Earth is not A Deathworld... Earth is THE Deathworld | Best HFY Stories

[@27BLUSH]

100% better than any of the AI crap out there

[@CarlGorn]

In terms of quality, I would say closer to 900% better, as a rough estimate.

[@theaprilsonlyfool]

I mean it's still using AI art so...

[@Jacy-dx6dx]

​@@theaprilsonlyfool and?....

[@claudiasabogal6349]

@@Jacy-dx6dxyeah and ?

[@Jacy-dx6dx]

@@claudiasabogal6349 it's still a mans voice. A real person. Take away the images and you still have a story told by something that isn't AI.

[@MrSharks202]

Hello hello! Author of the second story here. Hope you all liked this one, had a lot of fun making it!

[@bladnasternaster8607]

Enjoyed it very much. Hope you continue on. Between the story and the narration, this was really, really good. Thank you for your work.

[@MrSharks202]

@@bladnasternaster8607 Thank you for the kind words!

[@altgamingph]

It's so good!

[@MrSharks202]

@@altgamingph Thank you!

[@coreycochran3983]

yes well done keep it up

[@lorddante2360]

Captian: Have you seen the moon, there's no way life could survive those tidal forces. Earthlings: Hang ten dude! ***grabs surf board***

[@Javelin1x]

lol nice! 🍕

[@ThisHndlIsAlrdyTaken]

“They probably start breaking down at what 68”? Me at 35: when did my knees start cracking when I get up?

[@snidecommenter7117]

Ah, the 'Rice Crispies Years'. Where you go 'Snap Crackle Pop' when you stand.

[@oldnick4707]

Same lol! 😂

[@davidweihe6052]

Sir William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, was about 70 when he led his last charge against the Northern English rebels and French would-be invaders. He lived another three years after disposing them.

[@bigjay875]

Ya .... Me around 32 or so. But I got pretty messed up in an industrial accident when I was 36 so all I can do is play the hand I was dealt and watch the people around me

[@TAGfrost]

I have a bad back that started going out when I turned 26. Given my nieces and nephews thought it was horsey time when I fell between the couch and the ottoman at 10 and was stupidly lifting with my back until I was 16. Right now my kneecap is starting to go out and I haven't had any injury, I think I should go to the doctor for it to figure out what the hell's going on and I'm just turning 31 this year.

[@DH-.]

This narrator deserves a reward, he's got talent and range

[@towelbasket]

@ednakabalu1323 cool opinion.

[@xlutchinqgoz4840]

@ednakabalu1323 cool opinion..

[@ATigerShark]

@ednakabalu1323 Can we all appreciate the fact that they stated their opinion as an opinion and not fact? I feel that deserves appreciation in modern times. Internet stranger. I appreciate you.

[@343sinbad]

​@ednakabalu1323 that's ok but we all love the story... right🙂

[@DaVie-2]

Humans in hfy stories: *violent, destructive demons that destroy everything* Humans irl: *runs away after seeing the tiniest of cockroach*

[@taitano12]

Not everyone runs from the creepy crawlies. And our history does paint us in the HFY pallet for the most part. We've proven to be destructive cosmic horrors, godlike angels, small timid prey, and everything in between. 😊

[@UNSCPILOT]

Also humans IRL: casually driving along while hundreds of Bees fly around the cab of their truck, loose from their transport box... ...While others run from a solitary bee chilling out on its own that probably would have left them alone if they weren't swatting at it... humans are weird

[@coolwarfare]

Well the aliens would probably do what we do irl as well

[@ale-xsantos1078]

To be fair the humans they met seem to be a unified Humanity capable of space travel, it would definitely have our traces and characteristics but would be far more powerful Its a whole different beast from the humans that exist today

[@monika9671]

Also humans when seeing wolf: Cute, adorable, majestic pupper!

[@kpforceone]

I was about to give up on this genre until I found a human actually narrating HFY. Well done sir… well done

[@McNuggins]

Seriously, fuck that lame robot voice.

[@LewpyDrewpy714]

Great reading... I'll have to admit I was surprised to hear Mr. PoPo at 4:50. Started laughing so hard I had to pause the video. Mr. PoPo is a multiverse traveling individual.

[@kazumayugami7035]

Pecking Order!

[@martyschrader]

Category 14. Get used to it, boys.

[@IamCoalfoot]

Not there quite yet, not 'till that pole switch gets further underway. So maybe 12 atm, 11 on a good day.

