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    spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    SCP has got to be the most consistently high-quality. high-volume collaborative writing project in the history of the world.

    this is an interesting question

    shakespeare's plays might count, it's not clear how collaborative those were

    I'd put 1001 Arabian Nights i the running but yeah... it needs to be at that level of recognition!

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    CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    SCP has got to be the most consistently high-quality. high-volume collaborative writing project in the history of the world.

    this is an interesting question

    shakespeare's plays might count, it's not clear how collaborative those were

    Probably the US Constitution.

    Wait, high quality and high volume, not just successful.

    Nevermind

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    EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    Wikipedia? Or, dare I propose... Dark Souls Fextralife??

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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    Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    SCP has got to be the most consistently high-quality. high-volume collaborative writing project in the history of the world.

    Are we limiting this to fiction?

    Or would Wikipedia count?

    If it's limited to fiction, Conservapedia BOOM

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
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    Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    SCP has got to be the most consistently high-quality. high-volume collaborative writing project in the history of the world.

    this is an interesting question

    shakespeare's plays might count, it's not clear how collaborative those were

    I'd put 1001 Arabian Nights i the running but yeah... it needs to be at that level of recognition!

    it's nice that our society can produce at least a few things of genuine originality and artistic value

    i feel like the future of literature probably looks more like scp than it does like, the novel. hard to say tho

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    ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    Eddy wrote: »
    Wikipedia? Or, dare I propose... Dark Souls Fextralife??
    the fextralife is trash

    real heads read wiki dot

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    JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    spool32 wrote: »
    SCP has got to be the most consistently high-quality. high-volume collaborative writing project in the history of the world.

    this is an interesting question

    shakespeare's plays might count, it's not clear how collaborative those were

    Dumas definitely had a whole warehouse of bros working for him and they cranked out some pretty good stuff

    when you think about it The Man in the Iron Mask is basically a 17th-century SCP only instead of "redacted" they say "M. ______"

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    EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    I didn't have the fear of Alzheimer's until I realized that was what the author was trying to illustrate with this passage
    Who was Adam?

    The answer to this question is so obvious and sickening that she instinctively distrusts it. She circles around the answer, probing it, trying to find reasons to reject it, but it's inescapable. Adam was someone she knew when the video was recorded, now completely removed from her memory. Adam was someone the thought of whose safety paralysed her with fear. Someone in the same head space. Someone she couldn't bear to lose.

    And then she lost.

    I was having a perfectly good naive little life just thinking I would remember everything forever

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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    ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    HAPPY CANADA DAY EVERYONE

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    RedTideRedTide Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    HAPPY CANADA DAY EVERYONE

    Eh

    RedTide#1907 on Battle.net
    Come Overwatch with meeeee
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    Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    i only ever wrote a couple of scp posts but one of them got turned into a recurring bit that they still mention from time to time and it makes me happy to think about

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    milskimilski Poyo! Registered User regular
    edited July 2020
    The greatest collaborative writing project ever written was the truly bizarre fantasy world fan wiki that was almost entirely well cited stories noble's personal sexual dalliances with one another and the resulting children, which frequently did not bear either parent's name or appearance.

    The fantasy nobles were all real life porn stars and the citations were all links to videos. The family tree was crafted to make them related to each other via some bizarre alchemy based on what companies they were known to work for.

    I never cracked the mystery of why this existed.

    milski on
    I ate an engineer
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    milskimilski Poyo! Registered User regular
    i only ever wrote a couple of scp posts but one of them got turned into a recurring bit that they still mention from time to time and it makes me happy to think about

    I occasionally remember that I am technically a Published Author whose work was viewed by over a million people.

    I wrote a Cracked article in high school.

    I ate an engineer
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    RedTideRedTide Registered User regular

    Eaten Out In The Ass By The Billionaire Bigfoot

    RedTide#1907 on Battle.net
    Come Overwatch with meeeee
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    Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular

    Licked Legally by the Space Unicorn

    How chaste

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
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    Kid PresentableKid Presentable Registered User regular
    milski wrote: »
    I never cracked the mystery of why this existed.

    for cranking it

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    BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    spool32 wrote: »
    SCP has got to be the most consistently high-quality, high-volume collaborative writing project in the history of the world.

    This feels like a pretty small category, like getting into the Guinness book of records for heading eggs into a bucket. Also I dunno if even big fans of SCP are going to say it's consistently high quality. The most common judgement among fans seems to be there are some diamonds among a reasonable amount of rough.

