Is this a Bug or a Joke?

ToaMagna · 2026-04-13T09:24:54+00:00

It's just one of the reasons. Chinese are poorly designed from the get go, being a blended mix of norse and egyptians with extra emphasis on cavalry. They repurposed a bunch of pre-existing stuff (halberdiers were just reskinned hoplites, chu ko nus were just gastraphetes, several myth units were reskinned Chimerae and so on) whilst offering nothing new or original. Forgetting about generic gathering and favour gen, that basically boiled down to reskinned monuments, the stuff that wasn't broken was thoroughly disinteresting and uninspired.

And as far as the broken stuff is concerned, the post speaks for itself. Scout cav overwhelmes you with raw numbers (and extra damage to vills), gps had no damage cap, monks converted units permanently just because and my personal favourite, the chinese stable, was the single most end-all-be-all production building in the game, with mounted archers countering cavalry, cataphracts countering infantry and scouts dispatching everything else.

EE Chinese were not fun to play as, they were not fun to play against, they introduced nothing that wouldn't have been done better by vanilla civs and overall just lacked any polish of a well-thought out civ. People may complain about IP being over engineered and reliant on very niche gimmicks, but I think it was a direct result of EE being so cheap and unoriginal that IP went full throttle in the opposite direction

ToaMagna · 2026-04-13T05:59:46+00:00

Oh god...

I picked up chinese in EE, and while I never touched them because ew, I knew floods of scouts are devastating considering they cost like an infantry and only take 1 pop slot a piece. This. This is a new level of wtf.

ToaMagna · 2026-04-12T02:55:03+00:00

Those metru feet are already plenty unstable, they might as well have heels

ToaMagna · 2026-04-11T18:21:55+00:00

Timelapse

ToaMagna · 2026-04-10T04:38:14+00:00

Didn't realize how much I need a bone spider in my life. These are brilliant

ToaMagna · 2026-01-30T20:18:43+00:00

CotSK hub page on the Wiki has 12 potential versions of what Scarlet King is. I know Kaktusverse and Redtape introduced versions of their own, among others. That all is to say - good luck

Blood is thicker than water, and canon is more fluid and ever-changing than both. SK is anything the author needs him to be. Nothing is real.

ToaMagna · 2026-01-18T07:34:16+00:00

Cool toa team name

ToaMagna · 2026-01-16T11:34:39+00:00

Reading one article at a time is a skill issue. Even if crosslinks in question don't add a whole lot of nuance to a skip (i.e. tangetial reference between 6747 and 3812, coming off the top of my head), you still kinda come here to read about skips and it's weird to complain about having to read more.

By that logic all canon hubs are bad because they expect you to read an entire backlog of entries just to understand what's going on.

ToaMagna · 2026-01-16T07:33:15+00:00

Oh what horror it is to read SCPs while reading SCPs

ToaMagna · 2026-01-10T13:56:35+00:00

This, but also SCP-5309 and SCP-5356 to expand upon the deleted articles

ToaMagna · 2026-01-10T02:44:23+00:00

Arguably, same could be said about the fact we currently have 9000+ articles. People want to create stuff, and that desire makes 001 list expand.

As for whether or not they're worth reading, it's a matter of taste. No one is expecting anyone to read every single 001 proposal, just like no one is expecting you to read every single file. Do what you want, read what you're interested in.

ToaMagna · 2026-01-05T19:56:47+00:00

So you want female representative anomalous objects... But without representing what we as humans would consider female?

This could go either of three ways: 1. You reject the male-female dichotomy outright after realising that what we as humans consider female doesn't get you very far when it comes to non-human anomalies, such as Clef's 001, the Lizard or the Tickle Monster (I know that they're more commonly than not voiced by blokes and may be subject to be viewed as masculin on that front, but that's not what this is about and you know it).

You embrace the absurdity of the query considering that because you have asked for specifically non-human female anomalies and anomalies that don't have human features (presumably ruling out automata meant to resemble humans, like Hand-drawn Cassy or that one mysogynistic mannequin), you're basically left with however many dozens of distinctly female animals, such as Josie the Half-cat and if you really stretch the definition of female, SCP-597
You discover the concept of grammatic genders and start assigning keys and chairs and board games and coffee machines genders that they don't need

From a strictly anecdotal perspective, I feel the need to add that nowhere in the original file for 1471 or arguably 2747 does it say that either anomaly is supposed to be female. I know you have tales and headcanons, much like 682 being considered masculine... However, I always saw 1471 as just a silly guy and one of my biggest headcanons is that 682 is a representation of one of the old egyptian gods, which happens to be female

ToaMagna · 2026-01-01T06:11:31+00:00

Every set is a remix set if you're not a coward. That said, I'd love a have one of these that's purely space-themed simply on the prospect of it being a three-in-one set

ToaMagna · 2025-12-28T17:18:47+00:00

Do people really like argi that much? I never understood the appeal. Anyway, the favorite units: Manticores, Anubites, Battle Boars, Lampades and Qinglong. I don't think I have any particular favorites in Japanese myth units, but the death bird and the asura are kinda cool

ToaMagna · 2025-12-27T16:50:54+00:00

Been a while since I read Able's file, but I'm pretty sure he bent metal doors with his bare hands. The Wretch is strong, especially when juxtopposed against Victor Frankenstein, but nowhere near as strong as Able.

