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Author : crazypython
Score : 329 points
Date : 2021-05-11 16:57 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (scp-wiki.wikidot.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (scp-wiki.wikidot.com)
| osenthuortuh wrote:
| i5ie
| crb3 wrote:
| That's how I read it too; and then the link could be seen as an
| elaborate QSL card.
| screye wrote:
| Reminds me of the Chandrian. Haliax is afterall a shadowy figure
| that is obsessed with keeping themselves secret without any clear
| goals.
| [deleted]
| _Microft wrote:
| /!\
| skibz wrote:
| This website has some truly great stories. Where/how do I begin
| to understand this one?
| _Microft wrote:
| Read on, I found I could figure out most of it on the go.
|
| I still don't understand this part, though: https://scp-
| wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-2521/clearance...
| jerf wrote:
| Those are in-universe classification levels. It says low-
| level personnel are not allowed to access this file, only
| Level 4 and O5, the latter being the top tier Foundation
| ruling council. So that one can't really be decoded without a
| bit of SCP-specific knowledge.
| kuu wrote:
| O5: http://www.scpwiki.com/o5-command-dossier
| gclawes wrote:
| Access to information restricted to Level 4 clearance and O5
| council only.
| isoprophlex wrote:
| Probably that the data contained therein is authorized for
| foundation members at O5 and O4 level
|
| http://www.scpwiki.com/security-clearance-levels
| jdshupe wrote:
| This part is talking about who is allowed to view the
| materials. Level 4 and O5 are the top people of the
| foundation and the information is only allowed to be seen by
| them.
| xboxnolifes wrote:
| Information must only be shared with those of level 4
| clearance or higher.
|
| Edit: Oh wow, a lot of people replied between my last page
| refresh.
| TchoBeer wrote:
| The important thing is that 2521 (ohgod don't hurt me) seeks
| out and destroys everything which contains information about
| itself, but only if that information is words. It doesn't
| destroy pictorial representations.
| throwaway_2047 wrote:
| Can someone explain to me what am I reading here? Everyone is
| mentioning SCP. What is SCP?
| kuyan wrote:
| > The SCP Foundation[note 3] is a fictional organization
| documented by the web-based collaborative-fiction project of
| the same name. Within the website's fictional setting, the SCP
| Foundation is responsible for locating and containing
| individuals, entities, locations, and objects that violate
| natural law (referred to as SCPs). The real-world website is
| community-based and includes elements of many genres such as
| horror, science fiction, and urban fantasy.
|
| > On the SCP Foundation wiki, the majority of works consist of
| "special containment procedures", structured internal
| documentation that describes an SCP object and the means of
| keeping it contained. The website also contains thousands of
| "Foundation Tales", short stories that take place within the
| SCP Foundation setting. The series has been praised for its
| ability to convey horror through its scientific and academic
| writing style, as well as for its high standards of quality.
|
| > The Foundation has inspired numerous spin-off works,
| including the horror indie video games SCP - Containment Breach
| and SCP: Secret Laboratory.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP_Foundation
| stefanvdw1 wrote:
| Ah yes, the wonderful world of SCPs. When I first discovered the
| subreddit[0] I read through a ton of them. Some are very well
| written and the whole universe is very interesting. Would
| recommend to anyone interested in sci-fi.
|
| 0. https://old.reddit.com/r/scp
| Severian wrote:
| The Antimemetics Division stories are very well written, and
| make for some great reading.
|
| http://www.scpwiki.com/antimemetics-division-hub
|
| Imagine fighting something that actively eats any knowledge
| about itself and anything you know about it, including
| yourself.
| MrRadar wrote:
| You can now buy it as an e-book or paperback from the
| original author: https://qntm.org/scp
| isoprophlex wrote:
| I can highly HIGHLY recommend reading this. I blazed
| through it within 24 hours.
|
| Favorite pun: "digitized" to describe being absorbed by a
| monster consisting of a mass of fingers...
| inasio wrote:
| Highly recommend. One of my favourite books from last year,
| probably the most surprising one. It reads like one
| coherent book, not just a collection of short stories.
| ohazi wrote:
| If you like this, you should also consider reading qntm's
| other work -- I thought `Ra` and `Fine Structure` were
| particularly good:
|
| https://qntm.org/fiction
| Severian wrote:
| Oh wow! I didn't know he was the same author. I've been
| looking all over for the Fine Structure website since
| reading it ages ago and lost my bookmark. Thank you!
