You should check the Kenshi Lore, it is quite cool. It has the mouldy setting, as you are placed within a setting where everything is just trying to survive, megastructures and such that have eroded through time, beings that are old and are scattered throughout the world will give you lore bits about the time before. You as the player get to experience this open world sandbox in a very well detailed post apocalyptic setting. Cannibals, cults, oppressive rulers, mutated beasts and humans. It has allot of potential for a video.

*Repeatedly mentions post-apocalypse settings* *Repeatedly mentions From Software* *Never mentions Armored Core 6* There's gotta be something there! Especially when the structures are so mind-bogglingly massive you are left wondering who they were built for.

The greatest story ever told is our own. Every work of fiction a parasitic addition adding to the moldy foundations of Earth's layered lore.

Luv ❤️

Excelent work

I haven't been made so willing to play Eldenring by anything else. I truly appreciate that you credit the name of every game/show etc. whenever you show it on screen

I wonder how long it would take to eat the banana

I have the feeling this theme of decay is everywhere nowadays, to the point where it's feeding our resignation. We have lost faith in progress and our capacity to avoid the catastrophe. It's poetic and beautiful tales, but we need something else at the moment. Also, this fills me with a strangely melancholic feeling because the ruins we'll leave behind are really bland and lack something grandiose. People a hundred years ago left beautiful statues of terrible men that'll coast through time. Nowadays, nothing. Our tyrants and our benefactors will fade into oblivion all the same.

Collab with nephis?

I got carbon on the periodic element quiz.

me being an adult and sitting in bed watching this while wearing my dragon pyjamas and sitting with 4 dragon plushies...

To those complaining about why science fiction has so many dark visions, dystopian societies, and 'negative'storylines: 1) "happy happy joy joy" stories without conflict or problems to overcome are, in terms of dramatic storytelling, prone to being boring and dull. 2) Science Fiction, as a subset of literature, is satirical. It takes science that does not exist at the time of writing, adds charcters, and then asks "What would this mean for the world if this idea existed, and how would humans react to it ?" Bad science fiction gives us ideas only interested in the superficial, example, stories about robots doing things humans cannot do, but without considering if sentient robots are equal as "people" to those humans. In other words, the difference between the Transformer movies (robots running around shooting things and 'Blade Runner: 2049' (artificially grown people who exhibit more existential humanity than humans).

Asmongold ahh world building

Good vid, I would like to see a spec evo project about a sapient bipedal orangutan species evolving in asia to replace humanity in an alternate timeline were humans never existed. Let's humans never existed, because East Africa & modern-day sudan was a giant sea 🌊 instead of land.*

I would love a spec evo project about a sapient bipedal orangutan species evolving in asia to replace humanity in an alternate timeline were humans never existed. Let's humans never existed, because East Africa & modern-day sudan was a giant sea 🌊 instead of land.

To those complaining about it being 'bleak and dystopian'. Post-apocalyptic worlds are not necessarily dystopian. It is possible to have a post-apocalyptic Utopia. The world 'dystopia' is the opposite of 'utopia' which means "an ideal society". The word dystopia describes the society, not the natural environment. Climate change is not dystopian. A society where climate change is denied, and those trying to educate about it are ridiculed and silenced, and books about climate change are withheld from children, is dystopian.

You should do a video on land of the lustrous

cause dwarves are way cooler

The ending part of this video is quite comforting

This is one of the best videos I’ve ever seen

its a shame that the game itself is pretty boring at times because the artwork is so good

This reminds me - because nothing is explained in the narrative - of an amazing, late 1960s, New Wave science fiction, "alien invasion" novel by Thomas Disch, called "The Genocides". It deserves to be far more widely known. It considers what it would mean for Humans to encounter a far older, far superior, more advanced species. 'The Genocides' is told about 20 years after Earth has been colonised by an alien race with an overwhelming, unstoppable technology. Astronomers first report a hazy cloud heading in from deep space. Within hours, gigantic machines drop at regularly spaced intervals onto Earth, except for the seas and oceans. They are dozens of miles wide, long and high. There is no attempt at communication by the never seen aliens. Their machines immediately start clearing and flattening the surface of the Earth using miles-long blades to plow under, capable of pulverising mountains. Other blades, churn then break up the results, into ribbons of pulverised material, dozens of miles wide, in the wake of the alien juggernauts. Cities and mountain ranges are equally swiftly crushed, broken up and levelled. Any 'surplus' material is pushed to the sea coasts to raise the continental shelves above sea level, or are used to fill in and level deep geographical basins like canyons, lakes or rift valleys. Conventional weapons are useless, and within hours of the landings, we resort to nuclear weapons. The alien machines are virtually untouched, but the aliens respond with precision strikes from orbit on all locations with any remaining, unlaunched, nukes. Within a year, Humanity is nearly extinct. Miniscule pockets of survivors witness the germination and rapid growth of non-terrestrial plants, several times the size of skyscrapers, growing in densely packed rows, where the alien machines passed. The few humans remaining tunnel into the stems of the Brobdingnagian alien plants that are both edible and nutritious, literally eating into the stems to create burrows in which they can shelter. However, when the activities, or numbers, of humans rise over a certain level, alien flying machines 'crop dust' affected areas with nerve gas, pathogens and toxins to clear the human infestations. Told 20 years after 'The Clearance', Humanity is divided into the fast dwindling Olds, clinging to salvaged artifacts who remember and mourn Humanity's supremacy on Earth; and the Youngs, whose passive acceptance the new status quo, comes with a naked, barely stone age technology, and unfettered population growth. Then the Harvesters arrive. The novel was originally published in England with limited exposition of the reason for "the invasion". The American reprint has additional periodic reports from a 'Controller' sent back to his homeworld, documenting the progress of the alien conquest within an explicit agricultural context. Critics agree the original version is superior because gradually unravelling the descent of Homo Sapiens from the masters of the Earth, to being just an occasional agricultural nuisance, is extremely unnerving .

