The Camel Problem - An Aoe2 Scenario to Test Your Morals

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  • @PhotonTrooperGaming
    @PhotonTrooperGaming 4 роки тому +549

    spirit of the law but it is a parallel universe where he pursued philosophy major instead of mathematics in college

    • @dkey201
      @dkey201 4 роки тому +27

      And also got really high before making his videos

    • @ManthanPandYEAH
      @ManthanPandYEAH 4 роки тому +4

      exactly what came into my mind...
      i think this game's community is now the workforce or almost ready.. cant wait a presentation in board meeting where u explain them using this game sincs all of the ppl are huge fan 🙈🤣

    • @UnfamiliarPlace
      @UnfamiliarPlace 4 роки тому +2

      @FPoPP Fun fact: he studied psychology

    • @afz902k
      @afz902k 3 роки тому +1

      Logic is math, and that's important in rigorous philosophy

    • @sarveshseri
      @sarveshseri 3 роки тому +2

      And now we all know - "Fate is a flaming camel".

  • @Dartaen
    @Dartaen 4 роки тому +512

    Thus spoke Jesus: "It is easier for a flaming camel to go through a locked gate than for a full trade cart to enter the kingdom of God."

  • @ElZenom
    @ElZenom 4 роки тому +597

    Did you hear that? That's the sound of Spirit of the Law making a video calculating the cost of all these combinations to see if it's worth it.

    • @JasonHenderson
      @JasonHenderson 4 роки тому +20

      Someone tag @spiritofthelaw

    • @DmitryKlishev
      @DmitryKlishev 4 роки тому +35

      He must calculate how much time we waste to close the gate and how fast saved villagers will repay for this time

    • @caturviriyananda9586
      @caturviriyananda9586 4 роки тому +14

      @@DmitryKlishev typical sotl. hearthless monster

    • @Siddios
      @Siddios 4 роки тому +37

      There is no morality for Sotl. Only numbers. And a guitar.

    • @posajnejkwahb
      @posajnejkwahb 4 роки тому +42

      Hey there, Spirit of the Law here. Today I will take a look at how much a human life is worth and whether taking an active choice to cause the death of a person can be morally defensible. Let's check it out!

  • @GoodFish1985
    @GoodFish1985 4 роки тому +495

    The third choice: delete all "myself" = player defeated = end the scenario, thus no body harmed by all those flaming camel. A noble cause action I believe.

    • @T-West
      @T-West  4 роки тому +142

      Only there's also an invisible object, so you keep playing. :)

    • @GoodFish1985
      @GoodFish1985 4 роки тому +92

      @@T-West That's so evil :(

    • @takahashi2852
      @takahashi2852 4 роки тому +9

      I will personally go stand near the 5 villagers and choose the noble choice, delete myself

    • @borisniper
      @borisniper 4 роки тому +8

      @@T-West Can we make the sadistic choixe of sparing the 5 villager for ... Killing them ourself ? :D

    • @T-West
      @T-West  4 роки тому +9

      @@borisniper Nope, you're allied and teams are locked. You'll need the camel to do your dirty work for you.

  • @OrenjiArt
    @OrenjiArt 4 роки тому +70

    In Aoe logic. If I want to save lives, I choose to change my diplomacy against the flaming camel to Enemy. So the camel will die destroying the gate.

    • @cat-.-
      @cat-.- 4 роки тому +4

      That’s the same as gate being closed and the camel deleting one knight. But maybe the camel AI is stupid enough to destroy the gate you never know

  • @shinkiro403
    @shinkiro403 4 роки тому +240

    Everybody is "What about the villagers?!"
    I am "WHAT ABOUT THE CAMEL?!"

    • @Ainsley_the_meat_rubber
      @Ainsley_the_meat_rubber 4 роки тому +25

      Camel: we are just camels sir we're meant to be expendable

    • @AggressiveEnte
      @AggressiveEnte 4 роки тому +21

      @@Ainsley_the_meat_rubber not for me

    • @DmitryKlishev
      @DmitryKlishev 4 роки тому +1

      Camel dies anyway

    • @mausolus8466
      @mausolus8466 4 роки тому +3

      Flaming camels - a single reason I dont play Tatars, but I enjoy having them as my enemies

    • @nilsp9426
      @nilsp9426 2 роки тому

      You could save the camel if you could kill everybody in its reach. But in the scenario, you can not.

