I think the early food panics during COVID showed that even just the concept of risking missing out on a meal was enough to generate the beginning of chaos.
I needed to move states, but needed to quarantine for 2 weeks before I drove up to make sure I wouldnt get them infected. Ended up not buying enough and having to ration. I cant imagine having to work (construction, welder) during the last week I was lying in bed for like 5 hours a day after I woke up. Lack of food is a serious issue and I get why they give kids 2 free meals at school now even if the parents already get food stamp. Theres no way I would have focused on school if I was hungry
Not to mention the shut downs unintentionally starving millions in the developing world to death as food meant for aid couldn't be shipped before it rotted, as per the public protestations of the head of the U.N. Food Programme at the time...
@@whatwhat7119 I'm an Ironworker and attest that I eat twice as much on work days. But had period of 3 days not even able to stomach water (not covid, other reasons) and barely got through work. I sipped what water I could, slept about 2 hours a night, and just worked through it. But the covid panic showed me that if I wanted to survive a crisis, I needed to get out of the population centers. It's the easily frightened and manipulatable that will leave everyone starving. I also learned no one buys babywipes when toilet paper is gone. Word of advice 😊.
Nah, the situation there was the exact opposite. It was a toilet paper shortage, so it was civilization being one wipe away from chaos. Or God forbid several... but this is America we're talking about. Eating ≠ Shitting
If all these aliens were interested in is food, the Foundation could just give them a couple of those self-replicating cakes, or that sack of potatoes that leads to the infinite self-replicating potatoes dimension; or for that matter any of a number of Sarkic anomalies that can produce endless organic matter. They could take that stuff, stick it in a rocket, point it at the aliens and include a note that says "here, now fuck off".
Honestly, I'd stick 096, 173 or even 2845 in a rocket and send it towards their planet to let them deal with it. "We have like 7000 of those, fuck off or we'll send them all"
SCP Foundation: "Wish granted" *Traces telepathic signal to alien planet and broadcasts SCP-407 at high, sustained intensity* This is an extremely good 7000 series entry. Fantastic re-telling, as always.
I don't know if you take requests, but one SCP that would be awesome if you covered it is SCP-6174. In short, it's about a rock that very literally never leaves your vision, with some crazy implications (you see it when you close your eyes, you see it 'in the back of your field of view' when you turn your head), and it gets pretty crazy & weird at one point. It's one of my favorite concepts on the site, and I don't think the article gets enough love. Even if you don't cover it, I hope I can inspire someone else to read it!
I just read it because of this comment. Thank you for mentioning it. It's a really interesting concept and one I won't be forgetting about anytime soon.
Every SCP upload is a gem, thank you for continuing. I have decided to seriously try to get my SCP accepted this summer, in part inspired by you and The Volgun. Or atleast get full feedback weather either if my 2 current ideas are worth developing into full scps.
It’s funny, I remember voting for the SCPs that were entered in the 3000 contest back in 2017. It’s crazy how the amount of articles written on the wiki has progressed from series 4 to series 8 in 6 years.
Same. I wanted to see Red Reality win. I'm not sure if it's my life, my brain, or the trends in SCP writing, but 3000 was the last series contest where I actually managed to sit down and read through all the entries before the voting finished. Everything since then has just felt so dominated by the novella-style articles... I don't dislike that style, but I can only get through them so quickly.
@@TwilitbeingReboot I understand your sentiment. I throughly enjoyed reading through the 3000 contest entries, rooting for A Light that Died to win. After that, the same level of interest wasn’t quite there for the other contests, especially with the grander novella-style articles as you mentioned. Still, everyone will have their preferences, being shorter articles, longer articles, or articles somewhere in the middle in this case.
I've been trying to figure out what it is about your videos that pulls me in more than others and it finally clicked. Other channels sound either like documentaries or attempt to sound ominous. But you sound like an actual researcher thats discussing the subjects. It feels more natural
same, that monotune voice without attempt to sound dramatic is whats good about this channel's scp. just a boring after report read for the meeting agenda in the boardroom, its awsome
The aliens be doing a bad practice by completely draining a planet. Drain a certain percent, let it recover, return later. Far more sustainable than being space locusts.
Or alternatively they can fireproof the comets and only drain a planet by 50% and keep going to other planets, letting the other planets heal. But then again this could also be a multi-purpose tool, it could be used for gaining resources, but it could also be used for suppressing any nearby civilizations, and stopping any chance of one forming.
Yeah, it's also much less likely to piss off a much stronger alien civilization and/or "deity" which have no qualms "turning off" or drastically increasing a fundamental force in their solar system(s)/ deep space habitats
Why would earth be the only planet with anomalies? It’s statistically likely that they have their own foundation/ GOC with equally powerful anomalies, especially since they seem to be able to create them.
Weird and often bad things can happen when you start trying to neutralize an anomaly using another anomaly. It's like literally fighting fire with fire...you *can* sometimes get good results, but it has a lot of potential to spiral out of control and make matters a lot worse.
