(account deleted) 30 Jul 2012 15:34
Ratings module?
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(account deleted) 30 Jul 2012 15:34
It's fortified with what the world wants. What the world deserves.
I DON'T WANT THIS TO BE THE ACTUAL MEANING OF THIS ARTICLE OH DEAR GOD PLEASE NO TOO FAR
I like it! I especially like how you hint that the "milk" is pretty fucked up but don't state exactly what it does.
Only a few minor problems with the first paragraph
use "neutralized" instead of "nullified"
no need to state "All times are in GMT" unless the procedure can be initiated from a remote location outside of the local timezone.
I think that's it, nice job!
Christ Almighty, half the people here have must have critical thinking and reading skills as poor as the writing that usually gets shoveled up. He doesn't imply shit in the article. It's all an exercise in meta, with no hints to prod the reader in that direction. There's a difference between hinting at something and simply being quiet and hoping something is interpreted one way or another.
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Wholeheartedly agreed. You are making a judgement based on what you've wildly assumed, not anything the author has actually written, which doesn't make this article redeemable.
While these are fair points, a lot of SCP articles do rely on allowing the readers to draw their own conclusions. I tried to drop some subtle hints in the article, of course you are welcome to disagree. I think there's a fine line between being too subtle and revealing just enough, I may well be on the wrong side of that line.
Wow. That's a lot of anger about people liking something you don't like.
Nah, Mad Milk comes from the Scout himself (think of it like Jarate, but white and nutritious.)
I thought it came from radioactive cows- now I keep thinking of Scout, ah, having a meeting with himself. Need brain bleach here!
Well it is non-dairy and the original item name was going to be Mann Milk, so… yeah.
BONK!
At first I really disliked this, but a subsequent readthrough made me see what you were doing here. Neutral vote.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
I… Do not see what the author is doing here. I just find the thing rather bland, harmless, and uninteresting. Well written though. Maybe if there was a bit more there, some sort of ACTUAL implication or subtle nod, but if it's there it's SO subtle as to be almost invisible.
This was written well enough to stave off a downvote brigade, but this article has a lot of threads that don't go anywhere.
For instance, the drivers are some weird life form, with different anatomy and somesuch, but beyond a passing mention we don't get any info on them. You would think that would be a fairly important piece to understanding this phenomenon that the Foundation would want to document.
Also, this "milk" stuff is some unknown substance that's being distributed to a particular neighborhood for some reason. You would think that the Foundation would want to know why it's being fed to people, but instead the article just goes "eh, we don't know what long-term exposure would do." Seriously, you can't feed it repeatedly to some random D-Class and see what happens? Even if it was nothing, the Foundation would probably investigate that.
There's other loose ends, too. Do these things just materialize out of thin air? The phenomenon is extremely localized, it doesn't seem like it would be out of line to observe the area to see where, exactly, these are coming from. And why is the battery mentioned? Is that important somehow?
What this reads like, to me, is a ton of little odd threads that have been thrown together without a lot of care to building a cohesive vision. While it's true that one of the hallmarks of this site is letting the reader scare/interest/amuse themselves with their own imagination, you have to provide some direction.
My initial reading was that this was another project by the entities that built the fake Senators. That was enough to warrant my upvote.
I like this myself, but I think I might like it chiefly because I want to believe it is something to do with those things that try to address political bodies because of Ophite's post.
In that light this works just as well because everything that is wrong about this is the fact that it's some weird puppet from out of nowhere that is trying to feign normalcy. And that's enough for me.
If that's indeed the case, then the article needs to do a little more to confirm that's what's going on. Again, we get no description as to what the lifeforms that are driving these things are. I feel like the article is relying way too heavily on site meta-narrative to stand on its own.
Allow me to rephrase. The reason that some people like this seems to be because it's a continuation of SCP-1377. If it indeed is meant to be that, I think it needs to work a little harder than simply referencing similar features of that article. As I said above, I don't think this stands on its own.
While it fits this interpretation, there's nothing in the article that provides evidence for such a link. In light of it, this is coattails riding squared - getting upvotes solely due to a link to another SCP when not only there's nothing interesting in the article, but even the link isn't there.
All of this. It's a situation without any of the things a researcher assigned to write a report on it would investigate. So for me it doesn't fit with the SCP Foundation's situation: a military organisation actively investigating what SCPs are up to to see what threat they pose.
This doesn't tell us or hint at us anything. Trying to interpret this work would be a lot like when I did criticism class in college.
Hey, since SCP-XXXX-1 is described not to respond to anything, what if it's not actually alive and is just a surrealistic physical ghost that delivers the surrealistic impression of milk? It probably represents how humanity is so discarded from the source of our dairy that we cannot even register the people who deliver them as human. GENIUS!
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Don't worry, I'll get the noose to hang myself with.
Living the dream, or dreaming the life?
Reminded me of a short tale by Stephen King from the tale book The Skeleton Crew (and The Mist later on).
Where does it come from? Is this the hook?
I'm staying neutral.
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