This is the final interview of my four-part series to celebrate the 13th anniversary of the SCP Foundation Wiki on Wikidot. These 4 people were very influential in our early success with this new platform. These interviews have been released every Sunday of July until today, July 25th, the first day that other people were able to access the site we know and love today. To wrap up this series and celebrate the 13th anniversary, I interviewed the godfather of SCP as we know it! I hope you all enjoy my interview with Dr Gears!. ~ WhiteGuard
Who is 
Dr Gears?
用户Dr Gears在2008年7月25日成为本站成员，他在本站得分最高的3篇人气页面是SCP-682: 不灭孽蜥+2902, SCP-106: 恐怖老人The Old Man+2595, SCP-914: 转换机 +2436。作为作者，Dr Gears共计创作了41篇SCP文章，71篇外围故事，0篇GoI格式，以及17个其他页面，共计贡献了129个页面。EditThis上就是一位突出成员，是加入Wikidot网站的第二人，也是第一批获得网站管理员的人之一。毫不夸张的说Dr Gears是SCP基金会维基史上最有影响力的人物。下列采访由我的20个问题和他的回应组成。
粗体文本表示问题，文本框内是Dr Gears的回应。
采访问题：
你好，Dr. Gears！首先请允许我提一句，在我首次开始这些采访时，我有给大家提过我的终极目标就是采访到你。谢天谢地，这个目标在今天居然实现了！和你一起聊天以及对你深入展开了解实在是荣幸。说了这么多，让我们先从一个入门问题开始。你是怎么会了解到SCP的？你是刚好看到过最初的SCP-173发帖，亦或只是看到了之后的转帖？以及据我了解你在那时候的名字是Cogs。这个名字有什么具体的基础吗？此外，请随意分享一下你对早期粉丝群的体验感受。
荣幸的是我才对，我很开心过了这么久的时间大家还在关注我！我希望自己只是一颗通往更大更光明前景的垫脚石，但依然还是非常高兴。
我没法告诉你我具体是哪一天首次遇到了最初的SCP-173，但我确实记得在4chan的/x/板块上看到了它的略缩图，然后非常不安地点开了它。那时候这个板块相对还比较新，几乎还是各类惊悚主题串和图片的净土，没有像之后那样关注超常和神秘学。 我点进去，看了看，立即关闭了窗口。它看起来就是如此该杀的怪异和惊悚，文本也是一样古怪，但图片是首先扯住我的。甚至还偶尔做过一些关于它噩梦，就是站在那。
我不确定我看到的是真正的原贴还是说只是转发，但很可能就只是转发贴而已。Creepypasta那时候真的在大步迈进，像是《Ted the Caver》《Dionaea House》《John Dies At The End》《House of Leaves》这一类的东西，在几千篇短篇恐怖小段或系列里到处打转。我喜欢探索视频类的东西，而这个SCP的东西看起来就很像是，也许还是来自某个我所不知道的神秘系列呢，于是我开始了深挖。最终，我想到“嘿，我觉得我完全可以自己来写…如果搞的很烂，它自然会被埋没掉，所以管那么多作甚！”于是乎就这么开始了写作和发布。我的头几个想法诞生出来，从此一发不可收拾。
在第一个维基之前，你必须得记住，当时还真的没有一个粉丝群存在。见鬼，4chan甚至都没有Id，所以一切都只是在虚空中活着。我觉得，这即是好事也是坏事…是的，这会让干事情更困难，但我认为现代粉丝群里的许多问题都可以追溯到过于自我还有投票模组上。不过，没有些许的架构的话，它也只能止步于怪异的网络垃圾。我觉得在老论坛里有一些想法和工作从来没有真正实现，但这样也许才是最好的。
啊是的，Cog…其实我选中它，是因为此乃齿轮等物件的正式名称，听起来很不错。最后，我倒回来让它成了Dr. Gears名字的缩写词，但那都是后面的事。它听着很不错，而我曾经、也可能会一直在心里抱有些许的edgelord，于是乎我就这么用了。现在只有Kain还这么称呼我，总是让我有些许的开心。
在你加入EditThis站点之前，你有进行过什么写作吗？你还记不记得你发布的第一篇SCP相关文章或作品？最初的反响如何？在你还在EditThis的时候，你觉得用户体验感觉如何？它感觉像是一个社群，还是也许有一点的脱节？你觉得当时让人感觉需要搬迁的主要理由是什么？Kain Pathos Crow提到说当时有人在EditThis上对001提案发布垃圾帖，你是否记得此事的什么细节？
噢上帝，我有没有在EditThis之前写东西？我可不敢承认有！不，不，真的没写过多少。我一直喜欢幻想当作家，但确实是SCP这整个创意到来之时我才有了真正的心声，以及真正敢于去分享的自信，虽然还是有点颤抖。从那以后，我有到处完成过一些东西，一般是以笔名，但SCP基金会一直是我的家，就和过去一样。我会到处去游荡暂住一番，但终归会把自己及时拉回家里。
第一件作品则是…我想说是882，但可能也不是如我所想。不过882确实是头一批被发到维基上的。要知道，我以前有过一种怪异的神经质：尽管我在一段时间过后已经知道有维基存在，我却感觉那里不是我真正的发帖之处。我会把东西都贴到/x/版，期望随便哪个“有这能耐的势力”会相中并记录它。所以尽管我在创作，但我本人并没有真的到维基去发布。最后，我还是克服这些加入了进来，但我觉得是有一些东西在这种纷乱中丢失掉了。015是早期作里我记得最清楚的一篇，因为我以前工作过的地方有一块服务区，这一整套想法基本上都是受它启发。
我收到的反响一直以来大多是积极的，我也不知道是因为什么。有趣的是，后来发展为“Dr. Gears”人格的的一些要素，其实是从 /x/时期的批评中诞生的。我觉得我是做的不错，但我确实有时候担心过，是不是，在这一方面，我的名声带动了一些东西。然而，整体上，人们只是一如既往对自己的看法秉持严厉不懈，所以应该只是我在多心而已。我一直感觉不太好的几件大事之一便是682，它其实有被某个匿名群众整体重写了一遍，之后才成了今天的样子，而我最开始完成的完全就一摊垃圾。所以整体上，即便是在早期，我的作品至少说是能被容忍的，如果不算受人喜欢的话。
而EditThis时代则是…狂野的。我们有了一张巨大且开放的条目表，你可以直接冲进来，逮住一个号码，然后写就完事了。那时候真就是一片狂野西部，具备它好的坏的一切内涵。 结构非常松散，所以在我加入进去的时候，当时总共是有大概…20到50个条目？左右上下？所以就是非常开放。小趣闻一则，不少原创条目占住了非常靠前或者靠后的编号，所以不会在滑过那一大堆空白链接时被错过！我们那时候就是个小小的无面者团伙，对着虚空讲故事，很让人胆怯，但也让人兴奋。即便是当时也有过一种社群的感觉，但更多是个松散的联盟，就像在长途火车上交朋友一样。
我认为我们有许多理由需要搬迁。很不幸，我一直更关注于实际写作的方面，所以我并不知道（或者至少是不记得…）所有的细节。我们那时在成长，很快速，这个维基的结构不能很好适应。此外，和我们一并成长的还有另一个类似的短篇恐怖集“持有者（The Holders）”系列，但它完全是被一个人管控着。一旦我们要迁移去新维基，那可就是另一回事了。当时有讨论过如何继续下去，是应该封闭起来只对少数获选作者开放，还是说对更广大更狂野的大众敞开。我记得参与了那个讨论，并以持有者系列的衰落为理由支持引入更多的声音。我们的问题有垃圾帖、胡乱编辑、还有一大堆的其他问题，总体感觉就是我们的成长快要超出老维基的承载力了。
当FritzWillie把新的Wikidot站点通知给了各位，是否有人真正抵制过搬迁的事？有没有一些人就想留在EditThis上，你是否记得在搬迁后EditThis上还有什么真正的活动？你可记得什么具体的作者或者用户搞定了它，还是说其实所有你记得的人都做了迁移？
坦白说我并不记得搬迁上出过什么重大问题，虽然实际进行时有过麻烦事。我想绝大多数（如果不是全部）作者都对转移过去没什么意见，但我非常肯定会有人对此纠正我的。我记得为所有那些新工具、新功能兴奋不已…然后几乎是立即意外删除了论坛。整体上这有助于巩固住当时已有的东西，在那会儿，基本也就是记录一下浴室墙上随便写的文字。我们有了个人档案、名字、面孔，对一帮论坛极客及业余巨魔来说，这太棒了。
我记得在搬家后就没怎么听到EditThis的事了，但可能是有一两个人还在那里潜伏。所有我知道名字的人都参与了转移，此后不久我们也把货捡走了。我大概记得有一个还是几个人跑去霸占了EditThis维基被抛弃的老空壳，但我觉得那也就是些垂死的胡闹。有些人在搬迁后遁入黑暗了一段时间，之后又再度现身，有一些人则基本就此潜伏无声了。有一个关于Snorlison的古老笑话，说提到他的名字就能召唤他…他在好几年里完全就是一道阴影，而就在我编出这个笑话的时候，非常确定他突然就在iirc聊天里蹦了出来，说了声嗨。
不，据我所知，所有人都完成了转移，然后在过了一段时间的清点复查及事务核实后，老维基就此弃用。
**在你来到Wikidot时，你对成为一名管理员有什么想法？领导早期维基是怎么样的情况？在FritzWillie几年后披露说他就是
The Administrator时，你作何感想？在这个大惊喜之前你是否提前知情？ **