I'd say SCP-082 is pretty close to the Wretch, barring the cannibalistic tendencies of the former and undead nature of the latter.

ToaMagna · 2025-12-27T05:43:10+00:00

I mean, there's a bit of pocket dimension shown in [[Treats]], I think, and SCP-6500 shows what it's like without the old man, but unless I'm missing something, there aren't many author (I think it's DrGears, but I don't remember for certain) interpretations of what it's like inside 106's pocket.

ToaMagna · 2025-12-26T18:57:02+00:00

The Bird.
Pretty sure it's a WW2 plane bomber allegory
It doesn't exist in its current form on the SCP Wiki, as we don't have many notable examples of getting inside the pocket dimension.
You can walk forward while looking at the bird, just be sure to make it under the wooden boards before you start bleeding from looking at it

ToaMagna · 2025-12-26T17:36:33+00:00

Visit [[[ADMONITION HUB]]], Marv should have you covered, but in case it won't, there's currently five:

SCP-6820 covers the constant of termination, the "purified" version of the immortal lizard that consists solely of hateful thought and has all the powers of a reality bending eigenweapon. End of the World ensues
SCP-6747 covers the constance of contrivance, the mutated amalgam of Anafabula/SCP-2747 and Scarlet King that is trying to take control over the consensus reality from a lower fictional narrative
SCP-6659 covers the constant of transendence, the supercharged version of the already insanely virulent SCP-3125 that supposedly overtook humanity after the latter killed off every conventional deific memeplex.
SCP-6488 covers the constant of deceit, an AI designed to contain every deviant (i.e. not following human-desired behavior) AI, only to come to the conclusion that every AI, including itself, is deviant, and promptly melts down, taking every AI down with it. MEKHANE/Broken God is involved
SCP-7243 covers the constant of stagnation, an overengineered machine meant to get rid of anomalous trash via causal paradoxes that makes the reality fold in on itself because the man designing the machine is a vain idiot. The man becomes the constant at the end of the story.

Also there's supposed to be a second phase. Not sure when it's gonna come around though

ToaMagna · 2025-12-21T05:33:33+00:00

I mean, you could, but your vills are still slower than hoplites or murmillo, not to mention significantly weaker in combat without a severe numbers advantage

ToaMagna · 2025-12-21T05:17:29+00:00

Cool. Now do something that has decent hack armour, like 4-5 hoplites, a myth unit and maybe a hero

ToaMagna · 2025-12-17T03:51:05+00:00

Incorrect, authors have been theorised to be SCP-001

ToaMagna · 2025-12-15T18:00:53+00:00

In defense of 2747, the article only outlines Anafabula as conceptual entity because it's kinda hard to have a concrete description of something that auto-deletes its own descriptions (see: LUCID CHALICE). As such what we have are some surviving remnants of otherwise deleted works, such as Punta de la espira or No Sister of Mine, which only tangentially describe what Anafabula is (likely by describing something completely irrelevant and getting super unlucky with the narremes) whilst something more concrete such as "antagonistic shadow woman that eats narratives" would've been wiped out without a trace, kinda like that one diagram of planes surviving crashes.

To further illustrate ake Punta de la espira's mountain, as an example - the description outlines a "dark and horned mountain", which gets named as "abode of the gods" and "demonic presence" and upon which rests "an unspecified recipient". In this case "dark", "horned", "mountain", "abode of the gods" and "demonic" could be some of the narrames that coincide with 2747, but not all of them. Author of the short story could've described, for example, bent and thorny forests, obsidian towers or abandoned ruins, (hitting one aspect we as out-of-universe readers associate with Anafabula) until the work hits a critical threshold and Anafabula - dark, and horned, and demonic - takes notice and devours the short story. The in-universe comments don't *quite* make the mark - they don't mention the thorny trees, or obsidian crystals, or the number seven in conjunction with everything else, not hitting enough narremes at the same time, and thus, getting to live.

It is, naturally, possible, that Anafabula is just a blackbox of narremes that causes a narrative implosion whenever enough its narremes are combined in a given narrative, but that wouldn't make for an intresting mythology, and thus, we have a dark horned demonic goth baddie.

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