If I recall correctly, the 7000 contest theme was luck. This was all about simple terrible luck. The alien equivalent of Christopher Columbus stumbled into our backyard and gave most of us smallpox.
Luckily humans have three things going for them here. One, the aliens did not think to wipe out humanity's industrial base. Two, The replacement comment swarm will take a long time to show up because of interstellar distances. And three, humans are spiteful bastards who will wipe you out just because you pissed them off. Also I don't understand why nobody thought to do hydroponics or aeroponics to offset the starvation problem.
@@Shatterverse can imagine the O5 throwing Khetvuul 1 (SCP-2669) at the planet of origin if they ever found out where it came from. That is if one of the other planets it victimized didn’t get to them first. come to think of it, there would be a serious downside of *really* pissing 2669 off by actively forcing it to destroy the one inhabited planet it’s ever come across, take that what you will
The foundation gets a description of the planet and a direction based on where the comets are coming from. SCP: "Ohononono, grant OUR wish mr. Alien" *Loads 682 into a teleporter*
31:39 that thing took months to travel less than a billion miles. If more comets were sent it would take them decades if not centuries to make it here, and that would give the SCP plenty of time to figure out how to stop them.
On one hand this is a pretty novel K-class scenario and you can certainly feel the tension of the situation, but on the other hand I feel like any Foundation with warp tech should probably have more effective anti-cognitohazard solutions than the Foundation here does. Maybe Cognitohazards just weren't much of an issue in this timeline?
I’m impressed by the writers who submit the content. People who poke holes in the plot should keep in mind this is some or maybe a few random people pouring their heart into the content, without the benefit of a room of professional writers, researchers, and panel of seasoned professional editors. If the Hollywood entertainment complex had a fraction of the love and earnestness of the creation of the stories without the commercial profit motive attached, the quality of entertainment would consistently be awe inspiring. Many thanks to ES for the masterful selection of ambient music, background artwork, and top-notch narration!
Looking at the History section for the page, it was uploaded on 24July2022. That's nearly a full year of people reviewing it, the author making a handful of edits, and a current Rating of +247. At that point, it's had much more review than professional screenplays and should not still have the plot holes that people point out. And the professional screenplays should also not have plot holes. I do not think it is out of line to say that no matter how many reviews any work has faced, if there is a plot hole pointed out then the author needs to fill it in.
So I feel like this epitomizes the problem with scps last like the 4000 series. That isn't to say it isn't well written. I just feel like instead of being people (or monsters), places, and objects that, if mishandled, could be a major problem for the world. With a few eldritch abominations or God-like entities thrown in. The 5000-7000 series seems to be more of the latter and much less of the former. Obviously, this is just personal preference, but I find the smaller things much more frightening and interesting. These giant unstoppable scps are just boring to me.
There's plenty of good small scale articles in the newer series. Most just don’t get attention from the wider off-site community. If you actually scroll through the lists there’s lots of good stuff along the lines of 6373.
This. So much this. I miss the actually scary scps. And if we get no mtf missions in these stories I just check out 2 minutes into it. So boring and stupid.
@anthonysoto2923 a good example of a world threatening scp done right is Imago scp 3004. Not much for mtf stuff, but in my opinion everything about it is well done and scary.
This one upset me. Foundation waited too long to do anything, only sent one team of 4 people in one ship, and only had one poorly defended site to control the one rail gun. I know the poor planning and failures can be hand waved with “because cognito hazard,” but the Foundation isn’t new to that challenge. I also feel like the Foundation wasn’t acting as desperately as they should have. They should have been throwing solutions at this problem left and right, but they only seem to have tried two; one of which could only be attempted at almost the last possible moment due to the range restrictions of the rail gun. Great video, as usual, though
I can see how the Foundation might have gotten a little overwhelmed in the scenario, having to split resources between stopping the comet and keeping human society from imploding and further damaging the planet. Also they clearly got a little arrogant and overestimated their capabilities to protect the four personel they sent to the comet, which is also something I could see them doing. However I definitely would have made sure that railgun was better defended by posting TAU-5 or some other task force that had a reasonable chance of being unaffected by the cognitohazard at site 02. I wonder if AI are generally immune to cognitive hazards like this one, and if using them more heavily could have improved the odds.
It might be because it's a metaphor for climate change, the people in power don't see the threat as meaningful until it's really bad. But yeah you are correct, makes them look more incompetent than the other versions of the foundation.
Bear in mind that this also seems to be written from the perspective of a normal researcher or site head, we have very little information on whatever sorts of backup plans the 05 Council might have been up to in the shadows (IE deploying 2000 after automated systems use contained SCPs to rehabilitate the soil after the asteroid leaves, boom humanity saved AND the aliens think we are dead and so won't send hundreds more probes and a potential space war as fighting back seems to have resulted in).
