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

Shitassdeaddude said:
I dislike the entire group. They're the poster-boys for two of the trends I've hated over the past few years: The loss of horror focus and succinct writing in favor of long-winded, dialogue-heavy character-focused content, and the writing community's performative and hollow support of progressive causes. It doesn't help that they've all but replaced the lolfoundation doctors as the resident self-inserts. They are always morally "correct," always get one-up on the Foundation and are almost never subject to the same cross-examinations you see with other Groups of Interest.

They are the unambiguous "good-guys" in a universe of moral grays, never at fault beyond the occasional mistake or accident. They are never "wrong" in whatever their cause may be. None of them are selfish or malicious in any way, except towards stock villains who deserve their malice. The reason for this is pretty simple. They're almost always vehicles for long-winded author tracts. It's as on-the-nose as Bugs Bunny turning his head to the camera and lecturing children on why drugs are bad, and just as embarrassing to see.
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scp has never had a focus on horror, it's always been more sci-fi/urban fantasy
 
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penismuncher89 said:
>broad statement
>"durr what about X??"
> "what about X?"
> "are you braindead?"

what point were you trying to make?
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>no profile picture
>joined literally last year
>not even 1000+ reaction score
>says obviously retarded shit and gets offended when they're called out

Lurk moar retard.
 
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Funny Valentine said:
>no profile picture
>joined literally last year
>not even 1000+ reaction score
>says obviously retarded shit and gets offended when they're called out

Lurk moar retard.
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i'm not offended; I earnestly don't understand what you were trying to convey by bringing up a single article out of hundreds as if it defines the entire genre
 
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penismuncher89 said:
i'm not offended; I earnestly don't understand what point you were trying to make by bringing up a single article out of hundreds as if it defines the entire genre
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I brought it up because it was one of the more defining SCPs when it comes to the horror genre, saying that SCP never had a focus on horror would just be a complete lie because a good majority of ones (older ones at least) had some flavor of horror. I could list a hell of a lot more: SCP-106, SCP-096, SCP-035, and even older stuff like SCP-002 and newer shit like SCP-3127 are focused around horror. Hell, Containment Breach exists for a reason and it's because of horror-themed SCPs like the above listed and more (barring of course 002 and 3127)

I'm sorry for not bringing up any more examples earlier, but you get the idea.
 
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Funny Valentine said:
I brought it up because it was one of the more defining SCPs when it comes to the horror genre, saying that SCP never had a focus on horror would just be a complete lie because a good majority of ones (older ones at least) had some flavor of horror. I could list a hell of a lot more: SCP-106, SCP-096, SCP-035, and even older stuff like SCP-002 and newer shit like SCP-3127 are focused around horror. Hell, Containment Breach exists for a reason and it's because of horror-themed SCPs like the above listed and more (barring of course 002 and 3127)

I'm sorry for not bringing up any more examples earlier, but you get the idea.
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I would argue that a lot of the early articles (stuff like 085, 021, and 011 immediately comes to mind, although I could name dozens of others) and most of Series I was more weird fiction than horror. the first channers who saw 173 on /x/ extrapolated horror from the things it didn't directly state and ran with that idea of what SCP is, but even in 2008 it wasn't just that. you had a lot of SCP's that weren't really scary, they were just random weird shit, like a key that can open any lock.
 
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BloodBankMerger said:
SCP's a shambling corpse nowadays. Are there any good SCP-inspired things out there nowadays? Mystery Flesh Pit comes to mind.
No, RPC doesn't count, it's bad.

The horror wasn't what made those good.
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I can only think of Kane Pixel's backrooms videos, this made me realize there's a depressing lack of good internet horror nowadays lol
 
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The horror of SCP was always hit and miss but that's on the shoulder of the author. SCP was at its greatest when it was a nice worldbuilding experiment. You look over the website and see an expansive world of articles ranging from the mundane to the horrible, with each one in its own way trying to bring some semblance of rationality and science to the unknown. I still remember the stories of procedure 110 montauk or the truth behind big foot.

I still hate how people just accepted calling the organization the "SCP Foundation" when it was always just the "Foundation". It'd be like calling Github the 'Push Issue Github"

It just lost its way.
 
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So is there a summary of the legal battle? Every time I look it up I either get some 'it's going great' stuff from SCP itself or a vague post from this thread 50+ pages ago. Status was something like 'guy buys rights, people butthurt, rights get upheld in one place and being fought in another, warchest for nothing' and then nothing for like a year.

Edit: To unshitpost this, my main curiosity was based on how defensible any of this would actually be. With the kind of licenses in play, if this comes down to a legal battle the party with the most money is the winner. I'm mostly wondering where we are on that. It would be interesting to see someone else directly lift everything, like that artbook a number of pages back, change it just enough and toss it out there with so much 'the fuck are you going to do about' dripping off.
 
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Soda Can said:
So is there a summary of the legal battle? Every time I look it up I either get some 'it's going great' stuff from SCP itself or a vague post from this thread 50+ pages ago. Status was something like 'guy buys rights, people butthurt, rights get upheld in one place and being fought in another, warchest for nothing' and then nothing for like a year.

Edit: To unshitpost this, my main curiosity was based on how defensible any of this would actually be. With the kind of licenses in play, if this comes down to a legal battle the party with the most money is the winner. I'm mostly wondering where we are on that. It would be interesting to see someone else directly lift everything, like that artbook a number of pages back, change it just enough and toss it out there with so much 'the fuck are you going to do about' dripping off.
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The most comprehensive account of it is probably this.
 
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ToS said:
The most comprehensive account of it is probably this.
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So, long self-indulgent story short, he won just enough that how done this deal is depends on his next move. Seems to me the easiest way to go forward is to not start making demands of everything under the sun calling itself SCP. Rather, quickly make, market and sell all the good shit in some form. Once it's known Duksin is the go-to guy for high-quality SCP knick-knackery, that's kinda that. Even if they finally find ground to firmly stand on, he'll have the disposable income to bled them on legal fees.

Were it me, I'd get a cheap print run going on some plush toys. Do like the Poppy Playtime people and get toys of the main characters on every mall toy stall and in every flea market tent six months before the game was released.
 
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Soda Can said:
So, long self-indulgent story short, he won just enough that how done this deal is depends on his next move. Seems to me the easiest way to go forward is to not start making demands of everything under the sun calling itself SCP. Rather, quickly make, market and sell all the good shit in some form. Once it's known Duksin is the go-to guy for high-quality SCP knick-knackery, that's kinda that. Even if they finally find ground to firmly stand on, he'll have the disposable income to bled them on legal fees.

Were it me, I'd get a cheap print run going on some plush toys. Do like the Poppy Playtime people and get toys of the main characters on every mall toy stall and in every flea market tent six months before the game was released.
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Iirc popper toys are the new big thing.
 
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