在我被选为管理员时，我非常兴奋、还有一点的尴尬。,我明白这在当时更多只是礼节性的举动…我对运作论坛或者社群这事完全没有经验。但我喜爱这正在成形的东西，也尽我所能成为其中的肃正之手。最开始，是…好吧，还比较容易，真的。所有人差不多都彼此认识，很多规矩我们不需要一个正式结构也都能了解。噢，我们确实是有过问题，悲哀的事实是在一些危机爆发后，很多事情就变了。我只是尽我所能去充当一个公正之声，尽管我天性上偶尔喜欢偷懒。我觉得我算是帮上忙了吧，至少是在成形期的那几年里。而现在有了天才和经验荟萃于此，我怀疑我还能不能做出那么多事来。我会不会时不时怀念一下？当然了，如我所说，那时候的情况还有简单的多也非常开放…但随着你成长起来， 你必须一并做出改变。有一些会变好，有一些变差，肯定有一些东西我会愿意改变或者不甚赞成，但我倾向于认为，我在维基的成形中有过强有力的参与。至少是积极的部分，坏的都是别人。
我对FritzWillie的事情并不是第一个知道的，真的，但我其实早该发现。我真的应该抱有更大的怀疑，但我觉得我当时没有那么介意。Fritz和我处的还不错，虽然我们有些观点差异，我觉得我还是很高兴有人可以像这样把自大放到一边，领导我们度过那段早期时日。我觉得这事披露之后我感觉还好，所以最初的一点惊讶到那会儿也差不多结束了。
在我们进入关于你作品的问题前，你是否介意我们聊一聊你在早期时代的兴趣所在？在那时候你觉得哪些文章是你最喜欢读的？当时是否有哪个具体的作者刚好能吸引住你？你觉得在那时候你最喜欢的类型或者文章风格是怎样的？
噢噢，我一直非常酷爱阅读！有趣的是，我开始学着阅读的时候其实比平均而言晚了很多，我奶奶总是说我是在弥补那些失去的时光。全都过一遍得花好几年，所以我尽量限制了自己。我有大概…5-6个书架，装满了我这一生里收集来的各种书籍…一直很有意思，每当我女儿需要学校阅读书单里的书，一般我手头都能有一本。专心说基金会的事情，当时是有些突出的。作者有洛夫克拉夫特、金、Lumley、布雷德伯里、Matherson，等等，还有其他一些各种各样的，比如阿西莫夫还有马克吐温，都渗透到了小说的整个思想里。很多老哥特的东西和怪异传说，我从所有这些里摘选。
至于说维基本身，那是另一回事了。我一直尽量站在虚空中看待每一篇条目。你对某个作者的看法或想法很容易带有色彩，而我也一直强烈支持每一篇条目都该做到自立。该死，我甚至都不怎么喜欢交互链接这种事。还有，我对点名这种事一直是非常害臊的。对我而言这就是和“你最喜欢哪个孩子”一样的问题，真的没什么好回答。这整个计划的一部分乐趣所在，就是来自如此多作品中的巨大差异性。所有东西都有其优点和…次优点， 所以说最爱这种事就很难去定义。很悲哀的说，我就像是个父母。如果你带来些东西给我，我可能会思考，甚至说几句，你可能不喜欢这东西，但我也很愿意把它挂在冰箱上。我希望这算是个足够礼貌的退让…
文章类型，啊这个就容易说了。首先，它应该是可以独自立足的。把它从维基里剪出去，发布在随便哪个阿猫论坛上，它都应该足以引起冲击，不需其他任何的背景或支持。 其二，它应该，即便不是吓人，至少要做到让人不安。伟大的恐惧之一，就是这东西经常是完全平常的物件，你完全可能在日常生活中偶然碰到、看到或拿到，不需多想。 其三，配图很重要。好的图片就是好的钩子…不过在我那时候也只是谷歌上快速一搜，复制粘贴过来，所以这一点我就放宽一些吧。第四是“中毒效应”。好的条目也许不会立即打动人，但就和毒药一样，它会慢慢渗透进去，让它自己表现出来。我不会现在立即就怎么怎么惊吓到你，而是要让你上床的时候不敢关灯，即便你并不需要这样。中了这几点，对我来说就是好条目。
by (from left to right) Dr Whitney, Amamidori, Klakkr, Drdobermann, again by Dr Whitney, and TheVolgun
截止本采访动笔时，SCP-682: 不灭孽蜥目前在本站是得分排名第八位的文章。它是你得分最高的作品，但你提到过对它感觉不太好，因为它有一部分被某位未知的匿名用户重写过。我们的一位用户cooldude971找到了最早的讨论串，发现帮助你重写它的那位用户叫做Epic Phail Spy。(喜欢此次采访的群众，也请参阅Cooldude的文章The SCP Foundation on 4chan and EditThis。）
请和我们多聊聊682是怎么来的。据我所知，从它被发布到Wikidot以来，惟一的重要改动就是替换了图片。你有计划再次对它开工么？据我了解，你有好几次考虑过重写它，或者至少是某些部分。
好，首先，我要对Epic Phail Spy致以最诚挚的谢意！还有感谢cooldude971查到这事！
682，在它那个粗糙的原始版里面，本来是要充当一则警世故事，针对在SCP项目间进行交互测试。某种近乎不死的强大怪物，是基金会让它得以存在，也想尽快抹除它，连带着他们的耻辱。当时这还算革命性的，但最终来说并不是最好的。在Epic进行了大略编辑后，我喜欢上了这个新的整体要旨，开始对它进行展开。只是到处做了些许小改动，但整个创意由此发展开来：人类有一股求知的动力。要去攀登、测试、开启、揭露还有探索。我们几乎不可能不去刺探能力的极限，我们也经常发展这些能力、向更远处进发。 而682则是对这整个理想的一记特大中指。一座无可攀登的高峰，一个无可分辨的黑暗。它让人类意志里视不可能为挑战的部分瘙痒难耐，而如果它让你恼火了，那它的工作就做到位了。
在机能上，682是一个异常。它并不是真的“在这里”，所以它不会受到什么真切的影响。就像有人透过一张床单抓住你，你可以挣扎，但那个抓手，你并没有真正接触到。问题就在于，这张床单就是我们现实的网络结构，所以要想对它造成什么真实的伤害，往好的说是“难办”。它的形态在机能上就是一个程序错误，就如跑到音频程序里去运行图片文件一样。682的物理形态只是被我们的现实处理成了这个模样，它很可能长得非常、非常不一样。而无论它来自何方，那里显然也和这里非常、非常不一样，这也是它做出这种反应的重要原因。想象一下你掉入了一个这样的世界，天空看着就让你疼痛，每一道声音都如牙缝间穿过电动打磨器般扫射，而生命看起来是专门为嘲弄和折磨你的每一种感官而生。这就是682的感受。比起愤怒它更该说是惊骇，这也能表现为怒火，就和你在三明治里发现半只蟑螂一样。它杀人的理由也和你拍扁一只烦人虫子一样。现在，请想象一下空气在物理上就是由蜈蚣组成的，然后你就开始懂这个画面了。噢，另一则小趣闻：酸浴之所以能有效，不太是因为它能中断再生，而是因为它在感觉上更舒服。更像是一场热水澡，或者说一场大雪。
我觉得我在682上挨的骂要比其他任何东西都多，尽管它在社群里逐步赢得人心，很长一段时间里我还一直争辩说要删掉它，好让有些人闭嘴。这是因为有些人以前把它说成是玛丽苏，这总让我想着人们到底对我有怎么样个鬼看法，而这其实是更让人恼火的点。我有提出过要改良这篇条目，把它发布以来这么多年里发展出的东西加进去。然而，我觉得到底还是是会留着它这样下去，不遮不掩。至少，我现在是会这么说。在某些点上，你必须得接受你的作品，即便它是老旧的，甚至你对它并不开心。最好还是去产出新作，而非回头游荡在过去….要是你一直这样的话，到最后就会落入无尽的重制、重构思、重启之地。我觉得我最多会做些许的小整修，也许到处加入一些备注条目、讲一讲后续发现这样，但它已经如此这般坚守了这么久，到这时候再去改动一番感觉都有点不对头了。你会一直看着些东西，发现有些玩意儿你想改一改…但说到底，我算是这头野兽的继父，所以我们再看看吧。也许只会通过外围故事这些来进行些改良，核心就放着别动了。
图片变动则是，我觉得，挺好的，虽然我知道有人不喜欢。 Keeps a lot of the same energy…我记得，在同人创作刚开始风行的时候，有人问过我682长得应该是什么样。我说，凭它这恐怖的再生和适应力，它可能长成任何能想象到的样子。我作为半个缔造者，整体意见是保持头部造型整体一致，很神奇的是这一点居然很是被遵循着！甚至是大爬虫被改成一个动漫女孩的时候…这可真是有点怪…总之，老的那张图，我觉得就是一张随便的腐烂鲸鱼突破，所以现在有点更加个人化的东西很不错。他现在可真的是招牌之一了…至少绝对算是雷德王吧，我想…也许是个Knave？
by (from left to right) Loiterer87, DepressedCoconut, Cinemamind, Amamidori, @Oroshibu, 1JustAGuy1, again by Cinemamind, Amai-Ixchel, and Klay Abele
来说你的另一篇传奇文章，SCP-106:恐怖老人。在目前，SCP-106是全站得分排名第十的文章。你的许多作品都是机械类神秘，所以这一篇的灵感来自何处呢？因为这个异常的性质，对它的收容非常有挑战性，也是现实中对这篇文章的一个争执点。在这篇文章发布两年后，你又为106引入了一些收容程序更新，似乎又让许多本来讨厌这个程序的人高兴了。此外，过了一年后，你经过些许劝进，又在外围故事The Young Man（年轻男子）中为106放出了一个可能的背景故事。在那时候，许多作者只会发一作就继续前行，所以是什么驱策你一直为SCP-106进行创作呢？
你说“那时候”是吗？对我而言，106依然是我的崭新作之一！“Back then” is it? To me, 106 is still one of my new-ish ones! Still,不过，我觉得这和你看自己孩子一直就是，孩子，是一样的道理，哪怕他们其实都长大了。106的发端其实相差颇远，真的。 它起初是一个“终极掠食者”，一个能模仿猎物躲藏并更好狩猎的存在。人类没有自然的天敌捕食者，所以要是有一个会是什么样呢？