  • @Fersis00
    @Fersis00 4 роки тому +96

    "which can be extended analytically to show we lose -1/12 Petards"
    You took me by surprise, I was not expecting complex analysis in an AOE video :D

    • @nestormacnaught6
      @nestormacnaught6 4 роки тому +2

      It's a math meme tho

    • @y.z.6517
      @y.z.6517 4 роки тому +15

      1+2+...+inf = -1/12 is pure bullshit. To accept this, you must reject induction.
      1) 1>-1/12
      2) 1+2>1 & 1+2+3>1+2 & so on and on
      Thus, 1+2+...+inf > -1/12
      1+2+...+inf = -1/12 is unfalsifiable, and thus unscientific. Induction is falsifiable and has not yet been proven false.

    • @SirFloIII
      @SirFloIII 4 роки тому +5

      @@y.z.6517 you also have to proof that equality holds over limits.

    • @y.z.6517
      @y.z.6517 4 роки тому +3

      @@SirFloIII 1+2+...+n = (1+n)*n/2 = n^2/2 +n/2. In other words, this sequence doesn't converge, when n approaches infinity.
      There is no convergence to any number. When n approaches inf, the sequence asymptotically equals inf. BTW, your sentence shows your zero understanding of the terms you are using.

    • @SirFloIII
      @SirFloIII 4 роки тому +2

      @@y.z.6517 no u. Consider the following sequence: a_n = 1/n.
      It is obvoius that each term is greater than zero, i.e. 1/n > 0. Your reasoning would lead you to believe that the limit also has to be greater than zero. but the limit of a_n as each n tends to infinity is zero and decidedly 0 < 0 is false.
      Induction does not help you here.
      And while it is true that the sum of the integers in the usual sense is not well defined since it is divergent, there are methods to extend infinite sums to divergent series, for example Ramanujan Sums or Analytical Continuation.
      What is remarkable is that all these methods agree on -1/12 for the sum of the integers.
      There has to more to it, as in math there are no coincidents.

  • @T33K3SS3LCH3N
    @T33K3SS3LCH3N 4 роки тому +65

    "Lol just quickwall noob vills" - Heradotius of Microhausen

  • @AdobadoFantastico
    @AdobadoFantastico 4 роки тому +22

    This is hilarious. This channel is hilarious. The comments are incredible.
    Gives me hope we're not living in the dark timeline.

    • @T-West
      @T-West  4 роки тому +4

      Hopefully we locked the Gate to the dark timeline.

    • @mordador2702
      @mordador2702 4 роки тому +4

      @@T-West Lets hope fatslob walled it.

    • @dkey201
      @dkey201 4 роки тому +1

      There's no such thing as the dark timeline abed

  • @ConscriptDavid
    @ConscriptDavid 4 роки тому +42

    You are slowly becoming the AOE2 version of Marphy Black, and I love it.
    Now you only have to create a "desert arabia" map, that takes 8 hours to win.

    • @MistaHoward
      @MistaHoward 3 роки тому

      Arabia bus. You must guide a single trade cart through a passageway that takes it ~8 hours to cross, but the sides have ranged units along them that you have to manually guide the cart around or it will eventually die. Then you guide it all the way back.

  • @artlix4790
    @artlix4790 4 роки тому +22

    We all know that saving the emperor in a barrel is worth killing a French Flag

    • @Peter-jl4ki
      @Peter-jl4ki 3 роки тому +1

      What if the emperor is French too?

  • @n00bnetrum
    @n00bnetrum 4 роки тому +100

    Can I have a second camel?

    • @trickygamer555
      @trickygamer555 4 роки тому

      Ehh... what do you want to do with the second camel?

    •  4 роки тому +4

      @@trickygamer555
      Get em all obviously.

    • @lordilluminati5836
      @lordilluminati5836 4 роки тому +1

      @@trickygamer555 a second camel to take out the first so nobody dies

    • @KetchAsus
      @KetchAsus 3 роки тому +1

      @@lordilluminati5836 but the camels die, in fact each decision kills a camel, is it moral to download the scenario?