A strange version of the Borg but only goes after bio energy like some sort of vampire. Interesting how they get mad like a child and send out way more then necessary. I’d assume this sort of comet takes a decent amount of resources just to make. Then knowledge of a planet suitable for harvesting. It really makes you wonder what this “wish” is and why it’s so important
It's basically a dark forest civilization, one that's so xenophobic that it tries to snipe any potential threat, but not so xenophobic as to not exploit the target
They're more like the Dominion to me. The Borg are exploitative, yes, but they also seem to lack a true "master race" that benefits off of the others. All become Borg, unambiguously. The Dominion are a tyrannical empire dominated by one species who've set themselves up as gods. Many subjects don't even think they're real, seeing them as myths. But all under their eye serve them, paying tribute and suffering unendingly for any dissent. Resistant worlds are devastated with diseases meant to inflict regression and torment. And even the faithful are genetically mutilated into better tools. Bonus points: the god race also uses insidious subterfuge to spread chaos among their enemies. Section 31 did nothing wrong... I kid, I kid. I prefer my Trek to be optimistic.
My wife and I adore sitting and discussing the themes and points you explore in your videos. We are such big fans and genuinely love your content!!! ❤️
I think your voice and content are immaculate. I was a viewer several years ago who has fallen off but come back recently, I don’t think SCP has fallen off but exposure to it has. I would suggest making “trailers” or sneak peaks or even polls about your topics that could be placed in TH-cam community and tik tok. I would love to see your channel grow and this may be a good idea. If you find the idea difficult I would be happy to assist with making some to see if you like the idea. I’m just a random guy on the internet but I want your channel to thrive
Haven’t heard an SCP that I liked this much in a loooong time. Haven’t rooted for the Foundation like this in so long I was so invested and immersed in the story. One of the best SCP imo absolutely loved it!
Everyone loses it over food but it's water you have to really worry about. A human being can survive over a month without eating food but only three days without drinking any water.
I'm conflicted about this one. The concept and story are really good, but if an anomalous space object was draining "chemical potential energy", surely we would lose everything including our human bodies, and not just our crops. I guess the aliens are vegetarian?
This video finally caught me on to why I'm so disinterested in recent SCP stuff. So much of it now is just spooky stories and creepypasta of varying quality, and that's not what was intruiging about the SCP foundation to me. The original SCP articles were about a non-governmental shadow group containing horror movie threats in the most boring, clinical ways possible. There was no intent to instill fear or dread. It was clinical. The attraction was in the juxtaposition of a fear of the unknown versus a looming all-controlling known is whay made it appealing, not the scale of the threat or body count.
The writer of this article was definitely one of those kids who was like “nuh-uh i have anti-bullet armour”. All of the actions taken by the foundation in this are infuriating. Good listen though
I like how the aliens didn't just send 2 or 3 or even 5 additional comets, no they went full petty mode and sent an entire fleet to deal with 1 planet that dared to oppose their plan.
The way the comet is basically stealing resources from Earth for an extraterrestrial race reminds me of Tiberium and the Scrin from Command and Conquer
8:10 - I love this narration and this article, but I couldn't stop thinking that this specific point just sounds like Goku forming a Spirit Bomb off on another planet. He's pulling a little too much spirit energy, though... 💀
The comet drains the chemical energy from crops, which kills them and seems to destroy the soil in the process. It demands humans to produce as much crops as possible without eating them, giving it even more crops to consume before it sucks the planet dry;
they are using tech to drain the potential energy of the crops, they are trying to kill off what they fear is a threat to themselves while exploiting the threat for some free energy first
I can't help but think this SCP is a little over the top. We get it, the comet is draining Earth's "vitality" or whatever to transfer it to the civilization that made the comet. Going into all the minutiae of how the environment is being destroyed is a little ridiculous when you can pretty easily see that Earth is going to become like Mars.
Anyone else give a cheer and fuck yea when the two team members came back up on the net and managing to accomplish the mission? Also, big mistake on the alien race letting us know they are coming back...maybe send them a telepathic image of the shy guy...
"Scp x could have been solved by scp b, scp A could be beaten by scp c" You have to remember the fluidity of Canon and the fact that accounting for every scp on the site when writing an article with a particular vision in mind simply isn't feasible.
Yet people used to be more attentive of other articles and their Canon, sco nowdays are all "oh my prescious artistic methatheoric Canon, oh i do whqtever the fuck i want"
@@PsicoPrime mean there’s like what, 7000 articles on the website now? Expecting none of them to conflict with each others canon is pretty unreasonable and imo not even desirable. Some of my favourite SCPs directly contradict the lore of eachother. Artistic freedom is good, actually.
@@PsicoPrime Is the idea of creative liberty that offensive to you? Do you really expect people to be forced to factor in SCPs made by other people (which they might not even like) just so that random people can't complain that "this extremely niche SCP could totally have solved this problem!" ? That doesn't sound fair or reasonable to me.
