SCP-2003 │ Preferred Option │ Thaumiel │ Temporal SCP

[@darktigersharkmax4432]

I swear in the YEARS I've been in this community this is the first scp file that at all talks about employees getting paid.

[@Scantronimus466]

“You guys are getting paid?!” - Every D-Class

[@stateofflorida5082]

@Charles Wetherspoon All the magic hocus pocus any of them get to use doesn't let them buy groceries lol. Them bitches got lives outside the foundation, ya know.

[@elementalramen6792]

@@Scantronimus466 you just made my day

[@GrandHeresiarch]

They get paid in additional SCPs.

[@schwarzonia]

@@Scantronimus466 How about precious metals in the form of bullets

[@somedude1771]

Real talk here: THANK YOU FOR NOT USING A BLEEP TO CENSOR THINGS!! The sound you use is waaaay better.

[@seanrosenau2088]

IKR, the sound used has a creepy 'redacted' effect.

[@2yoyoyo1Unplugged]

@@seanrosenau2088Yeah. Like it’s being scrubbed out of an old tape recording

[@kristjanpeil.bsky.social]

Ahh yeah, volgun's next level "gruba-gruba-grup". Nice notice, ty! I suppose it's something like rewinding the tape while holding down Record.

[@makpat]

Definitely amazing, I really like the static sounds he uses 😂

[@Aidentified]

Note: SpiderPlanet is definitely not the preferred option.

[@TheVolgun]

I agree!

[@mishael1339]

Points gun: "Those are the guys I was telling you about guys! Let's take em to the Pit, the Lady is getting Hungry"

[@wolfoffenris9951]

@@mishael1339 *lights primer flame* easy now, nobody has to die today,.... Except these spiders

[@Scantronimus466]

Something like that is working out okay for SCP-3003…

[@talideon]

@@Scantronimus466 Ah! I'd been looking for that!

[@Vintage-28]

I do miss the classic witty end of lecture side comments from Dr. Millar, followed by the patented "Anyway". Bring that part back to the lecture.

[@JetBalrog]

Saaame, that was always so fun, and a nice touch of humanity to the proceedings.

[@lh384]

Dr. Millar got more and more serious as he was promoted.

[@TheVolgun]

I appreciate that, I honestly had so many people commenting that they hated the comments that I stopped doing it. I also just don't know what to say sometimes ... I'm paranoid of getting things wrong or something

[@JetBalrog]

@@TheVolgun I get that, honestly. I miss them, but ultimately if the majority of the audience doesn't prefer it, then y'know :P I just like a little personal flair, and the 3D models *do* add a lot in that regard.

[@cutthatscript]

some people are so rude i love the witty little things at the end and if they don't like them then they just don't have to watch the end of the video 😅😂

[@cumbrap]

That was a nice touch adding in an SCP-1000 dominance shift scenario. It even mirrors the day of flowers when humanity conquered them in a single night.

[@juststripes3392]

I enjoy your content.

[@D1Seller100]

It’s been a long time

[@vindiesel6695]

Back from the dead huh

[@krispymeme4965]

Whats the day of the flowers

[@TheArcSet]

​@@krispymeme4965 Outside the cactusverse cannon, the big foot are described as the formally dominant species of Earth, who had a biological technology based society, until one of their trickster gods gave humans a weapon that reduced their species to little more than animals and allowed them to be wiped out. However, the foundation has received letters stating that "humanity is forgiven" and asking to be let back in. With the foundation referencing an unknown party as someone who might have a vested interest in the children of the night being restored.

[@alexmo1941]

Me: If it's a time machine how do people get in if it looks like a mechanical dog? Watches later: ...Oh.

[@krispymeme4965]

I still don't understand

[@phillipmele8533]

@@krispymeme4965 they scoop out the brains and neurons of personnel and stick ‘em in something that lets them in the thing.

[@explosiverift2037]

@@krispymeme4965 damaging to animal tissue, exception: nervous tissue. Solution: extract nervous tissue of Foundation staff member(s) for us in SCP-2003.

[@nibblrrr7124]

Like a reverse Terminator!

