As a transformers fan, unicron is even more terrifying if you know more about him as a character. In most continuities, he is the embodiment of entropy. And will not rest until there is literally nothing left in the entire universe to consume. Most who learn of his existence do not survive to warn others, and those who do are either brushed off as crazy, or it takes so long for unicron to actually arrive that the civilizations that do prepare end up doubting his existence and lower their guard.
Once when I was first challenged to write a fictional horror story. (This was when highschool was kinda shit) And in a class of about thirty kids, seven wrote about a 'giant monster'. Three of those were about monsters who were larger than your average city high rise. Two who wrote a monster that was big, but big like 'average giant'. For whatever reason only two of us wrote a monster bug on a cosmic scale. Both were so large that they couldn't be seen in its entirety by humans. The difference was that in her story the monster ate the earth. A long paragraph describing the chewing of the planet and how the building the MC was in getting crushed as the view out of the window shown the end. In my story, the 'monster' never touched the earth. Never even entered the solar system. However the scale was so large and the people of earth only saw it getting closer. Some prayer, some checked out early, some partied, while some just began to kill anyone and everyone around. Only for the monster to just, walk past. As it does, it glances at the earth. Just a glance, before it continues. The destruction of the world completely self inflicted. It ends with the description of two people standing in the ashes of a fallen city, get into an argument. Last sentence was the act of a killing. I was given a B-.... Fackin highschool man.
_"Maybe that's my punishment. No burning bush, no smiting. No anything. Nothing. Just that I have to look into the eyes of the people I've wronged. See their tortured souls."_ *Mickey’s Descent Into Madness*
Strange, how something so meme-esque is poetic and deep. I mean... it's supposed to be a joke, right? But... it's only a joke if you want to laugh about it. It's only a joke... until it isn't. Until you let your perspective shift and realize "many a true word is spoken in jest."
Not an end of the world but the villain of Aragorn series ended up dying after mc force him to experience everything he caused to other , no talks or mind tricks or play on word just making him fully deal with horror he inflicted on their world and the truth was too much for him so he turned himself into a nuke
17:44 The elephant's foot effectively buried itself. "Just leave it there" is actually the most responsible action in this case. Remember, radiation isn't some magic area of effect spell, it's a physical thing that needs open air to propagate. Additionally, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor site is itself covered in one of the world's largest single story structures ever built, so that we can monitor it safely.
Certain types of radiation certainly can be considered more of a “radius of harm” just dependent on the energy level of said radiation as at certain frequencies it actually does just float through some materials. The elephants foot doesn’t emit radiation at these frequencies (or at least not enough if it does emit it). It’s very interesting
If I remember correctly the entire facility is contained within two seperate concrete and metal ‘sarcophagi’ that each independently could be considered a ‘country sized civic project’. We didn’t really “just leave it there” we did everything we possibly could to contain the threat (once the international attention ramped up), and then left knowledgeable people there to monitor the situation. There realistically was not anything more that could be done at that point that wasn’t either already done, or mis-managed and then re-handled.
@@Vaeldarg since the pressure of dealing with the difficult human response to unseen threats too high in scale to care enough about being our fault Fucking hurts, It's neccerary to do something but man this weight can be Hard to carry, wish to leave some to wolf so it doesn't seem I did as bad to continute trying to fix it.
@@Vaeldarg This was the part of the video I was like, "I wonder if CA has seen 'Paranoia Agent'. Because letting go of responsibility is definitely a core thing with that anime.
Another “End of the World” scenario I find interesting comes from Dark Souls 3. After three games of surviving the world of Dark Souls, you are presented with a choice… 1. Link your soul to the First Flame, which holds together the world and all of its balances, and continue its existence for another thousand years. 2. Let the First Flame extinguish and allow the world to fall into darkness with only a faint hope that it will be reborn again. In any other game, you would continue the world’s existence b/c a world can’t be rebuilt or reborn if it’s destroyed. But after spending three games slaying monsters, toppling warriors driven to madness, and continually resurrecting every time you die, all while losing a fraction of yourself every time… You genuinely start to see that this particular age of humanity is long-over-that everyone and everything wants nothing more than to lay down and die, but couldn’t for thousands of years. In a sense, then, you become the monster who brings about the end of the world. If unimaginable monsters, mighty warriors, and even the gods of the realm cannot conquer you…are you not a monster yourself? Not as an act of malice, but as an act of mercy. The world and all of its people are already dead or dying. In a sense, it is like a loved one saying “I am ready to go” when they are at death’s door. And so the world of Dark Souls ends, not in a fiery, planet-spanning cataclysm, but a slow and quiet descent into darkness.
I don't think Dark Souls 3 tries to make you feel like a monster. More like a doctor that will administer euthanasia. It's more like everyone has given up, but try to stop you one final time. Either in their delirious insanity or genuine last wishes to feel something. Everyone has accept all must end, even if they deny it.
The thing about all of the Soulsborne games is that the world is already over, insofar that the status quo is one of chaos, despair and cruelty. The Chosen Undead's quest almost seems more symbolic than anything, the smallest cursed victim of the world venturing forth in the hopes to restore balance. As Elden Ring demonstrates through its multiple endings, that new world order can take many different forms, and none are distinctly more "correct." Dark Souls 3 similarly presents the choice almost as a nod to the player who has pushed through the other two games, as if to say, "they keep saying things will get better, but you've seen they won't."
The kindest methods of exit are the ones that are so quick that your nervous system is basically evaporated before it can recognize what's even going on.
Now that I am thinking about it, Fallout is actually a really good example of an Apocalypse. The Enclave, the prewar government who the people who are responsible for saving the people, meet the survivors with miniguns. Those who did survive in the vaults were met with fates worse then dying with the blast. And despite all the chaos and violence in postwar America, almost all the wastelanders we meet just want to farm and trade like nothing is wrong.
Pretty sure that didn't happen in lore it was just a cool cutscene. Had the cut seen been lore it they were mutant decedents of some of the CEOs responsible not in vault 0 and vault 33 who were actually about to attack and that wasn't really the enclave it was a splinter cell led by frank Horrigan disobeying orders by the west coast who them self's outside of cornel Agustus autumn senior and junior are disobeying orders from central where the real main enclave exist in Chicago who are in fact cool and normal. Franks guys are more split from the real enclave then Arthur Maxson's BoS and they are a sub faction with a different faction name. The regular enclave are like ultra marines, both Autumns enclave being imperil fist, the west coast enclave being emperor's children, frank enclave being like khorn space marines, Arthurs BoS being grey knights, outcast BoS being word bearers and Lyons BoS being world eaters.
I've always liked the interpretation that Fallout isn't post-apocalypse, but post-post-apocalypse, that humanity is thriving again in the new environment it finds itself in. You can see that in the themes of New vegas, especially the DLCs. The old world is gone, but now is the time to move on to the future.
@@StopLizard It's certainly an apocalypse-Lite. A world so well equipped for and desirous of total nuclear war, that when it finally comes, it barely depopulates the world at all.
@@StopLizardexcept fallout 76, which iirc takes place relatively soon after the bombs dropped (like 100 years or so) because no one nuked West Virginia because who cares, and now you are rebuilding. I’m pretty sure at least, never played it because it’s fallout 76
The reason everyone views themselves as that lone, intrepid survivor because the alternative is "I died when shit hit the fan", and when you're thinking about what you would do in an apocalypse your first thought shouldn't be "Die" unless you want that to happen.
To be honest i mostly agree. This ending did used to feel like a good ending to me, until I realised the manga they made after the series had an even more positive ending
I’m personally friends with Christian Szczerba (the person who made Creatures of the End Times). I want it to be known that he’s not only a good filmmaker, but a great human being. (:
The other reason we spend so much time worrying about monsters is that they've always been a threat. Grampa Mouse's primary concerns were eating grubs and avoiding being eaten by dinosaurs. His offspring had to worry about saber tooth tigers, lions, and any other huge predators they weren't equipped to deal with. Anyone who wasn't cautious enough got eaten, so we've got millions of years of lineage warning us to keep an eye out.
@@Sunzen44 Disease don't eat you, duh. It's a simple cause and effect in reality cutting down the population to acceptable levels. Disease that kills does not spread. It's merely a societal issue. Think population density. Objectively a non-issue, but that's a separate subject.
@@ruinhem Disease Does EAT Its Literally a parasitic organism that lives on human body And by that logic, predator is also not an issue since it bring down population to "acceptable level" And human already have biological mechanism to reduce sexual impulse in overcrowded area which is why most heavy urban area have less population growths this is also observed in ants.
@@Sunzen44In a sense i think we do, i mean were programmed to not eat rotten foods or things that look nasty or inedible. But we dont seem to care about other things like germs or other things that we cannot see. I think we dont care as much as its not visually disturbing us and more of an intelligence thing.
My personal favorite end of the world scenario comes from ff14. When the servers of the original MMO shutdown to start over. But in the world of ff14, it ends with bahamut. A moon sized dragon.
@@jtcav6484 yes that's the one. If some entity told me the world was ending and I had to choose how it would end, that's how. And everyone would still hear the song from that moment.
There truly is nothing like The End of an Era in gaming. A game shutting down and having it tie into the story, a city-sized moon being dragged down by the antagonists, the skies above turning apocalyptic, safe cities becoming infested with monsters and the players reacting to this and trying to defend Ul' Dah by forming the Great Goobue Wall, Dalamud's prisoner breaking free and wiping the slate clean as everyone can only watch in horror as a dragon with an 11 mile wingspan blankets the continent in hellfire. Absolute godsdamn perfection.
"Unlike you people i am of no illusion about my actual use in the end of the world, my only purpose now is to die in a way that confuses future archiologists." Yhatzee croshaw, Jam.
Something I appreciated about Monsters (2010) was that it wasn't really an apocalypse. The Monsters moved in without asking and took their spot, but didn't go out of their way to attack and destroy, and there are multiple almost documentary-like scenes showing their life cycle as beautiful and profound; especially the mating dance at the climax of the film.
I think you'll be really interested in Project Zomboid's rendition of the zombie apocolaypse. A zombie virus spread through air transmission, with only a select few who are lucky (or unluck) enough to be immune to the airborne strain (but still will turn if bitten or scratched). The truly morbid thing is, the virus takes a few days to kill you, so it can sweep through a settlement, infecting everyone, then they all turn at once.
Is there ever any explanation as to what the hell it actually _is_ aside from “just a virus?” Anything with that level of planning ability can’t have evolved naturally
@@qrzt2000 the story is inside the TV's around the map, when the news channels play, the worst part is when the symptoms of the plague have started to appear in mogadishu and london, way outside of kentucky
I think I prefer Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (CDDA) take on the zombie apocalypse. You're not playing a survivor who was immune to a virus or a lucky one that didnt get infected, instead the truth is, the Blob has won. The blob has infected all of the protein based lifeforms in the planet, silently, without anyone knowing. The cataclysmic doomsday was just a guffaw of triumph. The world has changed, the mutating undead are just the new nature.
@@Zlyde007 Which is also the climax of a civilisation that destroyed itself. The houses are filled with oxycodon and drugs and the world before the catacylsm seemed oppresive and dark. The Blob a project of a military that should have known better...
@@peterstoric6560Better call up Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White and Monty Python and the Holy Grail's Black Night and Benito Mussolini and the Blue Meanie and Cowboy Curtis and Jambie the Genie, Robocop, the Terminator, Captain Kirk and Darth Vader, Lopan, Superman, every single Power Ranger, Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan, Spock, the Rock, Doc Ock and Hulk Hogan
@uncreativename2190 That would be the bloodiest battle that the world ever saw, with civilians looking on in total awe. The fires would rage on for a century. Many lives would be claimed, but eventually, a champion would stand, and the rest would see the better... Mr. Rogers in a bloodstained sweater.
@@arteckjay6537 This is the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny. Good guys, bad guys, and explosions, as far as the eye can see. And only one will survive, I wonder who it will be. This is the ultimate showdown..
I had to pause halfway through, lie in bed for a moment and check the outside sky through my window. Perfectly sky blue, quiet neighborhood as always. I don’t know why I had to remind myself there wasn’t an apocalypse happening right now. But I still don’t have the answer to “what happens tomorrow” besides “what happened today happens tomorrow”.
22 minutes and I'm reminded about how we personify death as a person to make it less scary. Something similar happens with these end of the world scenarios, the monsters are just easier to understand than the universe killing us.
Same with a lot of mythology (Japanese especially). "The reason all those ships were never seen again? Monsters. That whirlpool over there? A monster. The reason the neighbor tore apart their family? Possessed/cursed by a monster." Heaven forbid we actually learn how to deal with the reality of any of it.
For some reason when you were talking about the slow planet approach scenario it struck a chord in me. When I was 16 My father died in 2020 of stage 4 pancreatic cancer but he had been diagnosed in the summer of 2018 (about 18 months before). That time was probably one of the worst in my life, every day I would wake up not knowing if it was his last and it was horrible. Through the ages of 14-16 I had this overwhelming sense of dread, I knew he was going to die and that there was nothing I could do about it but I couldn’t move on until he did. It may sound horrible but I started to look forward to when it was finally over, simply so that it would actually be over, so I could finally move on and try to pick up the pieces of my life. I’m better now and although I grieve, i try to live each day to the fullest. This video just reminded me of that
Hello there. I too share a similar experience and can relate to the things you wrote down. It just wasn't my dad but my gran. Diagnosed with cancer around the summer of 2018 and died in early march 2020. My age was around the same and I can confirm these feelings of dread every day. It was a terrible time for the whole family and at a certain point I just wanted it to end to stop both her suffering from a terminal illnes, as well as our suffering, so we could move on. While it may seem weird to randomly share this under your comment it is strangely comforting for me to not be that alone in my experiences. If that message has the same effect for you then I'd consider myself to be glad to have shared it. I hope that you can heal and keep on living.
As someone who lost my adoptive father to cancer I understand this feeling completely. The looming dread of knowing that this...thing for lack of a better term will take him, that I am absolutely powerless to do anything about it. Lying to myself that things will work out, they always do, he always gets back up. Then he falls, I helped him up, put him to bed. I was tired, frustrated, and ashamed that I was. That was the last time he was here. I still catch myself replaying that morning, not remembering, but feeling it. The screaming when my grandmother found him, I ran out my room, my breathing stopped, my mind praying to anything and everything that this wasn’t IT. And walking into that room, it felt like the world had ended. He looked at peace so there was comfort there. A small flicker in the sea of horror that was my mind. The worst things in life don't happen quickly, they draw out, agonize, and torment. Maybe that's why the idea of an apocalypse where it's something that WILL destroy us but not instantly is so terrifying. Being powerless is true horror.
