Story 1: Xeno: "We have bigger." Human: "What part of 'forward operating base' don't you understand?" Xeno: "FTL projectiles! But those have to be expensive!" Human: "More expensive than fleets of cruisers and carriers?" Xeno: "..." Human: "Not so haughty now, are you?" Story 2: Ah, finally, someone understands humanity. Offer him a job on Terra and explain it to the humans, please.
In the first story the ambassador did a misinterpretation, i think. The humans wouldn't show it if there is no countermeasure of it. Otherwise the enemy could build it too and then the both sides are at the same strength at best, or at worst the aliens get on top with better technology. So the humans would have a countermeasure, but to be effective it had to be easy implementable otherwise it's avoidable by the enemy and would empower them. The ambassador didn't have a countermeasure ready, even on theoretical level, so it seams not that easy. In the end there can be only one reason why the weapon is shown: The humans developed something better, making the weapon obsolete.
Or subterfuge. Give ambassador a tour, allow bug planting but keep track of them, proclaim these to be state-of-the-art, heavy weapons, let ambassador leave, while "sweeping for bugs" have someone ask "why would they bug such a lightly armed support outpost", let enemy die trying to worry about "if these are 'light', what is 'heavy'?"
Hi, Steel here, the one who wrote that story! My original intent with the story was to have it as a tale less about "big huge gun" and more about "Light drives are expensive, and only humans are dumb enough to make one-use weaponised versions. NOBODY, not even the humans, has industrial capacity for that, they just did it anyway". Unfortunately that got lost in my efforts to write the story, but yeah the justification for why only humans have it is because only humans can manufacture that type of thing in enough quantity to be useful as a weapon. Think: Someone managing to make antimatter bombs tomorrow, with the current technology. Sure its theoretically possible, and would be wildly effective, but you'd have to bleed yourself dry industrially speaking to do it. Same here- humans made a bet on something that they can't actually afford, and it paid off. The reason that didn't come across is uhhh because I'm just not that good a writer lmao
@@steelblue8 that is an interesting take. It will also make it seem like the humans are much more powerful than they seem because they are making these throwaway weapon sorta like how the first couple of atomic bombs were the only couple they had. If the enemy thinks okay these guys are up here mass-producing these hideously expensive weapons and they're showing us what they're doing which means either they have a lot more of them than we think or Weis pensive is not hideously expensive to them. Sodalite comparing the end of World War 2 Atomic weapons to the atomic weapons 5 years ago
@@eliandervalderen5849 That's part of it, too! I initially tried to work in a thing mentioning "and that's how the humans won a war with a single surplus light drive and 15 repainted steel pipes" but I couldn't work it in without things being even more clunky than they already were
Coins are three-dimensional objects. They have as many sides as they have surfaces. An easy example would be all of the planes around the edge since most are not perfectly round.
"No need for a poker face when you're holding all the aces." Actually that's the *exact* time for a poker face. In poker, you want your opponents to think they have a chance to win so they continue to bet more
I mean, there's better hands than 4 aces. But you can also do things like dropping your poker face for a second, as a false bluff. It's all about knowing when you too bluff and when to false bluff.
@@tzman215 to a certain extent, but for example, you can also just drop the poker face entirely for the false bluff, as long as you've been using it the rest of the game.
Haha. "Fight or Flight..." started as some kind of a joke, but as I was writing it I realized I had enough flesh for a short story. Hope you guys enjoy it! Xenosociologists... Margaret Mead with tentacles 😅
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Hilarious! I got this image in my head ,of a stogy reptilian xeno professor ,scratching his head feathers trying to make sense out of human behaviours, only to have his hypothesis invalidated by the next human interaction he observes.
I think that the response to a situation should be within the 3ish second frame of surprise, farting though is more a muscle reflex of the body tensing so it is more 'it be how it be' lol After the 3 seconds they are processing the information to preform something... Unless they are just running in which case they don't know what happened to process information lol
@@hdufort I might, but I was suggesting that humans overthink anything and outside of that 3 seconds, they are either processing information or have already decided their results, give or take lol
Another classic response is to intimidate. It works well against wild animals, like bears that wander into town at night looking for food and are going through your trash. (you can actually prevent this problem all together by leaving a bowl of bleach out near the trash, bears can't stand the smell of bleach) I don't recommend it if the bear has cubs however. You can't intimidate a mother protecting her young lol.
