@@rabbithole1983 I have been a huge fan of Dr. Who! But after Christopher Eccleston 2005 David Tennant 2005 - 2010 Matt Smith 2010 - 2013 I kind of lost my passion for the show. My kids were big fans too and we went to conversations, great show!
i am a human being capable of doing terrible things i am a human being capable of doing terrible things i am a human being capable of doing terrible things *RUN* *intense music*
Something I’ve noticed with all of these stories is that humans are too peaceful and too, well, everything we’re not. Humans will by nature look to dominate and would never wait till we got sanctions before we built warships or fortified everything. It’s a common doctrine to match any ship amount of ships with the same.
Not always. There are plenty of nations who adopted isolationism until outside factors forced them to change. Humans are complex but we do strive to be better and often just be left alone.
There are stories were we pretty much took what we saw and made better. And even chose to attack instead of waiting. One of my favorites is when a world is about to get attacked by an insectoid race that already obliteratad others. And the inhabitants wwre one of few that treated us with respect and the humans chose to answer with a simpe "we are coming."
Imagine you're one of the richest people ever and now because of this council you are not allowed to make the kind of money you were telling if a aliens came in and made our 1% start spilting everything with us evenly they wouldn't put everything they had into finding a way to kill them to they can get there power back
next is the story of the human black ops team that quietly removes those that started all this. humans i can see being a force for good but i can never see them as saints.
@@Wastelandman7000 Even if he dislike his quote today, I have to agree with Reeves quote "you can't be a lover if you are not a warrior" and also the quote I heard Jordan Peterson say "you have to be dangerous and be able to control it to be a good man. Otherwise you are just harmless."
“The EDF-Earth Defense Force” To save our mother Earth from any alien attack From vicious giant insects who have once again come back We'll unleash all our forces, we won't cut them any slack The EDF deploys!
All these AI stories are very generic and soulless. They have only surface appeal. A skilled author could weave a compelling story upon these plot bones.
@@FriendlyNeighborhoodNitpicker AI "smells" High adverb and adjective count. Lack of specificity Lack of dialog The phrase "indomitable spirit" Weird lapses in logic Weird changes of state, (they were winning, now they're losing, now they're winning again) No author attribution That's a handful of clues that the story is AI written.
@@malcolmanderson6735 oh I know about the story, I thought you were talking about the narrator. I thought you were saying the narrator was AI in your original comment. The story, certainly.
"Humans share one unique quality. They build communities. If the Narns or the Centauri or any other race built a station like this, it would be used only by their own people, but everywhere humans go, they create communities out of diverse and sometimes hostile populations. It is a great gift and a terrible responsibility, one that cannot be abandoned." D'Lenn, Minbari Ambassador to Babylon 5
There seems to be a rush of these "Kumbaya" stories at present.... I wonder, is it one AI poster using multiple accounts, or multiple users using the same AI program to generate them ??? Not that I want every story to be a blood and guts battle scenario, but the field of Science Fiction is broad enough that so many stories do not have to end in a lecture on togetherness and a group hug... This story started off well enough, but started to come apart about two thirds of the way through. The "climax" was definitely suffering from EDS.....
EDF! EDF! EDF! HELL NO that name reminds me of one of the most cursed military organizations in gaming history. In every single mission from the first to the last TENNO HEIKA BANZAAAAAAIIIII THE BEST TACTIC period. Someone who actually have brain somehow can't climb the rank to be at least a colonel, on the other hand, some muscle brain dude who deserved the rank of a private managed to get the rank of supreme commander. The alien starfighters swarm the player location close enough for shotgun to be effective, the AA defense weaponry of choice: radar guided missiles from self-propelled launchers not even a half click away. Where do those AA guns go? IDK, the in-game event set in 2010's, so you definitely can't cut those cold war era AA guns off the arsenal as the obvious evidence of enemy air power in both shape and form were witnessed across the globe, yet EDF refuses to drag those archaic AA guns out and deploy them as the proper countermeasure, well, because why not, bipedal mechs are way cooler.