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Huh, that's how I feel about being alive in general. It started in middle school and I've been looking forward to checking out for over two decades now.
I get it. And it doesn't sound horrible at all. What is horrible is watching one of your loved ones slowly getting chipped away. First physically and then once the pain gets too much and they raise the medication, even mentally. It is torture for the person in question and everyone around them. Of course you'd be relieved to finally see it end. Even if it means saying good bye.
At 8:22 I finally realized what was playing in the background and literally dropped my phone to stand closer to the tv, because Die Toteninsel (Emptiness) is the perfect song for this kind of video, especially given the context of Signalis, the game that the song is from. I known no one will ever see this comment, but every tiny little representation I can get of this game and it’s sound design is a victory in my book, so I want the records to show that I noticed your wonderful choice of ambiance
In Cloverfield people are still going to work. People in Toronto, or Boston, or LA, aren't being attacked (sequel events notwithstanding). It IS business as usual, just any disaster. People are panicking at the site of the disaster, but nobody else is affected. Same with Monsters. They're not ignoring it. The military are still attacking. but one lone squid not actively trying to kill you isn't much of a threat. For the zombie thing, personally I'm convinced that, yes, bosses would still be telling us to go to work (while many of them run) but you'd have people actively trying to get bit, and biting others, to prove its a hoax.
There is this anime called Zom 100 where people die because of zombies. Yet the tone of this anime is weirdly cheerful, because the protagonist can finally break free from working for his cruel boss and can do many things he wishes for.
Very realistic, reminds me of when the WoW blood plague happened and a lot of human behavior you'd see in a pandemic were also present. It was so great scientists wished to use the data but out of concern for the players and the fun they didn't allow another thing like this to happen.
“I hope it doesn’t end at all” When the world is so cynical and you hear so much wishes of the end. It’s just nice for someone to actually say,”I hope humanity gets better. I really hope humanity makes it.” And actually displaying gratitude towards life
Well sadly the "i hope it all ends" is the realistic one, it will most likely never get any better, it wasnt even good to begin with, now its just rapidly declining, why wish for it to be better when its gonna be worse anyway.
@@Cryodrakon2 I’d like to mention how much it has gotten better, of course nothing is perfect but medicine and social acceptance is way better than it used to be. Things are not very good right now but you need to realize how much was done to make today not worse than it already is. And in a lor of ways better than the past
If we just say,”it’s never gonna get better” and don’t do anything it won’t. So we should hope and work for a better future. Because no matter how bad the odds are if we hope, if we don’t it’s 100% going to get worse.
@@placeholderdoe And that's exactly why people hope for the worst. Because its one that's predictable. You've already seen the effort to unite people with differing political opinions, so it'll be worse if its the whole world. If optimists really wants people to do things, they'll need to offer something more than just hope that people can't see and plans that go against others. Learn what other humans feel, cause you're only feeling yourself.
@@Cryodrakon2 Almost every single aspect of life has gotten better over the centuries. There are sometimes setbacks, but they have always been temporary.
i love the use of the Disco Elysium music at 11:14, as in this world everyone is going to die one day because of the ever expanding Pale, which makes you cracy, dizzy and hallucinating over time (the world ends in nuclear disaster but still, the knowledge of the expiring of land ist there)
Interestingly enough, Disco Elysium is more or less about that: letting go, and the impossibility of it. But the manner in which people let go of something is different for all. What connects all the people in disco elysium, however, is a deep rooted, social and individual, grand, cultural denial of the pale's eventual outcome: the slow but ever encroaching and very visible devouring of the world by what is essentially the void. Some people deal with it through hedonistic degeneracy, like the ultraliberals and their glorification of wealth, entertainment and social hierarchies built on financial gain. Others deal with it through enacting their worst impulses of sadism and violence, like the fascists and the mercenaries. Others cling on to the last remaining embers of hope, doused by the ultraliberals and the fascists, but still smouldering somewhere in the hearts of the communists and socialists, weakened, reduced to petty numbers, and living in a broken, bombed out, warped vision of their once great capital. Klaasje, who I consider to be the main antagonist (this might sound strange, but remember, an antagonist is not the same as a villain, nor does there need to be only one) of the story, deals with her own past through moments of nostalgia on the one hand, and a blatant denial of culpability and consequences. She is an eternal fugitive from a past of her own making, seeking short and hedonistic pleasures as a distraction for a moment. We have the detectives, trying their absolute hardest to find some semblance of order in the chaos by keeping things running orderly and by the code of the law, corrupt though it might be. And of course, we have the secondary, but ORIGINAL antagonist of the game, who I won't spoil for those still desiring to play the game. The one that sets the plot in motion and in whom the great thematic coherence of the story is concentrated. You of course already know who I'm talking about. This character, is the very antithesis of the concept of letting go. The very denial of moving on. Of accepting downfall. And lastly, we have the protagonist, whose fate is one of his own making and at the same time, tragically beyond his control, who struggles with finding meaning and identity through the chaos that is reality, finds snippets of them in his deluded mind and more of it through his interactions with the world and people around him, who, in what might be considered a cosmic mercy, give him the opportunity to forge a new identity for himself. Somebody who, in the end, still has to be confronted with his past, confronted with his capacity to let go of something truly dear. Can he? I think it's up to the player decide what THEIR protagonist would truly do. Disco Elysium is tragic, beautiful, and existentialist. (Almost everybody on youtube could learn a thing or two about existentialism and it's vital, no-nonsense answer to the radical concept of nihilism or fatalism. A lot of people mistake existentialist stories for nihilism, and that's one of the greatest cultural misinterpretations of our time.) It does not pretend to give the player an answer, but fully commits to showcasing all POSSIBLE answers within a given framework, a given social reality. And it leaves open the potential for more. Like all truly great stories do. It accurately touches on the deep emotional issue that lies at the heart of existential dread, so often mistreated and misrepresented by entertainment media. Death, and our protagonist's almost constant fixation with it, whether by will or through circumstance, is not just a metaphorical, but a literal part of their journey. And it is beautiful.
Hellboy 2 has a really good apocalypse kinda monster where they introduced the forest god as the last of its kind only to get killed by another last one of its kind
Every time I watch that movie that scene cause me to stop and think bout life I know that time flows and everything must come to an end but does that make the loss any less tragic I for one think it shouldn't
I also loved it. And I immensely felt pussy for it, because it was a good, benevolent God controlled, defiled and destroyed. Makes it one of the most tragic kaijus in my mind, a tie with Shin Godzilla and another select few.
If a kaiju can talk. They'd probably say "humans are a self-consuming species. What makes my destruction so vile if you are all programmed to destroy yourselves?"
I have endless respect for youtubers that put the names of media and music used in the description. Thanks to you I've finally found the song I've been searching for. Knowing the names of movies shown in the video also helps a lot.
I actually paused this video and watched Carol last night instead of sleeping. I’m back to finish this video and say thank you for letting me be part of that incredible experience.
I think another reason humanity is attracted to the concept of a monster bringing doomsday is that it is something humans could resist. Like you said, things like pandemics and natural disasters are so gradual and hard to grasp, and because of that, it's hard to take action against them. Our best hope would be to wait it out and, like in "when the wind blows", hope we survive. But if a monster came to devour the world, we like to think we'd recognize it and try to stop it. If it's alive, it can be killed. It allows humanity to grapple with the doomsday concept whilst still believing there doesn't have to be a doomsday at all.
That is the power fantasy of pacific rim. Yeah, it's a horrific invasion by these enormous beasts, but you can hop in a giant robot and punch that apocalypse in the face. You can't do that for fallout.
this is by far the best video ive found covering this topic and most surpisingly it didnt send me into a spiral existensial dread and despair that can only be solved by 3 bottles of absinthe
in a way it feels glorious in a way that the whole humanity has fallen when fighting something truly superior to it, despite humans controlling almost the entire planet, while also having an access to the most powerful weapons we know of that can create shockwaves so powerful that those can be felt across the planet
Yeah, it kinda reminds me of the Wolf from Puss in Boots 2 (spoilers) Near the end of the movie, the wolf is revealed to actually be DEATH ITSELF, ticked off at Puss for wasting 8 of his 9 lives. When Puss tries to fight him the first time, the wolf effortlessly trumps him and puts genuine fear of mortality into him, forcing Puss to run. This fear sticks with Puss and is the only reason why he's even interested in the movie's MacGuffin, the Wishing Star, at all. It's his cure, his fallout shelter, what he hopes will prevent the inevitable. But when the chips are down and the true nature of the Wolf is shown to him, Puss decides to face death without using the star, to fight even though he knows there's no way he can win. While death did wind up backing down due to seeing Puss's character growth, if he had decided to see things through, I could think of no greater ending for our favorite fearless hero. Battling Death Itself atop a star that embodies all of mankind's dreams....
This whole thing is reminding me of a quote from a different video on games like Metro and STALKER: "I'm not hoping for the apocalypse, I just want the simplicity of it." Monsters destroying everything is a simple end, something where we all understand it: this is the end. Some could try and fight it, but for no reason other than to have the feel of a last stand, others will watch the show of the destruction. So it makes sense there's almost a hope that'd be how humanity ends. Also kind of reminds me of a different quote of why someone liked zombie apocalypses that I think also applies: "You don't have to worry about going to work today, there's zombies outside! You don't need to worry about your errands this week, there's zombies outside! You don't have to worry about paying your rent this month, there's zombies outside!" Just replace "zombies" with "Giant monster ending the world" and you can see the appeal
I don't see the appeal. At all. The difference with an apocalypse-by-monster is the high chance of being eaten alive. Which is just a very unpleasant way to die. Curious Archive was just WAY off the mark on this one: a monster, especially every Japanese one, is just a way to have a scapegoat. People don't want to believe that other humans are capable of horrible, violent behavior. It's easier to tell themselves it was the work of some monster that was either invincible, or able to be taken care of in some prescribed manner by some monster slayer (vampire hunters, monks, etc.) that understands their role on a professional level. An invincible, world-ending monster or rogue planet means humanity doesn't have to take any responsibility for not doing anything about it.
@@Vaeldarg you didn’t finish the video or pay attention then. First it’s a case of “if the world had to end with no alternative, it needs to end, what choice would you want?” as a hypothetical, second he directly says at the end says “the world ending will be the fault of humans by causing and ignoring the doom that’s happening slowly and that’s the more terrifying part.” There’s so scape goatinng. Just a “wish humanity wouldn’t be the ones to create its own downfall, if we had to fall it wouldn’t be on us.”
There's a guy on youtube that's doing like a whole deconstruction of the entirety of Evangelion. He's done like dozens of videos, all of them more than half an hour long, and I think that he's STILL not entirely done with it. There's countless of video essays on Evangelion, some of them even over 2 hours long, and each of them somehow manage to touch upon different aspects of the series. Evangelion really is sort biblical in that way, it is such an unfathomably dense piece of media and there are so many angles and perspectives you can take to deconstruct it. There is so much to say about the lore itself, and how it connects to judeo-christain mythology, and how that in turns connects to the themes of the story. There's so much to say about EACH INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER you can make an entire hour long video just analyzing any single one of them. There is so much about all the psychology and philosophy references. The series has so much to say about the nature of relationships and the nature of humanity as a whole. All the while still being an effective sci-fi thriller with a genuinely cool and fascinating world. Evangelion isn't a series, it's a whole-ass manifesto on humanity, that also manages to be engaging and somewhat fun to sit through. It's really just a "whole thing".
@@qwertydavid8070 HOO BOY does it. And then, _it isn't about God at all._ No bearded man in the sky with a divine plan, no mechanizations from above with a goal of the greatest good, but: some other assholes, _the true humans,_ despite having physics-defying powers of the Angels; but with _our_ intelligence-- and separation anxiety and loneliness and corruptibility-- split and amalgamated their souls into basically genetic lifeboats, one (some?) with their powers, and one (others?) with their wisdom, and fleeing whatever it was that _still_ killed their civilization; spread life across the galaxy, with each angel being a different evolutionary expression of "Human." And the ONE thing they wanted was: to keep both boats from landing at the same fucking port, lest-- I dunno, a rival species emerge, or for "basically just us again" to make the same mistakes all over again. GUESS WHICH PLANET THE PLAN GOT FUCKED UP ON. No, seriously, _that's_ the true backstory. evangelion.fandom.com/wiki/First_Ancestral_Race
I was working in our city Library when 'When the Wind Blows' came out in book form... and it was one of a handful of books that was not put out on the shelves, but kept under the information desk in the adult section of the library. It was only available on order request, and one day, whilst processing this list, I leafed through it, and soon learned why. Both animation and book were illustrated by the chap who did 'The Snowman'...and at first glance, it looks just as innocuous to begin with. Its as you get further in that the real horror starts, as you realise the characters, despite all their efforts, are woefully under-prepared for what is happening. It looks so much like a children's book (and certainly is not) that it had to be kept under the information desk to stop kids from accidently picking it up and taking it out. Addendum: About six or so years ago, the BBC showed a series that they touted was 'a mixture of cop drama and science fiction'. It was called 'Hard Sun', and was about a couple of cops who stumble across what appears to be some kind of conspiracy over an astronomical report that an issue with the Sun will destroy Earth within four years. As they carry on with their lives, a government agent is sent after them to first discredit, and then eliminate, them. I wasn't interested in the cop stuff, so skip watched , wondering when the bona fide science fiction would kick in. It finally did at the end of the final episode, when, after cornering the government agent, the two cops, along with the agent see the Sun rising over the London skyline with a strangely shaped solar flare hanging a short distance from the Sun. The Agent says she'd been lied to and that 'it is already here'. The show ended with an image of the sun and the countdown to the end of the world still ticking down. This show was supposed to have three or four series, and on the face of it, did reasonably well, and would have got at least another season. Instead, all has fallen quiet, and, as far as I know, The idea has been dropped. It won't be the first time the BBC has ditched a vaunted SF show, but then the previous one flopped so badly it was no surprise to anyone that it wasn't renewed. 'Hard Sun' did reasonably well, however, so the fact its been abandoned makes no sense... unless you did what I did. The moment I saw the Sun and its' circular flare, I had my suspicions. I took a screenshot of the image, focused on the 'flare' and zoomed in. The 'flare' wasn't a flare at all , but an accretion disk with a small event horizon of a black hole in the middle. Why they chose this catastrophe over anything else, I'm not sure. I do know one thing, and that was that the following series would have dealt with the breakdown of society as doomsday approached... but I think the BBC found the choice of disaster wasn't going to go down well with the audience. With most other disasters, the viewer is able to tell themselves that, no matter how bad it is, someone will survive, even if it means a few will be shipped to somewhere like the moon and rebuild there. However, most of the audience, once they found out about the black hole, would realise there'd be no escape for anyone, not even on the moon. With such relentless pessimism and hopelessness, I think the BBC realised they wouldn't even get half way through season two before viewing figures plummeted... and quietly dropped the whole thing.