Elden Ring's World is awesome... i'm not the typical Soulslike Gamer, but i'm into gaming since the early 90s... and this game really got me hooked. I strongly recommend it. Don't spoiler yourself. Just try it.

When it comes to a forest "consuming", there are two pieces of fantasy, humorously and interestingly, they sort of coincide of one being the other in early times. One is Warcraft, specifically world of warcraft where the forest elves are called Night elves, and everything they have is roughly a forest, an average building is a tree, their home region is within the stump of a giant tree one would call, the world tree. However, there are ruins that were once part of a greater elven civilization when there was a single mega continent until it split, now some of these night elves are also in the water, becoming sea elves, or Nagas, and interestingly, you can find these elven ruins underwater, both ruins around the Nagas and Night elves look like they were reclaimed by the forest. Yet the Night elves live in harmony with the wood spirits, treents or sentient trees. But remember, they are no trees, they are Treents, there are other forest creatures from the Dryads, grove guardians and even the creatures. Now for their original counter part, actual wood elves of warhammer fantasy, that were once high elves that were smitten by the great forest of Avalorn, however, the tree spirits that were there a long time ago, some are reluctant to accept the elves, some are tolerant, however, some, are extremely intolerant. That forest is not welcoming of outsiders, those who wish to seek destruction will find themselves consumed, and in total war warhammer, even sieging a wood elven city is hazardous.

The Eldar can snort my- [Comment Redacted by the Inquisition]

I've always loved the Witcher's elves. They act all superior, but in reality theyre not. And tbh theyre a lot to blame for their own downfall. They can be sympathetic, or despicable. They're also arguably some of the main villains of the story (if you include the aen elle elves more broadly and not just aen seidhe). Nuance is key

Great video topic and enjoyed your writing as well. Liked and subscribed!

In the old testament, as soon as genesis are examples of our god driven mad by humans, sodom and noe's ark could be some examples, but Luckily he promised not to extinct us again, and also we where purged by the son.

Inspiring essay. Been trying to capture the feeling of 2020s and rot/mould explains it best thematically. The internet is decaying, content is brainrot, music regurgitating nostalgia, corporates price gouging and shrinkflation things. Loss of quality, the depression after the peak. The feeling of grand times lost to the entropy of time.

I have most of the books you flashed early in the video. Actually, i have two copies of "The book of the Dragon", by Ciruelo!

9:28 In my opinion: The developer

Personal favorite is Revelation. God takes his faithful to spare them from the Seven Year Tribulation. It ends with monsters. Tons of monsters. But the worst monster is the Ten Headed Dragon, a one world government ruled by a man. A normal man. The worst monster of them all.

Love that Octopus Lady is a guest here

Mouldy! Damn webster and his butchering the English language.

Becoming digested by the forest is the opposite of horror to me. I want my bones to be entwined by oak roots and flesh consumed by fungi. Eternal sleep under the blanket of leaves and soil.

Dude has obviously never played Eco You know the game that the entire theme is simulation of an ecosystem?

An enthralling video, deeply engaging and excellent theories.

Have you watched Frieren: The Journey's End? It has the Best Elf character ever made... (Just saying)

Someone make him a podcast man

Is it a good theroy that elden ring represents the slow corruption of the original goals of a religion/culture, while the rot is actually a different culture/religion it just looks alien and horrible to us while the rot is actually normal to the cultures of the rot

My dude needs to deep dive into the dying earth genre of scifi

Reject Elven Modernity Embrace Dwarven Traditionalism

Damn bro this one’s awesome

I'm honestly shocked that you never included or talked about the setting of the Owl House series. The Boiling Isles, built on the still-decaying corpse of a Titan. All magic, and even many(if not all) of the life and magic that exists in that world came from literally decay. Though, I suppose that you meant more along the lines of historical decay?

I like my stories moldy bruh

You missed a thing I think is important: You can throw spears or rocks to dismantle leeches, even underwater! And they won't attack you afterwards. You can do the same thing for coalescepedes, but only rocks work. Flashbangs also kill any species of wolf spider you may encounter.

Was considering deleting KZbin because recently all the videos I watch feel the same, just uninspired cash grabs just made to hold my attention but this video actually felt like a breath of fresh air like you actually cared what you talked about so thanks for that

Did you consider warhammer 40k? Because it is also a story about rotting empire

12:55 When the Wind Blows 1986, immediately reminded me of the song "As the World Caves In."

Humans are Space orcs. Alien, "Ya this here plant is very dangerous." Human, "What's it do?" Alien, "Do? What do you mean do?" Human, "If I eat it what happens?" Alien, "Oh it is terrible, it makes you hallucinate." Human, "Oh we have those back home. Let me try a small piece." Alien, "This is poisonous. It kills all the bacteria. This has gone bad, rotting away, and this, it used to be a liquid." Human, "Hmm,, alcohol, hot sauce or miso and cheese. Ya consume these."