So... someone (or something in case of a generator) had beaten the last few years of european/atlantic politics into a very didactic story... I'm laughing far too much.
Personally I'm starting to despise this trope of humanities rapid advancement scaring aliens. I think that if a highly advanced humanity is desired, using either the idea that humanity was able to keep its secrets and/or occupy a particularly barren region of the galaxy (allowing for humanities development in a literal vacuum, with nobody to scare until a proper reveal... also never be sorry for your puns), or the idea that humanity was actually one of if not the first, to be on the scene, is better. The whole thing about rapid advancement in a story where computers exist is the rate of advancement once computers get involved, not to mention the rate of advancement we have seen prior to computers (for example, something like 99.9999% of tools ever invented or improved by man, have done so within living memory and for 99.99999999% of humanities existence, we had *ONE* tool.). The problem with councils at some stagnant level is that there is no way all the groups would just agree to that kind of crap. Some might sign onto a treaty (look at the ccp and what it says about the climate, or Japan in the 1930s straight up lying about the size of their ships), but they will forever be trying to one-up the others. That every other race in a setting seems to plateau at some arbitrary level far below what humanity will get to (which only seems to exist for the sake of the humans in the story), long before humanity even invents gunpowder or gets to the stars... Is just asinine. It can work if you have a single controlling entity e.g. the Goa'uld from Stargate SG-1 in the early seasons. It just doesn't work with a setting that involves either computers as commonplace or some kind council. Especially if there is some type of council for the aforementioned reason. addendum: If you look at some of the estimates for how long the universe will be able to exist in a state not too dissimilar from what it is right now, we are far closer to its beginning then its end. By end I mean a time before heat death and proton decay, but after the period we are in now where star formation is commonplace. (sure the universe itself won't end with the end of star production and star production itself will only peter out over time, the time after stars cease to be born, will be a very different universe than today. So I use that as a cutoff. If you don't use a similar cutoff, you then have us far far far closer to the beginning than the end. For context proton decay _might_ happen in something like 15,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years (I am 100% serious, though I might be off by a zero or two in either direction) I can think of some exceptions to this, where the rapid advancement works, but they are all highly contrived and this isn't one of them. (E.g. humanity being ludicrously late to the party) The core meaning of the Copernican Principle is that we are not as special as we might like. (More specifically it means that the area of the universe we are in, is not any more special than any others, we do not have some privileged view that nobody else does. Thus it follows that we are no more special than any other intelligent life that might exist until proven otherwise.)
@@whyjnot420It's frankly ridiculous that a new interstellar species defeats galaxy spanning alien empires. Unless that new interstellar species is the viltrumites, I'm not buying it. The Hugo award winning book The Dark Forest (A part of THE THREE BODY PROBLEM) had a better view on this sort of situations (MAJOR SPOILERS) A single alien probe, not even one thousandth the size of an alien ship in an armada of a thousand ships singlehandedly annihilated humanities entire thousands strong space fleet in less than an hour. Then a lone alien while singing threw a paper sized weapon in our solar system that flattened our entire solar system into 2 dimensions, destroying all life present there.
@@ace_the_race9340 Yeah. It is a fun idea to play with, just as with almost any underdog story but there are just so many problems with it. Also the larger the hurdle for the underdog to overcome the more problems there are.
@@ace_the_race9340 Addendum: There was one HFY story I came across a little while back that had a similar trajectory in its story. The dynamic was reversed though. In the story, it was a human probe, with humans being the far more advanced group. It was a fun little short that was only serious about one group being far far far more advanced, then had fun with the rest. The writer obviously had no delusions of grandeur.
@@whyjnot420And these stories forget humans differences and drive to survive even at the expense of others. In the aforementioned book (MAJOR SPOILERS) Even when an vastly advanced alien armada was on its way to Earth, All of earths governments rejected the notion of sharing all their technologies for humanities advancement when faced with nation defence. They also banned fleeing the solar system as "The Inequality of survival is the worst kind of Inequality" and would cause widespread societal disruption and any who tried to flee the solar system or tried to develop related technologies would be hunted down and executed. Civilians would active attack and sabotage spaceport that could allow humans passage to space to escape and even fired at orbital human cities as they could be turned into arks for interstellar travel. And finally traitors of all kinds lurked, some indirectly caused the deaths of billions. I see these situations as closer to the truth.