至少，开始是这样的。毕竟，有时候艺术概念与其最终成品之间关系甚微。
很快它就开始改变了。对，一个掠食者，但是不同的类型。某种聪明的东西，但有着恐怖的残忍。我开始把其他创意和概念层叠进来，就如某种地狱滚雪球一样，它开始成型。其中一个最后加进来的方面就是“年长者的虐待”。这整个创意差不多就是，某些人年纪大到无法用正常方式取乐，于是就可能采取彻底怪异且让人不安的行为，然后在加上孩子眼中成年人那种近乎半神的状态。106是一个腐化、残酷、喜好操弄、且具有终极杀意的成年人，专门针对那些自认为已经克服童年恐惧成为了自己的人。如你所见，这情况其实有点脱离把控。在它发布后，它引出了一些波澜，我得到的整体看法就是“你这程序好烂”，然后就用它作为机会展示一下SCP如何随时间发展，每一阶段都会更精良和精密。你要怎么才能关住一个能穿墙的东西？
我一直以来对采纳建议及批评感到些许反感。每次我做完了什么，我整体上会视之为已经完成。我可能会略作改动，但一旦完工，它就是完工了。不过，有许多差评抓的点很好， 到头来我还是很高兴我确实进行了修改，我觉得没了这些它肯定会少很多人气。 我一直都是这样，我整体上尝试在真空中工作，只是写作一些我喜欢、或者认为不错的东西，但经常的情况是我从别处得来的点子最后成了最大的灵感。
我执着于106是因为他有人气，这是当然的。但其实…他就是妖怪人。他狩猎，狞笑，然后伤害你，把你抓去某个你不明白的地方，体验你无从想象的事情。他就是个年老的修道士，一个衰朽的打击者，把技艺精良到了最热切的极致，但却不再和从前一样能到处转悠或者感觉不错了。我们知道的只有在我们身上也一样的东西…他在狞笑，所以他肯定享受于自己做的事情。他好像在玩弄人们，所以他肯定很狡猾。我们将他拟人，是因为我们在他身上看到了太多的人类境况黑油坑，投入更多的人类情感后再看起来会好受一些，就像尸体旁环绕的鲜花。
106是深渊中的惊骇，难以定义，更无法拒斥，我也喜欢那种老经典里有人穿过七拐八弯的走廊、逃离无休无情的恐惧。现在我可能会让他先吃吃灰，过几年再来说。
SCP-914：万能转换机真的契合你对复杂机械超乎理性的喜爱。在你这个主题下的相关作品里，这也是你最知名的一篇。和我们之前谈到的两篇文章一样，这一篇也出现在了《SCP-收容失效》游戏中，这也可能帮忙提高了它的曝光量。无论如何，这是一篇非常受人欢迎的文章，也和你好像喜欢写的一个主题十分契合。在914的写作背后有什么故事？你还为它创立了一片实验记录，现在成了本站最大的记录，存有足足1800条以上的实验。我不太清楚你知不知道它现在大到什么程度了，所以我觉得要给你提一下这事。
此外，有人曾在十年前问你，914背后的源头是什么。你的回应是“向我问设定就和吃一个融化后重新冻上的冰淇淋一样：往小了说，它永远都会不那么对劲或者是令人满意。”你在剩余的回应里解释说，它的来历要留作开放式结局，但你确实透露过你一直以来私底下的想法，原话是这样的：“这台设备看起来是某个疯狂天才的‘杰作’，是为作为某种贵族玩具而设计…”对你而言，这个“某种贵族玩具”的部分是从哪来的？
我一直、一直都喜爱发条机械。我也狂热于蒸汽朋克的东西，随便吧一些老派机械师和看似近乎魔法的效应组合起来，就能让我沉迷其中。和我许多作品不同，914基本是被我全须全尾想出来的。这个巨大的…东西，能靠基础的发条和物理学做到远远超出最尖端技术的事情。它唯一会遵守的规律似乎就只有物质不灭，除此之外，其他都说不准。我基本是在一个下午就把它拼了出来，然后发布。不过我觉得测试记录总归是大焦点。在最初的少许测试里有个笑话，如果你仔细读，你会看到某些时候他们只是在把身边放着的东西随便丢进去，最后有人把其他博士的个人物品放了进去，刚好被这个博士撞见了，于是反过来把头一个人的东西丢了进去。技术熟练的人们得了自由后就会发生这种超级糊涂事。我挺喜欢但并不真的太期待。
现在这个测试记录本身几乎就是个迷你维基了。
我喜欢它，每一点都爱。这东西对人类的想象力敞开怀抱，随意犯傻、测试创意、还有彻底搞砸东西。看到它出现在收容失效里让我很高兴，我非常兴奋，就像看到自己的孩子上了电视。它是比较“友好”的项目之一，有时候甚至还有帮助，所以我觉得它到最后有人气是说得通的。
然后，至于说背景故事还有贵族玩具的问题….有趣的是，我其实试过在Clockwork Time里提这事，很多人觉得这是我比较好的一篇故事。除此之外，我觉得整个创意在于，我们倾向于给新发现的过去事物添上我们自己的价值, 而这经常是不准确的。是的，它是一台能改变东西的机器，但它到底是做什么用呢？只是一个玩具，在伟大全能的上帝面前微不足道。然而，现在，我们看到了这东西，这就假定它肯定有某种宏大的意义，某种神奇的目的，有人只是穷极无聊在山上雕了一个六十英尺的人，这种想法根本不会在我们的心头划过。基金会最大的原罪和衰落，就是试图去理解、去清点，安排一个赤裸裸的目的，而914则一直在挫败这点，它让我们看到规律和想法，但又不比面孔出现在云中或是树洞更实质。
就和《Clockwork Time》里说的一样，他们试图从一个儿童玩具里神化出宇宙的奥秘。
**Document Recovered From The Marianas Trench（从马里亚纳海沟回收的文件）是本站最有人气的外围故事之一，也是后2010年SCP启示竞赛的赢家以及第一篇竞， is one of the most popular tales on the site and was the winner of the Post-SCPocalypse contest which was the first contest category for the 2010 Great Short Story Contest。启示，截止本采访落笔时，它过去十年里保持在了+1383，只有6票差评。当然，好评和差评不是一切，但不可否认你的故事是SCP史上一篇大受欢迎的作品。很多人提到它在展现基金会及其行动的冰冷上做到了极佳。你对这篇故事有过怎样的意图？ **
噢天…好吧，所以那个时候竞赛还是一种很新鲜的东西。即便那时候，h boy…okay, so at the time contests were still kind of a new-ish thing. Even then, I was somewhat of a ringer at the time, s所以我觉得o I didn't feel quite right pitching in. Still, 不过，这是个很it was a neat idea, and I vaguely kicked around various ideas, lots of action movies, intense cross-over style stuff,想一想很有趣，但呈现在页面上并非总是很好。这就是一种愚蠢的想法，但有我一直呆坐着，在一堆堆需要粉碎的文件里移动，它一句话就扯住了我。which is fun to think about but not always good on a page. It was just kind of an idle idea, but as I was sitting, shifting through a bunch of documents in need of shredding, I hit on a sentence that just gripped me.
要是世界已经末日了，却无人察觉呢？
这是引燃想象力的概念，接着我在一两天之内写出了《文档》。I felt really bad when it one, actually, as there were other great works in that contest as well! I felt a我感觉有点像个职业球员跑进公园比赛里，不怎么公平。不过，我很高兴写了它，总体上我也对它现在的结果很高兴。有趣的一点，沉没的那艘货轮就是我蜜月时乘坐的。在小说里悄悄毁灭你知道的东西总是这么棒….你玩《Rampage》最狠的时候总会是粉碎你的家乡城市。
It really is a good example of the level of stakes The Foundation plays for. Imagine想象一下人类种族终结的紧急备案，但 having contingencies plans for the end of the human race, but with a viable biosphere. 对我们而言，这是世界的末日，对他们，这是For us, it's the end of the world, for them, it's Tuesday with overtime. One 我喜欢的一点是没有震撼大地的大爆炸，没有焰火表演、of the things I like is there's no earth-shattering kaboom, no spray of pyrotechnics, and one-liners. It's只有一种缓慢、恐怖的衰落，就如失血。每一件新的坏事都会让你期望起前一件坏事，然而生活就这么继续前行，甚至比基金会还要冷漠。It had a great sting at the end, or at least I thought of it as such. The world slowly世界慢慢地 stuttering to a stop, bleeding out from a thousand cuts in reality,现实在千疮百孔中慢慢失血，直至有一天，人们看着才发现被你视为天启末日的事其实一个月以前就已经发生，然而你还是每天早上起床上厕所。
