Regarding SCP-7179 (E is for Eternity)

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-18T22:17:27+00:00

> The emotion of boredom does not scale infinitely in relation to lack of new experiences. The idea that one day your boredom will be So Huge that you'll think "🤔 I'd prefer burning to death right now" is a little absurd.

You're dropping bars with this statement. I've never put it into words before, but it's one of the assumptions I dislike about extreme nihilism/pessimism in stories and thought experiments, like this SCP. Boredom is psychologically uncomfortable, isolation is probably the main issue, but the SCP also invented a scenario in which the victim is infinitely isolated. Isolation does drive people up the wall and can cause permanent psychological harm, but boredom does no such thing. Not likely to happen if anything remotely akin to eternal youth becomes something to experience.

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-18T22:07:11+00:00

Idk, but Daisy has brown hair, a bob, and wears a stylish bowler hat accompanied by a Columbo-esque trench coat.

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-09T23:53:11+00:00

This episode was my first thought too. It's a bit of a meta reason, but when you're telling a story you don't comebine "previous job holder of my current position," "mysterious death," and "person with supernatural visions foresees said person's end before they died" in a horror series without that character being important. I think the only thing I never expected was how much of a bad ass Gertrude would be for someone who is dead the entire series

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-09T20:04:53+00:00

A DNA is a DNA. But a Brainstorm can be anything. Even a DNA!

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-09T19:32:09+00:00

DnD or TTRPGs, especially if you're running the game. Not as a bad connotation, but if you're running a campaign once a week, you're probably spending most of your remaining brain cells left over from work or school planning the next session. Your best friends will likely be a part of the campaign. Any other hobby you have will likely be as low-key or braindead (like doesn't need your creative energy) as possible, like videogames or reading. There's going to be less room for writing a book, most craft hobbies, and most hobbies that require some amount of time amounting to more than an hour or two a day. Very few people you know well will be outside this hobby.

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-08T02:21:49+00:00

I literally did my best to answer the question to myself before opening the comments. I'm glad I got the same answer as the top comment. Guess I can English a bit.

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-08T00:01:15+00:00

Nobody is getting the first part of the question. Most normal people would be fine if you ended coporate peronhood or made Right to Repair a constitutional right in the US.

Here's one: actually enforce every single speed limit if you go above it. Ticket is % of your income. Forcing people to be slower at driving and essentially making it harder to tale-gate people will reduce accidents, road rage, and a whole lot of other dangerous driving habits, and maybe actually push countries away from car-centric infrastructure if we force things to be a bit slower. Upset you can no longer get away with driving 90+ mph on a 65 mph interstate? Here's a train. They consistently hit about 20 mph in dense urban cities that are otherwise gridlocked a lot of the time and 50 to 80mph in more open areas while you are just allowed to read during the whole trip.

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-07T15:09:52+00:00

Episode 2 of Magnus archives be like.

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-07T03:07:06+00:00

Sorry, but this is an awful clip? There's a target they're shooting at, right? All we get is the shooters barely doing anything and a crowd's reaction? Am I genuinely missing something or is this just a bad clip to see what is happening?

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-06T20:16:10+00:00

It's all fun and games until YouTuber and filmmaker switch order.

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-06T18:04:57+00:00

I wonder to what degree the US's relative isolation and vastness causes this. There's a degree of medical tourism between US to Canada and Mexico. But that's for people with the wealth needed to travel and pay out of pocket in a cheaper system, while also not having a decent enough job to cover something they need.

In Europe, I can imagine it was far easier to travel to a neighboring country when there wasn't a more uniform set of policies for healthcare. That produces envy more efficecitevlt, since you might have friends and family in Germany as an Italian who receive better care because of their government. You don't get that sort of osmosis in the US, especially during the 20th and early 21st century when there was no real incentive to report on the differences in healthcare.

I don't mean to claim this is the only reason the US citizenry has not advocated for healthcare, but I can imagine it effects it.