I am reminded of the planet from SCP-001 "Past and Future". These guys probably aren't the same bunch, but it seems like a similar attitude, using cognitohazards to make us feel as though it's some noble spiritual quest to feed another planet's Earth Mother, when really they're just planning to chew up the planet and spit it out as a lifeless rock.
This couldve all been avoided if the aliens just brought some nice stuff and sold it in exchange for food. Like, we would litteraly colonize a planet to grow food for the right price.
the aliens are dark forest xenophobes, they are sending a doomsday weapon to take out any potential competitors because even the idea of commerce with a foreign species might be anathema to them, they send the comet to kill everyone and gather energy in the process
Depending on how long the comets take to get here, the foundation should be able to figure out a better defense program, and also one that can ward off the comets before they get close enough for their mind control to kick into high gear
I don't know what gets to me more, the idea that this alien world is incredibly full of vitality but still stealing vitality from other places, or that they are sending another bunch of collection drones to a planet that's already drained. The planet's a closed system, so all the chemical potential they'd already stolen is now in the sun and not generatable on Earth again, so there's not much they can hope to get with their 200 craft. (Also the magnetosphere anomaly doesn't seem to be explained.)
“The comets wish is incomprehensible.”
The comet: “Hungy”
"One would imagine The Foundation would send a team of personnel rather than a crew of misfit oil drillers"
We see what you did there.
An Armageddon reference? Man TES really is classy.
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The Rock >>> Armageddon, when it comes to greatness in Michael Bay films in my opinion.
@@gribblesnap8032Patreon get early access
@@burninghotdogs4876 nonono they just took advantage of the time warping effects of TES' anomalous yt channel
I think the early food panics during COVID showed that even just the concept of risking missing out on a meal was enough to generate the beginning of chaos.
I needed to move states, but needed to quarantine for 2 weeks before I drove up to make sure I wouldnt get them infected. Ended up not buying enough and having to ration. I cant imagine having to work (construction, welder) during the last week I was lying in bed for like 5 hours a day after I woke up. Lack of food is a serious issue and I get why they give kids 2 free meals at school now even if the parents already get food stamp. Theres no way I would have focused on school if I was hungry
Not to mention the shut downs unintentionally starving millions in the developing world to death as food meant for aid couldn't be shipped before it rotted, as per the public protestations of the head of the U.N. Food Programme at the time...
@@whatwhat7119 I'm an Ironworker and attest that I eat twice as much on work days. But had period of 3 days not even able to stomach water (not covid, other reasons) and barely got through work. I sipped what water I could, slept about 2 hours a night, and just worked through it.
But the covid panic showed me that if I wanted to survive a crisis, I needed to get out of the population centers. It's the easily frightened and manipulatable that will leave everyone starving.
I also learned no one buys babywipes when toilet paper is gone. Word of advice 😊.
Nah, the situation there was the exact opposite. It was a toilet paper shortage, so it was civilization being one wipe away from chaos.
Or God forbid several... but this is America we're talking about. Eating ≠ Shitting
Also being the country of not washing your hands as a political statement adds an extra hilarious level of horror to it
If all these aliens were interested in is food, the Foundation could just give them a couple of those self-replicating cakes, or that sack of potatoes that leads to the infinite self-replicating potatoes dimension; or for that matter any of a number of Sarkic anomalies that can produce endless organic matter.
They could take that stuff, stick it in a rocket, point it at the aliens and include a note that says "here, now fuck off".
Also the free pizza box
That's the spirit! xD xD
Send them 682, say "have fun"
Honestly, I'd stick 096, 173 or even 2845 in a rocket and send it towards their planet to let them deal with it.
"We have like 7000 of those, fuck off or we'll send them all"
“FUCK OFF OR WE’LL SEND THEM ALL” BRO I CAN’T
SCP Foundation: "Wish granted"
*Traces telepathic signal to alien planet and broadcasts SCP-407 at high, sustained intensity*
This is an extremely good 7000 series entry. Fantastic re-telling, as always.
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I don't know if you take requests, but one SCP that would be awesome if you covered it is SCP-6174.
In short, it's about a rock that very literally never leaves your vision, with some crazy implications (you see it when you close your eyes, you see it 'in the back of your field of view' when you turn your head), and it gets pretty crazy & weird at one point.
It's one of my favorite concepts on the site, and I don't think the article gets enough love.
Even if you don't cover it, I hope I can inspire someone else to read it!
Ah yeah, that's a really fun one!
I just read it because of this comment. Thank you for mentioning it. It's a really interesting concept and one I won't be forgetting about anytime soon.
Definitely inspired to go read it, thank you!
Cool article, thanks for the suggestion!
Reminds me of Grey from the Antimemetics Division series, I was so fascinated by that concept of always seeing something.
Every SCP upload is a gem, thank you for continuing.