SCP-184: The Architect is another of your unexplainable mechanical masterpieces. However, despite being a masterpiece at first glance, it eventually delves into a twisted version of itself. In the early days of the comment section, you answered dozens upon dozens of user questions. Why do you think so many people offered up questions for this particular article and why were you so willing to answer so many of them? Additionally, there was a comment a year ago by a user named Hydrails-EPSILON which reads as follows: "A classic creative SCP that finds madness in the search for more space. +1 (making it +1000)" It almost sounds like a movie review, but I can't help but feel it sums up this article well. What are your thoughts on it?
Oh lord, 184…now, before anyone brings it up, I was somewhat aware that House of Leaves existed around the time I wrote this, but I hadn't read it or even gotten much info about it until much later. Plus, it works far enough on different themes that I think it works. Not all movies about the ocean are ripping off each other, as it were.
Mechanical is maybe a strong term, but might indeed be appropriate in some way? 184 was one of those ideas I had rattling around, that I just grabbed a weird image for and ran with. The general idea is something that gets more “glitchy” with time, or maybe it just gets bored with the same old, same old. I love it, and if I could get one of the actual roman dodecahedrons to have around, I would…even with the smallest amount of trepidation. Maybe keep it on the window sill…
184 was one of the first items that people really dug into, and I'm honestly not sure why it, of all things. I ended up having to do a bit of research here and there to provide good replies, and I think it helped me look a bit deeper into the background of a lot of items. I like talking about this stuff, my own work doubly so (if that wasn't apparent by now…), so I guess that insane comment section came down to a few dedicated individuals really putting me to the coals, and me working like hell to keep them happy, as it were. I'm always happy to talk about what has been one of the longest passions of my life. Beaten out by my wife, of course, but not by much.
…please don't tell her I said that…
184 is the nauseating fear of seeing something different in someplace you know well. It's not just a rogue sock on the mantelpiece, it's finding a beat-up wooden door in the middle of a hall in a house you've lived in for years. It's seeing normalcy slowly warped, and not even being able to tell right away. What's more, it's not, inherently, dangerous. It just…is. Unfeeling, uncaring, unthinking, it exists, and like flies trapped in a hot room, we beat against the window of existence, trying to reach a place of normalcy we know, that we can see, but somehow can't reach. Some of the best items are ones you can encounter without even knowing. What if this thing was in a junk box from an auction, tossed in a storage closet or basement? How long would it take you to notice? Can you say, with perfect certainty, that you have not been in a structure affected by it? That you're not in one now? Just as it erodes normal boundaries, it erodes the comfortable shelter of normalcy and understanding that so many wear as a shell. It leaves one in a space made of things we know, but at impossible angles and shapes, just recognizable enough to bring out what is wrong in higher detail.
SCP-015: Pipe Nightmare was the first work of yours that you ported over to Wikidot and it follows a theme where you use assimilation of similar materials to grow an almost uncontrollable situation. Do you find this concept of assimilation into a greater mass personally unsettling or was it just something on your mind when you wrote a lot of these early works? You wrote an accompanying tale/exploration log called Plumbing several years later that follows a few agents on a retrieval mission inside of 015. You mentioned early on in 015's comment section that you had always wanted to write a log like this. What spurred on writing this tale years later?
