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xkcd: Picture a Grassy Field (Randall's Basilisk)
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Author: u/ArgentStonecutter Emergency Mustelid Hologram*
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Score: 68
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Created: 2015-09-25T18:38:54
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u/None [+21] *
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u/ArgentStonecutter [+15] Emergency Mustelid Hologram*
u/SvalbardCaretaker [+6] Mouse Army*
I actually know of a memetic hazard that is sometimes capable of producing small amounts of pain that would not have been felt otherwise. No joke! If you want to know it I can PM it to people.
u/MugaSofer [+6] *
Intriguing, I'll bite. Please PM me. ... we're bad at memetic hazards, aren't we? EDIT: turns out I already knew that, and have proved immune. Yay me!
u/callmebrotherg [+11] now posting as /u/callmesalticidae*
Very bad-- it looks like the only thing you'd need to do to kill the Bayesian Conspiracy is set up a roadside sign saying "Five basilisks, free to a good home" and wait for the calls to come in.
u/Chronophilia [+2] sci-fi ≠ futurology*
I don't think we qualify as a conspiracy. Is there something that's the exact opposite of a conspiracy? Where you eagerly tell everyone you can about it?
u/callmebrotherg [+1] now posting as /u/callmesalticidae*
Don't think there is such a word, but the structure of the original one very easily suggests "prospiracy", which I like.
u/Bowbreaker [+4] Solitary Locust*
Will you accept requests to PM it to people other than myself?
u/SvalbardCaretaker [+1] Mouse Army*
If those other people message me themselves? The whole point of memetic hazards is to not spread them uncontrolled/without consent.
u/TimTravel [+2] *
The hazard is piquing people's curiosity about a memetic hazard then vanishing...
u/SvalbardCaretaker [+2] Mouse Army*
Thats not it. So far I have sent it to 9 people, and actually met an original infectious carrier already!
u/LunarTulip [+1] *
I'd be interested in seeing that. PM it to me, please.
u/None [+1] *
I'd be interested in it. Can you PM me?
u/CarVac [+1] *
Please send it to me.
u/callmebrotherg [+1] now posting as /u/callmesalticidae*
Sure.
u/gonight [+1] i shouldn't be allowed to change my own flair*
alright, I'm in. send it to me?
u/fljared [+1] United Federation of Planets*
... Damn My curiosity. One serving of pain, please.
u/TBestIG [+1] Every second of quibbling is another dead baby*
Show me the hazard!
u/obviousdisposable [+1] *
Please add me to the list of recipients too.
u/waylandertheslayer [+1] *
I'd like to hear the memetic hazard too please
u/None [+1] *
I want to know. Pm me pls
u/b_sen [+1] *
Now I'm curious and want to test my anti-memetic-hazard systems. PM me!
u/lahwran_ [+1] *
if you're still offering this memetic hazard at the price of a reply to this comment, I'd like to see it.
u/Flashbunny [+1] *
1 month on, I'm going through the top posts of the subreddit and come across this. Could I get a PM?
u/None [+1] *
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u/Flashbunny [+1] *
Thanks for the reply, you bastard. Nah, but I am now curious about how my dreams are going to go!
u/SvalbardCaretaker [+1] Mouse Army*
Oh shit, I wanted to reply in PM. Deleting the offending message, sorry if anyone got Basilisked in the meantime.
u/AE-lith [+1] *
I'd be interested too, 3 months late.
u/kuilin [+1] *
Did you ever get it?
u/AE-lith [+2] *
I did, I can forward you the virus if you'd like
u/kuilin [+1] *
Okay, thanks!
u/Magnap [+1] *
I'd be interested in that. Do PM me, please!
u/awesomeideas [+1] Dai stiho, cousin.*
I'd like the PM with a side of hazard, please!
u/JackStargazer [+2] Primordial Apologist*
[REDACTED!][REDACTED!][REDACTED!]
u/memetichazard [+1] *
Wish I'd been here three weeks ago. :P
u/notmy2ndopinion [+12] Concent of Saunt Edhar*
I didn't know Basilisks were small, pale and big-eyed. I always imagined that they were -- oh NO!
u/FaceDeer [+23] *
This is like one of those SCPs where simply knowing it exists means you're screwed. My favorite example of such. Relatively mild as these things go, I guess, but I love the presentation.
u/I_AM_A_DEMIGOD_REEEE [+2] *
Thanks for mentioning SCP
u/blazinghand [+11] Chaos Undivided*
Sounds pretty similar to the ontological argument for the existence of God. Funny.
u/FeepingCreature [+5] GCV Literally The Entire Culture*
Picture a grassy field. In the middle sits a small, pale, big-eyed God...
u/ArgentStonecutter [+16] Emergency Mustelid Hologram*
Picture a grassy field. In the center sits a small, pale, big-eyed creature with the power to escape from any visualized scene and move freely through the brain that imagined it. It glances around nervously and- -whoops, where'd it go? Sorry about that! Keep an eye out for it in your daydreams.
u/Anderkent [+32] *
I knew my inability to visualise things would come in useful someday!
u/FaceDeer [+19] *
But imagine if you could visualize things...
u/tilkau [+7] *
I think his inability to visualize things might possibly get in the way of that ;)
u/FaceDeer [+18] *
And of course the alt text:
Wait, I can fix this. Picture another field. In the middle sits the only creature the first creature is afraid of. Now just-- wait, where did THAT one go?
u/FeepingCreature [+6] GCV Literally The Entire Culture*
It sounds adorable. I want one. And- oh look! How convenient. Tbf, I was probably primed to like small, pale, big-eyed creatures by playing a bunch of Ori recently.
u/Chronophilia [+2] sci-fi ≠ futurology*
I think everyone likes small big-eyed creatures. Paleness is an optional extra.
u/DCarrier [+7] *
I thought it was going to be something that could escape into reality, so I skipped to the end. Then I saw that it was reasonably safe, and read the rest.
u/ArgentStonecutter [+13] Emergency Mustelid Hologram*
u/DCarrier [+5] *
The alt text of it anyway.
u/Geminii27 [+7] *
Ah, but the ability of the basilisk to brain-travel is dependent on its form being maintained by the brain it is in. If the brain is not actively thinking about it (i.e. it's thinking about literally anything else), then the basilisk cannot travel as it lacks incarnation. It may also wind up lacking agency permanently if it is forgotten about.
u/resurrexia [+3] stupiditynowofferswisdom*
So... How many Basilisks do we have now?
u/traverseda [+7] With dread but cautious optimism*
None
u/None [+3] *
Whatever it was, it was pinned down and eaten pretty quickly by the other things that live in my head.
u/historymaking101 [+1] *
I like it.
u/Sgtbird08 [+1] *
Can someone explain this to me? I've imagined the thing, but I am reaching no conclusions about what I was supposed to figure out.