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DEFCON scares me and science says it will scare you too 

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DEFCON is existentially terrifying. How about a nice game of chess?
Studies:
David L. Waddington et al.“Education from inside the bunker: Examining the effect of Defcon, a nuclear warfare simulation game, on nuclear attitudes and critical reflection.” Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association. vol. 7(12), Apr. 2014
Chong-U Lim. "An A.I. Player for DEFCON: An Evolutionary Approach Using Behavior Trees." Department of Computing Imperial College London. June 2009
Miguel Sicart "How I Learned to Love the Bomb: Defcon and the Ethics of Computer Games." Center for Computer Game Research IT University of Copenhagen. 2009
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Комментарии : 10 тыс.   
@jerguskrc
@jerguskrc 4 года назад
"No one would ever let it happen" Gandhi: *evil laugh*
4 года назад
Why Gandhi?
@jerguskrc
@jerguskrc 4 года назад
@ Because he nukes the shit out of everybody in Civ
@opfoca1oparrowmarinerecon154
@opfoca1oparrowmarinerecon154 4 года назад
@ you wouldn't get it ;)
@BasedAlaric
@BasedAlaric 4 года назад
@ You wouldn't get it *smokes*
4 года назад
Yeah i really don't get it :(
@boxofcereal
@boxofcereal 10 месяцев назад
Destroying the world in Plague Inc: hehe I’m such a monster Destroying the world in Defcon: *what have I done*
@a0001521
@a0001521 4 месяца назад
Stellaris players: hehe ethnic cleansing lmao
@user-ez7ed7kd8e
@user-ez7ed7kd8e 2 месяца назад
Nah my reaction to the game is plague inc. Don’t know why people are put off or disturbed by this game. It’s just a silly map game with funny little numbers popping up.
@DEFC0NZER0
@DEFC0NZER0 Месяц назад
​@user-ez7ed7kd8e Same. I played Defcon, expecting to be scared or at least unnerved, but in truth I felt nothing. I had fun, it certainly wasn't boring, but I didn't feel any worse about it.
@threeheadedmonsterofficial
@threeheadedmonsterofficial Месяц назад
the difference between plague inc and defcon is you cant control where viruses go but you can control where nukes go
@sarubet8725
@sarubet8725 29 дней назад
@@user-ez7ed7kd8e ok mr edge
@localvaultcompanion3516
@localvaultcompanion3516 2 года назад
In 1870, decades before the nuclear bomb was created, and English author by the name of Wilkie Collins was surveying the destruction caused by either the Franco-Prussian War or the American Civil War (I forget which one, both were horrible). He made the remark that one day humanity will make a "discovery…of a destructive agent so terrible that war shall mean annihilation, and men’s fears shall force them to keep the peace."
@Deathstroke-gd6kd
@Deathstroke-gd6kd Год назад
He seems to have been wrong, or we haven't reached that stage yet. I don't know which is worse
@TK-5311
@TK-5311 Год назад
@@Deathstroke-gd6kd during the cold War russia and the US wanted to nuke each other very badly but they knew the world would end if either one did so, I believe we have hit that stage, we are still in it
@atif1538
@atif1538 Год назад
@@Deathstroke-gd6kd pretty sure we have with the atomic bomb
@ShiroCh_ID
@ShiroCh_ID Год назад
@@pileofthoughts this is a possibility too much risk and less return while war give advantage to its victor nuclear war is totally didnt give advantage to its victor nor its victim its like "we won this war and now what?" and as to why is that all i can say that after war i bet theres no way to eat thing without dies due to nuclear mutation of things
@greenrithley5577
@greenrithley5577 Год назад
@@TK-5311 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0KiII_2qabk.html
@CeapaCoolOfficial
@CeapaCoolOfficial 2 года назад
Yo someone's playing this on the wrong computer
@elizataylor1726
@elizataylor1726 2 года назад
Play it on an off white CRT.. or like.. a projector screen
@golonkowiczpl
@golonkowiczpl 2 года назад
And HE knows that
@coleisforrobot
@coleisforrobot 2 года назад
ah f*ck I accidentally bought putin sim
@The_Looker
@The_Looker Год назад
@@coleisforrobot, aw hell nah bro💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
@-thanawat-8296
@-thanawat-8296 Год назад
@@coleisforrobot 💀💀💀💀💀
@GlitchedBlox
@GlitchedBlox 3 года назад
"You see that city?" "Yes, sir." "I don't want to." "Yes, sir!"
@aureusknighstar2195
@aureusknighstar2195 3 года назад
"Tachibana-san, why aren't we living?"
@JavaScrapper
@JavaScrapper 3 года назад
@@aureusknighstar2195 cause MURICA FRICK YA
@leexcite2903
@leexcite2903 3 года назад
**proceeds to make him blind**
@aninditapaul9291
@aninditapaul9291 3 года назад
@@leexcite2903 **by making him see the nuclear blast on the city**
@ennieminymoo6675
@ennieminymoo6675 3 года назад
@@aninditapaul9291 *and then stabbing him in the eyes just in case*
@shironeko8971
@shironeko8971 4 года назад
When you turn off the PC but the siren doesn’t stop
@JaseyStudios
@JaseyStudios 4 года назад
OOF
@badmoth242xl3
@badmoth242xl3 4 года назад
Hol up
@its-amemegatron.9521
@its-amemegatron.9521 4 года назад
@@badmoth242xl3 [Last know post made on June 6th 1995 from a RU-vid user that lived in a city along the Waldreich mountains]
@jiggybaba786
@jiggybaba786 4 года назад
That actually happened one time and I was scared running, tears in my eyes, busting down my parents door to there room... Luckily, I just moved to a different city that had a prison nearby, it was roll call
@epiknis3035
@epiknis3035 4 года назад
Aight imma head out
@Goraata
@Goraata Год назад
“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.” - Carl Sagan
@Cacowninja
@Cacowninja 14 дней назад
Yeah it's a crappy policy that doesn't really keep people safe. It just creates more instability.
@PATISLAV
@PATISLAV 9 дней назад
And not having nuclear weapons now is like standing there with them, with no matches. You just watch what happens.
@elrusito5034
@elrusito5034 7 дней назад
​@@PATISLAVthis made me think a bit. Because, sure, big manchildren with nukes have the matches and everyone is drenched in gas, what is the better position? Be powerless to their whims, and pray nothing happens? Or have matches of your own and take up space in the constant taunts and mocking to strike? Made me think of NK, and how their constant missile tests could be more of a "we are here, leave us alone" ploy, instead of a crazy threat to end the world.
@JohnDoe-wt9ek
@JohnDoe-wt9ek 6 дней назад
And yet, surprisingly, neither dropped their matches...
@devkit0
@devkit0 2 года назад
I was playing a round of Survivor mode (which is honestly the best way to play it, especially if you also do it in real time) and I felt real fear and panic as enemy nukes rained down on my territory while my missile defenses tried in vain to stop them. Seeing such enormous death counts in cities I know and have seen in person... it gave me this sinking feeling I can't quite describe. I kept all of my silos in defense mode while everyone else fired their nukes, scrambled every fighter I had to defend the mainland, prevented EVERY sub my enemy had from firing, and yet still I ended up losing about half of my population. Once I knew the other side was dry, I remember thinking, "Well... You asked for it," before targeting every city they had with every warhead in my arsenal. I ended up "winning" that round by a LOT, but it didn't even feel like victory. Like he said in the video, everybody loses.
@commandertoastcz6256
@commandertoastcz6256 3 месяца назад
This is what I was searching for. The fact that you can defend all you want, try to prevent casualties as much as possible, but in the end... it isn't a victory. Just a slightly lesser defeat.
@thiccchungo1041
@thiccchungo1041 3 месяца назад
@@commandertoastcz6256also shows how pathetically petty the retaliatory strike is, even though the enemy’s missile systems have been exhausted and their aircraft and fleets destroyed by your forces, you still end up launching an attack on the defenseless civilian centers for no other reason than “you had it coming”
@DarthHoosier3038
@DarthHoosier3038 Месяц назад
It reminds me of Avengers Endgame. At the start of the movie, Thanos still won. They killed him, sure. But that didn’t solve anything. Everyone they knew still died. It’s hard to even call it a Pyrrhic Victory. Even Pyrrhus of Epirus would have been deadened and sick by that reality.
