"Doomsday would probably be a big bummer." *Yes... Yes it would.*

@AugustCrossroads

14 күн бұрын

will miss my student loans

@scottthesmartape9151

14 күн бұрын

It’s coming soon

@themarlboromandalorian

14 күн бұрын

Ehhh... At least I won't have to go see a dentist again.

@HeavenShallTremble

14 күн бұрын

minor inconvenience

@Artiztisaurus

14 күн бұрын

It would greatly effect fishing season

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

@Serperior1212

14 күн бұрын

Real

@that1cat999

14 күн бұрын

The archive knows when we need cool shit

@Doktersocks

14 күн бұрын

He's in your mind

@Elden_Lean

14 күн бұрын

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

@matthewmainard2763

14 күн бұрын

For me it's more like I forget I'm waiting on another video lol

"But if like a wolf eats the sun, I mean that's just bad luck" haha a great quote.

@Vaeldarg

9 күн бұрын

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."

@alexcat6685

Күн бұрын

@@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.

@sarasteege2265

10 сағат бұрын

@@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.

hey you okay buddy?

Congratulations, you "dog that ate your homework" evolved into "wolf that ate the sun"!

@christinejones6065

14 күн бұрын

🤣

@greenhydra10

14 күн бұрын

This evolved into a huge f*cking problem!

@germanomagnone

14 күн бұрын

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

@jl9088

13 күн бұрын

oooh nice eclipse mythology reference, if you guys know what I'm talking about.

@coolsagain

12 күн бұрын

whats the scene name at 0:14

It will end with a monster, but it'll be human shaped, and he'll be very rich.

@peterstoric6560

14 күн бұрын

Chuck Norris…

@uncreativename2190

14 күн бұрын

​@@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

@Im__useless

14 күн бұрын

​@@uncreativename2190Mussolini caught me so off guard

@arteckjay6537

14 күн бұрын

​@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.

@sheeeenogoji7603

14 күн бұрын

@@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..

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.

@Xunkun

4 күн бұрын

"Everyone thinks they're the hero of their own story." *Handsome **_Fucking_** Jack of all goddamned people.*

@diavolo6203

Күн бұрын

If wolf eat the moon fuck do i do?

Neon Genesis being described as "it's a whole thing, IT'S A WHOLE THING!" is pretty perfect.

@dc-101

11 күн бұрын

a whole thing of "i understood less every fucking second"

@qwertydavid8070

9 күн бұрын

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".

@dc-101

9 күн бұрын

@@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

@Xunkun

4 күн бұрын

@@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

@asandax6

2 күн бұрын

​@@dc-101 Not Understanding EVA is understanding EVA

_"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*

@jazermano

14 күн бұрын

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."

@danksorcerer-xe2gd

14 күн бұрын

@@jazermano "the sights of hell bring its viewers back in" after all

@jojitcamero1705

13 күн бұрын

dang, never knew Mickey mouse went crazy

@thememeilator2633

13 күн бұрын

i just saw that video today! talk about timing

@chimera9818

12 күн бұрын

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

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.

@BrokenBluebird6

14 күн бұрын

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].

@White_Night_Demon

14 күн бұрын

Did they use his original voice from the 80s cartoon character?

@tartatovsky

14 күн бұрын

@@White_Night_Demon I'm pretty sure its a 'no'

@White_Night_Demon

14 күн бұрын

@@tartatovsky awww why not? He sounded awesome in the cartoon!

@KingofTokusatsu

14 күн бұрын

Isn’t Unicron also an omnipresent being across all transformers universes

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.

"I Hope It Ends With a Monster" is actually metal af and goes hard

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.

@itol2201

12 күн бұрын

☝️ *Me, looking at the Titanic wreckage from the inside of a motorized MUG Root Beer can*

@jordansfinalform

9 күн бұрын

a black hole coliding with earth

@snapeinvader6208

5 күн бұрын

I disagree. I think the kindest method of exit allows you to hold your loved ones, tell them you love them, and say goodbye.