[@kenpanderz672]

they just trim a little off the top, and then put the trimming into the dogbot.

[@thepyrokitten]

SCP article talking about training, pay, and benefits Too real, Volgun. Too real.

[@alw2839]

That's becuase it is!!

[@nibblrrr7124]

00:27 *Special Containment Procedures* - 01:39 *Description* - 04:05 *General Results of Research* - 07:20 *Preparation of Personnel* - 09:48 *XN-SHEPHERD Program* *Known Determinative Sets:* 11:29 _XN (preferred)_ - 12:21 _XB_ - 13:09 _XE_ - 13:54 _XH_ - 14:49 _XJ_ - 16:13 _XO_ - 17:23 _XR_ - 18:13 _XS_ - 19:04 _XU_ - 20:19 _XW_ - 21:36 _XX_ - 23:05 _XZ_ - 00:00 Title Screen 00:12 *Introduction* 00:27 *Special Containment Procedures* 01:01 + _classified_ 01:39 *Description* 02:21 + activation 02:57 + travel & return 03:28 + damage 03:55 + testing 04:05 *Addendum 2003-A: General Results of SCP-2003 Research* 04:42 + _imprecise data_ 05:33 + _effect on causality_ 06:29 + _tolerability_ 07:20 *Addendum 2003-B: Preparation of Personnel for Use* 07:51 + _selection_ 08:24 + _training_ 08:52 + _transplantation_ 09:11 + _guidelines_ 09:48 *Addendum 2003-C: Overview of XN-SHEPHERD Program* 10:31 + _The price_ 11:14 + _communications_ 11:29 *Addendum 2003-D: Known Determinative Sets* - XN _(preferred)_ 12:21 XB 12:49 + Notes 13:09 XE 13:43 + Notes 13:54 XH 14:49 XJ 15:50 + Notes 16:13 XO 17:10 + Notes 17:23 XR 18:13 XS 19:04 XU 19:47 + Notes 20:19 XW 21:23 + Notes 21:36 XX 22:54 + Notes 23:05 XZ 24:22 + Notes 24:32 *Outro* 24:44 Credits & Special Thank You 26:12 End screen

[@savvythedivineyethuggable7493]

Thank you.

[@_RealG0dFather]

God I love this guy

[@ruthlessasmr6662]

Godspeed.

[@aliameirra3863]

~Thank you~

[@braedenwinstead1984]

I'm like a year late but thanks

[@Troublecharger]

Preferred Option: We are, in fact, all still listening.

[@Migolcow]

I mean, worshipping a brazilian spider species sounds a whole lot better than being hit with an asteroid or disappearing spontaneously or something, right? -Iamnotaspider

[@jwalster9412]

Yes totally want to have arachnophobia in this timeline.

[@semajnosnhoj6351]

Definitely something a spider would say

[@Scantronimus466]

I mean, it’s great as long as you aren’t one of the 6 billion people who dies due to worldwide famine because we’re too focused on the spiders.

[@talideon]

It reminds me of an SCP of a civilisation on another planet with some kind of hive mind that wishes to spread to our own, but I haven't been able to track it down.

[@thelaughingrouge]

@@talideon yeah yeah, I'm pretty sure I know what you're talking about but I can't for the life of me remember the number.

[@daemon.running]

It sounds like time travel into the future, and subsequent observations could be based loosely around the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle, or Quantum Superposition. Ie the probability of the position of an electron in a given orbital cloud, or the position (charge, spin etc) of a quantum particle. Although a 'future' is observed, that specific 'future' only exists because it *was* observed. At the moment of observation the 'future' was forced to exist a certain way, based on probability. Once the team returns to the original timeline, the future returns to a state of only probability.

[@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1]

That idea is central in Tom Sweterlitsch's 2016 novel _The Gone World_ .

[@DatHarlequinOni]

A robot hound used for policing time and possible futures... Holy fucking shit, it's a robot HOUND OF TINDALOS.

[@alw2839]

Someone has to keep up his legacy!

[@futurecat]

"What's your angle, then, sonny?"

[@PanzermansBunker]

Yes. A cool tie in to Cthulhu mythos.

