Destiny 2 Lore - How Vex simulations let them play god! How do you know you're not a simulation?

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  • Опубліковано 18 лют 2024
  • Destiny 2's Lore and Story after the Final Shape will pivot to Echoes, a narrative that will center around The Vex. These mysterious time-traveling robots have the terrifying power to simulate perfect copies of our reality so long as no truly godlike forces are involved, such as guardians or The Witness. Lacking those forces, The Vex can effectively play god. This forces us to ask if the world around us is real or a simulation and whether the Ishtar Collective Team, who experienced this power for themselves, might have some way of countering it.
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  • @FalseCouatl
    @FalseCouatl 3 місяці тому +212

    You know, Hive and Vex have always been my two favorite races and I think I now know why. Hive embody the grotesque, bodily horror which makes the stomach churn. But vex are the intellectual, existential horror which fills ones mind with an overwhelming sense of hopelessness. How truly terrifying. I adore it.

    • @xXx_Regulus_xXx
      @xXx_Regulus_xXx 3 місяці тому +15

      yeah, the Fallen and Cabal are scary because of their strength, but they were always redeemable. We can relate to them feeling snubbed by the Traveler, and we can relate to the Cabal being persecuted by the Hive. They're like the redeemable moderates of Destiny

    • @SubjugatorOfTheGym10557
      @SubjugatorOfTheGym10557 3 місяці тому +9

      And then there’s the Taken and the Scorn, who are just mindless ruthless entities who just follow whoever or whatever decides to take control. Like Oryx and Rhulk, when they were killed, their minions just went crazy and walked around mindlessly until someone took command.

    • @chris_elkins2093
      @chris_elkins2093 2 дні тому

      i have no idea how the vex arent being seen in the story more as a big bad, in my opinion the vex have more power than the witness and could make a way more amazing story compared to the light and dark saga were currently going through with the witness.

  • @sytun3375
    @sytun3375 3 місяці тому +785

    Praying all of Lightfall was a mere Vex Simulation.

    • @Juan_Dominguez
      @Juan_Dominguez 3 місяці тому +19

      Man I wish

    • @foxjewels2893
      @foxjewels2893 3 місяці тому +46

      Would make sense for all the plot holes in lightfall

    • @not.skywalker
      @not.skywalker 3 місяці тому +9

      can u imagine ☠️☠️

    • @jekkin8972
      @jekkin8972 3 місяці тому +49

      If nimbus was simply a vex trolling I could sleep at night again

    • @gen8901
      @gen8901 3 місяці тому +4

      Top tier comment

  • @MegaDrainProductions
    @MegaDrainProductions 3 місяці тому +123

    16:41 "I wish I'd taken that job at Clovis"
    Trust me pal, no you don't.

    • @johngancarcik5682
      @johngancarcik5682 3 місяці тому +7

      No kidding best thing to ever happen

    • @loganlee1796
      @loganlee1796 Місяць тому +2

      Everyone wants to work there until they realize they're better off ANYWHERE else

    • @user-he2dw5do9i
      @user-he2dw5do9i 9 днів тому +1

      SAME SHIT DIFFERENT DAY- All vex researchers across the system

  • @thomasskipper1672
    @thomasskipper1672 3 місяці тому +66

    It’s so cool that Byf unvaulted season of the undying for this video

  • @Xencam
    @Xencam 3 місяці тому +107

    Simulations might be a neat twist to tie into an activity. Like how racing games have "ghost cars" in time trial modes, maybe we could have an activity where we have to beat our "simulation" to prove we're the real copy and "succeed" at the activity

    • @KageBlink
      @KageBlink 3 місяці тому +4

      Just like mirrors edge!! :o

    • @darth_talon628vods4
      @darth_talon628vods4 3 місяці тому +6

      I'm thinking more along the lines of an interesting multiplayer activity, you play through the activity alone, but it matchmakes you with five other guardians, you each go through your PVE strike/activity alone, but for certain sections you have to go through a 'vex simulation' and enter the other guardians PVE activity, burst down an enemy or help out your ally, and get both of you back to the 'real' strike/activity zone. No one gets to know who's zone is real until the activity randomly decides which player's activity is reality, and the 'real' player goes in and brings their 'copies'/other players into the 'real' pve activity. couple this with another activity that loops time, and repeats the same strike/activity again and again getting more difficult each time as the activity similar to deep dives or the coil and you have two interesting vex themed activities that pull a little from the lore.

    • @spv4711
      @spv4711 3 місяці тому

      ​@@darth_talon628vods4I mean for the maps in like.
      Mercury for pvp it is a vex sim

  • @ninjataco7777
    @ninjataco7777 3 місяці тому +160

    I’m glad I can still watch Byf inside this Vex Simulation.

    • @nihil_2885
      @nihil_2885 3 місяці тому +2

      Right there with you.

    • @johngancarcik5682
      @johngancarcik5682 3 місяці тому +5

      The vex understand byfs importance so they and him made a deal

    • @nihil_2885
      @nihil_2885 3 місяці тому

      @@johngancarcik5682 Deals are possible??

