SCP-4417 / Discussion

This is the discussion related to the wiki page SCP-4417.

MaliceAforethought 18 Nov 2018 22:49

This suit doesn't fit me / I made it myself counterfeitly
With buttons of blue / Killing me with déjà vu

It's a gift for you, when I escape at last
When the end of time has passed
But something keeps me as a pet
The only house that's not on fire yet

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Thanks to everyone who looked this over before I posted it, particularly 9Volt who's been reviewing it since it was a concept. Hope you enjoy this weird, meta, time-travel scip.

Fragment links:

• http://www.scp-wiki.net/fragment:scp-4417-jump
• http://www.scp-wiki.net/fragment:scp-4417-loop
• http://www.scp-wiki.net/fragment:scp-4417-break

Image sources:

• https://pixabay.com/en/abandoned-factory-empty-decay-ruin-1513095/
• SCP-4163, used with permission of LiterallyMechanical

Last edited on 19 Nov 2018 20:59 by MaliceAforethought Show more

Zyn 20 Nov 2018 05:11

Heyo, the image is 1.36 MB, which seems unnecessarily large. Any chance you can resize it? Alternatively, would you like me to do so?

MaliceAforethought 20 Nov 2018 09:23

If you could do it, that'd be great <3

Connor MacWarren 18 Nov 2018 23:16

The Arial-like font all the way down is pretty jarring to read and transition from the traditional one.

MaliceAforethought 18 Nov 2018 23:28

Sounds like wikidot's not loading a style element correctly. I'll look into it.

stormbreath 19 Nov 2018 07:59

The way Wikidot handles html means that, for some reason, the crosslink to Erstwhile and Again in one of the offsets opens in the html iframe. I don't know how to fix it, but the other links work fine?

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can I get some nice "no signatures on my forum"
sigma-9 css machine broke
understandable have a nice day

MaliceAforethought 19 Nov 2018 08:14

Oh, that's weird. I'll try and work around that, thanks for pointing it out!

Should be fixed now!

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LurkD 19 Nov 2018 13:50

Your image is excessively large for being squashed down to 300x200. Consider resizing your image to avoid compression loss.

PS - Same goes for the logo.

Last edited on 19 Nov 2018 13:52 by LurkD Show more

Captain Kirby 19 Nov 2018 17:21

Ok, some parts of this are like, really cool, but I feel that there was a much better way to show a lot of this stuff rather than tell it.

Personally, I love the idea of a society being unable to think past the present. However, I think that idea in particular would be much stronger if you like say… sent back photos or newspapers or something from the future in increments of like, 500 years so that the reader can see the stagnation of cultural thought. I also think that the idea that this is essentially a "messiah figure"¹ could have been left more vague, and not stated as explicitly because I feel that takes a lot of the mystery out of the piece.

Like, all around this feels like a clever idea, but I just feel like the delivery of the cleverness could've allowed you to demonstrate the horror of SCP-11711 better, because I feel like that horror would have added a lot more to the piece to take it beyond a cool time-travel idea.

Footnotes

1. Or at least that's what I gathered from the documentation

mysteriousOutsider 19 Nov 2018 17:27

Just wanted to say I noticed the Thing that you did here and it's pretty cool and legitimately disoriented me for a minute.

Ikonovich 26 Nov 2018 05:14

I want to notice the Thing too. Please?

SteamTroller 03 Dec 2019 17:03

I think the thing is that if you refresh the page you can get a different ending sometimes.

Last edited on 03 Dec 2019 17:03 by SteamTroller Show more

+50, no downvotes!

MaliceAforethought 26 Nov 2018 07:41

This is definitely a first for me! Glad to see you all like it!

Tollymain 30 Nov 2018 00:42

i have yet to figure out why the initial scp foundation had plans to euthanize humanity after finishing the project

GreyPercival 30 Nov 2018 14:28

I imagine that the reasoning was that literally no human progress would occur otherwise. They were banking pretty heavily on letting their agents fix everything on the 4000th trip around all of time, so prolonging hunanity's stagnation would have been pointless. Not to mention that their motives and goals would most likely have changed significantly in 400 years.

what?

DuckTapeAl 09 Feb 2021 07:09

I'm definitely missing something here, because this is sitting pretty close to +100 but it doesn't feel like there's much here and a quick skim of the comments mentions a bunch of stuff that's not in the article? I can't find any links on the page that I've missed, is there some reference I'm not getting? Is this the rabbit hole for an ARG?

I don't get it.

Last edited on 09 Feb 2021 07:09 by DuckTapeAl Show more

Re: what?

Zyn 10 Feb 2021 02:59

I think one of the comments above mentions what's being missed, "if you refresh the page you can get a different ending sometimes."

The page code indicates that the display isn't plain text, but pulls from a set of fragment pages. I guess maybe wait a minute or two between refreshes?

Last edited on 10 Feb 2021 03:00 by Zyn Show more