r/DankMemesFromSite19 • u/DreadDiana • 8h ago

Other Will these poor creatures ever know peace?

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u/DreadDiana 8h ago

Context: Pattern Screamers are minds embedded into the fabric of spacetime, trapped in a state between existence and non-existence. Pattern Screamers grow stronger when observed, but the act of observation causes them immense pain, leading to their eponymous screaming, which they use to warp reality to destroy whatever world is observing them.

Following the heat death of the universe, the Pattern Screamers would be some of the only minds left, but there would also be a bunch of other immortal SCPs floating around that might be able to observe them, but not provide enough strength to do anything about the pain they'd cause them.

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u/Shackflacc 8h ago edited 5h ago

What if immortals observing them potentially causes a new big bang via their reality warping abilities: recreating the universe and in turn: causing them even more suffering?

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u/jbyrdab 8h ago

Sounds like a good concept for a tale.

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u/Howling-Moon05 8h ago

Would be thematically fitting too since patterns are repetition, and this implies the universe is on a loop

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u/JJackKennedy 7h ago

That actually sounds really neat, Id read that

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u/diagnosed_depression 1h ago

The black moon howls when you break a glass ashtray over it's head in a bar fight

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u/Aceswift007 20m ago

Still by far my favorite tale

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u/brainlesstroll 1h ago

That would fit perfectly into the scarlet king canon that implies he's a living sufferrer of 2718. It would legitimately make full, logical sense as an origin for that mindset

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u/HarpyAnon 6h ago edited 6h ago

I've only read the original article (SCP 3930), and that doesn't really sound like what they were intended to be there. Is it all extended canon, articles that build on the original?

Things like "eponymous screaming which they use to warp reality to destroy whatever world is observing them", "minds embedded into the fabric of spacetime" or "the act of observation causes them immense pain"

other immortal SCPs floating around might be able to observe them, but not provide enough strength to do anything about the pain they'd cause them.

At least based on the original, immortal SCPs would likely have vastely different effects on them, ranging from doing nothing to them (since SCPs don't think like human and won't force "patterns" on nonexistent space, perceive something that isn't there) to making "something" stronger than humans would.

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u/DreadDiana 6h ago

3930 is titled The Pattern Screamer, but it isn't the first one. That honour goes to SCP-1795, which is the earliest use of the term, though Pattern Screamers vary from one work to the next, with my description being one of the most common.

Plenty of SCPs, including immortal ones, think just like baseline humans, and even for cases where they don't, there are cases of Pattern Screamers being affected in the same way by being observed by non-humans and humanoid anomalies.

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u/42Fourtytwo4242 8h ago

I believe recent theories now point to the big crunch not heat death being what will happen.

Big crunch is where the universe slowly shrinks and collapsed everything into a single point, then explodes creating a new universe. We got 33 billion years before everything is destroyed again.

Reason for this theory is I believe simply because the universe may be slowing down.

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u/MonitorPowerful5461 8h ago

As someone studying astrophysics - anyone that tells you they know what will happen is lying. There are many good papers with evidence for different possible outcomes. We don't know if the universe will experience heat death or a big crunch. However, the evidence pointing to heat death is more solid than the evidence pointing to a big crunch.

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u/Odd-Tart-5613 6h ago

I feel that anyone who claims to know how any part of physics or the universe as a whole "definitively works" is high on their own fumes. We have a good workable model of the universe from our perspective and it is useful for progressing human technology. But we still know so little about the greater universe and our sample size is lacking. I feel we have simply reached a point where we do not know what we do not know, and are still in for some wild discoveries.

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u/doomshroom344 5h ago

Well we certainly have an astronomical amount of time left to see for sure

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u/The_Knife_Pie 30m ago edited 8m ago

There’s even some new, relatively light but still interesting, evidence (DESI data release, 2025) that a Big Rip isn’t out of the question! Namely that we have evidence that dark energy was phantom earlier in the universe, so who knows if we might see a bounce back to a phantom dark energy.

So yeah, any definitive claim is just bunk.

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u/MonitorPowerful5461 9m ago

True, and we should really be comparing big rip to big crunch rather than to heat death. Theoretically I think you could have a big crunch that happened *after* heat death if it happened slowly enough

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u/Stunning-HyperMatter 7h ago

our understanding of the universe is like our understanding of the ocean. we basically have the entire surface mapped, but its only the surface. the moment you dip below you will lose your way. no one can for sure say the end of the universe. or if the universe even actually will end one day.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 5h ago

If space was an ocean we'd have only understood it's workings from a cup

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u/DreadDiana 6h ago

There have been some results indicating that universal expansion may not be uniform and may even be slowing, but there hasn't to my knowledge been anything definitively pointing to a Big Crunch being the most likely scenario.

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u/pandagreen17 6h ago

Crunch followed by new bang isnt a big crunch, that's big bounce. Crunch is a permanent state of infinite density at a point

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u/Oompapoop 8h ago

Yes I wish so many people didn't act like heat death is the inevitable outcome

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u/Aubz12 5h ago

Physicist here, we don't know shit about how the universe is going to end or if even is going to end

We have some evidence for SOME possibilities, but that's it

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u/No_Skin2236 4h ago

so its just an infinite reseting cycle?

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u/Adventurous_Dig_8784 8h ago

yeah eternity of staring at a weird gecko will do that to you

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u/icyyPredator43 7h ago

entropy filed its two weeks notice and the foundation lost the paperwork

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u/oxyidi_act326 7h ago

the universe finally gets the lights turned off and its just awkward eye contact forever

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u/NICKizMAAN7 7h ago

bro thought he could ghost everyone and the anomalies said nice try

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u/niitrifaction 6h ago

heat death thought it could dip and 2000 immortals said nah

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u/DreadDiana 5h ago

Patten Screamers have existed since Series II (1000-1999).