You know, now that I look at it, I do seem to have a thing for people and things being eaten alive, don't I? Honestly, I do find it a bit unsettling, the idea of the self being absorbed and drowned out. Body horror is a big general fear of mine, one's own flesh rebelling and such, and perhaps this is a way to process and digest it all. External, artificial body horror, if you will? I'd like to say I did it on purpose…
So, I was working in a massive chemical plant at the time I wrote this, and the “break room”, such as it was, butted right up against some kind of service/pump room. Standing there, microwaving soup and staring through a doorless entryway into a giant maze of pipes and equipment, the idea for 015 just sort of gelled together. Sort of an industrial cancer, it's not innately dangerous, just easy to rile up. Like a raccoon that will take a hotdog from your hand, but will rip your finger off if you try to pet it. Always had the idea of doing something following a person working in an infested building, opening a closet, and having it just backed with hissing, throbbing pipes. Maybe someday.
Plumbing is, admittedly, not one of my best works, but it was fun to write and generally follows ideas I like to work with. In a lot of my work, happy endings are very rare and plot armor tends to be made of cardboard. Plus, it follows one of my more beloved concepts with writing spooky and unsettling stuff. Imply things, suggest, show shadows and aftermath. Let the imagination fill in the blanks much more terribly than any text could. However, if you do decide to show something, to let the blood really flow, don't half-ass it. Work in rich, loving detail, really let it drive home…don't show someone the bucket of gore, hold their heads under until they get a nice, good taste. A nasty little story that I had hoped might have sparked a little more interest in the pipes, but no such luck. Still, I liked wiring it.
**你的001提案，Dr Gears的提案：原型，是发布在本站的头一批提案之一，其创意是一篇过去的实验性文档，早于当代惯例及文件现在遵守的标准。此外，这篇文章里也提到了很多基金会的背景信息。你在创造这篇提案时有什么想法？ **
好的，首先，我这篇是最弱的001提案，我不明白为什么人们会对它这么在意一直到了今天！我是说，它算是养眼，但回头看去，我能明显看到有缺陷存在。此外，它也差不多是那个时代的一篇遗物。在我写的时候，基金会还是个很小的实体，小这个词是多重意义上的。当时已经有了几篇001提案，但大多在争取成为“最好”，或者是一切的起源。我对001的想法则单纯是这个新文件系统里编入的第一篇条目。没有什么格外震撼或者怪异的地方，就是列表里的第一个东西而已。我觉得它稍微概括了一下基金会的精神，冰冷又直接，除了威胁评估这些之外不怎么关心“评级”。
基金会比起现代还是个很年轻的实体。也许曾有过一次突破，又或者这种庞大的结构是慢慢发展起来的，反正有人知道世界上存在怪异事物，然而却还完全没有习惯它们。此外在当时许多工具和系统尚不存在，所以处理这么一个在慢慢死去、但又能操控微奇点的东西可是一项大难事。在很多方面，这篇条目在意的并不是项目本身，而是从中表现的基金会幼年期结构。其实我好几次争辩过要把它拿掉，但我非常喜欢嗅探这个网站的种种侧面，而这又是我在001里下的钩，所以它就在那留着了。对于基金会它要稍微蒸汽朋克风一些，也许我或者其他的人有一天会来探索这个概念，谁知道呢。
**SCP史上最早也最有人气的关注组织，破碎之神教会以及Marshall, Carter和Dark公司，都是由你发起。虽说这两个团体都是你开创，它们的动机还有野心各自大不一样。当然，教会关心的是修复它们的神，而MC&D则关心填满他们的钱包。这两个大相径庭的组织灵感源自何方？ **
噢噢噢天…好，首先，在我构思这些组织团体时，我们才刚刚开始玩关注组织这种创意。在那时，基金会还是城里惟一的玩家，现在有机会给场上引入其他玩家、探索不同角度了。所以，我很快把一些点子撞在一起摇晃一番，理想中希望能带来更多启发，让更多、更棒的创意从中生长。我做梦都梦不到它们会绽放成今天的样子！
所以，第一个，教会。他们产生自一个非常简单的想法：如果你在眼前就能看到现实被操控、你就亲眼见证了一个奇迹，那为什么你不会觉得是一个神造就了它？有些人寻求真理，有些人看着就单纯接受了所见的真理。在我构建这个创意时，它还完全没有和发条扯上关系。他们是把各种类型的异常当成了神性的侧面来崇拜，破碎后落入了我们的现实。Robert基本上是作为一个骗子构思出来的，他运作着一个邪教骗局，但意外命中了真相。看到后来这些的发展绝对是惊人的。各种分支教派、敌手教会、甚至是创世神话，对它的这些成长我完全没有不高兴。我有到处做一些增补，I've added bits here and there, even have some stuff on the back burner, 但整体上我非常高兴看到这些发条疯人居然在这个世界上走出了自己的路。我也很乐意在外部媒体上多看到他们，真的。我的整体想法是他们通过许多前台来运作。他们的破碎传信作为品德受到许多生活迷失者喜爱。他们不会直接比你跪在一个油污池前献上有节奏的颂词，他们会渐进式让你放松。像是温水煮青蛙，当你意识到有哪里不对，大概为时已晚。一直喜欢的创意是随便某个城市被基金会搜查，突然在某个晴朗的一天，你就遇到了穿着Always liked the idea of some random city getting swept by The Foundation, and suddenly in the middle of a clear day, you have guys in tac-gear dusting up with bleeding-robed psychos wielding rusty hammers pouring out of a local co-op.
MC&D和教会一样来自类似的直接根系。哪里有稀缺，哪里就有金钱。若你能左右那些政治有权力的人，你自己有没有权力就无关紧要。在这个俱乐部运作的层级上，美元金额早就已经失去了意义。哦，他们还是喜欢获利，拍卖也依然是首要活动，但他们提供的是一种体验。在此一瞥一个世界，你，哪怕有着如此的权力和财富，都对其一无所知。我们可以帮你了解它，拿到它的秘密，成为精英中的真正精英…在此签上大名即可。
很意外，我一直想着Incidentally, I always thought of Dark和 as some far-flung relation to the identically named Mr. Dark from Something Wicked This Way Comes. Selling things for everything you have, 挑逗自认为拥有一切的人，让他们去追逐耳聋， people who think they have everything, making them chase the dragon only to realize their folly far, far too late. As much as they serve, they disdain their clients. They are as well cared for as prized cattle, pampered and spoiled…and fattened. MC&D拒绝被他者束缚，所以他们独立赚资金…但 refuses to be bound to others, so they get their funding independently…but when the cash cow goes dry, there are legions of factions just waiting to carve up the beef. 其中一个大秘密就是俱乐部只会做商品交易，不管采取哪一种形式。
I hope to see more of them develop in time, growing in tandem with The Foundation. Maybe not their own games or what have you, 但我觉得他们至少会是绝佳的对手。也许but I think they'd at least be excellent opponents. Maybe some kind of squad-based thing with different factions?
"The Foundation. Massive, merciless, faceless, turning and working for its own inscrutable goals, a monolith to mindless action." This was your description of your first article, SCP-882: A Machine, and how it mirrors your view of the Foundation. Would you mind spending some time talking about 882, why you see it this way, and why you have called it "your pride and joy" before? As it relates, if you would like to talk a little about SCP-217: The Clockwork Virus as well that would be appreciated.