I have decided to seriously try to get my SCP accepted this summer, in part inspired by you and The Volgun. Or atleast get full feedback weather either if my 2 current ideas are worth developing into full scps.
Best of luck my friend!
Good luck!!!!
Your ideas are worth it, whatever they are. If you can make a good story out of them - they'll work.
Good luck man hope you update us soon
How'd it go
It’s funny, I remember voting for the SCPs that were entered in the 3000 contest back in 2017. It’s crazy how the amount of articles written on the wiki has progressed from series 4 to series 8 in 6 years.
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Same. I wanted to see Red Reality win.
I'm not sure if it's my life, my brain, or the trends in SCP writing, but 3000 was the last series contest where I actually managed to sit down and read through all the entries before the voting finished. Everything since then has just felt so dominated by the novella-style articles... I don't dislike that style, but I can only get through them so quickly.
@@TwilitbeingReboot I understand your sentiment. I throughly enjoyed reading through the 3000 contest entries, rooting for A Light that Died to win. After that, the same level of interest wasn’t quite there for the other contests, especially with the grander novella-style articles as you mentioned. Still, everyone will have their preferences, being shorter articles, longer articles, or articles somewhere in the middle in this case.
I remember when 5k was new. Time flies.
I've been trying to figure out what it is about your videos that pulls me in more than others and it finally clicked.
Other channels sound either like documentaries or attempt to sound ominous. But you sound like an actual researcher thats discussing the subjects. It feels more natural
same, that monotune voice without attempt to sound dramatic is whats good about this channel's scp. just a boring after report read for the meeting agenda in the boardroom, its awsome
The aliens be doing a bad practice by completely draining a planet. Drain a certain percent, let it recover, return later. Far more sustainable than being space locusts.
Or alternatively they can fireproof the comets and only drain a planet by 50% and keep going to other planets, letting the other planets heal.
But then again this could also be a multi-purpose tool, it could be used for gaining resources, but it could also be used for suppressing any nearby civilizations, and stopping any chance of one forming.
Yeah, it's also much less likely to piss off a much stronger alien civilization and/or "deity" which have no qualms "turning off" or drastically increasing a fundamental force in their solar system(s)/ deep space habitats
Locusts don't think that deep, we barely think like that on good days sadly.
My first thought was "way they don't just destroy the alien planet using a anomalies?". But I loved the concept of the SCP.
Why would earth be the only planet with anomalies? It’s statistically likely that they have their own foundation/ GOC with equally powerful anomalies, especially since they seem to be able to create them.
Weird and often bad things can happen when you start trying to neutralize an anomaly using another anomaly. It's like literally fighting fire with fire...you *can* sometimes get good results, but it has a lot of potential to spiral out of control and make matters a lot worse.
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If I recall correctly, the 7000 contest theme was luck. This was all about simple terrible luck. The alien equivalent of Christopher Columbus stumbled into our backyard and gave most of us smallpox.
I have not felt this much hatred towards anything in fiction before. Good article, great narration!
Luckily humans have three things going for them here. One, the aliens did not think to wipe out humanity's industrial base. Two, The replacement comment swarm will take a long time to show up because of interstellar distances. And three, humans are spiteful bastards who will wipe you out just because you pissed them off.
Also I don't understand why nobody thought to do hydroponics or aeroponics to offset the starvation problem.
@@Shatterverse can imagine the O5 throwing Khetvuul 1 (SCP-2669) at the planet of origin if they ever found out where it came from.
That is if one of the other planets it victimized didn’t get to them first.
come to think of it, there would be a serious downside of *really* pissing 2669 off by actively forcing it to destroy the one inhabited planet it’s ever come across, take that what you will
Why? There are so many other alien invaders that are far more villanous.
@@Morworldthe qu did it because of their religion. It's not their fault
it's the cyclonic torpedoes for them
The man keeps giving us amazing scp content. Dedication to his fans is unreal.
Dust storms, blight, food scarcity, a comet, and widespread dreams?
Now this is how you honor the Sixth House, and the Tribe unmourned.
The foundation gets a description of the planet and a direction based on where the comets are coming from.
SCP: "Ohononono, grant OUR wish mr. Alien"
*Loads 682 into a teleporter*
oh yeh its lizard time 🦎
Aliens: We have come for your resources
SCP Foundation: PREPARE THE GIANT SPACE PEW!
31:39 that thing took months to travel less than a billion miles. If more comets were sent it would take them decades if not centuries to make it here, and that would give the SCP plenty of time to figure out how to stop them.
Finally; SCP landlord representation!
On one hand this is a pretty novel K-class scenario and you can certainly feel the tension of the situation, but on the other hand I feel like any Foundation with warp tech should probably have more effective anti-cognitohazard solutions than the Foundation here does. Maybe Cognitohazards just weren't much of an issue in this timeline?