@derederekat9051
@derederekat9051 15 дней назад
@@thiccchungo1041 what more are you supposed to do? let their infrastructure and population intact so they can invade you 20-30 years later when you are barely rebuilding from the ruins and your young military-ready population is much smaller? nah, let them experience some good radiation rains for a couple of years and deformed babies for generations.
@MntDewEyes
@MntDewEyes 14 дней назад
IRL refusing to launch your weapons would stop a full escalation because no other country would commit fully knowing that you still had strike capability which is why MAD works. No one wants to start a strike because waiting is the more beneficial move to make So knowing that you should wait for your enemy to launch and knowing that neither side will win if there is a launch is what brought all the nuclear powers to the negotiating table and cool off tensions
@somedude8468
@somedude8468 3 года назад
"Yo 1v1 me" Cold war in a nutshell
@aekgir4698
@aekgir4698 3 года назад
lmao
@Daniel_Lancelin
@Daniel_Lancelin 3 года назад
It's more like if the two players with the highest scores on each team suddenly went spectator mode and started placing bets while their teams fought it out.
@gabbyn.3049
@gabbyn.3049 3 года назад
@@Daniel_Lancelin No, its the tension of the two smartest kids in class waiting for the teacher to finish their question.
@muchotexto4248
@muchotexto4248 3 года назад
Cold war is the typical hero VS evil villain lord but both sides are just villain lords. Like instead of the hero with the sword is just a blue version of the enemy dude and they both send pawns to do biddings and said pawns mirror match as noone moves foward cuz both sides are just lords sitting on differently coloured thrones
@MrBlack75922
@MrBlack75922 3 года назад
Both just camping and hard scoping
@luthofekisi1730
@luthofekisi1730 3 года назад
"War is a frightening concept, but this defcon shit scares the hell outta me" - Sun Tzu
@jameswilson2110
@jameswilson2110 3 года назад
Deftly
@justshrimping742
@justshrimping742 2 года назад
He didn't said that!!
@streamfroster
@streamfroster 2 года назад
@@justshrimping742 "Do not trust quotes on the internet, they are fake, they are made-up" - Sun Tzu
@justshrimping742
@justshrimping742 2 года назад
@@streamfroster wait? He said that as well !? WHATTT IS HAPPEENNINGGGG!!!!1!!1
@larrykapija3183
@larrykapija3183 2 года назад
Stop quoting my brother -Moon Tzu
@Roxor128
@Roxor128 2 года назад
You forgot to mention DEFCON's ancestor: 1980's Missile Command from 26 years earlier, which also had the message of "You can't win a nuclear war."
@danpaz9485
@danpaz9485 7 дней назад
Where can I get the game?
@Roxor128
@Roxor128 7 дней назад
@@danpaz9485 You'll have to sail the high seas for arcade ROMs to play in MAME for Missile Command, though it's simple enough that people have been cloning it for ages, as well.
@Roxor128
@Roxor128 5 дней назад
@@danpaz9485 It's an arcade game, so you're not going to be buying a copy. It has gotten many clones over the years, though.
@misiekfid
@misiekfid 2 года назад
Another terrifying version of a nuclear war is the thermonuclear war event in the TNO mod for Hearts of Iron IV. The event shows children playing, an EAS alarm, destroyed buildings and a child's black outline on a wall (like in hiroshima and nagasaki) while the entire world slowly turns black
@MaliciousIntent327
@MaliciousIntent327 Год назад
Not to mention your UIs are shattered and reduced to rubble.
@MaliciousIntent327
@MaliciousIntent327 Год назад
And it shows as "Anarchy" when clicking a state.
@jaredjosephsongheng372
@jaredjosephsongheng372 7 месяцев назад
​@@MaliciousIntent327 And also there is a bloody note on the side that says. "All Gone"
@naufalnq
@naufalnq 4 года назад
How to play Defcon First: install Defcon Second: start nuclear war Third: play defcon
@joskethegreat4154
@joskethegreat4154 4 года назад
*HOL'UP*
@Walnut_yt
@Walnut_yt 4 года назад
I think you need to see a psychologist
@acek2016
@acek2016 4 года назад
Oh no-
@brothinkhecarti69
@brothinkhecarti69 4 года назад
That's Funn... wait... SON OF A-
@joshcarter2310
@joshcarter2310 4 года назад
You need to complete step 3 quickly if you did step two well enough
@counter-terrordoge3335
@counter-terrordoge3335 4 года назад
*When you play DEFCON on an Area 51 computer and walk outsde*
@justinbiggs1005
@justinbiggs1005 4 года назад
I guess there's only 5 days left till we get Nuclear Armageddon. Lmao
@JB-bd2th
@JB-bd2th 4 года назад
Underrated comment😂😂
@benchmarking6875
@benchmarking6875 4 года назад
Oh no
@counter-terrordoge3335
@counter-terrordoge3335 4 года назад
Well we ain’t f*ckin dead yet so...
@seb3522
@seb3522 4 года назад
There is no outside
@kommiekoathanger1418
@kommiekoathanger1418 2 года назад
I think the scariest part of this game is that god damn sound design, seriously just hearing that snippet of the audio sent fucking chills down my spine
@juksleo6257
@juksleo6257 Год назад
"People die when they are killed" Its a line from Fate Stay Night that got memed to oblivion due to how redundant it was but I think it bears a strong idea on just how valuable a life truly is. You can't "undo" a death. Once its gone, it doesn't come back. This is why its important to value life. Yours and those around you, so even if you don't have much to be grateful for, you can at least tale contempt on the fact that you are alive, and that many others are also alive. Cherish that thought, and try to live making the most of it
@APerson-ni1gb
@APerson-ni1gb Год назад
Yeah but then your just afraid of death it sounds, besides some people/animals have comeback from death technically and some explain what they experienced, since Every thing in this silly Universe ultimately dies it should be a comforting notion - like it’s a milestone
@jadenkaramanos7030
@jadenkaramanos7030 5 лет назад
you can’t fool me i know the cassette voice is BDG
@Souleater787
@Souleater787 5 лет назад
I fall asleep to his voice every night before bed I cannot be swayed.
@emilylikesdonuts154
@emilylikesdonuts154 5 лет назад
I was thinking that too XD
@AbsolXGuardian
@AbsolXGuardian 5 лет назад
Probably because the study just had a transcript of the comment and polygon made it work better in this medium.
@jvfernandes
@jvfernandes 5 лет назад
It says "dramatic reading"
@albertgore7435
@albertgore7435 5 лет назад
Oh god he’s trapped in that cassette, how do we free him?!
@Jellomancy
@Jellomancy 5 лет назад
Polygon, my source for goofy video game articles and existential dread.
@spore4ever91
@spore4ever91 5 лет назад
I mean, they had Monster Factory.
@mountplusBladeequals
@mountplusBladeequals 5 лет назад
If they think DEFCON is spooky (it isn't), they should give Superpower 2 a whirl. [ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HykWHkMtAzU.html] Nothing quite like watching millions of your people die, and your economy crash because of a political blunder.
@mountplusBladeequals
@mountplusBladeequals 5 лет назад
Also - can we stop peddling this "everybody dies" notion, it's making out politicians sloppy and it's just an inaccurate statement. Not even "most people" would die in the event of modern nuclear exchange. Nuclear warheads aren't all that powerful, and people are spread out - killing them, even with nukes, takes 'a lot' of work. China's arsenal for instance is so wimpy that it is mathematically incapable of killing a quarter of the US' populace.
@travisraveller
@travisraveller 5 лет назад
@@mountplusBladeequals but, there is the radiation poisoning, and the fact no life will be able to sustain itself for years, and the fact that most nuclear bomb shelters have been left unattended after the cold war, and that the survivors will die of cancer from the nuclear fallout in the atmosphere... ... Am I missing anything? Not everyone will die, but it will suck for the survivors, not to mention the survivor's guilt and the weakened governments I hope we can agree that we should never have a nuclear war
@cosmix4460
@cosmix4460 5 лет назад
I'm glad how they didn't launched a single bomb in the Philippines.
