Exploring the SCP Foundation: Clockwork Time

[@TheExploringSeries]

Reuploaded due to image change.

[@Meetrandomtimes]

OH REALLY I DIDNT KNOW THAT

[@gc6096]

No problem thanks for the reupload 👍

[@nikoclesceri2267]

knew it sounded familiar

[@jamesshore3191]

You should pin this comment my dude, it's a little buried by the others

[@ZombieGuy0095]

can you do a video on "I have no mouth," but I must scream, please

[@St0n3brus3]

Bless you, one of the stories I'm rather proud of. Thank you so much for narrating, and sharing it out.

[@tesseract5569]

Are you trying to say you wrote this lmao.

[@St0n3brus3]

@@tesseract5569 indeed I did, actually. At least the story

[@jejojejic7980]

@@St0n3brus3 What happened Gears, you've been gone for two years, you coming back?

[@jejojejic7980]

@@tesseract5569 well Gears's real name is Daniel so it is probably gears

[@St0n3brus3]

Been a bit in and out. Pushing out stuff now and then, but it's been rough. My wife is getting spine surgery, so it's been tough to find the time. Still around, just working in the direction of more activity.

[@zeliardforty-two4692]

Trying to divine the secrets of the universe from a child’s toy Love that line

[@vranime3772]

Read it as soon as he spoke it. Chills

[@BlackMoonHowls]

@@vranime3772 Same, it sent chills through me mere seconds just before he said it.

[@Dalek59862]

I thought your pfp was evil Kermit for a second oh jesus

[@zeliardforty-two4692]

@@Dalek59862 now I see it and it can’t be unseen 😝 😰

[@guiltygearalonecompl]

Friday afternoon release, while a pleasant surprise, feels unnatural. Love it

[@tree2800]

Almost anomalous 😅

[@bripskylarkk9167]

Had to double check thought I was seeing things😭

[@verdragon5591]

This is a reupload of an old video

[@guiltygearalonecompl]

@@verdragon5591 Sure is

[@jezibelle673]

That just means Sunday we're not getting a SCP

[@hmmmstvethebaffled7720]

Imagine completely dedicating every second of your life into making an impossiblly amazing machine but forgetting to put a disclaimer warning people not to put humans inside of it

[@merafirewing6591]

And the prince got what he deserved.

[@1LLog1K]

We don't have to

[@leahcole8672]

I love this story, and I'm here for a re-upload. The way you deliver this hauntingly beautiful tale is top tier

[@sandrakiefler4649]

Ok, 😮‍💨 I thought I was freaking losing it oss 🤦‍♀️. I was just wondering like wtf is happening, he did this already…..RIGHT!?😟 😉😅

[@zapan9643]

@@sandrakiefler4649 yeah same. I was like "wtf I'm sure he already did this years ago". Kind of dissapointed, Mangg should use the community tab for incidents like these. Now I need to find something other to fall asleep to. My disappointment is inmeasureble.

[@techmasterkat9048]

@@zapan9643 but, is your day ruined?

[@fancyslothnick1844]

I could have sworn you had done this story before but I think I just read through 914 related stuff enough that I remember this in detail, still a great story to go over

[@iwswu]

Have to agree, as soon as i started listening

[@defiantnight2668]

Re-uploaded due to changed artwork

[@jackrylebonclaw7270]

I absolutely love this tale. The way the actual working of the machine is left unexplained, the innocent fallacy of youth and the abject horror it results in, the way the essential core of the machine survives to this day despite having no reasonable right to do so... it's a force of nature bound to physical form. Supernatural, unearthly, something beyond our understanding enmeshed in mundane mechanisms and materials. And a monster that will not be put down. The writing really walks that tightrope of telling you enough to set a solid scene while leaving enough to your imagination that it fills in the blanks with what disturbs you most. The art of personalised horror. Even the graphic description of what happened to the princess is subtle enough to let my mind draw it in a way that is, I suspect, uniquely disturbing for me. To be honest, I find a lot of fiction misses the mark around that point, as it often tries too hard to describe the particular vision the author has, which may be utterly terrifying in their head, but loses a lot of its impact when distilled into words. @Daniel D, I wish you and your wife all the best, and hope one day you can return to writing such bloody good stories!

[@matthewstone5507]

Hey! Just wanted to say I’ve watched you’re stuff for you years and have enjoyed all of it. You do a great job and thank you for your dedication.

[@DontTripChocolateDrip]

Truly a cruel fate for someone who just wanted to be recognized for his work.

[@thaumaturgeslit7759]

Even if it's a reupload, It's still a great video to watch/listen to.

