So basically in 'is it plugged in' humanity is an uplifted species who ended up being the ones who have watch their uplifters don't kill themselves by sticking their tongue in an electrical socket because their best attributes is that they are cute fuzzy idiots who somehow are good at cross species diplomacy due to said adorableness?
that's the thing about uplifting, it's hard to say where the endpoint is. Even if we are a wolfling race, there's always dome wiggle room for someone to interfere and claim us, or enough of us that it needn't matter (until the rest catch up, if that's even posisble)
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light." The TCS Goodwin blossomed in a storm of mutual annihilation as its reactor finally went critical mass, savagely tearing the backlines of the hostile fleet. And for a moment, there were two suns in Earth's sky.
As far as I can guess, I think that defense ship may be a xeno, it actively refers to humanity as “humans” and has a somewhat odd name. So sure as hell that xeno and his crew earned their place among Valhalla, or any other place a human may go, because they might as well be one of us considering they held the line and defended our earth
I think this is a Flowers for Algernon situation. At some point in the past, the Imperials developed a procedure that massively increased their intelligence. Unfortunately, this procedure would eventually backfire, causing the person who received it to massively regress in intelligence. And by the time they realized this, the vast majority of their people had already undergone the procedure.
I like where Josh is getting a situation update from the ship's AI (Hobart). Where even Hobart wants a vacation and an alcoholic beverage just to cope with it's crew's ineptitude.
So most everyone agrees to keep somehow-spacee fearing-care bears safe from themselves... I was so fucking perplexed & worried for those somehow dumb little things.... For the algorithm & the sanity of every IT person ever!
They dead ended themselves. They created such advanced tech that it ran it self and they slowly dumbed down not having to problem solve. Then when faced with problems had to turn to those damn kids to program the vcr.
The second story is fantastic, I well and truly, laughed my ass off. If memory serves me correctly, there was a Star Trek episode with a similsar theme to "Is It Plugged In?" That had ridiculously advanced aliens that were complete and utter morons because their technology had learned to run their society. The Alien A.I. wasn't malicious in any way just trying to protect its payload of lovable idiots from themselves.
The second story reminds me of a species from some video game (I think it was Star Control Origins) that was short lived, fast reproducing, and died in job lots every time they tried to do anything, Every time you visited them, they would tell you about some new feat accomplished and casually rattle off how many of their people died to get it done. On the surface, they're pretty comical. But then you talk to an elder alien that observing them, and it tells you that for all their comicalness, species like that evolve and advanced technologically FAST. What took us centuries to do takes them mere decades. IOW, the reason the Imperial Citizens seem so stupid despite being able to build such advanced technology strikes me as something similar happening. They do insane shit that no one else does, but that pays off just often enough to take the leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else technologically, a trait that in some other HFY stories is something that belongs to humanity. As for the Imperial Citizens being dumb as rocks about technology... well how many idiots do you know who don't know how to work some basic piece of home technology?
That's because those 'idiots' as you call them (well, Most of them anyway) don't know how to work it because they've never used it before or been told/shown how to use it. Usually it comes in a box with with 'clear, concise directions of assembly/usage that no one but the author of said directions can understand. The real problem comes after they do learn how to use it and use it frequently. That's when their brain cells start dying due to lack of use. Having said that, to get serious for a moment, there are some studies done recently that shows as the level of technology and it's use goes up, the intelligence of humans is going down.
"No matter how idiot-proof you make a system, the universe will always make a bigger idiot." -direct quote from my manufacturing engineering professor. Also among his quotes, "it's not the stupid idiots that get you. It's how smart idiots can be.", "I think we should remove all the safety guards for a year or so, and just let natural selection do its best work.", and other gems of that nature. He was my programming professor, but I learned far more about human idiocy in that class than I will ever learn about programming.
Story 2, Josh needs to do some more IT for humans if he's astonished that an alien doesn't know how his species own tech works. I felt this story in my bones after 3 years in a PC repair shop.