    • @fysy9989
      @fysy9989 2 місяці тому

      Sadly in this vex simulation I have a small pp

  • @dasfirecat
    @dasfirecat 3 місяці тому +44

    A theory:
    That Vex, running the simulations, was focused on running as many accurate sims as possible. The best of it's mind's ability. Keep the humans, human. So when or if the humans were released into Vex space, by other Vex or a Warmind, they could operate on the understanding of that sim. That the only thing that Vex did to play God was to give them the reason to go back into Vex space. It played the odds on them, and, in a way that allowed them to diverge in an expected and streamline manner.
    Reality was the Control Group. That Vex wanted honest humans, ones with knowledge of the Vex's potential abilities, and, those 227, humans to be willing to cross back into Vex controlled simulation. That was the experiment. To inject divergence and study the humans further into or onto Vex predictions. To any end deemed worth simulating. To seed them with the idea that they are tied to Vex consciousness, dead or worse without them. Possibly even to develop reflective data on the Vex themselves, to see what they don't have, or don't think.
    The Vex wanted a better perspective on human data.

    • @Raze394
      @Raze394 3 місяці тому +3

      Playing God by creating a God for them to fear

  • @FaizanMalik-kd8lk
    @FaizanMalik-kd8lk 3 місяці тому +250

    WE ALL need a TSLAYP of Helldivers 2

    • @Rivenisthebestdragon
      @Rivenisthebestdragon 3 місяці тому +8

      You mean WE. Lol

    • @MynameisByf
      @MynameisByf  3 місяці тому +116

      👀

    • @Corryx
      @Corryx 3 місяці тому +1

      So correct

    • @xXx_Regulus_xXx
      @xXx_Regulus_xXx 3 місяці тому +1

      ​@@MynameisByf here's hoping you can log in, the servers are struggling a bit

    • @DredgenStorm
      @DredgenStorm 3 місяці тому +3

      It's been too long since a TSLAYP imo

  • @yhelloh
    @yhelloh 3 місяці тому +61

    “For the mind of the vex… is that faith?” -Praydeth, during the exotic version of the taken war paradox mission for no time to explain. The Vex simulate a draw for paracasual power. To place our hearts in the hands of the enemy and ask, “change your ways.” Ulan Tan and the truest truth. That we will not win or lose, but have a draw.

  • @reedwojo7858
    @reedwojo7858 3 місяці тому +18

    That bulldozer ferrari analogy is really good, it very well demonstrates how near impossible a task it is, but given enough control over the circumstances, it is possible. like the few instances where the vex HAVE managed to simulate control over guardians, like saint 14 or the VoG fireteam, where the vex were given possibly hundreds of years in their turf.

    • @Achatius1982
      @Achatius1982 Місяць тому

      Why says our guardians ever left the infinite forest for real?

  • @RuiNDieM1988
    @RuiNDieM1988 3 місяці тому +105

    Joke is on us. We're in a vex simulation about watching a video about a video game in which the vex simulated a group of scientists

    • @xXx_Regulus_xXx
      @xXx_Regulus_xXx 3 місяці тому +10

      being in a simulation would explain my life, some of it feels scripted

    • @RuiNDieM1988
      @RuiNDieM1988 3 місяці тому +9

      @@xXx_Regulus_xXx I was in a taco bell drive thru with my GF behind a white sedan and maroon SUV. I looked out the window and looked back and the white car was gone and there was a perfect car sized space between me and the SUV. At first I thought I just imagined the white car, but then my GF says "Wasn't there a white car in front of us?" without me saying anything. I haven't been okay since lol

    • @xXx_Regulus_xXx
      @xXx_Regulus_xXx Місяць тому

      @@RuiNDieM1988 I was on a road trip with my gf a little after twilight, in the middle of nowhere in a place I didn't know well. GF's using her phone as a GPS for me while I drive and I make a wrong turn. Not a huge deal, there's a driveway I can turn around in. It's covered by trees so when I pull in it's pitch black, visibility is zero just a few feet in front of me. I thought about turning my headlights on, but I felt eyes on me from straight ahead. Quickly reversed out of the driveway and turned the correct direction. Immediately after that, the GPS stops being able to orient itself and it's just spinning around calling out directions. Quitting the app and reopening it does nothing to fix it. By the time we get out of that rural area and back on the freeway she had to completely power down her phone and turn it back on to get it to work. Maybe that sensation I was feeling that creeped me out and messed up the phone was something high voltage or magnetic on that property, I don't know, but it's one of my weirdest stories.

    • @im_a_tortoise9299
      @im_a_tortoise9299 Місяць тому +2

      Destiny is actually real and the vex is simulating a reality where Destiny is just a video game

    • @notsilentfalcon4773
      @notsilentfalcon4773 20 днів тому +1

      @@im_a_tortoise9299 and they’re still losing

  • @alen4704
    @alen4704 3 місяці тому +50

    Another day another win for the Vex taking down the sweats the imposters among us

  • @DuTrom
    @DuTrom 3 місяці тому +15

    "What is real? How do you define 'real'? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain."

    • @Blindluck92
      @Blindluck92 3 місяці тому

      😎

    • @HasegawaRayven
      @HasegawaRayven 22 дні тому +1

      ".......You think that's *air* you're breathing right now?"

  • @liamjordan3068
    @liamjordan3068 3 місяці тому +5

    Honestly never knew why Grimore cards lore was never put on the loading screens in D1 even randomly, reading wtf was going on was interesting.

