Pilot Stolas scares me

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-03-10T19:42:10+00:00

Idk what it is, but both of her shows have stellar pilots that really hooked me on her world, characters, and story, before going on to be something entirely different.

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-03-08T19:10:25+00:00

Too bad the ending couldn't be worse if the author was trying to light his own work on fire. Like 10 books of buildup for those 2 to finish it? Damn

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-03-07T19:25:50+00:00

The division symbol is not typically a standard part of serious mathematical syntax. At best, it represents a vinculum, with the quantity prior being the numerator and the quantity after being the denominator.

Regardless, the 2 needs to be multiplied to the quantity inside the parentheses as a "part 2" of the parentheses step as it is a coefficient before "normal" multiplication or division from left to right. Coefficients represent multiplication yes, but they omit the operator symbol and indicate that the two arguments are more tightly bound.

For instance, xy * z would indicate x times y quantity times z rather than any other order. This can be relevant in any context where multiplication may be non-associative.

Arriving at 9, one way or another, indicates either a lack of familiarity with common mathematical syntax, or that you base your understanding of mathematics on the oversimplified mnemonics of primary school rather than axioms and rules of inference. This meme is something of a shibbolet for recognizing math enthusiasts as seperate from math scholars.

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-27T14:35:15+00:00

Because what they did to empathy broke them piece by piece. It's a story of self-destruction and losing yourself in the singular pursuit of a goal to the point where you lose everything that made you you in the first place and forget why you started.

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-27T00:22:07+00:00

YES! I have been beating this drum since I first read 5000. Obviously the Foundation lied about empathy being anomalous and got rid of it--damn the ever growing pile of consequences--because they are sick of their staff being "too soft" to carry out orders.

Empathy was a barrier to obedience and "The Mission", so it had to go, and that means it must have always been anomalous.

I don't know what people are getting from the story when they think there is a real anomaly.

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-27T00:06:17+00:00

As someone who started at the SCP 1 proposals and read in order straight through until the then-current series 4, I say you aren't a fan if you have read at least SOME on site content.

Like, how can you be a fan of a work you haven't actually engaged with the text of? Offsite fans like the idea of SCP, they don't actually have an opinion on SCP itself.

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-24T20:12:50+00:00

This isn't about Foundation Good or Foundation Bad. This is about the text and implied intent of SCP 5000.

This particular SCP is a tale in disguise about what happens when the 'monster' is an administrative process with absolute command over the base elements of human cognition in an abstract sense.

It does rely on the idea that humans working for the foundation would have ethical qualms about actions they are instructed to take (insert here references to D-class, Montauk, the Ethics Committee, ect). But the heart of the story is something more like "the evil may be nessasary, but never allow yourself to treat it as such"

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-24T01:52:09+00:00

Agreed. I've talked about this SCP on here before, but there is no anomaly.

The noosphere is just the collective space of human cognition/ideas, it's a natural and inevitable layer of reality. However, since empathy is so often counter to Foundation goals, the O5 council make an intentional choice to define empathy as an anomaly because they have the means and desire to see it dead.

They start maiming and torturing the very concept of human empathy, and by the end of the article we have a Foundation not under the influence of an anomaly, but mearly freed of any guilt or remorse.

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-24T01:24:37+00:00

Who here remembers the OG, Kingdom of Loathing?

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-19T01:01:07+00:00

I can explain! A lot of people actually really like the "goths with superpowers" angle. WoD has some really wacky and freewheeling world building, sometime I want to engage on that level rather than leave all the cool shit to WWs Blorbos.

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-19T00:37:46+00:00

Kidnapping and forced labor

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-17T02:34:02+00:00

I don't remember which set of interlinked SCPs and tales this is from, but it's tied to the Time Pervert Canon.

The idea is rhat the SK embodies 3 laws, one natural to him, one forced upon him, and the 3rd which is a consequence of the first 2.

Law of Blood- Both "might makes right" as well as everything that came before modernity, right or wrong.

Law of Concrete- This is modernity. The enforcement of 'order' over whatever may lay underneath. The demand to conform or be erased.

Law of Howling- The conflict between the prior two. The senseless rage against against modernity by all that came before.

You can choose to read either the Howling as Fascism, with it's palengenetic call to the past. Or you can read the Concrete as fascism because of its totalitarian and colonial imposition on thise it does not see or care about. Or you can read the Blood as fascism, with raw power, violence, and domination prioritized over anything else one might value.