| ball_of_lint wrote:
| Loved this series. IMO many scp hubs/stories are low-quality
| or have unsavory themes. This series avoids the worst of that
| and tackles a difficult problem in a thoughtful way.
| protomyth wrote:
| I gotta admit that playing a bunch of the SCP animations on
| youtube is pretty entertaining. Multiple channels do a nice job
| of bringing life to the entries.
| kuu wrote:
| Just give some context about what is the SCP (I had no clue):
| https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/SCP_Foundation
| delecti wrote:
| For a time, I read through hundreds of them, but then I had a
| bad trip involving seeing a lot of imagery from them, and it
| rather soured me on reading more.
| jerf wrote:
| Yeah, if you're in the habit of taking such trips, I think
| I'd recommend considering very carefully whether you want to
| start reading through that wiki. There are some real-life, no
| fooling psychologically-hazardous things to read on there.
| silicon2401 wrote:
| Any recommendations on those hazardous things?
| jerf wrote:
| Obviously, by the nature of the question, existential
| horror trigger warning. Further, bear in mind that your
| reactions may vary; none of these particularly bother me
| because for better or worse I have my own solid opinions
| on such matters.
|
| A lot of people have a bad reaction to http://scp-
| wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2718 . An entire "canon" (collection
| of stories and sometimes some SCP entries) that can be
| similarly rough is http://www.scpwiki.com/end-of-death-
| hub . Here's a roughly-equivalent reddit question: https:
| //www.reddit.com/r/SCP/comments/ai3aik/recommendations...
| & if you're serious, by all means feel free to post your
| question there, the community as a whole never tires of
| answering it (no sarcasm).
|
| But I would just say in general that if you've got a
| "hole" in your psyche, hundreds of writers across
| thousands of articles _will_ eventually find it. No joke.
| For instance, I 'm sure a lot of people would just bounce
| off of http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-5045 but it spoke to
| me, probably because I've played rather too many video
| games from an era where those sorts of graphics were
| current and I've got neural pathways adding overtones
| related to the graphics that a younger person probably
| doesn't. (But said younger person might have found
| Herobrine stories legitimately spooky at some point.)
|
| (5045 is a bit of a "format screw", which is to say, it
| has stuff hidden beyond the usual text, images, and
| clearly-labelled expandable drop-downs that most of the
| Wiki is built with. Be sure to click on the images as you
| go along. Most images in the Wiki don't do anything but
| many of these do. But not all.)
| whalesalad wrote:
| As a Jeep owner I was excited for a brief moment.
|
| *|||||||*
| aranelsurion wrote:
| If you're interested in SCP, this game might also be of interest:
| https://store.steampowered.com/app/870780/Control_Ultimate_E...
| EamonnMR wrote:
| This is one of the most enjoyable action games I've played
| recently. The things it does with visual design, shaders,
| perspective, and environments are incredibly impressive.
| jasonhansel wrote:
| This gives me an idea for a way to easily and securely get rid of
| a hard drive...would be much cheaper than those companies that
| shred them.
| crazypython wrote:
| In less than one minute, this post went from #4 to #12,
| suggesting anomalous behavior.
| https://upvotetracker.com/post/hn/27120460
| dang wrote:
| That's not "anomalous behavior", that's routine:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
|
| If you want anomalous behavior: we not only put your post in
| the second-chance pool
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), we unbanned
| wikidot.com and unkilled your submission so that it could go
| through in the first place.
| crazypython wrote:
| I'm joking. It's userflags or mods.
|
| Thanks for putting it in the second-chance pool.
|
| The issue is anything that seems to disagree with Hacker
| News' mainstream[0] beliefs[1] gets flagged. Or even things
| the flagger doesn't understand: see this post being killed in
| the first place.
|
| [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27112353
|
| [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26838634
| dang wrote:
| The flags were correct. The first link was unsubstantive,
| and you can tell from the comments why people were flagging
| it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27112503. The
| second was flamebait on the biggest flamewar topic in
| months. By the time it was posted HN had had a massive
| number of threads about it (see
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713650). It's easy
| to see why users would consider yet another such post off-
| topic.
