Color Vision - Humans are space orcs

[@GuardianofRoin]

General: I must warn you, our enemy is elusive and masters of stealth. Captain: They're pink... BRIGHT. FUCKING. PINK.

[@goodenoughright5433]

They're probably using something like fiberglass insulation to conceal their body heat

[@dahandsomeguywithcoolglass8949]

Even covenant not stupid enough to stand still in front of enemy like BEGGING TO BE SHOOT Thou this just my opinion

[@andrewlechner6343]

@@dahandsomeguywithcoolglass8949 their camo relied on not letting off heat and so wore suits that happened to be pink and then stood still because moving releases more heat.

[@themarlboromandalorian]

Pink is a great stealth colour. They paint land rovers pink for desert use. And battleships. Works at a distance.

[@dahandsomeguywithcoolglass8949]

@@themarlboromandalorianSOOO... That's why Pink panther has great stealth stats

[@shadesofdusk4031]

I just realized they're pink because they're wearing fiberglass insulation

[@Gray963]

Oh damn that's smart.

[@toascranill5464]

Ooh noice! That makes sense.

[@marclytle644]

Just thinking about that makes me itch.

[@fadillangston9797]

Wouldn't you need to cover that to avoid light and abrasion damage?

[@shadesofdusk4031]

@@fadillangston9797 typically yes but if it's only for a short duration ,like a raid, it should hold together alright.

[@alannatherson7721]

USS Stabby. The ship greatest ship in the entire Earth Navy.

[@schizophreniagaming1187]

but not as great as *_SPHINCTER DESTROYER_*

[@frakspikes2619]

@@schizophreniagaming1187 ah yes the sphincter destroyer where their motto is: "Lubbed or not, RAMMING SPEED!"

[@joshadams5602]

@@frakspikes2619 I hate and love this in equal measure.

[@frakspikes2619]

@@joshadams5602 why thank you! that is excatly what i wanted to achive!

[@kaetea3939]

@@frakspikes2619 just. Thank you. Thank you for this.

[@DaZebraffe]

This actually makes a whole lot of sense: Even here on Earth, very few non-human species have actually evolved color vision.

[@IONATVS]

only partially true. Very few non-human species have evolved 3-or-more color vision, but 2-color vision like most “colorblind” humans have, is pretty common and while most people don’t think of 1-color vision as “color vision” it still gives more info that true colorless rod-cell-only vision and basically all organisms with dedicated eyes and not just light-sensitive patches of skin have at least that.

[@pedroarjona6996]

I disagree, very few mamalian species have good color vision, but birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes and most invertebrates have very good color vision.

[@turbopokey]

@@pedroarjona6996Invertebrates? like octopus? I'd believe that about octopii, they're sneaky.

[@pedroarjona6996]

@@turbopokey Very sneaky, and great at camouflage, what we don't know is if they are colorblind or not, for the anatomy of their retina they should be, but from time to time they behave as if they were able to distinguish colors.

[@gildedbear5355]

@@pedroarjona6996 What I recently heard was that octopus skin is actually photosensitive. Essentially, their eyes see shapes (and brightness of course) and their skin sees color. Not super useful for hunting, but AMAZING if you need to camouflage.

[@coacobird]

Ah yes, the great plot twist: their enemies were a bright pink and only the humans could see them. Beautiful.

[@jonathanblair5920]

that explains why no one else was able to help them. i'd hazard to guess that colored vision is something most space faring species would evolve away from.

[@hasanmuttaqin464]

i mean, why do they care about comouflaging with colour? no one see colour in that reign, therefore these mf wouldn't infest any evolution point on worthless fancy colour, and without melanin, they'd probably be pink, so i mean, that's true

[@catayloprince4772]

@@hasanmuttaqin464 Likely. Their planet is dark or the nights are longer. Hence, melanin is not evolved.

[@jamesjohnson9401]

I mean it's not wrong even on earth lots of animals can't see pink it's why hot pink makes for such good hunting camo

[@brightbound3309]

Me hey why are you bright neon pink

[@KusunokiSG47]

"Humans isnt seemingly barbaric, they even show politeness and hospitality" After mowing down pink aliens, no mercy shown "Dangerous, predatory"

[@izthistle6196]

I guess the contrast is the scariest part.

[@Sanquinity]

@@izthistle6196 Ah yes the duality of humanity. We can be the best and kindest intelligent being you've ever seen, or the most horrible butcherer showing no mercy. Maybe it's common among intelligent species, but maybe it's not. We haven't been able to find any yet to ask, after all.

[@izthistle6196]

@@Sanquinity I think it comes from the fact that human society is a mixture of cooperative and competitive structure, so a very important skill is to distinguish between friends and enemy and adjust their behaviour, attitude and mindset accordingly

[@demoncore5342]

Just as it goes, we can be really nice if needed... But imagine they learned of adtenaline.