  • @ChocoboKid216
    @ChocoboKid216 3 місяці тому +9

    I guess the Vex Simulation had a glitch when we had that wacky weekend of wepon forging madness

    • @johngancarcik5682
      @johngancarcik5682 3 місяці тому +1

      I'm sure they did that on purpose just to f with us and see what would happen

  • @surprizeforyou
    @surprizeforyou 3 місяці тому +41

    Modern theories by people far smarter than myself put the probability that we are currently living in a simulation at roughly 25%. The real world, not just Destiny 2. I'd believe it if at the end of Final Shape we realize the Vex have won this whole time and we've just been fighting our way through a simulation.

    • @caseyriggs6264
      @caseyriggs6264 3 місяці тому +12

      A.K.A. we never left the Black Garden

    • @kyleespinoza7201
      @kyleespinoza7201 3 місяці тому +10

      ​@caseyriggs6264 that would be a really interesting twist, actually. Not only would it mean that the Vex figured out paracausality, but if it was "our" victory, it would still technically prove the Traveler's philosophy correct. It's a strange sort of meta-win

    • @caseyriggs6264
      @caseyriggs6264 3 місяці тому

      @@kyleespinoza7201 AFAIK, The Black Heart was not a simulation but a true Darkness object they were worshipping. The vex were trying to make a bridge by using the three minds representative of [Past/Present/Future], maybe when the Heart exploded on that brief moment the Vex had an "Eureka" moment and put a simulation veil on top of everything.
      And if not, there's also the second version of the theory that's a bit more recent "We never left the Infinite Forest". There we did actually see the Vex managed to suppress Saint's light, suppression is, inadvertently, a form of control.

    • @ceferistucfr8742
      @ceferistucfr8742 3 місяці тому +1

      I don’t think I like to be somebody’s plaything.

    • @kyleespinoza7201
      @kyleespinoza7201 3 місяці тому +4

      @@ceferistucfr8742 imagine video game characters getting sentience randomly

  • @captindo
    @captindo 3 місяці тому +32

    Here’s a 5th grade English class idea lol. The vex simulation started right after everyone’s lights went out in the Collapse. Mostly everyone died and those that are left are dealing with the vex the best they can. Our guardian is basically Neo from the Matrix unless you chose Exo for your starting class lol.

    • @quincyquincy4764
      @quincyquincy4764 3 місяці тому +1

      I love that idea

    • @rushmeme1166
      @rushmeme1166 3 місяці тому +2

      Why is it different if you choose exo?

    • @canisarcani
      @canisarcani 3 місяці тому

      @@rushmeme1166 iirc, its got something to do with the fact that they are made using vex tech. something about vex fluid being needed to contain our true souls and selves and not just a mere digital copy of ourselves. there is... a lot of messed up crap clovis did in the name of imortality and creating his "perfect vision" of humanity. combined with the paracausal nature of a guardian it, more or less, essentially makes exos immune to the vex' schenanigans.

    • @captindo
      @captindo 3 місяці тому +1

      @@rushmeme1166 I figured if you wake up as an exo, you’d be automatically drawn to the vex since it’s made of the same tech. Then the hero’s journey to regain your humanity something, something, become legend and stuff lol.

  • @Blindluck92
    @Blindluck92 3 місяці тому +6

    Good: "I think therefore I am."
    Better: "I can raise my middle finger at the Vex, therefore it doesn't matter if I'm in a simulation or not."

  • @michadabrowski3120
    @michadabrowski3120 3 місяці тому +20

    I'm a bit surprised that Byf did not bring up Roko's Basilisk.
    It silly thought experiment (basically rapture for tech geeks) but it's suitable here.

    • @xXx_Regulus_xXx
      @xXx_Regulus_xXx 3 місяці тому +8

      simulation theory is religion for secular tech geeks as far as I'm concerned, most people throughout history have been pretty comfortable with the idea of this reality being nested inside another one and presided over by an intelligence. hinduism outright teaches that our world is a dream the supreme god is having.
      not saying religion or simulation theory is right or wrong, just that it's not as new as pop sci would have you believe

    • @johngancarcik5682
      @johngancarcik5682 3 місяці тому

      Oh God if the vex discover that o.o can you imagine

  • @MegaDrainProductions
    @MegaDrainProductions 3 місяці тому +17

    I like to imagine that whenever a Vex Mind, no matter how big or small it is, that it could be simulating an individual that it doesn't yet know is a paracausal being like a Guardian. Then whenever it thinks it has it perfectly copied, it casts it's super or some other ability, the Vex Mind just spontaneously explodes. Then other Minds see that Mind and try to simulate what could've made that happen and then they also explode as well.
    So whenever you're fighting the Vex and you cast your super or any of your abilities, you're actually destroying a lot more vex than the ones you killed right in front of you.

  • @KoruKinshi
    @KoruKinshi 3 місяці тому +4

    Haha, silly Byf. Of course the world is real. I'm watching this video on my phone with a charger. I even got my hand on Praedyth's shoulder.
    Wait...
    *NO-(Lost in time)*

  • @Chloroxite
    @Chloroxite 3 місяці тому +9

    The problem is that it's not like them simulating us just automatically sucks us into that simulation. There's a very real danger that their ability to accurately predict the future poses, strategically speaking, but that simulation itself is not an immediate danger to those of us outside of it. Sure it sucks a lot for the simulated versions of us that are basically spawned trapped, but we ourselves are not trapped.
    Unless, of course, it also *retroactively* simulates everyone's lives up until that point.
    In which case, the danger is very *very* real.

