SCP-3733 / Discussion

This is the discussion related to the wiki page SCP-3733.

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notgull 31 Oct 2017 20:44

I probably could've and should've gotten more crit on this, but then I wouldn't be able to release it on Halloween for maximum spookiness.

Thanks to everybody who took a look at this, including:

• taylor_itkin does not match any existing user name
• OthellotheCat
• Jack Ike
• The Great Hippo
• RecursiveRecursion
• fieldstone
• Madman with Keyboard does not match any existing user name
• EdeFairy
• ihp does not match any existing user name
• Cyclopian
• Freemayne
• Boogey_Man23
• Meta Wonderrat
• A couple of IRL friends

This was my attempt at writing a shorter skip (its around 700 words).

Edit: I'd like to bring attention to a chinese translation by M Element

Edit: I'd like to bring attention to more translations:

• A Korean translation by Cubic72
• A Japanese translation by Chabuti
• A Russian translation by CTapbIu_XyJIuraH
• A Spanish translation by morhadow

Last edited on 13 Sep 2018 14:22 by notgull Show more

Tufto 31 Oct 2017 20:58

This is a very good skip. It took me a second to work out what was happening, but when I did… damn.

+1, your best yet.

fieldstone 31 Oct 2017 21:08

Love it - this is a great concept with a great execution to match. Fits a lot of punch into a very small package.

Abettik 31 Oct 2017 23:56

+1

This piece effectively captures the horror and frustration of trying to deal with a cold, merciless system… like trying to get insurance to cover something after it's already been denied.

"I need this for a car so I can work and provide for my family."
"Sorry, there's nothing we can do. Would you like to take a satisfaction survey after this call?"

TL333s 01 Nov 2017 11:59

Wow. I'm impressed by the brevity and lack of information in the description, how it all comes out in the interview. +1

LordStonefish 01 Nov 2017 14:17

Masterful twist. Still mysterious in many ways but definetely aching.

+1

Prosopagnostic 01 Nov 2017 16:52

Excellent subtle horror. However, you're article strikes at a pet peeve of mine which prevents me from bestowing a +1.

To explain: "SCP-3733 activates several typically inactive areas of the brain" - yeah those "inactive areas" don't exist. This seems to be a form of the common misconception of "humans only have access to xx% of their brain's processing power", which originated in the long game of telephone that is science reporting and has next to no basis in actual neuroscience. Most readers probably won't notice or care about this, and I fully admit this is a minor nitpick of an otherwise excellent piece.

(To explain why this gets under my skin so mych - I hold an MS in cognition & neuroscience and am working towards a PhD in this same area, and I've lost count of all the times someone has asked me about "using 100% of the brain" or some such).

TL333s 01 Nov 2017 17:32

I think that's intentional.

Like, I noticed the same thing, that popular pseudoscience creeping in, but when you look at the interview, and the guy who's -1 seems perfectly normal and the researcher isn't, you have to think something has happened to shut down parts of the brain of the people in this Site, or else it's taking place in another universe where that's true. Either is kind of frightening.

MaliceAforethought 02 Nov 2017 20:57

I read it as the scip being what we consider "normality", and that the Researcher's the only person left who's still human. Everyone else has had their brains shut down, creating the inactive areas, and this guy's the one person who can still act in the normal, appropriate way — hence "everybody else".

ophite 20 Dec 2017 22:24

Headcanon: this SCP is the one man immune to 1427 for reasons other than that he is a fascist.

Reversion Notice

notgull 17 Mar 2018 16:27

I reverted a revision by user DarkStuff who changed "Beetles" in the log to "Beatles", thinking that I meant the band. In reality, though, this was actually a reference to SCP-3003. I apologize for any confusion.

+100

notgull 21 Mar 2018 20:42

Yeah! I never thought this would be my first thing to cross this boundary. Thank you to all the readers!!

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