It's only really an issue if you accept the insane idea they kill them all every month or recklessly waste their lives for no benefit. 1 D-class could participate in dozens of tests in the span of a month.
Just because it's Safe or Euclid doesn't mean it won't horrifically kill you. To be able to tell if something is Safe, you may have to do some trial and error first that could cause someone to get hurt real bad.
I meant more that the risk of death isn't normally anywhere near as high due to easier containment, so you can use other types of D-class personnel without the same kind of ethical issues as more dangerous ones. It'd be pretty atrocious using homeless people or refugees to re-contain 106 or 682 for example.
Definitely, this whole D-class thing was even a debate back in the early days of SCP.
I don't think there is a difference between how different D classes are treated, is there? That's why "demotion to D-class" felt like an impactful punishment the first few times it was used, before it lost its shine and became a joke. You could be a renowned doctor and one bad fuckup later you're Keter fodder on death row.
There isn't a difference I'm aware of, but that issue came up because of the need for a lot of D-class personnel. If they can't recruit who they need from prisons, they'll draw from displaced/transient populations.
Tell me you have no personality and are only doing it for wish fulfillment without telling me-
Well it's also not exactly realistic to have a world with anomalies that break the laws of physics and somehow have each and every one be harmful to humans. Mostly because there is zero chance of the Foundation containing all of that shit with only non anomalous technology.
SCP isn't necessarily 100% horror, some of the early series I scps that were really good were just weird abnormal things not necessarily horrifying.
Well considering that this organization is the only thing between Earth and eldritch horrors that would end all humanity, I'm pretty sure the governments would be a lot more loyal to the idea of letting them off the hook sometimes. Also as for the death row inmate thing my head canon is either that the public number or death row inmate is only the ones that were rejected as D class or the more horror like one that they just snatch civilians in places like India or China where there is a shitton of people and nobody notices. Different canons do this differently. Regarding the amnestics there is a guide to different types of them on the wiki but pretty sure they are mostly produced from the secretions made by a giant eel that may or may not be an Indian god that resides in the Bay of Bengal, it produces amnestics when fed people. It's also somewhat related to the pattern screamers and the bottom of the narrative ladder but only powerscaler autists care about that. And pretty sure governments have built in clearances for SCP workers that allow them to delete any website because of the aforementioned eldritch horror situation. And yeah there literally is magic in the SCPverse, but it's called thaumaturgy and used mostly by the GOC not the Foundation.
Monthly termination is very stupid and in my head canon it's an old wives tale spread by D Class among themselves. Because even without it the Foundation would have a lot of trouble getting enough D Class.
It's literally as explained as possible, pretty sure the majority of anomalies are either caused by supreme divine entities, thaumaturgy, or ontokinetics.
There is nothing realistic about the SCP foundation. But to give some context to my earlier statement. I am criticizing specifically the newest Scps that are being written as wishfulfillment fantasies. I agree that the "beneficial" ones like SCP 500 are perfectly fine and that a good SCP doesn't need to be horror.
Well by realistic I meant not like literally realistic but like so that it doesn't feel like a Deus ex machina plot contrivance. But some of the best scps aren't horror imo like for example SCP-1134-JP. But maybe I'm a bit biased with that one considering I'm a huge sushi nerd. But there's other scps that are just weird not scary and feel like they mesh with the theme of the site.
There are so many SCPs, some that span very wide areas, if feels like no matter where you lived you'd be able to throw a rock in any direction and hit an anomaly. Which raises the question, if there's thousands and thousands of these things, are they really anomalies anymore? Seems like they're just a part of nature at this point.
this is incredibly autistic
i'm fine with magic being the basis of amnestics and SCPs in general because it's a better explanation than "it just works, okay?" but why have this sci-fi pretense
The wiki is meant to have a scientific theme and a clinical tone to the writing. The Foundation tries to find a scientific explanation for all anomalies it can, including magic itself. That's sort of the point of SCP as a whole.
The whole point of SCP ever since the first one was to dress these inherently terrifying and illogical beings in a rigorous scientific veneer to make them seem more logical.
Basically, there are other organizations like the GOC that some countries (I think) prefer more and I think the U.S. made their own smaller organization for anomalies. But from the way the setting is organized, the Foundation is essentially a "Shadow Government" that controls the world in some capacity, with unlimited funding from said countries.
Reminds me of that cargo ship capsized or something and a bunch of Chinese(?) immigrants poured out of it and no one cared. Honestly the most realistic response to the world being informed of anomalies would be an overwhelming "cool" or "can't be worse than my 9-5." Just...collective shrugging.
Never really explained in detail, sure you'll have some small explanations here and there but it's still largely "it just happens/works." It's also not even just death-row inmates either, some soon-to-be d-class are picked up despite their minor crimes, I'd imagine that's usually if they don't have many ties to many people (any person who does know him well enough is probably given Amnestics) such as the now labeled SCP-181. Really shows the Foundation as a more enigmatic gray than black or white.
A more competent version of Jamal Khashoggi's death I'd imagine. That or Amnestics, yeah they're pretty lazy and just assume you already know how they are dealt with. Besides, have you seen the credibility of journos these days? Most people will believe it's a hoax or something, just like real life whenever crazy shit goes down. There are still people denying factual events to this day that happened within their lifetime. All you need is the government to go "nuh uh" and most people will go "ok." Anyone else that doesn't would be labeled as conspiracy freaks and either assassinated, Amnestic'd, or otherwise silenced.
...that's pretty common in real life. How many times has this site gone down for example? Media being controlled by the government (in this case the shadow organization that is the Foundation) is happening right now in every country, even first world countries, and has been happening since the idea of "news" and "governments" existed in tandem. All that said though, like @WTBOnlineFather said, the amount of absolutely nuts shit that the Foundation has to contain (and sometimes can't made a rant about that a while ago) is what really suspends my disbelief that they're still hidden. Which is why I much prefer the SCPs that are in a "mask down" universe, where the Foundation revealed itself. Because I'm not sure how you can stay hidden when some of the crazier shit goes down.
Wasn't Montauk so much worse before they retardly explained it or was it always "we have no idea what it is but it's probably hyper-rape."
Wait when the fuck did they explain it? I thought it was always supposed to be unexplained so you could have your own conception of it yourself, like you know fear of the unknown and shit. Honestly the way I see it is that rape is definitely involved as a part of it but there's definitely other things aside from it.
i think it would make more sense if the department of defense was funding a black-budget program to "protect the interests of the united states" by investigating magical artifacts in foreign countries and shipping them off so that they can be weaponized than whatever the foundation is
I'm not aware of anyone having explained it. Maybe Clef went on some damage control spree feeling bad about what he wrote, but the only edit to the actual article that I find is that in the original, the D classes assigned to 110-Montauk were to have a background as convicted sex offenders. This has been removed. I think that's a good change actually, it was a little on the nose and basically gave away that brutal rape is involved. Now there's no clear evidence of that being the case. You read through the article, your brain is screaming that this is a case of sanctioned, systematic, repeated rape, but there's nothing left unredacted to directly support your suspicion.
There are some articles where stuff like this happens. Rogue agents committing sabotage, O5s clashing and infighting, a site director mismanaging an entire site to the point of catastrophe (SCP-1730) and I'm sure there's more. I'd welcome more articles like that without the involvement of CI which is one of the gayest GoIs in the universe imo, but ah well.