I’m impressed by the writers who submit the content. People who poke holes in the plot should keep in mind this is some or maybe a few random people pouring their heart into the content, without the benefit of a room of professional writers, researchers, and panel of seasoned professional editors. If the Hollywood entertainment complex had a fraction of the love and earnestness of the creation of the stories without the commercial profit motive attached, the quality of entertainment would consistently be awe inspiring. Many thanks to ES for the masterful selection of ambient music, background artwork, and top-notch narration!
Looking at the History section for the page, it was uploaded on 24July2022. That's nearly a full year of people reviewing it, the author making a handful of edits, and a current Rating of +247. At that point, it's had much more review than professional screenplays and should not still have the plot holes that people point out.
And the professional screenplays should also not have plot holes. I do not think it is out of line to say that no matter how many reviews any work has faced, if there is a plot hole pointed out then the author needs to fill it in.
So I feel like this epitomizes the problem with scps last like the 4000 series. That isn't to say it isn't well written. I just feel like instead of being people (or monsters), places, and objects that, if mishandled, could be a major problem for the world. With a few eldritch abominations or God-like entities thrown in. The 5000-7000 series seems to be more of the latter and much less of the former. Obviously, this is just personal preference, but I find the smaller things much more frightening and interesting. These giant unstoppable scps are just boring to me.
There's plenty of good small scale articles in the newer series. Most just don’t get attention from the wider off-site community. If you actually scroll through the lists there’s lots of good stuff along the lines of 6373.
I agree, i'd also like a story about falling into maadness
This. So much this. I miss the actually scary scps. And if we get no mtf missions in these stories I just check out 2 minutes into it. So boring and stupid.
@anthonysoto2923 a good example of a world threatening scp done right is Imago scp 3004. Not much for mtf stuff, but in my opinion everything about it is well done and scary.
@@jeffk6548 I suggest "Dreams of the firstborn".
This one upset me. Foundation waited too long to do anything, only sent one team of 4 people in one ship, and only had one poorly defended site to control the one rail gun.
I know the poor planning and failures can be hand waved with “because cognito hazard,” but the Foundation isn’t new to that challenge.
I also feel like the Foundation wasn’t acting as desperately as they should have. They should have been throwing solutions at this problem left and right, but they only seem to have tried two; one of which could only be attempted at almost the last possible moment due to the range restrictions of the rail gun.
Great video, as usual, though
maybe the influence of the comet was already being felt by some people
I can see how the Foundation might have gotten a little overwhelmed in the scenario, having to split resources between stopping the comet and keeping human society from imploding and further damaging the planet. Also they clearly got a little arrogant and overestimated their capabilities to protect the four personel they sent to the comet, which is also something I could see them doing.
However I definitely would have made sure that railgun was better defended by posting TAU-5 or some other task force that had a reasonable chance of being unaffected by the cognitohazard at site 02. I wonder if AI are generally immune to cognitive hazards like this one, and if using them more heavily could have improved the odds.
This Foundation canon is obviously less powerful when it comes to interplanetary science/magic. They did what they could
It might be because it's a metaphor for climate change, the people in power don't see the threat as meaningful until it's really bad. But yeah you are correct, makes them look more incompetent than the other versions of the foundation.
Bear in mind that this also seems to be written from the perspective of a normal researcher or site head, we have very little information on whatever sorts of backup plans the 05 Council might have been up to in the shadows (IE deploying 2000 after automated systems use contained SCPs to rehabilitate the soil after the asteroid leaves, boom humanity saved AND the aliens think we are dead and so won't send hundreds more probes and a potential space war as fighting back seems to have resulted in).
7:53 “Is a man not entitled to the sweat from his brow?” “NO, says the space anomaly, IT BELONGS TO ALIENS”
Ah, it seems the Foundation took the SCP-1543-J approach to this one. “When in doubt, launch into the sun.”
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A strange version of the Borg but only goes after bio energy like some sort of vampire. Interesting how they get mad like a child and send out way more then necessary. I’d assume this sort of comet takes a decent amount of resources just to make. Then knowledge of a planet suitable for harvesting. It really makes you wonder what this “wish” is and why it’s so important
It's basically a dark forest civilization, one that's so xenophobic that it tries to snipe any potential threat, but not so xenophobic as to not exploit the target
They're more like the Dominion to me. The Borg are exploitative, yes, but they also seem to lack a true "master race" that benefits off of the others. All become Borg, unambiguously. The Dominion are a tyrannical empire dominated by one species who've set themselves up as gods. Many subjects don't even think they're real, seeing them as myths. But all under their eye serve them, paying tribute and suffering unendingly for any dissent. Resistant worlds are devastated with diseases meant to inflict regression and torment. And even the faithful are genetically mutilated into better tools. Bonus points: the god race also uses insidious subterfuge to spread chaos among their enemies.
