Horror Game Where You Have 10 Minutes To Stop Nuclear War but will you? - Coldline

Coldline is a horror game where you have ten minutes to stop nuclear war and the world ending the only catch is you need to navigate a phone call. From the creator of No Players Online
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[@ManlyBadassHero]

Welcome to the Hey Pick Up Club, how Hey Pick Up are ya?

[@hatred9910]

Yes

[@Cal_is_still_here]

I pick it up Also I'm fine ty

[@ciol9487]

yo

[@darkstriiider]

haiii

[@vielo9078]

Hello? Hello hello ?

[@galloviking4766]

"Is there an emergency that cannot wait?" "YES" "Please wait"

[@Tibrious-ms6mm]

When seconds matter, managerial assistance is only minutes away, and when minutes count, bureaucratic help is only hours away, unless it's a holiday, weekend, or any time of day in which one would logically have more free time to address emergency life threatening matters.

[@tomaetoma359]

Lmao 🤣 This made me laugh so hard!!

[@GamrokFeddy]

Bruh moment

[@joeljustin]

Basically every ISP in existence.

[@ilonkamvtv]

Hahahahahahhaha pls what time is that

[@RedKiimuse]

Imagine if the world ends just because of some faulty automatic response robot

[@DEV-rw7eu]

Thank god definitely didn't happened in the real world

[@alexx7b449]

@@DEV-rw7eu did it happen?

[@0nlyZeroChiLl_]

Don’t forget Stanislav Petrov in 1989.

[@chrislaurent1137]

Technically it almost happened due to a false alarm back then.

[@HaHaHaHolowence]

Skynet: Yeah... ...faulty.

[@parkerwells3317]

“Oh you accidentally targeted the US with a missile?” “Do you have a code?” “No? Then I guess we’ll just do nothing about it then”

[@frostytheiceberg1127]

ah yes, the us government.

[@user-qi6pv9jh7o]

@@frostytheiceberg1127 phone menus. Same shit everywhere.

[@agustinbarquero8898]

​@@user-qi6pv9jh7oIt's the US government.

[@denverbeek]

"To confirm your identity, please enter the mathematical solution to the three-body problem, encoded in decimal."

[@craigmenear-lordofqualityp507]

@@denverbeek!Spoiler warning! "But the three-body problem HAS NO MATHEMATICAL SOLUTION!"

[@harryguidotti3815]

Im just imagining that this takes place in a war room somewhere and there's a bunch of military personnel standing around in tense anxiety as the Secretary of Defense navigates tedious phone menues.

[@moznalutaibi3080]

this is the comment of all time

[@Brian_on_a_cross]

There is a movie about that it's called Dawn's Early Light

[@aaronlim8918]

That would be tense if I was a official and the time is going to 1 minute, what you said before is pretty funny

[@miguelgarcia6493]

Fail Safe (1964) is sort of similar to this.

[@BlackFireDay]

Memento Mori Unus Annus

[@BananaGalaxy]

I love how the automated voice is so chill like “Oh you accidentally shot a nuke? Haha it’s cool, just enter this code and we’ll intercept it”

[@spacemarine6212]

I think that's the funniest part.

[@LoneWolf-qq9oy]

"As you know nuclear threats to US soil is very important to us" :)

[@honeyslime7178]

Oh you don't have the correct code ready? Damn. Guess we are fucked.

[@BernardTheForgotten]

Hahah nuclear bomb go Brrrrrr

[@filypa101]

Same feeling as calling your network provider cuz you are missing channels and they ask the name of the plan you are using or what TV you use and even the size of your house and walls-

[@corpsehandslauren]

Automated Customer Service Calls. This is absolute peak horror 😩

[@thomasjess5029]

I can imagine a series of games based on this concept. Like a serial killer stalking you or dealing with a home invasion and the police have a “new and improved” automated service, lol.

[@blueee0088]

@@thomasjess5029 "If you are violently dismembered by a stranger with a chef's knife, press 1, if the stranger uses a utility knife, press 2"

[@ron133.]