|
| > _The issue is anything that seems to disagree with Hacker
| News ' mainstream[0] beliefs gets flagged._
|
| You don't have to resort to "beliefs" to explain those
| cases. You may be falling prey to the bias where the bad
| (what you don't like) stands out more than the good (what
| you like), leading to false feelings of generality.
|
| https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&qu
| e...
|
| https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&qu
| e...
| crazypython wrote:
| > By the time it was posted HN had had a massive number
| of threads about it (see
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713650).
|
| Almost all the threads you linked to were misinformation
| or anti-RMS posts with no substance.
|
| Stallmansupport.org is a website made by a group of
| women, with articles only from women, debunking the
| sexism claims. It is rich in primary sources.
|
| Yet it gets flagged.
|
| Non-substantiative news like "Red Hat supports the
| removal of RMS" doesn't get flagged, but an in-depth
| website by a group of women does.
|
| "Red Hat Pulls Free Software Foundation Funding over
| Richard Stallman's Return" is a dupe. Also, less than 3%
| of FSF funding is corporate, so it's not really relevant.
|
| There were far more "calls for RMS to be removed" that
| weren't flagged than substantiative in-depth articles
| that looked at the issue.
|
| I suggest a simple remedy: Don't count flags from people
| who didn't click to open the article. To implement this,
| require a min delay between the time the link list is
| loaded, and the time they flagged.
| dang wrote:
| Your perceptions of one-sidedness are coming from the
| force of your passions. I assure you that people on the
| opposite side of this story say exactly the same things,
| just with one bit flipped.
|
| I addressed all of this in depth at the time (ironically,
| in a submission of the same URL that you posted, which
| wasn't killed):
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713636
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26714003
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713701
|
| That took hours, and I don't have hours to write anything
| new. If, after reading those comments, you still think
| there's something I haven't addressed, please double-
| check to make double-sure that I didn't address it. If it
| passes that test, ask me then and I'll try to answer. In
| the meantime, though, please don't post new variations in
| this endless sequence.
| crazypython wrote:
| > The first link was unsubstantive
|
| The most well-known VPS provider (DO) is not profitable
| and a competitor (Linode) with the same price and a very
| similar product is profitable.
|
| That in itself is interesting to me, particularly how DO
| managed to pull off that marketing.
|
| > The second was flamebait on the biggest flamewar topic
| in months.
|
| Sorry, I didn't see that it was already duplicated. If it
| was, I would have avoided submitting.
| unyttigfjelltol wrote:
| HNers may well have flagged it after clicking through to the
| symbols and picturgrams.
| TeMPOraL wrote:
| I was about a second from flagging it when I saw it - I
| didn't remember what's on wikidot.com, and that domain +
| Unicode dots smelled like something that doesn't belong. But
| then I realized it's an SCP, so it got my upvote instead :).
|
| I consider many of the SCPs as intellectual curiosity
| equivalent of catnip; they take your mind to places it never
| expected to find itself in. But it takes reading some to
| realize that, and this one definitely requires context.
| peanut_worm wrote:
| the domain being "wikidot" really threw me off
| jvanderbot wrote:
| I get that this is instructions / data about a baddie that steals
| all written / spoken information about itself. Including the
| person who spoke it.
|
| BUT, what is the bit about half way down showing that you cannot
| share the pictoral data with people 0,1,2, or 3, but you can
| share with 4 and ... 0.5?
| fao_ wrote:
| Security clearance, only level 4 or higher. An O-5 is one of
| the directors of The Foundation.
| HPsquared wrote:
| Reminds me of this real-world example:
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Interference_Task_Forc...
| xvector wrote:
| Did anything ever come of this? Were the ideas ever implemented
| in the real world?
| gswdh wrote:
| I heard they concluded the best sign was no sign. Any sign
| would draw attention to the site if it could not be
| understood. The best thing to do is to bury waste as deep as
| possible in secure and boring (geologically) locations to
| reduce the chances of anyone digging.
| TrevorJ wrote:
| There's a common theme among fantasy stories of a race of
| (usually dwarves) that 'dug too deep' and uncovered
| something evil underground. It's interesting that this
| cautionary tale already seems embedded in our lore. I
| wonder why? Have we made this mistake before, at some point
| in our forgotten past?
|
| Probably not, but it's interesting to think about.