@ghatesspeech

5 күн бұрын

Or just incapable of being registered as painful to the body like falling asleep

@btcbuster5556

5 күн бұрын

@@snapeinvader6208 Both is possible

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.

@jesustyronechrist2330

14 күн бұрын

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.

@VeritabIlIti

13 күн бұрын

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."

@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051

11 күн бұрын

Or you can usurp the flame and become a God, ruling over a age of darkness.

@cyrusthe0ther795

10 күн бұрын

But what does that mean entering an age of darkness. The planet still rotates the sun still exists. What exactly happens.

@XD-sc4ix

10 күн бұрын

​@@cyrusthe0ther795Umm mo the world of dark souls doesn't work like that

If the world was ending with a monster I’d call my friend Kevin

@81684hnxv

3 күн бұрын

He could make us all a pot of his world famous Malone's chili

@Xero_Eigengrau

Күн бұрын

Who would win Kevin or Pedro.exe?

Beasts of The Southern Wild THANK YOU i saw this movie as a kid and since then could only ever remember the crab scene where they kept screaming "BEAST IT" i loved this movie gotta rewatch now that i have the name.

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

14 күн бұрын

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

@Dragnarok1

14 күн бұрын

@@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.

@StartouchArts

14 күн бұрын

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.

@Korynith

14 күн бұрын

Agreed! Not gonna lie, I was kinda hoping it would be in the video somewhere.

@arciere9986

14 күн бұрын

​@@douggaudiosi14 Hater😒

I should have expected this from you but the premise still hit me like a truck 😢 then “ let me prove this with a banana “ 😂

@LorreKeeper

14 күн бұрын

AND YET HE MAKES IT WORK

@kaical8273

14 күн бұрын

Still definitely don't think it's the "most gentle" end we can imagine.

@Kris-wo4pj

14 күн бұрын

​@@kaical8273it'll quick and not our fault. Every other end of the world takes time and is defientely are fault.

@greenhydra10

14 күн бұрын

Ultimate potassium

@kaical8273

14 күн бұрын

@Kris-wo4pj yeah meteors, pathogens, and super volcanoes are all definitely our fault.

this is my favorite video of yours to date. just including The Transformers’ Unicron… genius. amazing work as always

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.

@MASTEROFEVIL

14 сағат бұрын

When 911 happened bosses and employers forced workers to stay and actually locked some of the doors

@tyrongkojy

12 сағат бұрын

@@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.

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. (:

@FrostyNuggetTheCool

14 күн бұрын

Moon do be great!

@cjsantiago4035

14 күн бұрын

@@axo677What about ":)"?

@cdkw2

14 күн бұрын

@@cjsantiago4035 It's the same thing so same respect!

@thetommytrontommyrose6497

13 күн бұрын

That actually sounds really cool! I actually really like some of Christian’s works. Creatures of Madness is my favorite.

@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051

11 күн бұрын

To be both things at once is so rare.

"And yet when i gaze upon the great banana" is HILARIOUS out of context

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

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.

"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.

@petrfedor1851

14 күн бұрын

Becoming enviromental storytelling skeleton is my goal.

@VeritabIlIti

13 күн бұрын

"Hey weirdos of the future, have you elected a patron saint yet?" ZP

"Ah, Sweet! Existential horrors beyond my comprehension!"

@luckytrap8998

6 күн бұрын

Well I can comprehend these horrors perfectly fine so idk maybe you have a skill issue or something

@WeaversWildlife

6 күн бұрын

@@luckytrap8998 wowie. You're so edgy and cool! I made a reference you're not getting :)

@luckytrap8998

6 күн бұрын

@@WeaversWildlife mine was also a reference

@mishagaming1075

Күн бұрын

@@WeaversWildlifewow, imagine not getting a joke. skill issue.

I really love the incredible power your videos hold. To evoke thought and feeling, emotion and new perspective. It’s a beautiful breath of inspiring wisdom :)

honestly, a mutant monster apocalypse would be the most interesting apocalypse, because of the worlds pollution problem, what if animals start turning into monster due to that

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.

