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If you haven't read that yet, then you're going to get all the spoilers on it. Because you're watching this episode, you're going to know what I think of ahead of time. So everybody who watches this and when it releases, when it releases, but because you guys are in the live stream, you get to know what I think firsthand. And spoiler warning, I did not like this, but then I did this episode. Now I kind of like it. So that's how that went. And as we go through the script, you will see why. So be sure to do all the channeling things below the Patreon, the merch, the Discord server, if you haven't done those, if those were things that interest you. Tada. And now we are going to start today's episode with our 10 seconds of noise reduction meditation. So and we're good. All right, noise reduction is ready for action. So let's get down to the starting line. Hey there, foundation staff, Shurm here and welcome to researchers notes. For those of you who are new to the channel, the quickest way to describe this show would be the discussion section of an SCP meets a book club. Each month, we're going to approach two SCPs suggested by the community and discuss their themes, stories, merits and pitfalls to get deep into the mechanics of writing an SCP. I'm going to give you my thoughts and I'm also going to give you guys a chance to voice your opinions as well. From the site 42 community, I'm asking for requests for SCPs. Yeah, I'm asking for requests for SCPs. I'm asking for requests for SCPs. That is the line that I flubbed there. It's okay. We're warming up the speech muscles ain't nothing yet going on from the site 42 community. I'm asking for requests for SCPs to be covered a 30 second to two minute audio recording of your thoughts about the upcoming skip or written transcript that you'd like me to record on your behalf. You can get these things to me through the site 42 discord server link in the description or you can email them to scp site 42 at gmail.com. I'll be revealing the next scp at the end of the episode. Today we are taking a look at scp 3300 the rain by author Rametson. I must admit ahead of time that I personally dislike this skip. No matter how much I try to get into it. I find it boring. It's important to remember that just because you don't personally draft. Cool. We're still rolling. We're still rolling. Put that back. Good. We are back in action. I find it boring. It's important to remember that just because you personally don't like something's flavor doesn't mean it's bad. The 250 plus ranking of the article means that there are certainly people who enjoy it. I'm taking this one is a challenge. Can I dissect a piece I don't really care for and find the technical reasons why other people enjoy it? First off a quick summary. The city of Clearwater Montana gets hit by a six to 18 day long rainstorm once a year. At the end of the rainstorm the population of Clearwater disappears and is replaced by a completely different population of people. None of the new people realize this has happened and everyone lives their dread. It's always a little more insulting when I miss my own speech patterns. Like when I miss read someone else and they have a different speech pattern me that's one thing but missing my own language that's a little ridiculous. Like I wrote that. Why would I miss that? The people, none of the new people realize this has happened and everyone lives their life normally as if that's why it's lives their lives lives their lives lives their lives and everyone lives their life normally. I wrote life and so I keep saying life that's wrong. Bad grammar, bad grammar. Let's try that one more time without failure. And everyone lives their lives normally as if they aren't going to vanish a year later. The main attraction of this skip is the journal collected from one of those people and the events that transpired during the latest storm. Our protagonist Margaret journals the beginning of the rain into the onslaught of the storm. Things start as normal everyday life with Margaret and some friends gaming at her house. The action ratchets up quickly as an unknown man comes into the house claiming it as his own and straight up murders Margaret's mom in a blind rage mindlessly shouting about his claim to the house while the teens flee. They get in a van and try to drive out of town but drive until the tank is dry without getting more than a five minute walk from the city limits. One of their friends perishes from earlier injuries but his corpse boils and evaporates like water for some unknown reason. They hide out in a building and one... I think I said something wrong in that last line. But his corpse boils and evaporates like water for some unknown reason. Yeah for some unknown reason. There's no way to know Ellen. We could all be in a clear water. The earth could be clear water and there's no way to know. Are we in the matrix? Hey Dillagaffe is here. What's up Dillagaffe? Dillagaffe. It's a fun name. One of their friends perishes from earlier injuries. I just realized what Dillagaffe stands for. So that's funny but also it's just fun to say Dillagaffe. Dillagaffe. Perishes from earlier injury. Oh Asimov's here. Hey Asimov. Perished from earlier injuries but his corpse boils and evaporates like water for some unknown reason. They hide out in a building and one by one they discover through suicide and injury