| NortySpock wrote:
| "dug straight down" and fell in a cave... cave might have
| been full of something that eats flesh like piranha or
| bacteria, or even just angry bats...
|
| Seems pretty trivial for this kind of lore to get
| started.
| avaldes wrote:
| Maybe those stories refer to natural fission reactors.
| Cursed stones buried deep in the ground that heat
| themselves and kill people who comes too close.
| sbierwagen wrote:
| Regrettably, the actual markers at the WIPP burial site are
| far more boring and government-y: https://commons.wikimedia.o
| rg/wiki/File:WIPP_Large_Surface_M...
| p1mrx wrote:
| <o><o>!
|
| https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WIPP-09.jpeg
| 1_player wrote:
| The Wikipedia page for WIPP still mentions that "[warning
| information] will be recorded in the six official languages
| of the United Nations (English, Spanish, Russian, French,
| Chinese, Arabic) as well as the Native American Navajo
| language native to the region, with additional space for
| translation into future languages. Pictograms are also
| being considered, such as stick figure images and the
| iconic The Scream from Edvard Munch's painting."
|
| A great video about Fear of Depths briefly talks about
| this: https://youtu.be/7MOKTU9tCbw?t=1299 (timestamped at
| 21:39 when they mention WIPP, but I highly recommend the
| whole video)
| Y_Y wrote:
| The deliberately use simple language, and then go and use
| "berm" in a way that makes it pretty hard to understand
| without knowing what a "berm" is. I know a lot of English
| words, but I'd have to look that one up.
| HPsquared wrote:
| It also optimistically assumes the intended readers,
| living in the future, will have finally adopted the
| metric system.
| _Microft wrote:
| There is also _Don 't change color, Kitty_, the _" 10000 - Year
| Earworm to Discourage Settlement Near Nuclear Waste
| Repositories"_.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g78hZIEqONM
| kevinmgranger wrote:
| For additional context: this was the winning entry in the SCP's
| Short Works Contest[1]. The idea was: can you make a good SCP
| entry in under 500 words? Bonus points if it's under 237 words,
| the length of the first ever entry.
|
| Of course, the entry with zero words won.
|
| [1]: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/short-works-contest
| hatsuseno wrote:
| Seems like that's a common thread for 'shortest X' contents,
| like that 0-byte IOOCC entry.
| echelon wrote:
| This would make a fantastic horror movie. I could see it being in
| the same vein as "It Follows", except in this case you can't talk
| about the monster.
| pkulak wrote:
| My 11-year-old son is absolutely obsessed with SCP stuff. Never
| in a million years did I think I'd see something about it here.
| Wow.
| tywkeene wrote:
| It's definitely not "just kid stuff" if it gives that
| impression. There's some seriously talented writers out there
| that can really grab your imagination.
|
| I recall one "tale" that about a time when SCP failed to secure
| everything all at once, and a normal guy is detailing the world
| basically falling apart as long as he can.
|
| In the right hands a lot of these stories could make
| magnificent movies, but that's a long shot.
| TchoBeer wrote:
| Sounds like an 001 story. For my personal favorite one read
| "When Day Breaks."
| MetallicCloud wrote:
| In people like these and haven't tried playing the game
| `Control`, you definitely should. It is very heavily inspired by
| the SCP project, and is a super fun and interesting game.
| crazypython wrote:
| Another interesting SCP: the "Adaptive Distributed Intelligence"
| http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5241#toc0
| outsidetheparty wrote:
| SCP Wiki has really matured over the years; it started out as
| creepypasta and murder monsters -- many of them well-written, to
| be sure, and an interesting setting -- but still just basically
| straightforward horror stories.
|
| In recent years some of the writers there have really upped their
| game, they're tackling much more nuanced and complicated issues
| than "SCARY THING WILL DESTROY WORLD". I'm particularly fond of
| http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-5031, for example, which directly
| addresses those aspects of the early site in a very humorous way.
| rthomas6 wrote:
| I love this :)
| phiiiillll wrote:
| This is a good long form SCP read:
| http://www.scpwiki.com/antimemetics-division-hub
| ChrisClark wrote:
| I really loved reading through this one. Such a great idea
| for a story.
| ctdonath wrote:
| Bravo. 5031 was a brilliant read. ("Salt", OMG.)
