Comments for page "RPC-698"

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Tue, 13 May 2025 02:15:52 +0000

There's something compelling in the concept that I feel is completely lost by the Addenda. The cognitohazard making people specifically target Site-002 implies a degree of intentionality/hostility from 698, like the thing's just got some particular beef with not even the Authority at large or alien research black sites, just that Site in specific. It using a forceful mechanism to make people fervent about aliens and alien experimentation is also a pretty strange detail that I enjoyed. Thing is, neither's followed up on.

Capping the article off with a log of people breaching the site + a podcast section feels very tangential to the hooks laid in the Description. It's not actively bad, but it does feel like a much less compelling line to pursue and nothing particularly new is done with it either. I understand that the point is to portray the Authority's hold on the veil as actively slipping away post-Failsafe, but that could've probably been done more elegantly if tied together with the earlier mentioned hooks.

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Wed, 08 Nov 2023 16:34:38 +0000

I like the article and how it's written and the fact is has aliens in it. But I agree with a lot of what Jimmy said, it doesn't really feel anomalous and just an alien encounter nonetheless. I found the anomalous effects of it kind of interesting because it kind of explains what is happening in society rn but it is just way to subtle to really call it anomalous.

I do like how a lot of people for this contest chose forest based anomalies/cryptids but not really aliens. I like this spin though.

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Fri, 08 Sep 2023 07:29:04 +0000

not a fan of this one. sure, it's competently written, but apart from the actual entity itself there's barely anything anomalous about this. i'm pretty sure that if i encountered a massive strobing flying saucer i'd start believing in aliens, and as a result i'd pretty soon start wondering if there's actually some truth to the area 51 conspiracy. in regards to the part about implanted false memories, i think a person confronted with such a fantastical encounter would start becoming less logical and question past experiences of theirs. also how does the authority know that these 2 million or so people are all like this because of the entity's effects?

in addition, the flying saucer entity (the central anomaly!) barely appears in the article. after the description, it takes a backseat for the site-002 shenanigans. i wish we got more of it; show the interactions people have with it, maybe give it a personality, just show it in action! i'm also wondering how affected people discuss having this exact same experience of the same tentacled spaceship flashing lights at them.

the incident logs, which i'm assuming were supposed to be comedic, i didn't find funny. with the unnatural incompetence shown by the authority (especially with that cover story bit. i mean come on), and the "well that just happened" notes from the site director, it all felt very lolauthority. the redaction part especially, and sorry about my bluntness here, felt like i was looking at a post from r/dankmemesfromsite19.

there's no interesting examination of how these conspiracies start and spread, this article just throws a thing-that-makes-you-go-crazy anomaly to the audience and says "conspiracy theorists so wacky, amirite". the podcast transcript also didn't really bring anything new to the article that hadn't been made clear before.

apologies, but this gets a +1 from me.

I want to believe!

Sun, 20 Aug 2023 02:33:05 +0000

It's not a psyop, I swear.

Crit Thread: http://rpcauthority.wikidot.com/forum/t-16256321/i-want-to-believe-missing-rpc

I'd like to personally thank DoubleDenial, Mr Makor, and televisionist for critiquing my Missing RPC entry! I decided to play more towards the conspiracy side of things with this one.

I'd also like to thank Mr Makor once again for creating the UFO photoshop for me.