[@GrigoriZhukov]

15, we improve or capcasium growing plants because it is fun.

[@yeetyeeter378]

This guy's got such a top tier narrating skill

[@CarlGorn]

True, but his New England accent still catches me off guard. "Lofter" instead of "laffter" as an example.

[@oldnick4707]

I concur. He's very good and quite refreshingly articulate! I look forward to these post because of his work on them! His character voices are comical, but of a likewise high quality and add to the fun also!

[@tc-tm1my]

All of the narrators on this channel do

[@CarlGorn]

Making Oat voiced like an Eddie Murphy character was an inspired call.

[@simonprout8465]

And Dr. Doofenschmertz as the other 😂😂

[@insanehippiehippieinsane3828]

More of a Reese Witherspoon voice (Grandpa from Boondocks) than Eddie Murphy.

[@scribblingjoe]

Did the aliens not see the thousands of satellites orbiting our planet?

[@Richard-hu1to]

I would suggest that this story quite obviously takes place in our future, with no indication how far in our future. That being the case all the satellites may have fallen back to earth.

[@mikoto7693]

That’s actually why I was really confused about whether it was actually Earth or a colony world for most of the first story. There were no satellites in orbit yet humanity would keep launching satellites.

[@EmpireofMoonandStars]

Very well could have been the industrial age

[@Davidofthelost]

It seems to take place during our next scheduled ice age. Possibly we couldn’t connect to them or send space shuttles up for maintenance. Especially if we got trigger happy with nukes.

[@hanro50]

Actually, there was a mini ice age in the 14th century that lasted till the 19th century.

[@CarlGorn]

Alternate line: "What have I done?" Adam's voice was a mixture of contemplative reflection and cold, steely determination. "I have made you face what your captives face. I have made you equal."

[@StormRider2215]

Randomly got really interested in this one facet: • 1 Galactic Standard Year (GSY) = 4 Earth Years (EY) • 25 GSY = 100 (EY) • 68 (EY) = 17 (GSY) I did the math just before they outright said it 😅

[@carlosdgutierrez6570]

"Start breaking at 68" Me: why do my back hurts at 32 then?

[@gravygraves5112]

It's normal operation after you get used to it

[@carlosdgutierrez6570]

@@gravygraves5112 "get used" well… fuck.

[@ChristianRanum-w9m]

​@@carlosdgutierrez6570how do you sit in your chair while playing games?

[@gazman50s]

Oh Hell I only have two years for 68

[@carlosdgutierrez6570]

@@ChristianRanum-w9m completely reclined on my gaming chair, I don't get too close to the screen. No, my problem's root is that I used to play football and MMA, I have plenty of old injuries due blunt force trauma which is where the pain is mostly localized.

[@calvinbutler1919]

I love how there was a bit of story placed throughout the ads. Seriously though, entertaining story and great narration. Authentic human narration and not AI.

[@holyhelga]

It’s so funny to have Earth described as a deathworld😀

[@rustycowell7264]

The static electricity i produce is so strong when its cold has me wearing rubber gloves but its not enough it my bare skin touches anything. I had to move back to Florida from Colorado and cannot have carpet in the house

[@campandcook3118]

Your wearing the wrong shoes. Look for ESD shoes for electronics work stations. They ground you constantly.

[@MetallicMadnessCD]

If I had that power, I would shock everyone

[@JamesCaspar]

Thank you for reading theses story's I really enjoy them.

[@StarboundHFY]

Glad you like them!

[@snidecommenter7117]

A poorly written human story is better that a good AI one.

[@oldnick4707]

​@@snidecommenter7117, 💯% 😊👍 very true!

[@ntime4062]

this channel is criminaly underrated

[@TheHalcyonAnon]

"what began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines has evolved into a war that has decimated a million worlds "The core and the arm, now crippled beyond repair, continue to battle on ravaged planets. "This, is a fight to the death. And only the complete destruction of the other is an acceptable conclusion." I want to hear this guy do the total annihilation intro.