[@josharmstrong8813]

Our greatest skill seems to be knowing what kind to be at the right time

[@pixynowwithevenmorebelkanb6965]

Fun Fact: Submarines radiate almost no heat, and would be a superweapon against the aliens if armed with just 1 missile *One missile.*

[@angstybunny982]

surprise nuking

[@stormblade3408]

Oh they radiate plenty of heat.. AFTER it's too late, that is..

[@ohdahngboi_2237]

just drop a couple of nuclear submarines armed with 50 megaton nuclear war heads on their planet and they wont stand a chance, the ayys wont that is

[@eageraurora879]

Even better if its a Stirling engine and not nuclear based, nuclear engines produce a ton of sound thats detectable thanks to their cooling. Oh, but it gets even more powerful when you consider submarines are equipped with sonar they dint even use- they could effectively "dynamite fish" by using their sonar without limits, the pulse is already lethal enough to kill divers at range, imagine what itd do to fish people and their gills if they tried to board or where anywhere near a sub

[@KillerOrca]

@@eageraurora879 We do that to fish on earth already. The Navy kills cetaceans by accident all the time

[@Kortegard0341]

Aliens: send out a distress signal Humans: roll up in a tank, blasting "we're not gonna take it" at full volume, the gunner is actively chugging a bottle of Jack Daniels, he has a cuban cigar in his other hand, and it was at that moment, the captain knew they were safe.

[@chrisb9143]

"really ! We are allowed to make a slaughter ?! Alright baby, let's go !!"

[@joelrobinson5457]

Ah americans

[@LauraSti]

Nonsense. They're blasting "What's Up Danger." Get it right.

[@Kortegard0341]

@@LauraSti my apologies sir

[@donnellebarfield3964]

The aliens where like thank God the savages have come to save us

[@MrJustonemorevoice]

High body count? Kind of scummy? Total bros if you're on their side? Definitely marines.

[@courier6402]

Space Marines to be exact.

[@KageMinowara]

The fact that they named their ship USS Stabby is a dead giveaway.

[@_Haunt]

@@courier6402 A bit too much consorting with the foul xenos, to be fair.

[@Blitz_IngaMCZ]

They probably aimed sideways

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

"Oh, you think WE'RE cool! There's an aquatic creature on our world that can see from infrared light to ultraviolet, and everything in between!"

[@inquisitorwalmarius6650]

Mantis Shrimp, can see 12 different colour spectrums, humans see's 3.

[@pablocruz5613]

That sounds like the craziest acid trip ngl

[@dethkruzer]

Let's not forget that these creatures can also use their forelimbs to strike prey with such force that it produces a cavitation bubble, said bubble not only producing light , but also producing heat on par with the surface of the sun as it collapses.

[@toothpasteman3400]

@@dethkruzer that's why the mantis shrimp is one of my favorite animals

[@goodenoughright5433]

Yeah but they have trouble seeing the colors we can actually see

[@neenm4299]

This is for the algorithm and for the narrator! The fish at the bottom of the sea are bioluminescent, but in turn, they are white. They had no need to camuflage. Similary, these bugs saw infrared so they had no need to evolve visual camuflage, hence the pink.

[@lazernor]

or it's Fiberglass Insulation

[@auxchar]

@@lazernor Fiberglass is naturally white. Owens-Corning adds pink dye for branding.

[@gyrrakavian]

Many deep sea species are some shade of red or ruddy orange. Mostly as an arms race against their predators or prey.

[@joelrobinson5457]

I answered what I think this is in a higher comment but in summary it was originally red like the environment mentioned and when it was no longer needed it shifted to pink.

[@Sanquinity]

@@auxchar Technically fiberglass is just translucent, but the light gets scattered so much because it passes through/bounces off so many fibers, that it appears white.

[@imafireingmylasar]

"We've never annihilated anything completely on purpose... without provocation anyway." And the new record for biggest lie in history goes to...

[@TrueFork]

Australia versus the Emu?

[@THExRISER]

@@TrueFork We lost that one though.

[@LovingMadman]

@@THExRISER those feathery basterds

[@ihavekalashnikovyoudomath9275]

He didn't say that people haven't tried

[@minaashido518]

@@THExRISER never let Australia forget they lost a war to birds

[@Hunter-fs1nj]

Which fun fact: Humans do not have the highest variation in terms of the types of vision we carry, as in full spectrum, but we do have the highest known ability to distinguish between colors *within* the wave lengths we can see.

[@Jszar]

I do wonder if that’s because we don’t know how to ask the other critters in a common language.

[@UGNAvalon]

Would’ve been cool to see the humans acting as spotters to the Finneri, pointing at a random patch of forest and saying “shoot that tree!” before a sudden splash of warm blood appears from the gunfire.

[@chrisb9143]

No need. They were more like : "Remember everyone, we have to respect the *human* rights"

[@theaveragecomment1014]

​@@chrisb9143 PFFFT. The aliens would be so annoyed.