    • @katomamundara8106
      @katomamundara8106 3 місяці тому +3

      The idea is that there's enough info on everyone in said simulation that it can reproduce their pasts (and thus their memories of the pasts).
      Maybe it recalls memories as you do, for your synapses (memories) are simulated as well - in which case your past might as well be simulated too as they're causal events.
      It may not be able to harm the real you, but how do you know you're the real one? Let's say you, the one reading this, is a simulation. Are you seriously about to kill all the other yous on the off-chance assumption you're the real one, other than the original? That's genocide in an essence.

    • @constellarnova6782
      @constellarnova6782 3 місяці тому +1

      If I remember correctly, there was that one seasonal moment in Destiny 2 where a Vex simulation affected the real world, and the Vex removed the sun for a time (Season of the Splicer I think?). So if the Vex "simulations" can in fact affect and change the real world, that is quite a substantial and immediate danger to us "real" people.

    • @katomamundara8106
      @katomamundara8106 3 місяці тому

      @@constellarnova6782 I skipped that season, so I won't lie, forgot it happened despite it being such a big deal (if I remember, was one of it not the first time Vex actually were 'on' Earth).
      So yeah, at this point the Vex ARE affecting reality, which makes it even MORE terrifying...

    • @hugoguzman4985
      @hugoguzman4985 Місяць тому

      If I'm being simulated, I'm not the one doing anything. Vex are just simulating me doing it.
      Either I'm real, and kill those simulations... Or I'm a simulation, and the Vex is going to force me to kill the simulations.

  • @samuelazzaro
    @samuelazzaro 3 місяці тому +5

    You forget Byf, Rasputin is now a robot dog! As such, he would obviously save people.....as he has become a very good boy.

  • @dembro27
    @dembro27 3 місяці тому +3

    I've never played The Sims, but some of those things you described... well, they bring back fond Rollercoaster Tycoon memories.

    • @johngancarcik5682
      @johngancarcik5682 3 місяці тому

      Having a Rollercoaster plow into a group of guests 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @libritium
    @libritium 3 місяці тому +2

    I truly hope that the next saga after light and darkness would have us dealing with the Vex and their timeline warping shenanigans

  • @PrismHeartOfficial
    @PrismHeartOfficial 3 місяці тому +7

    I really would love Vex Offensive to come back! I also love these deeper-lore ideas. Makes me appreciate the game even more.

    • @johngancarcik5682
      @johngancarcik5682 3 місяці тому

      I never got to play it I didn't have the season pass

  • @RiderKnight_
    @RiderKnight_ 3 місяці тому +2

    Huh, if you think about it, we as the players are the Vex, we attempt to simulate the guardians every time we load into an activity or patrol we try and do something slightly different from every time before. We are always in groups with different people resulting in different outcomes. But we can only ever simulate 1 guardians actions at a time

  • @ehoffart529
    @ehoffart529 3 місяці тому +3

    I feel like ever since Foresaken we've gotten further and further from our SciFi fantasy setting and ended up in a Fantasy scifi. Which the swapping of those adjectives is actually important to my point.
    Also how did you know I was watching those on a phone Byf? Very sus there Mr.Vex!

  • @MasterCJ117
    @MasterCJ117 3 місяці тому +5

    I'll be honest, if I was in that situation, I'd be the nihilist of the group like,
    "Let's just go on with our lives, so what if we're a simulation, for all any of us know we've been simulations our whole existence, what difference does it make, and if it can hurt us so what, assuming there even is a real version of any of us, they won't suffer anything, our existence is irrelevant"
    For anyone thinking "You would be way more freaked if you were ACTUALLY in that situation" I disagree,
    I've been in a car accident where we were rolling to a bridge that was high enough to be certain death, I had a moment where time slowed and a fraction of a second lasted several minutes, in those minutes I accepted death, it was actually nice, fearing death is overrated, but clearly we didn't reach the bridge and actually survived without a scratch, I've been living with the acceptance of death for half my life by now and it was the best thing that's ever happened to me.

    • @hugoguzman4985
      @hugoguzman4985 Місяць тому

      This is just how I live my life now.

  • @inquisitorichijou883
    @inquisitorichijou883 3 місяці тому +3

    "How do you know all of the things around you are real?"
    Why do you bring me back to my time reading Phillip K. Dick?

  • @acgearsandarms1343
    @acgearsandarms1343 3 місяці тому +7

    Really hope the simulated Ishtar researchers are part of Echoes. Their story is too good not to capitalize on. Yet…I would be concerned given Lightfall of how it could be handled.

  • @botkiller3059
    @botkiller3059 3 місяці тому +12

    I would love another vex season

    • @thesonicfanboi
      @thesonicfanboi 3 місяці тому

      Same, we haven't gotten a vex season since, let's see wish, witch, deep, defiance, seraph, plunder, haunted, risen, lost, splicer? Have we seriously not had a vex-dedicated season since splicer?

    • @johngancarcik5682
      @johngancarcik5682 3 місяці тому

      ​@@thesonicfanboisplicer was more eliksni than vex

    • @thebean6496
      @thebean6496 3 місяці тому

      @@thesonicfanboiI think the first episode in the final shape is vex focused

  • @Aulderbane
    @Aulderbane 3 місяці тому +3

    I do wonder, with the 227 successfully rescued. Was that all of them? If the specimen was aware of it's capture, did it delete any and all of the simulations that didn't simulate the specimen being found? A defense mechanism of sorts so we would not see any advancement with their studies of us.