I love it how the whole galaxy realized that the Imperial Citizens are the glue that kept the Galaxy together and begged humans to please please please keep them safe...
They did what was not only needed but required. Hold the enemy for as long as possible and take as many of them with you as possible to reduce the damage that will be inflicted and pray reinforcements come in time, if not to save you, then to save the ones you were charged with protecting. So the furballs are both geniuses and Kevins at the same time? OUCH!
So chubby space Ewoks went 40k universe only instead of becoming dark and depressing they’re bumbling fat lil Care Bears with tech they no longer understand but that manages to keep them alive and in charge. The imperium of Care Bears 🐻
Im broke now so i cant right now. But i really want someone to become a patron to be annoced and their name be DRAGON THE BOB. Just as some fun since bob the dragons been here so long
But there was no guarantee of that. This was a last stand as far as he knew, no backup coming, no hope save for one final gambit. The reinforcements just made the failed MAD charge worth the sacrifice.
@@Talon1124 He actually fouled up. Without the reinforcements he would not have taken the fleet out. So what he did made no difference in that case other than a few dead xenos. Yes he tried and failed to do the suicide attack, but since he knew nothing else would work, that should have been what was done while the ship was whole if that was his intention(PLUS he could have done the life pods thing so some of his crew would survive). It would have had better odds at that point. Other things he could have done was try to lead the fleet away giving more time in case reinforcements came (which wasn't all that unlikely). Block first salvo, man the lifeboats, suicide attack run would have been a better move. Technically the aliens were utterly foolish to even let that possibly happen. Just in case the lone ship was going to do something utterly foolish, or the planet have some defense that would be similar, the fleet should NOT have been in a compact cluster. Spreading out was called for.
@@silvadelshaladin Where would the crew go if Earth was glassed? He did the best he could to make his ship and crews sacrifice matter. The only "mistake" was an FTL error on an untested jump distance. Desperate times are dangerous times.
Does this imperial race have a higher than the human percentage of savants? That could explain how they have the tec but can't understand it. Savants often have a hard time explaining how they think through problems. So the race itself might not have the knowledge.
So basically in 'is it plugged in' humanity is an uplifted species who ended up being the ones who have watch their uplifters don't kill themselves by sticking their tongue in an electrical socket because their best attributes is that they are cute fuzzy idiots who somehow are good at cross species diplomacy due to said adorableness?
Sounds like it yeah.
Not only that but we were asked by the other uplifts to make sure they dont kill them selfs
that's the thing about uplifting, it's hard to say where the endpoint is.
Even if we are a wolfling race, there's always dome wiggle room for someone to interfere and claim us, or enough of us that it needn't matter (until the rest catch up, if that's even posisble)
So basically fuzzy pakleds
I think they have been so dependent on tech for so long that they just dont need the smarts no more. I've seen this theory other places too.
Source: Look at humanity
@@Demonicpurity for real a lot of people dont bother learning anything cause they have all knowledge in the palm of their hand.
Any Apple device user fits this squarely. Based on my interactions with said device users.
@@Demonicpurity Source: Literally look at the state of Twitter and America.
@@AiluridaeAureus Are those no longer part of humanity?
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
The TCS Goodwin blossomed in a storm of mutual annihilation as its reactor finally went critical mass, savagely tearing the backlines of the hostile fleet.
And for a moment, there were two suns in Earth's sky.
As far as I can guess, I think that defense ship may be a xeno, it actively refers to humanity as “humans” and has a somewhat odd name.
So sure as hell that xeno and his crew earned their place among Valhalla, or any other place a human may go, because they might as well be one of us considering they held the line and defended our earth
@@zyanidwarfare5634 Could be uplifted species from earth tbf.
The description of the Imperials in the second story is gold!
I imagine them looking like long-haired space koalas.
they look like care-bears
Okay that is priceless
I think this is a Flowers for Algernon situation. At some point in the past, the Imperials developed a procedure that massively increased their intelligence. Unfortunately, this procedure would eventually backfire, causing the person who received it to massively regress in intelligence. And by the time they realized this, the vast majority of their people had already undergone the procedure.
