@@C-F98 United States Military: DID SOMEONE SAY, "OIL"? *Red Sun over Paradise booms in the background as enough armored vehicles to make Nu-7 blush, roll up on the lake, with jet planes screaming over head, hungry to drop their ordinance*
SCP 610: Fleshy Sarkic disease that consumes life and turns it into mindless zombies and abominations SCP 6217: Oily Mechanite disease that consumes life and turns it into mindless zombies and abominations Crazy how these things come full circle, hmmm?
These two being the sides of the same freaking coin of human suffering :v I wonder an SCP/tale were they discover Mekhane and Yaldabaoth to be just the same entity messing with humans for whatever reason
As a physics and chemistry teacher, I have to say that scientific terms used here are not at all random, and I like that, even if it is clearly fictional. I like these kind of details. The author may have some nice scientific background.
@@bradymiller9096 they mean that despite the story being untrue (there isn't really magic God iron that transforms stuff it touches into more of itself) a lot of the scientific terms used in the article are used pretty accurately
"I have logically established that you have no free will, making your resistance pointless." "Then why are you trying to convince me to stop resisting? Like, why would that even matter if I have no choice either way?" "Um..."
I thought this also. Another point is "My god created everything even the natural laws that fundamentally drive the universe." "Then why did he have to change them to bring about the necessary form of life. Why didn't he just do that to start with?" they really half assed the determinism argument and Poor Chugaev did not have the tools or capacity in that situation to defend himself or his humanity.
@@anamewithnoface1330 Right. It always gets weird when characters who favor determinism have to _convince_ the ones championing free will to give up and accept that fate is static and immutable, as if that even matters from their perspective. Like, suppose an omnipotent, omniscient creator deity does indeed exist and this being has this flawless design for the entire universe, from beginning to end, too grand for us mere mortals to comprehend. If so, then atheists only exist because that entity has judged that they _should_ exist, because they serve some grander purpose within that design. So, why do religious people even give a shit in the first place?
@@RelativelyBest I dont exactly know what happened right there, but it seems I may have deleted my comment somehow. but I have read your reply. Very nice to have a positive interaction in the comment section. Especially on such an otherwise esoteric concept. Wishing you well, friend.
@@anamewithnoface1330 Yeah, I got kinda confused there for a moment as well. I decided to delete a reply and just repost to start over, but in the process it seemed to delete your reply as well, which doesn't make sense? Whatever. Point is, you seem like a decent fellow, I'd hate to kill you, so let's be friends.
Makes you think that the natural endpoint of this scenario is where Yaldaboth steps in as the antithesis to Mechane's thesis, smashing him back to pieces and creating a new universe. The ultimate Hegelian dynamic.
Well if a force creates an equal but opposite reaction then I think we could see something arise from a certain town in Massachusetts, something primordial, chaotic and all devouring
I mean, they’ve always seemed like a balancing force in the SCP Universe to me. One might be meat and the other machine, one might represent chaos and the other order, but they’re both forces of creation. I don’t think it’s too far of a stretch to assume that, macro picture, they’re just two sides of the same coin
Welp, didn't expect to stumble into another super deterministic universe conundrum. And I can't help but imagine Mekhane somewhere in the aether of SCP deities, looking down at his followers and shaking his head. Like, "Hey, I sacrificed my wholeness to contain this fleshy b**ch, can you *please stop trying to get be back together?!"* Awesome work as always, TES
yeah considering they've essentially created a mindless all consuming beast virus constantly integrating new flesh into into its mass, it's basically just iron based sarkicism at that point.
It is interesting how its so similar to 610. I dont understand it completely but what is the real difference between organic and synthetic? Both can make mechanical constructs out of the same material. I think thats the crux of the issue but when you break it down enough, they really are similar and the only difference is our descriptions. Are they really that different? Taking this scp into mind, mekhane and yaldaboath is synthetic vs biological respectively.
@@desperado3236 the real difference between the two was supposed to be organized sentient thought and reason vs primal animalistic instinct and emotion. Individual souls vs a collective animalistic hive mind. Since the difference between biological and mechanical is arbitrary, but later scp stories forgot that and now they're pretty much the same thing. An insane cult making horrible flesh monsters.
Ohh finally, some Church of the broken God content. I do love this one because, in resent years, many articles kinda defaulted the Church as "good" vs Sarkism as "evil", when in reality they are both dangers to the Status Que.
It's odd when they center around one singular person, because these things just become the end of the world as the SCP wants it. So why is there a next number? World's dead, right? Or are we hopping over to C-138 and doing it all over again? That's why stories need to be stories and SCPs need to be SCPs. This is not an SCP, it's just a short novel. It contains no real usable canon simply because it's an end-point. There is no after, so why classify it as an SCP? Shove it in the stories archive where it belongs.
@@downindeep369 I remeber one, not sure of the Number, that is a Woman that uses the whole Fleshbending to act as a Doctor. And the Sarkite Nation, that was covered on the channel, mentioned that it has the best Healthcoverage on Earth.
@@downindeep369 SCP (I forget the number) The Republic is a nation in Southeast Asia where Sarkicism is the majority belief system. It's a functioning, stable Democratic Republic that the GOC and Foundation have cordoned off for the sake of Normality. They're not warmongering or conquering or anything. They're basically a normal, sane civilization with Sarkicism being public.