1st one - "Yes ambassador, you see this before you, now imagine the same thing applied to a hunk of rock 500 meters across being used on a planet........." 2nd one - Never a good thing when the human looks at you and drawls, "Yew sure got a real purdy mouth." Xenos may not realize that humans are prey that became apex predators.
I'll give odds that every single bug she planted was either removed, disabled or marked as soon as it was planted. It's not a coin. It's a multi-faceted die (singular of dice) roll that sometimes doesn't stop on a single side.
Hey, I'm the author! I agree wholeheartedly, I kinda had two conflicting ideas for what the core concept of the story should be, and in the end neither of them really came across to full effect. My writing is fairly hit-and-miss at the current stage, so I may revisit the concept later.
@@someoneawesome8717 I was going to suggest FRIENDSHIP, but I guess that would fall under "fawning". But both basically have the same idea of trying to make the hostile entity non-hostile when you can't or won't fight or run away. And now that I think about it, this is sort of the basis of peace treaties: both sides can't run away and don't want to fight any more, so conflict is settled by negotiation and mutual agreement. And even in the case of a clear victor, "surrender" is a form of "fawning", isn't it?
Story 1: Xeno: "We have bigger."
Human: "What part of 'forward operating base' don't you understand?"
Xeno: "FTL projectiles! But those have to be expensive!"
Human: "More expensive than fleets of cruisers and carriers?"
Xeno: "..."
Human: "Not so haughty now, are you?"
Story 2: Ah, finally, someone understands humanity. Offer him a job on Terra and explain it to the humans, please.
LOL right, they recently used $443,000 missiles to ground a couple made in china balloons.
In the first story the ambassador did a misinterpretation, i think. The humans wouldn't show it if there is no countermeasure of it. Otherwise the enemy could build it too and then the both sides are at the same strength at best, or at worst the aliens get on top with better technology. So the humans would have a countermeasure, but to be effective it had to be easy implementable otherwise it's avoidable by the enemy and would empower them. The ambassador didn't have a countermeasure ready, even on theoretical level, so it seams not that easy. In the end there can be only one reason why the weapon is shown: The humans developed something better, making the weapon obsolete.
Or subterfuge. Give ambassador a tour, allow bug planting but keep track of them, proclaim these to be state-of-the-art, heavy weapons, let ambassador leave, while "sweeping for bugs" have someone ask "why would they bug such a lightly armed support outpost", let enemy die trying to worry about "if these are 'light', what is 'heavy'?"
My guess is that those are just the defensive weapons their offensive weapons are much worse. Ever hear of a black hole bomb?
Hi, Steel here, the one who wrote that story! My original intent with the story was to have it as a tale less about "big huge gun" and more about "Light drives are expensive, and only humans are dumb enough to make one-use weaponised versions. NOBODY, not even the humans, has industrial capacity for that, they just did it anyway". Unfortunately that got lost in my efforts to write the story, but yeah the justification for why only humans have it is because only humans can manufacture that type of thing in enough quantity to be useful as a weapon.
Think: Someone managing to make antimatter bombs tomorrow, with the current technology. Sure its theoretically possible, and would be wildly effective, but you'd have to bleed yourself dry industrially speaking to do it. Same here- humans made a bet on something that they can't actually afford, and it paid off.
The reason that didn't come across is uhhh because I'm just not that good a writer lmao
@@steelblue8 that is an interesting take. It will also make it seem like the humans are much more powerful than they seem because they are making these throwaway weapon sorta like how the first couple of atomic bombs were the only couple they had. If the enemy thinks okay these guys are up here mass-producing these hideously expensive weapons and they're showing us what they're doing which means either they have a lot more of them than we think or Weis pensive is not hideously expensive to them. Sodalite comparing the end of World War 2 Atomic weapons to the atomic weapons 5 years ago
@@eliandervalderen5849 That's part of it, too! I initially tried to work in a thing mentioning "and that's how the humans won a war with a single surplus light drive and 15 repainted steel pipes" but I couldn't work it in without things being even more clunky than they already were
Ah yes,
xenos: "Every coin have two sides."
Humans: "Why have a coin when you can have dodecahedron?"
Coins are three-dimensional objects. They have as many sides as they have surfaces. An easy example would be all of the planes around the edge since most are not perfectly round.