|
| First encountered SCP by chance, absolutely baffling - so much
| fictional detail. Favorite is the self-filling whiskey tumbler.
| inopinatus wrote:
| having Gears shoot Kondraki was the smartest move that O-5 ever
| made.
| rory wrote:
| Could the person who made the entry write in abstract? Like what
| if I say: you shouldn't write or talk about beings that don't
| want to be written or talked about.
| dsr_ wrote:
| That Depends.
|
| There may be classes of infovores and memetic cognitohazards
| which are not triggered by information so general that it does
| not assert the actual existence of any given entity.
| abhorrence wrote:
| As I recall, in one of the antimemetic stories they can (with
| some intentional effort) remember and describe what it isn't:
| "It isn't... round."
| zro wrote:
| I believe that was SCP-055
| jerf wrote:
| One of the general principles of the SCP-verse is that it hates
| rules lawyers. If you try to get clever, things tend to react
| even worse. This is used in-universe as an explanation of why
| they "contain" rather than "destroy". One of my favorite
| examples, albeit a very old one now, is
| http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-145 .
| tedivm wrote:
| Another really good example of that is SCP-1609:
| http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-1609
| dharmab wrote:
| IIRC this was written for a contest for the best entry written
| with a low word count
| gorgoiler wrote:
| Be sure to check out the discussion page for links to the
| original artwork:
|
| http://www.humantropy.com/
|
| http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-1292498/scp-2521
| sxp wrote:
| If you're new to SCP, I suggest starting with qntm's Antimemetics
| stories. They're well written and self-contained. You can read
| them for free online or buy the ebook: https://qntm.org/scp
| geoah wrote:
| > SCP-2521 (also known as **|*****|**|*) is a Keter-level SCP not
| currently contained by the SCP Foundation. He is a creature who
| steals every piece of information about his nature, as long as
| the information is expressed in textual or verbal form. Because
| of that, nearly everything about him is registered by ideograms
| and pictures.
|
| from https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/SCP-2521
| agmm wrote:
| .
| jeffgreco wrote:
| I just tried to wipe that off my screen.
| canadianfella wrote:
| So did I.
| Jommi wrote:
| delete this
| ta988 wrote:
| Is that the roko basilisk all over again?
| 4bpp wrote:
| If I were working for the SCP foundation, I'd be putting some
| D-class personnel on the problem of figuring out where exactly
| the line between ideograms/pictures and "textual or verbal
| form" lies. Can you describe it in Chinese writing? A
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus? Is the determinant whether
| any sound sequences used for human communication are being
| encoded? What about only using the purely pictographic Chinese
| characters, or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbols?
|
| (What about a picture of the waveform of a verbal description?
| ...a complete scifi brain scan of someone who understands what
| it is?)
| [deleted]
| dogecoinbase wrote:
| This reminds me of an all-time favorite essay:
| https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2756
|
| "We can ask: if consciousness is reducible to computation,
| then what kinds of computation suffice to bring about
| consciousness? What if each person on earth simulated one
| neuron in your brain, communicating by passing little slips
| of paper around? Does it matter if they do it really fast?
|
| Or what if we built a gigantic lookup table that hard-coded
| your responses in every possible interaction of at most, say,
| 5 minutes? Would that bring about your consciousness? Does it
| matter that such a lookup table couldn't fit in the
| observable universe? Would it matter if anyone actually
| consulted the table, or could it just sit there, silently
| effecting your consciousness? For what matter, what
| difference does it make if the lookup table physically exists
| --why isn't its abstract mathematical existence enough?"
| sorokod wrote:
| Isn't this the same construct as Searle's Chinese Room ?
| de_keyboard wrote:
| It's the Chinese Mind thought experiment
| pantalaimon wrote:
| > What if each person on earth simulated one neuron in your
| brain, communicating by passing little slips of paper
| around?
|
| I do think this kind of group consciousness or meta
| consciousness exists, on many layers even. That's how
| society works.
| CamperBob2 wrote:
| Yep. Anyone who's spent more than five minutes watching
| an anthill should understand that more or less
| intuitively.
|
| We're just bigger ants, is all.
| perl4ever wrote:
| >silently effecting your consciousness
|
| You deserve a medal for first class orthodox use of
| "effect".
