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[Cthulhu]

Dammit.  Remember a long time ago when Aqizzar talked about how the "I'm mad as hell" quote from the Network was like a George Carlin routine in that when you're 15 it's lifechanging but when you're an adult it's not as big a deal?

I remember smiling when I read that because I knew I'd never be so stupid as to find intense brain-fucking profundity in a movie quote.

And then and then and then, the thing in apocalypse now, with the "We train the young men to drop fire on people but won't let them write 'fuck' on the planes because it's obscene"

I don't think anyone has ever summed up the message of a movie with as much succinctness or as much emotional jarringness as Kurtz did with that right there.

[RedKing]

Apocalypse Now is exempt from that rule, because the whole damn movie is made of weapons-grade win.


As regards SCP:

Yeah, a lot of the Keter-class objects are trying way too hard (although I still enjoy 001/Clef and 682, and SCP-231 is an awesome use of the "your imagination is far worse than anything we can come up with" principle of horror). My favorites tend to be the ones that are places, rather than things. Good example is SCP-087.

[Cthulhu]

Any children or featureless geometric objects are trying too hard, it's such an immutable fact that they straight up say "Think of something other than a featureless geometric object" on the submission suggestions.

The big angry monsters too.

[RedKing]

Honestly, after having read some of the short fiction SCP-055 is way more disturbing now. I feel like I could do some good ones if I ever had time to just sit down and mull it over. I just glanced through the top 30 or so, as I haven't been on in a good while. Seems like way too many "joke" entries now. 

[warhammer651]

Saw one of my teachers playing Tribes 2

[Cthulhu]

I was always the best SCP.  I'm almost a joke but at the same time you can't deny there's something deeply unsettling about me.

[Darvi]

I know right?

And I'm a forum poster too! You cannot escape me!

[GlyphGryph]

I always liked the pipe room SCP, and other similar ones that aren't explicitly malevolent or even dangerous, just... I don't know the words.

[Vorthon]

Weird? Like that vending machine SCP?

[Darvi]

My favourite SCP is 458. Do want.


And of course 447. For science.

[GlyphGryph]

Implacable, I guess. Content to do whatever single minded thing they do, and you'll be perfectly fine as long as you keep out of its way, and aside from that it is almost /mundane/.

[Vattic]

If you've enjoyed Apocalypse Now I greatly suggest you read Michael Herr's Dispatches. It's a book about the authors experiences as a war concordant in Vietnam. Both Apocalypse Now and this book have a very similar flavour and I can't help but suspect that those responsible for the film read this book. It's not a subject I would have pursued alone but a friend suggested it and leant me a copy; Now I can't suggest it enough.

[Darvi]

Oh gods I can't believe they did this.

[Vorthon]

Oh gods I can't believe they did this.

You just found that? I've known about it for a while. I remember seeing that picture on a blog somewhere before, as well.

[RedKing]

xkcd hit its 1000th comic today.