@qrzt2000

14 күн бұрын

ohh, i didn't know there's a story to the game

@TheCorrodedMan

14 күн бұрын

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

@Random_Iceberg

14 күн бұрын

@@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

@sturzkampfflugzueg

14 күн бұрын

​@@Random_IcebergAnd Paris

@Zlyde007

14 күн бұрын

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.

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.

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

Dude. I thought you couldn’t get any better, and then you come out with this? This is legitimately a video I’d say everyone should watch, at least once in their life. You keep doing you, man.

This video has caused me to reflect on myself and I realised: I am the exact kind of guy who would say 'It's fine' when the apocalypse happens. I do have a habit of trying to ignore any impending 'disasters' that may strike me, and just try to go on with my life as normal. I recall some times where I fucked up something in my life and there was an inevitable huge consequence waiting for me in the future and my response was just to ignore it, to go on with my life and hope that everything will go back to normal without much of a fuss. There would be some times where I do realise the weight of what's going to happen and my chest would constrict in horror and dread but then I'll just distract myself with something else, because it was much easier than dealing with the dread. Those events weren't anything close to being described as apocalyptic but they do indeed ring true to what you said.

@blakemcmillan5680

14 күн бұрын

Honestly your reaction would probably be the best one to have, unless you are in a position who’s job it is to react to disasters

@TealWolf26

14 күн бұрын

Yup same. There's a limit to the ability to hold onto active stress without just trying to shut it out for mental peace even if you can't have physical peace.

@jesustyronechrist2330

14 күн бұрын

My honest mindset right now is "It iiiiis what it iiiiis"

@ciscornBIG

14 күн бұрын

Cringe.

@NotyoBizness

13 күн бұрын

I was about to post pretty much the same thing

“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

@Cryodrakon2

14 күн бұрын

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.

@placeholderdoe

14 күн бұрын

@@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

@placeholderdoe

14 күн бұрын

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.

@pillarmenn1936

12 күн бұрын

@@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.

@Chaoskoch

12 күн бұрын

@@Cryodrakon2 Almost every single aspect of life has gotten better over the centuries. There are sometimes setbacks, but they have always been temporary.

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!!

Absolutely beautiful and thoughtful video essay. Definitely going to be taking notes and reflecting my on this one my friend!

It's curious how much this channels content has changed, it simply must be archived

@jacobkeary6740

14 күн бұрын

It's quite... curious

@luceroorduna4567

14 күн бұрын

@@jacobkeary6740 we must call it the… the… curious archive!!

@Calhouned

13 күн бұрын

So true bestie

@spinomania1921

12 күн бұрын

Wait.... say that again...

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.

@Vaeldarg

9 күн бұрын

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.

I love your videos. this one is an absolute banger. i kinda wanna share it with my world history class bc of the various titles you've mentioned

One of the best video essays I’ve ever watched. Thought-provoking and entertaining, loved it!!

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

@michaelfoster795

14 күн бұрын

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

@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x

14 күн бұрын

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.

@LordCrate-du8zm

14 күн бұрын

@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x”I immensely felt pussy for it” 🤨📸

@BroKenYaKnow

13 күн бұрын

@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x very unfortunate typo in there

@kerrcampbell7407

12 күн бұрын

​@@4124V4TA-SNPCA-xyou felt what for it? Very noble of you

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

@Brite-um2tq

14 күн бұрын

I think Ross Scott said that.

@PantherCat64

14 күн бұрын

@@Brite-um2tq for the second quote, correct.

@uppishcub1617

12 күн бұрын

Ross has some great quotes

@Vaeldarg

9 күн бұрын

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.

@PantherCat64

9 күн бұрын

@@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.”

Ive been really loving your content. Now its time to binge all your old stuff.

Glad to see the channel growing like this. I've been watching for a few years now and these videos always help me sleep. I genuinly think I've fully watched each video from the last 2 years over 10 times. The full subnautica one especially, probably seen it 30 times

Me after the big worm eats my house

@jesustyronechrist2330

14 күн бұрын

Me after random sand people steal the water from my body just after this happens.