[@protolight1654]

>implying we would let anything ks us bruh please, my streaks

[@memes_the_dna_of_the_soul5487]

Alien: "I can't see them!" Human: "Here ill help." *Ingintes flamethrower Pilot light&

[@Seffyzero]

Only humans can see pink? Man, I feel kinda bad for everyone else then. :( Pink is such a great color.

[@bookworm3696]

Pink is technically a mix of purple and red. We are one of the few species that can see it.

[@Exile_Sky]

Imagine giving an alien species a plant stem.. to them it has fabled invisible flowers.... to us its just Purple Toadflax..

[@alarosebaster2626]

Fun fact. The color pink doesn't technically exist. I can't remember the specifics but I can sum it up as our brain reading the specific wavelength of the light as being between red and violet, but since the color between the two is green and our brain registers that the wavelength isn't that of green, it produces pink which falls outside of the spectrum of light.

[@Seffyzero]

@@Exile_Sky I love that idea, but I don't think that's how color vision works. You can still see the object, you just can't see the color. It would look like another color to them. The reason the aliens were "invisible" to the other aliens was because the aliens looked, to them, to be the same color as the background. But to us they were pink, and stood out like a sore thumb. As an example, colorblind people irl can still see green, blue, and red items (depending on the type of colorblindness), they just can't see the proper color.

[@aleisterlavey9716]

Like eating their Major ... ups, no, that were the Dutch.

[@Malva597]

The humans: "Targets. *In a firing range.* Are harder to spot that these things." What you thing the op was called? Operation Candyland?

[@thekettle3534]

"I've mastered the ability of standing so incredibly still that I become invisible to the eye."

[@Chokah]

Not to me! *BANG!*

[@LS9646]

6:03 Coughs in German . We have done some messed Up Shit. Even before and after WWII. Humans are worse than orks.

[@alexanderaberg5854]

Yeah, personally I thought of Cortez and his little mass extermination of several indigenous South American tribes and people. Still a good story though

[@baul997]

Don't forget the Japanese of WW2 that did such bad things Hitler told the officers there too keep quiet about it

[@SuperGamefreak18]

Nah those are still orc qualities if not eldar or similar races at worst

[@Belthazar1113]

With nothing in nature left to provide challenge, humans will turn on each other just to have something worth killing. Space offers the one thing humans will never be able to resist; unlimited challenges of infinite variety.

[@seaserpent3128]

Hydrogen bombs function similarly to stars in that their engery and radiation comes from the fusion of Hydrogen into helium I wonder how many other species would go to such lengths and test these weapons on there own homework before even having a way to get to another planet.

[@ThermosFullerton]

"Humans, F*** Yeah" stories are some of the best hidden gems I found on the internet. I'm glad to learn about it late, now I have a huge backlog to read through!

[@memes_the_dna_of_the_soul5487]

Oh, so thats what HFY stands for. Humans doing the stupidest stuff infront of aliens and in absloute denial of Logic and reason and getting away with it. Is honestly the most based thing every. "The only difference between a madman and a hero is wether or not it works."

[@Chokah]

Most are good. Some I am afraid is the level of trash the requires a Superfund site.

[@robertshank9778]

I love stories like these... Makes you see your own body as the miracle it actually is... A beautiful Bio-Machine honed by half a billion years of evolution... Possibly longer if you believe in Panspermia... For the algorithm....

[@chongwillson972]

@Robert Shank and dont forget all of objectively failed parts of our body's mainly our feat and spines...

[@robertshank9778]

@@chongwillson972 they seem to work just fine for what we're supposed to be (endurance predators)... Just because they degrade extremely fast in our Modern World doesn't make them faulty... Evolution has a lot of "Good Enough for Now" Traits in Young Species...

[@Ginlock45]

Or if you believe Bionicle

[@lpsjewel]

Psst, youtube doesn't like the A word and doesn't coun't them for videos.

[@linkholder]

@@lpsjewel for the pizza then?

[@weldonwin]

I'd say Humans were more like Astartes, especially after the video about humans having poison saliva

[@vampyr2936]

Makes you wonder what impression Astartes would leave upon these races.

[@weldonwin]

@@vampyr2936 Well, if we are talking about actual 40K Astartes, then that impression would be "OH GOD! OH GOD!!! HELP US! THEY ARE KILLING EVERYTHING!!!"

[@thesiege6003]

@@vampyr2936 well if the tau are anything to go by, terror

[@cnlbenmc]

The Space Marines would literally be Godlike Avatars of War moulded into the shape of a very large and heavy Human.

