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VargReallyDidNothingWrong said:
Mention of transphobia as a problem affecting "le girls", the overall insanely over the top "femininity" of everything this person does on all their social media, the idea that "programming was a female vocation", the grubby fingernails and obvious man-hands in the user's pics on Reddit...
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Man it must be exhausting being a woman and having weirdos like this claim to speak for you.
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All you have to do as a man is put on a wig and a dress and suddenly people will praise you more than actual women.
 
VargReallyDidNothingWrong said:
Idk its incredibly cliche if nothing else. What can you do with a guy who swaps bodies when you put his necklace on another person? Torture him multiple times! Maybe infinite times!
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The topic of death and rebirth has been there forever and appears in various cultures. It's not a cliche, it's an architype that has existed as a mythological idea probably as long as humanity did. Complaining about this is akin to getting mad when a character in a story does something bad, then gets redeemed. Is this used often? Yes, it is. Is it an uninspired cliche? No, this is just one of the basic tools.

Being scared of cliches is a cliche in itself. If you throw away those perfectly good tools consisting of eternal human experiences and philosophies, and resort to building something #totally_unique_never_done_before_do_not_steal, THIS is one of the problems with modern SCP, where everyone tries to make something esoteric and fails miserably. You will either end up using another cliche by accident, or produce something unintelligible (which is fine if you hate your audience enough). I got distracted and forgot what I wanted to say next. Anyways.

If Bright's immortality/capability at rebirth, as well as the weird shit 963 might do to one's consciousness, are used as a tool for storytelling, what is your problem with that?
 
Rufus Deponia said:
'...Being scared of cliches is a cliche in itself. If you throw away those perfectly good tools consisting of eternal human experiences and philosophies, and resort to building something #totally_unique_never_done_before_do_not_steal, THIS is one of the problems with modern SCP, where everyone tries to make something esoteric and fails miserably. You will either end up using another cliche by accident, or produce something unintelligible (which is fine if you hate your audience enough). I got distracted and forgot what I wanted to say next. Anyways...'
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Again, everything has already been said. People are only remixing it into something different.

The problem lies in how a cliche is used by the author. For example, rebirth can be used to make a nuanced character from asking a simple question: 'What will you have done differently from previously.' Which leads to something for a character to confront, making them standout among others philosophically.

I think the issue is how Dr. Bright as a character handles it. From what I remembered, it's used as a scape goat allowing Dr. Bright to wacky shit without any consequences. Even thought. The Foundation can simply contain the SCP viva not giving a body to posses.
 
Local User said:
I think the issue is how Dr. Bright as a character handles it.
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The beauty of this type of project is the fact different writers can have different interpretation. This character is a tool. A doll to play with, and different people can play in different ways. For example, in the Doctors of the Church hub, Bright IS just an amulet without a host, being worshipped by cultist, and gets annoyed when revived, which is an interesting way of fitting him into this canon.

I understand that this "he's an anomaly, but also works for the Foundation" business is a slippery slope. Technically, yes, it's not impossible that the organization would keep him employed after a work-related accident, and I tend to give the older personnel more leeway in this regard, but this should be used cautiously. If used at all.

And well, you can write Bright like you've suggested. Even if at some point he was allowed to retain his position, something could happen that would take this opportunity away. What if everyone got sick of his shit and decided he's too big of a liability? Or what if O5-6 decided it would be for the best, showing his "brotherly love" in this perverted kind of way?

Or what if the opposite happened: Bright does not want to keep getting revived, but he's being made to, because he's too much of an asset. Almost like Clef who's being prevented from retiring by blackmail, 166 and her safety being used as leverage. Wouldn't be unrealistic, either.
 
(Okay people ripped me a new asshole for my opinions Harry Potter so I'll try to be an Optimist here.) I want to get into SCP. but see people saying it's pretty cringe and than I go onto the Discord and see a Pride flag and tons of garbage like that. Open question to anyone in the SCP community , is it fun too take part in and is it not woke.
 
Foundinglaunderer said:
(Okay people ripped me a new asshole for my opinions Harry Potter so I'll try to be an Optimist here.) I want to get into SCP. but see people saying it's pretty cringe and than I go onto the Discord and see a Pride flag and tons of garbage like that. Open question to anyone in the SCP community , is it fun too take part in and is it not woke.
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The site staff is incredibly woke. The majority of the vocal English-speaking community is woke, but most fandoms could probably be described this way. The SCP concept itself is neutral. You can very much enjoy it, there are a lot of great works on the site. If you read anything that's on the older side (pre-2020, let's say), you don't even have to cherry-pick, most of it will be fine.
 