"No need for a poker face when you're holding all the aces." Actually that's the *exact* time for a poker face. In poker, you want your opponents to think they have a chance to win so they continue to bet more
I mean, there's better hands than 4 aces. But you can also do things like dropping your poker face for a second, as a false bluff. It's all about knowing when you too bluff and when to false bluff.
@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178 Yes obviously.... Both of those tactics still require you to use a poker face to some degree which is what I was getting at
@@tzman215 to a certain extent, but for example, you can also just drop the poker face entirely for the false bluff, as long as you've been using it the rest of the game.
Haha. "Fight or Flight..." started as some kind of a joke, but as I was writing it I realized I had enough flesh for a short story. Hope you guys enjoy it! Xenosociologists... Margaret Mead with tentacles 😅
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Hilarious! I got this image in my head ,of a stogy reptilian xeno professor ,scratching his head feathers trying to make sense out of human behaviours, only to have his hypothesis invalidated by the next human interaction he observes.
I think that the response to a situation should be within the 3ish second frame of surprise, farting though is more a muscle reflex of the body tensing so it is more 'it be how it be' lol
After the 3 seconds they are processing the information to preform something... Unless they are just running in which case they don't know what happened to process information lol
@@firedirewolf You might be overthinking it. But then again, I like your philosophy of farting.
@@peterwalls-qf7ii the alien naturalist council fainted like scandalized dowagers in Nashville
@@hdufort I might, but I was suggesting that humans overthink anything and outside of that 3 seconds, they are either processing information or have already decided their results, give or take lol
Story two. A coin or door actually has Three sides. The Edge is also a side and encloses all the rest.
and as described in said story, Humanity is mainly that third side... i dub this third side, Spite!
Story two sums up the phrase: Retreat now, Kill them later
Better part of valor…
Thank you for the reading
thanks for both stories and the narration
For the algorithm! The last one fits us so well.
Story 2: Fight, Flight, and/or Spite….
this deserves its own story , just to end with this phrase
Another classic response is to intimidate. It works well against wild animals, like bears that wander into town at night looking for food and are going through your trash. (you can actually prevent this problem all together by leaving a bowl of bleach out near the trash, bears can't stand the smell of bleach)
I don't recommend it if the bear has cubs however. You can't intimidate a mother protecting her young lol.
Poor poor alien xenobiologist XD
Second story - LOL, yep, never know what you will do in certain situations. Run, fight, pee your pants.....
That ending had me wheezing
1st one - "Yes ambassador, you see this before you, now imagine the same thing applied to a hunk of rock 500 meters across being used on a planet........." 2nd one - Never a good thing when the human looks at you and drawls, "Yew sure got a real purdy mouth." Xenos may not realize that humans are prey that became apex predators.
Sweet. I love these!
I'll give odds that every single bug she planted was either removed, disabled or marked as soon as it was planted.
It's not a coin. It's a multi-faceted die (singular of dice) roll that sometimes doesn't stop on a single side.
Greetings Mentlegent
For the Rhyhtm that is algo
Story 1: Agreed with the basic point, but seems written a little sloppily
Story 2: HAHAHAHAHA
Hey, I'm the author! I agree wholeheartedly, I kinda had two conflicting ideas for what the core concept of the story should be, and in the end neither of them really came across to full effect. My writing is fairly hit-and-miss at the current stage, so I may revisit the concept later.
Thanks for the story 😊
Been starting to notice some cutting off of the intros and outros. Been on a lot of recent videos. Almost didn't get the Y of the "hope you Enjo(y)"
For the Algorithm, for the Author(s), for the Disembodied Voice!
Fight, flight, or get tactical
10:08 Humanity, is complicated.
Story 2: Fuck around and find out
On the second story they forgot freeze
Faint is funnier.
I realy thought there were only 4. Flight, fight, freeze and hide.
Fight flight freeze and fawning actually! The last one is basically an attempt to appease what scared you so it spares you
@@someoneawesome8717 I was going to suggest FRIENDSHIP, but I guess that would fall under "fawning". But both basically have the same idea of trying to make the hostile entity non-hostile when you can't or won't fight or run away.
And now that I think about it, this is sort of the basis of peace treaties: both sides can't run away and don't want to fight any more, so conflict is settled by negotiation and mutual agreement. And even in the case of a clear victor, "surrender" is a form of "fawning", isn't it?
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Hahahaha, fun story #1
3rd, 24 January 2023