[@TheSkivvy96]

I'm not surprised subjects of LFOs become unresponsive after 18 months they could have at least put them in a humanoid body

[@Warricane]

I get the distinct sense your assumption, while incredibly common, is also INCREDIBLY wishfully thought... I think it's likely the body is shaped that way, because we have EXISTING software developed already for the locomotion of a "dog-like" robot. I bet they're literally just piloting it like a ship, and a humanoid variation wouldn't be anywhere near as stable, small, or maneuverable.

[@The_Keeper]

"a humanoid variation wouldn't be anywhere near as stable, small, or maneuverable." If we disregard the size, the human bodyshape is superiour in almost every way. Its more dexterous and versatile.

[@Warricane]

@@The_Keeper you're missing the point, I'm saying that machine is probably just a conveyance. like, an R/C car with legs instead of wheels. The human shape is great, but only if you can control it like one. who ever gets trapped in that robot probably just gets left, right, backwards, and forwards

[@officeofnavalintelligencePR]

I dont know if anyone has pointed this out yet, but the XH scenario seems to be directly related to SCP-3426, “Reckoner”, which causes the abrupt downfall of any tier 1 civilization.

[@derekhenschel3191]

I'm not gunna spoil anything, but a lot of them are caused by other scps you just have to be really good with your planet killing spcs :3

[@cozycrusader5]

I was thinking the exact same thing when I saw it lol

[@tonyk4615]

Great story. My one criticism about some SCP stories (this isn’t your fault) are that the amount of redactions instead of making the story more mysterious, end up making parts of the story difficult to follow.

[@sevensicilies]

I think this one was fine though. I only caught redactions in related scps, which is probably to avoid unwanted links to other scps. In my eyes, those are there to display that there are other scps connected to this one, but we don't know which ones.

[@BenjamminFranklin.]

I really don’t like entries with lots of redactions. It seems cheap, and boring. I get the whole “use your imagination” point but it ALWAYS feels cheap. it’d be like if you were watching a movie, and it gets to a good point. Then all of a sudden the screen goes black and the audio cuts out for the whole scene and then just starts up again after the scene ends. And then someone’s tells you that it’s a great movie because it left the scene up to your imagination.

[@Lunar994]

@@BenjamminFranklin. The writers might have been infected by SCP-1059, an anomalous memetic compulsion to redact information when communicating.

[@thegatorhator6822]

SCPs are littered with unnecessarily heavy redactions to seem more mysterious to the point it's become a bit of a joke

[@justinsmith5870]

The future scenario scp are quickly becoming my favorites. They usually reference other scp causing the event or as means of stopping it. Or just playing out past what the foundation would stop.

[@sevensicilies]

There is a scp 1 proposal that scratches that itch. Only thing I remember is that it's two buildings.

[@ArDeeMee]

@@sevensicilies „What happened to Site-13?“ maybe?

[@TurbopropPuppy]

Looking at our current global predicament, that XH set just makes me snort. The part where everyone worked together and ignored the profit motive in order to fix things, I mean.

[@alw2839]

Sorry, got to sacrifice you for the bull of money, no hard feelings huh? /satire.

[@rodon265]

I mean there is a cooperation... just not to fix things. They are cooperating to F*** everyone over. ever heard of a certain forum?

[@Firesgone]

It was too good to be true. So it just ended. That world is the trophy of a good time!

[@thetoyodacar2264]

yeah true, but 1.4 billion dead is a lot more than you think

[@philipfahy9658]

Do you think everyone spontaneously disappeared cause humanity finally got it right and god/cthulu/buddha/take your pick, wanted to hang?

[@joezhangmd]

Not sure why but this SCP really hits me hard in a part of myself I wasn't aware that I had any dread in. Love it! Thanks for the reading!

[@ordinarypigeon6918]

I think it has to do with the idea of determinism and that we can only ever change our course if we glitch the universe. Nothing scares me more than the idea of not having a will.