@Thesnakerox
@Thesnakerox Год назад
One thing about this game that's masterfully done is the way the overall atmosphere slowly, subtly deteriorates as the death count rises. The screen gets darker and the soundscape becomes more desolate, and you don't consciously notice, but it has a powerful effect all the same.
@mattsgrungy
@mattsgrungy Год назад
Out of interest: did you ever play the diplomacy mode where all the players start as friends and allies and then scheme behind each other's back? That was my favourite way to play and it was probably the darkest existentially.
@Justanotherpokespepfp
@Justanotherpokespepfp Месяц назад
Christ that’s horrifying.
@Nawrotsien
@Nawrotsien 3 года назад
Abraham Lincoln talking about scary game doesn't exist, he can't hurt you Abraham Lincoln talking about scary game:
@woda9291
@woda9291 3 года назад
Underated comment
@andrewdiaz3529
@andrewdiaz3529 3 года назад
Far Cry 5
@scparker6893
@scparker6893 3 года назад
He has a moustache
@daman7805
@daman7805 3 года назад
Omg I didn’t understand this comment until like 10 seconds in. Then I fell over and died.
@sleepyrowdy1826
@sleepyrowdy1826 3 года назад
@@andrewdiaz3529 Joseph or John?
@cityuser
@cityuser 5 лет назад
You didn't mention the worst part about this game. When you "win", (all else is gone), you don't get a win screen. Just- nothing. Silence. The dreadful silence of millions upon millions of deaths.
@thorstend.888
@thorstend.888 5 лет назад
They could have gone one step further by removing the Score/Point system. Just show the statistics of the casualties. No high score
@birdflox1337
@birdflox1337 5 лет назад
@@thorstend.888 i think the scoring system was used as a metaphor for how the military can sometimes see these statistics as just being mindless numbers
@Ghost_of_Avalon
@Ghost_of_Avalon 5 лет назад
Millions? Billions.
@TheFranciscoFm
@TheFranciscoFm 5 лет назад
@@Ghost_of_Avalon Nop
@lucianostizzoli2676
@lucianostizzoli2676 5 лет назад
@@Ghost_of_Avalon Billions? Trillions.
@SeigeGoat
@SeigeGoat 2 года назад
As a RTS player this is terrifying (BECAUSE YOU CAN'T COLLECT RESOURCES :( )
@xeanderman6688
@xeanderman6688 4 месяца назад
You know what the worst part about DEFCON is? When the game ends and you're shown the scoreboard. There is no fanfare, there is no "You win!". There's just... Silence. There's just you, being shown what you have done
@powerfulberry237
@powerfulberry237 4 года назад
" *DEFCON* stands for *Def* ense, Readiness and *Con* dition." Readiness: "Am I a joke to you"
@DTSephiroth
@DTSephiroth 4 года назад
Yes... Readiness is always the joke... Because nobody is ready for the end of the world.
@huntexlee
@huntexlee 4 года назад
@@DTSephiroth deep
@user-do5zk6jh1k
@user-do5zk6jh1k 4 года назад
Because we don't want to say DEFRECON. That doesn't roll off the tongue as well
@vgman94
@vgman94 4 года назад
米空軍パイロット We all prefer to use DECEPTICON instead.
@equintrinity8678
@equintrinity8678 4 года назад
It should be *DREADCON* *D* efense *Read* iness *Con* dition
@lovaszaron3138
@lovaszaron3138 3 года назад
DEFCON 5: Peace. DEFCON 4: Ready for war. DEFCON 3: War. DEFCON 2: Total war. DEFCON 1: The peace of unburied dead.
@historymarshal2704
@historymarshal2704 3 года назад
"To simulate Nuclear Strike, douse the table in kerosene and toss a match on it." -Official NATO Wargame, probably apocryphal
@archierockford1490
@archierockford1490 3 года назад
That’s grim.
@lovaszaron3138
@lovaszaron3138 3 года назад
@@historymarshal2704 Quite fitting.
@lovaszaron3138
@lovaszaron3138 3 года назад
@@archierockford1490 Yes. It is.
@stalavosvergrimm9664
@stalavosvergrimm9664 3 года назад
DEFCON 2: Rome has entered the chat
@You_already_know937
@You_already_know937 4 месяца назад
The unfortunate thing is you were wrong about one thing. In the beginning you described DEFCON 1 as your finger hovering over the big red button. In truth, thats DEFCON 2. At DEFCON 1, the button has been pressed.
@AdsAreRuiningEverything
@AdsAreRuiningEverything 2 года назад
This is what happens when you give power to a bunch of old people that only have 10 years of life left
@slimkid206
@slimkid206 2 года назад
😂😂😂
@cameroni6785
@cameroni6785 2 года назад
And no kids.
@see4881
@see4881 2 года назад
Damn
@robertknight2615
@robertknight2615 Год назад
Ur probably 14
@see4881
@see4881 Год назад
@@robertknight2615 AND YOUR PROBABLY Away down south in the land of traitors Rattlesnakes and alligators Right away (come away) Right away (right away) Come away Where cotton’s king and men are chattles Union boys will win the battles Right away (come away) Right away (right away) Come away We’ll all go down to dixie Away, away Each dixie boy must understand That he must mind his uncle sam Away, away We’ll all go down to dixie Away, away I wish I was in baltimore I’d make secession traitors roar right away Right away (come away) Right away (right away) Come away We'll put the traitors all to route I'll bet my boots we'll whip 'em out Right away (come away) Right away (right away) Come away We'll all go down to dixie Away, away Each dixie boy must understand That he must mind his uncle sam Away, away We'll all go down to dixie Away, away We'll all go down to dixie Away, away We'll all go down to dixie O may our stars and stripes Still wave forever roar the free and brave Right away (come away) Right away (right away) Come away And let our motto forever be for union and for liberty Right away (come away) Right away (right away) Come away We'll all go down to dixie Away, away Each dixie boy must understand That he must mind his uncle sam Away, away We'll all go down to dixie! Away, away We’ll all go down To dixie
@MxAmericanPi
@MxAmericanPi 5 лет назад
"Oh a new video from Polygon! I wonder what light-hearted video game humor Clayton has in store for me today!" *six minutes later* "oh."
@merezko4339
@merezko4339 5 лет назад
Oh No ...
@PuddleOfCats
@PuddleOfCats 5 лет назад
Life and how quickly we can die itself its humor
@mandernachluca3774
@mandernachluca3774 4 года назад
Don't be to terrified tho, the game lacks geopolitical interactions, therefor it is as from reality as Fallout 4 for example. What they miss completely is the fact that eradicating a whole country by irradiating it completely is not an option for a war, as you always try to gain land, resources, food stock, to gain in power on the way. After we saw the effects of radiation ont the japanese population, nuclear weapons got a mere tool of fear, nothing more. One has note, that i come to this conclusion, because i know that russia and america for example have nuclear weapon technology, that is virtually unstoppable, i am talking about missiles that travel at multiple times the speed of sound for days or even weeks, releasing radioactive material in the process.
@kalebpinkston3495
@kalebpinkston3495 4 года назад
Mandernach Luca that’s one thing I’ve noticed when people talk about nuclear Armageddon, they always leave out resources. Makes sense why the 2nd launcher would shoot, but the 1st launcher? What would they have to gain other than mutual destruction? And even if they could get away with “minimal “ damage, what then? You can’t conquer the area you nuked.not saying a nuclear war couldn’t happen but there’s a lot of questions I pose that no one cares to ask or answer other than, “cuz it’s inevitable”.well why is it? What could they gain?at the end of the day all countries want 2 things.1 self preservation 2 to conquer, dictate, or gain any sense of control for resources to benefit themselves.
@jwadaow
@jwadaow 4 года назад
Kaleb Pinkston if you lost territory to an enemy then there is a point at which it becomes rational to attack them with nuclear weapons. That is the application of mutually assured destruction policy to conventional warfare and geopolitics. The storming of west Germany was expected to unfold that way.
@kiri4186
@kiri4186 4 года назад
"Somebody has to win" scares me.
