[HN Gopher] SCP-055
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SCP-055
Author : rbanffy
Score : 118 points
Date : 2021-05-25 10:25 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (scp-wiki.wikidot.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (scp-wiki.wikidot.com)
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| Aaargh20318 wrote:
| The book about this[1] has been on my to-read list for a while.
| The reviews seem to be very positive.
|
| [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54870256-there-is-no-
| ant...
| pkd wrote:
| I read it recently. Four star book for me. Will recommend.
| prezjordan wrote:
| It's pretty good! A little dry (I like dry - it helps me sleep)
| but the ideas in it are very cool.
| Symmetry wrote:
| The antimemetics division sequence is great
|
| _" What happened to him?"_
|
| _" You don't want to know."_
|
| _There is a very long pause while both O5-8 and his assistant
| react to this. In fact, they pass through a long, discrete
| sequence of reactions. Indignation at the seeming rudeness;
| confusion at Wheeler 's incaution in front of sinister superiors;
| surprise at the magnitude of the claim; pure disbelief;
| comprehension; and finally, horror._
|
| _" What..." O5-8 asks carefully, "would happen if we did know?"_
| captn3m0 wrote:
| I read through all of qntm's Anti-memetics series a few weeks
| back, and this is where it all begins. Highly recommended.
|
| If you'd like to support the author, you can buy it as an eBook
| from Amazon[0].
|
| >This ebook collects all of my Antimemetics Division fiction:
| SCP-055, SCP-2256 and the complete serials There Is No
| Antimemetics Division and Five Five Five Five Five.
|
| [0]: https://www.amazon.in/qntm/e/B091P6ZQLW
| StavrosK wrote:
| The ebooks are a cheap and more convenient way to read these
| particular stories. I've bought all three of them from
| https://gumroad.com/qntm, because they're great.
| troyvit wrote:
| Thanks for this link. Bought!
| mijoharas wrote:
| Oh! I thought qntm was familiar. I think I read Ra a while back
| (probably also on an HN recommendation).
|
| I only read the blog version, I'll definitely pick up the
| kindle version.
| looperhacks wrote:
| If you don't know about the SCP wiki, I really recommend checking
| it out, but be aware that it can be a really deep rabbit hole.
| The most important articles are the SCPs like this one, basically
| anomalous objects or beings. But often much more interesting are
| the tales, which are storys about the SCP foundation and
| everything else in the fictional universe.
|
| And if you are confused: There is no shared canon, so articles
| can contradict each other (and they often do).
| jonstewart wrote:
| I didn't know about the SCP wiki. I started reading TFA and
| then I started reading the home page, and I don't know what any
| of this is, nor see any kind of About.
|
| I got a job and two kids. What is this?
| AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote:
| SCP is probably the largest and most successful collaborative
| fiction project on the internet. It is presented as a series
| of database entries on SCPs, or "skips", which are anomalous
| objects, entities, or events that the SCP Foundation has
| contained or would like to contain if they could figure out
| how. It is largely horror themed. There are also "Tales"
| which are simply stories set in the SCP-verse.
|
| Like anything, 90% of it is kinda crap, but that last 10% can
| be really really good.
| egypturnash wrote:
| It is a massive collection of the notes of a fictional
| organization that finds Weird, Dangerous, Magical Shit and
| keeps it out of the lives and hands of normal people.
|
| Wikipedia has a decent capsule summary of the fiction and its
| real-world history:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP_Foundation
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| adrian_mrd wrote:
| On the SCP wiki, you could have two jobs and a kid.
| holdenlucas wrote:
| There are a few in-universe explanations of the fractured
| canon, my favorite:
|
| http://www.scpwiki.com/sandrewswann-s-proposal
| AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote:
| After a long enough time reading, I've come to the conclusion
| that the contradictions are shared canon. Reality in the SCP
| universe is just such a fucked up place that trying to make
| consistent sense of it is entirely futile.
| chousuke wrote:
| There probably is an anomaly or two that allow interaction
| between parallel universes. The different SCP foundations in
| different universes might be working with each other.
| rozab wrote:
| The Elder Scrolls series has various interesting in-universe
| explanations which help account for the multiple actions a
| player character could take:
|
| https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Dragon_Break
|
| I suppose this fulfills the same purpose for the SCP
| universe:
|
| http://www.scpwiki.com/document-recovered-from-the-
| marianas-...