882是我创作的第一批项目之一，如果不是那第一个的话，也是至今仍然在我心里留有特殊位置的一个。只是原始、致命的发条机器，没有可观测到的目的或功能。它就是…这样。基金会也是一样的东西，它 was one of, if not the first item I made, and the one that still holds a special place in my heart. Just raw, deadly clockworks, with no observable purpose or function. It just…is. The Foundation is the same thing, it exists for goals far above and outside something as simple as suffering, or even humanity. 它就是…这样子。一股如风或太阳的力量。882不太是这样，但它也基本是It just…is. A force like the wind or sun. 882 isn't quite that way, but it's also basically uncaring漠不关心的。. 对，它会驱使别人给它喂食，但这只是为了成长。它只是一直运作和研磨着，哪怕人类死绝也会继续。Yes, it drives others to feed it, but that's just to grow. It'll just keep working and grinding even if humanity dies out. As I'如我之前所说过，我喜欢就只是ve stated before, I like horror that just happens, that can strike with all the idiot randomness as a bolt of lightning or a cancer cell. 882就是一个很好的形式。 is a good form of that. It doesn't punish or 它并不会依照什么标准去惩罚或拯救，它没有目标，只是存着，就因为此有时会有人死得很恐怖。save based on any criteria, it has no goals, it just exists, and due to that sometimes people die horribly. It has that slippery poison pill 它aspect as well. Ar你e you totally sure that odd grinding sound is just a normal sound, or not? Maybe not the most striking, but it works, and the thing is what got me really going in this whole world anyway, so how could I not love it?
217…天，我就是喜欢身体恐惧，是不是？我要坦白一件可怕的事，在我一开始写作时，我并没有立即发现217及882之间的暗示。当时，我看了些吧发条加入ord, I do have a thing for body horror, don't I? I have a horrible confession to make, I didn't immediately see the implications between 217 and 882 when I first wrote it. At the time, I saw some images of clockworks added to taxidermy动物的图片，惊呼“看起来真他妈酷”，然后就开始找办法用上它。 animals and said “that looks fucking cool” so started working on some way to use it. As I've gotten older, I随着我年岁增长，我发现217变得更加可怕。've found 217 all the more scary. We all live我们都过着 rather rhythmic lives，即便我们并非意图如此。, even if we don't intend to. With all the aches and pains that come with time, it seems to imply things all the more. It's just the basic horror that people could be slowly turning into biological robots, and it would take something like cogworks bursting out of their skin for most people to even notice. I find 217 scary, honestly, becoming a prisoner in your own mind and body, until you're too converted to even notice or care….brr.
最根本上，我非常喜欢发条。蒸汽朋克风格似乎In the end, I love clockworks a lot. The steampunk style seems to lend itself to a more classy kind of future than the focus group, brutality, disposable one we've ended up with. If I can work my obsession into something and still have it make sense, all the better. I imagine there's someone on the flesh-cult side working against the Broken Church on the opposite, making some kind of monster, underground horror that oozes along, a bloated factory made of meat assembling humans or something. We我们…我们有这种东西了，对吧？我肯定我们有。欧尚娣，别告诉我我又…we have something like that, right? I'm sure we do. Right? Oh god, don't tell me I did the 搞了一次Pufferkitten…s again…
by (from left to right) SunnyClockwork, Amai-Ixchel, Dr Gerald, again by SunnyClockwork, again by SunnyClockwork, tsukio-t, Anonymous, far2, Ghostcat, queenofbaguette, Caticorns, Dekst0, and Uncle-Nemes1s
Dr. Gears是你的作者化身，也是SCP社群众的高人气角色。Gears以冰冷、算计、逻辑绝对至上、还有天性机械闻名。在你眼里 Dr. Gears这个角色是谁，为什么他会是这个样子？你有预料到过了十年后人们会接过你的角色、继续运用它吗？
Dr. Gears是一个观望世界的人，他看见所有一切已知和未知的疯狂，然后意识到他有去做出改变的意志，但没有这样的心。他大概是工作狂的终极形态，完全被他的职责所吞没。在某个时刻，他看到要让这泥球继续打转他的技能至关重要，但这需要他成为怪物而他没有这种心。于是他将其埋葬抛弃，成了一个能够安排千人死亡、以救下亿万人的人，还能带着同一幅空洞的面容去点咖啡。他是一个曾经有过生命的人，但因为其他太多的人需要这条命便将其亲手埋葬，而他也无法扛下重负。没有人能为基金会长久工作还保持理性，所以他就把所有的理性/疯狂二分连着他的心和过往一起埋进了同一个坟茔中，然后继续前行。没什么时间空间留给无用的行动、思绪，任何东西，这也让他冰冷、残酷、近乎机器人。他就像一个救火员在把人们拉出楼房，同时自己也正着火，有太多东西危在旦夕，难以真正专注于其他任何事情。
我从来、从来没有猜到会有这么多人喜欢它，他居然会在SCP宇宙中成为这样一个人物。当然，我很高兴，但也有些许的尴尬。让他不止是一个偶然的内部笑话或者典故，我从来没有真正这么打算过。有点像当一个艺术家，出于玩笑随便画了些傻乎乎的东西，然后突然间它就成了你的知名大作之一。You're sort of stuck with it, warts and all. 我没什么介意的，但我绝对猜不到，过一百万年也不会。
**在2012年的《SCP -收容失效》游戏中，多次提到了你的角色Dr. Gears。游戏里能在博士宿舍找到他的办公室，但不能进入。他的肖像也挂在会议室的墙上，还有本篇采访配图里的Dr. Gears字条，提醒人员用编号而非昵称称呼SCP。你在这个游戏发布时对它有什么想法？看到SCP相关游戏如此流行是不是很疯狂呢？ **
我的加入其实完全是有意为之，至少在我这边是。早先，在它刚刚可玩的时候，我联系到了主创，还有其他一些做内容的人，然后介绍了我自己。我没有提供实际的代码或者编程支持，但我可以提供经验，写些背景文本这类东西。我参与了对106的游戏内行为设计，提了许多建议，有一些甚至被做了进去。那个被106追猎到发疯的博士留的字条全是我写的，图片里的字条也是，我觉得放那里路过它会很好玩。其中有很多乐趣，而脱离这个项目也让我有些许的悲伤。现在有了新的Unity版本，简直技惊四座，但我还是对那个老版本有些偏爱。
I was, and am, just floored by Containment Breach, old and new. I've never actually played either, I am a huge scaredy-cat and while I love horror, I don't know if my heart (and temper) could take it! Well…admittedly, I have played very little of it and decided to leave it to the pros. Or maybe I just need the right opportunity, who knows. It's all just so…staggering, that something I helped make has gone on to spawn its own existence…it's like getting pictures of grandkids in the mail from a child you never really expected much from. I hope to see Containment Breach grow, and more spinoffs and games, I love seeing how people can run with the concept. There are few forms of media you can't get in a Foundation flavor these days, and it just feels so awe-inspiring.
There's always that little worry, though. Whenever something spreads, it changes, and not always for the better. I worry that what I feel is the heart of the whole concept will get diluted with exposure, like a photo fading in the sun. However, if it comes between seeing The Foundation stagnate and die, or dealing with the odd mutation, I'd rather see it grow.
Starting in August of 2011, the Gears Day Collection officially began with the first Surprise! Happy Birthday! page. These pages always begin with a paragraph or two dedicated to you before listing out a number of creepypastas from various authors. As far as I know, these pages are unique in the sense they are dedicated to celebrating a real-life person connected to the site. What was your first reaction to TroyL posting the first one a decade ago and how do you feel seeing them continue throughout the years? If you had to say, what would be the reason that you enjoy creepypasta so much?
Let's see if I can get through this part without tearing up.
Okay, many moons ago, the subject of my birthday came up. By this point, I was pretty well known and apparently liked enough for people to want to give me gifts. To a random username on the internet! I was immensely flattered, and rather touched, but pleaded off. A polite refusal, however, was not going to be entertained, so I offered a compromise. Growing up, I was rather poor and often opted for short story collections over full novels, as it gave me more bang for my meager buck. So, with that, gift me stories. Chop together some good horror fiction for me to read, a little personal collection. Honestly, I didn't expect much, I was just so pleased that people thought so highly of me.
And then it ended up becoming a holiday.
I love the collection, more than I can really say without a full dive into plum-purple prose. I feel so bad at times, I have never shown those stories the love and appreciation they deserve, but I treasure each and every one. Seeing a new set of entries always just…it's an indescribable feeling. I seem to get more weepy as I get older, and it's hard not to mist up when seeing these stories, even as they make me shudder. I've been trying to ease back into the site, and it has admittedly changed a great deal since the old days when I was more active, but more than anything I want to try and give back, and show everyone how much I appreciate this stuff and show I am (hopefully) still worthy of such gifts.