@domersftw1503
@domersftw1503 3 года назад
100th like
@Woodledude
@Woodledude 3 года назад
What does winning mean when there's so little left? I wonder if they'll care. Because the only alternative is losing. Right?
@nothingbutlove4886
@nothingbutlove4886 3 года назад
@@jh9981 Because that is the mentality of countries but in this scenario nobody wins
@ArchTazer
@ArchTazer 3 года назад
@@Woodledude I imagine the situation as a situation you shouldn't really think about. If a country would attack you, you have to strike back and everyone loses. period. However, if you think about it, if the enemy already launched the missiles, you can't. Someone has to live, even if it means you don't.
@GunShocka
@GunShocka 3 года назад
Sombody has to win....but no one is willing to give up
@ebubeynj
@ebubeynj Год назад
One other thing that ties this topic to Chernobyl is when the nuclear plant explodes the guy in charge does not believe that the core has been exposed. The podcast about the tv show explains that his reaction was because if the core of the nuclear plant had exploded that meant they were all dead. His natural survival instinct caused him to exclude that from the realm of possibility in his mind. Just like the people in the study who thought they would die. If it means certain death we think it is impossible to happen.
@SCP--xi4xv
@SCP--xi4xv 2 года назад
I love how the rest of the world is on a nuclear rampage and then there's Australia just vibin' As an Australian I am so glad we're an isolated island in the middle of nowhere
@Mobius_118
@Mobius_118 2 года назад
End of Ze World was suprisingly accurate in this regard.
@fish-from-hell5976
@fish-from-hell5976 Год назад
There's a book about that called On The Beach, I recommend you read it.
@fish-from-hell5976
@fish-from-hell5976 Год назад
@Alp Quite true
@wolfsfroth
@wolfsfroth Год назад
Ya wasn’t the movie *Mad Max* all about that? ... should be fun
@chadfalkin6850
@chadfalkin6850 Год назад
worry anyway, I think you have some american nuke bases so they'll aim for you too
@V1kN1k
@V1kN1k 4 года назад
Plague inc: who are you Defcon: I'm you but scarier *this has seriously not aged well*
@Zeus-ud2jl
@Zeus-ud2jl 4 года назад
They're both pretty scary
@Shadow_Witch
@Shadow_Witch 4 года назад
@@Zeus-ud2jl I mean, Plague Inc isn't scary after you get the message ''JOE MAMA killed over 5 million people'''
@killerfishe5092
@killerfishe5092 4 года назад
@@Zeus-ud2jl yeah but plauge inc is more abstract
@Zeus-ud2jl
@Zeus-ud2jl 4 года назад
@@Shadow_Witch lol yea but the atmosphere it gives and the noises it makes and you think this could happen
@Zeus-ud2jl
@Zeus-ud2jl 4 года назад
@@killerfishe5092 still spooks me think it could happen
@crazywind3214
@crazywind3214 3 года назад
Plague inc: I fear no man, but that thing *DEFCON* plague inc: *it scares me*
@MediHusky
@MediHusky 3 года назад
*stares at madagascar in a cold sweat* Yea that's what I'm scared of.
@ImKevax
@ImKevax 3 года назад
In plague inc, the humanity dies by a sickness In DEFECON, the humanity dies by a war
@Cusi48
@Cusi48 3 года назад
Defecon
@aegeanharrier6648
@aegeanharrier6648 3 года назад
@@ImKevax At least sickness dies alongside us in defcon. A nucler explosion is like sun on earth. I doubt anything survives that heat
@stiflash
@stiflash 3 года назад
@@ImKevax *In DEFCON, humanity dies by it's own hand FTFY
@normietwiceremoved
@normietwiceremoved 2 года назад
Despite the horror of this, don't let this distract you from the fact that Mr krabs sold SpongeBobs soul for 62 cents.
@GypsyEveStVixen
@GypsyEveStVixen 2 года назад
Rofl
@-thanawat-8296
@-thanawat-8296 Год назад
Damn
@faceboy1392
@faceboy1392 Год назад
TRUE, i was waiting for someone to point that out
@watchmychannelorelse
@watchmychannelorelse Год назад
worth it! argargargargargargargargargargargargargargargargargrgargagrggargargragragragrag
@The31stcenturyfox
@The31stcenturyfox 2 года назад
Only once did I come close to victory in this game. I was North America playing against a human driven South America. I had gotten lucky and eliminated his fleets and subs, his silos and one of his four airforce bases with very little losses on my side. I was trying damn hard to find the other three when he had a launched a full coordinated bomber swarm against new york. I scrambled my jets, my interceptors work marvelously , but no it wasn't enough. First nuke hit. 8.4 million dead popped up another hit shortly followed. No other hits landed, but I felt like I lost, even then. I always played as a fiercely survival based player. Sink their fleets. Down their bombers and stop their nukes, before they launch. Yet it never was enough. I'd always get hit, millions died. I would mop up the rest of that players bases and cities... but nobody ever wins in a nuclear war.
@grandhierophantkhatep685
@grandhierophantkhatep685 4 года назад
Polygon:”which castlevania monster is sexiest” Also Polygon:”nuclear war”
@sicarius6501
@sicarius6501 4 года назад
My 2 moods
@estarossa2748
@estarossa2748 4 года назад
Dojyaaaaan~
@twinkbreaker_
@twinkbreaker_ 4 года назад
President Valentine?
@GamingWithNikolas
@GamingWithNikolas 4 года назад
I know right
@filipbabic4913
@filipbabic4913 4 года назад
D4C
@nick8670
@nick8670 4 года назад
this is kinda like plegue inc. but nukes
@SuperHperTube
@SuperHperTube 4 года назад
Plague*
@ravtail2781
@ravtail2781 4 года назад
Exactly
@Saint_Wolf_
@Saint_Wolf_ 4 года назад
In Plague Inc there's no fight, and you're just a bacteria trying to follow the circle of life but here it's actual humans cassuing mass deaths of one another through vaporizing each other's flesh
@jj.jayjay.
@jj.jayjay. 4 года назад
@@Saint_Wolf_ Plague Inc Is Also Mass Human deaths If You win You Kill Every Single Human
@Saint_Wolf_
@Saint_Wolf_ 4 года назад
@@jj.jayjay. Sure but in terms of how things work, one is just a bacteria/virus, here's the progress of technology halting itself through its own makers.
@microraptorguyxu_et_al2431
@microraptorguyxu_et_al2431 2 года назад
Watching this video now makes it even more scarier and eerie
@SketchyLizord
@SketchyLizord 2 года назад
sometimes I lay down in bed and imagine that split second where my house would be blown away, my skin melted, everything I've known and loved is extinct all before even hearing the boom of the explosion... just because a man in a suit wanted his way. What if that's happening right now? I want to believe I'll be able to get a warning, maybe survive... but would I really want to? Maybe it's best I'm oblivious when I die. It's a whole new kind of fear.
@Uajd-hb1qs
@Uajd-hb1qs Месяц назад
That’s what I’ve always said. The only thing I’d hope in a nuclear war is I get enough warning to get to a possible target so I can stand right under the fireball. You’ll be vaporised so quick, you wouldn’t technically die, just be instantly converted to a few basic elements, no pain, just gone. I hope we’ll never have to consider that though. But trust me, go out with the bang, not the fallout.
@snappy-IV
@snappy-IV Месяц назад
If I saw a big flash and knew that it was a nuclear bomb and imminent death was coming. I'd crack a beer and make my peace.
@charlieshaw1512
@charlieshaw1512 3 года назад
i love how Australia is just in the corner like *everything is fine*
@theslenderfox
@theslenderfox 3 года назад
Everybody forgets Australia
@Ropetrick6
@Ropetrick6 3 года назад
@@theslenderfox Eh, the starvation will get them if the natural disasters and wildlife don' t get them first
@TheGPR101
@TheGPR101 3 года назад
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel)
@Ropetrick6
@Ropetrick6 3 года назад
@UCXidC8Cir-T8RRKheZ0CeHA I was talking about in case of a nuclear winter, but I can understand where the confusion comes from. Outside of a nuclear winter, you are entirely correct.