    Also, thinking about it, this category also includes basically all long running TV shows, which, yeah, SCP for sure isn't going to the top of the heap against, I dunno, TNG or a billion other shows.

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    Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    milski wrote: »
    i only ever wrote a couple of scp posts but one of them got turned into a recurring bit that they still mention from time to time and it makes me happy to think about

    I occasionally remember that I am technically a Published Author whose work was viewed by over a million people.

    I wrote a Cracked article in high school.

    Some of my work is on the HMRC website

    It's probably been read by, ooo, dozens of people

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
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    nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    Haunted Anally by the Mummy Jet Plane

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    knitdanknitdan In ur base Killin ur guysRegistered User regular
    EVERYBODY COME AND PLAY

    THROW EVERY LAST CARE AWAY

    LET’S GO TO THE MALL...TODAY!

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
    -Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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    Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Haunted Anally by the Mummy Jet Plane

    John Denver got weird when revisiting his back catalogue

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
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    spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    SCP has got to be the most consistently high-quality, high-volume collaborative writing project in the history of the world.

    This feels like a pretty small category, like getting into the Guinness book of records for heading eggs into a bucket. Also I dunno if even big fans of SCP are going to say it's consistently high quality. The most common judgement among fans seems to be there are some diamonds among a reasonable amount of rough.

    Also, thinking about it, this category also includes basically all long running TV shows, which, yeah, SCP for sure isn't going to the top of the heap against, I dunno, TNG or a billion other shows.

    hmm yeah I hadn't really thought of TV as a collaborative writing project because it's not individual contributions to a shared world, with an overarching editorial board to guide and filter. But perhaps it is? idk, interesting. Interesting.

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    TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    knitdan wrote: »
    EVERYBODY COME AND PLAY

    THROW EVERY LAST CARE AWAY

    LET’S GO TO THE MALL...TODAY!

    LETS GO DO NOT BRING WEAPONS

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    milskimilski Poyo! Registered User regular

    RamJammed In The Boypussy By The Paranoiac Fear Of Giving Away My Birthdate And Name For An Online Joke Template

    I ate an engineer
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    ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA mod


    I like to imagine him saying “care to comment” in the tone of some crack investigative journalist grilling a local politician on a scandal they’ve just unearthed after months of meticulous work.

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    Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    generate a fun chuck tingle title by using only your bank account details and social security number!

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    TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    Reamed Legally by the Sommelier of Existential Dread

    doesn't really work I think

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    bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    ugh I got like 4 hours sleep

    as soon as the wife is awake im going back to bed

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    BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited July 2020
    I can't think of many book series with a high volume and lots of authors that aren't TV shows first, and they're all mostly filed under "tie-in fiction", like the Star Wars EU, or the Star Trek books in all their incarnations. Doctor Who has a whole lot of published books, a reasonable number by pretty good writers (Michael Moorcock, Jenny Colgan, etc). RPGs sometimes have a line of fiction, I guess. The Dragonlance books, D&D books.

    Thinking about it, the most obvious example is comics. High volume, shared universe, lots of writers (and artists). Quality is variable, but that's true of everything on such a scale, including SCP.

    Bogart on
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    VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
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    TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
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    ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited July 2020
    .

    Shivahn on
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    ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Oh man, this is the coolest thing. I'm doing neural style transfer (brief lay description: making my computer paint a picture in the style of another picture). I picked "the Wave" by Hokusai, which is actually a pretty shit photo to try this with, but it's what one of the tutorials had and I'm lazy and just trying to get it to work. I ran a few test-steps (it takes many steps to actually paint the photo) and here is the difference:

    Photo:
    ppnqm59l3msy.jpg

    Photo with several steps:
    tms56srh0d5f.png

    The cat is unchanged, but that's irrelevant. The really cool part is the floor - the algorithm looks at the tiling and starts to hallucinate wavey shapes in it! That's so neat!

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    CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    Tim to take up fishing so I can wear this hat

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    milskimilski Poyo! Registered User regular
    edited July 2020
    .

    milski on
    I ate an engineer
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    TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    butchjorts

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    SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    Tinglers, it's important to get a new update on your story

    Use this chart to find your CVV code and the last four digits of your social

    Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
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    SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    Tim to take up fishing so I can wear this hat


    4wizr0mjs5331.jpg

    Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.
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    ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Otters have such dumb little snouts, I love it.

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