14:30 fun fact, fallout isn't really an issue anymore. most modern nuclear reactors (and thus any modern bombs) don't have a fall out issue. it's part of the reason why nuclear is the best form of clean energy available, because we have literally found a way to solve every negative it presented.
"and thus any modern bombs" I was under the impression that nuclear weapons are built _by design_ to spread fallout. Reactors sure, make them as safe as possible, but when you're trying to stop-breathing as many people as possible over as much area as possible, well...
@@CoralCopperHead nope. weapons are designed to kill people, not make resources unavailable and since virtually every war in history has been fought over resources and land, that would be antithetical to the point. fallout doesn't kill enemies, it kills your troops as they move into your new city. that is a flaw. someone could in theory make a dirty bomb, but that would require going out of your way to be cruel and commit war crimes. it wouldn't be a weapon it would be terrorism.
@@CoralCopperHead nope, that's not the point of a weapon of war. you don't want to kill your own troops, and that's all fallout does, it kills your people when they go to take over the city you just cleared of enemies.
@@NoESanity Nukes aren't weapons of war though, they're weapons of mass destruction. It's one of those cases where you say subtlety is for philosophy, not the battlefield: might as well make it unlivable if you don't care about the territory and just want everything there gone.
@@CoralCopperHead right, you obviously have no clue what you're talking about. as I have already explained, modern Nukes don't give off long lasting radiation or radioactive fallout meaning they are BY DEFINITIONS not WMDS. If you want to play a fallacy card, why even interact? you made the claim that Nukes were designed to spread fallout, and you were told they are not. You are wrong. both in a modern and historical context.
Curious Archives videos are the type of videos where you get so lost in your mind and thoughts that the video feels like it's been going on for hours but in reality it's only been like 30 minutes.
I actually really like the inclusion of this shot at 29:53 when you discuss how dark Eva is, because, in my opinion, that moment is one of the most unequivocally, unabashedly, uncomplicatedly joyous in the entire continuity. This is the moment when Asuka finally manages to escape from her depressive spiral and Eva Unit 02 goes berserk. Asuka is a character who is, as most of the Eva cast is, incredibly lonely, isolated, and furthermore, phony. Her demeanor is chipper and competitive, but we learn she developed this personality so she could get attention from others, the kind she was never able to get as a young child. During episode 22, this shield is forcibly stripped away from her, and the only thing left is for her to curl into herself and accept herself as worthless. Observing what Asuka is reduced to after her metaphysical rape is haunting. After wading through life listless for days on end, the only thing that is able to bring Asuka back, and the only thing she had really wanted all this time, was the soul of her mother urging her onward. When Asuka takes her mother's hand and emerges from the lake, it really is one of the most amazing moments I've ever seen on film. Suddenly, she's vibrant, happy, determined, and lethal-- Asuka goes on a murderous tear against the military spawned not by rage, but by pure, unfiltered joy. Asuka has never been able to connect so deeply with another person like she is doing with her mother's soul right now, and the results are blissfully catastrophic. She is invulnerable, and the army machines around her are nothing compared to her Eva's sheer destructive capability. Every explosion is its own kind of cheer. The desolation Asuka ends up causing is nothing less than nirvana. There's this moment where Asuka looks up at the sky from within the pilot's seat, beaming like the happiest little girl in the entire world, and the camera comes back to reveal the hulking monstrosity she is piloting, emerging from the wreckage of the destruction it's wrought. And it's the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
...which is then promptly responded with her taking a skyscraper-size spear to the Eva's eye. Which is psychically linked with her own. Followed by the scene we saw in 27:12.
@@RavenAdventwings Yeeeep! Probably shoulda mentioned that, but I got waaaay too into writing that, lol. I do think it's pretty cool how the joy boils into rage when she switches from fighting the military to fighting the Eva series, and she ends up being so bloodthirsty she manages to survive literally being gutted, if only to threaten to kill her murderers.
Unless you're any of the sorry saps trying to stop her, then this day is just as apocalyptic as it initially seems. One woman's rebirth is another man's oblivion. So really, it depends on who you most resonate with, the gleeful destroyer, or the harrowed defender.
...I hated that scene. She spent the entire series being a complete shitheel, we get her Fruedian excuse, she kicks a whole lot of ass on the battlefield -- which she's been doing all series -- and suddenly we're supposed to think she's come out the other side and ignore everything she's already done?
7:55 from "To ask" until the last part to "all you get" My right ears headphone glitchy broken voice and it sounded like a VERY ominous warning and I'm scared 😭
I have to say this is one of the best videos on RUclips I’ve seen… maybe ever. It stands out to me because it’s deeply compelling, in a provocative way. Something about the way you go back and forth between these fictional depictions of people imagining with the unimaginable, and the real humanity of it, is immensely compelling to me, and invites me to consider many new perspectives I hadn’t before. Because this video invites so much perspective, it’s large, very large, but much like the banana, its largeness is less scary than I feel it should be. I take great joy in thinking; but I often find myself wondering through familiar territory, and thus not reaching anything tangible. This video is unfamiliar territory for me, presented in such an enticing way; it feels so personal while not closed off. Engaging with this video causes me to fly out of the barriers in which I could ever think on my own. Isn’t that the point of art? If so, then this video is excellent art.
A slight correction for the Elephant foot at Chernobyl. In the TV series they talked a bout how it would cause a disaster, but it was completely unfounded. Many expert have criticized this for making the story more dramatic than it really was. In reality, not much would have happened (if anything at all)
It's the same problem with Svetlana Alexievich's book, which was one of the source materials in the series. Lets just say she took a lot of artistic liberties. For example, she made up the bridge of death scene. She still has interesting theories about radiation, for example that 5th generation telecommunication is responsible for one of recent global health problems. Oh, and chemical poisoning was also very real problem, in fact excluding firemen and some plant workers, it was more serious short term problem than ARS(acute radiation syndrome).
22:08 i feel like we simply cannot comprehend the idea of a final ending. humanity's doom has to be something so outlandish, so fantastical and realistically unimaginable that it becomes the last page that no character wants to turn. because if the end to the world is a quiet one, what is even the point?
Ragnarok is one of the more fassinating types of ends of the world. Its a self fullfilling profesy, a complex order of events like a tragedy, but it also has a twist to how it ends. Its not just big monsters coming to wage war on humanity and the gods for specticle and valient battles but shear unbriteled chayos as Odins plans to prevent it back fire.
I think the fact that you know you're destined to lose and all of your plans will fail but you can still try if you really want to is kind of comforting too. Like, we're all gonna die eventually due to a million different reasons but most of us don't have the means to even attempt to stop it. Being given a chance to try to fight it, even if everyone including you knows it's futile, would be kind of nice.
Holy shit I remember seeing Beasts of the Southern Wild as a kid real late at night and spent most of my life thinking it was something I made up or confused with something else cause I’ve never seen or heard anything about it until now, so thanks for digging up that memory from the depths of my mind
The difference between our personal end of the world and the apocalypses, is that even though personally we are on limited time, we know others will exist beyond us. And so, we can do what we do not only for ourselves, but for those we leave behind as well. I want to live a good life, but I don't want to burn it all down on my way out because I know I have loved ones who will inherit that world I am leaving behind. In an apocalypse there is nothing to leave behind for anyone, and so none of that matters anymore.
I mean when the dinosaurs went extinct and other flora and fauna, the world was still there and it recovered and then other lifeforms took over in which the mammals replaced the reptiles, so your statement is too pessimistic and depressing and kind of wrong things still matter whether from humanitys perspective or in general
I played this one game called "The Eternal Cylinder" and I enjoyed it a ton. Its a world where you play as little aliens called "Trebhum" on a planet prone to a planetary wide extinction, the main antagonist of this game is a mysterious giant cylinder that wraps around the planet rolling over everything that comes in its path and flattening it, absorbing all the value there is in the landscape. And in this alternate timeline the cylinder has destroyed thousands of other civilizations over its billions of years of existence giving you a sense of dread and hopelessness, and you kind of have to just watch it happen. The music and execution also adds to that atmosphere. The game is also a tiny bit similar on the cartoon you covered at the end mainly the "Everyone becomes one." narrative.
I love how, even if I'm not that philosophical, you manage to make me think, you always get me to reconsider, you are one of the only channels out there that can do that, keep up the good work i hope it doesn't end at all
28:04 I love this breaking point where he just says it’s so complicated as the theme song plays in the background. I hope we see more of you breaking your constant calm voice.
As someone who went from near constant anxiety during COVID to only occasional anxiousness now and again, I think I can add something to this conversation. Particularly the part about "Coral's Afraid", the movie "Monsters", climate change, and the pandemic to the average person. The reason they keep living their lives despite that looming threat instead of delving into the over the top celebration in the Bright Eyes- At the Bottom of Everything music video or straight nihilism like the Joker in the Dark Knight is because as irrational as it may seem, they are mentally healthier than us. It's not disassociating or some laps of sanity that makes them not take things as seriously, but fundamentally understanding things being out of our control don't necessitate them being more meaningful to our lives. Our actual lives that we live out day by day not the imagined futures or next spike of enjoyment that will be fondly remembered later. The now, on the most basic level, is what we are and most people by instinct take that on as the place for happiness and contentment. So, if you are ever looking at others wondering why they aren't bothering with the thing that is keeping you up at night, or why they seem to be "wasting" their life not doing more exciting things, just consider that it might be wiser to find contentment in the now than ecstasy in the future or soon to be past.
@@retina77real That sounds pretty awesome. Most of what I got this from was my mentally healthy friends telling me to "shut up and stop worrying so much." The rest is coming from reading the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, and eventually someone explaining the concept of "Rational Ignorance": it's impossible to know everything, and it's not healthy to try and know everything. I found it wise.
@@retina77real I like the Rocky version when Apollo is shouting, "There is no tomorrow!" We are all already dead in a sense. We know of the certainty of that future. Any fear-mongers trying to add more it's simply looking at their actions and not listening to their words. If nobody who sounds like they are panicking is actually worried, why would I be?
Covid really wasn't that big a deal my dude. It's been over four years, I think you need to get over it. It sounds like you let the news and the negative media do a lot of your thinking for you. And that's not useful or healthy.
This makes me think so much of "the sublime." Most often dipicted in art. Its usually an ucomperable force of nature is some form or otherwise. Such as storms or blinding light. This idea of "monsters" to me reads so much as just another physical form of the sublime, and I love it so much more for that.
My favorite painters, Zdzisław Beksiński, often brings ideas of apocalypse, but in a different sense, his paintings often feel like the end of not just the world, but something beyond. And maybe end is the wrong word, because it always feels like there is more and yet nothing ahead in them, you see portals that seem to connect to other paintings and yet feel frozen in time, vast oceans where no ship or bird could fly across yet look inviting, creatures who still clutch to some humanity, from looking for justice, curiosity or affection and yet, have no face or discernable future, symbols incarnate, either of hope or despair that loom over desolate lands. All in all, they are what I imagine hell or heaven to look like, a completely alien, infinite world and paradoxically, what I imagine the end would look like, maybe as a cope mechanism, because I'd want nothing more but the end to be just another avenue to take, one to explore and to learn from, if not keep living, to keep discovering. They are also cool and metal AF.
imagine if the extinction off all life will be just a 1000 km long banana hurling towards earth. Just that. Would look really silly but still would be poetic, dreadign and not that bad
In Highschool I realized that I’d be one of the people who’d be wiped out on mass in a horrible end of the world scenario. That as much as I’d want my life and actions and memories to matter, in the end they won’t. They’ll only matter briefly, to the people I love. But I’ll be forgotten. Even people I look up to will be forgotten, even those at the top who think the world revolves around them will too be forgotten… and yet, Im not gonna give up. Our one flaw is that we think of ourselves and then everything else. But we’re a social species, we’re close to bees and ants. One ant can’t overcome a flood, but a colony of ants can make a boat with their bodies. And the shitty part, is that THAT’S part of the reason we’re killing ourselves and everyone around us. A simultaneous “only I matter” and “do what the leader says to do because that’s what everyone else is doing.” We’re not well equipped to deal with the climate crisis or the economic abyss we’re digging ourselves. We can’t fully understand or process them even when we know what’s going on… I remember asking people as a kid “what would you do if zombies were real?” And everyone had a plan to survive. Everyone knew who’s house they’d go to… and when I’ve asked this same question to my friends now, I hate how many people say “well I’d probably just die.” I fucking hate it… Another thing that fills me with dread is just… seeing people have kids. WE were supposed to fix the world, to solve things and it’s gotten worse and now there’s new kids coming into this world who have no idea how bad things are getting. How their lives are about to become so unbelievably painful… i fucking hate it. But. I will say this. As many people say they’d die in a zombie apocalypse, a similar amount casually drop how they’re gonna be here for the revolution. It will come, and yes it’s gonna be awful but for the sake of humanity- of life in general, it’s worth it. So here’s to revolution. Here’s to hoping we all get a good ending. Hoping at least. Because it’s gonna be a lot worse before it gets better. Fight the good fight, kick your boss in the dick, and never stop until the end comes. Take care..
If you hate people having kids, you're not exactly gonna make friends on the long road to fix the planet. This is, in my opinion, the biggest issue with the ecological crisis. Instead of politely constructing a plan, fearmongering was chosen-fearmongering often interweaving lies into the truth. This approach has been catastrophic for any an all attempts at alleviating any human-induced crisis. That right there is horror, that the cause of people who care was ruined by people who thought FEAR, of all things, was the way to go. Rule by fear has never worked for long, and that won't change.