There isn't a government on earth whose actions and/or intentions lead me to believe for a moment that we would enter the galactic stage with such benign, self-restrained and well reasoned motivations, actions and goals. Human governments have, without a single exceptions that come to mind, shown a strong drive towards amassing power, lying to their constituents, betraying agreements whenever convenient and ignoring the slightest modicum of virtue (except for its' appearance) at all times. They have all, nearly without exception, devolved into self-serving power structures bent on the subjugation of the population under their control. The best government is the least government. I do not stand with the libertarians who claim to need no government at all but I stand with many of the founding fathers of the United States (who would be appalled by what has become of their country) who professed to believe that the least amount of government was the best. We would enter the galactic arena as a scourge upon the stars, if not immediately, then shortly after with the entrenchment of our position and our solidifying of our bureaucratic presence in the halls of galactic power. I shutter when I consider what would happen to the galaxy if we as a species are unleashed upon it.
"Do we have any friends?" "No." "Any allies still willing to abide by our treaties with them?" "Not a one." "Good. We can fire in all directions at once, then!"
This is a well played out plot for a movie. This needs to be published for a movie so that the new directors and movie design crerws can have their fair involvement in a grand story line that could fall in order of Star Trek or Battlestar Galactica.
So happy that I finally found a narrator that Im happy with. Its very hard for me to find one that doesn't get on my nerves with bad pronunciation and over acting. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.🙌
Everyone is a critic. Maybe instead of looking for reasons to dislike something, find something to enjoy. Nothing of relavance is really added from the criticism of all these successful authors with published works of their own. Its a youtube video.
Great commentary. Reminded me of either Star Trek or a Stellaris Playthrough. I hope Humanity becomes futuristic with Roman esque features as seen in this picture, or space Vikings as seen in Endless Space 2 Vaulters Artwork. Either way they would show off the two best cultures in our history as a species
I really enjoyed this story and very much appreciate all the work you do to bring stories such as this to the Internet through your channel. Your channel is one of very few to which I have subscribed. Now that said, the transcript/subtitles in this story could really use an editor. I mention this because sometimes I cannot use the audio narration and therefore have to rely on the subtitles as I did in this case. - Is it Thul or Thule or Thal because the subtitle spells it all three ways? Same with Rakian or is it Recian? And at least once it uses Thularekian. - At various points in the story it should be: rifts, not riffs; pacts, not packs; pariahed, not paryed; reins, not rains; rein, not reign; deterrence, not deterrents; dissent, not descent; and deep-seated, not deep seeded. - The story should probably not have used populous (meaning densely populated) but something else like population (inhabitants) otherwise the meaning is a bit off but this is minor compared to the other issues. Only mentioned because I posted about the other issues. - A bit of punctuation would help with reading the transcript/subtitles And I apologize ion advance if I am somehow sounding like a pedantic grammar nazi. I definitely do not intend to do so. I just hate to see errors impact the quality of a good/great story, book, or speech.
Thank you for everything! I will try do to better to satisfy all of us! Thank you for support and advices! Glad that you are one of my subscribers! Enjoy! 🍻
No kidding. My 'to watch' list exploded to over 600 videos a month because of this AI spam. And worse, 90% of them are constantly repeating ideals of unity and cooperation. Makes me think this is some liberal morality advertising instead of AI testing as I first thought.
@@TheDurid1 What annoys me is that they all seem to subscribe to the same school of thought of philosophy of thought of the Department of Redundancy Department 😡😤 For the love of God man, the English language has more than 50 words and stop repeating yourself!
