Alt-Foundation doesn't like us interfering with their containment efforts.
Edit: Also, is that a reference to sandrewswann's 001 proposal?
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Unfortunately, no. It would be cool if I was edgy enough to make references but no XD
"Memetic kill agents" are nonsensical in my opinion but the rest of it is just the right kind of indirectly menacing weirdness. +1.
I don't think memetic kill agents are nonsensical in and of themselves (Bascially it would be a propagating meme that eventually kills you). But I think what's described here is just a flat out cognito-hazard. IE you see it, you go nuts, and then you kill everyone in the room plus yourself. To be memetic, I think it has to be infectious in some way. (This is mostly from definitions I'm getting out of the tag guide - it's a pretty nice reference)
But I think what's described here is just a flat out cognito-hazard.
I think you're right, but "memetic kill agent" is one of those relics of site canon that just… Well, it sounds better than "cognitohazardous kill agent", so it sticks around.
The kill agent described here is infectious—the idea was put into a TV broadcast and sent to us, and one of our researchers was "infected" with the idea by watching it. It's the same principle behind the (admittedly pretty fucking campy) Berryman-Langford memetic kill agent, which I assume was the inspiration. I really liked the idea of continuing that kind of thing.
It's worth noting that memetic and cognitohazard are not mutually exclusive terms, and a cultural-context-dependent reproducible piece of information will still be a meme, even if its effect does not directly cause it to spread.
It's a piece of information that has an effect on the human brain, so it's memetic. The difference between a cognitohazard and a meme is that a cognitohazard is not necessarily information (it could be a chemical or a physical object), while a meme isn't necessarily even anomalous (see: any doge).
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Ah, alright, I think I see the distinction better now. Would it be more accurate to say that a meme deals with abstracted/conceptual/cultural information, whereas a cognito-hazard deals with _any_ kind of sensory information? IE, you have to understand a Meme, up you only have to perceive a cognitohazard.
I enjoyed this one, but now I have the desire to write an -EX of the foundation classifying and accidentally surveiling a manifestation of another SCP in containment and not realising it due to its own bureaucracy and secrecy requirements. For a while I actually thought that might be the twist of this article.
Its posts like this one that makes me wish Wikidot had a 'like' button. Either an -EX or a Tale would be in order on that premise…
Slow to start, and not much of a hook until late in the article. But at the end, this one gets an Upvote simply because. This article is very deserving of a tale now….
edit: This hasn't aged well with me. While I like this concept still, I've noticed one large inconsistency. In the logs, you allude to the fact that audio isn't coming through ("It appears she heard something through the intercom" "It appears she heard something on the other side of the door"), but later you state that the audio dropped "for the first time". This jarred me too much, and I had to rescind my upvote.
This… this is good shit. Good pacing, good elision. I want to see more stuff like it. +1.
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This is good. The only issue I have is the formatting of the last image. It looks kinda eh and breaks up the text. I'd prefer for it to be formated the same way normal scp pics are usually formated, only relative to the last collapsible. Maybe that's just me.
You almost lost me with a dry description. I remember reviewing part of this for you and then getting pulled away on baby duties.
…Those logs man. Holy shit. I'm successfully creeped out.
+1. Bravo. You're good at this. Work on your tone a little more and you'll be great at it.
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