21:25 I think it's interesting to note that the ancient peoples making these apocalypse myths would have been perfectly aware of things like famine and drought, even massive disasters like earthquakes and tsunami - but much like their gods, personifications of physical phenomena beyond human ken, the monsters of doomsdays past were meant as a way to better visualise the end of things; if the dramatic, awful events have a _familiar cause,_ it becomes significantly easier to personally relate to the intended drama. That's why we have snakes, wolves, giants and all eating the sun - or, dragons summoning up rainclouds that never break. These things are familiar to the everyday person, and already fit into their cosmology, so whatever effects could be more easily rationalised. What I mean here is that, were you to take an ancient egyptian or nord or mesoamerican and show them the climate crisis, they would describe these things through monsters - sea level rise and flooding is the rabid thrashing of Jormungand, the baking famine-bringer sun is some work of Seth, and the increase in geological activity is Tlaltecuhtli finally waking up again to devour humanity. Fun thing is, equipped with an understanding of the ecological crisis as a set of monsters hell-bent on killing _you, specifically,_ these ancient people would probably be better psychologically equipped to handle the crisis, because it is a damn sight easier, mentally, to oppose a set of uppity monsters, than the massive interconnected system of the entire world from dust to mountain.
you have the opportunity to fight death itself, to oppose the inevitable, humans shall not obey the laws of nature for we have surpassed it, sticking to the status quo of "why bother" and "all good things must come to an end" gets noone nowhere, you have agency, you have free will, defying the mechanisms of nature itself is what means to be human@@CoralCopperHead
I really wish I could watch this video, but it's just too stressful. Thank you for talking about such a difficult topic, though! You have my deepest admiration, for this and all of your other videos. If I may suggest future video topics: analyzing how truly weird non-human aliens could be, how sound effects can make animated and video game worlds come to life, and/an examination of or different kinds of common fears/phobias and where they come from.
As mom was driving me to the hospital today, the wall of an entire construction building suddenly almost fell on our car, we would have gotten smashed if it wasn't for mother's quick reflexes. So that would have been the end of the world for us and there i was, unknowing of this, saving memes on Pinterest, only noticed when she screamed. Then we kept going as if nothing happend. Life is really funny and terrifying.
I have been following you since the early days of your channel. I absolutely loved your spec evo content but your more long form video essay content like this is simply incredible. You have become one of my favorite creators and every video somehow seems to be better than the last. You inspire me to think so introspectively and your discourse often parallels many of my own thoughts, making me feel like I'm not entirely alone in my thinking. Never stop
Also you touch upon so much of my favorite media! To see things like When the Wind Blows, Godzilla, Monsters, Evangelion, etc mentioned in just this video makes me feel like I'm not so strange in what I enjoy despite only knowing one other person in real life I can share these things with.
It's sort of like: If I already found so much difficulty trying to live a life that was virtually impossible to me before, me who has a very small and limited friend group who aren't here locally, and who works in a middle to low class job, with very little money and very few interests or desires, how am I supposed to be expected to be able to live a life so far from what I'm used to when there's so little time left? It's like, where do I begin? It's overwhelming.
Money is the issue here, we can't live free because our hands are tied. It's not about not having the will, there are material reasons we can't live like every day is our last. It's another argument against our current system, but to most people the end of the world is more likely than the end of capitalism. Do your best to push yourself but don't feel like you have to move across the world or do something huge right this second, we'll get there. I was raised in a cult to believe it could all be over at any time and that's not a way to live. It's hard to break, I still haven't in some ways, but giving up just helps the assholes who want to burn the world.
@@chaucermcdoogle6011 "I was raised... ...to believe it could all be over at any time and that's not a way to live." I didn't realize that acknowledging the truth was a bad way to live. Got a spare blindfold for me?
I was just thinking about that. The vogons destroyed the earth in five minutes, which is pretty merciful compared to a lot of other ways to go. Especially radioactive fallout.
I’ve been working on an art series of Godzilla Kaiju as cosmic horrors and I have never found someone more eloquently explain the feelings the series gives me.
Two of my favorite apocalyptic monsters are Golb, and The Lich from Adventure Time. Definitely worth looking into. The Lich, also known as the last scholar of Golb, is an entity who's only goal is to end all life. He is like a machine, or a computer program. If ending all life isn't possible he will shut down/crash, and be virtually harmless until he sees another way to do so. And Golb is way too complicated to talk about in a RUclips comment but alas, way more powerful than The Lich
I absolutely love your videos; they're so thoughtful and interesting and weave in a lot of non-mainstream media that are very poignant. Your narrative threads are thoughtful, and interesting, and they really draw you in. Not only that, but with every video you make, you get better at making them! It's been a really fun thing to watch your channel grow and evolve, and I applaud the myriad of work hours that must go into every single video you make. Thanks for making things!!
The first section of this video, about how we struggle to comprehend such massive threats, really encapsulates how I feel about most works of cosmic horror- it's too big a scale for me to feel worried about, so why bother? Instead, the works of cosmic horror that do disturb and unsettle me are works where humanity isn't helpless to the horror, but instead seek to exploit it, which is why I'm so glad you brought up Evangelion at the end. That series, the movie Nope, and Mystery Flesh Pit National Park are the three most unsettling works of cosmic horror to me because they show humanity not as helpless victims, but hubristic agitators.
I don’t know if this episode or the forest episode hit me harder, but having just finished a psych evaluation, and many of my responses to questions about hoping I don’t wake up, and hoping the void I feel inside would manifest itself physically to blink me out of existence, these two videos helped me understand that I’m not alone in feeling that way, even if I’m just part of a very small minority. Thank for putting these feelings into words. Relieving the pressure, as you said.
I don't want to sound like a broken record, but I have to mention once again that you have quickly become one of the best video essayists on youtube as far as our little gaming/media analysis side of the site is concerned. You, Super Eyepatch Wolf, Jacob Gellar, Nexpo are just pumping out consistent content that makes me think critically about the world and the media I consume. I always walk away from your videos feeling like there's more between my ears than when I started and I'm genuinely grateful for all you do.
"If like a wolf eats the sun, well, that's just bad luck" perfectly encapsulates the "issue". I'm obviously only speaking for myself, but the concept of me /humanity being responsible for the ongoing "only know life in existence place" we call Earth is CRUSHING. Like, there are countless stories and at least as much real life happenings where e.g. an older sibling suddenly has to care for the family as the prio caretakers are no longer in the picture. Those stories and experiences make i extremly clear how angsty the now new caretaker got aswell as how hard it actually was to keep on trying or succeed aswell as how hard it was to not give up. Now, that might just be me, but scaling that example up from "care for you sister anon, you're her only reaming family" to "Well human 0000000001, you know have to care for this whole planet for the next 5 billion years, good luck" is so far out.
Caring for my sister? That I can relate to and I'm will to help, 'cause I know that's feasible for a single person to do. Caring for the entire human race? First off, nearly inconceivable. Second off, I wouldn't do that even if I could because it's not worth it. If I was able to care for the entire species, I'd be able to wipe it out, and I'm -not- sorry to say, I'd take the latter option.
@@Kabal39 I'm saying the world ending due to outside events, i.e., a monster, would be way more acceptable and "ok" to my psyche than the world ending because humans (as in me and you, us) destroying the world due to neglect. I mentioned suddenly taking care of a relative or whatever as an example how hard such a "small" responsibility already can be. compare "taking care of a relative" to "taking care of the planet" (as a collective race) and suddenly taking care of the planet is way out of proportion to what I/my psyche can handle. Understandable train of thought?
@@CoralCopperHead Holding grudges is and always will be childish. No matter how old the individual or how developed your audial vector is that's just plain immature. And to even imagine something infinitely insignificant such as a product of a flaw in development of a limited perception can be responsible for something as big as an end to the entire collective I find embarrassing. A monkey lost its banana to a thief, killed the entire tribe out of spite by luring predators at night. The impracticability was of course never in question but just think about the implications of such an intent. It doesn't seem reasonable, though you don't need me or anyone else to tell you that. I hope you find what you're looking for.
@@ruinhem ...Sorry, but there's no grudge here. I'm not angry at anyone in particular, I'm just acknowledging that the entire species -- including myself -- are a net negative to the universe and should be removed from the equation. Also, not sure what your banana metaphor is supposed to mean -- I've lost nothing and been given everything, if anything, that just proves my point. I'm still alive when I shouldn't be, just like the rest of us.
I think the ability of humans to keep doing routine even in disasters is an ability that can be channeled into . . . The ability to keep going. The ability to change and adapt will always conflict with the desire to maintain the status quo, but we need both. 'Cause rooted in that desire for things to stay the same, is the desire for things to just . . . Keep happening. It's when we can combine the ability to adapt and change with the desire to keep going that we truly will progress to something greater
The End and The Vast mix very well together. One is self explanatory, and the other is impossibly huge creatures. When mixed together, you get beings that could very easily kill you, and they would never even notice. It's like Will Wood said, "A billion amounts to nothing in infinity's face."
I find it amazing that Curious Archive is able to capture our attention to this extent. With almost every other creator, they're usually just... Background noise, but CA's videos always make me pause, listen and think.
Every time I watch one of these Archive videos, I always end up crying or catching myself tear up in some way. Not many others of its kind have ever made me think so much I start to feel. His voice, his tone, the imagery, and script, and references, it’s all so amazing to me. It feels like being on an alien ship far, far away from Earth and these are the archives you’re watching; humanity and more through a human perspective, seen from a human perspective. Keep it up, Curious
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"I'd like to prove this with a banana"
-Curious Archive
Infamous last words
Thats what she said.
"For Scale."
"If a wolf eats the sun... that's just bad luck" lolol
The "you can help by expanding it" meme of doomsdays. 😂
As a transformers fan, unicron is even more terrifying if you know more about him as a character.
In most continuities, he is the embodiment of entropy. And will not rest until there is literally nothing left in the entire universe to consume. Most who learn of his existence do not survive to warn others, and those who do are either brushed off as crazy, or it takes so long for unicron to actually arrive that the civilizations that do prepare end up doubting his existence and lower their guard.
Tacking on, when Unicron's avatar is destroyed or his spirit clings to existence, he'll focus his power to make a brand new body [i.e Armada].
Did they use his original voice from the 80s cartoon character?
@@White_Night_Demon I'm pretty sure its a 'no'
@@tartatovsky awww why not? He sounded awesome in the cartoon!
Isn’t Unicron also an omnipresent being across all transformers universes
Congratulations, you "dog that ate your homework" evolved into "wolf that ate the sun"!
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This evolved into a huge f*cking problem!
well, I could say that it could be said that: there will be "a dog hungry for culture" and a wolf that will have a "light-hearted" personality
oooh nice eclipse mythology reference, if you guys know what I'm talking about.
whats the scene name at 0:14
Once when I was first challenged to write a fictional horror story. (This was when highschool was kinda shit) And in a class of about thirty kids, seven wrote about a 'giant monster'. Three of those were about monsters who were larger than your average city high rise. Two who wrote a monster that was big, but big like 'average giant'. For whatever reason only two of us wrote a monster bug on a cosmic scale. Both were so large that they couldn't be seen in its entirety by humans. The difference was that in her story the monster ate the earth. A long paragraph describing the chewing of the planet and how the building the MC was in getting crushed as the view out of the window shown the end.
In my story, the 'monster' never touched the earth. Never even entered the solar system. However the scale was so large and the people of earth only saw it getting closer. Some prayer, some checked out early, some partied, while some just began to kill anyone and everyone around. Only for the monster to just, walk past. As it does, it glances at the earth. Just a glance, before it continues. The destruction of the world completely self inflicted. It ends with the description of two people standing in the ashes of a fallen city, get into an argument. Last sentence was the act of a killing. I was given a B-.... Fackin highschool man.
Dude they may not give you an A but has someone who has absolutely no teaching skill because I to am in high school I give you an A+
You should go back to that story.
I am envious of this level of thought and creativity- that teacher did you a disservice!
All of that then, “Long story short, got a B- :/“ 😂
You got a fucking B for writing that masterpiece?
What the fuck was the teacher expecting to receive then??
The fact that this man manages to post a video every time i think "hey, the archive hasn't posted a video in a while" is disturbing and impressive
Real
The archive knows when we need cool shit
He's in your mind
I was thinking that and 5 seconds after, I got a notification on my phone that he uploaded. I guess he knows when the world needs him
For me it's more like I forget I'm waiting on another video lol
"Doomsday would probably be a big bummer."
*Yes... Yes it would.*
will miss my student loans
It’s coming soon
Ehhh... At least I won't have to go see a dentist again.
minor inconvenience
It would greatly effect fishing season
_"Maybe that's my punishment. No burning bush, no smiting. No anything. Nothing. Just that I have to look into the eyes of the people I've wronged. See their tortured souls."_
*Mickey’s Descent Into Madness*
Strange, how something so meme-esque is poetic and deep. I mean... it's supposed to be a joke, right? But... it's only a joke if you want to laugh about it. It's only a joke... until it isn't. Until you let your perspective shift and realize "many a true word is spoken in jest."
@@jazermano "the sights of hell bring its viewers back in" after all
dang, never knew Mickey mouse went crazy
i just saw that video today! talk about timing
Not an end of the world but the villain of Aragorn series ended up dying after mc force him to experience everything he caused to other , no talks or mind tricks or play on word just making him fully deal with horror he inflicted on their world and the truth was too much for him so he turned himself into a nuke
17:44 The elephant's foot effectively buried itself. "Just leave it there" is actually the most responsible action in this case. Remember, radiation isn't some magic area of effect spell, it's a physical thing that needs open air to propagate. Additionally, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor site is itself covered in one of the world's largest single story structures ever built, so that we can monitor it safely.
Certain types of radiation certainly can be considered more of a “radius of harm” just dependent on the energy level of said radiation as at certain frequencies it actually does just float through some materials. The elephants foot doesn’t emit radiation at these frequencies (or at least not enough if it does emit it). It’s very interesting
If I remember correctly the entire facility is contained within two seperate concrete and metal ‘sarcophagi’ that each independently could be considered a ‘country sized civic project’. We didn’t really “just leave it there” we did everything we possibly could to contain the threat (once the international attention ramped up), and then left knowledgeable people there to monitor the situation. There realistically was not anything more that could be done at that point that wasn’t either already done, or mis-managed and then re-handled.
@@tristanmabbitt9828 Correct. I mention this after the "read more" part of my comment
Speaking with absolute certainty about the threat level, where have I heard that one before?
"But if like a wolf eats the sun, I mean that's just bad luck" haha a great quote.
It also means nobody has to take any responsibility in preventing the end of the world. Can just shrug and be like "It is what it is."
@@Vaeldarg since the pressure of dealing with the difficult human response to unseen threats too high in scale to care enough about being our fault Fucking hurts, It's neccerary to do something but man this weight can be Hard to carry, wish to leave some to wolf so it doesn't seem I did as bad to continute trying to fix it.
@@Vaeldarg This was the part of the video I was like, "I wonder if CA has seen 'Paranoia Agent'. Because letting go of responsibility is definitely a core thing with that anime.