[@Artemie-np3qu]

Would have loved to have had the first story end with a human quite literally knocking on the ship and going “Who the fuck are you guys”

[@squrl1980]

I love hearing science in science fiction! Thank you. Wonderful narration! Thank you

[@a-blivvy-yus]

I'm going to assume that the "bang in a bottle" nickname isn't because of our modern conception of the big bang, but the far more plausible explanation that the origin of the universe is a divine drunken rampage, so everything exists because of a bottle. It's the most logical explanation! xD

[@mugenokami2201]

I think it is. You might be forgetting the phrase lightning in a bottle

[@a-blivvy-yus]

@@mugenokami2201 I feel like you managed to both completely miss my point and respond to it perfectly at the same time (tbf that first bit's pretty easy, I didn't have a point) xD

[@equestriLexie]

my brain tends to tune out the AI narration a lot of channels utilize, actual narration is a breath of fresh air! absolutely phenomenal narration!

[@GFDonyxz]

I did not know I needed to hear Sgt Johnson read an HFY story until today... My life has been improved thanks to the narrator.

[@alanmitchell1132]

Only recently discovered these sci-fi stories on here, so glad to have an actual person reading them. It makes the so much better. Cheers.

[@TAGfrost]

I'm still struggling to figure out if the last story was just about our nervous system. Or if those humans have a fictional control of electricity, the force field and the power going out doesn't make sense. Neither does the glowing eyes.

[@AaronPaulIbarrola]

So you haven't figured out thunder palm yet...? hmmm...

[@tc-tm1my]

Humans have an electromagnetic field but can't do any of that.

[@Toffiloffio]

"It's a city!" Dombledore calmly said

[@GermanNightmare1976]

Oh, I really enjoyed these stories tonight. Thanks for sharing them with us, they were well performed.

[@tomhumes2457]

HFY!!! So great to have an AWESOME new HUMAN narrator for the awesome HFY series. I cry myself to sleep in the afternoons reflecting on the unconscionable takeover of AI voice crap that has , with killing irony, taken over the great HFY stories. Outstanding characterizations, lots of cool voices, great sound quality! Endless thanks, proud fellow human, for taking back what is ours: human stuff !!! Yay humans!

[@weech_219]

The "voices" are very entertaining😍

[@Rick-s5g]

Excellent job, excellent story.Excellent characterization excellent narration keep up the good work

[@jakbender3881]

Finally!!! A channel with live reading and NO A.I! SUBBED!

[@blazingarrows6117]

A story better written then what the current Star Trek series pushes out right now.Good narration. Good job!

[@seanbarker4610]

A fine voice reminiscent of the actor who voiced Darth Vader, sorry I am bad with names

[@jasonmorris7055]

James Earl Jones. He also did Mustafa in the original The Lion King movie.

[@tc-tm1my]

RIP

[@kingfromonepice3522]

This dude‘s voice is perfect for these stories

[@valterrenatodeandradeponte4099]

Great channel and your narrative style is amazing. Thank you.

[@StarboundHFY]

Thank you kindly!

[@karlmartenka4984]

I've listened to many sci-fi audiobooks and this is the best narration of any. Beats AI hands down.

[@rebeccaconlon9743]

Thanks for showing the reader too, amazingly engaging and soothing voice

[@7thCosirius]

Nice grow room, while growing voice in an enhanced environment... lovely!

[@robertescalante1154]

I wonder how much work goes into polishing the story and practicing narration. Sooo good! So professional! Talent and hard work together again. Thank so much for making this for us. ^_^

[@demonluck999]

i have to say sir that i find this in my feed and i watch about 5 of your videos and so far i love it to the point i have to sub you men the group of people u have here tall some story is will good to the point that it feel a bit alive which is nice and the fact it not tall by a ai and tall by a real person will made this better i hope u keep up the good work on this channel

[@StarboundHFY]

Wow, thanks!

[@mikearroyo3961]

Thank God! No AI narration.

[@andypants1062]

All of your readers are enjoyable, but this narrator is by far my favorite one. Hope he sticks around.

[@ds.star-labs]

Very well done, ty :) Liked and Subscribed. Looking forward to hearing the rest.

[@StarboundHFY]

Welcome aboard!

[@thee_number_six6227]

Happy to find another HFY channel that isn't using AI text to voice as a "like" farm bot channel. Good on you I plan on watching many of your videos from now on.

[@carlmorrison9789]

You have the right voice for this.

[@carl-oscarbjorkman8923]

One thing you could maybe test on a stand-alone story would be two voice actors male and female so either actor dont need to stretch their voice.

[@pulverize3]

Im so happy with the human narration, and you have atleast 2 that I've seen both are great 👍

[@ChildofVitalani]

Severely underrated narration talent! Bravo! Give this guy a paycheque, then give him a raise!