[@gc6096]

Indeed

[@thethinglast5672]

Why did it get reuploaded

[@Meetrandomtimes]

​@@thethinglast5672 IMAGE CHANGE THATS THE REASON

[@connor48880]

Wait fr

[@tobaccojoe9100]

Thank God that I found your comment because I kind of thought that I was going insane lol

[@pockpock6382]

I cant but image the experiments from Made in Abyss when hearing the description of the princess. Made my heart sink, thinking of how tragic that arc was.

[@barnabasigari3109]

Bondrewd be crazy

[@Arcticfox030]

Man have I missed regular uploads of scp videos from you.

[@harishthirunagari6203]

Me too

[@DetectiveLance]

He does them every Monday, the hell you on about?

[@spudthepug]

Every other Monday now.

[@FUNKY_BUTTLOVIN]

🎉

[@esotericpince]

i love it when scp authors use their power of detailed interesting descriptions for things other than monsters. i really liked it in this story, it felt beautiful and intricate without getting too repetative or boring

[@esotericpince]

i also loved the subversions. building on the "if you put a human in, it will come out as a horrible killer monster" precedent and instead having the outcome of the girl held and loved until she died.

[@zschilleci]

Bonus video? Yes please!!

[@tomthumb4252]

Reupload

[@cossakrose]

YEEEESSS!! One of the absolute best SCPs and SCP stories out there! I'm so glad it's getting more coverage!

[@Scarytones]

You...already posted this video before. I just listened to it like 2 weeks ago

[@shrimpbisque]

Not sure why you reuploaded this one, but it is one of my favorites of yours to listen to from time to time.

[@adreuter]

no, its a bad thing and needs to be undone

[@hardwareful]

Oh yes yes, a new Exploring Series video. Perfect timing!

[@pdbouie]

Thank you, stumbled onto your channel about year and a half ago, and you hooked me into this SCP phenomenal universe. Again thank you for your time, your effort, and your dedication to this very vast but gratifying IP.

[@DaveNBake]

Just rewatched the 7676 video. Gotta be my favorite.

[@michaelliggett1622]

This is the author dr gears own interpretations of the origin of scp 914 the clockwork machine that creates and improves stuff

[@Kingkent1207]

I had a distinct false memory of you having read this tale before. Perhaps I simply imagined it in your voice

[@masterq134]

No I think he did. The little girl goes into the machine and something les comes out and he gets thrown in the dungeon essentially. I think it's a reupload.

[@jamesshore3191]

Had to change the thumbnail I believe, so he re-uploaded/re-mastered it

[@Zamblebobbler]

Seeing a reupload gave me the idea that It would be great if you remade some of your earlier/shorter videos and add in associated tales or verbatem readings

[@vortexlegend101]

I could have sworn you’ve done this one before, I have a very vivid memory of a video of yours about 3 years ago reading this exact article, it had a difficult thumbnail though

[@luridus584]

A classic tale, one of my favorite ones too, You did a great job at the narration, thank You for sticking with the SCP community even though its not very lucrative. I dont really have time to find and read the wiki nowadays, but because of You ive been able to enjoy the work of many talented writers of the foundation. It means a lot to me, thank You for Your wonderful work over the years

[@elKinesis]

This is one of my favorite stories from the SCP catalog. Thank you!

[@wolfblood5596]

914 is my favorite SCP! Toss in another copy of 17 again!

[@anticlaassic]

That last sentence really make the whole story work

[@jackyamero5129]

My thoughts on Friday posting as ~4 year sub: Good. I fall asleep listening to these and feel much better in the day. Recently, posts were to late for me on Sundays (~11 AM) and I've been meaning to say this somehow not egotisticaly.

[@djj949]

100%

[@blakemiller2923]

Alright!!!! Another video I'm so excited

[@shiva_hardly_sarcastic]

wasnt this covered before on this channel? i swear i remember something like that

[@nuclearfusion.2355]

It's was, possibly a remaster??

[@ArchangelV11]

Love your work. I'll follow you till the end of days lol

[@MrMementoMori]

Great story about SCP-914.

[@CommanderSal]

Nothing feels better than getting a new episode on a Friday after work ❤😊

[@tomthumb4252]

Not new, reupload

[@jeffreyzervos6938]

Omg I'm so happy you came out with a video today I needed it

[@ryanfounds4952]

ok, that has got to be one of the best stories you've pulled from the SCP archive. amazing!

[@djj949]

Great vid. Nice seeing your story telling vocals improve over time. Keep em coming dadio!

