A HFY Story : A Human in a Truth Field & Human Trackers | 2109

[@ameliarosealdridge6468]

Damn. That warlord had the bad luck of picking a fight against a stelaris player and a scifi nerd.

[@SergeyWaytov]

Made quite the amusing story hahahaha

[@Netherdan]

"a stelaris player and a scifi nerd" Isn't the Venn diagram of these just a single circle?

[@comparatorclock]

​@@Netherdan no no, you see, "stellaris player" is the overlap between "sci-fi nerd" and "grand strategy nerd"

[@dilanbrinkley3587]

It's a great game!!

[@ameliarosealdridge6468]

I've heard it's great, the biggest problem is that it's owned by Paradox, I spent 16 and a half hours in that game only to realise that everything I was working up to... Turned out to be DLC... 😭😭😭

[@jukkiivi4282]

Interrogating a human under technological truth potion is generally a bad idea. The idea gets exponentially worse if the human happens to be a gamer, a writer, roleplayer or nerd. Loved the story and the narration! For the Algorithm! For the Narrator! For the Beard!

[@chrissouthgate4554]

Many Years ago, in White Dwarf (When they still published RPG content) a journalist interviewed Satan about corrupting role-players. Satan replied that he did not do it because what deal would you offer to someone who conquered empires & ruled galaxies?

[@carldooley9344]

I have always said that if you ask for an in game kill count, you would have some idea of what kind of games the person plays. Zero - crossword\sudoku 1-10 puzzle games 11-999 rpg tabletop 1000-10k, tabletop wargames 10k-1 million, FPS shooters 1million-billions, RTS games billions+ 4x games my kill count you ask? in the quintillions

[@somename3424]

HUZZAH!!!!

[@artyd42]

@@carldooley9344 Only quintillions? Seriously? I assume you're not counting your full universe implosion runs?

[@bobsterclause342]

anti deception feild oer truth for humans sir

[@Maddog3060]

Story 1: Humans; so duplicitous that even a "Truth Field" can't stop us from misdirecting! Story 2: Ah yes, one of the advantages that allowed us to become apex predators of the entire world; we're the only species here that tracks through understanding the environment rather than just direct senses.

[@artyd42]

Being prevented from lying is not the same as telling the truth. This is why he'd still have an issue if it was a politician... and worse if it was one marine...

[@Netherdan]

And then we adopted the extra senses as our pets

[@Anthony_Cika]

One of my favorite tropes in HFY is the 'Human pastimes are war preparations.'

[@seldonwright4345]

If you want peace prepare for war Sun Su

[@Taistelukalkkuna]

@@seldonwright4345 Vegetius

[@davitto01]

​@Taistelukalkkuna no, no, Vegeta would more likely say "If you want war, start a war."

[@jamesfowley4114]

Most of them are.

[@wardraven8755]

And it’s true.

[@joseas1518]

Story 1. Technically never lied. Just never properly answered. Still counts as a win. Story 2. Never work alone. Always work in mixed units. Can't beat a well oiled team.

[@Iluvantir]

A good boy is always a good boy.

[@chrisdufresne9359]

This poor Warlord. He abducted a gamer and trapped one in a field of No-Lies.

[@koathekid8255]

He should have realized the difference between a no lie field and a truth one

[@chrisdufresne9359]

@bull420840 The truth is subjective. If he played enough games, it's likely that he embraces his characters acts as his own. Thus, he told the truth. From a certain point of view, at least.

[@brunhin2]

​@@bull420840 anybody who plays a game like Stellaris, or Halo, or even league of legends more than just casually would be able to pass a lie detector using a statement similar to, "I fought in those battles". It is the mindset the is required to play any of those games competitively (or even just against some of the harder ai difficulties). You aren't just controlling a character on a screen; you are there, facing and overcoming the difficulties your character meets. It is one of the reasons games attempt to be so immersive, and why there is such high hopes for virtual reality gaming

[@taitano12]

A properly trained human Tracker can get into their quarry's head by analyzing their tracks. So, when the hound loses the scent, we'll already know the rough area where it can be picked up again. Between us, our tech, and our besties - the horse and the dog - your ONLY hope is that whatever trail you do leave is short enough that we can't get an idea of how you think. And, even then, we can be pretty good at "educated guessing" to find where you start to leave an actual trail.