[@DoctorKrain]

The Finneri retelling the battle via story: We yelled desperately into void for help, it was our last hope, our last stand. The Gnar'lack had hunted us down to brink of extinction, all hope seemed losted. Unitl we called help for the mythical warrior race called, Humans, and they did without a secound remark or hesitation to help us. The humans descended upon us with fire and smoke. Their bodies of pure radiance, blinding to look upon these graceful angels of war. Asked to fight our invisible and unbeatable enemy, the Gnar'lack. Without fear, the angels marched forth towards our ruins of a once great city. Silence... Until a death screech echoed followed by the humans yellingin group cohesion. Then the angels poured dazzling lights into the darkness, making the dark battlefield, into a blinding display. The dazzling display cause achs to mind of Finneri that didn't shield their eyes from the display. Swiftly the angels felled Gnar'lack fell, their twisted bleeding bodies littering the ground as they stepped forth. The Gnar'lack attempted to flee into the forest, hungrily, the Apex Predators of myth charged after the once unbeatable enemy. From our blinded eyes, it wasn't war we were watching, it was predators wearing the cloaks of Angels hunting the Gnar'lack down in forest. The Angels walked softly back to our last bastion. Our last general heard a remark uttered by an Angel, that sends a shiver down all Finneri. Our foe, the Gnar'lack who we fought for millions of years and drove us to the brink. Was target practice for the Warrior Angels.

[@weebjeez]

Shivers.

[@coykeaton2284]

This is oddly inspiring

[@DoctorKrain]

Oh shit, I didn't knew this got so many damn likes, holy crap! Thank you!

[@zergthe6597]

Meanwhile, the humans in a bar telling war stories: "So, wait a minute...they gave all these warnings about the enemy being masters of stealth, you're all steeled and preparing to fight an enemy you might not be able to see...and you just...won?" "Lmao dude I'm telling you, they were like pink f*ckin' Starbursts. Trust me, you couldn't NOT see them. But hey, we saved a whole-ass race in the process too and turned the tides. Those guys are safer than money in a federal deposit."

[@Wolfrover]

3:50 touches in passing upon two additional traits which other species tend to find confusing in humans. One is related to the other, so it would be remiss not to take them in order. The first is a peculiar extension and heightening of self-identity. Humans appear to consider their belongings as an extension of themselves, to the extent that an attack upon their possessions is tantamount to an attack upon their person. This extends to both animate possessions, such as livestock, and inanimate possessions, such as vehicles. When concerning animate possessions, this incorporates similarities to parental responsibilities, such that injury to non-productive livestock, or "pets", is treated in much the same way as an attack upon a child of the species. This can be a very important piece of information, and is not to be ignored. The second is a peculiarity of the human parental responsibility: It is incredibly flexible. A human is capable of perceiving, intentionally or unintentionally, any member of any species as a child in need of protection. This response can be heightened or lessened by numerous factors, ranging from physical characteristics to perceived strength, including perceptions of justice and injustice, as in the account given. This is theorized to be responsible for a portion of their reputation as warriors, as they appear to extend familial bonds to not only their fellow warriors, but to their entire faction. Thus, attacking or otherwise causing injury to a member of a human-led group produces an emotional response similar to that of a parent witnessing injury to their child. By way of explanation, it must be remembered that the human homeworld is known for its large predators. This assists in understanding the severity of the drive when one notes that humans in their parental response mode have been known to kill said predators, including those known as "grizzly bears" -- omnivorous predators more than twice the size of a human. As a side note, humans have themselves noted that it is possible to intentionally trigger this tendency, leading some to humorously suggest that the most dangerous species in the universe would be one capable of convincing the human species that it desperately needed protection from everyone else. That they find this humorous says much about the human species.

[@jhulpthefox]

Lmao, yeah it does say a lot about us!

[@yssas1591]

P

[@Jszar]

The human brain becomes adept at tool use by incorporating the tool into its body image. I figure we’re so possessive about objects because they spend time as part of *us*. At some point that transitions into objects complex enough that we personify them. I know people who name their car, but none who’ve named a bicycle.

[@SlinkDoink]

I remember the first time i read a "humans are space orcs" thread, it was fun. THIS is more than that. This is immersive and I love it. I will be playing Dungeons and dragons with my son next week. It will be his first real game. It will be happening in this world, the adventure will be a story of legend. Humans are space orcs...

[@emeralddragon2980]

I beg of you, keep us updated on the progress of the quest; we must know how we triumph!

[@Chokah]

My first was a tumblr thing where a human was explaining why he was reheating a pizza and not ice cream.

[@olegoleg258]

This reminds me of something. The reason Nazis used brown wasn't because of its meaning or anything, it's because it was the cheapest color. So my history teacher and we(the class) had fun talking about what if we time traveled and made the cheapest material be pink Now i imagine the space orks slaughtering space Nazis

[@hippiehippo9030]

"Space orks slaughtering Space Nazis." Something, something, Warhammer 40,000

[@weldonwin]

That is kinda the reason for the famous British Redcoat uniforms. During the English Civil war between Parliament and The Crown, Oliver Cromwell instituted his New Model Army, which saw a massive reform of all Parliamentary forces, including standardized uniforms. Said uniforms were red, because that was the cheapest dye available at the time and was carried on into future British Army uniforms as a matter of tradition, right the way up until the late 1800's