Thats the name pf that story! I often think about it, but never could remember the name......
Is It Plugged In...
Oh gods.... a species evolved from marketing and sales. Cute, polite, social, mercantile, and... hopeless with a can opener.
yarp
or even some doctors, lawyers or accountants (gotta deal with all 3 on a daily basis)
I like where Josh is getting a situation update from the ship's AI (Hobart). Where even Hobart wants a vacation and an alcoholic beverage just to cope with it's crew's ineptitude.
So most everyone agrees to keep somehow-spacee fearing-care bears safe from themselves...
I was so fucking perplexed & worried for those somehow dumb little things....
For the algorithm & the sanity of every IT person ever!
For the algorithm
may the algorithm bless all it workers
They dead ended themselves. They created such advanced tech that it ran it self and they slowly dumbed down not having to problem solve. Then when faced with problems had to turn to those damn kids to program the vcr.
Just what I'd imagined will happen.
Space Ewokians with tech they no longer understand dropping by for coffee and tech support.
The second story is fantastic, I well and truly, laughed my ass off. If memory serves me correctly, there was a Star Trek episode with a similsar theme to "Is It Plugged In?" That had ridiculously advanced aliens that were complete and utter morons because their technology had learned to run their society. The Alien A.I. wasn't malicious in any way just trying to protect its payload of lovable idiots from themselves.
The second story reminds me of a species from some video game (I think it was Star Control Origins) that was short lived, fast reproducing, and died in job lots every time they tried to do anything, Every time you visited them, they would tell you about some new feat accomplished and casually rattle off how many of their people died to get it done. On the surface, they're pretty comical. But then you talk to an elder alien that observing them, and it tells you that for all their comicalness, species like that evolve and advanced technologically FAST. What took us centuries to do takes them mere decades.
IOW, the reason the Imperial Citizens seem so stupid despite being able to build such advanced technology strikes me as something similar happening. They do insane shit that no one else does, but that pays off just often enough to take the leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else technologically, a trait that in some other HFY stories is something that belongs to humanity.
As for the Imperial Citizens being dumb as rocks about technology... well how many idiots do you know who don't know how to work some basic piece of home technology?
That's because those 'idiots' as you call them (well, Most of them anyway) don't know how to work it because they've never used it before or been told/shown how to use it. Usually it comes in a box with with 'clear, concise directions of assembly/usage that no one but the author of said directions can understand. The real problem comes after they do learn how to use it and use it frequently. That's when their brain cells start dying due to lack of use.
Having said that, to get serious for a moment, there are some studies done recently that shows as the level of technology and it's use goes up, the intelligence of humans is going down.
Catching the 2:30 show makes my shift so much better!! Thank you!
Rage against the dying of light, until it is done! And those Imperials sound like a cross of Ewok, Puffballs, and tinker gnomes.
I'm so happy someone made a story with this poem
:)
The ewoks are adanger to themselves but when threaten are the worst basterds to fight against then coupled together with the human orc engineers
Rage, RAGE til the end, knowing you have fought the good Fight! .... Save the ewoks from themselves LoL
"No matter how idiot-proof you make a system, the universe will always make a bigger idiot." -direct quote from my manufacturing engineering professor. Also among his quotes, "it's not the stupid idiots that get you. It's how smart idiots can be.", "I think we should remove all the safety guards for a year or so, and just let natural selection do its best work.", and other gems of that nature. He was my programming professor, but I learned far more about human idiocy in that class than I will ever learn about programming.
I was appointed as the Safety Manager at the company I used to work for. Within a month I was convinced that all or our employees were suicidal.
Story 2, Josh needs to do some more IT for humans if he's astonished that an alien doesn't know how his species own tech works. I felt this story in my bones after 3 years in a PC repair shop.
2nd story reminds me of my grandparents operating anything from this century. I needed a vacation after one call
"Is it plugged in" and "have you tried turning it off and on again", the life of the average IT support.
