Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-3426 - Reckoner

[@Site_42]

Holy shiiiit! I was part of the contest team for this article. I wrote the Tale “Ignorance is Bliss” as part of the series/canon with this SCP. Very cool to see it featured!

[@eg_manifest510]

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

[@Site_42]

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

[@demonkingtengoku9034]

how do you enter these types of contest??

[@Bigparr43]

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

[@DanJones-np8xb]

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!

[@TheShwiggityshwah]

"This message will repeat until there is no one left to hear it." My favorite line for this scp.

[@Neon_Streets]

Remember the three F’s

[@justcommoncurt]

Stolen almost verbatim from Local 58

[@fomalhaut_the_great]

@@justcommoncurtCorrelation is not causation.

[@thegungeonmaster]

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

[@oberonpanopticon]

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

[@MCPhssthpok]

"Focus on a memory of great intensity to you, and be silent until you do not exist." Shudder.

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

Pattern Screamers? Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time

[@ricardohoang8452]

Since 3812 lost his reputation 😅

[@gargoyles9999]

And she was a good friend

[@githon1541]

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

[@kananisha]

Pattern Screamers ?

[@kananisha]

I said the same

[@rajukoley9249]

Pattern Screamers as a great filter is a very neat concept and also a very terrifying one at that.

[@Site_42]

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

[@ashleighstratmann7783]

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

[@danielpfaff1802]

Like the apocalypse.

[@Mondy667]

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++

[@tommylucatiel7911]

@@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.

[@kamishin7135]

Pattern Screamers are such a cool concept. Things or beings that shouldn't and don't exist, but do anyway. And the more you observe them, they observe you back and drag you into the void of non existence with them

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

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

[@Wineblood]

Scientist: Oh that's an odd result. Result: *confused screaming*

[@marcsukdumitru1443]

I swear pattern screamers is one of the best sci-fi concepts ever...you could write endless stories around them and it's ever fascinating,not to mention the cosmic horror not the level of Lovecraft

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

Forbidden knowledge

[@charion1234]

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

[@TheGooseman14]

"Henceforth, I, Wi'poi, mother of none, shall scream for eternity" Been reading SCP content for more than a decade, no SCP terrorizes me like this one. TheVolgun and Dr Maxwell covered it before but damn, still hitting hard. Pattern screamers are the best concept of the SCP universe by far.

[@Lykoz.]

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

[@Nomadith]

​@@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

[@adolfodef]

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".

[@FlameDarkfire]

@@adolfodefthe only one they fear is her

[@TheGooseman14]

@@Nomadith exactly my point

[@Blewlongmun]

One of the things not mentioned briefly about the Fermi paradox is how relatively quickly and easily life seems to have started on Earth. It was basically as soon as somewhere was cold enough to do so, not only that but rudimentary cells have been formed in labs from amino acids predicted to be relatively common all on human timescales. Counter intuitively almost every experiment we perform shows life to be far more common than expected. There is a significant portion of the early universe where near everything was 71 C, there should be 40K empires formed in the 10 billion years following that. Despite all odds, space is cold, dark, and silent.

[@felixrowan646]

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.

[@Blewlongmun]

@@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.

[@videocrowsnest5251]

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?

[@Blewlongmun]

@@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?

[@quicksilvertongue3248]

40K Empires you say? FORTHEEMPRAH!!!

[@mattwoodard2535]

As you say the Foundation has a better grasp of Pattern Screamers than most and The Serpents Hand also has some safe info on them as well (Some of the Pattern Screamers don't scream, but whisper). Another advantage the Foundation has is that they have a Department of Unreality who seems to be set up to handle this sort of stuff. This was very creepy. Well done. sm

[@LS9646]

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

[@atonedudeatsnotsubscribed8313]

@@LS9646unreality never saved them from any threat that is like real

[@BonanzaGY]

There are a lot of SCP youtubers now, and many of them are great yet they always seem to encounter problems with breaking immersion or being too subtle. The Exploration Series is the closest I've found to be a perfect mix between explaining the article so you understand the horrors behind it, whilst not completely roundhouse-kicking the source material. Good job dude and keep it up!

[@l3vi23]

The volgun is another very good SCP KZbinr

[@BonanzaGY]

@@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)

[@ashleighstratmann7783]

Pattern Screamers are sure creepy when they are used right in an SCP

[@kilik124]

Imagine being the one on shift to watch the drone after hours of nothing happening and then... "Guys? You're gonna want to come in here!"