Section 31 did nothing wrong... I kid, I kid. I prefer my Trek to be optimistic.
your videos are getting better, i can tell, i've watched your scp playlist almost obsessively, great work mah dude, you're the voice ;)
Name a more iconic duo: Mobile Task Forces and suddenly losing all communication
D-Class dying and sending in the MTF
Oh how i missed a good SCP article reading, love your channel man
Man you and TheVolgun are the two best SCP related channels on TH-cam. Than you so very much for the continued content. Love seeing your videos
My wife and I adore sitting and discussing the themes and points you explore in your videos. We are such big fans and genuinely love your content!!! ❤️
Yeah buddy! My favorite Scp channel. Always glad when there is an update
Its 3am, I cannot sleep.
Music didn't work.
Silence didn't work.
Counting sheep didn't work.
Its time to bust out the big guns.
Meanwhile the Tyranid Hivemind is furiously taking notes
These aliens sure do love wasting their energy to collect energy. Could just harvest methane from gas giants.
Great video! I would love to see you exploring Lancer's lore someday!
I think your voice and content are immaculate. I was a viewer several years ago who has fallen off but come back recently, I don’t think SCP has fallen off but exposure to it has. I would suggest making “trailers” or sneak peaks or even polls about your topics that could be placed in TH-cam community and tik tok. I would love to see your channel grow and this may be a good idea. If you find the idea difficult I would be happy to assist with making some to see if you like the idea. I’m just a random guy on the internet but I want your channel to thrive
This is a really interesting one. Thanks for covering it 😃
So interesting, this one! When I saw 32 minutes of more Exploring, made my morning.
Man I almost forgot that patreon gives me early access - here we gooo
"Targeting nutrient rich plants like Soy and Corn." My guy was that sarcasm? I couldn't tell.
Haven’t heard an SCP that I liked this much in a loooong time. Haven’t rooted for the Foundation like this in so long I was so invested and immersed in the story. One of the best SCP imo absolutely loved it!
14:38 I see what you did there. Nice Armageddon reference.
Wtf. Are you the writer or something?
@@AllFlimmitst's a movie made in like the 2000s
I love your videos! They are all really, really great! Thank you so much!
Aw, shoot, them Tyranids done showed up!
Thanks for making these videos! Its always great to listen to
Just a lil hey hey to all the fellow snoozers that use TES's rockin content to slump. Sleep tight yall.
My man is edging closer to 1 million!!!
Imagine having enough resources and time that you can send an endless stream of comets to kill one planet
Oooh thank you Mr. The exploring series
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My man with another upload 🙂 shoutout to Exploring Series for the quality content.
"Crops with high nutritional value, such as soy and corn..."
LMAO
Will expect brown and red rice to be included, albeit at the expense of white rice.
They do have nutritional value, despite what right wing propaganda says
Thanks!
Man, I liked the Classic idea of space invaders, that was a well crafted story, thank You!
Everyone loses it over food but it's water you have to really worry about. A human being can survive over a month without eating food but only three days without drinking any water.
Hot damn, thank you for all your hard work in these! Happy 4th!
I’m actually liking this 7000 series more than I thought I would
I have to say, I know they don't get as much attention as the first series, but some of the very best objects in the cannon are in the 7 series.
Series 8
Series 7 is the 6000s
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@@vereinigtestaaten6453 Oh great, we have the 21st-century naming problem all over again.
@@callusklaus2413 Series 1 is 001-999
I fucking love 7003 in particular, but damn there are so many worthwhile ones
I'm conflicted about this one. The concept and story are really good, but if an anomalous space object was draining "chemical potential energy", surely we would lose everything including our human bodies, and not just our crops. I guess the aliens are vegetarian?
Maybe they feel like they can get more energy out of humans by making them farm until they die rather than draining them too fast.
I think it would've been better if "chemical potential energy" wasn't brought up at all. Surely all the gunpowder, wood, coal, etc are fine?
This video finally caught me on to why I'm so disinterested in recent SCP stuff. So much of it now is just spooky stories and creepypasta of varying quality, and that's not what was intruiging about the SCP foundation to me. The original SCP articles were about a non-governmental shadow group containing horror movie threats in the most boring, clinical ways possible. There was no intent to instill fear or dread. It was clinical. The attraction was in the juxtaposition of a fear of the unknown versus a looming all-controlling known is whay made it appealing, not the scale of the threat or body count.
The writer of this article was definitely one of those kids who was like “nuh-uh i have anti-bullet armour”. All of the actions taken by the foundation in this are infuriating. Good listen though
Also: sending a comet, whose purpose is to harvest energy straight into a literal ball of energy doesnt seem like a good idea
@@jonhg92 Biological energy, not thermal energy.
Not a thing
Ah, what a comfort to find a new upload from you as my restless mind struggles to succumb to sleep.
I like how the aliens didn't just send 2 or 3 or even 5 additional comets, no they went full petty mode and sent an entire fleet to deal with 1 planet that dared to oppose their plan.
