Nice fleshing out of the University universe, but I object to the item being able to produce its anomalous effects unpowered. That just seems like a cheap trick to make it more dangerous. It just doesn't make any sense, and seems entirely unnecessary. Also, this item should definitely be safe, since it doesn't do anything on its own, and even when it does do something, it's trivial to reverse.
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Not unpowered, just not being fed power intentionally. It's drawing power from the room around it.
Yeah, I might change that. It gets weirder the more I say it aloud.
Why on earth would they build that feature in in addition to power cable? The ability to leech power from any system is one you actively wish to avoid.
I don't know about not using it at all, but I agree a "power leech" feature is useless if only 1 or 2 functions use it, rather than the whole device.
That too. Especially since those are the anomalous features, which would presumably require a more stable power source and be less desirable to have activate unintentionally. Even the University-verse should care somewhat about safety in its design.
And now University has a name.
Speakers themselves are not very interesting, and I doubt I would've upvoted them as separate, not University related, SCP. Everything related to other timeline, including location names and the last note, are perfect. I suppose speakers, the way they are now, make sense from the viewpoint of people from the University who was planing to use them. But they still not interesting. Maybe there is another way something like this can be used? Forcing students to study by making them unable to think of anything else except what is currently broadcasted, I don't know. It's your call in the end, and I'll leave my upvote anyway just for the University characterization bits. I just wish they were a bit more… more by themselves.
I don't know why, but I like "Euclid classification is based on the potential ability to deplete Foundation power reserves if left unchecked." part very much.
Made an edit. It's not the third switch if it's the only switch.
I like the note but not much else, honestly…
Living the dream, or dreaming the life?
Meh. A lot of this article (like the part about suicide or the classification) felt tacked on and out of place. A little more detail (descriptions of the "performance?") would be nice. It seems to me like an okay idea meshed with random scaaaary effects.
The suicide bit is stated to be consistent with people who lose ability to communicate through mundane means (i think, stroke or so) I am not a medic and have no idea if it is true, but it seems believable enough to not feel tacked on, at least to me.
It's weird, I kind of liked the University better when it didn't have a name, still my favorite Group of Interest though, and seems like one that could, if given a separate wiki like Serpent's Hand or GOC, become as fleshed out as the Foundation it's self. still i enjoyed this quite a bit as is, with the changes suggested, it'll be incredible.
(account deleted)For those who don't get why the effect is important: maybe it's just me, but when I tried to imagine permanently losing the ability to speak, in spite of wanting to (I have a speech disorder, so it's not completely foreign to me), I couldn't help but imagine losing my mind. It makes an odd sort of sense (to me) that a culture capable of having this sort of technology would use it like this, knowing and accepting it to be harmless when used properly. But when exposed to a very different culture without that sort of technology, it could be dangerous.
Absolutely agree with you here. I suffer from something similar to this sort of aphasia on occasions (I think it's the way my personality disorder interacts with certain drugs) and it can be truly frightening/depressing when it occurs. When it restricts you to being a viewer and never a participant, I think it sort of magnifies this profound sense of incommunicable loneliness and isolation I feel is inherent to human consciousness.
Nonetheless, I gotta say the pic almost made me drop it right away. The pair of humanoid speakers is kind of a strange visual but in, like, a very cheap way, so for me the first impression they gave was pretty bad and kinda stayed with me while I was reading it… it's just distracting…
On the flipside I really like your tech/culture explanation and think it's a concept well worth expanding on (preferably by referencing past observations of the adverse effects caused by testing or by their accidental misuse)
No vote from me. It isn't bad in any way that could earn a downvote, but it just doesn't click well enough to earn an upvote. I like the fleshing-out of the University (though I don't like that you gave it a name), but the object itself is just nondescript.
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