[@kingandros4819]

Reckoner is probably one of, if not IS my favorite SCP. Existential/esoteric SCP are some of the most interesting and cosmic dread inducing SCP and I love it.

[@WolfCry791]

Man, this one was unnerving. Reminded me of vacuum decay but somehow more horrifying

[@whitemagus2000]

I really like this one. Also, this is why we can't have nice things in the SCP universe. Once you get a nice utopian society going, you get a high enough tech level, and inevitably discover the pattern screamers, which summons them to wreck the hell out of your nice planet.

[@SheepyGiblet]

16:19 "It is the very fabric of the multiverse itself that is coming to blot them out" Amazing

[@michaelandreipalon359]

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

[@dfailsthemost]

That "clumps of sand" part was very funny in my head.

[@brianjauch9958]

I hate sand, it gets everywhere.

[@dfailsthemost]

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

[@SenseiFuji]

Ey yo, Mangg! I seriously can't thank you enough for the countless hours of entertainment, background noise and absolute joy that you have given me over the years! When I'm working as a delivery driver, I don't listen to music, I listen to spoken word and you are in my top 3. Thank you so very much! With love and respect, a gnoll in Florida

[@bradh3292]

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

[@masterzoroark6664]

"Long live Celcigng. May its death not be in vain." And jeez I love how Volgun presented these logs, he's such a good VA.

[@Drifter2025]

My son is into the universe, especially exoplanets, and it's great hearing the names of these planets.

[@tommylucatiel7911]

I usually get a bit sad when tes uploads something volgun already covered, but im excited for this. Reckoner is easily one of his best so hopefully tes' color commentary and in depth explanations add to it.

[@justinsmith5870]

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.

[@tommylucatiel7911]

@@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.

[@TwilitbeingReboot]

"Be safe. Be silent. Be simple and without light, or the beast will find you."

[@howardhavardramberg333]

Wow. Feels like Christmas. Feels like a number of years ago when I first discovered the channel! This feels really nostalgic and excellent.

[@azoth9875]

My personal interpretation of this is that nonexistence/unreality is necessarily impossible to define directly; you cannot define that which _is not_ except as the absence or negation of that which _is._ Since the Pattern Screamers primarily 'exist' (for lack of a better word) in unreality, this also extends to them. However, this very property means that, once a civilisation manages to create an 'equation of everything', i.e., an equation describing _all_ of reality, they necessarily have, by proxy, an equation that describes all of _unreality,_ including the Pattern Screamers, thus giving them power and allowing them to manifest.

[@quicksilvertongue3248]

Having a plan not only for 3930 but for things like 3125 has probably given the Foundation a huge leg up on all these unfortunate aliens. We've been warned not to look at Medusa, given a mirror shield we can use to fight her, and might even come away with a severed head we can keep in a bag and use on other monsters of comparable danger.

[@doc_atbash]

Heard you appear on “There is no antimemetics division”! I think that’s amazing, I thought that voice sounded familiar!

[@Bad.Medicine]

Just listened to this on Spotify today. Just wanted to say I'm glad I've been getting back into your videos and that you're still going strong :)

[@zacksaykawlard1300]

I saw this SCP covered by a different channel and I had no idea what it was. So glad you explain it so well because I have been wondering for awhile.

[@TheBreadlord]

I utterly love Reckoner. Not such a fan of it being lumped in with pattern screamers, but this is definitely one my my favourite SCPs of all time.

[@kalleveldhuisen6519]

But its about pattern screamers?

[@TheBreadlord]

@@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.

[@kalleveldhuisen6519]

@@TheBreadlord ooooh, i get it

[@artificerprime4154]

@@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.

[@artificerprime4154]

@@frigyou1078It quite literally is about pattern screamers, because the article has the pattern screamer tag.

[@thomasfowke2]

This is absolutely my favourite SCP on the entire wiki, its so nice that my favourite SCP reader has covered it now too. Thanks Exploring Series!

[@Malcis]

That drone video part was like the old Pattern Screamer D-class thing, also 28:25, you used that same office image in that Pattern Screamer video too, not sure why I was able to pick it out on sight...

[@maxblake5564]

The answer to the Fermi paradox that I prefer is that humanity is actually one of the most advanced civilizations in the galaxy currently, and that interstellar space travel has still yet to be achieved by any civilization.

