The fifth world problems thread
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A man who lives in a giant mushroom told me to read a thick black book and my consciousness was transported to the realm of knowledge but tentacle monsters attacked me and I died.
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A man who lives in a giant mushroom told me to read a thick black book and my consciousness was transported to the realm of knowledge but tentacle monsters attacked me and I died.
Man, they must have been some serious brownies
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Almost flagged for spam until I saw who posted it
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fifth world......
sooo.... Jupiter?
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Oh good. Be sure to say hello to Hermaeus Mora for me if you see him.
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Reminds me of SCP but more intentionally hilarious and less unintentionally hilarious.
EDIT: I always loved Shmorky's SCP object:
"A rotating Ron Paul blimp in the sky, and it says 'Google Ron Paul', but when you try to Google it goes to Bing!"
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SCP
I only know it from that game where you go down stairs, go down stairs, go down stairs, and then you die.
Even sonic.exe was scarier than that.
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All SCP video games are awful. The site itself is somewhere between awful and funny.
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what the flagnar did i just see on the other side of that link?
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Such a dick move: they call it the realm of knowledge to promote the use of ignorance as a weapon.
You only go to the realm of knowledge without a frying pan once.
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I find SCP to be fascinating. The structure and conventions. Basically just applying documentation conventions seems to make the whole mythos more believable.
I'm trying to capture this in my own writing by bookending chapters with official documents relating to the events. Invoices, letters, military orders, status reports, that sort of stuff. Gives things a real "a history of..." feel, which is good, since I'm writing world-spanning space opera anyway.
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I find SCP to be fascinating.
all i can think about when i see that acronym is Secure Copy
(sorry about the wiki nag. looks like server bills are coming due soon.)EDIT: changed it to a link to the man page rather than nagapedia
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(sorry about the wiki nag. looks like server bills are coming due soon.)
OH GOD that one's bad this year. Holy shit.Fuck wikipedia.
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Fuck wikipedia.
yeah... it's been bad lately.... but this one is....
hmm... brb. i'mma liking to the man page rather than wikipedia.
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Odd, I didn't get a nag...
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Read War Day by Whitley Streiber.
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No nag here, either.
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have you been on wiki earlier today? or perhaps you clicked after i edited the link to point at the man page rather than wikipedia?
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no, and I went to it directly
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Read War Day by Whitley Streiber.
Eeeeinteresting. No audiobook, though. So it has to go on the "when I get time" list.
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huh... odd.
whatevs. man page is superior anyway.
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Audiobook would kind of ruin the whole "official documents in a novel" thing. But yes, good book.
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Depends on the document, really. If it straight text and scans logically in reading order, it's workable. But I concede the point
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all i can think about when i see that acronym is Secure Copy
Huh, and I just misread it as SICP, which makes perfect sense for the first of @Weng's paragraphs and none at all for the second.
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yeah... it's been bad lately.... but this one is....
I thought they used to do these begathons yearly but it seems like it's happening more and more frequently lately.
I would never give Wikipedia money as long as they maintain their current set of ridiculous biases.
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I've given them money a couple of times due to the value I feel I get from it. It would be nice if there was a message box for 'why I didn't give you more', they might get some valuable feedback.
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I've given them money a couple of times due to the value I feel I get from it.
Same here.
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I noticed TVTropes is begging for money too, now. Apparently through Kickstarter.
Yeah, right, I wanna give money to the assholes who deleted all my content due to "natter" (a word they made up, approximate definition: "a piece of content an asshole who has admin rights on TVTropes thinks ought to be deleted because he's an asshole.")
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Google thinks that “natter” has been around since the early 19th Century, and the definitions include (approximately) “meaningless chit-chat”.
We need a reason for flagging things here: not natter.
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Yes but if I used the dictionary definition, then there would be no joke you humorless fuck.
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Yes but if I used the dictionary definition, then there would be no joke you humorless fuck.
There still isn't one, Drax.
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No, no, the rhyming Blaketionary.
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No, no, the rhyming Blaketionary.
That might be an entertaining change of pace, if it didn't use the regular Cockney-or-whatever rhymes.
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"Meaningless chit-chat with less flavor than a Kit-Kat!"
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But that can't be a Monday. What is happening there is an effect caused by making only Fridays causal.
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She never said it was Monday. She just said she hates Mondays.
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Which contextually indicates that it's a Monday in that panel of the strip.
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Take it up with Zach Weinersmith.
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Which contextually indicates that it's a Monday in that panel of the strip.
But if only Friday is causal, your statement implies that it must be Friday. But then...
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That's my point. Every day from that point on can only ever be a Friday.
Even if everything is wacky and without logic, because that's an effect from Friday's being announced as causal, that day is therefore a Friday.
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I find SCP to be fascinating.
I am a sucker for reading certain SCP's at 2am, then trying to sleep. It is not a 2am website.
/revive kills zombie
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But that can't be a Monday. What is happening there is an effect caused by making only Fridays causal.
Negation of always is not never.
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sooo.... Jupiter?
Asteroid belt. Remnants of the fifth planet. Hence the dream becoming a nightmare for @ben_lubar.
Jupiter is #6.
-Unofficial documentary of the Solar System.
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I am a sucker for reading certain SCP's at 2am, then trying to sleep. It is not a 2am website.
Seriously? Those are the dumbest.
If you want to be cured of thinking SCP is scary, try playing any video games based on SCP. They're all fucking terrible.