that they are all made of water. They don't understand but they are the anomaly. Bits of Margaret's Dream reveals a tribe of people in the past who somehow cursed the town with this fate in an effort to survive a plague. That journal strikes some solid fear into the hearts of many and for an explanation of that let's hear from SCP author Bitter Mixon. Now for Bitter Mixon I'm going to give him... he gave me a transcript so I am going to give him a bit of a different tone of voice from mine that way it sounds different so if once I when I go into a 05 mode and like I'm deep and horror and stuff I'm gonna that's why I'm doing that because Bitter Mixon's not me. Some would argue that the feeling of your own flesh and bone metamorphizing into a thin watery gruel isn't a particularly relatable brand of horror. However this is not to say that SCP-3300 falls flat when it comes to evoking a reader's emotions. Just the kind you might not expect and certainly not what I expected upon starting the read. The feeling of the world falling away from our fingertips is every cell in our body is engaged towards one finite purpose. The feeling of the inevitable. Remetson utilizes the inherent human fear of failure and distills it down to its most pure and horrific form. The failure to survive. Every detail becomes more excruciatingly visceral than the last. I winced as Sam gored her arm, sank in my seat when nothing but clear liquid ran from her wound. My chest prickled as Margaret echoed the hopeless mantra of her friend's last words. They don't show you. Drat. Drat, Drat, Drat, Drat. I was doing so well. I was doing so well at that speech. He gave me the most stuff to work on. Like I said 30 seconds to a minute he gave me like two minutes solid of speech and it's gold and it's excellent but like that just I thought I could get it all I was doing so well. I was doing so well. Yeah he's right at the three minute work so let's see how much material we ended up with when I talk like this. Where was I? Last words. Last words. Last words. They say don't show your monster but Remetson cleverly embraces this trope and turns it on its head as the slow burning realization sets in. These people were feeling for, rooting for, fighting for. They are the monster. It's one of the few skips I've read that left me with genuine goosebumps. The bluntness of the logs worked heavily to this article's advantage as it highlights the absolute despondency of our characters. Mike shot himself. That's what we're told. Crystal clear. So unmistakably the fetus that you can practically hear the despair dripping off of those three words. Not only that but the lack of subtlety is excellent immersion with regards to us believing that this is someone's journal because of course in real life you document exactly what happens. You don't care about excessive and ornate descriptions. You don't have the luxury of delicateness and I believe this feeling is executed phenomenally. Who does that take a breath? The low 05 voice for drama is a lot breathier than my regular speaking tone. I can talk all day but it's like singing doing that deep voice. That's not to say it's without fault. I found the pacing and tone at the beginning of the journal to be quite bland and uninspired as if I'd read the same few first words a hundred times before. The actual SCP documentation also felt fairly uninteresting and the piece as a whole has a sluggish and unrefined beginning that I fear would turn away more casual readers. Drat there's more words in there that I wanted to put in. And the piece as a whole is where I'm starting from. And the piece as a whole has a sluggish and unrefined beginning that I fear would turn many more casual users away at a glance. The author likely wanted to get to the good stuff as quickly as possible and it unfortunately shows through the writing. However, dig through the rock and you'll hit Diamond. SCP 330... 3,300... Diamond. SCP 3300 drips with a raw frightening and above all creative horror. I'm glad that Bitter Mixon was so thorough in that analysis because I didn't feel any of that myself. Now to springboard off of Bitter Mixon's last paragraph and into what will be the easiest part for me, the critiquing section. I do agree that the SCP document itself is a little weak. From my perspective, I can imagine that the journal is what the author was trying to work on and the document is just the setup slash justification for the story. Almost like I just need to set up the rules for the world and the story. Hey, Sieg Honix. I guess that is Bitter Mixon via YouTube. It's always funny when people like show up in different forums and have different names. I'm just like, who is you? I don't know that guy. Oh, I do know that guy. But that's because I'm a nerd. And when you're trying to be get your name out there, it's harder if you have multiple names. So I use the same name for everything. Almost like, almost like, almost like, almost like, there it is. I just need to set up the rules for the world at the story as quickly as possible so I can get to the good stuff. I agree that it's rather bland. And I think the first time I read this just for pleasure, I stopped before reading the journal due to disinterest. There is something to be said for the very basic level analysis of the anomaly, and that it reads like a research paper, which I also can't force myself to read. In one way, we live in a short attention