[@deegee1890]

I love these stories, and I love the live narrators ❤

[@Anarxur]

Human reader AND human written story? Instant sub

[@GlenNeilson-o4c]

Your the best .story teller or reader. You voice is easy to listen to.

[@Medi0cr3-]

Great narration. I like this guy a lot.

[@raxtuss1212]

The 'Doctor' voice was AMAZING

[@JormRising]

I think this might be one of my favourite narrators, has a very striking presence to his reading.

[@MrAzrael1234]

thanks a lot for using real people to read those stories, AI is terrible as of now around here in most cases. if it comes to a fear stuttering, emotional discussions or anything more than the basic narrative text, it lacks massively!

[@arnoldfwilliams]

Nicely done! Impressive integration of Lovecraft and science fiction.

[@HrLBolle]

Als ich den führenden Wissenschaftler den Planeten zum ersten Mal beschreiben hörte, war ich mir nicht sicher, ob es sich um einen erdähnlichen Planeten oder um die Erde selbst handeln sollte. Doch die Beschreibung der planetaren Magnetosphäre und des Wetters ließ kaum Raum für Zweifel, und die verbleibenden Zweifel wurden durch die Beschreibung des Sternenwetters, der Sonnenstürme und der koronalen Massenauswürfe zerstreut. Diese Geschichte ist aus der Perspektive außerirdischer Besucher geschrieben, die die Erde auf dem Höhepunkt eines Eiszeitzyklus entdeckten. When I first heard the lead sicentist describing the planet, I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be an Earth-like planet or if it was the Earth itself. But the description of the planetary magnetosphere and weather left little room for doubt, and what doubts remained were dispelled by the description of the stelar weather, solar storms and coronal mass ejections. This story is written from the perspective of extra terrestrial visitors who discovered the Earth at the peak of an ice age cycle.

[@MelodieRose727]

Loved that 2nd story!! Is there more??

[@michaelholloway3667]

Well narrated, subbed!

[@ikitclaw7146]

Now this is a good reading, an actual human speaking! I had to put up with a story with 2 songs, sang by the AI, it was sooo painful.

[@FriskyPanda167]

FINALLY came back across your page again. Made sure to sub right away this time so I don't lose the story when KZbin decides to reset 😅

[@mrselfdestruct8084]

Your storytelling is so amazing!awesome voice work!!

[@nebiru00]

You had me at "not being an Abominable Intelligence", now to see how often you use the phrase "his voice, barely a whisper".

[@frankmcmillan-l5g]

Dude I find you voice am amazing and clear. Love the stories keep them coming

[@cepheus1233]

Props to you for actually reading all of it and not using AI. Good job

[@yomogami4561]

it was interesting and i hope to hear more from both authors thanks for the narration

[@RandallPowers-g8r]

Love your vocals ❤️ keep telling me stories.!🎉❤❤

[@spencersholden]

I really hope the first story gets a sequel!

[@ronniebentley5847]

Love this narrator.

[@MarilynLittlepage-ri9or]

Thanks for the story. I love your voice!!!

[@bigjay875]

Very nice work 👍

[@mcrib8330]

Great voice and thank you

[@WanderingWendigo]

You’re an amazing narrator.. I luv u 😂❤

[@thominaduncanson7596]

Loved the first story!

[@rogerallen1767]

your pronuctiation is perfect

[@JMM33RanMA]

Bravo!🖖

[@stephenpickering8063]

Not sure whether those are two separate stories or linked, albeit possibly over a considerable period of time? Very good background although the two galactic cultures seem radically different. Also I would wonder how the imperialium managed to survive all the pathogens their brought into contact with their ruling world by bringing an human there. The other issue I found difficult to accept would be the idea that all reversals of the magnetic poles prompts such an extreme, nearly snowball Earth as there's no evidence for that in the geographic records and also it takes a lot long than ~100,000 years for live to recover from such a mass extinction event so that happening so frequently would make life like ours possible. Otherwise a couple of very interesting stories and well worth the time spent listening to them. Many thanks.