[@olegoleg258]

@@weldonwin hm, that's interesting too

[@lzrshark617]

@@weldonwin Such a shame that the color of their uniforms was the complementary color to literally all of the trees and woodland+brush in the country. *laughs in American, kicks box of tea into harbor*

[@weldonwin]

@@lzrshark617 Which is why we had the Rifle Regiments during the Napoleonic Wars, with their dark green tunics and long range rifles

[@verdanteridium]

Ironically, the way we see on Earth is in the wavelengths most prone to reflection (Infrared and beyond absorbing into most materials and Ultralviolet + beyond piercing deep before being absorbed). While visible light still absorbs, we use what is reflected and that is the color we see. Pink is unique as it is purely imagination being used to fill in a color mix that is impossible for visible light to make. And given how little life here on Earth has evolved full color sight similar to ours is probably a matter of brain processing. I forget the species name (cuddlefish? Something like that) has an ass ton of color receptors, but their brains a significantly smaller thus they may end up seeing about as much as us color wise. Its actually interesting to think about how much info is actually going through our heads from just our eyes, and the amount of energy our brains need to keep going makes sense if we make up a color so thoroughly we trick ourselves into thinking its real. This sort of thinking is something I do a lot, just how two different planet's life interacts and how their perspective changes. Imagine a silicon life form of similar brain power meet us, what could we learn from their studies would jump computer technology forward by mere existence of silicon based neurons (also how effective a taser would be on said life would be a likely tragic discovery considering what a surge of electricity does to transistors.) Edit: Corrections

[@mageflame7477]

Cuttlefish, and yes, they are great at seeing colour.

[@riccardo1796]

@@mageflame7477 and at cuddling, with their 10 arms

[@mageflame7477]

@@riccardo1796 well damn, you’ve awoken some desires i didn’t know i had.

[@TerryBradstreet]

@@mageflame7477 I'm told that cephalopod eyes are color-blind, and it's the photoreceptors in their skin that sense the color wavelengths of their surroundings. This is how their skin changes color instantly to match surfaces their eyes can't see.

[@mageflame7477]

@@TerryBradstreet just cause I want to hug a cuttlefish doesn’t mean I’m an expert on them, gosh.

[@chrisb9143]

Spicies waging intergalactic wars for thousands of years : "we have the best armament !" Humans who just learned about intergalactic warfare : "cute toys ! Now look at this bad boy !" *Death Star from Star Wars appears* aliens : "How ? Why ?" humans : "this is a prototype, if it works we'll make a real big one"

[@mojn4249]

There's actually a theoretical weapon idea for space warfare nicknamed a Nova-Cannon, it takes a chunk of metal the size of a small shed and accelerates it stupid fast, some higher end ones are hoped to reach near 97% the speed of light. (which is BS, they'd only reach 50-60% at BEST and that is still a leap(light is really fricken fast lol)) If we fired that at a the moon it would CRACK. Like how it is in Destiny 2. Just Cracked wide open. We could actually (technically!) build this with modern-day tech. It would be be basically a railgun the length of Russia though, and we'd need to do some fiddly tech stuff to get the electromagnets to toggle at the right time because the electrical signals and processing would be FAR slower than the projectile towards the end of the barrel. Idk what the point of this was I just felt like it. Enjoy >:3

[@weebjeez]

@@mojn4249 As someone who is, admittedly, dumb af... Would it really be that hard to get the signals and processing to line up correctly? Presumably, all you have to do is have it on a delay from pressing the button to firing, and with that, it primes all the electrical signals along the length of the project, and basically banks an action to be performed at an exact time. The delay could even be minutes or hours long, and, for the purposes of blasting a planet, it wouldn't particularly matter. It's not like they're trying to fire a morter onto an enemy encampment. They're wiping out the entire country.

[@mojn4249]

@@weebjeez yeh, not hard at all, just finicky to get all the timings to line up correctly. They'd have to activate within a macrosecond of each other (not spelt wrong) becuase light is stupididly fast lol And while getting them to do so isn't impossible it would just take a lot of fiddling around with the wires or whatever.

[@nweasels]

Seems too complicated, easier to just use casaba howitzers as extreme standoff weapons since the math is already done on it and the US accidentally prototyped one and launched a manhole cover far enough that it could have hit Jupiter.

[@prind142]

@@mojn4249 Uncle sam requires russian territory for national security reasons.

[@bluemobster0023]

Imagine the profits! Human mercenarys are gonna be the new hot thing! Tear your enemies apart with brutal savagery and gore. Humans are in human to everything else! Satisfaction guaranteed!

[@alexandrub8786]

So...space Switzerland?

