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"Though the mills of God grind slowly; Yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience He stands waiting, With exactness grinds He all."
Thanks to scans, scarhaver, decibelles, tygently, and aideneldritch for giving this a look-see. Here's an SCP about a friendly magic drug dealer who gets betrayed.
Just don't do drugs. J-just… don't do them. This has been a PSA. +1
<camera pans down to see D-3459, who had been killed by SCP-2542>
This is your brain on Keter. Stay Thaumiel, kids.
This weird plant bug elf alien demon fairy dude just wants to have friends, but he's so different from humans that all he can really do is try to buy it with his weird alien weed. I feel bad for him. While it's grossly disproportionate what he does to people who steal from him, but like, you'd have to be such a huge dick to do that in the first place, so it operates like one of those old fables where things are good if you're honest but if you're greedy you get punished real bad.
Solid +1, and long live Tayn't, the Weed Baron.
if your reading this your gay
On one hand, I really like the image. I seriously love that fucking image. Holy shit the final log was amazing. I'd hug that weed baron forever and he's the cutest, cuddliest little bugaroo.
My downvote is for the interview. It strikes me as really unnatural that someone would go on for two paragraphs like that, and much of the interviewee's discription was difficult for me to follow once it went on too long. I found myself constantly wanting to skip the interview, stop reading, and go downvote the thing immediately. One particularly long section is okay, but when its every response it can get very difficult to just hear a monologue. A lot of what is said there can be wittled down to its most significant parts. Compare a section here:
I: Yet you say he was behind these murders?
DS I told my friend about him. My friend Johnny. I needed someone to hold onto this weed. I needed someone to help me deal. I told him how to meet Tayn't, and he did. He was a great partner. Knew him since grade school, you know. But he always got greedy. Always mouthy. Couldn't hold a secret either. Stupid idea.
I: Why would Tayn't harm your friend?
DS: Johnny'd been stealing from him for a while. Told some friends like him about the magic elf we got weed from. They'd all been stealing from him for a week before Tayn't found out.
I: Yet you say he was behind these murders?
DS: Started with my friend, Johnny. Needed someone to help me deal. Knew him since grade school, you know. But he always got greedy. Couldn't hold a secret either.
I: Why would Tayn't harm your friend?
DS: Johnny'd been stealing from him for a while. Told some friends. They'd all been stealing for a week before they got found out.
Living the dream, or dreaming the life?
I actually think the "before" feels more like realistic dialogue than the "after". When people talk, they tend to go off on side tangents, repeat themselves, and use a lot of filler.
Generally, a conversation doesn't have someone going on for several full sentences several times without most people perceiving it as pushy and rude. Also, it sucks to read for me(admittedly I generally hate long dialogue).
Living the dream, or dreaming the life?
A conversation is different from an interview or an interrogation.
Fair enough, then I'll just chalk it up that I find long, multi-paragraph dialogue unpleasant to read, and I believe that the same amount of information can be related in less bulk.
Living the dream, or dreaming the life?
I think we just have to agree to disagree on this one.
It strikes me as really unnatural that someone would go on for two paragraphs like that
I do like conservation of detail, and I sometimes am forced to point out unnaturally long-winded segments of dialogue. Usually in these cases, it's due to the author committing expo-sin-tion, and bloating the dialogue with story. Here, the dialogue does indeed go on for while, but it's overall pretty competent in masking the story, and it does feel like an actual recounting of events from an actual person as opposed to a story-touting mouthpiece… sure, there's a couple parts that do go on, but it makes sense for the interviewer to allow them to say their piece without too much interjection - he's telling them just about everything they need to know. In such a setting, I imagine you'd want to give the guy breathing room to fill in the blanks.
There's a couple places that could stand to have some superfluous details shaved off, definitely, but it doesn't strike me as unnatural.
Excellent excellent imagery - I'm a sucker for things attempting to be human through distorted perceptions. Which is why it was somewhat off-putting when I got to the exploration logs and Tayn't (is that a taint joke?) just… talked like a drug dealer? IDK, that's very much my bias, I think. Still upvoting, obviously.
Keep making good shit, kinch.
This reminded me of Manly Wade Wellman. The image of a being from Somewhat Else trying to deal with smooth apes from here, sometime getting it right, other times less so - very appealing. Especially that we never find just what It thinks is going on, or why.
Reminds me, my pipe needs refilling.
He said he hated video games.
Stoners against vidya new GOI confirmed
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Stuff I like:
Most chemical testing of biological materials is destructive. How did they analyze genetics or THC content when the stuff is indestructible excluding when it's in a blunt wrap?
Once it's been burned by the user, presumably the smoke and ashes could be collected and analyzed. It wouldn't be the ideal method, but remember that the whole point of smoking is to vaporize the chemicals inside of the plant matter while leaving them semi-intact, and they're not lacking in samples.
