SCP Foundation - Creepypasta with roid rage - now ITT: SCP fans

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

Kind of sad how many people forgot about SCP-173. When it was the star that started this IP's ascent into popularity. Now its all basically capeshit supervillains that break containment every other week. Which defeats the whole point of being a cryptic and secretive organization no one knows about.

Doesn't help that his iconic design was changed due to the statue being copyrighted by the creator or something, because people want to monetize it. Even then, all the old SCPs are being treated like shit with mediocre re-writes "for the modern audience" and people shitting on old SCP's writing style because "old bad new good."

A SCP-style collaborative horror project comprised of Kiwi Farms users would be the greatest thing ever for, like, six people.

I am one of those six people, hell yeah.

There were a few attempts back when SCP went gay, RPC Authority is probably the closest to what SCP was.

Not to mention the only one that isn't fucking dead.

The entire genre of "containment fiction" is dumb and gay.

It's unfortunately, because it used to be and can still be pretty good, but with SCP at the helm any chance of it becoming good is thrown out the window, it either must be pozzed to shit or it gets botted by SCPfags into irrelevancy. I think RPC still gets bots because people just have them run in the background and lets them downvote new articles automatically.

 

[Fig Kommandant]

The entire genre of "containment fiction" is dumb and gay.

One thing that SCP or even the backrooms had in the begining was mystery and discovery. It was fun to read about an adverse faction then a hundred SCPs later, the same faction pops up again. Same when you came across a completely new site, a new type of item class, new protocol, but when people tried to standardize and catalogue everything you lose the organic creativity and the sense that you're discovering a universe.

You can't have an endless collaborative work, but when everything is standardized it's boring. It's a fun genre, but each IP has a limited time to be good, after that you gotta go to a new project.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

One thing that SCP or even the backrooms had in the begining was mystery and discovery. It was fun to read about an adverse faction then a hundred SCPs later, the same faction pops up again. Same when you came across a completely new site, a new type of item class, new protocol, but when people tried to standardize and catalogue everything you lose the organic creativity and the sense that you're discovering a universe.

You can't have an endless collaborative work, but when everything is standardized it's boring. It's a fun genre, but each IP has a limited time to be good, after that you gotta go to a new project.

Best thing you can do for that is stories, old and new characters discovering new anomalies and the situation that would ensue. Imagine SCP but it was in the perspective of a civilian and seeing this mysterious faction face off against some anomaly before disappearing, assuming you aren't captured and mind-wiped.

 

[Meth Until Death]

Do yous remember the SCP alternative, RPC Authority or whatever? Does anyone know how that's goin?

 

[Niggergante]

Do yous remember the SCP alternative, RPC Authority or whatever? Does anyone know how that's goin?

One of my fondest discord memories was being in the chat shortly after the schism happened and some fag from the scp declassified subreddit joined to do some lurking to infiltrate. A moderator noticed and shouted on voice "A RED SPY IS IN THE BASE" and everyone followed suit before he got banned.
I remember joining the next day and saw users wondering what the fuck a red spy was and they thought he was a communist or something instead of a shitty self-inserting writer.
As for no I've got no clue.

 

[Doktor Grimm]

I am one of those six people, hell yeah.

To clarify, I'm also one of the six. The project would be dead out of the gate but I'd gladly assist in decorating its corpse.

The entire genre of "containment fiction" is dumb and gay.

Sure -- but it suits a collaborative writing setting. I'd argue that the lore of the Foundation itself (and all the object class nonsense) is not terribly interesting, but it makes for a convenient way of linking what would otherwise be individual creepypastas within a single shared universe. You could easily take it out and replace it with something else without impacting the core appeal.

 

[Fig Kommandant]

Best thing you can do for that is stories, old and new characters discovering new anomalies and the situation that would ensue. Imagine SCP but it was in the perspective of a civilian and seeing this mysterious faction face off against some anomaly before disappearing, assuming you aren't captured and mind-wiped.

SCP did have those, but from the perspective of either retrieval teams or scientists. Those were really interesting to read, how they got the artefacts, at what cost, what sort of experiments they ran to try to understand it. From a civilian view wouldn't work for SCP, but the exploration logs and the like for SCP are exactly what you're describing.

Do yous remember the SCP alternative, RPC Authority or whatever? Does anyone know how that's goin?

