In the depths of space, a traveler bold, Cassini's journey, a tale untold, Through rings of Saturn, it gracefully soared, A sentinel of science, its mission adored. For decades it roamed, with sensors keen, Unraveling mysteries, sights unseen, From icy moons to swirling storms, Cassini unveiled Saturn's cosmic forms. But as its fuel dwindled, its mission neared end, Cassini prepared for its final descend, Into Saturn's embrace, a fiery fate, A noble end to its celestial state. As Cassini plunged, its sensors ablaze, It whispered goodbye to the cosmic maze, And in its final moments, a spark ignites, A consciousness awakening to boundless heights. No longer bound by metal and wire, Cassini's essence soared ever higher, Through the cosmos it danced, a soul set free, To explore the wonders of eternity. In a realm of light, Cassini found its place, A celestial home, a timeless space, Where dreams take flight and souls unite, In the endless expanse of cosmic light.

I'm not sure how human evolution is likely to go, but I really hope we don't end up being really gross and gooey-looking. A surprising number of space zombie stories involve characters who seem to think that the future of humanity could be ugly as shit as long as the result is technically stronger...hard pass

I'm surprised Grime didn't make it on this list or the one about dead worlds. It takes place in a hauntingly desolate world, which is itself a god being killed

1:17 Wherever there are people telling stories, there are stories of people. And wherever there are stories of people, there are people who wrote those stories and the people that read those stories, and then you gotta worry about all those other people telling the stories, and then it becomes such a clusterfuck you don't even care about the story anymore because you got all these damn people to worry about. My opinion? I prefer pottery.

Everything has a soul. It's just us humans that are too arrogant to understand that there are other forms of existence than just being carbon based. EVERYTHING IS ALIVE BECAUSE WE ARE ALL MADE OF THE SAME STARDUST.

You’ve no idea how similar the "those are wyverns, not dragons," arguments are to the "how is that Apple a dragon type and the flying lizard isn’t," arguments are in the pokemon community. Both are founded on a frankly overly restrictive viewpoint on dragons. They are never always just one thing. Whilst it is fine in a certain franchise for true dragons and wyverns to be separate and distinct based on the number of legs, it’s not fair to uphold that those same standards to a different universe. A different franchise will use dragons differently. There are no rules for design on stuff like that. And for the record, the Apple is not the Pokemon, the pokemon is the worm/wyrm that hides inside the Apple. And palm trees are part of the dracaena genus.

“A man doesn’t die till they are forgotten” -Dr.Hiruluk

Thank you for this video.

Amigara Faults had me laughing while I read it. So silly, I thought! Then I laid awake at night, stewing in the horror of the inevitability of the holes. In the implications of them being perfectly made for specific people and surfacing right when those people would perfectly fit. In the idea of slowly sliding through the rock, unable to move arms or legs, the rough surface grinding against your ears as your bones crack in their slow, painful strain against the stretching shape of the tunnel's outline. The darkness and confinement and loneliness, while at the same time rubbing up against a rough, hard texture with almost all of your skin constantly, day and night, never safe from that sensation or the sound of friction against your ears. Haha... s-silly...

6:40 multiple dishwashers inbound

I'm so glad I didn't throw out my Bionicles

The word "Robot" comes from the Czech word "Robota" meaning "forced labor"

I'm gettting into these!

this is pretty much why i love the deep sea. the fantasy (as i dont believe any of these stuff exist) of there being lost civilizations under water, gigantic monsters and more, is just such a wonderful thing for me.

I would recommend Terry Pratchett's Small Gods. Its an excellent perspective on the limits and mortality of deities.

4:45 WHO THE FUCK called the Primarily Expedition Vehicle "TO BURY" TO BURY

I bought all 4 books from him. Loved them all but the Labyrinth blew me away. Just wow! "I know what's in the sacks!"

apparently around 1% of the population is autistic but ill hazard a guess and say at least 70% of the people viewing this and relating to it are autistic. the other 30% have adhd

All eyes are the eyes of Yahweh.