@@blueee0088 "if you are deceased currently, press 3"

[@thomasjess5029]

@@blueee0088 "Hello, welcome to the Automated 911 Rescue Service, we are experiencing an unusually high amount of traffic today, if you'd like to speak to a live representative, your wait number is: 28th in line. If you are dealing with a home invasion, press 1, if you are dealing with armed robbery, press 2, if you are being stalked, press 3, if you are experiencing another crime please stay on the line."

[@krel7160]

@@thomasjess5029 "If there is a child playing in their parent's backyard under supervision, please hang up the line and allow them to enjoy their youth in peace." "Thank you, your call has not been important to us at all. Goodbye, Karen."

[@Grayfox988]

There needed to be one menu where "no" is 1 and "yes" is 2, just to screw the player over even more.

[@iamnothale]

No.

[@Cerulean_azure15]

Yes.

[@junj1023]

1

[@ed_cmntonly]

2

[@orphan-eater]

3

[@justsomedudecalledluqman]

"hey we accidentally sent nukes to us" "ok, please wait" "its arriving in 10 minutes!" "sir, please wait"

[@1Thewmat]

all you gotta do is wait!

[@ImPedofinderGeneral]

Seeing what they did to us after we voluntarily dissolved the USSR, I didn’t even think about doing anything other than waiting ten minutes.

[@wtz_under]

@@1Thewmatsounds like a song referemce

[@thegammagamer3776]

So I gotta call the US and warn them we accidently sent a nuke? Yep. In ten minutes? Yep. Easy enough. "Welcome to the Washington/Moscow hotline, to speak to a representative..." We're fucked.

[@Frankya92]

Lmfao that line alone gave me ptsd 😂😂😂🤦‍♂️

[@ArcYT]

@Johnny bro you cant say that word

[@TransBiscuit]

@@ArcYT It was accidental bruh

[@gamingchickenstudios]

Its just a nuke...

[@firamation8114]

@@ArcYT yo kalm

[@leflamewolf]

Fun fact: The fact that even urgent messages could take hours to get to people at times is the exact reason the Moscow-Washington hotline was established in 1963.

[@tomlavelle8340]

Are facts really fun?

[@piedepew]

@@tomlavelle8340 fun fact: it's a fact that facts are fun

[@ESALTEREGO]

@@anthonypineda9373 there will be always be a conservative who cant keep his mouth shut 😁

[@thatvexiol]

@@anthonypineda9373 a poor pathetic guy who deserves no rights again....

[@generalpinochet9821]

@@ESALTEREGO ok jew

[@MiamiMarkYT]

The only way this could be more perfect is if at the end the automated voice said, “thank you for using the US-Moscow Nuclear Hotline, would you like to take a brief survey regarding your experience with us today?”

[@Ocro555]

💀😭

[@windws7137]

Perfect ending

[@waleedabdullahkhan5706]

Nah💀

[@slurpieking4337]

Like 3 minutes into this I played it for myself and after losing once I straight up got it with 4.33 seconds left on the timer. Amazing game, very stressful at times...

[@goldfinch907]

basically same, thought i got close on the first try (I was nowhere near) but on my second I managed to get it with like 2:11 left

[@KennethBaylis-wl7di]

these interceptors must be lightspeed 😭

[@Mantis42]

doesn't seem long enough to intercept a missile

[@robertvarisco2196]

A short and simple, but well designed game. Kudos!

[@Jacob-fisher]

I pretty sure that the the blast would’ve killed people but guess this universe says no

[@thegamingkeyblade7066]

"We are very concerned you are experiencing a problem with nuclear war. We take your call very seriously." 😴

[@Wake_up._This_isnt_your_world]

