SCP Foundation

Stand in the place where you live, now face north.

Think about destruction, wonder where your mind went right now.

Original picture is by Cavit, released under CC-BY 4.0 and modified by me.

Novote. There’s nothing bad about this article but there also isn’t anything that strikes me as particularly interesting.

Tentative upvote because I enjoy the concept, but I really wish there was more here.

As a reader, I'm left with a ton of questions and no answers. How did the Foundation discover that neural activity anomalously affects magnetic north? Do neurons only affect magnetic north, or is the magnetic south affected by them equally opposite as well? What effects would an immediate reversal of Earth's magnetic poles have? What does "Operation Mindful Sustainability" entail? Obviously such a document exists in-universe, so why don't we get to see even a heavily redacted version of it?

While writing this, I'm finding myself growing more and more frustrated with the sheer lack of substance here. Enough so that I may just reverse my +1 to a -1, at least unless this thing gets a serious content drop.

My headcanon is that in order to cull populations from facing north, we just label R.E.M. as dadrock and move on with our lives.

+1.

I really liked the containment procedures, really set you up for some interesting mystery involving a familiar scientific phenomenon. Unfortunately as mentioned by others, it just doesn't do enough to develop it. No vote.

Masterful as always. I actually put 'Stand' on while reading this.

+1, facing north.

And the award for best article derived from R.E.M. lyrics goes to…

No vote, and shame it’s not Alistair Grey

No vote. Not to parrot what everyone else is saying, but while there's not anything done badly here, there's not a lot of substance. It's just a somewhat interesting idea that isn't expanded upon. Plus you have to wonder how the Foundation duscovered this in the first place.

If this gets expanded on, it'll probably be an upvote for me, but for now I'm neutral.

Novote for now. It needs more, as everyone else is saying. Otherwise, I quite enjoy it, although it does contradict this.