  • @SurvivorMaster
    @SurvivorMaster 4 роки тому +36

    To lock or not to lock, that is the question.
    Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
    The slings and arrows of outrageous guilt,
    Or to take arms against a single villager
    And by opposing end him. To die-to sleep,
    No more; and by a sleep to say we end
    The heart-ache of the 5 natural deaths
    That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
    Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
    To sleep, perchance to dream-ay, there's the rub:
    For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
    When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
    Only the choice made, will remain.

  • @DancingTherapist
    @DancingTherapist 4 роки тому +35

    I come here for content, T-West, not judging my morals as a human being, you horrible man!

  • @Kernel15
    @Kernel15 4 роки тому +13

    To choose to not take an action means that the choice made is inaction. We must all stand responsible for our choices, whether they are based in actions or inactions *shrugs*

  • @MasterSonicKnight
    @MasterSonicKnight 4 роки тому +37

    T-West: i made this map to test people's moral-
    me, always choosing to kill the most amount of people: haha funny camels go BOOM

  • @TheGSone
    @TheGSone 4 роки тому +54

    Consider the following case:
    On Twin Earth, a brain in a vat is at the wheel of a runaway trolley. There are only two options that the brain can take: the right side of the fork in the track or the left side of the fork. There is no way in sight of derailing or stopping the trolley and the brain is aware of this, for the brain knows trolleys. The brain is causally hooked up to the trolley such that the brain can determine the course which the trolley will take.
    On the right side of the track there is a single railroad worker, Jones, who will definitely be killed if the brain steers the trolley to the right. If the railman on the right lives, he will go on to kill five men for the sake of killing them, but in doing so will inadvertently save the lives of thirty orphans (one of the five men he will kill is planning to destroy a bridge that the orphans' bus will be crossing later that night). One of the orphans that will be killed would have grown up to become a tyrant who would make good utilitarian men do bad things. Another of the orphans would grow up to become G.E.M. Anscombe, while a third would invent the pop-top can.
    If the brain in the vat chooses the left side of the track, the trolley will definitely hit and kill a railman on the left side of the track, "Leftie" and will hit and destroy ten beating hearts on the track that could (and would) have been transplanted into ten patients in the local hospital that will die without donor hearts. These are the only hearts available, and the brain is aware of this, for the brain knows hearts. If the railman on the left side of the track lives, he too will kill five men, in fact the same five that the railman on the right would kill. However, "Leftie" will kill the five as an unintended consequence of saving ten men: he will inadvertently kill the five men rushing the ten hearts to the local hospital for transplantation. A further result of "Leftie's" act would be that the busload of orphans will be spared. Among the five men killed by "Leftie" are both the man responsible for putting the brain at the controls of the trolley, and the author of this example. If the ten hearts and "Leftie" are killed by the trolley, the ten prospective heart-transplant patients will die and their kidneys will be used to save the lives of twenty kidney-transplant patients, one of whom will grow up to cure cancer, and one of whom will grow up to be Hitler. There are other kidneys and dialysis machines available, however the brain does not know kidneys, and this is not a factor.
    Assume that the brain's choice, whatever it turns out to be, will serve as an example to other brains-in-vats and so the effects of his decision will be amplified. Also assume that if the brain chooses the right side of the fork, an unjust war free of war crimes will ensue, while if the brain chooses the left fork, a just war fraught with war crimes will result. Furthermore, there is an intermittently active Cartesian demon deceiving the brain in such a manner that the brain is never sure if it is being deceived.
    QUESTION: What should the brain do?

    • @ConscriptDavid
      @ConscriptDavid 4 роки тому +24

      Multi-Track Drifting.

    • @davidagudelo2435
      @davidagudelo2435 4 роки тому +1

      The guy in the right. It is better an unjust war with no war crimes, and the lives of the orphans to be spared, and the possibilities that could arise.

    • @GayFurryFromROA
      @GayFurryFromROA 4 роки тому +5

      Whatever. I mean it's so complicated that i wouldn't even think, just push random buttons, watch who died and leave the country

    • @pokerraper1
      @pokerraper1 4 роки тому +2

      So this problem is, intended, way more complicated than needed and obviously with information that the brain shouldn't know. If he knows all this, then he knows the better answer, and thus we shouldn't worry about it.
      And if he doesn't know, or doesn't care, then trying to rationalize over future outcomes is unnecessary.