[@doctorzed7706]

these stories give me hope for our species and fill me with WAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH energy

[@diamondwillow1191]

I'm afraid I don't know what WAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHH energy is, but I'm glad you're enjoying my videos! ^u^

[@Samagryn]

@@diamondwillow1191 Warhammer 40K reference. Where they have actual space orks, whose warcry is "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"

[@diamondwillow1191]

Ahh I see thats good to know XD

[@CoruptedJester]

Oi! Da humies krumping pink ‘uns real good like! Shoulda been wearin purple! When da boyz wear purple dey can’t be seen!

[@theofficerfactory2625]

@@diamondwillow1191 In Warhammer 40k, just about all sapient life forms have what is called psychic energy. An individual work is all brawn but little intelligence. A group of them together is smarter than the individual and they begin to specialize instinctually. This multiplies the more there are. Soon enough, conglomerations of scrap metal gain the ability to shoot when they should never work! Ramshackle vehicles that should never be able to move without falling into pieces or worse (or better if ya an ork) blow up! When tens of thousands to millions gather, they can create super weapons and gigantic mecha machines raised as edifices to their gods Mork; cunning and brutal and Gork, brutal but cunning (this could be reversed). The psychic energy reaches a feverous pitch that a waagh forms; an apocalyptic world ending invasion begins. When billions come together, they can create artificial moons that can "warp" in ways that no ship can ever do. They can create creations such as teleporters and such.

[@ryankaiser2702]

HFY is an interesting sub genre Reading some of the stories will certainly help increase your viewcounta

[@diamondwillow1191]

I'll definitely look into finding some interesting stories to read then ^u^

[@jeremycebrian6413]

Dont know how you ended up on my feed but im glade you did. Subbed

[@hanro50]

The USS Stabby....dear god it's perfect

[@nweasels]

Just wait until he finds out about the cleaning drone with a knife by the same name.

[@KeineNamenMehr]

You have a very pleasant voice for narrations and I absolutely love those kinds of stories. Both Humans are Space Orcs and r/HFY are great. Looking forward to more.

[@501Magnum]

These "Humans are Space Orcs" readings have earned you a very happy subscriber.

[@jamesfrey6136]

🤣 bright pink, of course we humans would think that that would be the absolute shittiest camouflage.

[@toascranill5464]

Actually, turns out bright pink is pretty good camouflage in the desert! To their disadvantage though, they were not in a desert...

[@goodenoughright5433]

I'm guessing the armor was pink because it was supposed to be something like fiberglass insulation

[@xSaraxMxNeffx]

@@goodenoughright5433 actually it's more likely they just didn't know it was any color at all. After all undyed fiberglass is not pink, and the aliens have no ability to perceive "visible light"

[@kaiserredgamer8943]

"but we've never annihilated anything completely on purpose... without provocation anyway..." _ahem_ *rolls list of species driven to extinction thanks to humans killng stuff for the love of it* _ahem_

[@stm7810]

That was a great story and a lovely painting. Also yay for naming the ship after the best captain.

[@Chokah]

I heard he made Fleet Admiral last month.

[@jakecannanite4558]

"... the human was on the far side of non-threatening, even a little spacey..." Yeah, officers are like that

[@texan90]

This is seriously my singular favorite story from this series. Always the one I share with friends or even total strangers to introduce them to Empyrean Iris.

[@witchhusband5447]

General: wondering if the humans will really come. The human fleet in the distance: *chuckles in fortunate son*

[@Hunter-fs1nj]

I saw the "Humans are Venomous" Video and was afraid that was the only one. I could watch these all day! I will definitely tell my friends about this!

[@jaslynlee4405]

aparently they can't see the color of like a quarter of my wardrobe and about half of the stuff I own

[@deangeloenriquez1603]

more closely to 100% given that they can only see in infrared

[@toascranill5464]

Fashionable invisibility!

[@Chokah]

Kinda wish I couldn't, certain bright colors give me headaches.

[@rayanderson5797]

"Humanity! Fuck yeah! Comin' again to save the mothrfuckin' day, yeah!"

[@turtle_soda]

Wait until they find out we can see ultraviolet but our retinas keep us from using that ability (or something like that)

[@robertjones1750]

This person needs to write books these story’s are awesome.

[@trymeonforsize9343]

"The color of rejected bubblegum" is the kinda writing I wanna see more of haha!

[@joshums5800]

Subbed I now have someone else to listen on my breaks haha the power I feel

[@xianchaencari3244]

These stories are honestly so amazing!

[@jedrzejkoszewski4342]

USS Stabby? Well those Gnar'laks are dead.

[@Pirouyy]

Wait till they meet our mantis shrimps, they'll hail them as their new space overlords.

[@nef36]

A note about pink, or likely more accurately, magenta: magenta doesn't actually have it's own wavelength, the reason we see it is because of how we see color; we have three color receptors, red, green, and blue, and the way they interpret light between those colors is by taking the average of how many receptors of a certain wavelength are firing at. Yellow is seen when our red and green receptors are firing, cyan is seen when our green and blue receptors are firing; it's how monitors and screens can show us colors with only red green and blue pixels. When our red and blue receptors fire at the same time, our brain essentially makes up magenta because the color is somewhere between red and blue, but it's _obviously_ not green, because none of our green receptors are firing. In the case of pink being light red with no blue, that my friends, is light red, with no shenanigans whatsoever.