|
| >what difference does it make if the lookup table
| physically exists
|
| The difference it makes is that if it doesn't exist, nobody
| who does exist can talk to it. It seems like much the same
| situation as wondering if someone over the cosmological
| horizon or inside the event horizon of a black hole exists.
| If I was entering the answer into a database, I would
| probably choose null or "N/A" rather than yes or no.
| TeMPOraL wrote:
| Looking at it from first principles:
|
| Information given in the SCP tell us that digitally stored
| files are affected to. That seems to mean digitally stored
| _text_.
|
| Text in a digital form is just a way to indirectly reference
| _pictures_ to be shown on the screen or printed. Sometimes it
| 's a straight lookup table correspondence (ASCII), sometimes
| more complex (Unicode); there may be noise (OOXML). I'd guess
| that, in context of this SCP, a PNG with letters on it would
| count as text too.
|
| This suggests that the issue isn't with a representation
| format, but the interpretation of it - or at least in a way
| the representation is processed by human minds.
|
| I put forward a hypothesis that the relevant recognition
| criteria is words being recognized from sensory inputs by the
| human brain, and backtracking to most direct source of these
| words. This would explain the results of both documented
| tests. I propose following further tests to be made:
|
| - Repeating Test 1, but blindfolding the test subject before
| telling them to write words down, so that they can't see
| them. Expected outcome: like in Test 2.
|
| - Repeating Test 2, but instructing the test subject to _not_
| repeat the words heard out loud. Expected outcome: like in
| Test 2.
|
| - Repeating Test 2 with the test subject incapable of
| hearing. Expected outcome: nothing happens.
|
| - Repeating Test 2, using a machine recording sounds and
| replaying them after a delay, in place of the test subject.
| Expected outcome: nothing happens.
|
| - Repeating Test 1, using a computer connected to a
| microphone and a printer, in place of test subject; the
| machine would run a dictation algorithm to print the spoken
| words. Expected outcome: nothing happens.
| blamestross wrote:
| Huh, the server has not been stolen yet, maybe it doesn't
| work the way we think.
| olodus wrote:
| It was actually for this reason alone that a top secret team
| of scientists came up with wingdings.
| antihero wrote:
| Well, whoever wrote that is fucked.
| jychang wrote:
| Nah, 2521 would just take the piece of paper it's written on.
| If someone said it out loud, then they're fucked.
| jschwartzi wrote:
| Oh damn it now I have to throw my laptop away.
| someguyorother wrote:
| Now I wonder if he detects indirect statements and exhaustive
| lies, e.g. "The creature is in $CONTINENT" for all continents
| but one.
| [deleted]
| nine_k wrote:
| This is because self-referential jokes are the funniest -- like
| this one.
| soheil wrote:
| Secure Contain Protect not to be confused with cmd line tool scp,
| secure copy.
| kickscondor wrote:
| Some other Internet 'lore' rabbitholes:
|
| * SilvaGunner (also: Unregistered HyperCam 2):
| https://siivagunner.fandom.com/wiki/SiIvaGunner_Wiki
|
| * Pronounciation Book / horse_ebooks:
| https://77days.fandom.com/wiki/Pronunciation_Book_Conspiracy...
|
| * Cicada 3301: http://www.cicada3301.org
|
| I'm cataloguing some of these here:
| https://href.cool/Stories/Folkmeme
|
| Interested to hear about other favorites of yours!
| geoah wrote:
| One of my favourites:
|
| > John Titor is a name used on several bulletin boards during
| 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be an American military
| time traveler from 2036. Titor made numerous vague and specific
| predictions regarding calamitous events in 2004 and beyond,
| including a nuclear war. Inconsistencies in his explanations,
| the uniform inaccuracy of his predictions, and a private
| investigator's findings all led to the general impression that
| the entire episode was an elaborate hoax.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
| dragontamer wrote:
| And of course, the anime based off of John Titor's legend:
| Steins;Gate (and other urban legends: such as miniature black
| holes are being created by "SERN" in the LHC: the obvious
| play on CERN in the real world).
|
| A pretty funny (and horrific!!) "what if" scenario if a lot
| of those legends happened to be true. I have my doubts if it
| has aged very well: a lot of the pull of that anime was that
| it felt very "in the now"... where "now" was ~2010 when it
| was released. Those urban legends / online conspiracy
| theories have a short lifespan, and I doubt that many people
| today would pick up on all of the stuff integrated into that
| story.