    • @shinkiro403
      @shinkiro403 4 роки тому +2

      Is the brain in the vat Trolley Tom's?

  • @AceHawk37
    @AceHawk37 4 роки тому +10

    This is the content i subbed for. Well actually I subbed for the pacifist runs, and would love to see more challenge material based on the old campaigns, but now i've also subbed for this content! XD

  • @vulpesinculta3238
    @vulpesinculta3238 4 роки тому +71

    "Is it just to save the rich by killing the poor?"
    If it was my trade cart, I'd sacrifice a hundred empty trade cards belonging to the other guy to get my full trade cart back to my market. But in this scenario neither trade cart is mine, so what do I care? And that, I think, is what Age of Empires teaches us about morality: you just gotta do what you gotta do to get that victory.

    • @HeyImLucious
      @HeyImLucious 4 роки тому +8

      Ironically, that's something that's been known to happen to people over history when they attain political power.
      Start off with lofty ideals, realize that the world doesn't work the way you wish it would, resort to steadily more and more underhanded methods in order to provide for your people, become the very thing you wanted to overturn.

    • @trickygamer555
      @trickygamer555 4 роки тому +2

      @@HeyImLucious Disappointing observation, yet very true.

    • @bsherman8236
      @bsherman8236 4 роки тому

      Idc about those profligates neither

    • @jayman1772
      @jayman1772 4 роки тому +1

      @@HeyImLucious wait who wanted to change the world? I can only recall leaers who wanted to better things for their own people from the getgo

  • @fourthknower9831
    @fourthknower9831 4 роки тому +4

    The solution; access the map editor and swap all flaming camels to your side, so you can then delete them all, or better yet have them do nothing.
    Or replace them with a cheat unit or something.

    • @T-West
      @T-West  4 роки тому +3

      That's what Captain Kirk teaches us: pass the Kobayashi Maru by cheating.

  • @saccaron
    @saccaron 4 роки тому +1

    I already knew how nerdy AoE fans humour was, but this is a whole new level. From the bottom of my heart, you're a genius!

  • @RealRaYZoR
    @RealRaYZoR 4 роки тому +9

    Is it right, to set a camel on fire ?
    Thats the real question we should ask.

  • @sergevyatkin6648
    @sergevyatkin6648 4 роки тому +13

    I'll just place the one villager with the other five and let them all die :D

  • @Naverb
    @Naverb 4 роки тому +2

    Next video: "Reinterpreting bounds on the Riemann Hypothesis via the Camel Problem"

  • @aw2740
    @aw2740 3 роки тому

    This. Is. Brilliant. The dedication, the absurdism, the immersion, the delicateness, the directness... I rarely comment on youtube videos, but thanks for this gem!

  • @aryamaanborah7698
    @aryamaanborah7698 4 роки тому +9

    I never took Tatar Flaming Camels this Seriously...

  • @ICHBinCOOLERalsJeman
    @ICHBinCOOLERalsJeman 4 роки тому +13

    The solution: Double cammel driting!

  • @jandemetz7973
    @jandemetz7973 4 роки тому +1

    Nice vid!

  • @outwithayang7153
    @outwithayang7153 4 роки тому +3

    I moved on to watching your stuff after I'd seen all of T90's and Viper's vids. Gotta say I wish I'd started sooner. You make good content.

  • @Salnax
    @Salnax 4 роки тому +24

    If the villager were on the shore, you'd be able to quick-wall the camel and save everyone.

    • @adnanhuzaifa6391
      @adnanhuzaifa6391 4 роки тому +2

      except the camel XD

    • @ADCFproductions
      @ADCFproductions 4 роки тому

      @@adnanhuzaifa6391 camels are used to being on fire, it's no big deal. plus there's water all around.

  • @edvindenbeste2587
    @edvindenbeste2587 4 роки тому +4

    The petard one, there are different types of infinity. There are larger and smaller forms of infinity. The infinity of 1+2+3+4... is larger than the 1+1+1+1... one.