[@rallen7660]

Years ago a friend of mine was involved in a joint training exercise with the local Federal SuperMax Prison. They had a professional "runner" for a "hide and seek" exercise. The dogs tracked him into the river, but they couldn't find his trail on the other side. They took the dog in the boat and floated out to the middle, where they saw some bubbles coming up. Yes, the guy was in scuba gear, hiding under the water. The dog smelled his scent on the air bubbles coming up! Hiding and attempting to evade is a risky strategy. You're better off leaving the area in a vehicle, or leaving a "scent trap" for the dog; a strong smell that will override your scent for a day or two: fresh crushed onion, garlic, skunk spray, sewage, pot, old fish, etc... and use a scent neutralizing soap like deer hunters use.

[@terrykrugii5652]

Which would be made much worse by intra-species profiling: Knowing how different species operate means being able to create opportunities to exploit their instinctual tendencies, forcing them to panic and flee without much care of how good you cover up your trail

[@piedpiper1185]

I've dropped this quote on other videos but once again I am reminded of Iain M Bank's Culture books. “Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought.”

[@alexisgrunden1556]

Fae...humans...eh; po-tay-to, po-tah-to~

[@inquisitorwalmarius6650]

I miss a single comma for it, to roll properly of the tongue when reading it out loud. but so fitting to some of those stories indeed. Have a like.

[@mystikmind2005]

"Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action" well defined definition of Politics and lawmaking!

[@UNSCPILOT]

Definitely need to read more from that series, lot of interesting ideas

[@paullange7052]

Sounds like something from Sir Humphrey Appleby.

[@Calaban619]

Story#1: r/TechnicallyTheTruth is OP Story#2: The Part of a Human looking at a shift in the sand and know "the thing being tracked kneeled there, on this ridge, to take a stealthy scope look at.. that particular building over there, lets to look there" is so scary, because he literally put himeself in the targets point of view, and in effect "relived his actions" solely in his mind. You Humans. Scary, yo.

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

I once went to visit friends who had a farm. They weren't at the house, but I thought they might be on a different part of their property. It had rained overnight so suspecting where they'd gone, I took a look at a mud puddle outside a gate. Fresh tyre tracks. Yes! They wondered how I'd found them. They were surprised when I told them. To me, it was just logical, not some great feat of tracking brilliance.

[@MidnightSmoke]

And he never lied... Here is a like and comment to help your channel grow and get you the recognition you deserve.

[@zotaninoron3548]

I must say I do particularly enjoy the zone of truth story. There's a certain elegant satisfaction with misleading a hostile party with only the truth. I frustrated a DM in a DnD game that way. Which was particularly funny because they knew precisely how I was obfuscating but couldn't find the right question for the NPC to ask to unravel it. They were a bit railroady and it frustrated the track they were trying to lay.

[@quinnhasse9170]

Good for breaking a railroad dm.

[@markk471]

story 1 is what i love about HFY stories. i love when writers actually have smart humans that win through grit and guile, not using super man strength and Einstein levels of intellect to find the secret nuke hiding in the broom closet to blow up a planet

[@barelyasurvivor1257]

My favorite game was the original Master of Orion. Where your one ship could take on and win against 30,000 + enemy ships Well as long as you had gotten to Orion's tech first that is.

[@KadianAthior]

Me, playing Stellaris while listening to random stories from Agro. Suddenly, a wild Stellaris pops up in the story. I guess if I ever gonna be taken by a weird alien and have to brag about my gaming experience, I know where to start.

[@DarkVeghetta]

This is my first time seeing the new format and, only 31sec in, I find it elevates the story being told _considerably._ Sometimes, the old ways are best and this is the way storytellers have told their tales for eons (albeit physically, rather than digitally). All that's missing is a campfire.

[@seldonwright4345]

Approving noises from back of the cave.

[@rizon72]

I could see the first story also going this way. They abduct an older woman and the conqueror looks like a cat. She keeps trying to pet the conqueror, he keeps trying to swat her away. And when asked why she keeps trying, she replies. "you're just so cute, and you remind me of Mr. Kibbles my first cat." "You keep us as pets?" "Oh yes, I have six." Horrified shock on the conqueror's face.

[@HummelJaeger]

Or the abductee being a Japanese Sushi Master.

[@quisqueyancomrade4968]

The first story had some really good dialogue, loved to see how skilled this writer is. I would love to read a full novel inspired on this.

[@brianjuergensmeyer8809]

And don't forget that humans are the best persistence predators on at least this planet. We will chase you until you finally just give up and decide to get it over with.