How do you get existential dread from this, it’s not real, what should give you existential dread is our society is gonna collapse within the next 6 years because of governments
@@christopheraaron1255 you should, gotta promote that face. Gotta let people know he didn’t end himself. JFK, MLK, Epstein, what do these people have in common?
It seems there is always 2 constants: -exploring will always make bangers of interesting material in just the perfect way that makes it nice to listen to at work. -the Broken Church are going to fuck about and find out to our detriment.
Detriment? Did you not hear the words of The Broken God? The logic is irrefutable. You can fight it, if that is your nature. But even that serves the will of Mekhane.
That's definitely NOT The Broken God. At 56:40 the cultist denies the free will, even talks about how all we have is instincts. But Mekhane specifically fought for the ability to reason, logic and choose for themselves. The instinct, this all 'make us whole' vibe? That REEKS of Sarkicism.
These videos you've made have kept me sane while working, giving me lots of stuff to listen to. Sometimes I forget you still upload new ones instead of having already done everything😂
same! I've listened to every single minute of SCP content oh his. I work 8 hours a day, have a 30 min lunch break, and listen to 2-4 hours after work, be it music, podcasts, etc. took a suprisingly short time to get through all his content, but it's very enjoyable!
So happy to see this one done! I was lucky enough to help crit this one back when 6kcon was happening. Re_Spectators is one of my favorite fellow authors for their HEAVY use of scientific jargon. Another GREAT one of theirs is SCP-5814. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
I do find this interpretation of the Broken God wholly unique; rather than simply being a god of machines and information/sentience, this interpretation is much grander in scope. This version symbolizes mechanics of all kinds, from organic to inorganic, with energy and force being the tiniest manifestation of this Broken God.
What I personally find so fascinating is that - while this story has a bent towards Fatalism - the inherent dialogue used really reminds me of real-world discussions and rhetoric I've seen in regards to religion. While 'faith' is a common theme among Broken God SCPs, it's rare that the concepts and discussions had about The Broken God are anything *but* blind faith. Ironically because I disagree with their conclusions, it's particularly funny to me to see this sect essentially call every other Broken God sect "Too Individualistic," which is something I personally associate more with Sarkicism.
Weird to say but I HATE horror in all aspects but for some reason scp and namely this channel allows me to listen and let my imagination run amok and it’s not scary. Weird but I love it. Thank you for these videos and hope you continue this long into the future. I will continue to listen again and again. Thank you for these videos
I love high concept SCPs like this one. Some of them can feel a bit TOO big at times, with stuff like anime demons from the Kaktusverse or trying to tie 682 into every 001 proposal, but this feels like if Star Trek TNG and X-Files had a baby and the baby wound up outperforming both its parents. SPOILERS: I mean, "We needs to kill god with chemistry before we all become consumed by the holy apotheosis of the T1000" is fucking TASTY! SAVOUR IT.
Personal pet theory: 682 is 001. Some dudes found it, couldn't kill it, kept trying to kill it, realized something fucky was going on, gradually found other fucky things. Kept on trying to kill 682. It wasn't called that yet, though. One day, someone asked how they got started, what was the first thing that made them realize how crazy the world is, and they feel super embarrassed going "we found an immortal lizard", so that's why there's all these 001 proposals- every time you ask the question you get a different answer.
Scp 001 is a phenomenon that requires mystery to exist in the world, or the world will cease to exist. As the sense of mystery disappears from the modern world, the foundation needed to create a permanent source of mystery they could ensure. Thus, they made scp001 unknowable and constantly rotating and mysterious. By telling you this, I've put all of existence in jeopardy
Its not even the iron and sulfur itself, its the laws of physics and chemistry being perverted to transform iron into something more than its natural state - iron cannot form the bonds with sulfur that mekhane is exploiting, its simply impossible. The field FORCES iron to act as Mekhanes will, iron transformed into something different. Whenever Mekhanes iron encounters normal iron, it infects its physics onto the new iron.
I loved the ‘debate’ between the researcher and AI at the end. Very thought provoking, despite the scenario being so outlandish. Great video, as always
whats funny is the argument dies the moment you decide not to be a part. Because that must be the broken god's will. (Not to mention that the Anomalous routinely does things out of the rules of mechanics, and even further that some Anomalies directly contradict this one ofc, but that's SCP.)
@@awsomebot1 the claim that we don't have free will and all our actions and thoughts are predetermined doesn't hold up because that would make it impossible to have knowledge that such is the case
@@shawcrow5780 Why not? If a machine programmed to compute logically was fed "enough" accurate data, it should be able to reason out the nature of their workings and thought process, no?
@@EXaberz what is “logical?” what is “enough” data? the materialist cannot justify an answer these questions, nor can they justify what their criteria for justification are.
You should totally make a video going over some smaller SCPs that mess with the fundamentals of the universe! A good one to include in it would be SCP-2046.
This SCP is basically if Cthulhu decided to weaponize Ice-Nine and it's amazing. Thank you, Exploring, for these video essays focusing on some of the higher-concept SCPs instead of just another one on 682 or 049.