  • @liefericson6496
    @liefericson6496 4 роки тому +4

    Addressing the initial camel problem, and the general question of what path should be pursued in a pacifist run, I give my answer: consider what it is that gives validity to the pacifist run, the thing that we have all accepted decides whether a run can be called pacifist or not: the after-match scoreboard. In all other aspects of the run, the Units Killed tally is considered the end-all-be-all for pacifism. Why is killing an animal allowed? Because the board says so. Why is using splash damage to get a unit killed after deliberately walking them into the projectile's path not your kill? Because the scoreboard says so. Therefore, if you are pursuing the path of maximum pacifism, one should be consistent, and continue to follow the scoreboard. One life is equal to one life, and five lives are worth five times as much. So sayeth the scoreboard, the adjudicator that we ourselves have put in power.

  • @Heranara
    @Heranara 4 роки тому +5

    Damn it the Camel wont allow multi-track drifting!

  • @Raiom.
    @Raiom. 3 роки тому

    This is the best take on the trolley problem I have ever seen, thank you Lord Daut and T-West for providing me with such amazing methods of answering modern philosophical problems.

  • @MrDrCthulhu
    @MrDrCthulhu 4 роки тому +22

    In the end, the only choice is the action already begun:
    SEND FORTH THE FLAMING CAMELS! HAH!

  • @IroBand
    @IroBand 4 роки тому +2

    Time to download a moral test with camels in aoe2 at 1am rather then going to sleep

  • @Felipe_XIV-XVI
    @Felipe_XIV-XVI 4 роки тому +2

    The only exploration I want to know is how you managed to enable the explore button for those camels.

    • @T-West
      @T-West  4 роки тому +1

      I just placed the Camels down in the Scenario Editor. All of the "Horse"-like units should have an Auto-Scout button, so long as they're present at the start of the scenario.

  • @brigwilson1297
    @brigwilson1297 4 роки тому

    This video was already awesome, but the petards really made the difference. Such a great spin on a trolley problem!

  • @m.a.t.a.s
    @m.a.t.a.s 4 роки тому +16

    3rd choice: press "resign" and none shall die!

    • @T-West
      @T-West  4 роки тому +16

      The game continues running in the background if you resign. You'd need to quit out entirely... but then, who's to say whether it continues or not, if we're not observing it?

    • @m.a.t.a.s
      @m.a.t.a.s 4 роки тому +8

      @@T-West The Schrodinger's cat dilemma...

    • @ShivamSingh-dk2pu
      @ShivamSingh-dk2pu 4 роки тому +3

      @@m.a.t.a.s That way they would pe half dead and half alive. 11

  • @generalhyde007
    @generalhyde007 4 роки тому +1

    Whoa. That’s pretty deep man.
    Thanks for the heart!!

  • @rudiruttger
    @rudiruttger 4 роки тому +1

    Hmmm, Preserving the mortal remains of the Holy Roman Emperor, or saving the flag of France. This is indeed such a tough choice!

  • @MaybeNeonCircles
    @MaybeNeonCircles 4 роки тому +2

    this is an intresting scenario, I will play it if i remember to next time i play.

  • @ecastrobonilla
    @ecastrobonilla 4 роки тому +2

    This is taking the meme to far, and I love it

  • @heavyreynald
    @heavyreynald 4 роки тому +1

    Killing 3 karambits it's killing 1.5 units. It's better than killing 2 champions.

  • @User_5ouLe
    @User_5ouLe 4 роки тому +2

    I'm sure the scenario won't be accessible for Age of Empires II: Pacifist Expansion.

    • @T-West
      @T-West  4 роки тому +1

      Well, the player does always get 0 kills. They're not the one directly killing the units. ;)

    • @User_5ouLe
      @User_5ouLe 4 роки тому

      @@T-West Camelflage killingspree.

  • @MasterSonicKnight
    @MasterSonicKnight 4 роки тому +1

    i feel like this video could have been the most brilliant april fools vid ever

  • @awfulunicorn
    @awfulunicorn 4 роки тому

    Lost it at the 2 champs vs 3 Karambit. Really enjoying your content man🚀

  • @TomsLife9
    @TomsLife9 4 роки тому

    for the Kushluk question, I think it makes more sense to just kill Kushluk because that's actually in-line with how the scenario is actually supposed to be played with its final objective.

  • @eduardovera8162
    @eduardovera8162 4 роки тому +1

    Nice. You have some cool ideas!

  • @danyimedia5727
    @danyimedia5727 3 роки тому

    Hilarious videos dude well done!

