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The last line made me chuckle, but… hm. I don't know, it read kind of meh to me.
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Hm.
I suppose that it held my interest fairly well for such a simple article that I can upvote in good confidence.
I like how it contrasts "global cotton epidemic" with "nudifier".
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Precisely what I was going for. This thing that's causing a massive security breach, and threatens a huge chunk of the global economy (Incidentally, US money is made of cotton…) was made by some college students as a sophomoric and absurdly prosaic joke.
I was ready to up-vote at the O5 memo, and then when the interview log came up, I was sold. This is good, and you should feel good.
Someone has been watching Red-Dwarf…
I quite liked it, and the end clinched it for me as it did others.
My only critique is that, according to the date in which David Lister and George Freeman came forward… none of this will happen for another two years.
On 5/17/15, two graduate students…
…is this intentional or does it need a fix?
You have my + 1 regardless.
I suspect the date thing was intentional. Remember that although SCP documents usually take place "now", they are snapshots of the time in which they were written in-universe. So some SCP articles are set decades ago and, yes, some were/will be written in the future. There are a couple of space-based SCPs that take place at some time in the future in which the Foundation has regular, reliable spaceships.
Giving bearhugs to the unsuspecting since 1872.
Never seen Red Dwarf. Don't know much about it, beyond that it's a humorous science fiction show that's probably worse than Farscape.
David Lister is name of the slovenly 2nd Technician who just so happens to be the last modern biological human being in existence.
I have seen too little of Farscape to say 'better' or 'worse'. I will say they're massively different. Humor takes center stage in Red Dwarf, for one. I recommend it.
I can say, being a fan of both series, that yes, Red Dwarf is worse. Farscape is strange and sometimes ridiculous, but Red Dwarf is consistently goofy and cornball. Here, of course, assuming "worst" doesn't literally mean "horrible", just "cheesier".
I read the interview in Craig Charles' voice. Makes it a helluva lot funnier.
I find the core effect only mildly interesting, but the O5 memo was gorgeous. "Security has failed, containment has failed, now we must protect."
A nitpick, though: instead of saying that they could consume/replace "an entire shirt" in a month, why not give a specific amount of fabric? Like 1.1 m2 of 100% cotton cloth or something? Because shirts come in quite the variety of sizes, from infant shirts all the way up to XXXL long-sleeved dress shirts.
Giving bearhugs to the unsuspecting since 1872.
Just changed this to Keter. On review, I feel this is more accurate. It's completely uncontained, and poses a global threat (to the economy, but still).
At first, I thought it was that they just died after eating a shirt, but then I read the
last part and it all made sense. However, it is repeatedly stated that they are anomalous, and they have the guys who made them, and yet, they do not seem to see anything they did as anomalous. This might be a bit difficult, but could you try making an interview about how they made them? Even if they aren't really sure themselves.
Overall, I like it, up voted.
Well, they themselves aren't terribly anomalous. Nothing the worms do is remotely magical. But they shouldn't exist in the first place. They're an engineered organism of sufficient complexity that we don't have anywhere near the skill in synthetic biology to produce, even in 2015.
That still doesn't explain how these 2 guys made them, unless they got some help, I guess leaving out the rest of the interview does help it keep some mysteriousness.
A nudifier.
Made of worms.
Which may crash the global company.
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What the [EXPLICATIVE REDIRECTED] are you smoking Anaxagoras, and where can I get some?
Upvoted gleefully, this is the exact sort of weird/unexpectedly terrifying sort of thing I like most about SCPs.
I realized only after I wrote this that I had just written a Keter nudifier.
I don't know if you should be proud or ashamed, but take your pick.
I don't even know how many of those mistakes were intentional
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