[@barelyasurvivor1257]

This reminds me of a story from I think it was early to late 60's in Analog Science Fact & Fiction, when the Alien Empire discovered Earth. But unfortunately for them they had no concept of fiction, especially Science Fiction, they had a form of truth field, But it had a few flaws. So they saw and heard about Vast Starships, Huge Empires, Monstrous Armies The Federation, Klingons, Powered Armor Forces (The Original Star Ship Troopers, the book not the movie) Forbidden Planet (the movie) with so many power generators that it was absurd, Mental Powers, etc EE Doc Smith's series, and much more Time Travel, Inter Dimensional Travel, Super Heroes, and more.

[@r.connor9280]

a short story by the name of "The Best Policy" In where a random settler convinces an invading force that humans are in fact, gods with mind reading powers and the ability to teleport between planets at will.

[@phoenixbugg7199]

I'd like to read that story where can I find it.

[@r.connor9280]

@@phoenixbugg7199 Found it online in an archive reader, can't remember the author, just that he wrote a lot of shorts

[@jaimeosbourn3616]

Here it is: science fiction short story by Randall Garrett (under the pseudonym "David Gordon"

[@jaimeosbourn3616]

There is also one where the aliens end up taking a boys comics from his tree house and mistake them for old records. What they find between the pages scares them so badly that they redline their drive running away.

[@r.connor9280]

@@jaimeosbourn3616 That would explain why my search came up wrong, Thanks.

[@gordoncampbell3514]

Story 2, how to turn your passion for dogs into a short scifi tail.

[@cravenmadness967]

gotta say, pretty cool watching you narrate in real time. This is the first of these types I've seen, but been a fan of your stuff for a long time and have passed many a work night listening to your narrations. Keep at it, sir, you are a godsend for people who need just a bit of background noise to keep them awake heh.

[@inquisitorwalmarius6650]

many are also tts or ai recordings, here we got a REAL man reading, not a machine. i really like that, as he acts the story out more than just reads it loud. maybe the best of all the HFY channels.

[@elfeater1760]

For the Algorithm11!

[@najroe]

Indeed, for the mighty algorithm

[@DaiLusional]

Hazza!

[@derekdrake8706]

Ah, so the truth field doesn't prevent lies of omission. Good to know. That's some creative thinking from the man with the most unimaginative name there is lol. Story 2: Humans can also track through your phone usage, gps, bank usage, psychological profiling, etc.

[@alfredsutton4412]

Another entertaining afternoon story. Thank you. For the algorithm, for the invisible author, for the handsome voice actor. May The Force always be with us

[@DoctorRobertNeville]

I have a "Blood hound" doggo, and she is a love bug. She will defend me to her death. Don't mess with my little girl, as she will chew you into a pile of garbage.

[@RealArcalian]

Greetings, Mentlegent! For the Rhyhtm that is Algo Story 1: Stellaris FTW Story 2: I actually read this one before hearing it from you. Good stuff!

[@somename3424]

i love this format! you should do this more often. the body language gives great value

[@michaelyoung7261]

That’s a good point! I didn’t think about the body language part of the story that makes it much better.

[@csi1392]

HUMANS HAVE, DOGS, BINOCULARS AND PARABOLIC MICS

[@0123-v1o]

And most importantly: THE ABILITY TO BUILD PARABOLIC DOGS WITH BUILT IN BINOCULARS

[@seldonwright4345]

Both the above: Drones.

[@kyleheins]

Love these two, especially the second. Minor pet peeve, pitbulls are split between two variants, one bred to fight and only fight, the other bred to guard children back in the 18th and 19th centuries when children played almost exclusively outside and there was a very high risk of wildlife attacking them. Not a massive difference, but the end result is massively different.

[@positroll7870]

Similarly, Rottweilers originally were bred for strength, to pull carts and sleds for the butcher guild of the town of Rottweil (similarly to Huskies).

[@Mark73]

Apparently the truth field doesn't cover lies of omission.

[@HenshinFanatic]

It merely prevents falsehoods from being uttered while slightly loosening lips.

[@zotaninoron3548]

What he needed was a human lawyer trained in cross examination.

[@KrawmKruach]

he didnt lie, most of us have had some exposure to, at least the concepts of, highly advanced technology. humans do get their aggressive tendencies out in all manner of games and competitions, and most importantly he was spot on when he said the war wouldn't last a week and if this being needed to ask all these questions then it certainly isn't as smart as it thinks it is.