[@notapplicable292]

that isnt the only reason why this should give you dread, read through Kalinin's Proposal on the SCP wiki

[@IamSupreme333]

I found channel roughly 3 weeks ago and found your videos to be great listening to while i work. thank you for making 4pm come faster every day and making my work week more enjoyable

[@1blackone]

It makes sense that they would want to prefer option XN, since the Foundation is all about preserving "the norm" and, after impact, their World-Restarter SCPs (SCP-2000, for example) would just kick into effect and effectively reset the clock of society back to the modern age.

[@erickmelendez1981]

I don’t you understood that scenario the earth was rendered uninhabitable so Scp 2000 wouldn’t work

[@Marines_Memelevolent]

@@erickmelendez1981 those scps reset the timeline back. So while in the future of that timeline, earth is uninhabitable, the scps would skip back instead of letting time go forth.

[@bugjams]

That sounds kinda depressing tho. It all just becomes one big tome loop, humanity never goes anywhere in the end. Honestly I'd take total extinction over that hell. Why not just use SCP 2501 to stop the asteroid? Easy peasy.

[@vertigoa7071]

@@bugjamsDoesn't 2000 simply repopulate the Earth and rebuild using cloning and memory rewrites? "Resetting the timeline" but also not really changing the flow of time, just reverting Earth to a state like 15-20 years before it is activated?

[@Speed001]

​@@vertigoa7071 it just makes human clones with memories, everything else is on the foundation

[@dustygreen9233]

Hey, Just wanted to say I love you all. The world seems to be falling apart, so it's nice to have the constant that is the SCP community. Y'all rock, Everyone. The makers, writers, KZbinrs, and readers. Everyone, truly, stay awesome.

[@lastofthe4horsemen279]

Yes hopefully the world doesn't burst into flame and SCP 2000 can stay buried under Yosemite

[@memesonw3386]

Thank you thresh

[@LadyViscera]

@@dp-ec9vb Just directly to Putin. Russian citizens don’t deserve to get punished for their government’s detachment from reality.

[@shaiq-nbaiq1826]

Well at least we know that the SCP wiki is safe from Russian Intrusion

[@alw2839]

@@shaiq-nbaiq1826 Don't nix it....nooooooo..

[@misterbubbles6389]

Definitely one of my favorite SCPs, especially since it's a pretty unique take on the concept of a time machine used to save the future

[@novanation5870]

I LOVE the music for Thaumiels. Super creepy, and it fits the vibe of a Thaumiel perfectly. Thaumiels in themselves are creepy, beings or objects which are typically biomechanical in nature are either self-containing or used in Containing other SCP's. From what it sounds like, this SCP contains other SCP's via being the split between multiple different timelines which almost all were eliminated by anomalous nature and keeping said anomaly outside of 2003 itself allowing researchers to survive things such as an entire gamma ray burst. The most interesting one IMO was the sun collapsing into a black hole and then keeping every human consciousness alive but their physical bodies are dead, said anomaly was caused by sending 3 Koreans into space. How that happened I do not know. But that's what makes it soooo cool.

[@meema844]

Dude holy shit, someone needs to give more props for the 50 times stamps you put time into

[@MrMementoMori]

It’s Sunday and you guys know what that means? Volgun story time!!

[@ParadoX505]

I dig this one. We have time travel, but you need to get turned into ed209 to use it

[@IgnatianMystic]

14:44 Calling it now: With humanity finally learning to coexist peacefully and cooperatively with one another, the Rapture finally happens, hence all human and animal life on Earth spontaneously vanishing.

[@MoMo-lo5pt]

It might be SCP - 3426

[@Kyle-vg2io]

KZbinrs who upload on Sunday are a gift.

[@smileytrashbag1998]

I tapped upwards as soon at this video came up. Didn't even mean to. Perfect timing.

[@Tiktok_deadlift_guy]

Same

[@MrFleem]

Notifications like to jump in front of my finger when I'm about to press a different button.

[@smileytrashbag1998]

@@MrFleem Exactly. You get my point.

[@jackbussen7924]

You should move this kind of stuff to Spotify cuz I would listen to it non-stop

[@БиологическаяОпасная]

Just wanna say I have been watching you since you first started doing SCPs and I absolutely love your channel, it's honestly an addiction at this point. You are amazing, keep up the great work 😃.