| verytrivial wrote:
| This reminds me of early "Welcome to Night Vale" episodes when
| it was still revelling in novelty of desert-themed myth
| creation and delightfully paradoxical weirdness -- stories
| spawned from--but creatively fighting with--previoiusly assumed
| premises about that world (but with the added bonus of humour.)
| geocrasher wrote:
| I was reading about this and then... What isn't canonical? I
| don't understand your question.
| bigbillheck wrote:
| > What isn't canonical?
|
| Yes.
| geocrasher wrote:
| Exactly.
|
| (Glad to see _somebody_ gets the joke!)
| sethish wrote:
| I don't see a question in the parent's comment?
|
| Nothing in particular on the 055 page isn't canonical. But
| any other page on the wiki might contradict anything on any
| other page. For instance, there are a number of other SCPs
| and articles that provide conflicting explanations of
| SCP-055.
| medstrom wrote:
| SCP is the opposite of say, the Star Wars franchise where
| George Lucas (now Disney) gets to say what's canon even if
| all the fans disagree. In the SCP-verse, everything is
| licensed Creative Commons (I think), so your own headcanon is
| equally valid as anyone else's, and fanfic doesn't exist
| because it's all fanfic.
|
| That also means it's popular to make live action movies like
| this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVx2jyDPinw)
| Causality1 wrote:
| Yes. The site has also been through several rounds of civil war
| level drama, so you may or may not be able to find an article
| or version of an article you want to re-read. Don't give up;
| what you're looking for will be in the edit history or on an
| archive site.
| redrobein wrote:
| If anyone's interested I'd also recommend The Exploring Series1
| youtube channel which does summarized narrations of SCPs.
|
| [1] https://www.youtube.com/user/ManggMangg
| eberfreitas wrote:
| And if you like SCP and videogames you should definitly check
| out the game Control.
| robin_reala wrote:
| I had that in my library from PS Plus but hadn't tried it, so
| thanks for the recommendation.
| kgwxd wrote:
| That was pretty hard to search for
| https://www.remedygames.com/games/control/
| rtkwe wrote:
| Just have to know how to get google to go to the right
| category. Just use Control game instead of just searching
| control and it pops right up.
| delecti wrote:
| My strategy is to go straight to Wikipedia. It's not
| perfect, but their disambiguation pages are great for
| lots of ambiguously named proper nouns.
| kyriakos wrote:
| Recelty finished it. It's a great game.
| weatherlight wrote:
| My favorite SCP: http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-1981
|
| "SCP-1981 appears to be a home video recording of former United
| States President Ronald Reagan delivering his "Evil Empire"
| speech to the National Association of Evangelicals at Sheraton
| Twin Towers Hotel, Orlando, FL on 3/8/1983. However, at 1 minute
| and 10 seconds, the speech begins to deviate heavily, eventually
| resembling no known speech ever made by Reagan. Beginning at
| approximately 5 minutes, multiple incisions, lacerations and
| penetration wounds can be seen being slowly inflicted, though no
| corresponding source of these wounds is visible. Despite
| suffering bodily harm that would likely incapacitate an ordinary
| person, Reagan will continue to deliver his speech until either
| his vocal cords are severed or the tape degrades to static at
| 22:34."
|
| Deliciously creepy.
| Tade0 wrote:
| I wonder if this is some kind of reference to The Picture of
| Dorian Gray?
| scambier wrote:
| I love that the last sentence implies that the wounds are
| different each time you watch the tape.
| j4yav wrote:
| Check out the whole article at the link, it contains more and
| goes into that. It is a good one.
| scambier wrote:
| Thanks for the recommendation, that was worth it.