  • @Daxter250
    @Daxter250 4 роки тому +2

    first one is easy:
    that one villager can't reopoulate alone, while the 5 villagers can (if it doesn't consist only of men or women).
    that petard quiz is weird. if both are infinite numbers, it doesn't matter what path you choose.

    • @sniperloic2904
      @sniperloic2904 4 роки тому

      it indeed matter
      One is just and endless series of one explosion
      While in the other way... there a infinite serie of bigger explosion. So that one is better

    • @lucasrobin2788
      @lucasrobin2788 4 роки тому

      @@sniperloic2904 But they're both infinite. One infinity isn't 'larger' than the other infinity, they're both uncountable infinities. So in a way it does't matter.

    • @sniperloic2904
      @sniperloic2904 4 роки тому

      @@lucasrobin2788 It exist bigger infinites
      Positive number < Positive and negative number < Decimal number < Real numbers < Irreal numbers

  • @eliasauthier1822
    @eliasauthier1822 4 роки тому

    I already found it funny when you mentioned the moral dilemma during your pacifist campaing play, but i certainly did not expect it to get this far. This video was already hilarious af, but the petard part was the cherry on top. Love your content man, greetings from argentina!

  • @crazyjoe7312
    @crazyjoe7312 4 роки тому

    Pure Genius TW ... stay safe up there

  • @HeyImLucious
    @HeyImLucious 4 роки тому +1

    Is it possible to duplicate the camel so I can take out both roads? The explosion effect is quite nice to look at and I'd rather see it twice than just once.

  • @brunothijs8956
    @brunothijs8956 4 роки тому +4

    Is it just to download the scenario? If I dont download it, i wouldnt have to see all those camels blow up - regardless of the choices I make. Or taking it even further: should I even watch t-west videos as not only I expose myself to dangerous ideas, but I also trigger the youtube algorithm to show the bloodshed of this video to more users... should I even comment, knowing that by doing so I help the channel grow?

    • @rethinkexistence4807
      @rethinkexistence4807 4 роки тому

      You have no choice but to do so now that you have already watched them, and same goes for the rest of us :(

  • @Duke_of_Lorraine
    @Duke_of_Lorraine 4 роки тому

    You can destroy both tradecarts so both are hostile.
    However, if you lock the door, the full one is trapped. So better send the camel on the one that can still escape

  • @sturmgewehr4471
    @sturmgewehr4471 4 роки тому

    Thanks for the great content and also for the existential problem

  • @bigmclargehuge8219
    @bigmclargehuge8219 4 роки тому +1

    Listen, this ethical questions are all well and good, but by setting a staggering number of camels on fire, isn't the TRUE bad guy the scenario editor??

  • @skaughtey7199
    @skaughtey7199 4 роки тому

    love that you snuck in the cpt sisko quote!

  • @Hopesedge
    @Hopesedge 4 роки тому

    I built this gate so you can be damn sure I'll make use of it. 'locks gate'

  • @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714
    @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 4 роки тому +2

    Its better to do what you can rather than let things go on without your interferance, if that that is going on is not just natural.

  • @LegalExperience
    @LegalExperience 3 роки тому +2

    Isn't the real moral dilemma why you lit so many camels on fire in the first place?

  • @SingaporeLyfe
    @SingaporeLyfe 4 роки тому

    The camel problem is pretty much a min-max problem. If you make the most efficient option to save the maximum, in this case, lives. Killing kushluk prevented further loss of lives on both sides

  • @nicolasgrewey6675
    @nicolasgrewey6675 4 роки тому +1

    Fate stay nigth, Emya Shirou: I will save everyone.

  • @W0lf7133
    @W0lf7133 4 роки тому

    The video we didn't know we needed! :O

  • @Jyrgeeni
    @Jyrgeeni 4 роки тому

    Those 5 villagers are counting on your gate to keep them safe. So if you leave it unlocked and let them die it's on you. If you are a king and have a walled castle, you won't be responsible for the killing happening outside of it even tho it might've been prevented by letting the bad guys to kill people inside.

  • @daledo8604
    @daledo8604 4 роки тому

    Well shoot. There is only one scenario missing. We needed 3 Konniks vs 2 villagers so we had a complex dilemma of:
    3 dead horses but 5 spared humans.
    Or
    2 dead humans and 6 spared lives (3 dismounted konniks plus their 3 horses).