"BLIN, I NEED TO TALK TO THE PRESIDENT RIGHT FUCKING NOW, IT'S A HORRIFYING EMERGENCY, AND YOU'RE HERE TELLING ME THAT YOU TAKE MY CALL VERY SERIOUSLY?!" "We are deeply sorry that you're very frustrated, but please, understand that the president isn't available at the moment, however, you can order a special military mission, if you know the code" "WHAT?!? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW SERIOUS THIS IS?! JUST INTERCEPT THE DAMN MISSILE ALREADY CYK* *angry russian noises* " "Please enter the code to intercept the missile" " *sighs and gets calm* alright, guess i have to put the code. *inputs code* There, happy?" ".... Are you sure you want to start the mission? If yes, press 1. I-" "1" "Are you really sure? Once it starts, you cannot order another one. To continue, press o-" "1, ONE! INTERCEPT THE DAMN THING ALREADY!!" *timer stops and gets greyed, indicating it was intercepted* "finally." Imagine if this happened. You only had like 10 minutes to call to the big guy, but he isn't available right now, and you already spent like 2 or 3 minutes trying to get a code, only for the big guy go outside and drink coffee or something, and your only hope is trying to get through all the gov bureaucracy bs, until you managed to finally get the military involved to stop the missile.

[@daryatislenko4651]

@@Wake_up._This_isnt_your_world love it! But you forgot to add "blyat" in the second reply 🤣🤣🤣

[@Wake_up._This_isnt_your_world]

@@daryatislenko4651 heh. Should've added that XD

[@mishmash4760]

“We do not care.”

[@fimmt684]

Lmfao, most accurate representation of today's customer service

[@CyberGuy419]

I cannot even describe how STRESSFUL this is, just watching this is enough to make me want to scream

[@joshuagraham2843]

now i understand why the president having difficulty picking up the phone

[@JetterM]

a real horror game, for sure

[@ron133.]

why make confusing phone menu navigations just give them a touch control screen

[@bingusdingus3999]

@@ron133. remember, this game takes place when before the USSR collapsed. They didn't really have touch screen phones.

[@pimpusmane]

Like when she said the code and he wasn’t listening so he wasted time to replay the code🤣

[@TheSwagcorner]

This man had zero sense of urgency😭I liked the “there’s about to be a lot of open real estate in New York” line though. Nothing like a good joke to start the end of humanity

[@user-nz8rv8ft5q]

plot twist: this was the only way to buy an apartment.

[@PowerTrain611]

The bureaucracy is spot on. They really nailed it with this one. "Oh, it's a life or death matter? Well that's too bad... Expected wait time is about a half hour... Have a wonderful day!"

[@rogersakamoto9035]

I feel the frustration of these automated messages on an existential level. As an IT person, I've been advised not to create call trees larger than 3 layers deep since any larger and the customer starts to feel like they're being led around for no reason.

[@alcejaylos.4257]

Interesting!

[@snikrepak]

These are rampant in Israel.

[@Gr3nadgr3gory]

I'd advise you not to create those God forsaken things in the first place. Or at least put an option to speak to a person in the first layer. Otherwise my feelings towards you become violent.

[@rogersakamoto9035]

@@Gr3nadgr3gory I just want to preface that this comment isn't meant to come off as aggressive. I just want to clarify the purpose and importance of call trees in a company setting. Call trees are used to route calls to the people that are most applicable to the issue at hand in order to maximize workplace efficiency (i.e. Company Number -> Accounting Department -> Specific Person). If it were done manually, the person you call would have to route the call to ea ch next tier of the tree anyway. In this game, it was taken to the extreme with so many layers and with such specificity that it the call tree became pointless. A well optimized call tree is supposed to balance the ease of use from both the caller and operator. A three layer deep call tree should only take maybe 30 seconds MAX to get you to a real person.

[@Gr3nadgr3gory]

@@rogersakamoto9035 I'll never understand the importance of using computers in areas where a human could have honestly gotten it done in less than half the time. Besides, in my experience this game is on the low end of the spectrum as far as these trees stupidity goes. Microsoft and US Bank have very similar systems.

[@RaymuHakurei]

It's incredible that this game is simultaneously funny and stressful. For how small of a game it is they did a good job in making it feel like there's some strange level of depth to it. I like it.

[@Ayyaii24]

All I can imagine is the caller just taking the phone and slamming it against every visible surface and their face out of frustration only to end up back at the main menu accidentally.

[@TrueLadyEvilChan]

It's also a different kind of "horror"

[@inoli3164]

for anyone who has had to deal with numerous phone option menus, this is torture... and yes i speak from experience

[@icedtea3347]

The horror of nuclear holocaust/Armageddon in the Cold War along with the tedious pain of dealing with automated phone lines is so stressful it’s smart

[@rompis.a]

I think it's funny, but at the same time it gives me flashbacks to that one time I had to call the police. Yeah, our emergency line used to be operated like this back in the day.