I started watching your channel a couple of months ago and fell in love with beast of the old letters!!! First time commenting and I just gotta say thank you! You’ve helped me sleep more and I can’t thank you enough!! Hope you have a great day and love all of your videos❤
"The universe itself is a precisely functioning mechanical assembly." The Universe: *randomly explodes in 150,000,000,000 places at the same time* *randomly hurls a galaxy into a blackhole* *but then it hurls another galaxy at the first* *also hurls another black hole at the black hole* *burps* *occasionally makes white-holes, thus adding energy into it's supposedly fine-tuned, closed-system cycles* *draws graffiti on the fundament of existence* *throws a star into another star, makes blackhole* *throws star into another star, pt.2 - makes a super-nova* *P R E C I S E*
This SCP is a wierd way to explain what "emergence" is. 1:19:57 is basically what it is, IIRC. We ARE machines, in a way. Our cells are just molecular machines, built from molecules that we would consider dead and souless. Somehow, these molecules have combined to form life, and these molecular machines have combines to form us. This is emergence. Molecules are not "alive " in any sense of the word, but cells, which are just very specific arrangement of molecules, are. Our cells do not have a consciousnesses, a purpose, or even what we would call free will, but we do. The sum is orders of magnitude more complex than the parts. Life can be born from dead building blocks, patterns can arise from pure randomness, and a God can emerge from all the laws and matter in the universe.
Hm... I've heard about an interesting aspect of grey-goo-scenarios in general. Essentially, what makes this scenario pretty impossible is simply heat generation. Any work generates excess heat, as there is no process spending energy which is absolutely perfect. And the insane amount of work changing anything into grey goo on a global scale, would simply generate enough heat to destroy the grey goo at some point. At least in all scenarios, where the grey goo overtakes everything in a rather short time (like hours, but even when talking in years). On the other hand - we are playing with literal gods here, able to change the rules of the univers at will - so it get's some leeway :D
44:12 Bruh these hungry hungry hippos are just a metaphor for humanity WOW 10/10 very original I will find and eviscerate the author of this "work" edit, ya by 1:14:34 this is prob one of the best things ever written
Meanwhile on korbenick "Wait why are we all here, I thought we were supposed to be integrated into the broken god? what is this place?" "Hm? Nah dude you died, eaten by a self replicating iron anomaly." "But what am i..no souls don't exist, mechanical determisim" "Pfft, dude there were tons of ghosts on earth, hell that foundation place even had a soul extractor, the hell are you on about"
Interesting! This seems to break down the opposing ideas of Sarkicism and Church of the Broken God into a conflict between the chemical interactions of Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen, and those of Iron and Sulfur. And whether he realised it or not, the Head Researcher was originally a Sarkic.
This was definitely a big inspiration for the idea (from my end at least while writing) because despite having different outcomes, both sarkicism and CotBG are manipulations of base elements. Part of me even might say they are the same base concept understood from different histories
I just use these to fall asleep very fast. Like 5 minutes tops and I'm passed out. Thank you monotone reading man, you've single handedly improved my sleep.
I have always thought about writtting an SCP, but with just how much goes into making one it always seemed a bit daunting to me, even if it would get accepted when I finish it
I know how you feel, I sometimes come up with idea for some scp thought sound cool but I don’t think the way I write them out would allow them to be accepted, but it’s worth trying out
Church of the Broken god: “Every time we attempt to resurrect our god we crate a monster that threatens to destroy the world.” Also Church of the Broken god: _lets grey goo this shit_
How to know if todays SCP is one of the weird ones; Number is post 6000, check, TES video is more than 60 minutes, check. Yeah, it's gonna be a weird one today.
Can you imagine the sarkites and the red death sitting there being eaten on a molecular level, turning into machines, thinking gg well played, rematch in another parallel uni.
That was some anime level bad philosophy at the end there. The most basic rebuttal to it is that _If everything in the universe is deterministic, then my rejection of your arguments are the will of your god. If I am a machine programed to falsely believe that I have free will, then you are the fool for trying to convince me to go against my programing._ I get that the good Doctor is under the influence of the anomaly and not functioning at full capacity, so no blame on him for falling for it, but it is a singularly bad argument.
Can the broken god priest really be called foolish if his actions were simply the products of his machinations as well? I think he's merely amusing in the fact that the doctor still believes in free will despite "machines" producing life-like behaviours before his very eyes like the cells and tentacles. Like when you see an interesting harmless box with a button and you push it just to see what it does. You know it will always do what it's been designed to do, but that doesn't mean you yourself know what that is. The conversation is probably there just to clarify its own ideas to the reader as the priest has no real reason to try to convince the doctor other than his own amusement.
already been done, and the cultist's arguments have already been thoroughly debunked. At this point it's an incredibly tired argument and trope that I wish would just go away.
This is definitely one of my absolute favorite SCPs. Incredible cosmic horror revolving around an entity that usually just drives weaboos to fantasize about steampunk utopias. The incredible detail of scientific realism, especially during the submarine log, is just incredibly awesome.
The mentioning of instinct protecting him and sensing matter itself is dead reeks of yaldaboth. The god of flesh but also instinct and primal urges such as self preservation and continuation of life, usually as flesh monsters but that's not the point. Arguably you'd lose yourself in a Sarkic equivalent too but some imply retained individually for the more evolved.
It's reassuring to see the large #s of views on these videos, if It means what I hope it does; more to come for quite a while. 👍👍👍 keep up the good work.
Wow! I'm thoroughly moved and awestruck! THIS is peak Hard Sci-fi! A truly Masterful buildup through the Article rising to an amazing climax in the deep, philosophical, existential debate at the end!