span world. So you do have to hook the reader early. On the other hand, some of the greatest literary classics slow burn you with a world building while you get acclimated to the goings on. I personally feel like this one doesn't do either. But others definitely disagree with me. My only big critique past that point is the opening of the journals. Like Bitter Mixon, if I never see the hard hard journals or lame but I'll keep one anyways trope again, it'll still be too soon. It also reeks of coincidence for me that she started keeping a journal right before the storm began. To turn this on its head, I personally wouldn't have minded seeing the end of the scp documents saying something like we found this journal only relevant entries are listed below. So like she'd been keeping the journal for years and we're only showing you mentions of the storm and its events. Another option could have been that the weird dreams sparked her desire to keep a journal. Right now, her motivation is just could be nice to have something to look back on. But being disturbed by the dreams that are mentioned in the first entry seems like a more solid idea to me. Yo, Kevin, what's up on a vid detailing your recording setup, hardware programs and whatnot. Just a thought I had and didn't want to forget. Good point. I didn't realize the journal seems very convenient. Ah, thank you, Bitter and Asimov. That's not a bad idea. Like a tour of the studio. And it would be funny because my studio is very ghetto rigged. So that would be I think that might end up being funny. But also informative for people who wanted to do this. Maybe I'll do it like lifestyles of the rich and famous like a parody where I'm like super lifestyles of the rich and famous. This is his excellent ironing board with a blanket draped over it for acoustic effect. Hmm. Could be funny. Could be funny. Asimov, write that in the discord suggestion box. Because I am interested in doing that. That's not a bad idea. I just need to set up the rules almost like I just need to set up the rules for the world. Cool. Good, good, good. More solid idea to me being disturbed by the dreams that are mentioned in the first entry seems like a more solid idea to me. Yeah, I like that. It sounds natural. It's a small mistake, but it's not enough for me to cut it. I think it sounds natural speech wise. When it comes to the rest of the journals, I think the writing is pretty solid. There's some great character development moments like the mention of David coming by and getting rid of him. Because that's definitely something that goes in a journal like this. The writing style as bitter mix and stated is great in its bluntness. This is a journal. This happened. And it sucks. The idea of the prophetic dream of the past interests me greatly. I actually enjoy that we never find out if any of the other characters are having similar dreams. I assume they must be since they're all part of the storm the way Margaret is. But without the answer in the text, it leaves an interesting mystery to think on and see how the other characters would be reacting with their own thoughts. Finally, the discussion page for the article brings up the wonder of making the water cycle scary. But I also dig the way that it mirrors reincarnation. Margaret has memories of her past life, and she's going to come back as a completely different person again and again. And it makes me really want to see a tale about 3300 where the foundation's interference maybe gives someone there the key to finding an analog of redemption or enlightenment and finds a way to break the cycle, leaving 3300 neutralized. That idea is free for anyone who wants to write it. Go nuts. Drat. As is often the case in real life, I took something that I disliked and beat my head against the wall researching it until I found things I liked about it. And now I hold a grudging respect for this article. And that wraps up the second episode of researchers notes. Let me know what you thought about the show in the comments and please continue discussing your thoughts and feelings on SCP 3300 down there. New researchers notes episodes are going to release around the 15th and the last day of the month. You've got about two weeks to read the next skip and get your recording or transcript to me via discord or email. Don't forget to check out the site 42 Patreon, Merch Shop and Discord server. And the next SCP we'll be dissecting is SCP 3707 fly by night only by user communism will win. See you next time. Foundation staff. Let's see. Bye. Bye. Bye. We went down to do the message retracted. It's a good point to pick along. Yes. So it's perfect. Awesome. Got you. Gotcha. Sweet. Okay. And we made it to the end of the script. That is a solid nine minute episode. That is a good length for researchers notes. So Excellent. We did a team. Yay. Other cool news. Went with it. Going to look forward to doing my bit for 3707. Yes. Bitter mix and I did do that. Number one, you were the only person to request something. So you win. And second, this one I wanted to do as a challenge for an SCP I didn't like. Like I really didn't like 3300 when I first when you first showed it to me, I was like, Oh, I remember that one. I hated that one. But I went forward on it because I wanted to see if I could push forward and dissect something I didn't like and find value in it anyways. And I did. And now I have a grudging respect for this article that I did not have before. So hey, you know, you live, you learn, you study and you find out things you don't like, still have value. 