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| idbehold wrote:
| Sorry if this is off-topic, but why does the OP link to a
| different domain from the one you linked to? They appear to be
| nearly identical sites.
| commoner wrote:
| It's hosted on Wikidot. The bottom-left of the site says
| "Powered by Wikidot.com" and Wikidot wikis can be hosted on
| custom domains as well as subdomains of wikidot.com:
|
| https://www.wikidot.com/features
| thesz wrote:
| The answer is at the end of OP page:
| Recommendations: It may be worthwhile to post at least one
| staff member capable of remembering the existence of
| SCP-055 to each critical site.
| noumenized wrote:
| For all the unsettling or violent or dangerous SCPs on the wiki,
| my favourite still remains SCP-348. I teared up a little the
| first time I read this:
|
| http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-348
|
| It's a ceramic bowl with "thinking of you" written in Chinese on
| the side. When a person with a mild sickness like a runny nose or
| a cough is nearby, it fills with soup. People who eat this soup
| say it's comforting & reminds them of their parents' cooking.
| Once eaten, a message will materialize in the inside of the soup
| bowl in the language most familiar to the person eating from it.
|
| I won't spoil the rest.
|
| Side note: the closest game to capture the feeling of reading the
| SCP wiki is Control. If you enjoy reading the SCP wiki, you
| definitely owe it to yourself to play Control.
| lowbloodsugar wrote:
| just not on a console. it's a PC game with no compensating
| mechanics for joysticks. play it on PC with a mouse.
| egypturnash wrote:
| From the final part of this story, set in 2020:
|
| _" We have learned that there is time missing from our world.
| Almost a year of extremely recent history. And there are spaces,
| significant spaces, in every population center, which cannot be
| perceived or entered. The cities are rerouting around them, like
| mountains or radiation zones. And along with that time and that
| space, we have learned that there are enough people missing,
| without any explanation whatsoever, that if I spent the rest of
| my considerably augmented lifespan counting them, I could not
| count to that number."_
|
| _He says, his voice rising, "These things happen. And we say to
| ourselves, 'Never again.' And a hundred years pass. And they
| happen. Again."_
|
| Yeah, feels about right.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Public_health_mana...
| downrightmike wrote:
| You'd probably like this one too, some what similar and is
| built out further in Ad Astra canon:
| http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-3848
| BenoitP wrote:
| Hey, that's a rabbit hole I've gone through recently!
|
| I highly recommend the 'There Is No Antimemetics Division' short
| stories:
|
| http://www.scpwiki.com/antimemetics-division-hub
| spicybright wrote:
| There's a lot of good ones! One of my favorites, a retro computer
| that gained sentience: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-079
|
| > Description: SCP-079 is an Exidy Sorcerer microcomputer built
| in 1978. In 1981, its owner, (deceased), a college sophomore
| attending , took it upon himself to attempt to code an AI.
| According to his notes, his plan was for the code to continuously
| evolve and improve itself as time went on. His project was
| completed a few months later, and after some tests and tweaks,
| lost interest and moved on to a different brand of microcomputer.
| He left SCP-079 in his cluttered garage, still plugged in, and
| forgot about it for the next five years.
| mech422 wrote:
| I also liked the stories about the space ship and crew...
|
| The angel one, and the guy in the sarcophagus were neat too.
|
| Oh - and the factory!
| spicybright wrote:
| Do you mean this one? http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-914
|
| Because that's definitely another one I love
| mech422 wrote:
| oh - and I never did figure out what was up / finish reading
| with the clockwork men from the toy factory ? I seem to recall
| starting an arc about a girl that worked there...
| bashinator wrote:
| There's a book about this - "There is no Anti-Memetics Division",
| written by qntm.
| medstrom wrote:
| Ah, 055. The beginning of a whole arc on the Antimemetics
| Division, which has been formed from scratch over and over again
| every time someone realized there ought to be an antimemetics
| division.
| amzin wrote:
| And to clarify, the beginning is here: http://scp-
| wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub
| postalrat wrote:
| This is how you kill 55.
| andrelaszlo wrote:
| Kill what?
| postalrat wrote:
| SCP-055
| xdrosenheim wrote:
| I don't think there is such SCP.
| glitchcrab wrote:
| Whoosh
| postalrat wrote:
| lol
| niccl wrote:
| SCP-055 sounds very much like the mnemonomorph in the Thursday
| Next series by Jasper Fforde. I can't remember her name...
|
| Maybe SCP-055 escaped to Jasper Fforde's universe, or vice versa
| lowbloodsugar wrote:
| My favorite line: "Do we have an Irony Division?"
| emptyparadise wrote:
| I love the Tetris one.
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| Iv wrote:
| That was all fun to read until, at the middle of it, I realize
| that I remembered reading it a few years ago.
|
| Oh no.
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