The way the comet is basically stealing resources from Earth for an extraterrestrial race reminds me of Tiberium and the Scrin from Command and Conquer
_""prototype matter displacement technology""_ thats quite the fancy way to say nukes isn't it. Maybe giant rockets.
8:10 - I love this narration and this article, but I couldn't stop thinking that this specific point just sounds like Goku forming a Spirit Bomb off on another planet. He's pulling a little too much spirit energy, though... 💀
The comet that cucks humanity
That’s hot
Hell of a video to watch on your lunch break
20:30 hey a birthday gift… people knowing of the rail gun… not a good gift.
It’s 2 am, but the new vid just dropped so who needs sleep
the term lovecraftian is thrown around alot whenever there's horror sci fi. but this is scp litterally reads like an actual lovecraft short story
I am so glad you brought up the armageddon comparison we were all thinking it
Cubic tons? How many chains to the furlong is that?
A 7000 series article with Telekill Alloy? That's surprising! I thought its use had been phased out several generations ago.
Thanks again good sir. You are the best SCP channel out there.
Solution, teleport 682 to hostile planet in question if possible.
Or fax them a picture of 096.
If they have the tech to displace the comet so precisely into the sun, how can they not just displace the earth to another star system.
Great way to start my week. Thanks as always and great job
I think i would drive into that relaxing car anomaly until this all blows over.
3:00 SPOOOOKY UPLOAD
I'm having some trouble understanding this one. If the aliens want crops, why do they send a comet that specifically kills crops?
The comet drains the chemical energy from crops, which kills them and seems to destroy the soil in the process. It demands humans to produce as much crops as possible without eating them, giving it even more crops to consume before it sucks the planet dry;
they are using tech to drain the potential energy of the crops, they are trying to kill off what they fear is a threat to themselves while exploiting the threat for some free energy first
I can't help but think this SCP is a little over the top. We get it, the comet is draining Earth's "vitality" or whatever to transfer it to the civilization that made the comet. Going into all the minutiae of how the environment is being destroyed is a little ridiculous when you can pretty easily see that Earth is going to become like Mars.
18:20 Wanna bet that word was not "Thrive"?
This was very strange and interesting. This sounds like another one I've heard before but it was done really well. Nice.
I was gonna try and sleep but this popped up.
Anyone else give a cheer and fuck yea when the two team members came back up on the net and managing to accomplish the mission?
Also, big mistake on the alien race letting us know they are coming back...maybe send them a telepathic image of the shy guy...
With the foreknowledge and the masquerade broken, the Foundation can bring out the big guns to defend the earth.
redirect same metorite with a sample of 610 and a message written in a cognito hazard with the message "unlimited food, f*ck you and f*ck off"
A color out of space 2: electric boogaloo.
I feel like this could have been solved with SCP-2501.
"Scp x could have been solved by scp b, scp A could be beaten by scp c"
You have to remember the fluidity of Canon and the fact that accounting for every scp on the site when writing an article with a particular vision in mind simply isn't feasible.
Yet people used to be more attentive of other articles and their Canon, sco nowdays are all "oh my prescious artistic methatheoric Canon, oh i do whqtever the fuck i want"
@@PsicoPrime mean there’s like what, 7000 articles on the website now? Expecting none of them to conflict with each others canon is pretty unreasonable and imo not even desirable.
Some of my favourite SCPs directly contradict the lore of eachother. Artistic freedom is good, actually.
@@PsicoPrime Is the idea of creative liberty that offensive to you? Do you really expect people to be forced to factor in SCPs made by other people (which they might not even like) just so that random people can't complain that "this extremely niche SCP could totally have solved this problem!" ? That doesn't sound fair or reasonable to me.
I am reminded of the planet from SCP-001 "Past and Future". These guys probably aren't the same bunch, but it seems like a similar attitude, using cognitohazards to make us feel as though it's some noble spiritual quest to feed another planet's Earth Mother, when really they're just planning to chew up the planet and spit it out as a lifeless rock.
Gonna fall asleep to this one
This couldve all been avoided if the aliens just brought some nice stuff and sold it in exchange for food. Like, we would litteraly colonize a planet to grow food for the right price.
the aliens are dark forest xenophobes, they are sending a doomsday weapon to take out any potential competitors because even the idea of commerce with a foreign species might be anathema to them, they send the comet to kill everyone and gather energy in the process
Depending on how long the comets take to get here, the foundation should be able to figure out a better defense program, and also one that can ward off the comets before they get close enough for their mind control to kick into high gear
This one was really good thank you
SCP CONTENT IS GOATED
I don't know what gets to me more, the idea that this alien world is incredibly full of vitality but still stealing vitality from other places, or that they are sending another bunch of collection drones to a planet that's already drained. The planet's a closed system, so all the chemical potential they'd already stolen is now in the sun and not generatable on Earth again, so there's not much they can hope to get with their 200 craft. (Also the magnetosphere anomaly doesn't seem to be explained.)
Very interesting one. Thank you!