"Man, can't believe a spider drank the ocean again. It is what it is"
@@JKTonshi time to make the ultimate juicer, "c'mere spider"
Another “End of the World” scenario I find interesting comes from Dark Souls 3.
After three games of surviving the world of Dark Souls, you are presented with a choice…
1. Link your soul to the First Flame, which holds together the world and all of its balances, and continue its existence for another thousand years.
2. Let the First Flame extinguish and allow the world to fall into darkness with only a faint hope that it will be reborn again.
In any other game, you would continue the world’s existence b/c a world can’t be rebuilt or reborn if it’s destroyed. But after spending three games slaying monsters, toppling warriors driven to madness, and continually resurrecting every time you die, all while losing a fraction of yourself every time… You genuinely start to see that this particular age of humanity is long-over-that everyone and everything wants nothing more than to lay down and die, but couldn’t for thousands of years.
In a sense, then, you become the monster who brings about the end of the world. If unimaginable monsters, mighty warriors, and even the gods of the realm cannot conquer you…are you not a monster yourself? Not as an act of malice, but as an act of mercy. The world and all of its people are already dead or dying. In a sense, it is like a loved one saying “I am ready to go” when they are at death’s door.
And so the world of Dark Souls ends, not in a fiery, planet-spanning cataclysm, but a slow and quiet descent into darkness.
I don't think Dark Souls 3 tries to make you feel like a monster. More like a doctor that will administer euthanasia.
It's more like everyone has given up, but try to stop you one final time. Either in their delirious insanity or genuine last wishes to feel something. Everyone has accept all must end, even if they deny it.
The thing about all of the Soulsborne games is that the world is already over, insofar that the status quo is one of chaos, despair and cruelty. The Chosen Undead's quest almost seems more symbolic than anything, the smallest cursed victim of the world venturing forth in the hopes to restore balance. As Elden Ring demonstrates through its multiple endings, that new world order can take many different forms, and none are distinctly more "correct." Dark Souls 3 similarly presents the choice almost as a nod to the player who has pushed through the other two games, as if to say, "they keep saying things will get better, but you've seen they won't."
Or you can usurp the flame and become a God, ruling over a age of darkness.
But what does that mean entering an age of darkness. The planet still rotates the sun still exists. What exactly happens.
@@cyrusthe0ther795Umm mo the world of dark souls doesn't work like that
The kindest methods of exit are the ones that are so quick that your nervous system is basically evaporated before it can recognize what's even going on.
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*Me, looking at the Titanic wreckage from the inside of a motorized MUG Root Beer can*
a black hole coliding with earth
I disagree.
I think the kindest method of exit allows you to hold your loved ones, tell them you love them, and say goodbye.
Or just incapable of being registered as painful to the body like falling asleep
@@snapeinvader Both is possible
Now that I am thinking about it, Fallout is actually a really good example of an Apocalypse. The Enclave, the prewar government who the people who are responsible for saving the people, meet the survivors with miniguns. Those who did survive in the vaults were met with fates worse then dying with the blast. And despite all the chaos and violence in postwar America, almost all the wastelanders we meet just want to farm and trade like nothing is wrong.
Pretty sure that didn't happen in lore it was just a cool cutscene.
Had the cut seen been lore it they were mutant decedents of some of the CEOs responsible not in vault 0 and vault 33 who were actually about to attack and that wasn't really the enclave it was a splinter cell led by frank Horrigan disobeying orders by the west coast who them self's outside of cornel Agustus autumn senior and junior are disobeying orders from central where the real main enclave exist in Chicago who are in fact cool and normal.
Franks guys are more split from the real enclave then Arthur Maxson's BoS and they are a sub faction with a different faction name.
The regular enclave are like ultra marines, both Autumns enclave being imperil fist, the west coast enclave being emperor's children, frank enclave being like khorn space marines, Arthurs BoS being grey knights, outcast BoS being word bearers and Lyons BoS being world eaters.
I've always liked the interpretation that Fallout isn't post-apocalypse, but post-post-apocalypse, that humanity is thriving again in the new environment it finds itself in.
You can see that in the themes of New vegas, especially the DLCs. The old world is gone, but now is the time to move on to the future.
@@StopLizard It's certainly an apocalypse-Lite. A world so well equipped for and desirous of total nuclear war, that when it finally comes, it barely depopulates the world at all.
@@StopLizardexcept fallout 76, which iirc takes place relatively soon after the bombs dropped (like 100 years or so) because no one nuked West Virginia because who cares, and now you are rebuilding. I’m pretty sure at least, never played it because it’s fallout 76
@@DinoDAngelo-q9l The cutscene is indeed canon.
The reason everyone views themselves as that lone, intrepid survivor because the alternative is "I died when shit hit the fan", and when you're thinking about what you would do in an apocalypse your first thought shouldn't be "Die" unless you want that to happen.
"Everyone thinks they're the hero of their own story."
*Handsome **_Fucking_** Jack of all goddamned people.*
If wolf eat the moon fuck do i do?
I don't necessarily disagree.......but i gotta lot of weapons.
It's egotism, pure and simple. Everyone thinks they're the main character, but in reality they're the cannon fodder.
@@WobblesandBean "Nuh uh ur wrong"
Thank you for your input.
This was the BEST analysis of Evangelion I have ever heard and I have watched hours of videos explaining it.
Same. At least, it was way more precise and to the point
even with the whole, "its a whole thing" part 😂
To be honest i mostly agree. This ending did used to feel like a good ending to me, until I realised the manga they made after the series had an even more positive ending
I fucking love evangelion
I like Eva, but I'm more of a Gurren Lagann guy. That said... yeah, it's the most succinct analysis I've ever heard. Pretty impressive.
I’m personally friends with Christian Szczerba (the person who made Creatures of the End Times).
I want it to be known that he’s not only a good filmmaker, but a great human being. (:
Moon do be great!
@@Queenaxolotl777What about ":)"?
@@cjsantiago4035 It's the same thing so same respect!
That actually sounds really cool! I actually really like some of Christian’s works. Creatures of Madness is my favorite.
To be both things at once is so rare.
The other reason we spend so much time worrying about monsters is that they've always been a threat. Grampa Mouse's primary concerns were eating grubs and avoiding being eaten by dinosaurs. His offspring had to worry about saber tooth tigers, lions, and any other huge predators they weren't equipped to deal with. Anyone who wasn't cautious enough got eaten, so we've got millions of years of lineage warning us to keep an eye out.
Youre bringing up a very interesting point I have never thought about
and hows disease is not one of that?
@@Sunzen44 Disease don't eat you, duh. It's a simple cause and effect in reality cutting down the population to acceptable levels. Disease that kills does not spread. It's merely a societal issue. Think population density. Objectively a non-issue, but that's a separate subject.
@@ruinhem Disease Does EAT
Its Literally a parasitic organism that lives on human body
And by that logic, predator is also not an issue since it bring down population to "acceptable level"
And human already have biological mechanism to reduce sexual impulse in overcrowded area which is why most heavy urban area have less population growths this is also observed in ants.
@@Sunzen44In a sense i think we do, i mean were programmed to not eat rotten foods or things that look nasty or inedible. But we dont seem to care about other things like germs or other things that we cannot see. I think we dont care as much as its not visually disturbing us and more of an intelligence thing.
My personal favorite end of the world scenario comes from ff14. When the servers of the original MMO shutdown to start over. But in the world of ff14, it ends with bahamut. A moon sized dragon.
More specifically, the ‘moon’ was actually an ancient artificial cage for a dragon, and after after the villains made the moon ‘fall’, it was freed
@@jtcav6484 yes that's the one. If some entity told me the world was ending and I had to choose how it would end, that's how. And everyone would still hear the song from that moment.
There truly is nothing like The End of an Era in gaming.
A game shutting down and having it tie into the story, a city-sized moon being dragged down by the antagonists, the skies above turning apocalyptic, safe cities becoming infested with monsters and the players reacting to this and trying to defend Ul' Dah by forming the Great Goobue Wall, Dalamud's prisoner breaking free and wiping the slate clean as everyone can only watch in horror as a dragon with an 11 mile wingspan blankets the continent in hellfire.
Absolute godsdamn perfection.
Agreed! Not gonna lie, I was kinda hoping it would be in the video somewhere.
@@douggaudiosi14 Hater😒
"Unlike you people i am of no illusion about my actual use in the end of the world, my only purpose now is to die in a way that confuses future archiologists."
Yhatzee croshaw, Jam.
Becoming enviromental storytelling skeleton is my goal.
"Hey weirdos of the future, have you elected a patron saint yet?" ZP
@@petrfedor1851 haha yep
I can't believe my episode of existential dread was cured by fucking Yatzeeh Crowshaw of some people
Bold of you to assume there will be a future with archeologists
I should have expected this from you but the premise still hit me like a truck 😢 then “ let me prove this with a banana “ 😂
AND YET HE MAKES IT WORK
Still definitely don't think it's the "most gentle" end we can imagine.
@@kaical8273it'll quick and not our fault. Every other end of the world takes time and is defientely are fault.
Ultimate potassium
@Kris-wo4pj yeah meteors, pathogens, and super volcanoes are all definitely our fault.
At first I agreed. But then you started talking about a banana and now I feel like that's the way to go
Something I appreciated about Monsters (2010) was that it wasn't really an apocalypse. The Monsters moved in without asking and took their spot, but didn't go out of their way to attack and destroy, and there are multiple almost documentary-like scenes showing their life cycle as beautiful and profound; especially the mating dance at the climax of the film.
I think you'll be really interested in Project Zomboid's rendition of the zombie apocolaypse. A zombie virus spread through air transmission, with only a select few who are lucky (or unluck) enough to be immune to the airborne strain (but still will turn if bitten or scratched). The truly morbid thing is, the virus takes a few days to kill you, so it can sweep through a settlement, infecting everyone, then they all turn at once.
ohh, i didn't know there's a story to the game
Is there ever any explanation as to what the hell it actually _is_ aside from “just a virus?” Anything with that level of planning ability can’t have evolved naturally
@@qrzt2000 the story is inside the TV's around the map, when the news channels play, the worst part is when the symptoms of the plague have started to appear in mogadishu and london, way outside of kentucky
I think I prefer Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (CDDA) take on the zombie apocalypse. You're not playing a survivor who was immune to a virus or a lucky one that didnt get infected, instead the truth is, the Blob has won. The blob has infected all of the protein based lifeforms in the planet, silently, without anyone knowing. The cataclysmic doomsday was just a guffaw of triumph. The world has changed, the mutating undead are just the new nature.
@@Zlyde007 Which is also the climax of a civilisation that destroyed itself. The houses are filled with oxycodon and drugs and the world before the catacylsm seemed oppresive and dark. The Blob a project of a military that should have known better...
It will end with a monster, but it'll be human shaped, and he'll be very rich.
Chuck Norris…
@@peterstoric6560Better call up Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White and Monty Python and the Holy Grail's Black Night and Benito Mussolini and the Blue Meanie and Cowboy Curtis and Jambie the Genie, Robocop, the Terminator, Captain Kirk and Darth Vader, Lopan, Superman, every single Power Ranger, Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan, Spock, the Rock, Doc Ock and Hulk Hogan
@@uncreativename2190Mussolini caught me so off guard
@uncreativename2190 That would be the bloodiest battle that the world ever saw, with civilians looking on in total awe. The fires would rage on for a century. Many lives would be claimed, but eventually, a champion would stand, and the rest would see the better... Mr. Rogers in a bloodstained sweater.
@@arteckjay6537 This is the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny. Good guys, bad guys, and explosions, as far as the eye can see. And only one will survive, I wonder who it will be. This is the ultimate showdown..
I had to pause halfway through, lie in bed for a moment and check the outside sky through my window. Perfectly sky blue, quiet neighborhood as always.
I don’t know why I had to remind myself there wasn’t an apocalypse happening right now. But I still don’t have the answer to “what happens tomorrow” besides “what happened today happens tomorrow”.
22 minutes and I'm reminded about how we personify death as a person to make it less scary. Something similar happens with these end of the world scenarios, the monsters are just easier to understand than the universe killing us.
Same with a lot of mythology (Japanese especially). "The reason all those ships were never seen again? Monsters. That whirlpool over there? A monster. The reason the neighbor tore apart their family? Possessed/cursed by a monster." Heaven forbid we actually learn how to deal with the reality of any of it.
@@Vaeldarg shoving things under the rug is such a human thing
"And yet when i gaze upon the great banana" is HILARIOUS out of context
Even in context.
Happy Pride
For some reason when you were talking about the slow planet approach scenario it struck a chord in me.
When I was 16 My father died in 2020 of stage 4 pancreatic cancer but he had been diagnosed in the summer of 2018 (about 18 months before).
That time was probably one of the worst in my life, every day I would wake up not knowing if it was his last and it was horrible. Through the ages of 14-16 I had this overwhelming sense of dread, I knew he was going to die and that there was nothing I could do about it but I couldn’t move on until he did. It may sound horrible but I started to look forward to when it was finally over, simply so that it would actually be over, so I could finally move on and try to pick up the pieces of my life.
I’m better now and although I grieve, i try to live each day to the fullest. This video just reminded me of that
Hello there. I too share a similar experience and can relate to the things you wrote down. It just wasn't my dad but my gran. Diagnosed with cancer around the summer of 2018 and died in early march 2020. My age was around the same and I can confirm these feelings of dread every day. It was a terrible time for the whole family and at a certain point I just wanted it to end to stop both her suffering from a terminal illnes, as well as our suffering, so we could move on.
While it may seem weird to randomly share this under your comment it is strangely comforting for me to not be that alone in my experiences.
If that message has the same effect for you then I'd consider myself to be glad to have shared it. I hope that you can heal and keep on living.
As someone who lost my adoptive father to cancer I understand this feeling completely. The looming dread of knowing that this...thing for lack of a better term will take him, that I am absolutely powerless to do anything about it. Lying to myself that things will work out, they always do, he always gets back up. Then he falls, I helped him up, put him to bed. I was tired, frustrated, and ashamed that I was. That was the last time he was here. I still catch myself replaying that morning, not remembering, but feeling it. The screaming when my grandmother found him, I ran out my room, my breathing stopped, my mind praying to anything and everything that this wasn’t IT. And walking into that room, it felt like the world had ended. He looked at peace so there was comfort there. A small flicker in the sea of horror that was my mind. The worst things in life don't happen quickly, they draw out, agonize, and torment. Maybe that's why the idea of an apocalypse where it's something that WILL destroy us but not instantly is so terrifying. Being powerless is true horror.