The narration is actually not bad at all, but the story itself? Apparently the person (or machine) that primarily wrote this, never heard of the concept of show don’t tell. This is like a high school students summary of a book series, but written with better grammar. There seems to be something of a disconnect though, or should I say major inconsistency? Twice it said that the council, watching the humans military build up, was basically afraid, concerned, rethinking its actions. And then the humans deploy their fleet and the council is surprised! Didn’t see it coming! Taken aback by the plucky humans suddenly developing a fleet out of nowhere! Except a few paragraphs before they knew about the fleet, knew about the military buildup; and a few paragraphs before that they also knew about the war mongering and knew about the military buildup. The story is just full of circles and circles and circles.
These channels were good when they plucked from the Reddit page of HFY and narrated themselves (although I'm not sure this channel ever did). Now it's just AI garbage narrated by an AI. Boring.
Great stirring story...almost: way too much "highest ideals of FairPlay, and equity among species was consistently used portraying humanity as the ultimate arbiter of enlightened leadership among all the other races in the galaxy...judging from conditions right now here on Earth I doubt without some sort of "uplift" my species intellect is capable of living up to....but a good story nevertheless!
Yes we get the point there's a faction within the galactic alliance that wants to kick out the humans I think you've made that point way too many times
It's frankly ridiculous that a new interstellar species defeats galaxy spanning alien empires. Unless that new interstellar species is the viltrumites, I'm not buying it. The Hugo award winning book The Dark Forest (A part of THE THREE BODY PROBLEM) had a better view on this sort of situations (MAJOR SPOILERS) A single alien probe, not even one thousandth the size of an alien ship in an armada of a thousand ships singlehandedly annihilated humanities entire thousands strong space fleet in less than an hour. Then a lone alien while singing threw a paper sized weapon in our solar system that flattened our entire solar system into 2 dimensions, destroying all life present there.
I've noticed this a lot with these stories. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the AI Voice programs. Maybe they struggle with properly reading the text when punctuation is involved? I remember the old Microsoft Voice program always struggled with punctuation back in the day.
These absolutely reek of AI generated. Like if you're gonna be lazy and use AI, at least give us some credit and make sure that the AI narrator is not reading obvious grammar mistakes that would have been caught by even someone in the 10th grade.
While a reasonably decent short story, many of the issues/comments were basically repeated several times. The story could have been done in about 10 minutes.
A man like trump would be defending the galactic council to sow dissent and promise to end all conflict with his amazing negotiation skills. And if elected he would try to file for bankruptcy on the intergalactic banks.😂😂😂 alien scans would show that the human leader wears a diaper😂
@@Sci-FiGuy_ just imagine what the human flagship would look like it would a warship of the biggly class. It would make the universe great again! Hehe MUGA!
There is no dark side of the moon. This story is sloppy. Quite a few times phrases were misused. 'Second guess' is used as 're-evaluate' and so on. Very repetitive too. Pulp.
Fun stuff but I find myself lost and stop following the story I'm listening to. Seems to go in circles and nothing more. I'm bored with it now and walking away. Too bad, I had high hopes but it seems to have fallen flat. Keep working on it. Bring life to this scroll and it will become noteworthy.
Maybe, the difference is that conservatives are too weak and cowardly to fight back. If I'm wrong, point out where conservatives are fighting for anything.
This text to voice / voice to text efforts are annoying. Zero punctuation, grammatical errors and malapropisms galore … it’s painful. And that’s before we get to the implausibility of the story. More ‘manifest destiny’ crap. The author has to be American.
It's frankly ridiculous that a new interstellar species defeats galaxy spanning alien empires. Unless that new interstellar species is the viltrumites, I'm not buying it. The Hugo award winning book The Dark Forest (A part of THE THREE BODY PROBLEM) had a better view on this sort of situations (MAJOR SPOILERS) A single alien probe, not even one thousandth the size of an alien ship in an armada of a thousand ships singlehandedly annihilated humanities entire thousands strong space fleet in less than an hour. Then a lone alien while singing threw a paper sized weapon in our solar system that flattened our entire solar system into 2 dimensions, destroying all life present there.