[@geeklingxgamer3962]

You might want to tell that to donut. He would have loved to know that.

[@nef36]

@@geeklingxgamer3962 I can't remember if there was a character named donut here or if this is an RvB reference lol

[@geeklingxgamer3962]

@nef36 this is indeed a red vs blue reference he shows up in I think episode 2 or 3 and he shows up in like most episodes he is the dude in pink armor

[@rinayasi]

I think one of my favorite parts of this is that this isn't dissimilar to how humans work in mass effect

[@Valiguss]

This story kinda reminds me of a fantasy series where basically a human phalanx is fighting through these corridors against crab people and they are kicking ass, and one of the crab people observes thst despite how frail they look they are fighting in perfect sync making up like one giant crab thing

[@GavinBogie]

This is awesome… just watched the whole series… I’m hooked.

[@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece]

In our defense: we come from a planet where historically only the biggest and baddest predator would survive. Until fairly recently getting eaten by other predators was still a common thing of the human experience.

[@magimon91834]

This is such an amazing series. Glad I stubbled upon it

[@AnonEMus-cp2mn]

The SAS determined that in desert conditions (especially dusk and dawn), Land Rovers painted in bright pink were the most difficult color to spot; they were even dubbed "Pink Panthers" because of it. In this case the planet was maroon in color, a stark contrast to the hues of the Saharan Desert.

[@TheR00k]

The Russians in Syria are using a pink uniform right now, dubbed "Porosyach'ka" ("piggy") by the troops. Apaarently, it works better than the pixel desert camo they made at first.

[@ThatFadedAsian]

This makes no sense tho. This is a post interstellar civilization. Even if they're biologically limited to IR sight, they should still be more than capable of technologically detecting other wavelengths of light with ease.

[@skyhawk554]

You know that IR and UV exists. Tell me how much that helps you when you don't have your tools with you.

[@ThatFadedAsian]

@@skyhawk554 But, they've been at war for YEARS decades even. I'd think visible light googles or something would be standard issue. Even if supplies were limited, all they'd need is a single person with them to call out artillery shots.

[@carteradams43]

@@ThatFadedAsian To be fair, our IR sensors don't actually make us see IR, they convert it into color light which we can then see. If you can only see Infrared Sight, which in this case seems to be limited to 1-2 colors, perhaps there is no way to convert it into proper color light?

[@ThatFadedAsian]

@@carteradams43 Not really, it would only need to detect the wavelengths for bright pink, then downshift those into bright IR spectrum. Also, the IR wavelength is HUGE. They could easily have more colors than us, just from a lower spectrum. Infact they could even "see" some of the same colors we see, just represented as a completely different wavelength. There's also that age old philosophical question of "Does my orange look the same as your orange?" When we learn the colors, we never see what the other person sees. We only see object that they say is that color, we never know if they see the color the same way we do.

[@pippasanderson9153]

I think the main issue here is that pink is not a real colour and has no real wavelength. Our brains see in red blue and green different proportions of these signify different colours. But when red and blue fire but green doesn't or it doesn't fire enough to signal to our brains the colour is green our brains make up pink. Anything that is between violet and red isn't real. It's difficult to recreate and illusion that only exists because it is hardwired into our brains

[@Shiro-ii6nw]

Haha can you imagine some monstrosity of an alien pretending to be a tree or bush thinking they can't be seen while being bright fucking pink. That image is hilarious

[@Errormanden]

This is brilliant. Please do more

[@mateuszmazur6222]

I love your content, the way you tell facts through fantasy is marvelous.

[@jasonbower9515]

You are a fantastic narrator. Thank you for your storyteller.

[@thekinginyellowmessiahofha6308]

I love this concept!

[@yahoshua]

Humans find new planet, planet has flightless creatures that are apparently flightless and blind, humans have lots of fun clubbing the little bastards and wonder what the problem was. In fact it was so enjoyable they want to schedule a future excursion just to do it again.

[@Flannel-Channel8837]

I'm okay with humanity being seen as the cracksheads of the universe that everyone underestimated

[@penguinsentinel8508]

I do love these stories. They give me hope that humanity won't be terrible forever.

[@Shythalia]

Mmhmm, found me-self a new KZbin channel for HFY stories.

[@ftc_productions]

I find this amazing, thinking that a specie evolved to camoflage it's heat signature, never expecting to see another specie that can see colors, and they try to hold still as in 'vanishing' only to be beaten down

[@DeltaCain13]

This story makes me feel like my tetrachromacy is some kind of super power lol

[@alexbedel6320]

As a colorblind person. Fuck you. Lol

[@Lumberjack_king]

This one actually makes sense color vision is actually quite rare and aliens would definitely perceive things differently to us

[@lior_shiboli]

we never annihilated something completely on purpose ,well we certainly tried

[@memes_the_dna_of_the_soul5487]

When asked about the battle the captain simply said. "We came, we saw, we kicked their A**."