Is "routine exploratory mission" meant to suggest that MTFs just go for walks across the countryside sometimes to see if they happen across anything SCP-worthy?
About seven years ago, I hit a bad mental health patch, and I became terrified of the fact that I fully believe that the mind is just an emergent property of the physical brain. My husband was studying meditation at the time, and any time he brought up the annihilation of the self, it would send me spiraling into anxiety and depression. Once my situation had improved, I came to the conclusion that if there is any chance at all that free will is unfalsifiable rather than illusory, I am morally obligated to act as if it exists. I may be a robot, but I'm not going down without a fight.
SCP 610 - "Wh...What are you?"
SCP 6217 - "I am you, but beep boop."
Oily beep boop
Bleep bloop I am you
Is that a reference to The Keep?
@@C-F98 United States Military: DID SOMEONE SAY, "OIL"?
*Red Sun over Paradise booms in the background as enough armored vehicles to make Nu-7 blush, roll up on the lake, with jet planes screaming over head, hungry to drop their ordinance*
SEE PEOPLE, if I had gone to bed 7 minutes ago I wouldn't have gotten to listen to a new exploring series. Insomniacs stay winin'
Amen fren
On periodt
Frfr
Who cares if we miss a few details at work XD
Wisdom I should've been in bed 3 hours ago but then I would've missed it we in this now
"YOU DO NOT RECOGNISE THE COMPOUNDS IN THE WATER"
You funny
What if I let it touch me? Surely it can’t be that harmfuOH MY GOD MY ARM IS MADE OF METAL NOW
Church of the broken symphony
@@that_Dominic_guy "Nanomachines, son!"
@@that_Dominic_guy Dammit operative, please stay right there and a er.. debriefing specialist will be right there to ... debrief you.
Exploring: "You'd think there'd be more global SCP's."
SCP 2000: *ready for its seventh use*
are you talking about the scp that's holding yaldiboth?
@@BerryMcCockiner nah, the human race total reset SCP
@@k.-flynn 2000 isn't it? The deus ex machina?
@@k.-flynn that ain't the scp reset thing...
That is scp-2000
Or
Scp-055 and 579
@@adrinalin275 oh no hold on, it's the two SCP's mentioned in 5000, 059 and 579. But isn't there another one that can copy and reproduce humanity?
SCP 610: Fleshy Sarkic disease that consumes life and turns it into mindless zombies and abominations
SCP 6217: Oily Mechanite disease that consumes life and turns it into mindless zombies and abominations
Crazy how these things come full circle, hmmm?
I was just commenting something like this🤣. Both got their super disease that assimilates and disfigures.
SCP Foundation: "Hold on. What if we throw 610 at 6217 and hope they cancel each other out?"
@@RelativelyBest It would go reaaaaaaaalllly badly for 610, based on this.
These two being the sides of the same freaking coin of human suffering :v
I wonder an SCP/tale were they discover Mekhane and Yaldabaoth to be just the same entity messing with humans for whatever reason
@@RelativelyBest Keter duty be like.
Some toaster worshippers: "Maybe we should unbroke our broken god"
Foundation: *_Ah [REDACTED] here we go again_*
Time to un-unbreak this slag.
If we are a toaster, does that mean we are the broken god?
@@Gloomdrake no, I think I'm just a toaster. I mean me. Wait...
...spoilers
broken god followers are protogens with extra steps
As a physics and chemistry teacher, I have to say that scientific terms used here are not at all random, and I like that, even if it is clearly fictional. I like these kind of details. The author may have some nice scientific background.
What do you mean fictional?
@@bradymiller9096 they mean that despite the story being untrue (there isn't really magic God iron that transforms stuff it touches into more of itself) a lot of the scientific terms used in the article are used pretty accurately
@@DK-1474Whoosh!!!!
Shun the non believer.. shuuunnnnn
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@@gravyd316 this is so much more annoying than missing a joke
"I have logically established that you have no free will, making your resistance pointless."
"Then why are you trying to convince me to stop resisting? Like, why would that even matter if I have no choice either way?"
"Um..."
I thought this also. Another point is "My god created everything even the natural laws that fundamentally drive the universe." "Then why did he have to change them to bring about the necessary form of life. Why didn't he just do that to start with?" they really half assed the determinism argument and Poor Chugaev did not have the tools or capacity in that situation to defend himself or his humanity.
@@anamewithnoface1330 Right. It always gets weird when characters who favor determinism have to _convince_ the ones championing free will to give up and accept that fate is static and immutable, as if that even matters from their perspective.
Like, suppose an omnipotent, omniscient creator deity does indeed exist and this being has this flawless design for the entire universe, from beginning to end, too grand for us mere mortals to comprehend. If so, then atheists only exist because that entity has judged that they _should_ exist, because they serve some grander purpose within that design. So, why do religious people even give a shit in the first place?
@@RelativelyBest I dont exactly know what happened right there, but it seems I may have deleted my comment somehow. but I have read your reply. Very nice to have a positive interaction in the comment section. Especially on such an otherwise esoteric concept. Wishing you well, friend.
@@anamewithnoface1330 Yeah, I got kinda confused there for a moment as well. I decided to delete a reply and just repost to start over, but in the process it seemed to delete your reply as well, which doesn't make sense?
Whatever. Point is, you seem like a decent fellow, I'd hate to kill you, so let's be friends.
