Best HFY Reddit Stories: We Were Mistaken (r/HFY)

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  • Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2024

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  • @scotteggert9820
    @scotteggert9820 2 года назад +247

    Fearing Humanities return is a logical fear. But the greater fear should be. What if they don't return.

    • @Voron_Aggrav
      @Voron_Aggrav Год назад +13

      Mean if they're driven back I'd fear that which drove them back

    •  3 месяца назад

      @@Voron_Aggrav The later says "Wait, what if there is something out there that can destroy them?"

    • @Voron_Aggrav
      @Voron_Aggrav 3 месяца назад +1

      Yes, which is what I also confirmed, just imagine that the most powerful entity you Know suddenly gets driven back to not return, you don't know What drove it back, or if it succeeded in ending the entity, Just the Dread that something so much more powerful is lurking

    •  3 месяца назад

      @@Voron_Aggrav if they returned i at least assume that the rest of the universe is death but i can see your point

  • @Taneth
    @Taneth 2 года назад +83

    "You left us to die, so many times, because you didn't care. And now, as you face an existential threat that only we can save you from, you deem us worthy to be your subjects? Don't make me laugh."

  • @blinking_dodo
    @blinking_dodo 2 года назад +199

    At the end, I think he is worrying about the wrong thing.
    He shouldn't worry about the humans returning, but worry about them *not* returning.
    For the creature is still there, slumbering inside the singularity, gazing its prey...

    • @Amoth_oth_ras_shash
      @Amoth_oth_ras_shash Год назад +7

      or the thought that should be his royal science college's 'true' concern..
      that was one migrating stellar creature , one... that breed like a bacteria capable of exponential growth , how many other galaxies out there only hade struggling young sentients when such a thing arrived ?
      what if a migration of millions of them from another now empty galaxy reaches their door steep ,will they be able to handle such a host ? or will the way they wasted potential young allies result in nothing but a slow death as for every such creature they kill dearly losing countless ships to do so , two more are born from the rest as they feast where the royal fleets is lacking..

  • @purpledevilr7463
    @purpledevilr7463 2 года назад +70

    The very beginning of this reminded me of another HFY where the galaxy was a chaotic survival of the fittest mess and earth the only known sanctuary with loads of defences.

    • @happy_amoeba
      @happy_amoeba 2 года назад +1

      do you have the link to that one?

    • @purpledevilr7463
      @purpledevilr7463 2 года назад +3

      @@happy_amoeba nope, I don’t even remember the title. Nor how long ago I read it.

    • @happy_amoeba
      @happy_amoeba 2 года назад +2

      @@purpledevilr7463 oh dang, thx anyway lol

    • @jayhan94
      @jayhan94 2 года назад

      @@happy_amoeba a

    • @jayhan94
      @jayhan94 2 года назад

      @@happy_amoeba 00z000z 0xcC

  • @silvadelshaladin
    @silvadelshaladin 2 года назад +198

    They gave the humans the wrong answer. The right answer would have been. "Would you have grown as you did, if we had rendered technology and aid? Would you have valued what was given as much as what was earned? You were never in true danger of extinction. If you had been, we may have interfered, but in the absence of that, we waited, only approaching when we thought no harm would happen from our first contact."

    • @zyanidwarfare5634
      @zyanidwarfare5634 2 года назад +76

      That would have been a complete lie, but a believable lie

    • @polasamierwahsh421
      @polasamierwahsh421 2 года назад +33

      Easily countered with, what's your definition of extension , aid and growth

    • @jankostrhun8725
      @jankostrhun8725 2 года назад +28

      Yes you let us suffer from the goodness of your heart. I am sure all the people who died in those wars and suffered through that rebuilding would be happy to hear that.

    • @krevor4095
      @krevor4095 2 года назад +1

      Agreed. Had they "rendered aid", then the Humans would have been no different than any other race in the collective.
      But at the same time, they were already a stagnant society. Inevitably doomed because they will not change sufficiently. They will believe that more ships and more weapons (of the same sort they already have) will be the answer to the infestation. And then, Humanity will not be there to render aid, or provide assistance.

    • @jankostrhun8725
      @jankostrhun8725 2 года назад +18

      @@krevor4095 Maybe (they might as well do even more much faster, this really can go either way depending on story wants) but that was obviously not an intention.
      If we were friends and I asked you for help because my house burned down and I have nowhere to sleep and you did nothing... Well even if I've managed to turn it around after years of hardship and in some stroke of luck found a love of my life in the process, guess what: you're still not invited to the wedding. If you'd barged in and tried this "look how well it turned out for you" the term "shotgun wedding" would get a whole new meaning. Yeah it might have worked out in the end, but no thanks to your fair weather ass.

  • @bradfordlindsey9781
    @bradfordlindsey9781 Год назад +9

    'What if they return?'
    "We done told ya to be better, maybe try that?"

  • @ObservingLibertarian
    @ObservingLibertarian 2 года назад +37

    "Fair weather friends" are no friend at all. It is an old human lesson.

  • @TheSolidSnakeOil
    @TheSolidSnakeOil 7 месяцев назад +3

    4:57 - At least the human ship they saw wasn't a massive space cathedral. Xenos get to live a little longer.

  • @onerxowns2202
    @onerxowns2202 2 года назад +28

    Good job making humans, impossible god creatures, YES, GOD HUMANS, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM!!!