@Brite-um2tq

14 күн бұрын

Me after Godzilla does the toothless dance.

@skipthefox4858

13 күн бұрын

⁠@@jesustyronechrist2330Me when the giant mountain sized dragon burns my city down ( still gotta go to work )

@MendaSonOfMyself

12 күн бұрын

Me when shai hulud awakes

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.

@ericraululyeetusdelyeetus5028

14 күн бұрын

​@@axo677 Yes, flaunting your illiteracy is such a good way to manage your digital footprint.

@VeritabIlIti

13 күн бұрын

​@@axo677and yet you commented regardless...

@Hawk7886

13 күн бұрын

Typical BBC cowardice, that show sounds pretty damn cool

@woodsmokedrasher1577

12 күн бұрын

Kinda feels like the better ending too. A silent end, despite all the chaos prior.

When it comes to destruction, id honestly hope something survives even if we dont. I wouldnt want life in general to end on our planet cause of our mistakes. I just hope something rises from our ashes.

This is absolutely my favorite piece of art that you have ever posted. Thank you for this video.

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

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.

All of your video are such a sight to see, thank you for your work sir. Big respect.

I think this is your best video yet. You've given me a lot to think on. Thank you, genuinely.

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.

@RavenAdventwings

14 күн бұрын

...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.

@thegoblinking279

13 күн бұрын

@@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.

@cleverman383

12 күн бұрын

I love this comment

@rainbr1nger115

7 күн бұрын

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.

the banana hurtling towards the Earth is something Douglas Addams would come up with

@Rowlesisgay

14 күн бұрын

sadly the interstate got finished already and that time traveler who insults everyone is busy so we can't destroy earth a second time.

@Hawk7886

13 күн бұрын

​@@Rowlesisgay oh, what I would give to be a simple mattress in the swamp

@emilyclark3725

11 күн бұрын

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.

WOW what an absolute tear jerker of a video!! Beautiful encapsulation of humanity's attitudes & reactions... your videos keep getting more and more profound it is transcendent... what would you do in this situation.... we're hopeless

This is solid motivation for my prepper brain. Nature is struggle. Life is beautiful. Therefore, struggle is beautiful and natural. It never ends. Even if we all, collectively get knocked down a few rungs of comfort and technology, the struggle will never end. We will always try! Some of us will succeed. Then, they will struggle to do *even* better! That's just what we *DO*! Thanks, man!

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.

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)

@abbc5156

11 күн бұрын

yes, hopefully none takes the series as a documentary of a sort

@somedud1140

Күн бұрын

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).

Your videos are so incredibly well done and entertaining. Thank you ❤

What a beautifully delivered, considerate video. Very thought provoking and engaging. Thank you for the time and effort put into this analysis. Great job 🤘🏾❤️❤️❤️

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

@DomiK-im3su

14 күн бұрын

@@axo677 lethal dose of potasium world wide

Giant Monsters would be a mercy is a wild thesis. Love it.

Thank you for this. Hit me right where it needed too. Great work as always.

This video is incredibly well-written. Almost made me shed a tear. Thank you for making this.

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.

@giorgospapoutsakis5271

13 күн бұрын

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

Great. Now I have a phobia towards bananas.

@danielloewen2857

14 күн бұрын

Me too, but only the supermassive ones

@user-et2dx5du7e

14 күн бұрын

bananaphobia

@blakemcmillan5680

14 күн бұрын

@@user-et2dx5du7e*megabananaphobia

@Brite-um2tq

14 күн бұрын

Potassium

@cjsantiago4035

14 күн бұрын

@@Brite-um2tq😱

Once again you provide us with the best wibes on this platform, great job and thank you. Inclusion of that song from Signalis was especially fitting choice

Genuinely my favorite video of yours!

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.

@The-Allfather-Odin

14 күн бұрын

Yes

@VeritabIlIti

13 күн бұрын

​@@The-Allfather-Odin fancy meeting you here

@exzyyd392

9 күн бұрын

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.