[@johndexterzarate6663]

....Alt title: Space Marines slaughter invading Pinkies as if they were Doom guy.

[@tissuepaper9962]

Humanity kinda a Mary Sue in these stories but they're still good.

[@ShadowOfMachines]

Okay, this series is fun. Algorithm actually found something interesting.

[@yamibakura8597]

Now this is actually really clever.

[@MourningNihilist]

Omg I love the background art!!!!!!

[@Vangriffeth]

This had me laughing like crazy. Fantastic work. Keep it coming :D

[@thorn344]

I called it! I follow Starr knights tumblr!

[@diamondwillow1191]

Theres quite a ways to go before I can even hope to catch up with the most recent posts 😂

[@cirroc213]

@@diamondwillow1191 don’t sell yourself short this stuff is good

[@amazingturtle5075]

The ship appeared in flames and blinding light, *fortunate son blares intensely*

[@m.g.4060]

every time you say "ga nar lack" my soul dies a little. its "nar lack"

[@Gus-dj1ub]

"Humans are space orcs" *Laughs in Warhammer 40,000*

[@spugnoxngubcux9801]

Imagine the humans come back decades later and offer the Fenneri a gift. They had developed a device that translates color into infrared signatures.

[@xirensixseo]

i like that i had to watch a pony get drawn with this

[@UncleFester84]

WHAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHH!

[@SkyboxMonster]

I AM LOVING THESE STORIES~!~!!!!!

[@Kapral-ld8zl]

Found this just now and im very happy

[@Infinityxero]

I am wholeheartedly convinced that the humans in this story are Americans.😆

[@epsome13]

Captain vir actually is. He is if I remember correctly from the Midwest. A decent amount of his crew is American as well. Not counting later members of his crew including krill, sunny, and her older brother canon.

[@jameson1239]

I mean USS denotes a warship from the United States

[@burgle66]

That was astounding.

[@caligo5322]

From the way you do your lineart, I can tell that you might be a bit of a perfectionist lol

[@diamondwillow1191]

Hahaha just a bit XD

[@brandonprendergast8342]

Presenting the latest in human engineering! The oversized heater. Perfect for stealth

[@manofironthathasntturnedcr9817]

« Ain’t nobody gonna notice your heat signature if there is a gigantic heat signature near you. »

[@ilian4117]

Please make more

[@diamondwillow1191]

More every week! ^u^

[@joelmulder]

This race, clever enough to build powerful radio transmitters and having heard stories about far away alien races, never for once considered their enemy might be giving off more radiation then just what they were able to naturally detect? If you know what radio is, you also know there’s an entire spectrum full of EM emissions. How have they never tried to see if the species genociding them maybe emitted any radio, or UV, or (to humans) visible light… While these stories are fun to read/listen to, it’s sometimes hard to suspend disbelief at how stupid some of these alien species are. Practically any sentient, space faring race will be at the top of their local foodchain, having crawled their way up Darwin’s blood soaked ladder of evolution. In an entire galaxy humans can’t be THAT unique.

[@alexbedel6320]

I think it's more of a cathartic bit of fun.

[@TheGogeta222]

Imagine the humans singing erika in space confusing aliens with description of colourfull flowers 😂

[@micanikko]

That kind of reminds me, I read somewhere that Magenta isn't even a real colour. Its opposite on the colour wheel is some type of green/blue green? So in the absence of it, our brains created the colour magenta.

[@WahhaC]

For the fugging algorithm

[@geraldfrost4710]

Algorithm assistance

[@jamesmortimer4016]

"We use ironsights then."

[@someusername6552]

Species on the brink of extinction from war: We can't give you any context, but we need help Humans: Cowabunga it is then. We have one ship and it'll be there tomorrow Species on the brink of extinction: Thermal sights will not work in the upcoming battle Humans: *Tosses advanced plasma rifle to the ground and pulls out an ancient M4 carbine*

[@manofironthathasntturnedcr9817]

« *HIPFIRE IT IS THEN* » after doing what humans do best: « How did you detect them ? » « THEY WERE BRIGHT FUCKING PINK ! ON A MAROON BACKGROUND ! TARGETS IN A FIRING RANGE ARE HARDER TO SPOT THAN THEM ! THEY WERE BEGGING TO BE SHOT ! WHO THE FUCK USES PINK CAMOUFLAGE ON A MAROON BACKGROUND !?THAT IS JUST RAW, PLAIN FUCKING STUPIDITY ! »

[@charmingcobra]

Great content and narration, instant sub :)

[@fencserx9423]

“We haven’t whipped out anything on purpose” Smallpox: “Am I a joke to you”

[@Swirl_of_StarFire]

Smallpox provoked us first