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Huh, that's how I feel about being alive in general. It started in middle school and I've been looking forward to checking out for over two decades now.
I get it. And it doesn't sound horrible at all. What is horrible is watching one of your loved ones slowly getting chipped away.
First physically and then once the pain gets too much and they raise the medication, even mentally.
It is torture for the person in question and everyone around them. Of course you'd be relieved to finally see it end. Even if it means saying good bye.
At 8:22 I finally realized what was playing in the background and literally dropped my phone to stand closer to the tv, because Die Toteninsel (Emptiness) is the perfect song for this kind of video, especially given the context of Signalis, the game that the song is from. I known no one will ever see this comment, but every tiny little representation I can get of this game and it’s sound design is a victory in my book, so I want the records to show that I noticed your wonderful choice of ambiance
Glad this came up because I was literally thinking the same thing!!
I don't even know what you're talking about but I'm gonna check it out now because of you buddy
In Cloverfield people are still going to work. People in Toronto, or Boston, or LA, aren't being attacked (sequel events notwithstanding). It IS business as usual, just any disaster. People are panicking at the site of the disaster, but nobody else is affected. Same with Monsters. They're not ignoring it. The military are still attacking. but one lone squid not actively trying to kill you isn't much of a threat.
For the zombie thing, personally I'm convinced that, yes, bosses would still be telling us to go to work (while many of them run) but you'd have people actively trying to get bit, and biting others, to prove its a hoax.
When 911 happened bosses and employers forced workers to stay and actually locked some of the doors
@@MASTEROFEVIL I don't doubt it. Also locking people in is technically kidnapping and a fire hazard. I hope many sued the fuck out of them.
There is this anime called Zom 100 where people die because of zombies. Yet the tone of this anime is weirdly cheerful, because the protagonist can finally break free from working for his cruel boss and can do many things he wishes for.
@@kurooaisu Seen it. Was good.
Very realistic, reminds me of when the WoW blood plague happened and a lot of human behavior you'd see in a pandemic were also present. It was so great scientists wished to use the data but out of concern for the players and the fun they didn't allow another thing like this to happen.
It's curious how much this channels content has changed, it simply must be archived
It's quite... curious
@@jacobkeary6740 we must call it the… the… curious archive!!
So true bestie
Wait.... say that again...
@@spinomania1921?
“I hope it doesn’t end at all” When the world is so cynical and you hear so much wishes of the end. It’s just nice for someone to actually say,”I hope humanity gets better. I really hope humanity makes it.” And actually displaying gratitude towards life
Well sadly the "i hope it all ends" is the realistic one, it will most likely never get any better, it wasnt even good to begin with, now its just rapidly declining, why wish for it to be better when its gonna be worse anyway.
@@Cryodrakon2 I’d like to mention how much it has gotten better, of course nothing is perfect but medicine and social acceptance is way better than it used to be. Things are not very good right now but you need to realize how much was done to make today not worse than it already is. And in a lor of ways better than the past
If we just say,”it’s never gonna get better” and don’t do anything it won’t. So we should hope and work for a better future. Because no matter how bad the odds are if we hope, if we don’t it’s 100% going to get worse.
@@placeholderdoe And that's exactly why people hope for the worst. Because its one that's predictable. You've already seen the effort to unite people with differing political opinions, so it'll be worse if its the whole world.
If optimists really wants people to do things, they'll need to offer something more than just hope that people can't see and plans that go against others. Learn what other humans feel, cause you're only feeling yourself.
@@Cryodrakon2 Almost every single aspect of life has gotten better over the centuries. There are sometimes setbacks, but they have always been temporary.
i love the use of the Disco Elysium music at 11:14, as in this world everyone is going to die one day because of the ever expanding Pale, which makes you cracy, dizzy and hallucinating over time (the world ends in nuclear disaster but still, the knowledge of the expiring of land ist there)
Interestingly enough, Disco Elysium is more or less about that: letting go, and the impossibility of it.
But the manner in which people let go of something is different for all. What connects all the people in disco elysium, however, is a deep rooted, social and individual, grand, cultural denial of the pale's eventual outcome: the slow but ever encroaching and very visible devouring of the world by what is essentially the void.
Some people deal with it through hedonistic degeneracy, like the ultraliberals and their glorification of wealth, entertainment and social hierarchies built on financial gain.
Others deal with it through enacting their worst impulses of sadism and violence, like the fascists and the mercenaries.
Others cling on to the last remaining embers of hope, doused by the ultraliberals and the fascists, but still smouldering somewhere in the hearts of the communists and socialists, weakened, reduced to petty numbers, and living in a broken, bombed out, warped vision of their once great capital.
Klaasje, who I consider to be the main antagonist (this might sound strange, but remember, an antagonist is not the same as a villain, nor does there need to be only one) of the story, deals with her own past through moments of nostalgia on the one hand, and a blatant denial of culpability and consequences. She is an eternal fugitive from a past of her own making, seeking short and hedonistic pleasures as a distraction for a moment.
We have the detectives, trying their absolute hardest to find some semblance of order in the chaos by keeping things running orderly and by the code of the law, corrupt though it might be.
And of course, we have the secondary, but ORIGINAL antagonist of the game, who I won't spoil for those still desiring to play the game. The one that sets the plot in motion and in whom the great thematic coherence of the story is concentrated. You of course already know who I'm talking about. This character, is the very antithesis of the concept of letting go. The very denial of moving on. Of accepting downfall.
And lastly, we have the protagonist, whose fate is one of his own making and at the same time, tragically beyond his control, who struggles with finding meaning and identity through the chaos that is reality, finds snippets of them in his deluded mind and more of it through his interactions with the world and people around him, who, in what might be considered a cosmic mercy, give him the opportunity to forge a new identity for himself.
Somebody who, in the end, still has to be confronted with his past, confronted with his capacity to let go of something truly dear. Can he? I think it's up to the player decide what THEIR protagonist would truly do.
Disco Elysium is tragic, beautiful, and existentialist. (Almost everybody on youtube could learn a thing or two about existentialism and it's vital, no-nonsense answer to the radical concept of nihilism or fatalism. A lot of people mistake existentialist stories for nihilism, and that's one of the greatest cultural misinterpretations of our time.) It does not pretend to give the player an answer, but fully commits to showcasing all POSSIBLE answers within a given framework, a given social reality. And it leaves open the potential for more. Like all truly great stories do. It accurately touches on the deep emotional issue that lies at the heart of existential dread, so often mistreated and misrepresented by entertainment media. Death, and our protagonist's almost constant fixation with it, whether by will or through circumstance, is not just a metaphorical, but a literal part of their journey.
And it is beautiful.
Hellboy 2 has a really good apocalypse kinda monster where they introduced the forest god as the last of its kind only to get killed by another last one of its kind
Every time I watch that movie that scene cause me to stop and think bout life I know that time flows and everything must come to an end but does that make the loss any less tragic I for one think it shouldn't
I also loved it.
And I immensely felt pussy for it, because it was a good, benevolent God controlled, defiled and destroyed. Makes it one of the most tragic kaijus in my mind, a tie with Shin Godzilla and another select few.
@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x”I immensely felt pussy for it”
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@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x very unfortunate typo in there
@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-xyou felt what for it? Very noble of you
i love all the different ways Archive tries to bring up another movie/show.
it's like when i try not to use "and" too much in a school essay
"I Hope It Ends With a Monster" is actually metal af and goes hard
That's what I thought before clicking on this, hella cool
All the titles are metal
Saying something “goes hard” has been made entirely meaningless since everyone says it about everything
If a kaiju can talk. They'd probably say "humans are a self-consuming species. What makes my destruction so vile if you are all programmed to destroy yourselves?"
I have endless respect for youtubers that put the names of media and music used in the description. Thanks to you I've finally found the song I've been searching for. Knowing the names of movies shown in the video also helps a lot.
I actually paused this video and watched Carol last night instead of sleeping. I’m back to finish this video and say thank you for letting me be part of that incredible experience.
I had to pause it part way through to take it in, it was... alot to say the least
Carol took 4 doses of the S&E and now does not want to think about it.
I think another reason humanity is attracted to the concept of a monster bringing doomsday is that it is something humans could resist. Like you said, things like pandemics and natural disasters are so gradual and hard to grasp, and because of that, it's hard to take action against them. Our best hope would be to wait it out and, like in "when the wind blows", hope we survive. But if a monster came to devour the world, we like to think we'd recognize it and try to stop it. If it's alive, it can be killed. It allows humanity to grapple with the doomsday concept whilst still believing there doesn't have to be a doomsday at all.
That is the power fantasy of pacific rim. Yeah, it's a horrific invasion by these enormous beasts, but you can hop in a giant robot and punch that apocalypse in the face. You can't do that for fallout.
Also it would be sick to fight a giant monster bruh
this is by far the best video ive found covering this topic and most surpisingly it didnt send me into a spiral existensial dread and despair that can only be solved by 3 bottles of absinthe
in a way it feels glorious in a way that the whole humanity has fallen when fighting something truly superior to it, despite humans controlling almost the entire planet, while also having an access to the most powerful weapons we know of that can create shockwaves so powerful that those can be felt across the planet
Yeah, it kinda reminds me of the Wolf from Puss in Boots 2 (spoilers)
Near the end of the movie, the wolf is revealed to actually be DEATH ITSELF, ticked off at Puss for wasting 8 of his 9 lives. When Puss tries to fight him the first time, the wolf effortlessly trumps him and puts genuine fear of mortality into him, forcing Puss to run. This fear sticks with Puss and is the only reason why he's even interested in the movie's MacGuffin, the Wishing Star, at all. It's his cure, his fallout shelter, what he hopes will prevent the inevitable. But when the chips are down and the true nature of the Wolf is shown to him, Puss decides to face death without using the star, to fight even though he knows there's no way he can win. While death did wind up backing down due to seeing Puss's character growth, if he had decided to see things through, I could think of no greater ending for our favorite fearless hero. Battling Death Itself atop a star that embodies all of mankind's dreams....
This whole thing is reminding me of a quote from a different video on games like Metro and STALKER: "I'm not hoping for the apocalypse, I just want the simplicity of it."
Monsters destroying everything is a simple end, something where we all understand it: this is the end. Some could try and fight it, but for no reason other than to have the feel of a last stand, others will watch the show of the destruction. So it makes sense there's almost a hope that'd be how humanity ends.
Also kind of reminds me of a different quote of why someone liked zombie apocalypses that I think also applies: "You don't have to worry about going to work today, there's zombies outside! You don't need to worry about your errands this week, there's zombies outside! You don't have to worry about paying your rent this month, there's zombies outside!"
Just replace "zombies" with "Giant monster ending the world" and you can see the appeal
I think Ross Scott said that.
@@Brite-um2tq for the second quote, correct.
Ross has some great quotes
I don't see the appeal. At all. The difference with an apocalypse-by-monster is the high chance of being eaten alive. Which is just a very unpleasant way to die. Curious Archive was just WAY off the mark on this one: a monster, especially every Japanese one, is just a way to have a scapegoat. People don't want to believe that other humans are capable of horrible, violent behavior. It's easier to tell themselves it was the work of some monster that was either invincible, or able to be taken care of in some prescribed manner by some monster slayer (vampire hunters, monks, etc.) that understands their role on a professional level. An invincible, world-ending monster or rogue planet means humanity doesn't have to take any responsibility for not doing anything about it.
@@Vaeldarg you didn’t finish the video or pay attention then.
First it’s a case of “if the world had to end with no alternative, it needs to end, what choice would you want?” as a hypothetical, second he directly says at the end says “the world ending will be the fault of humans by causing and ignoring the doom that’s happening slowly and that’s the more terrifying part.”
There’s so scape goatinng. Just a “wish humanity wouldn’t be the ones to create its own downfall, if we had to fall it wouldn’t be on us.”
If the world was ending with a monster I’d call my friend Kevin
He could make us all a pot of his world famous Malone's chili
Who would win Kevin or Pedro.exe?
My cousin throckmorton would handle it.
thats your mom right
What Kevin? Kevin ghidorah?
7:00 I'm so happy to hear the dredge soundtrack being used for such a massive video lol, it's one of my favorite games!
Neon Genesis being described as "it's a whole thing, IT'S A WHOLE THING!" is pretty perfect.
a whole thing of "i understood less every fucking second"
There's a guy on youtube that's doing like a whole deconstruction of the entirety of Evangelion. He's done like dozens of videos, all of them more than half an hour long, and I think that he's STILL not entirely done with it.
There's countless of video essays on Evangelion, some of them even over 2 hours long, and each of them somehow manage to touch upon different aspects of the series.
Evangelion really is sort biblical in that way, it is such an unfathomably dense piece of media and there are so many angles and perspectives you can take to deconstruct it.
There is so much to say about the lore itself, and how it connects to judeo-christain mythology, and how that in turns connects to the themes of the story. There's so much to say about EACH INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER you can make an entire hour long video just analyzing any single one of them. There is so much about all the psychology and philosophy references. The series has so much to say about the nature of relationships and the nature of humanity as a whole. All the while still being an effective sci-fi thriller with a genuinely cool and fascinating world.
Evangelion isn't a series, it's a whole-ass manifesto on humanity, that also manages to be engaging and somewhat fun to sit through. It's really just a "whole thing".
@@qwertydavid8070 and the creator's message in the rebuild is "get over this show already and get a life" i mean....bruh your show MADE us this way
@@qwertydavid8070 HOO BOY does it.
And then, _it isn't about God at all._
No bearded man in the sky with a divine plan, no mechanizations from above with a goal of the greatest good, but: some other assholes, _the true humans,_ despite having physics-defying powers of the Angels; but with _our_ intelligence-- and separation anxiety and loneliness and corruptibility-- split and amalgamated their souls into basically genetic lifeboats, one (some?) with their powers, and one (others?) with their wisdom, and fleeing whatever it was that _still_ killed their civilization; spread life across the galaxy, with each angel being a different evolutionary expression of "Human."
And the ONE thing they wanted was: to keep both boats from landing at the same fucking port, lest-- I dunno, a rival species emerge, or for "basically just us again" to make the same mistakes all over again. GUESS WHICH PLANET THE PLAN GOT FUCKED UP ON.
No, seriously, _that's_ the true backstory.
evangelion.fandom.com/wiki/First_Ancestral_Race
@@dc-101 Not Understanding EVA is understanding EVA
I was working in our city Library when 'When the Wind Blows' came out in book form... and it was one of a handful of books that was not put out on the shelves, but kept under the information desk in the adult section of the library. It was only available on order request, and one day, whilst processing this list, I leafed through it, and soon learned why.