[@InternetGravedigger]

Anyone else think XS is what O5-7 is actually trying to bring about? After all, by his orders basically nobody is supposed to know about that site or SCP and all communications go through him (or more likely are from him).

[@rwberger6]

Might just be that they are trying to limit the amount of changing variables to ensure that their tracking of the future is as accurate as possible.

[@Warricane]

That's pretty wild i never caught that, as if there's a seeecreeeet way to wiggle and bumble your way through probabilities until you find one that leads to everyone losing knowledge of 2003, and that lack of future knowledge apparently leads to a stable one lol. "SIEZE THE INITIATIVE". Just like an O-5 to risk it all, looking a meteor in the face at a chance of literally nothing happening.

[@talideon]

The stories associated with this one are pretty great!

[@oxymoron02]

"coterminus with its present location in space". Okay, so any amount of time travel puts you in deep space. Good to know. I love how many people tinkering with time and teleportation forget that the planet, solar system, and galaxy are constantly moving through space.

[@Scantronimus466]

Easiest handwave is that ‘present location’ is relative to Earth, not the universe as a whole. You time travel to wherever *on Earth* you left from, regardless of whether Earth is on the opposite side of the Sun, in another galaxy or whatever.

[@uniquename6925]

There is no absolute reference frame in space...

[@uniquename6925]

​@@Quasar-fv8to in what area is you degree in physics exactly? Cause last time I checked, "basic logic" doesn't let you derive all physical phenomena. So unless you want to explain why you can't use earth as a reference frame for magic time travel, I'm gonna have to call bs

[@zetanone7211]

It could be stuck to a strong center of gravity, so the machine also follows earth as well? Idk if that makes more sense though.

[@unintentionallydramatic]

Why do you believe you know how a machine whose working principles have been redacted into oblivion works? Or, for that matter, the timestream itself. It's higher dimensional movement, not a "forward" and may in fact send you "sideways" to an alternate earth.

[@onewheeljoeswanson1780]

This might be the coolest model you’ve ever made. So fucking awesome.

[@abaranihei2608]

Ive listened to this one quiet a few times now, absolutely love everything about it, mixed with the music etc it gives me super chills and fascinates me alot 👌👌👌

[@darkshadowking7346]

Sounds like doctor bright would fit this scp’s requirements almost perfectly

[@Jesus_Offical]

We cant trust him not to damage the future

[@MysterySmell]

Love ya pumping them out... Well done mate and thanks

[@grayfiresoul]

A fantastic one! This has to be one of my favorites.

[@tomorrowwestport2620]

TheVolgun is the man. I drive for work and I can say without any hesitation that Volgun, wrestlingbios , off the shelf reviews and Gman lives get me through some brutal mileage. Cheers Volgun

[@danielmcarthur8169]

Wonder what would happen to a person who is just a nervous system is exposed to the cure anything pill... would it regrow a body. Other question would be putting them into the refining scp

[@alw2839]

Or those nervous system monsters.

[@DAFORCEFilms]

It’s the Phase Distorter from Earthbound. Neat.

[@civilizedmonkey1795]

Wait, why is XN the preferred option when XZ indicates that humans will colonize another galaxy and live a better life and survive forever? I'd definitely prefer that over total extinction

[@healthysnack4532]

Because XN is kinda the default setting, but they also said they’re considering switching their preferred option to XZ

[@Scantronimus466]

Short explanation: XZ is a trap. Longer explanation: XZ is the scenario from the SCP-001 “Past and Future” continuity. It’s complicated but, in that scenario, humans descended from an offshoot of a race on another planet. Our ‘offshoot’ was intended to suffer so that the ‘main’ race could have peace and tranquillity. In SCP-001 PaF, the ‘main’ race finds us, wants humanity to come back to them and resume suffering so they can have peace again. XZ is intended to make their world look idyllic to trick us into choosing a future where we are all condemned to suffer for their benefit. I am not doing the explanation justice, BTW. Exploring Series has a good pair of videos breaking down that continuity.

[@Dranlia]

The fact the people from XZ give tours to foundation personal makes me wonder if they are deliberately trying to get the foundation to pick this option. Now it could still be for good reasons but the foundation is suspicious.