[@stargazingskeleton5917]

One of my favorite SCP's. Thank you TES for delivering such excellent content! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[@vanessaashford9203]

maybe I'm just dumb and this was actually really obvious to everyone else, but I never understood why this entry was called "Clockwork Time" until just now; the pattern to what the machine does to different objects is that it basically transmutes them instantaneously in a way equivalent to how other forces (natural or maybe otherwise) would given a long enough span of *time* , with each setting sort of representing a different span of time compressed into a short process. The problem is that there's no way to select what sort of process of transformation the machine simulates on a given input object, so especially with the "finer" settings, you might end up with some things (such as inorganic materials) transformed in ways that simulate the way that centuries or millennia of material science developments would be able to change a given substance (or like with the example of steel being inserted, what some more advanced futuristic manufacturing process might be able to make out of it), while other things like living creatures can be transformed based on some hypothetical future evolutionary form that creature could become. The "one-to-one" setting might then be meant to turn the input into something else that it could *currently* be. Or, maybe I'm putting too much thought into the name of this SCP, and that's not the intention at all...

[@felixrowan646]

This story is pretty much the best parable for the Sunk Cost Fallacy I've ever heard.

[@Raven_Leblanc]

To me, this is the scariest of all SCP stories. No monsters, no external threat, no end of the world... But the horrors made by a naive young boy, that could've been anybody. The morbid curiosity that fades into horror of your own actions. I've had this feeling once before in my life, of when I (not so expertly) vivisected a slug, just to understand how such a creature worked. It wasn't out of malice, but... curiosity I think. I was just wondering how it did the things it did... As you can imagine, I didn't find any logical parts (cogs, screws or such) that I was familiar with, but with viscera. And in that moment, I realised that what was in that slug, was also in me. And how easily I had destroyed a living being... I can't describe how absolutely *DISGUSTING* it felt, how awfully alien everything was at that moment. It almost made me vomit, thinking of my own actions... I've never done anything like that again until university. I ended up studying biology, but I tend towards botanics. I still have that curiosity to understand how things work, but it's tempered by that true horror I felt as a kid. I know that what I did was awful, and I tortured an innocent life. As a biologist, you have to do stuff (disections and other things) that come close to what I did back then. Blending living animal tissue for fractioning proteins for instance... but I never feel good about it. At the start, I had guilt, but after a while, you get conditioned to the things you need to do. Again, I'm not proud of it, or feel good about it. But this SCP reminds me of the disgust at my own actions. True horror.

[@demonic477]

I found this 5 minutes after it was posted but like always I wait tell I can set and fully enjoy listening without interruptions . this time it was 8 hours before I got to hear it in full but as always well worth the wait .

[@embyrr922]

Love this one. Your narration is excellent as always.

[@shipmcgree6367]

Pretty good Tale. Awash of emotions and horror. Thanks 👍

[@catstranier]

Wow right as my shift started, perfect timing!

[@Fulgrim2]

Darn my joke got erased… *Throws Dirty Pair blu rays into the machine and sets it to “Very Fine”.*

[@superluckyhappylife2358]

Been on spotify for a while. Glad to see and hear on youtube

[@NWOWCW4Life1]

Didn’t know it was done into a reupload but this is awesome regardless. This is one of my favorite ones you did

[@nicholasmcclure2890]

I clicked on this for the story, but I own that pocket watch... at the front of the video. Like literally the same style of skeletal backing and chain

[@counterfeitsaint7479]

This is one of the classics, I swear you had a video on it already.

[@tylerhicks621]

He did. Not entirely sure why he re-upload it

[@julez5876]

He's the GOAT for a reason!!

[@chasefrost1401]

WHA-WHA-WHAT!!!! It isn't a Sunday. BLESSED ARE WE FROM OUR LORD MANNG

[@gamerstorm1902]

2 uploads this week your amazing thank you

[@Meetrandomtimes]

MAYBE POT SCP-682 IN THERE AND MAKE IT IN THE LOWST AND SCP-682 WOULD BE AT ITS WEAKST MAYBE THAT WOULD WORK. ALSO COOL VIDEO KEEP IT UP AND GOENG

[@aidangage56]

thought it was monday when i saw this. i am so happy to have another vid by u

[@DarkLightSwordFight]

This is possibly my favorite T. E. S episode!!! Seriously. I feel deja vu? 🤔

[@Steve_O_Ville]

On a friday nice

[@Butterzzzz]

Really adds a lot to the original SCP

[@czcrossman]

So well written and SO creepy! Always been one of my favorite tales since I first read it years ago. Thanks Mangg, very well done as usual.