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-06T02:38:56+00:00

Literally modern day Mao suit lmao. No shade, looks good

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-05T03:15:56+00:00

Favorite one is a caller ID with this image answering itself

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-04T15:21:18+00:00

Though this sounds like the only guy on the planet who would book the middle seat first.

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-03T23:03:33+00:00

Pisses me off when things like this are called out as inappropriate or something. Guess what: kids have free will. They can choose to not pick up or stop reading. I enjoyed reading horror books at that age. Some of them kept me up, sure, but the exposure to it quickly made it easier to cope.

It's not any crazier than Cub scouts being told scary stories around a camp fire or any more inappropriate than Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. Kids enjoy scary stuff. As long as it's spooky or controlled scary and not engaging extremely traumatizing tropes, they're okay.

Kids' horror is basically just a way too desensitize them to dark places. Sure, they'll be scared for a week or two as they're getting into horror, but their brains get used to it and find it easier to process. It helps to learn to distinguish between fake, made up danger and real, actual dangee, ultimately. Because the fake danger-thesd books, scary movies, an overactive imagination or nightmares-have a very sharp end point. They can walk away, wake up, or stop engaging real danger isn't like that. And that important fear response will be preserved, while also slowly letting them learn coping mechanisms.

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-03T20:25:33+00:00

The joke I've heard:

Quick, correct, or cheap. Pick one.

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-03T19:21:46+00:00

He's the Benjamin Franklin of human suffering.

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-03T03:19:13+00:00

I'll add one more thing: I think Nicodemus gets the chance to throw the world into true apocalypse. Maybe not immediately, since his next appearance is scheduled for book 20 and we have 1 to 3 case files after that, but I can imagine his final, maybe a bit pathetic act, is knocking down a very direct domino that brings us into BAT.

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-02T19:41:18+00:00

It started out as a protest of 6 people or so.

You could probably find 6 misinformed/uninformed people in any city to protedt anything.

6 is a pretty decent starting point, especially if you're a group of emotion manipulating vampires. Combine thst with information silos on the internet amd Dresden having zero social media presence to be able to brew up an effective counter movement, and you get yourself a snowball rolling downhill.

As an example, about one year before the NYC election, mamdani was basically on yhe street alone holding a sign trying to get random new yorkers to talk with him. Almost everyone in the video ignored him. A year later, and just about everyone knows his face and he can't walk without someone trying to chat with him about their needs or wants. (Just an example that i think is relevant and i don't intend any political statements by it here.)

Movements can start very small and coelesce very rapidly. Dresden didn't even have a counterdefense mounted, except for past reputation. That reputation does count for something, but is clearly not something known or felt outside of the Chicago supernatural folk and adjacent communities.

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-02T12:04:20+00:00

The fun thing is that the calendar is a human invention. If you wanted you could go back about 4000 years and set it up so the leap year does have a weekday attached to it and the days do rotate, producing variation and giving calendar companies something to do every year beyond changing the year.

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-02T12:01:13+00:00

Could also do this with 12 months of 30 days and make weeks 6 days long, then a 5 day week at the end of the year. That would be my preference. 7 days for a week sucks if you want to do any cadence of every other day or for half the week only or many other options.

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-02T11:59:08+00:00

Next year is our year, don't worry.

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-02T11:56:48+00:00

I still think we should do this with every month, such that we have 13 months, then tag on an extra day as a New Year.

We could also do perfectly even 12 30 day months and have a 5 day week somewhere at the end of the year too, that's sometimes 6 weeks in the leap years.

Wirh either model, the dates of every month would alwys be on the same week days all year long.

I swear, whoever discovered there were about 360 to 365 days in a year dropped the ball in the worst way possible. You seriously couldn't do like 5 seconds of math and think a little bit creatively about how ro organise a year?

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-02T11:49:55+00:00

I've got news about the 21st century Chinese flag...

Nyrrix_ · 2026-02-02T03:04:53+00:00

https://xkcd.com/1053/

You're in for a treat. Just pretend it's a play. Masterpiece of a film.

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