What is the Machine God? | Fear and Hunger 2 Termina Lore  

Getting this ending affirmed to me how the game’s Individualist vs Collectivist sub-conflict is present near-exclusively in its visuals. While the Machine God would provide peace and unity with all of humanity, humanity would never experience anything that can be tied to their own lives as individuals and be able to grow as people, like what Marina, Karin, Da’an, and Olivia gained throughout the events of the game.

AI generated Cahara looks exactly how I pictured him but Enki looks a lot more healthy than he is supposed to lol

My own random thoughts: it seems power levels of the gods in the world of F&H are related to their associated concepts. The more pure & universal the concepts, the more powerful the deities. Fundemental concepts like Grobro's "destruction" and Silvan's "creation" make them amongst the strongest, while new gods associate with minor concepts, often a subset of older gods larger concepts, are significantly weaker. Concepts evolve too, such as god of depths' "primitiveness" being taken over by gof&h 's newer concept fear and hunger aka huamnity's "desire for survival". Another case of evolving case is logic's taken over of nature, as human understand more and more about nature, nature's original concept transform into science and logic. The prominent role of Sulfur vs Logic seems to represent human being's own invention of concepts, existentialism / individulaism vs collectivism / communism which play stronger and stronger roles as society advances.

The true horror is when the tool become the god and the creator become the subject

Judging by how it seems the creator of the games takes a lot of inspiration from RL, I'm going to assume that the machine god ending is probably cannon to some degree. Mostly just cause I wouldn't be surprised if they do another game if theres another big time skip to a more digital age brought on by the Machine God's influence, similar to how the god of Fear and Hunger brought on the last age and moved it along. It does kinda make me wonder if maybe Le'garde is actually doing exactly what the prophesies say he will. Hes guiding humanity into a better? course, or at least keeping things from stagnating at the very least. The caveat of course is that hes doing so through ridiculous amounts of pain and suffering. Now does that mean he will actually accomplish his goal? No idea. But I do find it very interesting that everything in both games basically plays out through his grand plans and the player characters are unwitting pawns or just caught up in the consequences of his actions.

It can be similar to an allegory between individuality vs globalism, something that occurred rapidly after WW2. In which the Machine God enforces the new will of connecting with others as the modernization of the world makes those connections more available and less avoidable by then

With social media, we now have individual shrines (now several actually, with multiple platforms available) that we construct to ourselves, or more importantly, who we either THINK or WANT ourselves to be. It has diminished the shared logic of the observable world. "I think, therefore I am," has become a mockery of itself.

This channel is seriously the first time I have ever seen someone make a proper good use of AI Art

AI O’saa is fucking jacked😭 my mans don’t need grogroth blessings

LOGIC {AKA} MACHIME GOD SEEMS TO BE A META PHORE FOR THE INERNET OR MAYBE AI

Humanity is more than capable to adapt with technology and use it for "good" but having absolute will is a double edged sword that many are not and will not use right for a huge variety of reasons

i don't know what about it, but compared to where I'm from in the midwest, your slight accent has me hanging on like every word. Love the breakdown of logic and telectroscopes, definitely needed it!

Abella IA image is tick AF That's what I call lore

It really sounds like humanity becomes the borg in this ending. A hive mind where individuality doesn't exist

Watching and hearing the sawing going faster and faster creeped me out a bit. Limbs be flying brother. I've greatly enjoyed your videos and look forward to more. ❤️

9:20 Had a hard time concentrating on what you're saying while wondering why you sawing the legs off all your party members.....

Hey, nice analysis of the ending! Tks for the video!

29:37 it's what you call the collective subconcious. And now looking at the God Machine the door has alchemical references the divine masculine and feminine. Even the characters. The series is pretty deep I wish modern AAA games has this intellectual depth to it, just a few has those kind of writing and proper execution with the medium they presented with it fully delivered a fulfilling conclusion.

good video i can't wait for canon shitposting on logicbook in funger 3

that denim jacket visual gag got me lol

Fellow engineer here, Mr. coBanana, and I must say, I'm enjoying your channel so far. Needed Funger2 lore for work, exercise, basically when I'm not playing Funger2. Bravo, sirrah!

despite me not liking the use of AI images since they arent really needed in any ways and dont really add anything to this video, i really liked it, good job

This is what i looking for... Is it AI as a title of God Machine in our Era? People are trying so hard for developing AI in big corpos like chatgpt google Amazon Microsoft. It feels like battle of the gods tech for creating new beast, god machine 😮

THAT ABELLA AI

I wonder if in F&H 3 It's gonna be a modernized world in Vinland with the premise of defeating the machine god. ( i also wonder if firearms are gonna be different...)

great video!

