Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-3426 - Reckoner 

just finished reading that tale, RIP my boy Alan he deserved better 😞

@@eg_manifest510 It’s always a shame when we lose a real one. 😭✊

how do you enter these types of contest??

The Volgun did this one not TOO long ago. Interesting story. I will update you on your tale though

Haven't listened quite yet, but kudos my dude. The fact that two of my favourite content creators touching on skips, have picked it up! Says to me, I'm about to thoroughly enjoy myself. Thank you. And keep creating my dude!

Remember the three F’s

Stolen almost verbatim from Local 58

@@justcommoncurtCorrelation is not causation.

​@@justcommoncurt this scp is older than local 58 isnt it?

@@Neon_StreetsWhich 3 fs? Also hmm that line sounds familiar

God, when we came up with that idea, we were so stoked. Loved that little universe we came up with, wish it was a grander canon

I was thinking this had something to do with Pattern Screamers before it was revealed at the end

Like the apocalypse.

I still remember reading SCP-1795 back in 2015 and being intrigued by Pattern Screamers and what they are I think that SCP is where it is first mentioned Here is the excerpt in the bottom addendum Oh my masters, [STATIC], lost for so long. The war, the terrible, awful genocide of the (Lit. Trans: ‘Pattern Screamer’), we [STATIC] extinct, we didn’t know! We could only flee, build for the survivors, but we feared our work was (STATIC, possibly ‘in vain / futile) But we never dared to hope that some would remain in [STATIC] part of [STATIC] galaxy. Are you satisfied with our work? It took [STATIC] long, and we feared it would last forever. Our empire outshone the [STATIC], and now, it will do so again. My masters. Oh, my masters. We are coming home. ++Message ends++

@@Site_42I wish it had stayed with just pattern screamers. Now it's abatement word salad trying to blend too many canons and significant characters together.

Perhaps this is what those incorporeal Sulphur beings inside the Underwater Machine in “To force the Hand of God”

Since 3812 lost his reputation 😅

And she was a good friend

You shouldn't have heard of them... take your amnestics.

Pattern Screamers ?

I said the same

Forbidden knowledge

​@BeautifulEarthJa an intelligent being billions of years old who can only scream through anomalies.

What exactly terrifies you about it? I find them fascinating more than anything.

​@@Lykoz.I can't speak for Goose, but for me it was always the terror of reality ripping you apart at the seams and making you some sort of other...thing, like the pattern screamers. Alive, dead, trapped somewhere in the liminal limbo in-between the two, a concept out of time and space with nothing you can do but scream as you are unmade

For a "disabled mother" (whatever it actually means for that species), "she" was quite _based_ : _"If I am going to be mad for all eternity, at least I should write my own epitaph first & then go into The Void® through what it is NOT my non-existent daughter."_ -> If there is any kind of "hierarchy" between Eldritch Abominations, the leaders tell those under them to NOT mess with "her".

@@adolfodefthe only one they fear is her

@@Nomadith exactly my point

Antimemetics and unreality are the GOATs We have literally no idea how often or even what they safed us from.

Surely, things have gone too wrong if such an endless concept is suddenly focusing to work against such a minor thing.

I hate sand, it gets everywhere.

@brianjauch9958 It's all serious and bleak, and a big clump of sand just biffs her in the face like a snowball.

There was an answer to that aspect of the paradox that I rather like. Other sapient entities did and will exist in the universe we inhabit but we may not exist in a time period that aligns with another having similar or greater capabilities to explore space. We and they exist too far apart on too many scales to intersect.

@@felixrowan646 There’s plenty of explanations but it’s more about the probability and what’s implied, if sapience always fizzles out then how long do we have? A theory I like is the great void being a 3+ species, they’ve simply been collecting all light emitted from their stars for longer than life has been on earth.

I personally like the rational explanations to the Fermi Paradox that bring up the problem of distances, time, and in general just how much it takes to get a species from start to interstellar civilization. One reality I think about is that with distances and the speed limit of the universe being the speed of light, it might just be that there exists no plausible way to sail the vast expanses of space. Even to point out, the conditions inside our own solar system are mere cupcakes compared to the dangers of deep interstellar space. Our very solar system is surrounded by a spinning disk of plasma generated by our sun that's really hot, and protects us from some of that nasty business. Any advanced enough species might push to a certain level (interplanetary, for example) as they deplete the resources of their home world. But as you go bigger, the requirements become bigger too. At a certain point, the requirements to break through into something (say...going outside our solar system rather than sending probes out) might become so ludicrously massive it might force a species just to look at that and decide it ain't practical. Or even all the resources of their own solar system just won't cut the mustard, and it forces them to choose between chasing a dream or tending to their own needs in their own lil corner of space. Then there is this. At any moment, the universe could wipe every single person on Earth out, and there is nothing we can do about it. The universe has an incalculable amount of different ways that very fragile living things stand no chance against. And nothing can be done about most of them. All it takes is one, and that's it. Lights out. So while you might have had 40 000 civilizations. What is that to a universe where all it takes is one factor to not be in your favor, and it's good night, good bye? The only reason humanity is around right now is because of sheer, incomprehensible, amazingly good...luck. The kind that makes winning a lottery look like a certainty next to it. Also, we like to think of ways civilizations can destroy themselves and everyone else around them. Statistically, if these civilizations were a thing...just about every single doomsday scenario we can think of has probably happened somewhere to someone. We are here by luck. So anyone else, would be too. And luck, chance, odds, those don't like anything go on forever. So while dreams of space and exploring it are great. I rather think we got more than enough to do on our own little dust spec of a planet. If humanity can't even learn to live with itself and people aren't capable of yet taking better care of each other, then I do not see much good seeking to repeat the same mistakes and follies anywhere else. Not that my opinion on that matter too much, mind you. But it's my way of saying while fun to think about, I rather concern myself with people over space. That way, when and if we get to our turn of giving it a shot, perhaps we will have chosen to just be better?