[@curiousitycave]

You will be redirected to the president after a quick word from our sponsor: Raid: shadow legends

[@ChristopherCraven]

I can picture it now, I have a kid, they are 7, and ask me where we get money from. "Well you see son, I actually get all of my money, by being sponsored by raid: shadow legends." *My wife laughing out loud from the next room overhearing this* Someday I'm going to make this joke to grandkids, and they won't have a damn clue what the hell I am talking about.

[@bishalgurung4356]

Chairman: *NERVIOUSLY PANICS TO PREVENT THE NUCLEAR WARHEAD* Automatic voice: "Are you absolutely sure?" Chairman:1

[@cat.mp4]

9:20 "Can you tell us more about what type of emergency you're experiencing?" "Apocalypse." this was unreasonably funny for me lol

[@BradKesalowski]

no replies

[@naturalLog26]

@@BradKesalowski no bitches

[@BradKesalowski]

@@naturalLog26 no rude bitches atleast

[@martincornejo7273]

@@BradKesalowski wait why does it show there’s 3 replies but only one before the reply?

[@BradKesalowski]

@@martincornejo7273 idk yt glitch ig

[@Enthos2]

"we are very sorry you are experiencing an emergency related to nuclear war" LMAO

[@tfcchocosmemedumpster9655]

AND THEY PROCEED TO GIVE YOU 10 THOUSAND CODES FOR YOU TO PUT IN

[@aryanwanjari6740]

They are regretting their mistake.

[@brosephbroman7564]

"No computer lady, I'm very sorry *you* will be experiencing an emergency related to nuclear war IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ME WITH A @$!&ING HUMAN BEING!"

[@Captain_potat]

To connect to a human, hang up the phone and call someone. Press 2 to return to the menu

[@napoleoncomplex2712]

This is the perfect game to send to a friend as a prank. Tell them nothing about it and just leave them with the .exe file.

[@Cerulean_azure15]

😱

[@IndescribableBlackScreen]

you: *sends file* friend: *clicks game* friend: *actually proceeds to destroy the earth on purpose*

[@Ryann64.]

@@IndescribableBlackScreenwow man real funny

[@soupcangaming662]

"Is this malware?"

[@MissiFull]

@@Ryann64. you are more funny

[@firemonkey1015]

1:37 my god this is so accurate, the amount of times I’ve had to go through a million loops to get a real person to talk to is absolutely insane.

[@mindlesschaos6146]

This game reeks of trying to explain anything modern to your grandma without having a grandma,honestly impressive

[@mohammadrezapahlavi4578]

bro got no replies?

[@Ice_elite]

Its a game where you are the grandma

[@NovaBoi7]

XD

[@rayaan1233]

@@Ice_elite Now that sounds like a challenge!

[@Misterfreezeable]

I don't get it. Please explain

[@ArkayeCh]

I like the hidden implication that the USSR and US made a private hotline to prevent a nuclear emergency. But Moscow invented a nuke faster than the hotline and the US made a hotline slower than the nuke.

[@salomonhernandez792]

That actually happened

[@thorodinson6649]

There was a real hotline. Obviously you haven’t looked into the cold war

[@floo1465]

@@thorodinson6649 what they’re implying with the comment is that the US made a hotline that was too convoluted and complicated to operate effectively, we know that there was a hotline in real life

[@Darkspinesupersonic8]

@@thorodinson6649 So them talking about the hotline in the game somehow means they didn't know a real hotline exists (even though that's not what they were talking about) and you decided to accuse them of not knowing about the Cold War.... Maybe fucking think just a little bit before you post this rude shit next time, thanks.

[@agadan6530]

@@thorodinson6649 ok?

[@temtempo13]

Video title: "You Have 10 Minutes To Stop Nuclear War" Video runtime: 18:05 Uh-oh.