@revelaitons3959
@revelaitons3959 3 года назад
"So now we've got nuclear winter. Everyone's dead 'cept Australia and they're still like "WTF? ^^" But they'll be dead soon... F*ckin kangaroos..."
@SgtCrossHeals
@SgtCrossHeals 3 года назад
"That is what forgiveness sounds like: screaming and then silence." -A llama, probably
@wooblydooblygod3857
@wooblydooblygod3857 3 года назад
CAAAAAAAARL
@SteamCase
@SteamCase 3 года назад
CAAAARRRLLL, why did you point all of Russia's nukes at the U.S.?
@papaahd7566
@papaahd7566 3 года назад
Caaarrrllllll why did you commit mass nuclear destruction
@ValcronGaming
@ValcronGaming 3 года назад
@@papaahd7566 Hey, I said I was going green didn’t I. I wanted to help the environment.
@konradsmith7904
@konradsmith7904 3 года назад
Carl, why did you start WW3?
@MrOddlyFox
@MrOddlyFox Год назад
A game I had waited a long time to play, ever since seeing WarGames as a child and learning the nuclear lesson.
@JimmyJohnJahames
@JimmyJohnJahames Год назад
you know the worst part could be just being inside the ISS and just watching the earth slowly light up as bright lights flash through the atmosphere and the earth slowly fading to a red/black color of what is now left
@ZvZd
@ZvZd 3 года назад
During the Cold War, the Soviet Nuclear Forces unofficial moto was "После нас - тишина" ("After us - silence")
@strakhovandrri
@strakhovandrri 3 года назад
It was and still is Strategic Missile Forces motto.
@aliannamuhammedow358
@aliannamuhammedow358 3 года назад
О! рашшн
@jinan_hwasal
@jinan_hwasal 3 года назад
Now i use that as my fam moto xaxaxaxaxa
@johncenaplayingstarcraft9580
@johncenaplayingstarcraft9580 3 года назад
transliteration: Posle Nas - Tishina
@SSFFRRJJ
@SSFFRRJJ 3 года назад
(-Krstit će se i ko neće-) motto
@Redawesomeoby
@Redawesomeoby 4 года назад
America: Defcon China: Plague inc Australia: Firewatch
@midlanismail416
@midlanismail416 4 года назад
Nooo
@etman05
@etman05 4 года назад
We're all Plague inc now
@suwinkhamchaiwong8382
@suwinkhamchaiwong8382 4 года назад
hol up
@gtPacheko
@gtPacheko 4 года назад
Brazil: Counter Strike
@funibikeman6769
@funibikeman6769 4 года назад
Middle East: cod
@nicolaspinson8981
@nicolaspinson8981 Год назад
The algorithm really playin with us 💀
@user-qx4bw1pv8u
@user-qx4bw1pv8u 2 года назад
2020 year: Plague inc IRL 2022 year: DEFCON IRL
@sebping7205
@sebping7205 3 года назад
Interesting and quite fitting sentence: "Everybody loses, but somebody loses the least"
@VJFranzK
@VJFranzK 3 года назад
If they are not more alive, how is that measurable? And how does it actually matter?
@ursosexmachina
@ursosexmachina 3 года назад
@@VJFranzK Whoever dies last, wins.
@VJFranzK
@VJFranzK 3 года назад
@@ursosexmachina We're not talking highschool football, or your FPS here. It's not really a win if there's no one left, friend or foe, to congratulate you. The real, grown-up concept of victory of the human species has been our survival. Survival of future generations isn't possible in a world contaminated by radiation. The "winners" might suffer in the longest, most terrible way.
@aryanbhuta3382
@aryanbhuta3382 3 года назад
@@VJFranzK More people are alive. If the US loses 100 million but Russia loses 150 million, the US has "won" the nuclear exchange.
@gabsleite5199
@gabsleite5199 3 года назад
So somebody wins, because losing less than others in any sport = winning, what matters is score compared to the others. Hahaha
@bismarckfamily277
@bismarckfamily277 3 года назад
I've counted every single nuke in defcon I think they're only around 650 The world has more than 12.000 nukes
@finnlikesplanes7110
@finnlikesplanes7110 3 года назад
uh oh
@havvayokus3200
@havvayokus3200 3 года назад
the game is about cold war so ICBM's came out new in the cold war era
@carlredfield1693
@carlredfield1693 3 года назад
12?
@chalichaligha3234
@chalichaligha3234 3 года назад
@@carlredfield1693 In continental Europe, it is common for commas and periods to be swapped e.g: 10,000.1 (ten thousand point one) is written as 10.000,1
@MalikCarr
@MalikCarr 3 года назад
The huge numbers - and it's far reduced from the height of the Cold War in the 80s - was a calculus between NATO and the Soviets that if the other side launched a pre-emptive strike most of the nuclear arsenal would be destroyed on the ground before it could launch. Therefore, even assuming you've lost the vast majority of your own nuclear weapons, you'd still theoretically have enough left to retaliate and destroy whoever attacked you. This acts as a deterrent against the other side launching that pre-emptive strike in the first place. Since no nuclear wars have started since, the theory works.
@minutemanthezealoustiger1499
Russian Nuclear Motto: "After us, only silence."
@user-sd8ux3vz3v
@user-sd8ux3vz3v 2 года назад
This video ages well
@scythe5739
@scythe5739 2 года назад
Lol
@shaftoe195
@shaftoe195 3 года назад
Plague Inc: _What... what are you?*_ DEFCON: _The end. _*_Of the world._*
@eco1969
@eco1969 3 года назад
the plague just kills humans, defcon kills life itself
@TheWulf899
@TheWulf899 3 года назад
Except Australia, we're fine down here
@CarlosRuiz20
@CarlosRuiz20 3 года назад
@@TheWulf899 until nuclear winter begins...
@edwintrinidadperazacaraban4650
@edwintrinidadperazacaraban4650 3 года назад
@@CarlosRuiz20 thats right if fallaout teach something: "if the bo,b dont kill you the secondary effects will do it"
@agente7202
@agente7202 3 года назад
Imagine if they make second game mode where you...yes you become the UN leader (United Nations) and prevent the world from killing itself *Dictator gamemode:Can you destroy the world?* *Humanity last hope gamemode: Can you save the world?*
@sirdurtle9519
@sirdurtle9519 3 года назад
0:50 Actually, DEFCON 1 is like every finger and usable appendage mashing as many big red buttons as possible
@kathrynb.kavanagh2621
@kathrynb.kavanagh2621 3 года назад
*bodyslams the nuke table*
@horrorbeyondhumancomprehension
@horrorbeyondhumancomprehension 3 года назад
@@kathrynb.kavanagh2621 GIBBEH OOF
@stoicbubble5755
@stoicbubble5755 3 года назад
No it’s actually having 100’s of robots at high speed pressing 100’s of buttons per second for each robot
@fnutarf2085
@fnutarf2085 3 года назад
paniiiik!!! mode activated
@bluewardog
@bluewardog 3 года назад
Yeah DEFCON 1 is nuclear war. 2 is nuclear war is imminent
@oscarsandy2234
@oscarsandy2234 Год назад
0:51 Defcon 1 is pressing the big red button and Defcon 2 is having your finger hovering over it
@maracachucho8701
@maracachucho8701 Год назад
I can see my younger self playing this game psychopathically trying to wipe out as many humans as possible. I feel like I now understand why most people in a position of power tend to be on the older side.
@needmorecontent6172
@needmorecontent6172 3 года назад
" There are no winners of war, only survivors and even they die inside from guilt. They only physically survive to warn us. To warn us that there is nothing more terrible than what they have done. "-Jake Fulton
@grenadier6483
@grenadier6483 3 года назад
I'm 13 and this is deep...
@davidpanchev4465
@davidpanchev4465 3 года назад
You can't be more accurate than this
@BrutuxMusic
@BrutuxMusic 3 года назад
@Deo That's some nice coolaid you're drinking, hoping the money put in the military aren't detracting in any way from your inalienable human rights. What's that? You must pay for an education? What's a health insurance?