[@bindead]

I watch these videos every single day. Thank you bud.

[@ice319]

These scenarios definitely made my skin crawl. Good stuff.

[@Wedgethe1st]

Volgun putting out heaps of content and I love him for it. All 10/10 quality

[@TycoonTitian01]

The people who volunteered: get good pay: 👍 They are turned into robots 😕

[@Juiceboxdan72]

That model is cool - it reminds me a bit of the things from the Screamers movies (terrible films, but cool robots).

[@Scantronimus466]

One of my favorite SCPs - great reading!

[@_RealG0dFather]

The ominous music is truly teeth-gritting

[@joshyboy9804]

The only thing missing in these lectures are the extra commentaries given by Dr. Miller. I like the readings and all, but he sounds bored/jaded with what's he's doing.

[@lazchurchyard1229]

We have to cut Dr. Millar some slack. He's also in the middle of a panini.

[@xainkuze2338]

So the SCP has a time machine huh. Even more so I think he was either Aristotle or Einstein but one of them had a theory called the pendulum effect. The pendulum effects simply States; if one was to travel into the past or future from their current presence, given it enough time to elapse their bodies would automatically shift right back towards their home time line. Of course giving the scps reputation for screwing with the unknown, it's a good thing they stopped experimenting with this particular SCP.

[@PR0MAN01]

14:00 lol, that's how you know this shit was written before COVID

[@rowbot5555]

It also mentioned that 2017 was in the future

[@Voc_spooksauce]

Metal Gear Dog Correction: Metal Gear Time Dog

[@bionicdragon5]

STANDING HERE, I REALIZE-

[@Voc_spooksauce]

@@bionicdragon5 That i'm just like you, trying to make history?

[@QuestionableLogic_]

@@bionicdragon5 *Standing here

[@bionicdragon5]

@@QuestionableLogic_ Balls.

[@Myname-jy9pb]

I'm a simple man. TheVolgun uploads, I like and comment.

[@brendanmullins2001]

Thank you Volgun, right on my birthday 🎉

[@_FLAIRZ_]

Happy b day

[@Voc_spooksauce]

Happy birthday Brendan!

[@hauntedsunsets]

happy birthday!!

[@perfectstranger1152]

Happy Birthday

[@brendanmullins2001]

Thank you everybody, I appreciate it, have a great day!

[@DjPikaGaming]

I've not seen a comment about it but... Are we not gonna discuss the "Past and Future" 001 scenario and why XZ is actually a terrible situation? Or is it just not that well known of a 001? It's still one of my favorite 001s and it's a shame no one's discussing the truth of the ending.

[@chandlerdoeswhatifs9399]

Can you give a tldr explanation of why XZ is a terrible option

[@DjPikaGaming]

@@chandlerdoeswhatifs9399 It's related to an SCP-001 proposal by the same author called "Past and Future" and I think is directly linked in the actual article for 2003 to further cement it. Long story short. It's a trap. A big one. That utopia *isn't* for the humans on Earth, and the Earth humans would end up suffering their own unique hell for eternity if that timeline was chosen.

[@anomalocaris7436]

@@DjPikaGaming Not eternity, apparently only two weeks.

[@monsterpieeater]

Here at 8 seconds, let’s fucking go!

[@rickyfinn2763]

This is one of my favourites. The sterile nature of the whole report magnifies the fear factor. But I prefer where in the main article they use the Boston Dynamics photo of the robot dog looking robot. To even fathom the nervous system of a human, trapped inside and flung into an unknown future is carnal and terrifying. Awesome article. I've been reading the SCP foundation since toward the end of the 2nd series. Love it. Edit. I think the foundation was 20 years out... its not More, its 99942 Apophis thats gonna smash us to peices 😂

[@firehearts6242]

scp narration on my birthday, what more could a girl ask for

[@oglej]

I know the LFO platform is basically the big dog platform but i still prefer to think they are loading researchers into warhammer dreadnoughts and lobbing them into the future, attempting to change the future through the use of overwhelming force

[@bobwasowsky270]

Timetravellers doing their thing and watching everyone die or stop existing repeatedly People not knowing what's coming: what's the dog doin?