As for why I enjoy creepypasta as a whole…well, as I've said, I am a scaredy-cat, and love short stories! More than that, however, is the veneer of reality the really good ones have. Oh yes, they're silly ghost stories, and it's easy to dismiss them in the light of day. However, late at night, when you're the last one up and prowling in a bored stupor for something interesting, it leaves the mind more receptive. Suddenly hitting on what looks to be a post, or a picture, or something that, with your waking mind, you know is fake, but has just enough gloss to ring true can leave an impression that can shift to obsession. It brings the horror story out of the crypt and castle, leads it from forests and graveyards, and puts it in your bathroom, your social media, your walk home from work, your midnight snack. You know it's fake, sure…but would it hurt to leave the light on, just to be sure?
Creepypasta is the modern evolution of the urban legend, the campfire story for the age of screens and connectivity. It's real enough to swallow, and just vague enough to be hard to disprove. In portions sometimes too small to even be called short stories, they work through volume. One or two might be weird, but suddenly you realize you've read thirty of them and are no longer comfortable sitting without your feet tucked under you. Oh sure, there's loads of crummy works, but so it is with every budding media. Plus, it's always fun to read or listen to them and go, in the back of my head “Hell, I can do that…I bet I could even do it better…” and set the imagination going. They are the snack food of horror, and just as addictive.
2020年1月17日，你对SCP社群宣布你被诊断患有癌症。你在Broken Cog这一贴里非常详细地说明了情况，所以如果你不介意，能不能详细说下这年里你的情况怎么样了？你是否康复良好？社群里很多人想知道齿轮是否已得修复。
就如我奶奶喜欢说的，引用自As my grandpa liked to say, quoting Seuss of all people, while he was going blind “I'm in awful good shape, for the shape that I'm in!”
前期其实，在某些方面，是最让人有压力的。 有机会参与某种新药的临床试验，但也会把我的手术往后推迟将近一年，然后我还是得把肾脏摘除，这样clinical trial for some new medication, but would have pushed my surgery back almost a year, and I'd still have to have the kidney out, so opted for getting things done right away. 手术进行的顺利，没有什么他们没预料到的要紧问题。恢复则要更困难许多，至少是和躺在那失去意识时被切开比。The surgery went fine, with no real concerns or anything they didn't expect. Recovery was much tougher, at least compared to laying and getting cut open while passed out. Walking around the late-night hospital halls in a gown, gripping my IV in one hand, hunched over a stuffed plush hamburger named Hammy pressed to my bandaged stomach is one of those special memories. Home was much the same, 家还是都一样，躺在沙发上，尽量不然孩子往我身上跳。不过，laying spread out on a couch, trying to keep kids from jumping on me. However, I'm stubborn, so within a few days, I was pottering around trying to get back into the old flow, much to 让我妻子很不高兴。my wife's displeasure.
这是我需要终生留意的事情。目前，没有更多的肿瘤，没有不好的检测，没有出问题的征象。我得的这种属于非常有侵略性的类型，但也非常常见，所以他们会细致关注，以防万一。 Mine is a particularly aggressive type, but also very common, so they're keeping a very close eye, just to be safe. No declaration还没有宣布 of remission yet, but I have my next appointmen但我过几个月约了下一次见面，所以我怀有希望。显然，t in a few months, so I'm hopeful. Apparently, as a rough ballpark, it was likely growing for between ten to twelve years. Bloody spooky. Now is the hard work, lo减重、注意饮食这些事。我从来不是很善于照看自己，真的，但四个孩子和一个爱我的，可能也是很紧张的妻子，确实能改变一个人对事物的看法。sing weight, watching diet and the like. I've never been very good at looking after myself, honestly, but four kids and a loving, if nervous, wife does change one's opinion on things.
我还是有很多事要做，我再不是一个小孩了，即便我时不时有类似行为。幸好大多也是我需要去做的事情，注意膳食，联系，减重，诸如此类。差不多是往前两步，再后退一步的过程。但有一点很奇怪，我也觉得很有趣。我一直以来都会做非常、非常生动的梦。不一定是好或坏，但就是生动无比。随我年龄增大情况好了一些，但对我而言一直就是如此，以及坦白说某些（好吧，是很多…）我的作品就来自我在这些年里做过的各种坏梦。不过，在过去…六七年里，这种事渐渐消失了，我还觉得我是成长克服了它还是怎么的。现在，在肿瘤被摘除之后…我的生动梦境又回来了，甚至还变本加厉。吓人。
所以，简言之，是的，我现在好很多了，而即便我不算是修好的齿轮，So, in short, yes, I'm doing much better, and if I'm not a repaired cog, the spot-welding is top-notch.
So, who actually is "Dr Gears"?
最简单的问题一般也是最复杂的，如他们所说。
站在真实生活的角度，这只是我编出来的一个用户名，用来把我的发帖汇集到一起。那副配图，我在之后找来的，其实是LSD的发现者脸上打了黑条，而无情感的方面则是发源于前维基时代在4chan上试图构建人设、结果被嘲讽说过度感性。I'm someone who made big waves in the mythology, so tossing in my avatar is a great little cameo now and then, plus being stone-faced in the middle of chaos is cool. 这么多年来它越来越成了一个东西，我看到他在这么多小说里出场，既开心又迷惑。
然而，现实就是如此迟钝，不是么？However, reality is so dull, isn't it? Swear sometimes it's like we're made of the stuff.
Dr. Gears是不一致世界里的一个常量。他是 is a constant in an inconsistent world. He is the Data or Spock of the setting, someone who can look and respond without the trappings of ego or humanity. He's他是一块顽石，既让人舒心又同样迟钝。 a rock, and comforting and dull as that is. When shit is hitting the fan, and people are being reduced to colored vapor, there he i他就会在，冷静地尝试至少要减少损失，理想的话能获取到良好数据。s, calmly trying to at least lessen the damage, and ideally get good data from it. In another setting,他是个不怎么说话的 he's the drudge who doesn't really talk, comes in early上班很早，工作到很晚，如果哪天他因病休假半个部门都会突然运转不良。他不是个真正想要, works late, and if he's off for a day sick suddenly half the department doesn't work right. He's not someone people really want to emulate, but he does command respect, at least.