3707 is going to be fun because one of the hardest things to do is write a good short story. Writing when you have length, you're allowed to write and write and write and build a world and fill in the details and you're able to give everything you need to give for as much as you want to give. Writing a short, you are limited on how much space you have and those limitations require a lot of skill to get your point across. So 3707 is going to be a really fun article to look at to see why it does it well because I read it and I was like, dang, that's really good. Other channel news, we are having a huge spike in viewership right now. What had happened was I went on the scp subreddit and someone mentioned doing a netflix show of scp stuff and I wandered in like, hey dog, they won't do it because of Creative Commons but I'll do it. If y'all want to kick start me and support the channel and do patreon and view and subscribe and all that, I'll make some live action things because I've got ideas man, I just need funding and so we've gone from 500 viewers right before Halloween to nearly 650 today. So we've had a huge spike. We normally jump somewhere between 150 and 200 viewers in a month and we've done it in 15 days this time. So we're looking at a double increase in our viewership. That's excellent channel stuff. Bitter mix and what appealed to me most about 3707 is that it evokes a very unique distinct feeling. I remember to skip and felt an emptiness towards the end. It feels very human. Amazing Ellen, you just gave me an idea for my film studies project, oh my god. Happy to help out and hey, if you're a film study student then we can do some collaboration. You can help out the scp site 42 filmmaking community along the way. We can always use like script writers and script editors and fun stuff like that if that is an interest of yours. As we build we're gonna have to grow. Also a film study student, yes! Ah, this is great. This is amazing, fantastic. At a very basic level. That's okay. I am a two-year theater college dropout. I went to theater school for two years. Dropped out before my two-year degree because I was a very brat of a child. I say child as if I was not 18 and 19 at the time. I thought I was way better at theater than I was and I didn't get in the shows and I threw a hissy fit and I quit to go to work and that was stupid and I was a stupid 18-19 year old. And a decade later I realized that and I'm trying to do better work and trying to grow. But now I do all my studying by watching video essays by people who did go to film school and learning about everything I can and the scp community is very good for learning about writing and stuff. Chris, stupid is the norm for everybody at that age. If you don't know you're stupid, you're stupid. We're all. Everybody's stupid. No one has a purpose. Let's watch TV, right? That's kind of the line. It's not really the line, whatever. So yeah, long story short, viewership is up. Instead of having one patron like we did a week ago, we now have three patrons. We have three whole patrons on Patreon. That is amazing. Like, why? That is such a big bump. We have tripled it in a week. Ha! So, uh, and for amazing Ellen, being in England, uh, yeah that's a little hard unless you got like, I mean if you've got a crew over there like I've got some people I've worked on for some commercials and some short films and so I can get them together, get the crew together and like put something together. If you've got your own crew in England, or you start to get to know people in the industry, then we'll be able to do things on your end with an English location and we'll be able to like edit those together. So it's like a real film where like you shoot on location but then you put it all together. That'd be epic. We'll see what happens. We got to keep growing. We got to keep doing. We got to find the funding, put it out there, grow as a channel, community, company, thing. This hand motion is apparently growing, is what it is. But at the end of the day, uh, or I should say at the end of the stream, we recorded researchers notes. I'm going to get to editing that. Oh, this is the last live stream there's going to be for about two weeks. I'm going on a Thanksgiving holiday to see my family back home in Florida. So, while I'm traveling, I won't be live streaming because I won't be home with my stuff. But I've got enough videos recorded to get us through the, uh, face thing I'm looking for. We've got enough videos to get us through that because there's a couple declassifieds, a couple, we got our researchers notes. And we've got a couple more SCPs and small SCPs and big SCPs. So yeah, we're not going to miss an episode release. I'm going to bring my laptop with me so I can send all those out. Have fun with the family. Thank you, Dillagaff. And, uh, yeah, you guys keep being awesome. Uh, keep reading, keep working, keep studying, keep growing yourselves. We will grow this channel. Uh, do all the stuff in the links. If that is a thing you can do to help. And I will see you guys. I will personally see you guys in live stream in like two weeks. But for now, I will see you guys in the discord server and around the subreddit. Have a good one guys. See you later foundation staff. Turn it off poking you in the face. Face camera poke.