Both animation and book were illustrated by the chap who did 'The Snowman'...and at first glance, it looks just as innocuous to begin with. Its as you get further in that the real horror starts, as you realise the characters, despite all their efforts, are woefully under-prepared for what is happening. It looks so much like a children's book (and certainly is not) that it had to be kept under the information desk to stop kids from accidently picking it up and taking it out.
Addendum: About six or so years ago, the BBC showed a series that they touted was 'a mixture of cop drama and science fiction'. It was called 'Hard Sun', and was about a couple of cops who stumble across what appears to be some kind of conspiracy over an astronomical report that an issue with the Sun will destroy Earth within four years. As they carry on with their lives, a government agent is sent after them to first discredit, and then eliminate, them. I wasn't interested in the cop stuff, so skip watched , wondering when the bona fide science fiction would kick in. It finally did at the end of the final episode, when, after cornering the government agent, the two cops, along with the agent see the Sun rising over the London skyline with a strangely shaped solar flare hanging a short distance from the Sun. The Agent says she'd been lied to and that 'it is already here'. The show ended with an image of the sun and the countdown to the end of the world still ticking down.
This show was supposed to have three or four series, and on the face of it, did reasonably well, and would have got at least another season. Instead, all has fallen quiet, and, as far as I know, The idea has been dropped. It won't be the first time the BBC has ditched a vaunted SF show, but then the previous one flopped so badly it was no surprise to anyone that it wasn't renewed. 'Hard Sun' did reasonably well, however, so the fact its been abandoned makes no sense... unless you did what I did.
The moment I saw the Sun and its' circular flare, I had my suspicions. I took a screenshot of the image, focused on the 'flare' and zoomed in. The 'flare' wasn't a flare at all , but an accretion disk with a small event horizon of a black hole in the middle.
Why they chose this catastrophe over anything else, I'm not sure. I do know one thing, and that was that the following series would have dealt with the breakdown of society as doomsday approached... but I think the BBC found the choice of disaster wasn't going to go down well with the audience. With most other disasters, the viewer is able to tell themselves that, no matter how bad it is, someone will survive, even if it means a few will be shipped to somewhere like the moon and rebuild there. However, most of the audience, once they found out about the black hole, would realise there'd be no escape for anyone, not even on the moon. With such relentless pessimism and hopelessness, I think the BBC realised they wouldn't even get half way through season two before viewing figures plummeted... and quietly dropped the whole thing.
@@Queenaxolotl777 Yes, flaunting your illiteracy is such a good way to manage your digital footprint.
@@Queenaxolotl777and yet you commented regardless...
Typical BBC cowardice, that show sounds pretty damn cool
Kinda feels like the better ending too. A silent end, despite all the chaos prior.
hey you okay buddy?
Absolutly fucking not!
No… no I’m not.
Just resigned waiting for month pay, boss was shimty af
Well I hope things improve for y'all. Good job resigning dude, that's what you gotta do when they ain't paying you
Thanks for asking!
14:30 fun fact, fallout isn't really an issue anymore. most modern nuclear reactors (and thus any modern bombs) don't have a fall out issue. it's part of the reason why nuclear is the best form of clean energy available, because we have literally found a way to solve every negative it presented.
"and thus any modern bombs"
I was under the impression that nuclear weapons are built _by design_ to spread fallout. Reactors sure, make them as safe as possible, but when you're trying to stop-breathing as many people as possible over as much area as possible, well...
@@CoralCopperHead nope. weapons are designed to kill people, not make resources unavailable and since virtually every war in history has been fought over resources and land, that would be antithetical to the point.
fallout doesn't kill enemies, it kills your troops as they move into your new city. that is a flaw. someone could in theory make a dirty bomb, but that would require going out of your way to be cruel and commit war crimes. it wouldn't be a weapon it would be terrorism.
@@CoralCopperHead nope, that's not the point of a weapon of war. you don't want to kill your own troops, and that's all fallout does, it kills your people when they go to take over the city you just cleared of enemies.
@@NoESanity Nukes aren't weapons of war though, they're weapons of mass destruction. It's one of those cases where you say subtlety is for philosophy, not the battlefield: might as well make it unlivable if you don't care about the territory and just want everything there gone.
@@CoralCopperHead right, you obviously have no clue what you're talking about.
as I have already explained, modern Nukes don't give off long lasting radiation or radioactive fallout meaning they are BY DEFINITIONS not WMDS.
If you want to play a fallacy card, why even interact? you made the claim that Nukes were designed to spread fallout, and you were told they are not. You are wrong. both in a modern and historical context.
Curious Archives videos are the type of videos where you get so lost in your mind and thoughts that the video feels like it's been going on for hours but in reality it's only been like 30 minutes.
I actually really like the inclusion of this shot at 29:53 when you discuss how dark Eva is, because, in my opinion, that moment is one of the most unequivocally, unabashedly, uncomplicatedly joyous in the entire continuity. This is the moment when Asuka finally manages to escape from her depressive spiral and Eva Unit 02 goes berserk. Asuka is a character who is, as most of the Eva cast is, incredibly lonely, isolated, and furthermore, phony. Her demeanor is chipper and competitive, but we learn she developed this personality so she could get attention from others, the kind she was never able to get as a young child. During episode 22, this shield is forcibly stripped away from her, and the only thing left is for her to curl into herself and accept herself as worthless. Observing what Asuka is reduced to after her metaphysical rape is haunting. After wading through life listless for days on end, the only thing that is able to bring Asuka back, and the only thing she had really wanted all this time, was the soul of her mother urging her onward. When Asuka takes her mother's hand and emerges from the lake, it really is one of the most amazing moments I've ever seen on film. Suddenly, she's vibrant, happy, determined, and lethal-- Asuka goes on a murderous tear against the military spawned not by rage, but by pure, unfiltered joy. Asuka has never been able to connect so deeply with another person like she is doing with her mother's soul right now, and the results are blissfully catastrophic. She is invulnerable, and the army machines around her are nothing compared to her Eva's sheer destructive capability. Every explosion is its own kind of cheer. The desolation Asuka ends up causing is nothing less than nirvana. There's this moment where Asuka looks up at the sky from within the pilot's seat, beaming like the happiest little girl in the entire world, and the camera comes back to reveal the hulking monstrosity she is piloting, emerging from the wreckage of the destruction it's wrought. And it's the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
...which is then promptly responded with her taking a skyscraper-size spear to the Eva's eye. Which is psychically linked with her own.
Followed by the scene we saw in 27:12.
@@RavenAdventwings Yeeeep! Probably shoulda mentioned that, but I got waaaay too into writing that, lol. I do think it's pretty cool how the joy boils into rage when she switches from fighting the military to fighting the Eva series, and she ends up being so bloodthirsty she manages to survive literally being gutted, if only to threaten to kill her murderers.
I love this comment
Unless you're any of the sorry saps trying to stop her, then this day is just as apocalyptic as it initially seems. One woman's rebirth is another man's oblivion. So really, it depends on who you most resonate with, the gleeful destroyer, or the harrowed defender.
...I hated that scene. She spent the entire series being a complete shitheel, we get her Fruedian excuse, she kicks a whole lot of ass on the battlefield -- which she's been doing all series -- and suddenly we're supposed to think she's come out the other side and ignore everything she's already done?
Me after the big worm eats my house
Me after random sand people steal the water from my body just after this happens.
Me after Godzilla does the toothless dance.
@@jesustyronechrist2330Me when the giant mountain sized dragon burns my city down ( still gotta go to work )
Me when shai hulud awakes
me after your mom when your mom when your mom your mom ur mom
7:55 from "To ask" until the last part to "all you get" My right ears headphone glitchy broken voice and it sounded like a VERY ominous warning and I'm scared 😭
I have to say this is one of the best videos on RUclips I’ve seen… maybe ever.
It stands out to me because it’s deeply compelling, in a provocative way. Something about the way you go back and forth between these fictional depictions of people imagining with the unimaginable, and the real humanity of it, is immensely compelling to me, and invites me to consider many new perspectives I hadn’t before.
Because this video invites so much perspective, it’s large, very large, but much like the banana, its largeness is less scary than I feel it should be.
I take great joy in thinking; but I often find myself wondering through familiar territory, and thus not reaching anything tangible.
This video is unfamiliar territory for me, presented in such an enticing way; it feels so personal while not closed off. Engaging with this video causes me to fly out of the barriers in which I could ever think on my own.
Isn’t that the point of art?
If so, then this video is excellent art.
A slight correction for the Elephant foot at Chernobyl.
In the TV series they talked a bout how it would cause a disaster, but it was completely unfounded.
Many expert have criticized this for making the story more dramatic than it really was.
In reality, not much would have happened (if anything at all)
yes, hopefully none takes the series as a documentary of a sort
It's the same problem with Svetlana Alexievich's book, which was one of the source materials in the series. Lets just say she took a lot of artistic liberties. For example, she made up the bridge of death scene. She still has interesting theories about radiation, for example that 5th generation telecommunication is responsible for one of recent global health problems.
Oh, and chemical poisoning was also very real problem, in fact excluding firemen and some plant workers, it was more serious short term problem than ARS(acute radiation syndrome).
Giant Monsters would be a mercy is a wild thesis. Love it.
22:08 i feel like we simply cannot comprehend the idea of a final ending. humanity's doom has to be something so outlandish, so fantastical and realistically unimaginable that it becomes the last page that no character wants to turn. because if the end to the world is a quiet one, what is even the point?
Ragnarok is one of the more fassinating types of ends of the world. Its a self fullfilling profesy, a complex order of events like a tragedy, but it also has a twist to how it ends.
Its not just big monsters coming to wage war on humanity and the gods for specticle and valient battles but shear unbriteled chayos as Odins plans to prevent it back fire.
Yes
@@The-Allfather-Odin fancy meeting you here
I think the fact that you know you're destined to lose and all of your plans will fail but you can still try if you really want to is kind of comforting too.
Like, we're all gonna die eventually due to a million different reasons but most of us don't have the means to even attempt to stop it. Being given a chance to try to fight it, even if everyone including you knows it's futile, would be kind of nice.
Holy shit I remember seeing Beasts of the Southern Wild as a kid real late at night and spent most of my life thinking it was something I made up or confused with something else cause I’ve never seen or heard anything about it until now, so thanks for digging up that memory from the depths of my mind
The difference between our personal end of the world and the apocalypses, is that even though personally we are on limited time, we know others will exist beyond us. And so, we can do what we do not only for ourselves, but for those we leave behind as well. I want to live a good life, but I don't want to burn it all down on my way out because I know I have loved ones who will inherit that world I am leaving behind. In an apocalypse there is nothing to leave behind for anyone, and so none of that matters anymore.
I mean when the dinosaurs went extinct and other flora and fauna, the world was still there and it recovered and then other lifeforms took over in which the mammals replaced the reptiles, so your statement is too pessimistic and depressing and kind of wrong things still matter whether from humanitys perspective or in general
I played this one game called "The Eternal Cylinder" and I enjoyed it a ton. Its a world where you play as little aliens called "Trebhum" on a planet prone to a planetary wide extinction, the main antagonist of this game is a mysterious giant cylinder that wraps around the planet rolling over everything that comes in its path and flattening it, absorbing all the value there is in the landscape. And in this alternate timeline the cylinder has destroyed thousands of other civilizations over its billions of years of existence giving you a sense of dread and hopelessness, and you kind of have to just watch it happen. The music and execution also adds to that atmosphere. The game is also a tiny bit similar on the cartoon you covered at the end mainly the "Everyone becomes one." narrative.
I love how, even if I'm not that philosophical, you manage to make me think, you always get me to reconsider, you are one of the only channels out there that can do that, keep up the good work
i hope it doesn't end at all
28:04 I love this breaking point where he just says it’s so complicated as the theme song plays in the background. I hope we see more of you breaking your constant calm voice.
the theme it self is memorable actually
Thanks, very nice video! Took me 2 days to watch fully, but very proud of it!
"And yet, when I gaze upon the great banana...."
As someone who went from near constant anxiety during COVID to only occasional anxiousness now and again, I think I can add something to this conversation. Particularly the part about "Coral's Afraid", the movie "Monsters", climate change, and the pandemic to the average person. The reason they keep living their lives despite that looming threat instead of delving into the over the top celebration in the Bright Eyes- At the Bottom of Everything music video or straight nihilism like the Joker in the Dark Knight is because as irrational as it may seem, they are mentally healthier than us.
It's not disassociating or some laps of sanity that makes them not take things as seriously, but fundamentally understanding things being out of our control don't necessitate them being more meaningful to our lives. Our actual lives that we live out day by day not the imagined futures or next spike of enjoyment that will be fondly remembered later. The now, on the most basic level, is what we are and most people by instinct take that on as the place for happiness and contentment.
So, if you are ever looking at others wondering why they aren't bothering with the thing that is keeping you up at night, or why they seem to be "wasting" their life not doing more exciting things, just consider that it might be wiser to find contentment in the now than ecstasy in the future or soon to be past.
I feel like you would like the book "The Power of NOW", it basically says everything you said but in deeper meaning
@@retina77real That sounds pretty awesome. Most of what I got this from was my mentally healthy friends telling me to "shut up and stop worrying so much." The rest is coming from reading the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, and eventually someone explaining the concept of "Rational Ignorance": it's impossible to know everything, and it's not healthy to try and know everything. I found it wise.
@@retina77real I like the Rocky version when Apollo is shouting, "There is no tomorrow!"
We are all already dead in a sense. We know of the certainty of that future. Any fear-mongers trying to add more it's simply looking at their actions and not listening to their words. If nobody who sounds like they are panicking is actually worried, why would I be?
Covid really wasn't that big a deal my dude. It's been over four years, I think you need to get over it. It sounds like you let the news and the negative media do a lot of your thinking for you. And that's not useful or healthy.
Absurdism combined with stoicism. Love it.
One of the best video essays I’ve ever watched. Thought-provoking and entertaining, loved it!!
This makes me think so much of "the sublime." Most often dipicted in art. Its usually an ucomperable force of nature is some form or otherwise. Such as storms or blinding light. This idea of "monsters" to me reads so much as just another physical form of the sublime, and I love it so much more for that.
My favorite painters, Zdzisław Beksiński, often brings ideas of apocalypse, but in a different sense, his paintings often feel like the end of not just the world, but something beyond. And maybe end is the wrong word, because it always feels like there is more and yet nothing ahead in them, you see portals that seem to connect to other paintings and yet feel frozen in time, vast oceans where no ship or bird could fly across yet look inviting, creatures who still clutch to some humanity, from looking for justice, curiosity or affection and yet, have no face or discernable future, symbols incarnate, either of hope or despair that loom over desolate lands.