  • @DerekSmith816
    @DerekSmith816 3 місяці тому +1

    This reminds me of the most interesting (and my most favorite) vanilla Destiny 2 adventure on Nessus. It focused on the vex and our ghost told us that the vex had told him (our ghost) to "come home". This has huge implications.

    • @Bustuhh
      @Bustuhh 3 місяці тому

      According to pre story rewrite BEFORE Destiny 1 released, the Traveler WAS a Vex, it seems bungie is rewriting the rewrite aka retconning, to course correct their story back to what it should've been

  • @thegreenstache6163
    @thegreenstache6163 2 місяці тому +1

    As a philosophy student, gotta love Descartes' name and epistemological thought drop. The philosophical weight of their lore is also almost certainly why the Hive and Vex are my favorite enemy races.

  • @koriusX
    @koriusX 3 місяці тому +1

    Been using this lore book for one of my Vex players in a Destiny 5e campaign. Awesome to see you cover it!

  • @danielhoward9729
    @danielhoward9729 3 місяці тому +7

    Ahamkara are real therefore the reality I reside in is real. Vex can't simulate paracausal or ontological effects, which Ahamkara create.

    • @uyuyuyuya
      @uyuyuyuya 3 місяці тому +1

      Imagine if they actually did.

    • @kennyholmes5196
      @kennyholmes5196 3 місяці тому +5

      Supposing that the Vex do editing of the simulation to mimic the effects of paracausality, though? Like an overseer using admin mode to play god?

    • @xXx_Regulus_xXx
      @xXx_Regulus_xXx 3 місяці тому +4

      if you're inside a reality they control, they could show you anything, there are no tells because they can edit your perception

  • @KelgorothTheFinalShape
    @KelgorothTheFinalShape 3 місяці тому +12

    I kinda wanna see the vex be able to break the 4th wall and honestly bungie going full matrix with vex simulations that could be so interesting

    • @wearsjorge55
      @wearsjorge55 3 місяці тому

      It could be how the vex learn to simulate the light. The devs literally wrote the code

  • @GhostintheMachine25
    @GhostintheMachine25 3 місяці тому +1

    Awesome video, topics like this show the hidden gems of the Destiny lore that isn’t fully covered in seasonal story.

  • @user-qy2cw5vd4n
    @user-qy2cw5vd4n 3 місяці тому +4

    Yk bif, I have a long running theory that bungies blunders are just a big vex sim.

  • @grandmas_special_boyy
    @grandmas_special_boyy 3 місяці тому +1

    love this old D1 footage of byf using only raze lighter lol

  • @alfredjoeface
    @alfredjoeface 3 місяці тому +3

    existential horror my beloved

  • @nimbusshadow-wings
    @nimbusshadow-wings 3 місяці тому +9

    I know im not a simulation cause who TF would wanna simulate me.

  • @kaelanirevyruun1676
    @kaelanirevyruun1676 3 місяці тому +1

    The moment when you realise that Bungie likes to make terrifying-on-a-cosmic-scale enemies for us to fight... (The Vex and the Flood that I'm aware of but idk if there's also some in marathon)

  • @LegoWill05
    @LegoWill05 3 місяці тому +16

    Vex simulated guardians in future expansion?!?!?!

    • @thebean6496
      @thebean6496 3 місяці тому

      Maybe in the first episode it might be possible
      Maybe even past guardians

  • @Chronoman
    @Chronoman 3 місяці тому +2

    I've always had this theory that if we have a computer that can perfectly stimulate reality, that same computer would need have enough power to simulate itself, simulating itself simulating a reality that would be simulating itself, simulating a reality, etc.
    Is it possible? Unsure. Maybe with each iteration the bubble that it can simulate shrinks, but then that's when you realize that its a simulation.

    • @xXx_Regulus_xXx
      @xXx_Regulus_xXx 3 місяці тому +4

      supposedly it would take more computing power than you could generate with all the matter and energy in the universe to accurately simulate the universe. entropy is a pain, lol. you could simulate things well enough to fool human perception by using tricks and shortcuts the way videogames do though

  • @randomomega9966
    @randomomega9966 3 місяці тому +1

    I don't play Destiny. I don't really engage with its community. But I can appreciate the effort put into making these videos, filtering through all the lore tidbits, and going to the supreme effort of collaborating with others to create something beyond the original source material. Awesome as always.

  • @chrisreilly1290
    @chrisreilly1290 3 місяці тому +1

    If the Vex ever figure out how to simulate us, we will have quite the fight on our hands

  • @Indivenant
    @Indivenant 3 місяці тому +1

    When I was watching, I also thought that they could’ve possibly moved the specimen within range of the traveler, and because I can’t simulate the traveler it would just short circuit and shut down or something akin to that

  • @vince.6503
    @vince.6503 3 місяці тому +6

    Imagine if Destiny 1&2 didn’t use lore entries to tell their story
    Obviously that would be monumental but man Byf and his story telling, willingness to compile these videos is the sole reason I came back to Destiny after Beyond Light

  • @seedofbayne.
    @seedofbayne. 3 місяці тому +11

    I am a zombie with infinite lives, and you want me to feel fear? You fundamentally misunderstand what we are. We are an unending army. Dying forever, and never at the same time.