    • @WallNutBreaker524
      @WallNutBreaker524 Год назад +1

      It's so weird 😅😂

    • @IndigoWhiskey
      @IndigoWhiskey 7 месяцев назад

      eh, if technology serves the purpose of empowering the user what did you think it's final iteration would inevitably be?
      aby sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
      because magic is a placeholder term for things you do not understand.
      in the end godhood is simply the superlative word for understanding.
      in the limit any surviving variable becomes an infinity.

  • @Arthur09608
    @Arthur09608 2 года назад +20

    Anyone else thinking the infestation was the beginning stages of the creatures from Worm?

  • @korinogaro
    @korinogaro 2 года назад +14

    Why would you be afraid? Humanity clearly had power to remove all species standing in their way yet they didn't do it...

    • @generalharness8266
      @generalharness8266 Год назад +6

      Its natural to fear absolute power, knowing your entire existence is at the discretion of another being that does not share your values. Knowing that the being can be merciful does not comfort those who know its wrath. You tread carefully and celebrate when you are beneath its notice.

  • @NathanBChampine
    @NathanBChampine 2 года назад +11

    Personally I would be more worried about that blackhole and when it collapses.

  • @jinnso4282
    @jinnso4282 2 года назад +11

    Subbed. We just played a 2 man on Bloodhunt. defo looking forward to listening to more of this.

  • @Nyghtking
    @Nyghtking 2 года назад +7

    The only thing he should worry about if humans return is his empire, as unless he chose to fight for it instead of surrender then there wouldn't be much to worry about at all.

  • @andrewmartin2321
    @andrewmartin2321 2 года назад +12

    I do not think that this story’s humans are without fault, but that this is a fable where the strong who refuse to help the weak are punished. The species itself is punished, which is unjust, but the species is personified, so if and as long as the idea of group punishment is and remains part of the fiction rather than of the moral, the takeaway is excellent.

    • @olivinator
      @olivinator 2 года назад +8

      except that the humans didn't punish anyone, they even helped a random species who may or may not have been one of those that attacked humanity. they just left when they decided that the galaxy wasn't a place they wanted to live in.

  • @BeeKisses
    @BeeKisses 2 года назад +4

    Why fear, when you were told how to remedy?

  • @generalnawaki
    @generalnawaki 2 года назад +3

    WHEN we return you all better just play nice and pay your taxes.

  • @lloydkeith3061
    @lloydkeith3061 9 месяцев назад +4

    Silly xeno,... you only rule because we don't want to. Good luck with that

  • @Marianamystery
    @Marianamystery 2 года назад +6

    13 minutes ago, let's gooo. I am looking forward to this

  • @polasamierwahsh421
    @polasamierwahsh421 2 года назад +2

    AMAZING

  • @mightygeneral4359
    @mightygeneral4359 2 года назад +3

    part 2?

  • @DaZebraffe
    @DaZebraffe Год назад +2

    7:45 Um....no, that's been a hell of a lot longer than six centuries. A century is only a hundred years...

    • @vexile1239
      @vexile1239 6 месяцев назад +1

      Six of their centuries could be millennia for us

  • @WiredTurkey316
    @WiredTurkey316 2 года назад +2

    For the algorithm

  • @jakevex4198
    @jakevex4198 2 года назад +3

    Dyson spheres are inefficient we should be using Dyson swarms

    • @johnlucas2838
      @johnlucas2838 2 года назад +6

      Which is a type of Dyson Sphere.

  • @bandiras2
    @bandiras2 2 года назад +1

    And what if they are not...

  • @basrengangetch.2042
    @basrengangetch.2042 2 года назад +1

    "next time, be better" alright Mr. Hihors McVIce

  • @Bdady74
    @Bdady74 2 года назад +1

    Algorithm appeasement comment!

  • @WallNutBreaker524
    @WallNutBreaker524 Год назад +2

    10:47 what? Humanity here is giving me illogical, and lord of the rings movie elves vibes, like... leaving? Leaving OUR GALAXY, leaving our home, our home world, leaving not to expand, but just to leave for the sake of it, the most logical and human thing humanity in this story would and should've done, was conquer, and keep what they have conquered, destroy those who oppose and so on, I see that in this story, Humanity has literally ascended to "godhood" haha 😂😅 and I can't relate at all, this isnt Humanity, it's something else entirely.
    Edit: this story would fit more if it was more "focused", like on a son abandoned by his family, became successful and his family begged for forgiveness and so on, more focused on micro problems, not macro, it just doesn't make sense to me.

  • @benhartshorn7484
    @benhartshorn7484 2 года назад +2

    Ey yo I'm early!

  • @LezlyLikesYuri
    @LezlyLikesYuri 2 года назад +1

    Second, not so early lol

  • @jakebill4887
    @jakebill4887 2 года назад +1

    Third!

  • @carlfranz6805
    @carlfranz6805 2 года назад +1

    Really? Thats your issue. What if they return? Not the encapsulated... infection? Poorly written and illogical, I think.

    • @walterroche8192
      @walterroche8192 2 года назад +9

      You do understand that the leadership was a Monarchial system? No the brightest nor most intelligent, not even earned. Given.
      If you learned anything about human history, which authors often parallel, it's that monarchy's produce the poorest of leadership.

    • @olivinator
      @olivinator 2 года назад +5

      the infection will remain contained for centuries, he'll probably not exist when the containment field fails, meanwhile the humans might return during his lifetime.

  • @charlesdog9795
    @charlesdog9795 Год назад +1

    Is one sucks bud