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There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)

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debo_ ◴[12 Aug 24 15:36 UTC] No.41225644[source]▶
Somehow, I just managed to learn what SCP [0] is a couple of days ago. I've already started ~~stealing~~ working some of the ideas into a D&D campaign I'm running (on an improv basis.)

It's neat to see that SCP also resulted in some... reasonably novel thinking? Thanks for sharing, I'm going to pick this up.

[0] https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/

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1. 0x3444ac53 ◴[12 Aug 24 15:40 UTC] No.41225700[source]▶
It's crazy how that works right? SCPs are an old internet thing and show up all over the place. Most people pay it no mind, but once you learn about it you realize how crazy wide spread it is.
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2. debo_ ◴[12 Aug 24 15:44 UTC] No.41225761[source]▶
Yeah. I found it through playing a game called Anno Mutationem, and all the discussions about it kept referencing this SCP thing. I figured there was no way they were talking about secure copy, but the fact that no one ever stopped to unpack the acronym indicated to me that I'd missed Something Big On The Internet.
3. Ancapistani ◴[12 Aug 24 16:10 UTC] No.41226079[source]▶
I was pleasantly surprised a couple of years ago, when both my daughters were suddenly obsessed with SCPs. They were about 9 and 14 at the time, and I didn’t introduce them to the concept - they discovered it on their own.

What followed was a few weeks of me re-reading them, discovering several new offshoots of the SCP genre, and getting to discover those works for the first time with my kids.

It was an awesome experience, and something I honestly never expected to come out of a random “old Internet” meme like that. :)

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4. gknoy ◴[12 Aug 24 16:48 UTC] No.41226559[source]▶
This is only tangentially related, but have you played the video game "Control"? That and Alan Wake (both from Remedy) seem to relate very well with the SCP genre.
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5. airstrike ◴[12 Aug 24 17:20 UTC] No.41226961{3}[source]▶
I just Ctrl+F'd "Control" looking for this comment...
6. jerf ◴[12 Aug 24 17:48 UTC] No.41227295{3}[source]▶
You can combine all three tastes with qntm's Control X SCP story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31032671/chapters/76659218
7. ahazred8ta ◴[12 Aug 24 19:00 UTC] No.41228075[source]▶
They might enjoy the webcomic 'The Repository Of Dangerous Things'.

http://www.dangerousthings.net/ - The MC is an intern at a containment facility. What could go wrong?