Hey man, great video. As a opponent of AI stuff (solely because of unethical production of such, which is most AIs right now), I get why people were mad about it, but to me it was clear that you were receptive to what they were saying and i get that it is an extremely useful tool for making content like this. Anyway keep making the good content, to me it seems like you care about what you put out.

This is the best fear and hunger video I've managed to find. Great storytelling. Wonderful lore.

The Silent Hill OST was a good choice. Love the vids you're putting out, man!

Nice chill video cam you do one on tje first game

Die Toteninsel used as background music? 10/10

Im hearing you but when I recodnised music from Frostpunk I got flashbacks and mine mind was screaming "THE CITY MUST SURVIVE!"

Beautiful video

That is some marvelous use of AI Art. Also, I want that O'saa to hold me..

The protagonists look so wierd ai generated lmao Also good job on this video, I enjoyed it!

I love the thumbnail. AI truly is a marvel!

Ai characters are insane good

8:30 my brother in Christ, why the hell did you give The Fellowship jean jackets 😂

the AI art is damn good

O'saa this ripped going to break Needles spine, crush Stitches pelvis, rip deathmask in two and flex so hard Legarde will melt.

Just this game having a this man Reference is the best

"The characters of both games come off as Good and empathetic people" Enki: "yeah... About that"

16:00 excellent music choice, I salute you

you could also enter the city by just shooting the lock off

Thanks for the nice video! Personally I really like stories regarding Deus just due to how close we are to that reality right now(personal views of the Deus being a rise of a new godlike being likewise to what the antichrist may be; AI being the literal antithesis to humanity). A few games and anime that dealt with the existence of Deus I've played were Xenogears, Girls Frontline, and Serial Experiments Lain. Xenogears wrote Deus moreso like a alien-type being that existence on the earth from a bygone era, later leaving and returning in the future to assimilate humanity to a collective consciousness thanks to a shadow government. I'd say Girls Frontline deals with Deus's presentation similarly to F&H. It's a Metal Gear Solid with AI anime girls type story taking place in an alt. history 2060s after WW3 which the first fully armed AI war took place. The majority of the story takes place in Europe. To give some context, objects in the series known as "Relics" exist which have an unknown level of technology seen in the world simarily to something divine like the Ark of the Covenant. They're so advanced they even got the Tsarist Russians a 40 year head start on Relic/Automation research in the 1900s during the story. After awhile, one of the researched Relics in China screwed up in the 2040s and imploded, causing a brand new fatal radiation to emerge from the lab and spread into the atmosphere, leading to half of the world to becoming radioactive. This would mean that AIs would be the only ones now to really be able to explore the planet outside of safe zones. The first mention of Deus takes some time into the story, where a cult emerges in Germany that goes by Paradeus. The members of Paradeus typically are transhumanist cultists that attempt to gather members affected by the radiation and discard their humanity to gain immunity through transhumanism. They would end up sneaking into governmental positions to gain power in multiple European countries(mainly to take control of homeless shelters and orphanages to obtain more potential members). Coincidently, there's even a story arc later where the said cultists invade Bremen to disguise as citizens and push their own agendas within the city. Anyway, hard to summarize everything about it, but I enjoy thinking about where all of this AI will lead us in the next few years. It's evident enough that soon they will end up taking the majority of jobs leaving these generations that don't know how to work even more clueless about the world and subjected to AI. There's already plenty of instances now of people having services of AI teaching humans like through language learning, coding, conversational partners, or even psychological aid(not so recommended). Thanks for the vid and hope you make more essay-types like this!

Love your video. Can you give links too the tumbnail pic? I want to use is as a wall paper!

The Machine God is basically a Hug box.

i love you putting random jean jackets on gods

16:00 music “The city must survive” from the city sim “Frost Punk”.

a new god with 256 kb mb of ram and a 1024 kb processor

Trains, Planes, Telecommunications, internet and automobiles.....all using humans as resources.

In this battle of the gods Old, New, & Machine, it's interesting that the Train, an agent of the Machine God, delivering champions to this battlefield.

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Late comment, but the endings made me remember the same ideological clash of Devil Survivor 2, in a way.

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from this 2 game i think the massage is not about becoming god but or anything like that but to tackle any hardship as human since only human that can understand what human need and what human is, not some powerfull godlike being or something that was human, see what happen in the game lore all old god, new god even ascended god changes as time and era went by, but human remain as human no matter the time and era

Praise the Omnissiah!

lmaooooooooo ai art out here simping for fear and hunger

What's the music? In the first part. It's super chill

The logic is the block chain... What I don't understand is why it has to happen during the festival. The festival seems like a plot device pulled from under the sleeve...