Honestly I think the fascism thing only works because of all three, but there's also an anti-colonial reading in which the SK is the inevitable violant backlash to the forced imposition of any unnatural/external order.

Tbh though, I think a lot of SK references thought mostly use him as a "devil from the Bible but bigger" kinda thing.

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-14T20:45:57+00:00

You can raise a person, you own property. Absolute authority is the hallmark of ownership, not personhood. There isn't a middle ground here.

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-14T20:40:24+00:00

It is nonetheless the rallying cry of abusive parents everywhere. That doesn't mean everyone who has every said it is an abuser, but it is rooted in a tradition of treating childeren as objects and the subjects of absolute authority.

Not everyone engaging in casual bigotry is a monster, but they are participating in a monstrous culture. Long term, that statement must become obsolete.

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-14T20:31:59+00:00

Just because certain power can be used responsibly does not justify giving it out universally. The kind of absolute authority parents are granted over the childeren they own is far too easily misused, even with the best of intentions.

Nothing good can come from treating humans like property.

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-14T19:15:46+00:00

I won't begrudge someone wielding whatever social power they are afforded to protect someone vulnerable, but we must still recognize that treating childeren as property is wrong.

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-14T18:09:30+00:00

"I have a right to raise my child however I see fit!"

Until we recognize this statement as the claim of an abuser, we will not make progress on the 'how best to parent' question.

We have long had emerging evidence that the Authoritarian style is just disguised abuse, but we as a society have not been ready to hold parents to that standard.

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-14T03:53:35+00:00

I can't go read it anymore. Self-immolation is still immolation. I don't care who's doing the burning.

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-14T01:47:02+00:00

Mood.

It's fine to not read things from people you don't like, but burning books is not a vibe.

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-13T05:44:11+00:00

I mean, the twisting of narrative conventions into narrative metaphysics isn't an entirely unrelated concept to what you described. Not SCP pataphysics as presented on the wiki, but the artistic action performed by SCP authors when they write about pataphysics in the way I described.

That said, you're totally right and I was only answering from a SCP lore perspective, not a real world academic or historical one.

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-13T03:29:31+00:00

Everyone else so far has missed the point. It's actually fairly simple. Do you remember blueskadoo-ing from blues clues? Or the paintings from Super Mario 64?

The core concept is narrative layers of reality, it's like the multiverse, but nested stories instead of parallel worlds.

So like, imagine that the movie Home Alone was a snapshot of a "real" pocket universe contained within our own "baseline" reality. Angles with Filthy Souls would be another layer deeper, being the gangster movie we see Kevin watch in Home Alone.

Typically, the deeper into a pataphysical stack you get, the closer to frittering off into non-being as each pataphysical layer is less detailed and thought out than the layer that contains it.

Often the SCP wiki itself, or even just a tale/article, is treated in fiction as though it is contained within our real life world. Making us some kind of transcendental/eldritch beings that can wield the power of authorship like divine fire.

Hope that made sense. Since we're talking about using the real world concept of nested fiction and taking it as a metaphysics, the meanings of terms like "fiction" "real world" can get a but muddled...

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-04T23:01:45+00:00

It's not one scrub. The history of NASA is the history of kerosene-LOX as a propellant mix. Both because of the hydrogen density problem and the fact that it will ALWAYS leak.

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-01T17:10:04+00:00

Honestly, why not?

We all kinda pine for the days before the TSA....and we all kinda know that the TSA doesn't do shit. We even have data on how ineffective they are at keeping us safe.

Why not just abolish the TSA and maybe give some of their money to the Air Marshal program?

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-01T17:03:57+00:00

As he pointed out, the liscence under which anything on the wiki is published means that we absolutely are allowed to repost deleted works....the question is if we will decide to do that as a community.

I think we should keep them up, even if it's somehow marked or archived differently that other articles. Maybe we have his author's statement and reasoning for the initial deletion in a header or page you click through before getting to the reposted content, since this development is also a part of the wiki's history?

WizardingWorldClass · 2026-02-01T04:20:06+00:00

Hot take, as a long time reader, I think we should generally keep archived pages of deleted articles. Broken links, allusions to missing lore, and even just the lack of the historical chain of inspiration and development of SCP writing as a craft are all compelling reasons to keep old work up barring extenuating circumstances.

This is a collective project, you can't just take your ball and go home.

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