All in all, they are what I imagine hell or heaven to look like, a completely alien, infinite world and paradoxically, what I imagine the end would look like, maybe as a cope mechanism, because I'd want nothing more but the end to be just another avenue to take, one to explore and to learn from, if not keep living, to keep discovering.
They are also cool and metal AF.
I love Bek's art too! Hieronymus Bosch, and Fransisco Goya are great ones as well. They all got some truly bizarre, uniquely strange art.
wait...an actual Beksinski fan?
i thought i was alone
@@togeluga_the_cat You are not alone Togeluga, when are you going to become Togelan?
NOT THE GELATO!!!!😭😭
its joever bros 😭
thought he meant a cone of za 🤦🏾
imagine if the extinction off all life will be just a 1000 km long banana hurling towards earth. Just that. Would look really silly but still would be poetic, dreadign and not that bad
@@Queenaxolotl777 lethal dose of potasium world wide
In Highschool I realized that I’d be one of the people who’d be wiped out on mass in a horrible end of the world scenario. That as much as I’d want my life and actions and memories to matter, in the end they won’t. They’ll only matter briefly, to the people I love. But I’ll be forgotten. Even people I look up to will be forgotten, even those at the top who think the world revolves around them will too be forgotten… and yet, Im not gonna give up.
Our one flaw is that we think of ourselves and then everything else. But we’re a social species, we’re close to bees and ants. One ant can’t overcome a flood, but a colony of ants can make a boat with their bodies.
And the shitty part, is that THAT’S part of the reason we’re killing ourselves and everyone around us. A simultaneous “only I matter” and “do what the leader says to do because that’s what everyone else is doing.”
We’re not well equipped to deal with the climate crisis or the economic abyss we’re digging ourselves. We can’t fully understand or process them even when we know what’s going on…
I remember asking people as a kid “what would you do if zombies were real?” And everyone had a plan to survive. Everyone knew who’s house they’d go to… and when I’ve asked this same question to my friends now, I hate how many people say “well I’d probably just die.”
I fucking hate it…
Another thing that fills me with dread is just… seeing people have kids. WE were supposed to fix the world, to solve things and it’s gotten worse and now there’s new kids coming into this world who have no idea how bad things are getting. How their lives are about to become so unbelievably painful… i fucking hate it.
But. I will say this. As many people say they’d die in a zombie apocalypse, a similar amount casually drop how they’re gonna be here for the revolution. It will come, and yes it’s gonna be awful but for the sake of humanity- of life in general, it’s worth it. So here’s to revolution. Here’s to hoping we all get a good ending. Hoping at least. Because it’s gonna be a lot worse before it gets better.
Fight the good fight, kick your boss in the dick, and never stop until the end comes. Take care..
If you hate people having kids, you're not exactly gonna make friends on the long road to fix the planet. This is, in my opinion, the biggest issue with the ecological crisis. Instead of politely constructing a plan, fearmongering was chosen-fearmongering often interweaving lies into the truth. This approach has been catastrophic for any an all attempts at alleviating any human-induced crisis. That right there is horror, that the cause of people who care was ruined by people who thought FEAR, of all things, was the way to go. Rule by fear has never worked for long, and that won't change.
Hahaha, thank you for this. It was a great comment, but the icing on the cake was the kick your boss bit. Just caught me totally off guard. 😂
Y'all are prime examples of why going away from faith was a mistake. So very depressing and hopeless people
@@tiffanywyatt5137 This, to be honest. Doesn't even need to be religious.
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I think it's interesting to note that the ancient peoples making these apocalypse myths would have been perfectly aware of things like famine and drought, even massive disasters like earthquakes and tsunami - but much like their gods, personifications of physical phenomena beyond human ken, the monsters of doomsdays past were meant as a way to better visualise the end of things; if the dramatic, awful events have a _familiar cause,_ it becomes significantly easier to personally relate to the intended drama.
That's why we have snakes, wolves, giants and all eating the sun - or, dragons summoning up rainclouds that never break. These things are familiar to the everyday person, and already fit into their cosmology, so whatever effects could be more easily rationalised.
What I mean here is that, were you to take an ancient egyptian or nord or mesoamerican and show them the climate crisis, they would describe these things through monsters - sea level rise and flooding is the rabid thrashing of Jormungand, the baking famine-bringer sun is some work of Seth, and the increase in geological activity is Tlaltecuhtli finally waking up again to devour humanity. Fun thing is, equipped with an understanding of the ecological crisis as a set of monsters hell-bent on killing _you, specifically,_ these ancient people would probably be better psychologically equipped to handle the crisis, because it is a damn sight easier, mentally, to oppose a set of uppity monsters, than the massive interconnected system of the entire world from dust to mountain.
...Why oppose them? All things come to an end.
you have the opportunity to fight death itself, to oppose the inevitable, humans shall not obey the laws of nature for we have surpassed it, sticking to the status quo of "why bother" and "all good things must come to an end" gets noone nowhere, you have agency, you have free will, defying the mechanisms of nature itself is what means to be human@@CoralCopperHead
Great. Now I have a phobia towards bananas.
Me too, but only the supermassive ones
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I really wish I could watch this video, but it's just too stressful. Thank you for talking about such a difficult topic, though! You have my deepest admiration, for this and all of your other videos. If I may suggest future video topics: analyzing how truly weird non-human aliens could be, how sound effects can make animated and video game worlds come to life, and/an examination of or different kinds of common fears/phobias and where they come from.
As mom was driving me to the hospital today, the wall of an entire construction building suddenly almost fell on our car, we would have gotten smashed if it wasn't for mother's quick reflexes. So that would have been the end of the world for us and there i was, unknowing of this, saving memes on Pinterest, only noticed when she screamed. Then we kept going as if nothing happend. Life is really funny and terrifying.
This manages to be one of the most profound videos on this site. Thank you again. Maybe I do fear the banana.
I have been following you since the early days of your channel. I absolutely loved your spec evo content but your more long form video essay content like this is simply incredible. You have become one of my favorite creators and every video somehow seems to be better than the last. You inspire me to think so introspectively and your discourse often parallels many of my own thoughts, making me feel like I'm not entirely alone in my thinking. Never stop
Also you touch upon so much of my favorite media! To see things like When the Wind Blows, Godzilla, Monsters, Evangelion, etc mentioned in just this video makes me feel like I'm not so strange in what I enjoy despite only knowing one other person in real life I can share these things with.
It's sort of like:
If I already found so much difficulty trying to live a life that was virtually impossible to me before, me who has a very small and limited friend group who aren't here locally, and who works in a middle to low class job, with very little money and very few interests or desires, how am I supposed to be expected to be able to live a life so far from what I'm used to when there's so little time left? It's like, where do I begin? It's overwhelming.
Money is the issue here, we can't live free because our hands are tied. It's not about not having the will, there are material reasons we can't live like every day is our last. It's another argument against our current system, but to most people the end of the world is more likely than the end of capitalism.
Do your best to push yourself but don't feel like you have to move across the world or do something huge right this second, we'll get there. I was raised in a cult to believe it could all be over at any time and that's not a way to live. It's hard to break, I still haven't in some ways, but giving up just helps the assholes who want to burn the world.
@@chaucermcdoogle6011 "I was raised... ...to believe it could all be over at any time and that's not a way to live."
I didn't realize that acknowledging the truth was a bad way to live. Got a spare blindfold for me?
This video was actually really relaxing, good job.
Godzilla giving this video a peek, wondering when it's time for it to give humanity their last sight of its atomic breath
the banana hurtling towards the Earth is something Douglas Addams would come up with
sadly the interstate got finished already and that time traveler who insults everyone is busy so we can't destroy earth a second time.
@@Rowlesisgay oh, what I would give to be a simple mattress in the swamp
I was just thinking about that. The vogons destroyed the earth in five minutes, which is pretty merciful compared to a lot of other ways to go. Especially radioactive fallout.
I really appreciate your subtitles, it makes it so much easier to follow along
So thank you :)
I’ve been working on an art series of Godzilla Kaiju as cosmic horrors and I have never found someone more eloquently explain the feelings the series gives me.
Two of my favorite apocalyptic monsters are Golb, and The Lich from Adventure Time. Definitely worth looking into. The Lich, also known as the last scholar of Golb, is an entity who's only goal is to end all life. He is like a machine, or a computer program. If ending all life isn't possible he will shut down/crash, and be virtually harmless until he sees another way to do so. And Golb is way too complicated to talk about in a RUclips comment but alas, way more powerful than The Lich
this is my favorite video of yours to date. just including The Transformers’ Unicron… genius. amazing work as always
I absolutely love your videos; they're so thoughtful and interesting and weave in a lot of non-mainstream media that are very poignant. Your narrative threads are thoughtful, and interesting, and they really draw you in. Not only that, but with every video you make, you get better at making them! It's been a really fun thing to watch your channel grow and evolve, and I applaud the myriad of work hours that must go into every single video you make. Thanks for making things!!
This is the first video I've seen of yours and it's an insta sub. Outstanding work. I was hooked the whole time
Your own footage really added a nice touch to this already wonderful video
The first section of this video, about how we struggle to comprehend such massive threats, really encapsulates how I feel about most works of cosmic horror- it's too big a scale for me to feel worried about, so why bother? Instead, the works of cosmic horror that do disturb and unsettle me are works where humanity isn't helpless to the horror, but instead seek to exploit it, which is why I'm so glad you brought up Evangelion at the end. That series, the movie Nope, and Mystery Flesh Pit National Park are the three most unsettling works of cosmic horror to me because they show humanity not as helpless victims, but hubristic agitators.
"It's the End of the World as we know it...And I feel Fiiiiine..."
I don’t know if this episode or the forest episode hit me harder, but having just finished a psych evaluation, and many of my responses to questions about hoping I don’t wake up, and hoping the void I feel inside would manifest itself physically to blink me out of existence, these two videos helped me understand that I’m not alone in feeling that way, even if I’m just part of a very small minority. Thank for putting these feelings into words. Relieving the pressure, as you said.
amazing video !!
I absolutely love your quality
music man watch epic stuff to 😎
AZALI!! I CANNOT ESCAPE YOU! (No way, you watch curious archive too?!)
Thank you, you always post videos when i need them the most, your content always gets my mind thinking in a more positive light. Thank you genuinely
I don't want to sound like a broken record, but I have to mention once again that you have quickly become one of the best video essayists on youtube as far as our little gaming/media analysis side of the site is concerned. You, Super Eyepatch Wolf, Jacob Gellar, Nexpo are just pumping out consistent content that makes me think critically about the world and the media I consume. I always walk away from your videos feeling like there's more between my ears than when I started and I'm genuinely grateful for all you do.
well done man, this was one of my favorite watches on youtube in a long time. made me think. keep it up
"If like a wolf eats the sun, well, that's just bad luck" perfectly encapsulates the "issue".
I'm obviously only speaking for myself, but the concept of me /humanity being responsible for the ongoing "only know life in existence place" we call Earth is CRUSHING.
Like, there are countless stories and at least as much real life happenings where e.g. an older sibling suddenly has to care for the family as the prio caretakers are no longer in the picture. Those stories and experiences make i extremly clear how angsty the now new caretaker got aswell as how hard it actually was to keep on trying or succeed aswell as how hard it was to not give up.
Now, that might just be me, but scaling that example up from "care for you sister anon, you're her only reaming family" to "Well human 0000000001, you know have to care for this whole planet for the next 5 billion years, good luck" is so far out.
Caring for my sister? That I can relate to and I'm will to help, 'cause I know that's feasible for a single person to do. Caring for the entire human race? First off, nearly inconceivable. Second off, I wouldn't do that even if I could because it's not worth it. If I was able to care for the entire species, I'd be able to wipe it out, and I'm -not- sorry to say, I'd take the latter option.
What’re you even saying
@@Kabal39 I'm saying the world ending due to outside events, i.e., a monster, would be way more acceptable and "ok" to my psyche than the world ending because humans (as in me and you, us) destroying the world due to neglect.
I mentioned suddenly taking care of a relative or whatever as an example how hard such a "small" responsibility already can be.
compare "taking care of a relative" to "taking care of the planet" (as a collective race) and suddenly taking care of the planet is way out of proportion to what I/my psyche can handle.
Understandable train of thought?
@@CoralCopperHead Holding grudges is and always will be childish. No matter how old the individual or how developed your audial vector is that's just plain immature. And to even imagine something infinitely insignificant such as a product of a flaw in development of a limited perception can be responsible for something as big as an end to the entire collective I find embarrassing.
A monkey lost its banana to a thief, killed the entire tribe out of spite by luring predators at night. The impracticability was of course never in question but just think about the implications of such an intent. It doesn't seem reasonable, though you don't need me or anyone else to tell you that. I hope you find what you're looking for.
@@ruinhem ...Sorry, but there's no grudge here. I'm not angry at anyone in particular, I'm just acknowledging that the entire species -- including myself -- are a net negative to the universe and should be removed from the equation. Also, not sure what your banana metaphor is supposed to mean -- I've lost nothing and been given everything, if anything, that just proves my point. I'm still alive when I shouldn't be, just like the rest of us.
I think the ability of humans to keep doing routine even in disasters is an ability that can be channeled into . . . The ability to keep going. The ability to change and adapt will always conflict with the desire to maintain the status quo, but we need both. 'Cause rooted in that desire for things to stay the same, is the desire for things to just . . . Keep happening. It's when we can combine the ability to adapt and change with the desire to keep going that we truly will progress to something greater
"the desire for things to just . . . Keep happening."
...Not familiar with it.
The End and The Vast mix very well together. One is self explanatory, and the other is impossibly huge creatures. When mixed together, you get beings that could very easily kill you, and they would never even notice. It's like Will Wood said, "A billion amounts to nothing in infinity's face."
I find it amazing that Curious Archive is able to capture our attention to this extent. With almost every other creator, they're usually just... Background noise, but CA's videos always make me pause, listen and think.
Every time I watch one of these Archive videos, I always end up crying or catching myself tear up in some way. Not many others of its kind have ever made me think so much I start to feel. His voice, his tone, the imagery, and script, and references, it’s all so amazing to me. It feels like being on an alien ship far, far away from Earth and these are the archives you’re watching; humanity and more through a human perspective, seen from a human perspective. Keep it up, Curious
The guy has your garden variety northwest voice. If you’re crying over RUclips fiction videos like this, get actual therapy.
Jacob Gueller is a similar video essayist here on youtube