The nanite swarn got one of mysocks that dont fit so meh and for the ALGORITHM yas
I love it how the whole galaxy realized that the Imperial Citizens are the glue that kept the Galaxy together and begged humans to please please please keep them safe...
Always nice to find a new story to listen to while I relax
For the Algorithm, For the Author(s), For the Disembodied Voice!
For the algorithm
ok the second: i swear to dog that i know this species and i have to work with them....
species name : users
@@AgroSquerril now that is a great answer
For AgroSquerri - the best SF stories, well read. Thank you, Sir
a pleasure , For the algorithm
Algorithm must be appeased. The importance of holding out against the spiteful enemy is the challenge of honor guard.
For the algorithm
They did what was not only needed but required. Hold the enemy for as long as possible and take as many of them with you as possible to reduce the damage that will be inflicted and pray reinforcements come in time, if not to save you, then to save the ones you were charged with protecting.
So the furballs are both geniuses and Kevins at the same time? OUCH!
Tech Support... Tech Support never changes.
The beginning freaked me out because I already listen to these at x2 speed.
I love that poem It rears me up almost every time
Love your start!!!
Does the second one have "Do not develop my app." Tattooed on the imperial's forehead?
lol
I dare you to do a whole episode with the squirl
So chubby space Ewoks went 40k universe only instead of becoming dark and depressing they’re bumbling fat lil Care Bears with tech they no longer understand but that manages to keep them alive and in charge. The imperium of Care Bears 🐻
All hail the imperium
The idea annoys me less than I thought it would.
Krieg bear has a shovel and a gasmask on his belly
Im broke now so i cant right now. But i really want someone to become a patron to be annoced and their name be DRAGON THE BOB. Just as some fun since bob the dragons been here so long
Bless the Squerril
Is anyone not gonna talk about that awesome intro 😂
how the hell can I listen to this at 1.5 speed and it still feels slow
You must have a lot of squirrel around?
i cough them out and they disappear
Go in the second story we are the Rufus to the imperials Ron.
Neat
9:31 so a potato
OOF! the first one took me for a ride!
For the algorithm!
For the algorithm
neat
You're 1st
:)
Love the 2nd story.
Wait! Did they just challenge human stupidity?
Whoops -- all he had to do was to act purely defensively, maybe with some good tactics and the cavalry would have saved him.
But there was no guarantee of that.
This was a last stand as far as he knew, no backup coming, no hope save for one final gambit.
The reinforcements just made the failed MAD charge worth the sacrifice.
@@Talon1124 He actually fouled up. Without the reinforcements he would not have taken the fleet out. So what he did made no difference in that case other than a few dead xenos. Yes he tried and failed to do the suicide attack, but since he knew nothing else would work, that should have been what was done while the ship was whole if that was his intention(PLUS he could have done the life pods thing so some of his crew would survive). It would have had better odds at that point. Other things he could have done was try to lead the fleet away giving more time in case reinforcements came (which wasn't all that unlikely).
Block first salvo, man the lifeboats, suicide attack run would have been a better move.
Technically the aliens were utterly foolish to even let that possibly happen. Just in case the lone ship was going to do something utterly foolish, or the planet have some defense that would be similar, the fleet should NOT have been in a compact cluster. Spreading out was called for.
@@silvadelshaladin Where would the crew go if Earth was glassed? He did the best he could to make his ship and crews sacrifice matter. The only "mistake" was an FTL error on an untested jump distance. Desperate times are dangerous times.
#2 Is such a lulz!)
Does this imperial race have a higher than the human percentage of savants? That could explain how they have the tec but can't understand it. Savants often have a hard time explaining how they think through problems. So the race itself might not have the knowledge.
#1 is so much of Badass
Awesome!
Thanks again 👍
A pleasure
bro congrats on 18k
Thank you
A comment to appease the algorithm and help the channel.
And.... You really need to do something about the squirrel in your throat.
Maybe NOT plugging it in would be better for everyone.
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Duckmachine.
Great.
For the algorithm and squirrels 🐿
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Hehehe squirrel
:)
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