[@captainhuman]

I had a hunch about the last scenario, so I checked the wiki and it turns out that one is directly linked to Kalinin’s SCP-001 proposal, “Past and Future.” If you heard the last scenario and thought it sounded nice, I would strongly encourage you to read it because… it is not.

[@blackjohn1303]

Imagine getting direct-impacted by a freaking gamma ray burst. Biggest OOF in existence!

[@76dg15]

Keep it up volgun you’re awesome

[@averyherrington7533]

I love thuamiel class scps

[@one-card420]

Glad Volgun has been doing the Kalinin entries, they're my favorite!

[@FanOfFictionalCharacters]

kalinin fans can't stop winning

[@rowbot5555]

XH sounds a little more familiar than I'm comfortable with when it comes to the current date so far

[@kevlonk]

14:36 "On July 29, 2059, the entire population of Earth spontaneously vanishes, along with all known animal life..." Dwemer: Oh hi there.

[@bretonfou7046]

Kagrenac be like

[@alw2839]

Ya never shoulda messed with the heart, now we are all stuck here!

[@cahillcomics918]

after a good long break to start 2022, its time to dive back into SCPs….boy i hope no kind of horrific future event happens cause of this one : D

[@BLK_MN]

The fact that the exact mechanisms are not understood leaves the possibility that the machine could simply be showing them what *it* wants them to see, instead of what will actually happen. So the Foundation could be in the process of being manipulated by an unknown party. Tricking them into bringing about a future they’ll regret.

[@Scantronimus466]

That’s kind of what’s going on with XZ.

[@feepentertainment6752]

Yup, that's XZ for ya.

[@skorpion1117]

This SCP is like the "Guess I'll die"-meme

[@ZeeSmurfz]

New to the whole scp thing and I'm currently thinking about writing my own scps based of most of the mythical objects and creatures in my culture.

[@ThomasFarquhar2]

Just be careful, if it's too similar to a pre-existing SCP or what you based it off it won't get a spot on the wiki

[@ZeeSmurfz]

@@ThomasFarquhar2 will do but I noticed after scp 999, the wiki doesn't have any record of sco - 1000 etc

[@ThomasFarquhar2]

@@ZeeSmurfz they're split up into different series 1-999 is series 1 1000-1999 is series 2 Et cetera

[@000Krim]

Another excellent reading, thank you

[@pandabear4321gogo]

God I fucking love Volgun

[@colinhawley8050]

“Wanna see the future, champ?” “Golly geewhiz do I” “Preps the tools, let’s make another Dreadnaught” “…….Dread what now?”

[@MrDEMarq]

Thanks for taking my mind off the chaos of the real world 🌎

[@Malcis]

Oh hey, I recognize that 3d model, nice texture work

[@GenericProtagonist118]

Anyone got any theories on which are the classified SCP's they researched to make this?

[@MonteScarf]

14:00 we're getting real close to that starting date range

[@Floyd_McGerkin]

Hey Volgun, you ever do anything with the 🌙 🌙 🌙 initiative? A lot of real good fiction with those scps. You'll love it!

[@justinsmith5870]

Just listen to 6500 inevitable from 'the exploring series' and am hoping some three moons initiative focused scp would show up here or there. (Three moons has a small part in the 6500 story but a very large crustacean shaped space cannon.)

[@Floyd_McGerkin]

@@justinsmith5870 I think I read that... what is 6500? Refresh my memory, there are just so many. You read about the foundation meeting the Faye again up there? Crazy. They were still passed, after death, about the factory.

[@justinsmith5870]

@@Floyd_McGerkin basically anomalies (magic) begins to die, fade and some cases basically explode so the foundation, in causing the problem, has two choices in fixing it. Both options are observed into the future and have very different results. It involves time travel, multiple dimensions & nexus points and more scp than a d-class can shake a stick at. But without spoilers one ending involves the three moons initiative comes in and motivating the foundation to fix one complication. Via pointing a space cannon at them.