[@tuckvison]

Creepy? It's just tragic... there's nothing really creepy about it.

[@czcrossman]

@@tuckvison The description of the princess is pretty unnerving. Obviously the whole story is very sad & tragic yes but unless you’re being pedantic lol then yes it definitely is very creepy 😄

[@BlackMoonHowls]

That was a good one, not a single advert in the video, and no interruptions just the story.

[@eddieford9373]

Moral of the story, don't shove people into a mass of gears and machines. It'll mess them up pretty bad.

[@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodo436]

ITS NOT A MONDAY, YOU GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK

[@Pangloss6413]

fun fact: the picture Doctor Gears uses as has profile picture on the SCP wiki is a picture of Albert Hoffman, the chemist who created LSD, and Gears didn't even know it was a picture of him at the time

[@Nilgon.]

Hey, what a pleasant surprise :) I love this tale

[@kriegsmanalpharius]

Thank you again for another scp

[@jackknight1899]

Santa Claus and Krampus would love to be friend with this toy maker

[@sond.lollipop8919]

Love your scp work but I’ve been watching you since your Greek gods days.I will dutifully watch all your content as long as you make it

[@mogo5055]

What a perfect gift for a rainy day.

[@mathieuleader8601]

this story reminds me of Oscar Wild's classic childrens tale the Nightingale & the Rose

[@vikkimcdonough6153]

3:52 - "upsetting the delicate sensibilities of the young lord" 🤣 Sounds like the bastard knew the young prince better than the advisor did... 6:33 - "the constant nagging drain of interaction slowed down the work" Introverts represent!

[@darklord884]

Am I crazy or is this really a reupload? Because I'm convinced I've already heard the same exact story with the same exact delivery. It's a great story, but what happened?

[@Musty_Moth]

I literally never get excited for videos like I get excited for your videos, hell yeah you made my night after a long, long day at work! Thanks Mangg

[@Kaiju-Driver]

What an amazing story.

[@ViroVeteruscy]

Lol, I actually have that watch that I use for cosplays X3 Really good watch, it's a wind-up and it's cool seeing the gears move :3

[@michaelandreipalon359]

A Friday/Saturday release? Unthinkable, yet also praiseworthy. Addendum: Hmm, the others say this is a reupload. If so, what's been changed from the original release, TES?

[@slavcity406]

Babe, wake up. Exploring series just uploaded an SCP related video.

[@MrXinshadow]

An Exploring video on a Friday of a long weekend is the best SCP

[@ubezmusic]

was not expecting to wake up to this. thanks for the surprise !!!!

[@dfailsthemost]

Seeing this made me genuinely second guess what day it was. I got a little worried for a second.

[@michaeldayman682]

682 input very fine. Sorcerer's apprentice starts playing.

[@leereredone9418]

hewoo again I very much like your immersive and somewhat personal(?) style of storytelling In my humble personal opinion, The Volgun is your close second in SCP fandom based content, Please, don`t ever stop being your gorgeous creative enthralling self! I`m never going to stop watching your videos

[@xxtoy.foxy_queenz5661]

Wooooohooo this is a nice surprise! Thank you

[@jamsky1558]

Another excellent narration. Thank you

[@Taxer239]

We all must have done something good to get a surprise release!

[@josegonzales4423]

OH BOY 3 am?

[@rawe1313]

❤

[@whatsagoodusername823]

SCP-9999: The Friday-Afternoon Exploring Series Upload

[@Ginger_FoxxVT]

A classic tale!

[@vikkimcdonough6153]

Achievement get: The Fabergé Bastard Become angry enough to start giving rise to anomalous phenomena through the power of sheer rage.

[@OBIONEBARRONI]

Bless you for posting on a Friday. I needed this.

[@mathieuleader8601]

This device when it creates deadly creatures reminds me of how Finister from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers created monsters

[@gc6096]

Cool

[@bostonbilly7725]

Yesss ty for another scp vid maang I can't fall asleep without your voice no more lol 😅😅😅❤

[@loremipsum5023]

I've been waiting so long for this

[@gummyboots]

This is a reupload

[@loremipsum5023]

@@gummyboots well I missed it the first time. I ain't making it out the D-class but aye

[@michaelamundson4715]

I don't think I could ever hear this story too many times

[@afUndefined]

Yes

[@rask004]

This is a reupload? Otherwise, I love this tale

[@aaronmatheson9730]

I am so thankful that you are still doing scp! I was under the impression that you were going to be doing Warhammer from now on and stop producing SCP. So you have a happy customer here lol!

[@Spike2276]

Double drop week? Damn bois, we eatin'