  • @jeffreyhoon
    @jeffreyhoon 4 роки тому +1

    I'd pick the one that's usually more because it would be 'cost efficient' and a 'statistic' compared to a single 'tragedy'

  • @adnanhuzaifa6391
    @adnanhuzaifa6391 4 роки тому

    i will not allow anyone to die by simply clicking i r winner because no life is worth any other life
    btw we love your content and because you had just made a decision in kushluk level it is fine we know that there is no other option and the effort and solving you do for all this is enough and i loved the scenario you made

  • @HeavyWeponsguy420
    @HeavyWeponsguy420 4 роки тому

    Why not multi track drifting?

  • @Envengerx
    @Envengerx 3 роки тому

    The - 1/12 thing got me.
    Its actually one of the best question so far.
    We know its killing more petards but when we calculate it, its not so what the hell should we do.

  • @Soas_Records_Official
    @Soas_Records_Official 4 роки тому

    I can't answer the moral dilemma as I'm not sure what the best thing to do is, but thought I'd comment to help with out the UA-cam algorithm

  • @animejuggernaut2553
    @animejuggernaut2553 4 роки тому +7

    Umm, when I saw the Genghis Khan pacifist vid, wasn't expecting this to be next XD you ok dude? Looks like Genghis Khan took a toll on you.

    • @micahbush5397
      @micahbush5397 4 роки тому +6

      It's the PTSD of failing to live up to the ideals of pacifism.

    • @animejuggernaut2553
      @animejuggernaut2553 4 роки тому

      @@micahbush5397 He really should take it easy tho, the few kills he had to do are way more than the hundreds you usually kill in that campaign XD

  • @anonnymousperson
    @anonnymousperson 4 роки тому +1

    This was really fun! Is there anyway you can get the results from our playthroughs to show us how moral we all are?
    Also I love the -1/12 number of petards, lol.

  • @SnippyFifa
    @SnippyFifa 4 роки тому

    The question is... How do you kill both the units behind the gate, and the unit not behind the gate with only one camel??

  • @ovidiu9998
    @ovidiu9998 4 роки тому

    this type of content is entertaining, would be nice if you could translate more of those into AoE2 DE.

  • @ShashwatRawat_
    @ShashwatRawat_ 4 роки тому +1

    Is that spirt of the law saying?

  • @bdcopp
    @bdcopp 4 роки тому +2

    Where's my multitrack drifting?

  • @paullabossiere5239
    @paullabossiere5239 4 роки тому

    form a human chain to safely cross the water. if this fails, open the gate and try to drop it on the camel as it passes underneath. If you miss, then multiple villagers will stand a better chance at calming the camel and smothering the flames with their clothes that they just took off and soaked at the waters edge. A true Paladin would insist on taking the danger and the knights would throw to him their shields or stab through the bars or climb the gate to throw swords down at the camel. Its not about a rich merchant and a poor merchant, its about an empty wagon that would work as a life boat to escape or block the path to be a damage sponge. Unload the barrel from the wagon and paddle it to the island like a life preserver. the leading petard should light a fuse and run backwards to take out the camel. Now if the exploding animation is taken more seriously then the burning animation and the spooked camel is armored then everyone sprints towards it with wet cloths in hand to try to soak the powder. If you do manage to tweak the inputs to get an inevitable death then its on the threatened to decide who should sacrifice themselves. Cultures that prioritized women and children tend to thrive. For example the rich merchant could take care of the poor ones family put his kids through university and provide other opportunities for them that they wouldn't otherwise get in exchange for sacrificing himself. Once I came to terms with the reality that games just aren't simulators, I can now use trash units as intended.

  • @DCdabest
    @DCdabest 4 роки тому

    A new niche is discovered.
    Age of Empires Philosophy Videos.

  • @LuxiBelle
    @LuxiBelle 4 роки тому

    Delete your one vill, ending the scenario and saving both options.

  • @IschmarVI
    @IschmarVI 3 роки тому

    the solution is very simple. First, you lock the gate and then you have your villager go jesus mode, walk over the water and quickwall the other path. This way, you not only save both "packs" of units but also the camel (as it apparently is allied to us)

    • @T-West
      @T-West  3 роки тому +1

      That would probably work in the HD Edition.