@lingxiuhan1982
@lingxiuhan1982 3 года назад
Now we know, the Deep States and some rich houses are behind these wars. There is a reason you have to suffer so much. Don’t like it? No worry, they offer cannibalism and corruption, if you want to end your misery. Guess what, you will take it just like you let the all the things happened in 2020.
@TheBauwssss
@TheBauwssss 3 года назад
"nothing more terrible that what they *were forced to do* " is more accurate I think. When one is unfortunate enough to find oneself on an active battlefield, fighting for survival, the only true choice is kill or be killed. It sends a chill down my spine just to think about that proposition, about having to indiscriminately and in cold blood take the life of another human being. Another man who might very well have a beautiful wife, not to mention children who will now never get to know their father simply because I believed my life to be more valuable. Another man who, if only times had been different, might even have become my best friend, possibly for life. War truly has no winners, but only pitiful losers, forced to kill indiscriminately and without question, only for the unlucky survivors to end up damaged, broke, lonely and forgotten; rotting away in a veterans home. To use an already horribly overused saying; war never determines who is right, only who is left.
@redhen2470
@redhen2470 3 года назад
"Peace is our Profession." "War is just a hobby" Strategic Air Command
@alexeyrodiontsev4978
@alexeyrodiontsev4978 3 года назад
"After us - silence". © Strategic Missile Forces
@akhaaneb9710
@akhaaneb9710 3 года назад
@@alexeyrodiontsev4978 well that's so much darker
@octo1894
@octo1894 3 года назад
I agree; more countries need to make nukes to enforce the peace against a certain belligerent going around bombing, invading and spreading coups
@ThatSlovakGuy
@ThatSlovakGuy 3 года назад
Hotel is Trivago
@Pabloto-dq3sx
@Pabloto-dq3sx 3 года назад
@Panzerkampfwagen VI ...deez
@friedrichderhohevonweedman6093
@friedrichderhohevonweedman6093 2 года назад
Just looking at the game screen with all those missiles flying and "Launch Detected" popping up over and over all over the world is on it's own one of the most horrifying things I ever saw.
@jenzelarevalo1086
@jenzelarevalo1086 Год назад
I just watched a documentary about the Japanese survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So freaking horrific and disturbing this carnage two nuclear bombs had caused. People’s skins were peeling and people were rotting alive due to radiation. The gameplay was super hard to watch after seeing that documentary
@thomasparkin259
@thomasparkin259 5 лет назад
Maybe playing DEFCON should be mandatory for politicians, just to hammer home the futility of nuclear warfare.
@silverish9081
@silverish9081 5 лет назад
Considering how a lot of politicians are likely to be actual psychopaths, I don't think it will help much.
@ollycoyote
@ollycoyote 5 лет назад
You act as if politicians care about people
@pbonfanti
@pbonfanti 5 лет назад
Will not make any difference or they would not be politicians themselves.
@papabear6431
@papabear6431 4 года назад
I mean they probably know, and if they dont know about the consequences, 😂😂well we call them kim jong un
@tristantriton8115
@tristantriton8115 4 года назад
why play this game if they can slowly perform it in real life?
@Tobascodagama
@Tobascodagama 5 лет назад
The subtle coughing and crying in the soundtrack is just so unbelievably perfect.
@clanofclams2720
@clanofclams2720 5 лет назад
...isn't that plague Inc?
@screamingghoul4108
@screamingghoul4108 5 лет назад
@@clanofclams2720 in the video it talks about coughing and crying in the soundtrack.
@clanofclams2720
@clanofclams2720 5 лет назад
@@screamingghoul4108 no it dudn't
@screamingghoul4108
@screamingghoul4108 5 лет назад
@@clanofclams2720 2:46 yes it did? here, he talks about.
@clanofclams2720
@clanofclams2720 5 лет назад
@@screamingghoul4108 nah, he dudn't
@user-mk7zb5xy2y
@user-mk7zb5xy2y Год назад
and then comes 2022
@dapweb9373
@dapweb9373 Год назад
The fact that you got recommended this now is no coincidence…
@curiousteddie
@curiousteddie 5 лет назад
Polygon: come for the funny stuff and stay for the existential dread! I guess I've got a new game on my list now
@shinluis
@shinluis 5 лет назад
same
@josephray459
@josephray459 5 лет назад
What can you play it on?
@redumulis2448
@redumulis2448 5 лет назад
Oh, and body horror. Lots of body horror.
@shinluis
@shinluis 5 лет назад
@@josephray459 it's on steam! :)
@zackfreeland6420
@zackfreeland6420 4 года назад
It’s free on steam, calls it the demo but it’s really not
@texan_commando
@texan_commando 3 года назад
"The things that's more terrifying than someone who wants to win, is someone who doesn't want to lose..."
@monad_tcp
@monad_tcp 3 года назад
the only ever 2 bombs used was for that reason, its really terrifying. how you fight something who is not afraid of dying, they will never lose. it was really useful we had a thing to really put fear in their hearths (and it took 2, when only one should have sufficed, that level of not wanting to lose...). I would totally chose that option if I were in the same place, who wouldn't ? two splashes and it ended the war. people like to talk about the cost of lives, but with that enemy, nothing would stop it, that probably saved more lives than the never-ending thousand year war. The other option would be surrender, good luck with that, the imperator would just kill you, because of their moral code that punish deserters, and you deserted your country (an enemy of the enemy is not an ally), so you must die too , not to mention horrific things that would make literal hitler puke.
@brian14021994
@brian14021994 3 года назад
@@monad_tcp if they didn't use nuclear weapons, the war in Japan would've extended by a few years, but the outcome would've been the same. Some argue that if they killed the god-emperor of Japan, they would've surrendered. Either way, nuking 2 cities like that, killing over 200k citizens...it's unforgiveable.
@duncanmcgee13
@duncanmcgee13 3 года назад
@@brian14021994 so youd rather them invade and risk killing millions more than the nukes would have?
@coregontrail3481
@coregontrail3481 3 года назад
What’s more terrifying than someone who doesn’t want to lose, is someone who doesn’t care if they do, as long as you don’t win.
@duncanmcgee13
@duncanmcgee13 3 года назад
@@coregontrail3481 and thats why N.Korea having nukes has the world on edge
@zenogodofeverything3519
@zenogodofeverything3519 2 года назад
I think it's just a lesson for people that are older to understand that it's okay to be afraid
@isbestlizard
@isbestlizard 2 года назад
I'd *love* a realistic nuclear war simulator. Like, you get a launch detection, but no idea where it's heading until your radar has calculated its freefall ballistic trajectory during it's terminal phase, so the first half of its flight, you're left in the dark. Thousands of weapons, interceptors, MIRVs, decoys, tactical weapons, counter force/value, first and second strikes, decapitations, loss of command and control, it'd be so COOL
@zekeyeager6444
@zekeyeager6444 2 года назад
i would love to see that
@TDOPB
@TDOPB 8 месяцев назад
@@zekeyeager6444 Check out Espiocracy (comes out in 2024) - I don't know if it'll go super in depth with the actual nuking (It probably will though), but it's an awesome spy game and it WILL have nuclear war - And assuming some of your agents survive, you can even keep kicking and screaming after the exchange ends. In fact, the nuclear war will be less "Nuclear war" and more cold war era sabre rattling (with a chance of nuclear war if a LOT of mistakes are made), so it'll be even more realistic than what isbestlizard wants.
@TDOPB
@TDOPB 8 месяцев назад
Check out Espiocracy. I go more in depth in my reply to the other commenter on your comment, so feel free to read it.