3:07 600 is too much, there smth about 400, cause F&H events are in 16 century (1590 if i not mist), termina is in 1940-s

Also know as "The Kaiser created the internet and Google AI" ending.

So Le'garde tried to make vrchat?

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Eh a video on the machine god with I.A generated image , even though i don't like the overly digital style of I.A i can say that its doing a better and better job

So wait can you do all this within any of the 3 days or no? I thought you needed to do all this stuff within the first day to get the True/A-Ending?

Feels like a lot of extra work to make the Internet.

aw sweet, man made horrors beyond my comprehension

The machine god is who the adeptus mancanicus worshipers

if everyone became of one mind it would essentially erase allot of our altruism, it's the multiplicity of our species that makes it a requirement in the first place. all our darkest impulses which we repress with law shame consequence etc would be combined into one. it would be a being of pure selfishness, not the other way around. jk i dunno

Music at 8:50?

A mix of Battle Royale, Majora's Mask, Cthulhu mythos, and Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne.

We need a fear and hunger film🖤

Why do you decided to input a scene of a person cutting off his limbs, i cant hear you while they are doing that XD !!!

Soooooooooo the machine god was just someone trying to make Wi-Fi for the first time???

Also... the goal was to create the internet ? awesome...

heh... noice

I've been avoiding clicking on this channel for a hot minute, explicitly because of the stable diffusion trash, I just finally decided to come comment as much. Glancing at the comments, I'm disappointed to hear it might be good work otherwise, but we don't fuck with AI.

not my karin

What do you mean it’s on Steam I have looked for it up and down including the first game and I can’t find it

AI generated pictures destroyed the whole atmosphere xd

Damn the AI is on point

Enki looks way too much of a pretty boy lol. I feel like he should look half starved and unkempt.

bro the ai of daan in the beginning is so horrible , + he lost one eye and has an eye patch but he looks human , don't make him emo

Am i late :(?

not a fan of the AI art; i understand it's easier, but using official game art, drawing your own, requesting use of fanart, or commissioning artists (with proper crediting as well) would be a lot better. i enjoy watching your videos for information on fear and hunger (you do a lot of good coverage!) but i hope going forward the ai art changes to legitimate art. it's well worth the cost and effort

fear and hunger is just a berserk fan fic

clicking this video i thought imma get some answers on what is the machine god but bro just did a walkthrough of the game.....

I'm pretty sure Le'garde wanted the Godhood in both games it's just he didn't care the second time some random woman stole it. It is getting embarrassing if it happens again in the 3rd game, hopefully he is dead for good this time. P.S. I hate how we can't have odd ducks in stories anymore, the knight in fear n hunger 1 can't just be a tomboy, the merc can't find money to save his lover from prostitution, the mechanic can't work in a factory because all the men are at war, it can't be a boy who dressed as a girl to avoid the draft in a cult, a child drafted at the age of 13 and got addicted to drugs is a good thing to these nut jobs I guess, it has to be some kind of sacred cow that liberals touch themselves over there own check lists made by eco chambers.

Many of the small innacuracies and mispronunciations really take away from the video Dungeons of fear and horror? 💀😭

goofy ass thumbnail

🤢ai shart

the AI ruins it

Fear & Hunger has amazing and detailed art yet you decide to show this AI generated garbage throughout the video 😭

I'm really surprised you didn't include Logic's second form in here at all. Other than that, great video!!! Also, I don't think the party's actions at the end of this ending do anything to slow Logic's deployment. She awakens just as expected and creates her shared consciousness network.

Also, while the AI video clips look kinda crap (IMO I'd definitely stick to still images until that particular tech improves), the pictures are much appreciated vs looking at the same official art assets and gameplay we've all seen a million times! The people bitching and moaning about you using AI generated art and not paying human artists for a bunch of custom work which is COMPLETELY financially unfeasible for a small independent creator are the same kind of anti-engineering/anti-progress lunatics who were tearing down the then brand new mechanical looms in textile factories 150 years ago because "They took our jorbs!!!". So screw 'em. 🤷 Scientific progress waits for no man, as it damn well shouldn't! Either learn to adapt to an ever changing and advancing world, or just give up and die off like countless no longer existent forms of manual human labor have already. Simply bitching and whining about said changes and hoping they'll just suddenly spontaneously go away otoh does no good for ANYONE.