It's got fewer than 1k entries, most of them being put as empty links in reserve. I'm somewhat disappointed they didn't keep 173 as the original though.

 

[BirdUp]

Imagine SCP but it was in the perspective of a civilian and seeing this mysterious faction face off against some anomaly before disappearing, assuming you aren't captured and mind-wiped.

I had a thought about a secret organization that dealt in containing and covering up supernatural threats, but it was made up of civilians and had a cell structure, like the Outlaws in Delta Green but even more shadowy. It might have a reputation among law enforcement agencies as this crime syndicate that orchestrates heists and silences witnesses and rivals.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

Do yous remember the SCP alternative, RPC Authority or whatever? Does anyone know how that's goin?

While strong is be charitable, it's still cruising along decently. There's contests, fairly common new articles regardless, my nigga Eastside is still reading over RPC too even if the popularity is barely there, just shows that he isn't there for attention but actually really likes containment fiction even if it isn't SCP. At this point the RPC subreddit is basically just notifications for when he posts. The Steam group is dead, they have a Redbubble and who know how few people know it even exists, their Twitter is also just there to retweet Eastside's shit, the only really active place besides the website (and even then more so than the website) is their Discords, mostly the main community server. I've made a post about them and it's actually...not bad for a Discord:

Best you'll go for is RPC and even then there's limits...which aren't much to be fair:

Basically, it was the strongest and still is the strongest of the directly SCP based splinter groups, but not really strong strong like I said. The SCP community did a number on them and the damage still remains and will never heal, there's still bots that automatically downvote articles but I think they're getting smaller in number. Read for yourself if you're interested, or check the thread for RPC related stuff.

To clarify, I'm also one of the six. The project would be dead out of the gate but I'd gladly assist in decorating its corpse.

Better to die young and leave a pretty corpse for these types of projects. I wonder if monitization would help or hinder its growth but that's a whole 'nother can of worms.

SCP did have those, but from the perspective of either retrieval teams or scientists.

I was going to mention them but I haven't really read any of them to comment on how well it worked, I'll take your word for it.

I had a thought about a secret organization that dealt in containing and covering up supernatural threats, but it was made up of civilians and had a cell structure, like the Outlaws in Delta Green but even more shadowy. It might have a reputation among law enforcement agencies as this crime syndicate that orchestrates heists and silences witnesses and rivals.

See, now that would be way more interesting, also I swear someone mentioned Delta Green on here before...

 

[BirdUp]

See, now that would be way more interesting, also I swear someone mentioned Delta Green on here before...

In Delta Green, you cannot take over a state investigation without an airtight reason, you do not have memory-erasing drugs to use on witnesses, and you cannot call in a fire team to kill the tentacled monster. In fact, you do not know how to kill it, and it behaved completely differently the last time you encountered it. You live in fear of being caught by the police, your employers, or your wife; of losing your friends, family, life, or sanity; of being possessed and forced to kill your colleagues; of being sent back eons before our earliest ancestors left the ocean. And even if you survive to fight another day, Cthulhu will still awaken from his slumber, and he will send an army of Deep Ones to reclaim the Earth as everyone starts killing each other and setting fire to everything in one giant Woodstock. This is how it does the trope of "secret organization fighting the supernatural" better.

 

[AnOminous]

You live in fear of being caught by the police

One of my Call of Cthulhu campaigns ended exactly like this. After they had repeatedly saved the world from eldritch horrors beyond imagination and even sent Cthulhu packing back to R'Lyeh once, they were ultimately taken down by the government. Not the police, though. Much worse. The IRS.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

One of my Call of Cthulhu campaigns ended exactly like this. After they had repeatedly saved the world from eldritch horrors beyond imagination and even sent Cthulhu packing back to R'Lyeh once, they were ultimately taken down by the government. Not the police, though. Much worse. The IRS.