[@ericjohnson6675]

Name a battlefield where you fought....Blood Gulch...snorted coffee hearing that answer!

[@jeredmelendez6184]

Great stories as usual. Thank you Beard Bard. Also for the dispicable algorythem

[@omargoodman2999]

"An Aes Sedai never lies, but the truth she speaks is seldom the truth you think youve heard."

[@danieljensen794]

This is great. Thank you.

[@WorldWalker128]

Natty 20 on that bluff in story one!

[@berges104]

Blood Gulch. The Rocket W^ore memories haha! You get a Rocket, and You get a Rocket and YOU get a Rocket!

[@jamesvivian2855]

That second story reminded me of bush trackers in the Outback

[@markuhler2664]

Reverse Jerkass Genie'd the Warlord. His own damn fault. He needs to do his own intel gathering.

[@wschnabel1987]

The only thing that has had more of a development arc than your beard, has been Vageetas neckline in team four stars Dragon Ball Z abridged....

[@SergeyWaytov]

Story#2 is quite a fun story!)

[@davidioanhedges]

Truth zone - any gamer or SciFi fan knows how to defeat one of those ...

[@isaackellogg3493]

0:52 🎶Once a spy rode boldly into Joiry town seeking someone to question at length To see how her people fared in Joiry’s hand and to judge for himself Joiry’s strength Behind lay a man who would make himself king, awaiting the spy’s word to go So he asked of a guardsman, “Who is Joiry’s lord?” And the man said, amazed, “Don’t you know?”🎶

[@frantisekvrana3902]

Technically the truth. The best kind of truth.

[@Adiscretefirm]

I wonder what happens to the invasion plans if John snatches up the warlord and pounds it against every hard surface in reach?

[@SamsTopBarBees]

I love the transition to a video presence. It's really well done.

[@FedralBI]

Listening to this while playing Stellaris . F.T.A.

[@djhotfood]

I'm literally playing Stellaris as im listening to this in the background

[@objectiveice573]

the enterprise from fallout 4 zone of truth from dnd send me more from what I missed

[@oldnick4707]

This is the exact time in which I would propose to this Arch Conqueror the deal. Lol! "Let us both, (with your higher tec and our higher will), take the galaxy!!". Hahah!

[@rainynight02]

When you didn't jump i to "I would like to thank" right after the "end if story" i was sort of concerned for a moment! Gotten so used to it!

[@boywonderrr71]

Wish my wife would let me have a cool beard like that. I can if I like but limits kissing due to her sensitive skin.

[@AgroSquerril]

My wife threatened divorce (a joke) if I shaved it off

[@anathardayaldar]

story 1 reminded me of Galaxy Quest when the villain quickly realized they were just actors.

[@Boredofmostofit]

😂 If you cross the rubikon... 😂

[@DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH]

Bless the Squerril Bless the Author

[@neriluisarellanes3255]

The first story reminds of the book writer.

[@rainynight02]

Never lie, just, be innocuous! 🤣

[@PMW3]

Mr Smith would make for a good lawyer

[@gothicshark]

I laughed hard "Blood Gulch"

[@raymorphis5714]

cry havoc and let slip the hounds of war! Best line EVER!

[@ICEMAN-]

Fucking Stellaris

[@Sephiroth391]

You got me at "Blood Gulch"

[@victortahlor4038]

Thank you for the reading

[@nicklapallo9090]

Holy crap, an epic voice AND an epic beard.

[@gregkral4467]

Love this story. Betccha the humans will have MMORPG games online with anonymous style gangs making a game of messing with hacking their systems, ddos attacks.. hehe, online guild teams having competitions messing with the enemy like in Hackers.

[@chrisweiss6363]

Thanks youtube for the two 15 sec ads before the video

[@SirWhiteRabbit-gr5so]

The KGB told the Soviet Politburo it was hopeless, America had 15 year old teenagers playing war games and flying computer-generated F-15s, F-16s and F-14s every day, and combat simulators with regular Army personnel on the other side....and occasionally winning. Imagine what HALO and Call of Duty can do....LOL.

[@kyleduell2577]

Now that we can see you narrate, can we see you say" With energy", please

[@punkinhaidmartin]

Reminds me of Issac Asimov's "Victory Unintentional" written in 1942.

[@justsomeguywithahandlebarm2456]

Algorithm

[@brianvanmaanen1897]

Your screams are amazing and funny in the best way. It is so hard to do a good scream in narration.