@@RelativelyBest certainly. Very interesting thread mechanics youtube has. Quite confusing haha.
Makes you think that the natural endpoint of this scenario is where Yaldaboth steps in as the antithesis to Mechane's thesis, smashing him back to pieces and creating a new universe. The ultimate Hegelian dynamic.
Oh, I like the hell out of that concept.
Well if a force creates an equal but opposite reaction then I think we could see something arise from a certain town in Massachusetts, something primordial, chaotic and all devouring
We then find out yaldaboth and mekane are one and the same😂
Or what if they smash instead?
I mean, they’ve always seemed like a balancing force in the SCP Universe to me. One might be meat and the other machine, one might represent chaos and the other order, but they’re both forces of creation. I don’t think it’s too far of a stretch to assume that, macro picture, they’re just two sides of the same coin
“Everything is mechanical.”
_Happy Mechanicum noises_ “Omnissiah be praised!” \🤖/
Motive Force bless your circuits!
Nice
Retrieve the sacred oils.
I'll retrieve the Cyber-Dongs.
@@jamesamos6565 Do we have enough toasters to slap them against?
Welp, didn't expect to stumble into another super deterministic universe conundrum. And I can't help but imagine Mekhane somewhere in the aether of SCP deities, looking down at his followers and shaking his head. Like, "Hey, I sacrificed my wholeness to contain this fleshy b**ch, can you *please stop trying to get be back together?!"*
Awesome work as always, TES
Thicc goddess
yeah considering they've essentially created a mindless all consuming beast virus constantly integrating new flesh into into its mass, it's basically just iron based sarkicism at that point.
It is interesting how its so similar to 610.
I dont understand it completely but what is the real difference between organic and synthetic?
Both can make mechanical constructs out of the same material.
I think thats the crux of the issue but when you break it down enough, they really are similar and the only difference is our descriptions. Are they really that different?
Taking this scp into mind, mekhane and yaldaboath is synthetic vs biological respectively.
@@desperado3236 the real difference between the two was supposed to be organized sentient thought and reason vs primal animalistic instinct and emotion. Individual souls vs a collective animalistic hive mind. Since the difference between biological and mechanical is arbitrary, but later scp stories forgot that and now they're pretty much the same thing. An insane cult making horrible flesh monsters.
Ohh finally, some Church of the broken God content. I do love this one because, in resent years, many articles kinda defaulted the Church as "good" vs Sarkism as "evil", when in reality they are both dangers to the Status Que.
It's odd when they center around one singular person, because these things just become the end of the world as the SCP wants it. So why is there a next number? World's dead, right? Or are we hopping over to C-138 and doing it all over again? That's why stories need to be stories and SCPs need to be SCPs. This is not an SCP, it's just a short novel. It contains no real usable canon simply because it's an end-point. There is no after, so why classify it as an SCP? Shove it in the stories archive where it belongs.
I want some Sarkism good SCPs thrown into the mix
@@downindeep369 I remeber one, not sure of the Number, that is a Woman that uses the whole Fleshbending to act as a Doctor. And the Sarkite Nation, that was covered on the channel, mentioned that it has the best Healthcoverage on Earth.
@@downindeep369 SCP (I forget the number) The Republic is a nation in Southeast Asia where Sarkicism is the majority belief system. It's a functioning, stable Democratic Republic that the GOC and Foundation have cordoned off for the sake of Normality. They're not warmongering or conquering or anything. They're basically a normal, sane civilization with Sarkicism being public.
@@thebighurt2495seems impossible due to the inherent disease and survival of the fittest necessary
The exploring series is literally the only good thing about Mondays. Thank you for all your work!!
Wait theres a schedule? What is it? Id love to know
@@EffanLaw Every monday, typically very early in the morning, at least in the US.
Agreed
@@EffanLaw I was thinking the same
Right, always entertaining and consistent! Congratz on the baby as well brother.
Me: "Ah, finally done with a long day of work and uni, time to watch the new SCP video!"
90 minutes later: *existential dread*
¿Que?
How do you get existential dread from this, it’s not real, what should give you existential dread is our society is gonna collapse within the next 6 years because of governments
ANOTHER 1 HOUR AND 30 MINUTE BANGER!
Bless you, Mangg.
Thanks for giving us so many videos longer than an hour. It's a real treat. This is definitely one of the best SCP channels, and my personal fav.
Oh man.. you have a great point, but I can't upvote a picture of Epstein.
@@christopheraaron1255 especially with that ominous user name...
@@christopheraaron1255 you should, gotta promote that face. Gotta let people know he didn’t end himself. JFK, MLK, Epstein, what do these people have in common?
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 that they all met a serial suicider.
Epstein is alive?
It seems there is always 2 constants:
-exploring will always make bangers of interesting material in just the perfect way that makes it nice to listen to at work.
-the Broken Church are going to fuck about and find out to our detriment.
Detriment? Did you not hear the words of The Broken God? The logic is irrefutable. You can fight it, if that is your nature. But even that serves the will of Mekhane.
I say we fuck around and find out.
That's definitely NOT The Broken God. At 56:40 the cultist denies the free will, even talks about how all we have is instincts. But Mekhane specifically fought for the ability to reason, logic and choose for themselves. The instinct, this all 'make us whole' vibe? That REEKS of Sarkicism.
its mekhane and yaldabaoth lovechild they finally stopped fighting each other❤
Machine heresy apperently
Phyrexians really doing work with their Compleated planewalkers. Taking over literary universes too.