  • @AllahDoesNotExist
    @AllahDoesNotExist 4 роки тому

    How do you put autoscout on the wild camel?

    • @T-West
      @T-West  4 роки тому +1

      I just placed some Camels in the scenario editor, and it had the auto-scout button. All of the "Horse"-like units should have it, as long as they're present at the start of the game.

  • @mic-en
    @mic-en 4 роки тому

    The video is pretty fun but when you referenced the obvious practical implications of zeta function regularization I completely lost it.

  • @JJJBunney001
    @JJJBunney001 2 роки тому

    Ahh my favourite custom map... Existential crisis, the map where nobody wins and everyone is sad

  • @Craken_401
    @Craken_401 4 роки тому +14

    When the next pacifist campaign? its so awesome how you do it!!!

    • @T-West
      @T-West  4 роки тому +8

      In a couple of weeks, need a short break from them. :)

    • @Craken_401
      @Craken_401 4 роки тому +7

      @@T-West np take the time you need

    • @EMDakka
      @EMDakka 4 роки тому

      im curious to see the hun campaign..

    • @T-West
      @T-West  4 роки тому +1

      @@EMDakka As am I...

  • @sayathekitsune3775
    @sayathekitsune3775 4 роки тому

    Talking about Morals....i take Option C. I get a bucket of water and save that camel which means saving ALL sides. Player,Camel,A and B

  • @mrbatukhan6791
    @mrbatukhan6791 4 роки тому

    Would be happy if you can show the petard chain explosion ;)

    • @T-West
      @T-West  4 роки тому

      It's infinite, I don't think UA-cam would allow me to upload a video that long. ;)

    • @mrbatukhan6791
      @mrbatukhan6791 4 роки тому

      @@T-West Ahh I din't know that is infinite

  • @freespeechextremist197
    @freespeechextremist197 3 роки тому

    When I look at this all I can think about is ''How can I kill all 6 of them with one camel?''

  • @zoiuduu
    @zoiuduu 4 роки тому

    how do i change my vill to a brit bowman so i can kill the other villagers as well?

    • @T-West
      @T-West  4 роки тому

      Teams are locked as allies. No cheating the system! :)

  • @Speak4Yourself2
    @Speak4Yourself2 4 роки тому

    You are a genius sir!

  • @alyctro8158
    @alyctro8158 3 роки тому

    I can't tell if you're serious about it because it's so well done

  • @Amgarrak
    @Amgarrak 3 роки тому

    For the 5 vs 1 dilemma for a pacifist with a minimal body count, it would be killing one cushlook as it would be the least blood spilled. To kill 5 other units actually goes against the rest of pacifist route which aims to always minimize the body count to zero if possible.

  • @alexandrepetrassicardoso7539
    @alexandrepetrassicardoso7539 3 роки тому

    I really considered giving a second like after the -1/12. It made me remember the time i lurked youtube for math videos.

  • @mattb.9299
    @mattb.9299 4 роки тому

    when the one villager saw the 5 get blown to bits he was traumatized and became a psychopath. now youre alone with him.

    • @T-West
      @T-West  4 роки тому

      Maybe he's the one who released all the Camels in the first place.

    • @mattb.9299
      @mattb.9299 4 роки тому

      If it wasn't you and it wasn't the 5....had to be.

  • @iangrosan
    @iangrosan 4 роки тому

    The sum of the petards is not -1/12, because for it to work, you have to assume that the average of a sum is the sum, but its not

  • @raulandrus
    @raulandrus 4 роки тому

    Not locking the gate is also a decision made by the player so it doesn't matter. Not acting is also an action.

  • @qasimahmad6748
    @qasimahmad6748 3 роки тому +1

    Say, if you had a choice to save T-West o...ILL SAVE T-WEST!!

  • @samajhdarprani5779
    @samajhdarprani5779 4 роки тому

    Don't why but my conscience is saying stop this blood shed and from now onwards only play the Wonder Race.

  • @speede2467
    @speede2467 4 роки тому

    For the campain, can you just lure the cav archers to an enemy tower? Or is yellow allied with red and green?

    • @T-West
      @T-West  4 роки тому

      In the campaign, they're all allied.