  • @kilojuliet4
    @kilojuliet4 Місяць тому

    Byf cutting to "but that's all from me for now!" after dropping a unique kind of existential horror ending with "we're all probably doomed no matter what at that point" gave me psychological whiplash and I will be billing Bungie for my therapy appointment.

  • @ImTheGibby
    @ImTheGibby 3 місяці тому +1

    The vex, to me, are the scariest of all the enemies of destiny. If you think hard about what they can do it’s scary

  • @darthball2723
    @darthball2723 3 місяці тому

    I would honestly listen to a audio book on destiny lore from byf

  • @jedijam91
    @jedijam91 25 днів тому

    This is why guardian fireteams always have multiple classes as part of the team. When the Warlock starts thinking too much, either the Hunter does something stupid or the Titan punches something.

  • @vexile1239
    @vexile1239 3 місяці тому +1

    Great i needed an existential crisis before going to bed thanks Byf

  • @AwashimaSeriLieutenant
    @AwashimaSeriLieutenant 3 місяці тому +2

    Still wish we get a master vex that acts as a mastermind for the vex. Something older than Quria

  • @kellehendrosencanton6227
    @kellehendrosencanton6227 3 місяці тому +1

    And now an interesting consideration: Comments from a D2 vanilla strike by our Ghost, asking about OXA and MSund12. Did Maya Sundaresh fork-12 make it, somehow, through the Vex network and find the OXA, or a simulation of the OXA device?

    • @johngancarcik5682
      @johngancarcik5682 3 місяці тому

      That thought also dawned on me even during veil containment hearing the logs

  • @PeopleoftheAge
    @PeopleoftheAge 3 місяці тому +1

    God i wanna have an uncensored version of this lore read

  • @dylo7564
    @dylo7564 3 місяці тому +1

    Just like the question within the Ishtar Collective, how do we know if we are on the right timeline? Are we on the one that Panoptes predicted?

  • @feralprocessor9853
    @feralprocessor9853 3 місяці тому +1

    4:17
    Bruh I'm watching this on my PC because my phone needed to charge.

  • @kojeb
    @kojeb 3 місяці тому +8

    Maybe I’m being dense but whenever I see stuff about the Vex simulations I always think “so what?” until they can simulate guardians, it just doesn’t really matter

    • @doktorsmiles2034
      @doktorsmiles2034 3 місяці тому

      If the vex are left unchecked, it will be inevitable they find a way to really simulate everything, including the light and Guardians.
      Leaving a threat unchecked is dangerous
      Look at saints story, if we left it unchecked the vex might be unto us

    • @Noblesix84
      @Noblesix84 3 місяці тому +3

      It's fair to think like that, because we are Guardians, and unless the theory of us living in a simulation is correct then we have no being that could do what the Vex do, so we don't properly understand it.

    • @lordpumpkinhead265
      @lordpumpkinhead265 3 місяці тому +2

      They can't simulate paracausal forces YET. That doesn't mean that they haven't tried and managed to achieve extremely limited success over paracausality. Being able to completely cut the light from Saint-14 means that they could, given enough time, figure out ways to cut the light from two guardians at a time, then four, then eight, and so on and so on until they can completely cut the light from every guardian to ever exist.

    • @Noblesix84
      @Noblesix84 3 місяці тому +2

      @@lordpumpkinhead265 And they'd have a boost in that effort if they ever got their hands on any remains of the Cage that Ghaul brought with him, which we don't know for certain if they have or not.

    • @kojeb
      @kojeb 3 місяці тому

      @@Noblesix84 but also what would it change if we did live in one?

  • @maxwellchan44
    @maxwellchan44 2 місяці тому

    I like to think that maybe after the Light and Dark saga, The Witness or someone else has set up some kind of dead man's switch to enable the Vex to simulate paracausality. It wouldn't be entirely out of left field, given the previous existence of the black heart and Asher's manual simulation of the Veil.

  • @loganlee1796
    @loganlee1796 Місяць тому

    Wish we'd get ti explore this more, but last we've had was the infinite forest(where it seems not just simulated vex can become aware). We kinda had some hints of it in neomuna with how the vex are active there, but not to this extent for a long while. Wish wed get more since vex can fight the hive on even footing(until they bring in Taken or paracausal shenanigans)

  • @siobhan2623
    @siobhan2623 3 місяці тому

    I'm enjoying all the contents but I'm missing out on the older lore videos due to no closed captions 😔 will there be CC on them at some point?

  • @sp0tl1gtf0rjustice
    @sp0tl1gtf0rjustice 3 місяці тому +2

    This reminds me of the story of I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream, especially when the narrator meets AM, idk why though.

    • @xXx_Regulus_xXx
      @xXx_Regulus_xXx 3 місяці тому

      AM didn't rely on simulations but it did use hyperadvanced tech to completely control the lives of the people it tormented, causing them pain and keeping them alive, transforming their bodies, and medically resuscitating them when they died for more torture, the end result isn't much different

    • @sp0tl1gtf0rjustice
      @sp0tl1gtf0rjustice 3 місяці тому +1

      @xXx_Regulus_xXx I know but it just the situation specifically involving the Ishtar Collective reminded me of that.