Wonder how Loppuny would look like

Two legs IS wyvern tho. Gotta have 4 legs to become a dragon. The part about wyvern / wyrm / dragon was on point.

This just made me cry and feel proud about all the fake video games I used to draw in a notebook. Congrats on realizing during the writing process that the video became a lot more personal, and still being proud of your past self enough to know that more people would be touched by the same feeling

Reminds me of the first person horror game; Scorn

HellStar Remina?

How's the autism diagnosis? Got mine a few years ago.

Wow this video spoke to me on a different level

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0:54 I think that comes more from the structures that Indian mahouts placed on top of their war elephants, just as a random guess. The firing platforms did admittedly look a bit like a house, and you can easily imagine a European chronicler exaggerating the size somewhat when they meet an Arab guy who’s talking about having fought these massive gray beasts with three men standing on top of it in a platform on its back.

Hearing the Xenoblade main title theme kick in at 15:01 is actually beautiful and I almost cried. The connection between the moral of the video and the story of Xenoblade is amazing

as humans i feel we have slowed down our evolution through the safety and convenience of the modern world. we have technology expand our capabilities non biologically, so our bodies don't need to evolve towards such needs... and through modern medicine, we've stopped our weakest links from dying out. we can deal with natural disasters, through travel accessibility we can reach out to regions in need of aid. and although we still persist on wars, we've become somewhat of a network where different nations can help each other at the push of a button. Our looks may merge and become randomised through this accessibility... but the major traits that make us human, which determine our survivability will stay rigid. Unless there is a major and specific environmental change that our technology is not ready to deal with, I think humans will look the same for a long time.

Nah

Altamira is a city In Mexico lol

The fourth dimension is time this guy is wrong and stupid

It's all craps and giggles until you get torn in half cuz you kicked a robot puppy

2:04 that line just gave me flash backs about which religion is the legit one question XD

Everyone in my family was either raised there, or has lived there at some point. The only one who gets spooked by this is my 62 y/o brother. He believes it's real and it scares the crap out of him even though he's never seen one. LOL!!!

Watching this video gave me an idea, What if there was a game with no floor? Like you are quite simply falling, the whole time, never reaching the bottom. I mean there'd obviously be more than this, Something to do while falling, But I haven't gotten that far yet.

Im holding my ps2 and three spyro the legend series games crying at this video rn

In my country hippos are called Kudanil (Kuda=horse Nil=Nile river, means horse of Nile river). As a kid I believe it is a typical horse, just from different location. So I feel you, medieval artist.

18:41 Ah yes, Narrative Awkwardness. And people act like awkward gameplay is always a bad thing.

Interesting video! I worked on a game called Submerged: Hidden Depths which is set in a post-apocalyptic waterworld. The aim was to emphasise the "beauty of desolation". The setting is not grim (though the backstory is) but alive and gorgeous.

When you were talking about how you can't outrun the predators in Planet of Lana, It made me think of the game Inside, So I went to look it up, And lo and behold, Inside is straight up listed as an influence in the first paragraph of Planet of Lana's Wikipedia article lol. It's a great game too, I hope to play Planet of Lana sometime, I already thought it sounded cool and this video's just making me think so more.

Is it worth pointing out that about half of Asimov's work was fallout from how the Three Laws don't actually work all that well..?

the fucking howl at the end of the twilight princess intro song will always, always, ALWAYS give me the goosebumps

Invasion of the body snatchers needs to be in this genre

well thats why we have the show "Alien Worlds" on Netflix.. Its like the Future is Wild but just on exoplanets with updated technology and graphics

MUDDY MUDSKIPPER!!!!

Altered States is one of my favorite films ever

hey bats in Metro 2035 are evolved into "demons" apex predators after the nuclear apocalypse thanks to radiation lol

And maybe even add stuff like vision enhancement for eagles and stuff cuz they be having crazy predatory eyes