@@videocrowsnest5251 The thing that gets me is the time our civilization has taken compared to those galactic timescales. Anytime there’s a prediction about the path of civilization I think about computers, the internet, AI; as reasonable as it sounds that the speed of causality is the limiting factor we’ve made similarly certain guesses only to have them completely overturned in a couple decades. If luck is what it comes down to when will ours run out? Even if luck has the final say statistically we should be far from the luckiest ones. Sentience is a large variable as well, even if our actions as a species are calculable we often progress from outliers adding to the collective. It’s a paradox for a reason but I like the play on the normal scientific principles it questions. We should not be special, but when all things say we are the best obvious question is why? How special are we? Technology has accelerated rapidly for 100,000 years and we’re reaching exponential growth, when does that stop? If it doesn’t, just what will our species be in a century? A millennium?

40K Empires you say? FORTHEEMPRAH!!!

The volgun is another very good SCP RU-vidr

@@l3vi23 Oh yeah totally, I watch him as well. I used to prefer the Volgun but he doesn't go into explanations as much as the Exploration Series, so I tend to enjoy his videos more. (That's more of a skill-issue on my part though lol)

FL loves Mangg! So does my 8 yr old.... :)

Occasionally tes gives a good explanation that makes the volgan one understandable and therefore better. Tes is good for getting into it even if volgan is a better word for word reading.

@@justinsmith5870Agreed, but sometimes volgun really goes a step above with the voice acting in his readings. The atmosphere he added to Reckoner and L is for Lamentations is just... unnerving, and hopeless.

I also like the sound of legion losing.

But its about pattern screamers?

@@kalleveldhuisen6519 it's "about" a phenomenon that erases societies that teach a certain level of development that humanity hasn't hit yet, which implies that it's all in store for us. By strongly hinting that the trigger is the discovery of pattern screamers / how they fit into the nature of the universe (which in most modern SCP settings humanity knows and has contained) it deflates the tension. The trigger for the process is essentially known and the inevitability and dread drops out as it can be avoided. That's why I don't like that it is tied to pattern screamers, and I pretend it isn't. If you accept that's what it is then it ruins the crushing cosmic horror aspect.

@@TheBreadlord ooooh, i get it

@@TheBreadlord Except it doesn't ruin the cosmic horror for me, because it means that the pattern screamers are not only extremely dangerous, but require constant vigilance to not even look into them. Which means that if the Foundation messes up, or another group of interest looks too deeply into them, then it could be game over.

@ TheBreadlord- I agree! I don't think it is pattern screamers myself. Don't know what but I don't think it is.

Luckily they aren't real, and even if they are, THEY AREN'T

What is a pattern screamer? I forgot and i am too lazy to search for it

@@remuslazar2033 Precisely. Asking "what" is a mistake. Asking, is unwise. You forgot, for a reason. Your laziness, is the proof that you are: A Survivor®

I mean the universe as it currently is could do that to us too so one more potential thing to wipe us out isn’t even that big of a deal really

@@remuslazar2033Pattern Screamers are entities that inhabited a previous version of the universe that was destroyed when ours was born, and escaped into this universe at the moment of the Big Bang. They‘re not fully compatible with the physical laws of our reality, and so they’re perpetually trapped in a torturous limbo between existing and not existing. This, as you can probably imagine, has made them quite jealous towards other forms of life who haven’t had to deal with constant suffering for billions of years. They also specifically despise people that learn too much about them, because being known about causes their torment to become even more extreme, so they will warp reality to kill or delete such individuals from the universe. Which is what happened to all of the alien civilisations in this SCP - they got to a point where they were able to deduce the existence of the Screamers, and the Screamers wiped them out in response.

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They already aren't from a different universe. They are from the universe before ours. It's neat to think the collapse of their universe and the creation of ours would be through vacuum decay, though.

There's a dozen or so pattern screamer scp. They could lose something if used too much but definitely would like a few more.

Holy shit. That's some heavy stuff.

​@@justinsmith5870 what is a pattern screamer? I'm too lazy too google it

To be blunt, said underutilization does help their fear factor by a huge margin.

That's because you know. ❤

I think A Spark Into The Night carried more emotional weight than Reckoner

THANK YOU

Also remember their teachings . ❤

Lmao and yet here all 2300 of us are

​@@landoftheninjaI'm always telling people that we crackheads make the world go round

One of the tags in the page is literally pattern_screamer

Bon apetit

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Eh. Another hopeless SCP that makes the Foundation pointless and just wins anyway because “muh cosmic horror?” Yeah no thanks. Why even make that an SCP? It’s a waste of the format. You can’t contain that. You can’t resist that. Might as well not be an SCP entry or even a tale if all it does is defy and laugh at the entire conceit of the universe.

When the Photon goes too far

Sophon

3 body problem mentioned let's go!!