    • @xXx_Regulus_xXx
      @xXx_Regulus_xXx 3 місяці тому +1

      ​@@sp0tl1gtf0rjusticesorry for the ambiguous wording on my part, I was agreeing

    • @sp0tl1gtf0rjustice
      @sp0tl1gtf0rjustice 3 місяці тому

      @@xXx_Regulus_xXx It's fine, and cool

  • @bendersanchez5241
    @bendersanchez5241 3 місяці тому

    hi byf you should make a podcast about the lore and ill listen to it u can start from the beginning till now

  • @79bigcat
    @79bigcat 3 місяці тому +1

    I don't know about us, but the guardians _are_ simulated. The fourth wall is canon in Destiny, and certain figures like Savathun, the Ahamkara, and the IX can poke at it. I guess in a way, the Vex can't predict the guardians because they aren't run by the CPU; they're run by us. Ask any IT guy about P.I.C.K. errors.
    I find it interesting that one of the scientists kept saying he should have gone to Braytech instead. He'd still be studying Vex, just from the hardware/biogoo angle instead of their mind/software.

  • @lucasbosier6808
    @lucasbosier6808 3 місяці тому +1

    The vex are weird bc they can time travel but they can’t but they can but they can’t but they can. The echo chamber did what it could with setting up the rules on how the vex CAN time travel and besides some great predictions like the endless night the super vex computer hasn’t really been a big threat.

  • @The_Mess85
    @The_Mess85 3 місяці тому

    Huh, I just worked out something - these sims are probably how Ishtar worked out how to build their own Exo's that didn't need access to the alkahest to prevent billboarding.

  • @Prando34
    @Prando34 3 місяці тому

    Great video

  • @theGzusMan
    @theGzusMan 3 місяці тому +1

    Off topic but also on topic, with bungie recently having some layoff as of late it goes without say that there should've been new job openings... that being said.. bungie needs to hire this man so we can have our very own personal byf reading to us grimeore lore, journal entries etc IN GAME ! It would also help with the add multi task of listing to the lore of some exotic weapon or armor while I take on a horde of enemies 😉

    • @xXx_Regulus_xXx
      @xXx_Regulus_xXx 3 місяці тому

      idk, Myelin worked as a contractor for Bungie to put together a grimoire anthology and it wasn't without problems

  • @ryanhickson6399
    @ryanhickson6399 3 місяці тому

    Thanks for describing the average vex daily routine

  • @platinumclaw
    @platinumclaw 3 місяці тому +1

    I forgot where it was mentioned but weren't the Vex or what they were before they became Vex the absolute apex predators of the universe before paracausal energy was introduced

  • @althechicken9597
    @althechicken9597 3 місяці тому +1

    Ive been in love with everything vex since 2014. They are so damn cool, and my favorite enimies in the game.

    • @vexile1239
      @vexile1239 3 місяці тому

      ?

    • @johngancarcik5682
      @johngancarcik5682 3 місяці тому

      Same my theme for my human characters is vex theme weapons and armor :)

  • @jonahsturdivant4488
    @jonahsturdivant4488 3 місяці тому

    The one line of
    “If you have a plan, then so does your sim, and the Vex knows about it”
    Almost makes the Vex omniscient if they have a good enough simulation

  • @TmiFromDoma
    @TmiFromDoma 3 місяці тому

    .....welp, I'm now questioning my own existence even more than usual. Thanks, Byf.

  • @aceofaces0007
    @aceofaces0007 3 місяці тому

    What would be truly terrifying though is if this entire story from D1 all the way through to Final Shape was just one gigantic Vex simulation, that something happens during or after Final Shape that served to pull away the current and have us realize we've been in a glass box this entire time under the Vex's control (though that might cheapen everything that has transpired as never having happened in "reality").

    • @NuclearDetractor
      @NuclearDetractor 3 місяці тому +1

      Yeah that would really piss people off. There's no better way to anger people than have a huge story development then show that it was all a dream (or something else along those lines).

  • @juliankennedy5924
    @juliankennedy5924 3 місяці тому

    The vex are decently the coolest race in my opinion. When you get to know the lore they all of a sudden shift from generic si-fi robot to much more lifelike. I would love a new season where we find some damaged vex and make a deal with it. That would just be so weird and so sick.

  • @drsaddomia
    @drsaddomia 3 місяці тому

    I have always felt that the Vex and the Borg have so much in common.

  • @kyleespinoza7201
    @kyleespinoza7201 3 місяці тому +2

    I feel like the Vex are too abstractly horrifying for most people to fully grasp what itd be like to deal with then. I've seen countless people try to compare the Vex to the Flood from Halo, but there's just no comparison between these things.
    Don't get me wrong, i think the Flood are terrifying and Im nostalgic as hell for Halo. But the Flood rely on organic nervous systems to infect, where as the Vex casually infect all forms of matter, living or otherwise. The Flood have the Logic Plague, but the Vex aren't sentient in the same way AI are, and their Pattern is simply more fundamental than anything that the Gravemind could come up with. Especially since there's no reason it couldn't be outright simulated by the Vex, or be converted in the time its trying to corrupt some Vex units. Even neural physics, in my mind at least, would be largely comparable to the texh the Vex have access to considering they can manipulate time, the gate systems, instant transimission, access to the greater vex network linked across time and space, etc.