[@dee4204]

Yoooo!!! I've been waiting for TES to cover this one, it's one of my personal favorites. Nice, I love how he summarizes & breaks down some of the more complicated ones. Makes it much easier to get the full picture of what's going on. Fantastic work Mangg like usual. Best SCP covering creator on KZbin!! Keep it up!!

[@ChillyWing]

Finally getting an episode on my FAVORITE spc of all time. This one still fucks me up thinking about it from time to time

[@Florkl]

Every time I see the term Fermi “Paradox” I feel obligated to remind everyone that inverse square law means we can’t detect any life unless it specifically signals at us and is lucky enough for the signals to make it to something that can detect it. The Fermi “Paradox” is the equivalent to a man who never leaves his closet wondering why he never sees anyone.

[@2yoyoyo1Unplugged]

THANK YOU

[@OskarHowell99]

Love being a TES Patreon member! It's awesome being here nice and early, it's the highlight of my week :)

[@DivineNihilism]

Man, just what I was looking for. Bless your scheduled uploads.

[@danielpfaff1802]

❤

[@MorePower8679]

Pattern Screamers are underutilized. I actually have an idea for them where instead of being from a different universe, they are from our universe that underwent a vacuum decay. They scream to remind us of what came before.

[@sasukedemon888888888]

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.

[@justinsmith5870]

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

[@Shugg-Goff-HHoffical]

Holy shit. That's some heavy stuff.

[@remuslazar2033]

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

[@michaelandreipalon359]

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

[@christreanor1948]

This was good. I hadn’t read or heard a pattern screamer SCP in a bit!

[@danielpfaff1802]

I also like the sound of legion losing.

[@quicksilvertongue3248]

This is one of the best SCPs ever, or at least parts of it are top notch. That first recovered file is like the final boss evolution of UnLondon. So powerful! I am less impressed with the Conclave of Six and their tired "man was not meant to know" cliche. But the last planet wins me back again, and while these comments spoiled me on the revelation that PSes are behind the whole thing, I still found the buildup to their revelation astonishingly powerful. The first SCP i ever heard was Such Black Light, and extremely cerebral anomaly about reality's very meaning being broken down. If this masterpiece was the last skip I ever looked at, it would be an incredibly fitting bookend.

[@Deadlyviper911]

Imagine the pattern screamers were real we could be plateaued at any moment

[@underplague6344]

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

[@remuslazar2033]

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

[@adolfodef]

@@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®

[@jaredprovost2002]

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

[@BlaaankOwl]

@@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.

[@xyro3633]

As soon as that drone entered the black sphere and started seeing weird shit, I *knew* pattern screamers were involved. This has SCP-3930 written all over it

[@toothemaxx4027]

Is this possibly related to the SCP-5000, to what the foundation discovered and tried to stop from existing to “protect” humanity by ending much of it?

[@panasclepias2937]

This is one of my favorites! It's funny to me that this is related to the Church of the second Hytoth, and yet, the advanced aliens of the Second Hytoth haven't been destroyed by this skip.

[@gregslingland3576]

“Moria... You fear to go into those mines. The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame.” -J.R.R. Tolkein

[@therongjr]

I'm a huge fan of Pattern Screamers, so I've read this SCP several times. I was surprised that TES hadn't covered this one yet!

[@Testyourmemory350]

What a win for the community that we got such an awesome article covered. Thank you!

[@anthonyshiels9273]

A possible explanation for us not having any Extraterrestrial Visitors: "Eewww they call their home planet "Dirt".

[@TheActualMrLink]

This one has always been a favorite of mine. The idea of reality and indeed logic itself breaking down in such a complete and total way is utterly terrifying to me.

[@lastofthe4horsemen279]

One of my All time fav SCPs cant wait to hear The Exploring Series treatment

[@glimmer6819]

Absolutely loving the older series SCP's, you're amazing man!

[@furiousfinch1587]

I came up with my own take on the Pattern Screamers once. The Pattern Screamers are our own minds turning on us and creating an anathema to order and logic. Logically, things mostly work in binary. Yes, or no. Up, or down. Hot, or cold. We can't really conceive that well of something that would be our opposite - something of an absence of logic and sequence - that wouldn't also hate us for being the opposite of them. But even the perception that they should then hate us _is in itself a pattern we observe in our reality._ So our brains are concocting this "anti-real" phenomenon as the 0 to our 1, and it then manifests due to human psychic energy in the SCP universe.