Praise be to Yawgmoth.
GLORY TO THE FATHER OF MACHINES
Φ ALL WILL BE ONE Φ
This entire story is just the aftermath of "More of that strange oil...it's probably nothing"
Most of this channels stories are better than some movies i love how creative the writers are. And this mans has the perfect voice for it
Exactly. Well said.
I hope in my lifetime i will see triple a video games go into this universe, i mean imagine a horror game with this storyline, absolutely horrifying
These videos you've made have kept me sane while working, giving me lots of stuff to listen to. Sometimes I forget you still upload new ones instead of having already done everything😂
there r literally thousands of SCPs he's got content forever babyyyyyy
same! I've listened to every single minute of SCP content oh his. I work 8 hours a day, have a 30 min lunch break, and listen to 2-4 hours after work, be it music, podcasts, etc. took a suprisingly short time to get through all his content, but it's very enjoyable!
32:08
The author be giving themselves their own gold medel
So happy to see this one done! I was lucky enough to help crit this one back when 6kcon was happening. Re_Spectators is one of my favorite fellow authors for their HEAVY use of scientific jargon. Another GREAT one of theirs is SCP-5814. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
how tf did you comment 11 hours ago when this vid is 20 mins old???
@@anthonylewis5503 Patreon my friend!
@@anthonylewis5503 you get to see the releases before the release
@@anthonylewis5503 time anomaly
@@microwavedcheetos SCp-6711, by yours truly ;)
I do find this interpretation of the Broken God wholly unique; rather than simply being a god of machines and information/sentience, this interpretation is much grander in scope. This version symbolizes mechanics of all kinds, from organic to inorganic, with energy and force being the tiniest manifestation of this Broken God.
What I personally find so fascinating is that - while this story has a bent towards Fatalism - the inherent dialogue used really reminds me of real-world discussions and rhetoric I've seen in regards to religion. While 'faith' is a common theme among Broken God SCPs, it's rare that the concepts and discussions had about The Broken God are anything *but* blind faith. Ironically because I disagree with their conclusions, it's particularly funny to me to see this sect essentially call every other Broken God sect "Too Individualistic," which is something I personally associate more with Sarkicism.
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Weird to say but I HATE horror in all aspects but for some reason scp and namely this channel allows me to listen and let my imagination run amok and it’s not scary. Weird but I love it. Thank you for these videos and hope you continue this long into the future. I will continue to listen again and again. Thank you for these videos
Amen brother, or whatever the church of the broken god says
I'm exactly the same!
7:44 that's not even anomalous, that's just Applebee's for you
The fact that there are legends who can read long SCP articles and compile them into videos is just.. wonderful
Just got done with 6004 and you upload another one so soon? Hell yeah thank you!
These are my work audiobooks and have lasted me weeks. Thank you so much for all of these!
The authors description of B2 is just absolutely amazing
I love high concept SCPs like this one. Some of them can feel a bit TOO big at times, with stuff like anime demons from the Kaktusverse or trying to tie 682 into every 001 proposal, but this feels like if Star Trek TNG and X-Files had a baby and the baby wound up outperforming both its parents.
SPOILERS:
I mean, "We needs to kill god with chemistry before we all become consumed by the holy apotheosis of the T1000" is fucking TASTY! SAVOUR IT.
Personal pet theory: 682 is 001. Some dudes found it, couldn't kill it, kept trying to kill it, realized something fucky was going on, gradually found other fucky things. Kept on trying to kill 682. It wasn't called that yet, though. One day, someone asked how they got started, what was the first thing that made them realize how crazy the world is, and they feel super embarrassed going "we found an immortal lizard", so that's why there's all these 001 proposals- every time you ask the question you get a different answer.
Scp 001 is a phenomenon that requires mystery to exist in the world, or the world will cease to exist. As the sense of mystery disappears from the modern world, the foundation needed to create a permanent source of mystery they could ensure. Thus, they made scp001 unknowable and constantly rotating and mysterious.
By telling you this, I've put all of existence in jeopardy
'what if chemistry just started working different one day, worldwide?'
it's the SCP version of the Dies the Fire series
Ngl, the prospect of iron and sulfur turning into a tar like liquid infecting everything seems like the perfect fit for the blood of the broken god.
This isnt the first similar thing scp 217 clockwork virus is also known to be the blood of the broken god
Its not even the iron and sulfur itself, its the laws of physics and chemistry being perverted to transform iron into something more than its natural state - iron cannot form the bonds with sulfur that mekhane is exploiting, its simply impossible. The field FORCES iron to act as Mekhanes will, iron transformed into something different.
Whenever Mekhanes iron encounters normal iron, it infects its physics onto the new iron.
listening to this video while at work doing chemical analysis in iron samples collected from a lake was fantastic
I loved the ‘debate’ between the researcher and AI at the end. Very thought provoking, despite the scenario being so outlandish. Great video, as always
whats funny is the argument dies the moment you decide not to be a part. Because that must be the broken god's will. (Not to mention that the Anomalous routinely does things out of the rules of mechanics, and even further that some Anomalies directly contradict this one ofc, but that's SCP.)
