I liked this.
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I've seen it before. Not the actual SCP, but the concept. However, upvoted it for delivering said concept in a very compelling way. And I don't even like basketball.
I wonder where you've seen it? I definitely want to check it out.
Not saying I've seen this exact interpretation but the idea of a recording that contains entities that are self-aware isn't new. The nineties 'Outer Limits' series has an episode I think. Anyway, it's the execution that counts.
The Recorded Man, maybe?
However, I would say that this article plays with time-loop idea more than it does with self-aware recording one. The only reason why this is a video tape and not an actual phenomenon inside the stadium is public knowledge suppression and ease of observation.
I know playback is prohibited, but I wonder what the following experiments would yield:
1. A copy made to another medium. Does the same effect occur? If so, do the entities in the copy retain knowledge of their "originals"?
2. As 1 and only if the same effect occurs. Copy is intentionally corrupted. What are the effects of this on the recording and subsequent playbacks?
1. I want to say copies are identical, they would not differ from the original. Two copies played simultaneously will depict the same events. I don't want to say the copies create branching timelines off the master recording, cause that's when shit just gets quantum
2. If the recording is playable, living hell for the entities inside it.
1. Does a timeline really enter into it though? Assuming the actual people involved are still alive and out there, SCP-1733 would be more like a self-contained reality construct. Would copies copy the construct or the meta-effect of creating the construct? Oh, and please understand I'm not telling you what I think would be best, I'm just brainstorming.
2. Noted.
Another proposal for an experiment then: editing in footage of D-class personnel or Foundation research staff. Do they join the entities? Also, editing in subtitles to try and communicate with entities?
1. Well, it shouldn't, but we're talking about something that we have absolutely no reference point so all our preconceptions go out out the window.
There is something intrinsic to the recording that allows it to manifest the properties it does. Splicing in footage would have no effect on either the persons inside it or the poor D-class we wrangled into this mess.
What if one doesn't make a full playthrough. What if someone stops and rewinds it in the middle?
In the case of a copy, this could be what sets the original and the copy appart.
I suspcet, the entities within one of them would not have recollection of that missing part of the playthrough.
I liked this up until here:
By playback 045, however, comprehension of their predicament had reached such a point that players declined to play altogether and joined the rest of the arena assembly in formulating escape plans. It is the conclusion of Dr. Geller the inhabitants of SCP-1733 are imprisoned in the setting of the recording as they have been unable to exit by any means.
That's a pretty blatant attempt to plug a character in the middle of the article; this isn't the place for some doctor to tell us what he thinks, this is where the Foundation tells its personnel what they know. "The inhabitants of SCP-1733 appear to be imprisoned in the setting of the recording as they have been unable to exit by any means," conveys the same message without the character plug.
It reads like that bullshit on TV Tropes where people try to slip their opinions into the pages.
Good stuff.
I kind of think, and this might just be me, that this would be better if the reports didn't quite go so far. That is, it's revealed that they're becoming more and more aware, and they're getting more and more unsettled, but not quite devolving into full-on ritual sacrifice. That said, other people seemed to like it, so I probably wouldn't touch it.
It bothers me that you say:
College-aged men and women have formed a wall between Group 320 and the Faithkeepers.
as well as singling out college-aged people in a few other places, I believe as being the only ones trying to escape. That doesn't seem right. There would be a lot more than just college kids up in arms about a bunch of terrified zealots trying to sacrifice children, and more than just college kids actively trying to get out. With it being stated that it's only a bunch of college aged kids, it almost reads like some kind of societal or political commentary.
That issue aside, I upvoted. This is damn good.
Agreed to that. I have to add that I was not aware anyone else used the phrase "Gods above and below."
I sat reading this, mouth agape the entire time. This is absolutely terrifying and phenomenally executed.
Although I have to ask: you're from Ohio, aren't you? You just wrote this as an excuse to decapitate Lebron James, didn't you? For shame.
Agents monitoring social networking sites were alerted to SCP-1733's anomalous
So the Foundation has enough personnel that they can monitor every single Internet forum 24/7 to immediately spot when anomalous videos are uploaded?
The group is comprised of Boston churchgoers and [REDACTED].
Why the redaction? Is the Foundation trying to protect the reputation of a certain set of people, even though the only ones who'll read this document are authorized Foundation personnel?
monitor every single Internet forum 24/7
This is what automated web crawlers and public front companies like Google are for.
public front companies like Google
I have a new headcanon. O_o
This simultaniously makes no sense and perfect sense. No sense because a Foundation front (or rather, any secret organization's front) would want to be as relatively unnoticeable as possible and a huge global corporation is pretty much the opposite of that, and perfect sense because damn near everyone uses Google, so the Foundation has backdoors into everything that people use it for (or in other words, almost everything, period).
Heck, maybe the illegitimate DMCA takedowns on YouTube were actually removing footage of an undiscovered SCP…
So the Foundation has enough personnel that they can monitor every single Internet forum 24/7 to immediately spot when anomalous videos are uploaded?
Exactly the same thing that bothered me about this.
Even if people say they are only monitoring the big ones, Facebook has accounts on the order of millions.
If they used automated crawlers, what exactly would the crawlers be searching for to find this?
The Facebook post was something akin to "That was a terrible foul Ray Allen pulled on Chris Bosh" (or vice versa). What in that sentence is a key word that would draw a crawler to it?
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