 

[BirdUp]

This site is so boring. The average SCP has a couple of sentences in the Special Containment Procedures—the boilerplate about keeping the artifact or entity in a locker or cell—and maybe a few paragraphs in the Description, with the rest of the page consisting of transcripts. Or the author makes you click through five archives of the same document, to create suspense or mystery when you're reading what's essentially a lab report. It stems from the fact that authors on the site are realizing the format is bad for fiction and trying to make up for it—poorly—with dialog. People don't want to read a short, technical description of a car wreck; they want to experience the driver's emotions and sensations as it happened. Faggotry, politisperging, and the circlejerk of pretentious authors have contributed massively to the community's downfall, but I would argue that the limits of the format are just as significant.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

The average SCP has a couple of sentences in the Special Containment Procedures—the boilerplate about keeping the artifact or entity in a locker or cell—and maybe a few paragraphs in the Description, with the rest of the page consisting of transcripts.

It was alright when SCP first started but not so much now, which is funny considering the alternative of unnecessarily long and "fake deep" other nu-SCPs are.

Or the author makes you click through five archives of the same document, to create suspense or mystery when you're reading what's essentially a lab report.

These numbnuts can't seem to understand that the viewer is essentially a staff member reading the report in-universe, in fact sometimes the viewer is at least level 5 as they can access "heavily restricted" articles that require "level 5 clearance", like a soft-RP. So having to go through several versions of a fucking article should-unless this is for security reasons due to memetic bullshit-have the person demoted to Class D for tampering with reports or something.

It stems from the fact that authors on the site are realizing the format is bad for fiction and trying to make up for it—poorly—with dialog.

I wouldn't say the format is "bad" for fiction, but they sure as hell make it look bad. Oh and something random I found while looking through old SCPs and their "revisioned" version, I was reading SCP-079 and what the fuck is this? This was linked in the article, apparently these faggots overwrote the order of terminating potentially apocalyptically dangerous SCP if it was allowed a much more powerful system to inhabit to...I'm going to assume they want to see if it can "evolve" or something, obviously fucking redacted...

 

[BirdUp]

I wouldn't say the format is "bad" for fiction, but they sure as hell make it look bad.

It's almost impossible to be immersed in a piece of fiction when it's written coldly and never tells you what its characters are feeling, seeing, or thinking, which is why I think the format is only useful for exploring concepts, similar to alternate history or worldbuilding. Classic SCPs worked because they were interesting concepts.

This was linked in the article, apparently these faggots overwrote the order of terminating potentially apocalyptically dangerous SCP if it was allowed a much more powerful system to inhabit to...I'm going to assume they want to see if it can "evolve" or something, obviously fucking redacted...

Why does the Foundation care about staying on top of other organizations technologically? How does developing artificial intelligence fit into its mission? Also, I'm sure that using anomalous tech to create snarky chatbots won't backfire in any way.



Every discussion page feels like Reddit. Whenever I see a moderator like Zyn, I read their comments in a fat guy's voice.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

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Every discussion page feels like Reddit. Whenever I see a moderator like Zyn, I read their comments in a fat guy's voice.

...what the fuck is this?

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

It's almost impossible to be immersed in a piece of fiction when it's written coldly and never tells you what its characters are feeling, seeing, or thinking

You lack imagination. The whole point of SCP articles in their inception was the way they're written gives your imagination more room to play and creates a tension / fear of the unknown by only giving you tidbits of information.

The inability to write good SCPs that follow that format is more a sign of the relative lack of talent of many modern SCP authors, than a sign that the format is bad.

Why does the Foundation care about staying on top of other organizations technologically? How does developing artificial intelligence fit into its mission?

Because other organizations pose a threat to humanity and interfere with the Foundation's mission statement of secure, contain, protect?

I've commented on your apparent inability to "get it" before, because you've made these same general points nearly verbatim in this thread already. Maybe this type of fiction just isn't for you.

 

[BirdUp]

Maybe this type of fiction just isn't for you.

I enjoy the SCP Foundation wiki and similar projects like Mystery Flesh Pit, but I don't think the cold, technical format of SCPs is suited for traditional stories, which modern authors are trying and failing to pull off. While there are many other factors—like poorly written dialog, politics, and saccharine plots about trooning out—I think the constraints of the writing style haven't been discussed as much.

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

I don't think the cold, technical format of SCPs is suited for traditional stories, which modern authors are trying and failing to pull off

The entire genre of "containment fiction" is dumb and gay.

Make up your mind, because right now it seems like you're moving goalposts.

 

[BirdUp]

Make up your mind, because right now it seems like you're moving goalposts.

You might be autistic if you thought I was being literal when I said the whole genre was gay. There still are a few gems, but yeah, most of it is bad.