| debo_ wrote:
| The urban legends may have an expiry date, but "tuturuu~"
| is timeless.
| dragontamer wrote:
| That's true. A lot of the characters are very memorable
| and stand on their own, even without any context of the
| urban legends.
|
| Isn't that right Chrrrrris-TINA!!
| TeMPOraL wrote:
| Indeed.
|
| I imagine it also had a measurable impact on the sales of
| Dr Pepper. It took me a year to kick the habit of
| drinking it, which started after binge-watching
| Steins;Gate.
| heavyset_go wrote:
| One of my favorite classics that I didn't see in your catalogue
| is Ted the Caver[1].
|
| [1] https://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/
| codeulike wrote:
| Ulillillia
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20161203081232/http://www.ulilli...
|
| I bought his book back in the day. His main website is offline
| but he's still around and doing ok it seems
| tracedddd wrote:
| Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters is a masterpiece, never
| read anything remotely like it.
| codeulike wrote:
| Its still available!
|
| https://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-legend-of-
| th...
|
| Review from the Lulu page:
|
| _This book is nothing like anything you 've ever read
| before. The author himself doesn't read at all, so the book
| basically reinvents the concept of the book, built on a
| background of video games and a serious obsession with
| numbers. If you are a very 'literate' reader and unable to
| read anything without seeing it against the conventions of
| a thousand years of literary tradition, you'll have trouble
| enjoying this book. If you can keep a very open mind,
| you'll get a rare glimpse to a world seen by a mind that
| doesn't work like most of ours. I would like to call this a
| gem of outsider literature, but the term suffers from
| association with lunacy and incompetence. Nick Smith is
| neither. He is very conscious of the peculiar workings of
| his mind, and follows confidently the path laid out by
| those peculiarities, and the result is something wonderful.
| Highly recommended! Review by Heikki Malkki_
| dwighttk wrote:
| Ted's Caving Page
|
| https://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html
| 1_player wrote:
| LEMMiNO has a nice 18 minutes documentary and summary on Cicada
| 3301: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2O7blSSzpI
|
| --
|
| Some "internet lore" off the top of my head:
|
| * Body builders try to figure out how many days are in a week,
| summary dramatised here:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4
|
| * Time Cube: https://timecube.2enp.com/
|
| --
|
| EDIT: speaking of SilvaGunner, I've never heard this name
| before, I found two mentions of it on two unrelated YouTube
| videos in the past 3 hours. Incredible. Baader-Meinhof strikes
| again.
| jcun4128 wrote:
| Cicada 3301 is also a movie now released in 2021, I was
| surprised it had some basis in reality.
| kickscondor wrote:
| These 'going deep' videos also bring to mind 'The Lasangacat
| Monologue': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh9oLs67Cw
| (Originally ran across this in HN comments btw)
| lukasdanin wrote:
| lol thanks for the body builders link
| jyrkesh wrote:
| Does anyone else remember EPIC 2014?
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPIC_2014
|
| I thought it was crazy how many of these turned out to be
| mostly right (even if the explicit stuff about mergers and
| lawsuits was wrong)
| kickscondor wrote:
| Also interested in stuff like the 847-page 'please will anyone
| speak to about anything to me' historical document.
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20060324180631/http://www.moviec...
| dash2 wrote:
| What in hell is that????
| nonbirithm wrote:
| It was an Internet phenomenon caused by a quirk in Google's
| "I'm feeling lucky" ranking.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_lonely_will_anyone_speak
| _...
|
| HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25532050
| mjsir911 wrote:
| +1 on SiIvagunner (with a capital i!), the amount of variation
| they provide on a daily basis has quickly made them my go-to
| focus music.
| pvaldes wrote:
| For a fly, this is the stuff that nightmares are made of
| robotnikman wrote:
| Funny to see this as I just got back into reading SCP articles
| again.
| VectorLock wrote:
| Its nice to call out a SCP that isn't cringe self-insert
| material.
| DiggyJohnson wrote:
| Well let me be the first to say: I'm intrigued.
| isoprophlex wrote:
| Weaponizing this would be fantastic for use in ransomware.
|
| "Pay us crypto or else we'll overwrite your disks with data about
| SCP-2521"
| csunbird wrote:
| But this sentence is about him, isn't it?
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