Look up Sam Harris's debates on this if you enjoyed the free will stuff
@@awsomebot1 the claim that we don't have free will and all our actions and thoughts are predetermined doesn't hold up because that would make it impossible to have knowledge that such is the case
@@shawcrow5780 Why not? If a machine programmed to compute logically was fed "enough" accurate data, it should be able to reason out the nature of their workings and thought process, no?
@@EXaberz what is “logical?” what is “enough” data? the materialist cannot justify an answer these questions, nor can they justify what their criteria for justification are.
When Day Breaks + Clockwork Virus = When the Broken God Breaks Chemistry
Another great night listening to this man's voice.
Ah, the SCP named after me when I come out of my room for dinner
You should totally make a video going over some smaller SCPs that mess with the fundamentals of the universe! A good one to include in it would be SCP-2046.
This SCP is basically if Cthulhu decided to weaponize Ice-Nine and it's amazing.
Thank you, Exploring, for these video essays focusing on some of the higher-concept SCPs instead of just another one on 682 or 049.
You could make a religion out of this.
I understood that reference
It was good so I'm convinced I should sign up.
I'll pass.
No don't!
No don't
I started watching your channel a couple of months ago and fell in love with beast of the old letters!!! First time commenting and I just gotta say thank you! You’ve helped me sleep more and I can’t thank you enough!! Hope you have a great day and love all of your videos❤
Mangg, aka The Exploring Series has been our sleep aid for many years now.
Mangg, the bane of Insomnia.
Beasts is absolutely amazing, glad ur hooked
As long as one drop of the oil exists, the joyous work continues.
"The universe itself is a precisely functioning mechanical assembly."
The Universe: *randomly explodes in 150,000,000,000 places at the same time*
*randomly hurls a galaxy into a blackhole*
*but then it hurls another galaxy at the first*
*also hurls another black hole at the black hole*
*burps*
*occasionally makes white-holes, thus adding energy into it's supposedly fine-tuned, closed-system cycles*
*draws graffiti on the fundament of existence*
*throws a star into another star, makes blackhole*
*throws star into another star, pt.2 - makes a super-nova*
*P R E C I S E*
This SCP is a wierd way to explain what "emergence" is.
1:19:57 is basically what it is, IIRC.
We ARE machines, in a way. Our cells are just molecular machines, built from molecules that we would consider dead and souless. Somehow, these molecules have combined to form life, and these molecular machines have combines to form us. This is emergence. Molecules are not "alive " in any sense of the word, but cells, which are just very specific arrangement of molecules, are. Our cells do not have a consciousnesses, a purpose, or even what we would call free will, but we do.
The sum is orders of magnitude more complex than the parts. Life can be born from dead building blocks, patterns can arise from pure randomness, and a God can emerge from all the laws and matter in the universe.
I don’t know if there are any other Magic: The Gathering players out there, but this gave me major phyrexian vibes and I was so happy with that
The Exploring Series makes my end of the workweek... complete.
Hm... I've heard about an interesting aspect of grey-goo-scenarios in general.
Essentially, what makes this scenario pretty impossible is simply heat generation.
Any work generates excess heat, as there is no process spending energy which is absolutely perfect.
And the insane amount of work changing anything into grey goo on a global scale, would simply generate enough heat to destroy the grey goo at some point. At least in all scenarios, where the grey goo overtakes everything in a rather short time (like hours, but even when talking in years).
On the other hand - we are playing with literal gods here, able to change the rules of the univers at will - so it get's some leeway :D
44:12 Bruh these hungry hungry hippos are just a metaphor for humanity WOW 10/10 very original I will find and eviscerate the author of this "work"
edit, ya by 1:14:34 this is prob one of the best things ever written
A great treat to listen to on a long shiddy drive, to a long shiddy job, on a (I'm sure) long shiddy Monday. Thanks man! 😊
Love your work, I've listened to practically all of your videos, always something to look forward to on workdays
This is really the only thing I look forward to during the week. It makes Mondays so much better
Meanwhile on korbenick
"Wait why are we all here, I thought we were supposed to be integrated into the broken god? what is this place?"
"Hm? Nah dude you died, eaten by a self replicating iron anomaly."
"But what am i..no souls don't exist, mechanical determisim"
"Pfft, dude there were tons of ghosts on earth, hell that foundation place even had a soul extractor, the hell are you on about"
This is why the Scarlet King should be on call when this malarkey happens.
Interesting! This seems to break down the opposing ideas of Sarkicism and Church of the Broken God into a conflict between the chemical interactions of Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen, and those of Iron and Sulfur. And whether he realised it or not, the Head Researcher was originally a Sarkic.
This was definitely a big inspiration for the idea (from my end at least while writing) because despite having different outcomes, both sarkicism and CotBG are manipulations of base elements. Part of me even might say they are the same base concept understood from different histories
I just use these to fall asleep very fast. Like 5 minutes tops and I'm passed out. Thank you monotone reading man, you've single handedly improved my sleep.
I have always thought about writtting an SCP, but with just how much goes into making one it always seemed a bit daunting to me, even if it would get accepted when I finish it
I know how you feel, I sometimes come up with idea for some scp thought sound cool but I don’t think the way I write them out would allow them to be accepted, but it’s worth trying out
Thanks bud these narration get me through my shifts. Keep up the great work!
So this SCP cannonically makes the pipes falling sound effect, got it
My man you are always coming thru in the clutch when I need something to get me through my nights at work
Hanging out for a new lore topic exploring series. I like the SCP but would like to hear some other topics someday.