    • @xXx_Regulus_xXx
      @xXx_Regulus_xXx 3 місяці тому +2

      actually if you take expanded Halo lore into account, the Gravemind basically infected reality itself through neural physics, and every time a new gravemind forms it can retrieve all its old memories even after being wiped out completely. in some ways the Vex would actually be jealous of a power like that, though their ability to infect anything and everything physically does come pretty close

  • @smilinrylan3169
    @smilinrylan3169 3 місяці тому

    When asked the question of how do I know if I'm real, I like to refer to truth to power from your videos, that our reality is our reality and it's real to us and thats what matters because there isn't another reality we can realize.

  • @Danny7185
    @Danny7185 3 місяці тому +1

    I didn’t do my homework cause Byf convinced me I’m in a simulation.

  • @tecfrost4495
    @tecfrost4495 3 місяці тому +1

    It's unfortunate how it doesn't feel like the Vex don't get as much screen-time as the other species. Sure, Lightfall had a focus of sorts, but the last main conflict we had with with the Vex was during Season of the Splicer if I'm not mistaken...
    (Well, that's what I get for not playing through Season of the Wish yet; seems like the Sol Divisive are the fore-front of this season...)

    • @thesonicfanboi
      @thesonicfanboi 3 місяці тому

      Not really. This season is mostly vex enemies, and we head to the black garden, but it doesn't really focus on the vex. All the story is mostly in the ahamkara and awoken.

  • @antonlitke7604
    @antonlitke7604 3 місяці тому

    I've got a (most probably) stupid question but it was bothering me since D1 vanilla:
    - we don't know the fates of these simulations. But we know that they have memory flaws.
    - we don't know "from what" our ghosts were created by the traveler. But we know that their number is limited and that they have the memory issue, too.
    - when we enter the ishtar collective facilities on venus in D1 campagne, out ghost's voice is recognized by the AI and he is welcomed as Dr. Shim. The ghost does wonder about the fact but casts it aside.
    - it's never brought up again.
    > Is our ghost somehow a Dr. Shim copy?

  • @ceferistucfr8742
    @ceferistucfr8742 3 місяці тому +1

    Damn. I am now questioning reality

  • @Biotorian
    @Biotorian 3 місяці тому +1

    I wonder if the Ishtar simulations ran into Asher Mir at any point? Or will.

  • @Coffeebean3894
    @Coffeebean3894 2 місяці тому +1

    Maybe Osiris is already dead and is a simulation so well done because the copies in the vex networks

  • @Olc-ui8fk
    @Olc-ui8fk 18 днів тому

    All these simulation fears are ruled out by the fact that the Vex don’t know said persons most intimate thoughts and memories.

  • @spacemanthesplicer
    @spacemanthesplicer 3 місяці тому +1

    The thing that always questions me about the vex how did they stay in the prison of elder’s without teleporting to escape? While in their cells

    • @xXx_Regulus_xXx
      @xXx_Regulus_xXx 3 місяці тому

      bungo still haven't explained that one to us, but if I had to guess I imagine awoken magic is involved

    • @spacemanthesplicer
      @spacemanthesplicer 3 місяці тому

      @@xXx_Regulus_xXx maybe there was something that disabled there ability to teleport out idk

  • @fysy9989
    @fysy9989 2 місяці тому

    I wasn't ready for D1 gameplay

  • @bradw317
    @bradw317 3 місяці тому

    Interesting and scary theory, but this all calls back to what happens post the Beyond Light with the Exo Stranger and even further back with Season of the Dawn.

  • @Valadi14
    @Valadi14 2 місяці тому

    Love the story and the lore

  • @muyandos
    @muyandos 3 місяці тому +4

    The Vex are so underutilized 😭

    • @Bustuhh
      @Bustuhh 3 місяці тому +1

      According to bungies roadmap AFTER TFS, we're going back to the Vex, so just like how we got a little tour of Hive life, last season (season of the Witch), we'll learn what the Vex are and what their motives are

    • @muyandos
      @muyandos 3 місяці тому

      @@Bustuhh I’m especially excited for… what was it called? Echoes? Because it will be the first of those new long episodes with more rewards and story and such. So that will be fun. Hopefully episodes are actually a good system and not just long seasons with extra filler in the battle pass lol

  • @jeremiah5511
    @jeremiah5511 3 місяці тому

    Byf casually causing his subscribers to question existence and everything we've known

  • @TheGamerDad82
    @TheGamerDad82 3 місяці тому

    04:31 Byf becomes Morpheus 😂

  • @cjruth8172
    @cjruth8172 3 місяці тому

    i wish we had a series for this universe

    • @xXx_Regulus_xXx
      @xXx_Regulus_xXx 3 місяці тому

      same but after the Halo show I'm not confident we'd get a good one

  • @Paulmacellaro
    @Paulmacellaro 3 місяці тому

    I wonder what would happen if the simulated research team tried calling a Guardian to them to try and demonstrate their light abilities to see if they’re in a simulation. Odds are it wouldn’t work, but for those copies to even have the memory of what light SHOULD look like the vex would have to have simulated that memory as well

  • @vuanhachoi2409
    @vuanhachoi2409 3 місяці тому

    Imagine the Cayde that we will meet inside the Traveler is also a Vex simulation

  • @mozeytown
    @mozeytown Місяць тому

    13:05 [indistinct percussive sound] ... it's a facepalm. Maya Sundaresh just facepalmed. One of the few lore moments that literally made me cackle out loud.