[@user-lg4fe4jj1c]

Lmfao

[@MetalKeith666]

He lose once

[@benjaminmontenegro3423]

@@MetalKeith666he loosened once

[@MetalKeith666]

@@benjaminmontenegro3423 ok

[@albertoplazasierra1223]

-What is your emergency? -The apocalypse. Can't forget that 😂

[@Insane-Howl-Cowl]

Only Manly can save us from nuclear armageddon, but we have to get the bad ending first.

[@JacklynBurn]

I think the funniest thing was that he wasn't even aiming for it this time, he was genuinely trying to navigate phone menu hell and failed to do so in a timely manner as someone who had never used the system before (because let's be real, nobody could ever get through one of those menus in less than ten minutes on their first encounter with it).

[@NorthernGreenEyes]

Absolutely! Haha 😄

[@Mainoxe]

Yeah😅 wait....

[@KittyKatty999]

Zero Escape be like:

[@fatkart7641]

Bad ending?

[@stevianheartbound]

Love the game theme. Every disaster in human history post the invention of robo calls happened because heroes couldn't decipher the phone system.

[@justamanofculture12]

Imagine dying because someone couldn't call the president of a nuclear power country. Lmao.

[@StrongandStable17]

​@@justamanofculture12 Oops sorry humanity the President was out for lunch.

[@thesysop4998]

@@StrongandStable17 Nah if it's american then probably spending half the day out playing golf and the other half creating propaganda to disguise or hide corruption

[@heysiri3327]

I'm just imagining heroes taking a full-on college course to navigate the phone menu efficiently and needing to take refresher courses every 2 months for any updates or reworks, having to balance the courses with the lives they could save

[@buzzshocker1069]

Bro imagine listening to some goofy ash music while trying to call the victim, watching a nuke traveling half the world in under 10min on a big screen inside a bunker💀

[@jackcomeback1758]

Yes, funny))

[@eddiekaspbrak4624]

victim lol do u mean president

[@comedyreliefguy5112]

​@eddiekaspbrak4624 the victim is the country.

[@bedeckt]

​@@eddiekaspbrak4624victim 1 of the accident is the USA. The accident is a nuclear missile being launched due to technical failure. The accident will be percieved as attack. The attack will be retaliated. All of humanity now falls victim. End

[@zakbradow1972]

*KZbin algorithm* "Hey, you want 10minutes of extreme anxiety?" *me, an intellectual* "Absolutely!"

[@CompagnonDeMisere25]

Game: "You are the chairman of the USSR" Game: "If you are the chairman of your nation, press 3" ManlyBadassHero: *Presses 1*

[@taksucreepz]

That frustrated me so much

[@zanthe_]

Hey I didn't pick up on it either.

[@zebastakian6973]

I guess he forgot that he was the chairman of the USSR.

[@AlpenSkyWatcher]

Presses 3 Still let answering machine deal with the call.

[@YourLightning28]

Not only that but Game: Your verification code is 03467 ManlyBadassHero: *puts in random numbers*

[@dizzydial8081]

I really like the cynicism of this game. The fact that something like a nuclear strike in progress is at the mercy of an automated phone menu is hilarious to me. A little off topic but something similar happens in a Tojo Godzilla movie. While a kaiju attack is happening, generals and government leaders are verifying and going through a bunch of red tape to take one simple action. Has the same feeling.

[@jesusofbullets]

Oh yeah, the Shin Godzilla movie. Loved that one.

[@zoesilver5828]

Godzilla is pretty much a nuclear apocalypse allegory so it checks out

[@thebilldozer7970]

Most good horror films have a statement on the society it was made in.

[@seantaggart7382]

True Because theres ALWAYS red tape Which is why my people have authorization code omega Alpha It basically overrides all red tape for emergency use only

[@applejuicesip]

@@thebilldozer7970 i initially think of earth as a society, so i love the mental image of aliens making poignant commentaries on their own societies through inconceivably foreign horror content

[@insomniadog3386]

a detail i really like is how there is more rhythmic sounds added to the clock ticking for suspense and to imply the pure anxiety that someone would have in this goofy situation

[@LostAndFound697]

And the fact this is based off the real one 😅 (not the exact situation, but similar.(

[@dereklong2072]

Ok. This is without a doubt one of the best horror games ever. These automated customer service phone services are absolute hell.