然而，在内心，在最核心深处，他是害怕的。他的His brilliance is the sweaty insight of terror, That lets you think your way out of getting a knife in your ribs behind a bar but on a grand scale. He's cold他冰冷无情，因为如果他容忍自己哪怕有一瞬间的松懈、自由地情绪，他大概就会开始狂啸，然后再也、再也停不下来。他是一把受损的武器，故意不让自己好起来，因为正是这种损伤让它能够工作。受伤害怕到一定程度后，心灵就会直接停止接受新的输入， and emotionless because if he allowed himself a moment to relax, to emote freely, he'd most likely start screaming and never, ever stop. He is a damaged person who is purposefully not getting better because that damage is what's making this work. Hurt and scared enough, the mind just stops accepting new input, beyond finding ways to function and deal with important problems as they come. Oddly, 这到没怎么妨碍到他，it doesn't bother him as much, as the years roll on, and he doesn't resent others for their emotional flexibility. Some people survive one way, some another. His would seem a horrifying fate, a self-imposed mental jailing, but但对他而言就是…这样。他变成了工作，变成了基金会。从外部看来是一场噩梦…但对他，这就是生活而已。
家里人怎么看待你成为了传奇的Dr. Gears？
噢上帝…有时候取决于时日。在我刚开始的时候，我妻子是…对我投入这么多时间在里面不太开心，但现在她很能接受了。就像有了另一个自我，或者某种非常特别的怪癖这种。she's much more accepting now. It's like having an alter ego, or a very specific fetish or something. 不过，Still, if the worse thing she comes to grips with is me having an overdeveloped pen name, we're golden. 她有时候以Agent Kramer的身份逛逛维基，但我们两个的人设从来没有真正的关联过…不太确定这有何意味…
有趣的是，it does come up from time to time…我妻子偶尔会在工作中遇到有知道基金会的人，她也很乐意告诉别人自己的结婚对象。然后，一般而言，会有某种的证明测试，但也挺好。我告诉别人，“我算是网络知名，但并不是我本人，而是我完成的东西”。我不确定我能不能真的像他一样做事，我确实能扮出一副像样的面瘫脸，但很容易就会裂开。
我女儿则认为这很不错…我觉得是这样。她看过好多好多自己喜欢的同人小说，但不是基金会，更不是我的东西…纵是发条心脏也得为此落泪。My daughter thinks it's neat…I think. She reads buckets of fanfiction for her favorite fandoms, but not The Foundation, not even my stuff…enough to make a clockwork heart weep. However, she 不过，她有兴趣，有希望的话，在某天她也会开始创作一些作品。那什么，非常技术性的说这么一来她就是黑皇后了，但我觉得我们会回避这整个的乱摊子。 或者至少我希望如此…拜托，噢深红之王啊…
奖励：今天就是SCP维基在Wikidot上的13周年纪念日，也同样是你的纪念日。不夸张的说你可谓是SCP维基的教父。你影响了这个战队还有所有参与它的人，既有通过你作为作者的作品，也有通过你作为管理员的行动。你有什么话想对本次采访的读者说？
噢天…好吧，趁我还有机会，稍微说几句…
首先，致那些一直潜水、可能从来没发布过什么东西、也没有添入故事或者条目、就只是带着随便什么程度喜爱的人们：感谢你们。你们是造就今日基金会的巨大话语，或者最最少让它得到了广远传扬。一个小小的恐怖怪咖团体，绽放为覆盖每个大洲、延伸到几乎每一种媒体内，全都要感谢像你们这样的粉丝们，所有在阅读的人们，不管你们和我们在一起的时间是十三年还是十三秒。我希望你们继续再喜欢它至少十三年，最少。
A small, personal aside as well, if I could. 致所有为我To everyone who donated to my gofundme活动捐款、倾囊相助、诚挚祝愿、创作同人、制作哏的人们…我想对你们说声感谢，但这真的已经不足以涵盖。没有你们，我不可能在这里写出这些文字，不可能还在这夏夜看着我小儿子睡在一旁的沙发上。 and poured out support, well wishes, fanart, and memes…I want to say thank you, but that doesn't really cover it. I would not be here, writing these words on a hot, summer evening with my youngest son asleep on the couch beside me without you. I'm not someone who easily asks for 我不是一个随意寻求帮助的人。无论是出于固执还是尴尬，都让我更容易保持help. Either stubbornness or embarrassment keeps me rather stoic, but to reac但h out in my lowest time of need…and find so, so many…so many who don't know me beyond some words on a page, to pour out their love, support, and aid…无可言表。我喜欢作为抽象概念的人类，it's beyond description. I like humanity as an abstract concept, but it rarely does that. All of this, it opened my eyes more所有这些事情，再次让我睁开了眼睛。你们为我做的事，我永远、永远无法说够谢谢。我能期望的就是在有机会的时候倾出我的心，尽力为你们所有人产出内容，以作. I will never, ever be able to thank you all enough for what you've done for me. The most I can hope to do is pour out my heart when I have the chance and try and produce content for you all, as a paltry gesture. From me, 我在这里，向你们，无论你们身处何方，我从绝对的心底感恩你们，而只要我还有它我将会一直如此。
现在，先把眼泪鼻涕擦一擦（希望吧），我想花点时间和那些确实在写作的人说几句。也许是在为这个网站写，也许是为别处写，也许只是为学校写。如果你不在此列，我觉得你可以直接跳过这段。
这真的很难，也不会随时间变简单，你只能去找到能有用的方法。挣扎是好事，挑战是好事，即便看起来你永远无法克服它。我学会读写的时间要远远晚于常规标准，也曾有过持续数年的写作瓶颈。然而它过去了，确实过去了。我的整体建议，甚至也对我自己，就是去参与你想要制造的那类型作品。阅读，观看，游玩，你想要创作的主题和内容。有时候你会，有时候你会发现你的声音去到了其他不一样的地方。你不能轻易强迫你的声音去说些不一样的东西，作家倾向于具体的一种形式作品是有原因的。我花了非常长的一年I spent a very long year working a help desk, r读了一堆又一堆的免费电子书，大多是老旧的开源作品和哥特类的东西，而到了最后，我就能以我自己的方式来写作，我的声音。有时候就得不停头撞南墙，直到有东西开裂。在你已经停不下来的时候，你就会明白你抓住它了。。当你，散步、晚餐、洗澡、You'll know you've hit it when you can't stop doing it. When, walking around, eating dinner, taking a bath, things give you story ideas, or concepts you want to make, even if you don't end up doing it. D大卫鲍伊说音乐于他就像一种成瘾，我觉得所有的艺术在某种方面上都是如此。你可能不会产出，但你会一直思考，即便你会带着嫌弃丢掉它。尽你所能承受失败，或者最少不要让别人看到你哭泣。avid Bowie said music for him was like an addiction, and I think all art is, in a way. You may not be producing, but you are always thinking, even if you toss it away in disgust. Take the failures as best you can, or at the very least don't let people see you cry. N绝对不要选择容易的路，ever take the easy way, or do something that will compromise your vision. If it's gruesome, if it's sappy, if it'll make people angry or upset, that没问题，只要这是必需的、能有助于你的视界。's fine, so long as it's needed and in service to your vision. Never flinch because someone's feelings may get hurt or they'll feel icky. 写作是因为你必须要写，不必太在意受众反响。如果你想要Write because you have to, and don't worry so much about reception. If you're trying to prop up your work, scrapping it out with critics, or trying to boost votes beyond just telling people to come to take a look, then you're likely off course.
艺术就是艺术，无论体现为什么形式。有些人是天生的，有些必须下功夫，但更重要的是，艺术是一种交流，我们在常规感官及技术不管用时运用它。Art is art, whatever form it takes. Some people are naturals, some have to work, but more importantly, art is the communication we use when our normal senses and skills don't work. 它是你的一部分，如果其他人喜欢它当然更好，但你应该以此为傲，或者至少尊重它在你发展职中的地位，不管是有千万人喜爱，还是连只猫都不愿驻足一看。如果在明天，这个维基里的所有用户和投票都消失了，如果你真正尽心尽力，这种事不会动摇你作品一丝一毫。我们都喜欢赞美和嘉奖，这很正常，甚至是好事，真的。然而，这样很容易滑入陷阱中，变成你是为了赞扬、威望和奖赏才去产出，而不是因为有东西是你的热爱。有东西在你内心烧灼，就如一场热病。洛夫克拉夫特创作他的作品并不带着真正的期望，也从未对靠作品赚钱感觉良好。也因此，他身无分文孤独而死，但而今有一整个恐怖类型以他为名。杰作，灵魂的喷涌，传承更久远，也会留下更深厚的冲击，远超单纯去渴望荣光加身。
A little food for thought from someone who did (does?) pretty well at this stuff, apparently. Thank you so much if you've stuck with me this long, and if you just scrolled to the end, 而如果你是直接滚到底的，算你不要脸！What if I'd pu要是我在下面放了惊悚图片怎么办，整件事都给你剧透了！不管是什么情况，我希望至少能够有趣。我希望做更多的事情….也许是在下一个十三年里再来一遍，破碎之神旨意！
This concludes the final of four interviews released this month in celebration of 13 years of the SCP Wiki being on Wikidot. I hope you enjoyed it! I would like to thank Dr Gears for being amazing throughout this project. We originally intended to do a standard interview together and got together last Christmas, but things became busy for me. I later came up with the idea to incorporate Dr Gears' interview into a celebration of the SCP Wiki and its rich history. It was truly a pleasure in every regard to work with him. This site would be incredibly different without his influence. Happy 13th anniversary everyone!
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