[@mvslice]

Definitely check out The Volgun's cover of this article.

[@Fulgrim2]

Oh joy of joys, Pattern Screamers!

[@carterhefelfinger640]

Keep it up man, these videos get me through college often

[@firstsurugi5250]

It's crazy because the foundation knows that if it learns too much, this will happen to earth, but in order to do its job, it HAS to keep learning things.

[@blackosprey2219]

They also know that these particular screamers only emerge when a planet achieves utopia and forbidden knowledge. All they have to do is purposefully impede social progress by ensuring a couple evil dictators remain in power, which is part of their containment procedure.

[@jokerace8227]

Essentially planets breaking down into Strange Objects, which at times I've wondered if that could wind up being the consequence of machines such as the LHC collider. LOL

[@morfeuzalas2102]

I am not certain this one in particular is a pattern screamer. I honestly think it may be the Voruteut instead, what the pattern screamers are running from.

[@Mondy667]

One of the tags in the page is literally pattern_screamer

[@Kyl0_ben]

One of my favorite articles on the site by far.

[@JohnSagin-SimViDeLucis579]

Nice, all my time listening to Isaac Arthur is useful yet again!

[@avsbes98]

1:16 I'm actually convinced that we are currently at the Peak of the Great Filter - and that the Great Filter is the tendency for intelligent life to destroy itself, showing in a multitude of ways.

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

I was really hoping for a mention of some of the alien races included in other stories, like the marce, those elder thing-like blue aliens who appreciate our music apparently, maybe those bugs who were down to a single settlement.

[@TheMimiSard]

I was hoping this was a sign someone wrote a Pattern Screamer SCP recently, but this is a 3000 series one, so maybe this SCP is, itself, a meta-pattern screamer.

[@cb-gz1vl]

15:36 as time and space blend their twisted forms into each other until everything and nothing happens at once - a black hole

[@eg_manifest510]

5:58 ayo WAIT! Gliese? Like the Gliscian? Makers of music? Those guys just can't catch a break omg Ok wait nvm that's Gliese 1214B, the Gliscian live on Gliese 445C. Almost worried there, the Gliscian aren't supposed to die until the 40th century (or alternatively we die and they try to save us with Reese's puffs) 8:04 ok well that's strange, the Luytenians were all wiped out by a continent-sized Cognito-hazardous clone of themselves, which then got brainblasted and killed by their moon crashing into them. No canon I guess but intriguing that all these familiar faces are cropping up

[@darcydreaming6931]

The end of that edit 💀

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

The idea of some force destroying any and all planets with advanced civilizations is a very terrifying concept when you think about how we’ve yet to find any planets with life.

[@MeldrickCz]

"Pattern screamers do not exist, they can´t hurt you" Pattern screamers: "Well...yes and no."

[@Yuri_Burger]

yet another banger from the man himself

[@Qrow-i9d]

Honey its time to go to bed, tes just uploaded another scp video

[@mayonnaisewithbacon6099]

Ah, the perfect thing to fall asleep to

[@danielpfaff1802]

Also remember their teachings . ❤

[@slimeinabox]

The foundation has time travel tech btw. If they actually wanted to they could easily recover all missing data and even found the core cause of the event.

[@stefanstraka7517]

I haven't listened the whole video yet, so i have no idea if something like this might happen here, but a thought occured to me. Foundation researchers keeps finding scorched civilisations, planets or entire solar systems where seemingly anomalies took over and ruined everything. Deeper digging down reveals that it's the 05, using anomalous weaponry to wipe out civilisations that openly use anomalies, and that intented to contact earth, thereby breaking both the veil of secrecy and fermi paradox. If anyone says that 05 wouldn't do something like that, they already do: SCP-1000

[@bethany9816]

What can you fanbase do to help you get that last 77k subscribers? It been 2 years now that you have been at 923k? 77k needed for 1 million subscribers? Correct? You do such a a great job week after week. You deserve the recognition that comes with 1 million subs!

[@JustSomeGuy1979]

"If you gaze long into an abyss,the abyss also gazes into you" Friedrich Nietzsche

[@sidepresang5771]

Big 3 Body Problem vibes.

[@sharojak9401]

When the Photon goes too far

[@sharojak9401]

Sophon

[@dang-x3n0t1ct]

3 body problem mentioned let's go!!