[@twilighttricksterXXI]

We're actually overdue the Magnetic field switch by a few thousand years at this point so it's likely going happen pretty soon(in cosmic timescales so closer to 1 hundred to 2 thousand years~)

[@galactica4867]

mmh ''leviathan class liforms'' hello subnautica 31:05

[@coolwarfare]

I actually laughed after hearing that

[@Happyyyyyyyyyyy]

i always thought it was ai... but now i am impressed by the vocie

[@gavgene371]

Thank you an awesome excellent story

[@jacobsilva6334]

Dudeeeeeeeeee your voice. This the kinda vid that I need to sleep too!

[@StormRider2215]

Thank you for being a real person reading.

[@craftysmithkeith3653]

yuntorn's voice had me do a double take to see if i was hearing what i was hearing

[@MoonlitPhoenix0]

Whoever wrote this story has no idea how our worlds weather works apparently. Nor does the author understand the ice age because although it's correct pur world wouldn't go through another ice age until it starts to heal. Nor do we age in accordance with how many rotations we make around the sun and we don't focus on the next generation. We blame the next generation and criticize them

[@mogtheblueberry4742]

Keep in mind, it's being explained by an alien talking about the dangerous things on the planet, that they aren't aware of beyond the scans

[@dicerson9976]

You are right! I am no meteorologist. I did do some research but ultimately the point is that weather really is basically unpredictable past a certain point, and I decided to make up some interesting-sounding reasons for it! The idea being that the aliens learned things we couldn't about the why of things thanks to their super-tech. And while yes the literal rotation of the planet doesn't technically control how fast people age, one of the main draws of HFY type stories is exploring interesting possibilities for how evolution on other planets might work and comparing them to our own. Does the rate of the day/night cycle affect aging? What if it did? Perhaps these aliens just do everything much much slower than we do simply because they evolved on worlds that spin more slowly- what if that was the standard? What if a world with a day/night cycle that was *too* fast was so inhospitable to life that it was more likely for sapients to evolve on worlds with slower ones? What might a species that does actually evolve on a "fast" world look like to ones that didn't? In the end, none of these questions are truly scientifically answerable simply because we can only know how things went on our planet and make guesses. But when so much is truly up to random chance and to conditions that do not exist within our obersvable range, it's really anyone's guess! And its that blank space- that field/range of the unknown in which not just HFY but ALL Sci-fi stories love to prance and play and explore, to varying degrees of "realness" So while yes, much of what I wrote here is likely highly unrealistic- the same is true of most sci-fi. I mean, just look at any of the classics. Dune, Star Wars, even Star Trek all have numerous elements in them that seem quite unlikely or rely entirely upon aspects of physics or science that even today we know next to nothing about! And yes, Tobler's assessment of how we treat our kids is wrong- intentionally, in fact. It's in a way a call to action/moral of the story. The "ice age" earth is a future we couldn't possibly predict, something we didn't even cause in this particular story. And while Tobler believes that our greatest strength would be our unity and solidarity, our emphasis on raising the next generation as best we can and working through things one problem at a time, the irony is that we are often far from it in the modern age. In a way we live in the opposite side of that same coin- living in the "now" to the utter expense of the next generation, with no concern for long-term consequences whatsoever.

[@MoonlitPhoenix0]

@@mogtheblueberry4742 that's correct but I'd hope an alien race advanced enough for interstellar travel and planetary scans would understand how aging doesn't work at least

[@intensehumanbox9662]

is there a part 2 to the first part of the vid?

[@logankraft8711]

I want to know as well... I wish there was a link to where they got it ngl.

[@santiagomoreno8640]

This one is rather cool actually.

[@michaelschudel6706]

Do you guys also publish your stories as ebooks?

[@StarboundHFY]

if we do, where should we publish them?

[@godgamergv2704]

@@StarboundHFY🤷‍♂️

[@redschafer7804]

lol i love this of course aliens would think our planet to be not just a death world but the death world :D

[@robertescalante1154]

Now you know why it's called science fiction, a planet like that is impossible. :P

[@kenl4360]

Just for shits and giggles he should scream every now and then between lines like some of these other channels 😂

[@chinangel]

Oh my god your voice is amazing

[@brian-my7ym]

Welcome to the Grand illusion. Come on in and see what's happening

[@debkamalsarkar1521]

High concentrations of co1,2,3 wouldn't allow an iceage of that extent 😂

[@alexanderingraham8255]

As a Warhammer 40k fan, this series’ is a bit of a whiplash lol.

[@trentberry6968]

That first dude sounds like the narrator from Total Annihilation!!

[@kingBBQ1]

Love this stuff man