@cmd31220
@cmd31220 3 года назад
I love Defcon. The thing that shocked me the most about the AI in the game is that if you try to play "realistically", where the goal is hitting military targets instead of just taking out major cities, you get completely destroyed almost every time. It's like they purposefully designed the game to say "no, a nuclear war can only be won through mass murder.....so don't freaking do it"
@atigerclaw
@atigerclaw 2 года назад
Hitting cities _is_ realistic in nuclear war. Industrialized warfare is dependent on manpower and production. You hit cities, you destroy factories, obliterate shipyards, kill off skilled workers, and their families... You're not just winning a war by defeating the enemy's existing forces and driving them back. You're destroying a population's ability to even _participate_ in anything even remotely approaching industrialized warfare for *generations*. Escalating to DEFCON 1 is All or Nothing. If you don't have the gumption to take a deep breath, and push the button, and make the opposition pay in equal blood to what they just launched on you,? Then you die. And nobody will be around to care since the only thing you're really doing is that the other guy is just as crippled as to have to spend just as much time as you to rebuild society. It's PURE retaliation logic. And it helps manage MAD by the concept that even if we know we're going to die, we're vindictive enough to take the other side with us. DEFCON operates on the simple assumption that for whatever reason, MAD has broken down, nations are on the edge, and the time for 'limited' warfare has passed you like a Porsche going the other way. It IS possible to actually... WIN a game of DEFCON. When I say win, I MEAN win. No losses of population. I've done it precisely once. It required some pretty fine-tuned management of your silos swapping from ABM and Silo mode and a little bit of praying to RNGeezus that the enemy nations distributed their ICBM launches juuuuuust right.
@ShawnJonesHellion
@ShawnJonesHellion 2 года назад
why mass murder the ai if the point of the game is seeing they have been attacking you all along an you are their god
@garygrant91
@garygrant91 2 года назад
Realistically, limiting targeting to only military assets could only work if you made a preemptive strike during DEFCON 5 or 4 on New Year's Eve when everyone is drunk. You might have some success at DEFCON 3 but you are still going to be hurt bad. At DEFCON 2 or 1 you will be hitting empty silos (their counter strike will be in the air, headed towards you) or conventional units which pose no threat to you. All that assumes that you launch first. If you are reacting to their launch, your only choice is to do nothing in the hopes that they survive or you can ensure that they burn with you.
@John_winston
@John_winston 2 года назад
@@atigerclaw The winning with population intact sounds very interesting,is there any video or step to step to do it ?
@atigerclaw
@atigerclaw 2 года назад
@@jamesbrendan5170 There isn't. Like I said, I did it precisely once and I'm pretty sure I couldn't duplicate it on demand because it requires both crazy-good handling of when and where you switch your silos, and a good chunk of RNGeezus. Who shoots at who at what time and how much so as not to overwhelm your defenses. I'd think of it more like winning a card game. There's skill involved, but it comes down to what you're dealt.
@ottovonweaboo6355
@ottovonweaboo6355 4 года назад
This whole concept is so damn scary.... reminds me of the Russian strategic missile forces moto ¨ _After us... silence_ ¨
@PhillyBoyBcn
@PhillyBoyBcn 4 года назад
OttoVonWeaboo how about Putin’s very frank declaration that “Why would we [Russians] need a world if there’s no more Russia in it?”
@Psydvckthefirst
@Psydvckthefirst 4 года назад
@@PhillyBoyBcn Well from Russian point of view it's pretty clear lol. Why would Russians need the world without home?
@admiralprince7925
@admiralprince7925 4 года назад
Welcome to reality The scariest game to date
@magpineapple
@magpineapple 4 года назад
a bunch of creatures with sentience grouping together, ending millions of lives for the feeling of power
@Sidewinder627
@Sidewinder627 4 года назад
OttoVonWeaboo Woah, strong motto that one
@WAVE0025
@WAVE0025 2 года назад
RU-vid, you seriously recommending this to us in a time where nuclear war is genuinely the closest it has been to happening since the cold war?
@popcultureprogrammer2171
@popcultureprogrammer2171 2 года назад
RU-vid algorithm, the all seeing eye
@jamesdinius7769
@jamesdinius7769 Год назад
The algorithm responds to trends. People search, it responds. Nothing more.
@PT-91_Twardy
@PT-91_Twardy 2 года назад
Scary how close we are to our lives turning into a statistic in a DEFCON game.
@TheBurg229
@TheBurg229 4 года назад
Worldwide delivery in 30 minutes or less, or your next one is free!
@user-do5zk6jh1k
@user-do5zk6jh1k 4 года назад
We are talking about colony delivery, yes?
@whatinthefuckisahandle
@whatinthefuckisahandle 4 года назад
We talking about big ass smoke mushrooms
@ryanklinkerman5180
@ryanklinkerman5180 4 года назад
lol minuteman III
@felicianoabe
@felicianoabe 4 года назад
Extra cheese please
@TheBurg229
@TheBurg229 4 года назад
felicianoabe I prefer extra mushrooms
@mikemar2002
@mikemar2002 4 года назад
I used to play this years ago as a kid, I had no idea scientists did studies on it that's dope
@El_Presidente_5337
@El_Presidente_5337 4 года назад
As a kid? How old is the game?
@mikemar2002
@mikemar2002 4 года назад
@@El_Presidente_5337 it came out in 06
@El_Presidente_5337
@El_Presidente_5337 4 года назад
@@mikemar2002 O . O
@kurdonthego
@kurdonthego 4 года назад
Where do I get this?
@KingMoronProductions
@KingMoronProductions 4 года назад
@@kurdonthego Steam! Great developer too, check out their other projects ^-^
@snkfan7506
@snkfan7506 Год назад
Bought this game many years ago and still have it on my shelf. It did make me think of Wargames and it was absolutely chilling to think about the prospects of a real nuclear war.
@Spaceplayzsfs
@Spaceplayzsfs 22 дня назад
this video was in my reccomended for 4 years, continuously showing up whenever I tried to scroll videos, and I finally caved into it
@possiblepsychopath6459
@possiblepsychopath6459 4 года назад
chess on steroids
@dickywicaksono4171
@dickywicaksono4171 4 года назад
This is should be top comment 😂👌
@apexwar_
@apexwar_ 4 года назад
Ironically, check this out, some sort of Chess+Defcon hybrid ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ecy5QYPOLtA.html
@Nebulous_Neuhaus
@Nebulous_Neuhaus 4 года назад
Xanatos Speed Chess
@thenuggernaut9084
@thenuggernaut9084 4 года назад
Chess on sleep paralysis
@bobbodaskank
@bobbodaskank 4 года назад
Chess with a minor change in rules where any piece can take any other piece on the board from any position on the board along with all adjacent pieces, and every piece on the board moves simultaneously.
@declanvanarkel9094
@declanvanarkel9094 4 года назад
Safe to see that us Australians are safe from total nuclear annihilation
@XxExCaLiBuRrXx
@XxExCaLiBuRrXx 4 года назад
Declan Van Arkel they left you guys out because you already got terrifying animals that’s worse than even the nukes
@qas2644
@qas2644 4 года назад
Come on your country loses to your own national animals....pretty sure you're no threat to the world yet lol(this a joke btw)
@declanvanarkel9094
@declanvanarkel9094 4 года назад
Omega Storm ahaha I can’t argue with you there
@bigberther7368
@bigberther7368 4 года назад
Incoming fallout for us Aussies.
@adisappointedfbiagent449
@adisappointedfbiagent449 4 года назад
That's because the nukes just go to space rather then hit Australia because everything is upside-down.
@suroot
@suroot 2 года назад
Were currently at DEFCON 4. The pieces are being moved into place. Even the rarely seen version of Air Force One has been deployed.
@twentydixoncider7443
@twentydixoncider7443 Год назад
I think the idea of mutual destruction is enough to keep people in line cause no matter how right you are that doesn't matter if you and your entire family is turned to ashes. Shits still pretty scary to think about though.
@somebitch1225
@somebitch1225 4 года назад
“Moscow has been hit” me: metro time
@MICROKNIGHT3000
@MICROKNIGHT3000 4 года назад
pls
@somebitch1225
@somebitch1225 4 года назад
[\^/] 343 Guilty Spark it’s the only good thing to come out of Russia being nuked. And for America it’s fallout
@itsthatdude4814
@itsthatdude4814 3 года назад
Ah,nothing like squatting with comrades in Metro Moscow
@anhduc0913
@anhduc0913 3 года назад
@Wee Pinbell ah, imagine a crossover, for both metro and fallout to meet. Old enemies, now just survival in a collapsed world, but is rebuilding or dieing out depends on how you see it.