[@Lunar994]

Immediately clicked as soon as I saw the title. I remember this scip originally being called "A Spark in the Night". The current name is probably better, but I kinda like the original name more.

[@danielpfaff1802]

That's because you know. ❤

[@BullMcCloud]

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

[@rexross4847]

man wtf it's 3 am

[@landoftheninja]

Lmao and yet here all 2300 of us are

[@DashaLeigh]

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

[@sped13]

What a great way to enjoy my lunch break

[@remuslazar2033]

Bon apetit

[@pyrosianheir]

Reminds me of the SCP-0 article where the administrator is prepping to fight the Black Moon, and has to simply wait out the end of everything to force it into a shape that can be fought and killed to ultimately stop it. Like this may be how that all happened in another timeline.

[@jahmokaeperson4580]

I wonder if we'll ever get some kind of scp thats like a conclusion with the screamers. It's like with every new scp featuring them they become even stronger than before like we're building up to something.

[@2yoyoyo1Unplugged]

The stronger they get, the more predictable and boring this concept will get. It needs to just be forgotten and something better for the format needs to catch on.

[@meltedWax169]

Is this the black moon howling or pattern screamers?

[@alexritchie4586]

Some incredible inspirations to this very engaging and unique entry; 'Roadside Picnic' by the Strugatzky brothers, 'Ubik' by Philip K Dick, 'Blood Music' by Greg Bear, the unreal dimension strikes of Cixin Liu's 'Three Body Problem', the Lovecraftian madness caused by cosmic horrors, even references to Archimedes' 'The Sand Reckoner'. It's 'The Sand Reckoner' however that most piques my interest. It is a mathematical mind exercise written by Archimedes in which he tries to estimate the number of grains of sand that would fit within the 'Universe' (which in Archimedes' time referred to the Solar System). He made an incredibly accurate calculation, but to be as precise as possible he had to reduce all the complex entities and elements of the known Universe down to nothing but grains of sand. To me, this seems exactly what the Reckoner(s) is/are doing; Breaking the Universe down into its most basic and simplistic parts in order to audit and assess it with greater and greater accuracy.

[@mathieuleader8601]

the pattern screamers are just so spooky because they are so nebulous

[@happymaster19]

Thank you, TES. This is one of my favorites. So chilling and bizarre.

[@joelmulder]

Just a quick note about how filters work in the real theory: there’s many, not just one. There are many lesser filters, such as having a planet with sufficient water or being in the star’s habitable zone. There are also great filters, such as the chances of abiogenesis, the step from single to multicellular life, tool usage, or not wiping out your species due to conflict or negligence after splitting the atom. Note that these are all theoretical, since it’s very hard if not impossible to hang any real chances on these things. But even if there were just 50 lesser filters (a very conservative number) each with a 50/50 change of passing them, we would expect the chance of an advanced civilization arising to be 8.88x10^-13 in per 100 galaxies. That’s a 0.000000000000888% chance. Considering there’s 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe, that’s only a 0.0018% chance of life emerging. If you think that’s interesting, please check out Isaac Arthur on KZbin :)

[@testtest6116]

can you do SCP 4994? its basically the SCP foundation in the normal universe but a direct upgrade, they're called "ARCRA"

[@genlando327plays2]

The office space drone footage makes me feel like that's what The Stanley Parable would be if it were part of the SCP universe

[@GMGaravon]

I've always loved the SCP videos, and your Warhammer content is what's gotten me into the lore! You should do a vid on the imperial assassins, keep up the great work!

[@marchernandezzz817]

When i was in jail i missed this so much

[@ganjanguitar2918]

As always thanks for this. Your Videos always help my day.

[@Noahloveless1]

Someone definitely incorporated a emergency broadcast tale onto this one.

[@RawrBag]

Actually one of the scariest scp's

[@MelodyofDarkness0001]

I was aggravated, then I saw you were covering this little number. Avenge the Screamers

[@georgea5991]

This is a classic. I was looking forward to when you got to it. Awesome!

[@Lakilazur713]

honestly This kind of reminds me when an author has dementia or has died and their work isn't widespread so people forget. things are breaking down because the person creating them is no longer there or the person that created them is forgetting everything so they cannot exist

[@gizmoatlas]

OH I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS PATTERN SCREAMER!

[@zenkomenhi]

OH THIS this is one of my favorites

[@batman4ever666]

One of my favorite! Thanks for the great video