[@luangu]

Wait till the Overlord found about "Space Marines".

[@Paddydukes89]

Gotta say that AI generated CGI model looks disturbing and bizarre. Please tell ChatGPT to fix it's eyebrows yo

[@brookerickettson4950]

Ah, the Delphi method of delivering truth and defeat. “A great army will achieve victory “.....just not said great army of the asker.

[@MR0KITTY]

Void Dweller, Machine, Sovereign Guardianship, I'll run like 10 planets with maximum pops and

[@Kualinar]

Story 1. I know of a War Lord who'll need some serious counselling, psychoactive medication and a LOT of cessions to regain a semblance of sanity...

[@hawkticus_history_corner]

Oh... The grabbed a Larper or Airsoft player. Edit: Ha! Halo!

[@sedevri864]

I want to see more stories that involve games like Stellaris.

[@allenmorgan1007]

For the Algorithm, for the Author(s), for the Holographic Voice!

[@Sorain1]

Story 1 comment: Boy is that warlord lucky, imagine if he'd gotten someone more politician like, who ended it with "But I mean, why can't we be on the same side? Team games can be just as much fun as fighting solo..." because within a few decades, Blasfimax wouldn't be running things anymore. Also humans would have FTL and that's just unsafe for the galaxy. Story 2 comment: Sounds like it's time to invest in some small human start up tracking/bounty hunting businesses then!

[@WlmaAlexender-zl6nx]

I did not expect Stellaris to come up. I love play agrarian idyll birds. 22 isn't small, but then I prefer to play tall.

[@carlfromtheoc1788]

What ever deities you pray o, pray to them that you are not being tracked by Native Americans, Canadian First People, or the first inhabitants of Australia. And please remember, we are also persistence hunters, meaning we will chase after prey until it drops from exhaustion. "Boudreaux's comin' for you boy! Woof woof!"

[@Orion_Alpha]

Your narration if fantastic. Keep up the good work and I hope you get better and beat these ENT problems. Qapla'

[@SoralTheSol]

First Story: My parents were scottish! I grew up on stories of the fey, I can cheat, misdirect, and bamboozle without a single lie ever passing my lips!

[@KuDastardly]

When humans are evolved to be persistence hunters, how can you expect them not to be good at tracking?

[@1nONLY_DRock]

The Tracker: "Even then, hard surfaces are no guarantee. Thermal tracking may be obsolete by galactic standards, but humans use such tricks all the time to keep on their quarry's trail. Gods help us if they get their hands on a multispectral visual suite."

[@verilyheld]

Marvel had a series called Clan Destine. In it, the father of the Clan is a man ageless and immortal. Aliens in the 17th century kidnapped him, tried killing him. Didn't work. The aliens ask him if he is a typical human. He's in a truth field. He truthfully answers "No. In fact, many of our rulers consider me unfit to be in the same room as them." The aliens do not invade Earth.

[@Kanamesamasqueen]

Story 1: They kidnapped a sci-fi/gamer/anime nerd.

[@LegendStormcrow]

Weren't rottweilers originally bred to pull carts and guard?

[@tatianapellegrinelli]

Wait until the aliens find out about extreme sports, camping/survival skills for fun and mosh pits 😂

[@robertstoneking7916]

An inherent problem with lie detectors truth fields and the like is that they have no link to objective truth. At best they are a belief detector, and humans are very good at believing what we want to. Then you get into the problem of framing questions so that we don't give you incomplete, speculative, or completely irrelevant answers. The human hound pairing when applied to tracking can have an almost supernatural effectiveness.

[@matfhju]

Next time that Ailien warlord comes around he accedentaly picks upp Alex Jones "just our wather wuld turn you Gay the second you tutch it"

[@eyelessman]

human in a truth field could have continued with "how i became a galactic warlord's cheif strategist'

[@jessematthews6861]

Lol, a warlord defeated by the average human scifi/dnd gamer

[@bethanysmith5856]

Lol, aliens meeting humans and the humans using their collective imagination

[@chrissalch693]

The truth is the truth. It is absolute. Knowing the truth is pointless if you do not understand it.

[@merlinathrawes746]

The biggest problem for a human tracker is that it's possible for a skilled trackee to lead the tracker into a trap knowing how closely they will be followed.

[@notme3603]

He kidnaped a stellaris player!!!????? Oh no

[@lkaseru]

finally some actual HFY stories, and the first one was hilarious too!