Rufus Deponia said:
The site staff is incredibly woke. The majority of the vocal English-speaking community is woke, but most fandoms could probably be described this way. The SCP concept itself is neutral. You can very much enjoy it, there are a lot of great works on the site. If you read anything that's on the older side (pre-2020, let's say), you don't even have to cherry-pick, most of it will be fine.
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Thank you!!
 
Foundinglaunderer said:
(Okay people ripped me a new asshole for my opinions Harry Potter so I'll try to be an Optimist here.) I want to get into SCP. but see people saying it's pretty cringe and than I go onto the Discord and see a Pride flag and tons of garbage like that. Open question to anyone in the SCP community , is it fun too take part in and is it not woke.
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Not anymore, if you plan on making something 'SCP-Like'. Better to be it's own thing.
 
Rufus Deponia said:
The beauty of this type of project is the fact different writers can have different interpretation. This character is a tool. A doll to play with, and different people can play in different ways. For example, in the Doctors of the Church hub, Bright IS just an amulet without a host, being worshipped by cultist, and gets annoyed when revived, which is an interesting way of fitting him into this canon.

I understand that this "he's an anomaly, but also works for the Foundation" business is a slippery slope. Technically, yes, it's not impossible that the organization would keep him employed after a work-related accident, and I tend to give the older personnel more leeway in this regard, but this should be used cautiously. If used at all.

And well, you can write Bright like you've suggested. Even if at some point he was allowed to retain his position, something could happen that would take this opportunity away. What if everyone got sick of his shit and decided he's too big of a liability? Or what if O5-6 decided it would be for the best, showing his "brotherly love" in this perverted kind of way?

Or what if the opposite happened: Bright does not want to keep getting revived, but he's being made to, because he's too much of an asset. Almost like Clef who's being prevented from retiring by blackmail, 166 and her safety being used as leverage. Wouldn't be unrealistic, either.
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What's funny is everything you just suggested was done in one story or other at least once each. The only really consistent points between all the various stories is Bright had gone a bit nutty, but was at his core the single most loyal person to wear an SCP nametag. From there, whatever you want to come up with is up to you, just remember the last two points.

The deeper issue with the character is being among the first 'self-insert' and/or 'named character' in any Foundation story. This was the start of a terrible trend that eventually culminated in the idea of lolfoundry and it's subsequent purge. But the first foot/s in the door got to stay. That's why Bright is the smoking monkey from Gorillaz doing a Joker impression, Kondraki is a blob made of every Dr. Who one-liner ever written and Clef is John Wick as played by John Candy.
 
Rufus Deponia said:
Is it an uninspired cliche? No
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When every single story revolving around Dr Bright involves his gay ass amulet and his ability, it becomes an uninspired cliche.

You can write 3000 stories about Wolverine but if they're all about how he gets pissed off and uses his claws and his regeneration to win - its boring and a cliche.

IDK maybe I'm just in a sour mood
 
VargReallyDidNothingWrong said:
When every single story revolving around Dr Bright involves his gay ass amulet and his ability, it becomes an uninspired cliche.

You can write 3000 stories about Wolverine but if they're all about how he gets pissed off and uses his claws and his regeneration to win - its boring and a cliche.

IDK maybe I'm just in a sour mood
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Not only don't you understand superheroes, you also don't understand the point of having any superpowered character.
 
Rufus Deponia said:
There are more than self-serving "le silly quirky" works. Do you think this one, for example, is "a part of the problem with SCP"?
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I always thought the stories/tales were gay, instead of bringing new ideas they are just fanfiction of things that other people added. The point of the original SCP is that it was mysterious, "expanding" and overexplaining everything is the real reason the site became what it is now.
 
The simpler the SCP, the better. My favorite is the one about a haunted candy machine, it gives you a different snack depending on what currency you give it(and sometimes snacks out of this world). There is so much you can do with a concept like this, in fact I would say the best SCPs are just ordinary objects with super-natural abilities. The more complex a story gets, the more chances the writer gets to ruin it.
 
30+GameOvers said:
The simpler the SCP, the better. My favorite is the one about a haunted candy machine, it gives you a different snack depending on what currency you give it(and sometimes snacks out of this world). There is so much you can do with a concept like this, in fact I would say the best SCPs are just ordinary objects with super-natural abilities. The more complex a story gets, the more chances the writer gets to ruin it.
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So, here's a game about force feeding a person the various horrors you can get the machine to spit out:


There's also two games with the same concept about the haunted coffee machine SCP.
 
Soda Can said:
So, here's a game about force feeding a person the various horrors you can get the machine to spit out:
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Oh God not this game ag-wait...that's a different game from the rape hentai one. They also made another SCP game prior to this based off the blood lake that summons monsters or some shit. Seems this vending machine game also leans into body horror, but without the rape it seems.
 
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