I bet it would be pretty shitty if a reality bender had a really bad nightmare. Did you know weed makes you dream a little less? I think Jude knows, too.
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I'm not far off upvoting this - it has exactly the sense of consequence that has been missing from most of the GAW interactions with anomalies so far. What's stopping me is a combination of a few odd details (the excessively long laughter, the kill-trigger being sent over the phone way too soon for how I imagine the Foundation), and more pertinently, a feeling of a lack of substance to the article. Cutting off at the end of the call feels like too pat an ending - either some more to the story, or perhaps a bit more focus on the anomaly itself, would give this more punch.
Well, again, having a breakdown/meltdown/etc. can cause one to laugh for a lengthy amount of time, as I have experienced. That's what Jude is going through (see scarhaver's post about it).
This is nice and simple, I like. "The sculptor sculpts and I burn" really hit me for some reason. I don't know how well this piece is going to work without context on Jude, so I'd consider including crosslinks to Different Kinds of Nihilism and other stuff he's popped up in so that new readers can get it better.
Simple, but effective. I know I've seen the 'guy talking on the phone dropping flagged words until he's talking to the Foundation' bit done before on the site but not often enough for it to feel overused here. It doesn't feel quite resolved ending abruptly after the interview but the content that's here was enough to leave me feeling entertained.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
SCP-3420-1 are humanoid entities that have the appearance of continually-discharging static electricity in a roughly human shape that is permanently being consumed by flames.
I have no idea what image I'm supposed to take from this sentence.
[Laughter for thirty seconds.]
That's a really long time, and I'd expect the operator to begin questioning Jude's sanity during a laugh lasting 30 seconds. They'd keep asking for a location, instead of dawdling.
Having NOT read the component tale(s?) for this, this article feels pretty empty.
911 operators would, I think, have to be very aware that sometimes people have very strange and complex emotional reactions to very dire situations, and that interrupting somebody, while sometimes important for keeping people on-track, also tends to make people hostile to you, which is, obviously, a major detriment when you need their cooperation in what is potentially a volatile situation. Whether laughing for a long period of time is seen as normal or not, you kind of have to go with it if you actually want information from the other party, rather than to convey information to them.
Yeah, this is a pretty good justification for that. I mean, Jude is having a breakdown, clearly conveyed in the tone of the text alone; I think that's sensible.
That makes sense, but I'm still baffled by the first quote I brought up. Are they just people somehow being shocked constantly while on fire?
E: Directing this question at kinch for tagging purposes.
Why would the Foundation play a lethal cognitive hazard over the line? I get that the hazard that was meant to subdue Jude didn't work, but why would the Foundation be like "Fuck it, let's kill Jude"
(account deleted)The foundation wasn't specifically thinking about Jude. Jude used several keywords associated with certain anomalies so The Foundation would track them and then find the place. The AI that took over the call first administered the paralyzing cognitohazard because Jude was deemed an infomational security breach. Since it didn't work, as demonstrated by Jude still talking, to stop any potential information from spreading, the AI administer a kill agent.
Why an AI? I would expect an organization as big as the Foundation to have actual humans on standby somewhere in the world.
Computers, on average, make significantly less mistakes than humans, don't suffer from fatigue, and are generally faster to react. Assumimg AIs are a blending of the strengths of humans and computers (i.e. can have fluid thinking while maintaining superior accuracy, superior reactions, and a lack of fatigue), you would want them on remote surveillance that humans would find tedious. Like, for instance, monitoring calls.
Real life example: humans can monitor up to four or five seperate camera feeds before our accuracy plummets like a stone. Computers don't have that weakness.
I made it up. It's new. I'm gonna write about it more later.
It's not often that reality bending actually gives weight to events, but you manage it here. Well done.
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This article is probably really good, but there is something about it which just isn't clicking for me and I have no idea what. Maybe it has something to do with how short the article is, I dunno.
Novote leaning on downvote. It really is a problem with me more than the article.
I'm really confused as to what my takeaway from this is supposed to be. What's all the events he's referring to in the log?
I made them up for the tale. It's the result of his breakup w/ AWCY I describe in Different Kinds of Nihilism. I'm going to write a tale that hopefully makes this easier to undertand. I don't know what else to tell you.
Sounds like you wrote these in the wrong order, then. :/
No this is the order I chose and the order I would put it in if it was a book.
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