So the guy who hated the original 049 was the one who rewrote it? Seems like an odd choice. I guess not for ppl trying to shed their origins though. Classic liberalism; throw the baby out with the bath water in the name of progress.
I also remembered
this piece of shit tale that takes the lead of this rewrite in declawing 049 into basically being a little bitch. It re—approaches 049 from the angle of the site’s “oh hey death died” cannon, which is max edgelord cringe and there’s a reason that idea shows up in Family Guy. The tale also features our regular taylor_itkin’s super researcher doctor self-insert.
From badass killer plague doctor to whiney little feefee surgical consultant. What they did with this character is telling and a perfect metaphor for what happened to the whole site.
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The dissipation of the contrast between SCPs and tales, like turning straight up monstrous villains into soap opera level emotional character arcs, means you’ve robbed the site of its defining characteristic, which was the challenge of a cold clinical tone of documents doing the heavy lifting. The novelty and value of the site was this challenge, which by definition had to start over from the elements and freedoms available in traditional story telling.
The history of the site is the influx of self-indulgent bloggers who’ve made writing for the site easier and the product less unique. The skill and finesse in the early articles is lightyears ahead of the new stuff but those new articles’ authors can’t take the ego hit of thinking they are at the forefront of a devolution, so they like to claim that the newer ones aren’t as widely appreciated because they are more sophisticated with things like narrative. No, you guys just lost your way and are too progressive to admit things used to be better.
This reminds me of
this article which is about an Foundation employee who ends up helping the anomaly she is assigned to transition to its “correct gender” as part of the containment protocols or some shit. Yes we all knew the Foundation has transition specialists, but not just for employees now, for the
anomalies too. It should be painfully obvious that this article is successful because of the identity pandering and not due to its actual merits. Any writer worth his weight in salt would avoid writing about something like this because it is essentially short circuiting the writing process. The author applies this cheat code in the first words of the article where they broadcast that it’s about gender dysphoria and SYSTEMATIC RAYYCISMS, as if that’s a trigger point that needs priming for this bunch. No, this is not a content warning, it’s an invocation of the ol privilege stack and a reminder of the contractual support that the oppression Olympics guarantee what follows.
I just read the 3003 article. Now I’m going to go yell at the sky to protest natural selection.
What’s funny to me is that the evil colonists in this story actually do solve all the world issues idealist commies like to complain about, are a Type II on the Kardashev scale that would fuck up the Type I commie stand-ins at a moments’s notice, and the only counter-argument offered against it from a commie is “ew gross”.
By the way, while we’re here, compare the actual writing quality of these 3000 contest runner ups (not their retarded political messages) with the recent 5000 ones... 3003 vs what... “Sacrosanct”? Yikes... The adolescent voting base will ensure that a Dan Brown movie formula piece like the current 3000 will be valued over something with impressive writing like 3001 or this 3003.
Say what you want about Scantron/CWW, he was 100 times the writer of the site‘s current icons like djkuck or flounderhouse and it isn’t even close. Opportunist authors like those stay successful by chasing other people’s tastes well, and that’s the real writing education you get there.
At least Scantron had something to die for and survived on his writing skill. All that’s left are a privileged classes of sterile political identities and their soap boxes.