I was worried for a few mins there when I didn’t get the notification lol
Same train and I thought it was because I live in the u.s.
Same for me. Otherwise, though, it might have returned to the four o' clock schedule.
Awesome i love the quality of your vids keep up the amazing work! Thank you so much
Thanks!
So this entire anomaly was caused by a sect of the Church of the Broken God creating an electromagnetic field?
Fucking magnets, how do they work?
Poles. It works by poles, and I don't mean the nation.
@@michaelandreipalon359 kurw-oh wait
What's that supposed to entail?
Church of the Broken god:
“Every time we attempt to resurrect our god we crate a monster that threatens to destroy the world.”
Also Church of the Broken god:
_lets grey goo this shit_
Robot cultist at the end sounds like master lvl reddit fedora tipper, this is great
The idea of a breakdown of chemistry is very interesting, sort of disappointing that they made a different version of the flesh that hates instead
Anyone else watch this guy in the past years this is the guy I would watch in my childhood
Your voice is so calming yet still keeps me on my toes listening, thank you for these awesome uploads
How to know if todays SCP is one of the weird ones; Number is post 6000, check,
TES video is more than 60 minutes, check.
Yeah, it's gonna be a weird one today.
Best 6 words in a TES video - "I'll be reading the excerpts verbatim."
At the end there, the debate about free will follows so many of the same points of argument I would expect and use myself
That thing living in the toilet at Applebee's... Definitely a sarkic horror
First impressions remind me of some cross between the Church of the Broken God, the Sarkic Cult, and maybe even the Daevites.
Can you imagine the sarkites and the red death sitting there being eaten on a molecular level, turning into machines, thinking gg well played, rematch in another parallel uni.
That was some anime level bad philosophy at the end there. The most basic rebuttal to it is that _If everything in the universe is deterministic, then my rejection of your arguments are the will of your god. If I am a machine programed to falsely believe that I have free will, then you are the fool for trying to convince me to go against my programing._
I get that the good Doctor is under the influence of the anomaly and not functioning at full capacity, so no blame on him for falling for it, but it is a singularly bad argument.
Can the broken god priest really be called foolish if his actions were simply the products of his machinations as well? I think he's merely amusing in the fact that the doctor still believes in free will despite "machines" producing life-like behaviours before his very eyes like the cells and tentacles. Like when you see an interesting harmless box with a button and you push it just to see what it does. You know it will always do what it's been designed to do, but that doesn't mean you yourself know what that is.
The conversation is probably there just to clarify its own ideas to the reader as the priest has no real reason to try to convince the doctor other than his own amusement.
56:29 - 56:42 That's a very intriguing perspective and would probably make a good subject for a philosophical discussion or thought exercise.
already been done, and the cultist's arguments have already been thoroughly debunked. At this point it's an incredibly tired argument and trope that I wish would just go away.
Fascinating. It's like a combination of strange matter infection and prion. Very cool.
Your timing is impeccable.
This is definitely one of my absolute favorite SCPs. Incredible cosmic horror revolving around an entity that usually just drives weaboos to fantasize about steampunk utopias. The incredible detail of scientific realism, especially during the submarine log, is just incredibly awesome.
"Everything is machine, to proceed as developed."
*laughs in Nalkan*
Ngl this first photo freaked me out but it kinda made sense as I watched the video
Thank you so much for longer videos
The researcher would've defeated the CotBG at the end if he quoted the "will you fight or will you perish like a dog" copypasta
Nanomachines, son.
The mentioning of instinct protecting him and sensing matter itself is dead reeks of yaldaboth. The god of flesh but also instinct and primal urges such as self preservation and continuation of life, usually as flesh monsters but that's not the point. Arguably you'd lose yourself in a Sarkic equivalent too but some imply retained individually for the more evolved.
It's reassuring to see the large #s of views on these videos, if It means what I hope it does; more to come for quite a while. 👍👍👍 keep up the good work.
Wow! I'm thoroughly moved and awestruck! THIS is peak Hard Sci-fi! A truly Masterful buildup through the Article rising to an amazing climax in the deep, philosophical, existential debate at the end!
Is "routine exploratory mission" meant to suggest that MTFs just go for walks across the countryside sometimes to see if they happen across anything SCP-worthy?
11 seconds after posting and at 2:14 AM... COME TO PAPA
So they finally patched SCP 217, it's a considerable upgrade.
I'm also pretty sure this was a Futurama episode
"As long as one drop of the oil exists, the joyous work continues."
That tactician got shot in the arm and said: "Tis but a scratch" and walked it off. The fucking legend.
About seven years ago, I hit a bad mental health patch, and I became terrified of the fact that I fully believe that the mind is just an emergent property of the physical brain. My husband was studying meditation at the time, and any time he brought up the annihilation of the self, it would send me spiraling into anxiety and depression.
Once my situation had improved, I came to the conclusion that if there is any chance at all that free will is unfalsifiable rather than illusory, I am morally obligated to act as if it exists.
I may be a robot, but I'm not going down without a fight.
The bit with the fish skeletons reminds me of the WAU gel from SOMA.
Started panicking when no 2 AM.
Heard the description. Broken god. I'm calling it.
Mechens pendant to sarcics 610
And the clockwork virus
This leads to a question; if Mekane is the creator of all life does that mean that Mekane and Yaldabaoth are the same being?