NOT THE GELATO!!!!😭😭

@pocketinfinity6733

14 күн бұрын

its joever bros 😭

@sl1trr327

12 күн бұрын

thought he meant a cone of za 🤦🏾

Thank you so much for your open and honest subject matter, sometimes I want to scream until someone tells me that we are having a similar experience existing, and your work puts me at ease a little, if that makes sense

love this! really really well thought out

"And yet, when I gaze upon the great banana...."

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

@10:50 Trying to live a life while waiting for the apocalypse really resonated with me. Another great discussion, thank you for creating.

Keep it up with this content, I wish more people would find your channel

Godzilla giving this video a peek, wondering when it's time for it to give humanity their last sight of its atomic breath

The monster is real and its name is unfettered corporate greed

@NeedyLilGuy

14 күн бұрын

The real monsters were the friends we made along the way.....

@sarahpne

14 күн бұрын

The monster is real and it’s name is totalitarian government

@nuclearocean

14 күн бұрын

aka capitalism

@cinnibarbrenneka

14 күн бұрын

Capitalism bad, very original

@angelmatesmolan

14 күн бұрын

@@cinnibarbrenneka doesn't make it less real

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.

your videos are always such great works of art, please never stop making them

"It's the End of the World as we know it...And I feel Fiiiiine..."

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.

@dc-101

11 күн бұрын

the theme it self is memorable actually

This video was really great and melancholic! I genuinely really love it!

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.

Great video.

@pixelcat29

9 күн бұрын

This is the best probably perfect video.

Or as I like to say, “it’s hard to care about something as distant as climate change when I am worrying about what I am going to be having for dinner tonight.”

W VIDEO I HAVE COME BACK TO THIS VIDEO MULTIPLE TIMES AND SHARED IT TO ALL OF MY FRIENDS. THIS VIDEO SHOWED ME HOW GREAT THIS GUY IS!

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.

Something that’ll never fail to make me emotional is people knowing the end of the world is coming, helpless and unable to stop it, and instead of panicking, they make their lives what they always wanted it to be. I don’t know why (I have my assumptions but I don’t want to make a multiple paragraph long comment), and I haven’t even been exposed to *any* media that has that. No tv shows, movies or books, but when I first thought of the idea it made me tear up, and here it is, doing the same listening to this video, especially the part covering “Carol and the End of The World”

@cleverman383

12 күн бұрын

Look into stories about people who have had uncurable illnesses such as cancer and told they only had a year left to live, and how they spent that time. (Or even if they THINK its uncurable but turns out to be cured eventually)

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."

This is so gripping! Excellent work man!

I haven't felt this way in a long time. Unimaginably profound. You've done excellent work, CA.

I find it fitting that Melancholia is mentioned here, the quote "Enjoy it while it last" comes to mind.

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.

That was a fantastically melancholic yet weirdly hopeful video. Thank you so much for making it :D

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

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

@koldemperor8474

14 күн бұрын

The guy has your garden variety northwest voice. If you’re crying over KZread fiction videos like this, get actual therapy.

@profmicoy

14 күн бұрын

Jacob Gueller is a similar video essayist here on youtube

The thing that scares me isnt the end of the world. It ends anyways. It doesnt care. Its the absence of everything i know, every object, every word and every animal or plant. That idea gives me a strange feeling, uncomftortable yet comforting

I'm reminded of the film Threads. A very British film showing a fairly realistic view of a limited nuclear war. It's utterly terrifying in depicting the end for the _best_ survivors.

@TheRunningLeopard

10 күн бұрын

I would love for him to cover Threads, that movie captivated me for a whole month in 2023. I watched everything I could about it, and even now something about me is drawn to it. I love it but yet I’m horrified, but yet I want me do a drawing to reflect the futility of trying to farm in a dying world bc of realizing how modern farming is killing the state I live in. I’m not sure when I’m going to rewatch it again, but I still find comfort of small scenes of the main character finding her fiancé’s best friend, and they help each other even as death slowly takes them both.

Thanks for persuading me to play Shadow of the Colossus! I enjoyed it more than I thought I would :) (Also, when I saw it in EB games I almost had a heart attack)