[@Floyd_McGerkin]

@@justinsmith5870 oh, right. I read that. It was GOOD. Took all 4 paths, used hacking skills to cast the final vote. THAT was interesting! 10/10, would recommend the read!

[@Floyd_McGerkin]

@@justinsmith5870 you know what else never gets enough scrutiny? The 5th church. So much there, but I do not recognize the bodies in the water (for instance). Lots of parallels to Kurt Longwood high-school too. Great sci-fi going totally unnoticed. It's criminal.

[@VideogameFrames]

Yessss perfect Sunday beginning

[@akiraloyd8256]

Can you revisit SCP-682? I’d love to know if there’s any more information on it since the last time you did a video about it! For those who don’t know SCP’s by their number, he’s the Indestructible Alligator thing!

[@CaptainSpork7]

Here's a thought about 14:49 XJ - Its the Rapture. Once humans FINALLY learned to more or less be at peace with one another, God/Our Creator/An Unknown Higher Entity 'saved' us only when it recognised we were mature enough as a species to be worthy of being saved.

[@TheUnknownAK]

hard to say, definitely possible it's intended to be that but it could also be related to some other SCP that breached containment in that timeline and either killed or absorbed all life.

[@2yoyoyo1Unplugged]

That thumbnail gave me Metal Gear vibes

[@deleted_account2894]

Outcome XH sounds alot like SCP 3426 whether intentional or not is very cool

[@rodon265]

14:05 XH "between 2023... cooperation... pandemic" When was this written?

[@supercellodude]

I have a hunch that the SCP foundation used anomalies related to the Church of the Broken God to develop 2003: the personnel prep transforms one into a cyborg

[@nalrashido]

So in other words in the future we are so fucked?

[@Kaiju-Driver]

Absolutely fascinating!

[@kristjanpeil.bsky.social]

Obviously written by a fluent statistician, kudos! Note: 3500 KWh for 7 months of time travel is Dirt. Cheap. Like running a 1KW gaming rig or heat blower for 21h a month. Hey, this is a paraphrase of the time machine series "7 days"! I'm liking this guy more and more...

[@draigygoch]

love it, very professional

[@thebiggestdoof1]

That was not what I was expecting to walk into when I read thaumial in the title

[@solsglobe]

Designation XH strongly reminds me of the great filter theory that at some point all interplanetary species meet a hurdle in existence/ evolution and either pass it or cease to exist

[@albertmaheswara9968]

11:16 professor snape? that you?

[@ajshell2]

For more information about Set XZ, read Kalinin's 001 Proposal, which is by the same author

[@MsOkayAwesome]

Thanks for the video!

[@moonlight_scribe]

Is the XH one a reference to that other SCP that ends all life on worlds that achieve anything close to a utopia? I think it was called reckoner?

[@Aves_1]

They made an SCP based around the robot from the tears of steel blender movie?

[@nibblrrr7124]

Haha, no. Most Scips don't even have an "official" illustration. The source material for this video - the wiki article by Kalinin - does, but it's actually a photo the famous Big Dog robot! (It also mentions the IRL manufacturer by name as an in-universe Foundation front - which mayyyy or may not be legally dicey? IDK, look at what happened to good ol' 187...) Maybe Big Dog _partially_ inspired Kalinin to write this Scip - then again, it wasn't included it in their first version. And the whole cyborg body horror seems more like a bonus next to the central theme of "humanity is destined for doom, through mechanisms science cannot understand" - so it can't really be "based around" just a cool robot. Volgun - perhaps for legal, aesthetic, or efficiency reasons - picked an existing model with a safe CC-BY license as a base for his take, and did the texturing & rendering himself for this video (see description). It's not the "canonical" look of SCP-2003 - then again, There Is No Canon! :^) (While I wouldn't be surprised if Volgun was good at hard-surface polygon modeling as seen in the Tears of Steel robot as well, it's a quite different skill from the Zbrush sculpting he usually uses to make his own, more organically-shaped models from scratch. And even if you're good at it, it's still work that could be spent on something else. So why not build on a resource that is meant to be used like that? I like the result.)

[@KnittingPasta]

When was this article written? One of the scenarios sounds surprisingly similar to what we're experiencing now