extremely long periods of time) altering reality briefly (such as summoning a static cat.)
+1. This was a fun little article.
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