@alt8791
@alt8791 3 года назад
I thought this was a reference to the secret KGB metro in Moscow that *100% doesn't exist*
@zolikoff
@zolikoff 4 года назад
- How tough am I? I played this game DEFCON. - Yeah so? - Without getting scared. - ... Right this way
@echo12345ish
@echo12345ish 4 года назад
So does that mean that Sandy would be the first person to send off nukes?
@Thlormby
@Thlormby 4 года назад
The game isn’t even that scary. It’s actually great. Polygon reporters are just overdramatic
@zolikoff
@zolikoff 4 года назад
I mean actually it's not scary at all, I know.
@pouzivateljutube2995
@pouzivateljutube2995 4 года назад
That's the point. The scarry thing is that the game isn't scarry.
@Thlormby
@Thlormby 4 года назад
Používaťeľ JUtUbe no, it’s not the point. It’s just a fun strategy game where you launch nuclear missiles at each other. Everyone tries way too hard to get internet points by being a pseudo intellectual.
@GabrielLittle
@GabrielLittle 4 месяца назад
This is a super interesting video. Really well made and analyzed
@froogsleegs
@froogsleegs 2 года назад
the implication is that simply allowing nations to have nuclear weapons leads to a perpetually escalating arms race, and someone will eventually, inevitably use it. on a long enough timeline, as long as nuclear weapons exist, this is almost certain
@mutantenderman2601
@mutantenderman2601 3 года назад
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic" - Joseph Stalin
@LongandWeirdName
@LongandWeirdName 3 года назад
So what is 7.8 Billion?
@rayisi1502
@rayisi1502 3 года назад
extinction
@beefberber254
@beefberber254 3 года назад
A killstreak
@Flaruwu
@Flaruwu 3 года назад
Salvation
@nurs3826
@nurs3826 3 года назад
@@LongandWeirdName /kill all
@highjumpstudios2384
@highjumpstudios2384 3 года назад
An interesting sound design choice would have been to have a pre determined “Base” where the player is located. You can’t see it, it might be close to a city, or maybe out in the countryside. But if a nuke lands close enough then you’ll hear it louder than the others.
@YeprilesteR
@YeprilesteR 2 года назад
Scariest game +
@amistrophy
@amistrophy 2 года назад
Would be cool to have it in Cheyenne mountain for the US, etc similarily for the RU and every other country having their irl counterpart be the base
@elliotclodfelter7792
@elliotclodfelter7792 2 года назад
That would be pretty cool actually
@InvisiblerApple
@InvisiblerApple 2 года назад
Imagine being removed and dealing with the abstract setup, then some bombs start sounding louder than others. You gradually piece together where you are, but it's already too late.
@MetaReplication
@MetaReplication 2 года назад
That is honestly an amazing idea.
@jasonmcfarland3539
@jasonmcfarland3539 2 года назад
I stumbled into this game and it really does make you feel pessimistic.You don't hear anything, no alarms, no booms, no talking just the sounds of the computer and its alerts with people muttering every so often in the back ground as you watch nukes fly and say you killed 10 million people in a city.
@jacksonbruce2386
@jacksonbruce2386 2 года назад
Remember kids it's not a red button It's two keys 21 ft apart that are spring loaded that you have to hold for two seconds.
@brockmckelvey7327
@brockmckelvey7327 5 лет назад
Oh, a new Polygon video! I'll watch it on my lunch break. ...Hey boss, I'm gonna take the rest of the day off due to existential dread
@AnimatorNinja
@AnimatorNinja 5 лет назад
this is why i like plague inc cause it's all-natural organic death
@maddiequestionmark
@maddiequestionmark 5 лет назад
3AMNinja homegrown
@CraftyTeo
@CraftyTeo 5 лет назад
non gmo- wait...
@taakotuesdays
@taakotuesdays 5 лет назад
are you okay
@bread1958
@bread1958 5 лет назад
It's still a death. It's still literally the worst possible scenario. Nature is not inherently good. Though as a game, plague inc can't make you lose faith in humanity like defcon can.
@davidelmkies6343
@davidelmkies6343 5 лет назад
Can't tell if you're serious. I like plague inc. too, but it's maybe half as effective at making you feel things.
@robertcampomizzi7988
@robertcampomizzi7988 Год назад
I've seen this video before(and WAR GAMES). It is November 15, 2022. Poland just got hit by Russia. Good job algorithm! "Millions of Civilians" sounds like a growth album/song tittle.
@zagnut48219
@zagnut48219 Год назад
I wonder if this was made by the same people that made "Plague Inc." I played Plague Inc for about two years before COVID hit. Really opened my eyes. Scary to think that AI is probably already playing out to find the "best scenario".
@lovell8983
@lovell8983 4 года назад
I edited this comment so you will never understand the reply
@jovianblue
@jovianblue 4 года назад
True. But surely there's a middle step where RU-vid analyzes the current searches and the user's history and generates the algorithm, possibly even factoring in how likely an individual user might click on a certain video. Definitely not "random" but it's not like they are personally curating these things.
@vincent1782
@vincent1782 4 года назад
@@jovianblue wonderful evaluation.
@TheFalseHuman
@TheFalseHuman 4 года назад
It's not random..
@sargeant121
@sargeant121 4 года назад
you called me?
@goofy7591
@goofy7591 4 года назад
... o.o
@zildiun2327
@zildiun2327 3 года назад
“Peace was never an option.” -Some goose from a meme
@DerAykac
@DerAykac 3 года назад
Animalogic?
@zildiun2327
@zildiun2327 3 года назад
@@DerAykac No, it’s a meme. Look up “peace was never an option goose” and you’ll find it
@lilchristuten7568
@lilchristuten7568 3 года назад
@@zildiun2327 You sure it's a goose?
@Theguywhokilledkennedy
@Theguywhokilledkennedy 3 года назад
@@zildiun2327 it’s from a untitled goose game
@Pinkcircleguy
@Pinkcircleguy 3 года назад
@@lilchristuten7568 ye
@lopiklop
@lopiklop 2 года назад
One of my favorite games growing up. It was one of the first games on steam.
@francesco5254
@francesco5254 Год назад
"Nuclear war is inevitable, because it's a game. Somebody has to win." Ngl this hit pretty hard
@valcanoman1829
@valcanoman1829 2 месяца назад
Yes but in nuclear war: everybody dies because in nuclear war there are no winners. First the alarms from the sirens and the screams from those who are panicking before the nukes go off and then silence and crying. Grim silence.
@donniemontoya9300
@donniemontoya9300 3 года назад
I remember the first time I played Defcon, I was so taken back by the messages when cities are destroyed. The first time I saw the score read "4.5 MILLION DEAD" and I instantly knew those were all civilian deaths, it put a knot in my stomach I wasn't prepared for at all.
@nxibba
@nxibba 3 года назад
what were you expecting
@teletubiewithashotgun113
@teletubiewithashotgun113 3 года назад
Remember
@teletubiewithashotgun113
@teletubiewithashotgun113 3 года назад
No russian
@Lancor84
@Lancor84 3 года назад
huh, I'm born 84 and for me watching the Simpsons episode with the nuclear plant meltdown at 8 years old was enough to already know how nuclear weapons would affect war. You must have grown up in a sweet bubble.
@boooster101
@boooster101 3 года назад
Meanwhile I went through a Stellaris gameplay first enslaving and then genociding about three dozen races
@carlthetuber4615
@carlthetuber4615 4 года назад
notice how Australia doesn't get hit once nor does it have warnings on it.
@cezariusus7595
@cezariusus7595 4 года назад
*MATE*
@carlthetuber4615
@carlthetuber4615 4 года назад
@Vermin Supreme yeah i guess
@dragonhearted7761
@dragonhearted7761 4 года назад
@Vermin Supreme assuming we werent already a wasteland before
@davidj3841
@davidj3841 4 года назад
Emus are ready bad enough, they don't want mutated ones
@Nicolai0Nerland
@Nicolai0Nerland 4 года назад
WTF ^^
@CrispyMuffin2
@CrispyMuffin2 2 года назад
This hits a lot different compared to when i watched 2 years ago
@blakena4907
@blakena4907 Год назад
Ooooh, I forgot about this game. Thanks for bringing it back to my attention!
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