[@paufernandezboj5517]

And absolutly assholes

[@TheRadicalOneNG]

I was totally expecting the solution to just be "mash zero until the operator picks up."

[@NorthernGreenEyes]

Great minds think alike xD

[@handsomejack4125]

"LET ME SPEAK TO A PERSON PLEASE, HOT DAMN!"

[@theGhostWolfe]

@@handsomejack4125 OPERATOR! OPERATOR!

[@brandonletzko4239]

Press 2 for Spanish.

[@shawnty909]

"does this situation endanger U.S soil, If so press on-" "YES 111111" "did you know you can order a special interception-" "OH FFS JUST PUT ME ON THE LINE"

[@kawachn]

idk why but the line "we are very concerned you are experiencing nuclear war" is going to kill me

[@julianfarnam6246]

And all of new york

[@AltraHapi]

@@julianfarnam6246 and the world

[@michelestefanini5466]

not that important tbh​@@julianfarnam6246

[@themilstead]

A very Terry Gilliam kind of line

[@neilpatrickhairless]

it IS a Terry line... that's hilarious

[@burgerbro34fullstreamarchi82]

I am convinced this game is the product of dev being fucked over by phone menus. It drips that level of vitriol.

[@InvestmentJoy]

Touch tone phones in the 60s?

[@Theaudacity787]

didn’t think I would find you here money man

[@BoxdHound]

Oh my gosh this would ascend to another level with a rotary dial.

[@jrmcferren]

Ironically, touch tone entered regular service about 13 months after the Cuban Missile crisis. I also live near a city that did testing of the technology in 1960. Phone menus took an another 15 to 20 years though.

[@soupcangaming662]

@@BoxdHound That'll be a good hard mode.

[@kargaroc386]

I'm betting this game was made by zoomers.

[@zeroanonymity9736]

This was stressful as heck even watching. The sinking feeling I felt when it asked for a code for the interception just... AAAA

[@Zack_Zander]

The real horror is the stress and peer pressure

[@AverageWarCrimeEnjoyer]

"Fuck it, guess nuclear genocide is the answer"

[@triis8643]

hello god

[@Novvax312]

At that point they deserve it lol 😂

[@asshairrr]

Yo God

[@kristofevarsson6903]

EDIT: I was wrong.*** Historically, the Washington-Moscow hotline was indeed a bright red phone, but there was no convoluted dial menu you had to navigate. If either party picked up the receiver on one phone, the phone belonging to the other party would ring. It was a direct line, and you best believe that they picked up if it ever did.

[@colapilled]

thats so interesting, thanks for sharing!!

[@Petrico94]

Cool fact, as it should be cause 30 minutes of diplomats and officials backing up the phone during Nixon's drunken rants seems unneeded if nuclear weapons are going live and could use cooperation or just notify the other MAD user.

[@kristofevarsson6903]

@@James-wu6qh Damn, Mr. Finneran straight up lied to me lol. Damn school.

[@OdinJrthesecond]

@@kristofevarsson6903 To be fair, it's not school if someone isn't lying to you in at least one subject.

[@majorstrelok1754]

@@James-wu6qh If I recall, it is still in use and it consists of 6 teleprinters, three in Moscow and three in DC, with the DC teleprinters being made in East Germany and the ones in Moscow are made in the US. They do hourly message checks which consists of quotes from poems and pop songs

[@rocketpoint2070]

The president when he gets to the Oval Office: Huh. One missed call? Wonder what that was.

[@averylr32]

At 4:16 when you said oh my god I lost it LMAO! Literally me calling a company every time 🤣🤣 so glad this got recommended to me

[@PK_Scratch]

34 minute wait time? So basically a minimum 4 hour wait. If it was a bit closer to current day, the game would've required a microphone and the automated message would've asked you to say out loud your option and misunderstood your choice 50% of the time.

[@alexx7b449]

Only 50%?

[@sebastianthegoat4265]

make it 90 % and you got true horror

[@Zack_Zander]

_We’re all gonna die..._

[@JacklynBurn]

Even better, make it one of those systems that doesn't account for half of common use cases and doesn't provide a "speak to a representative" option so you have to try and figure out how to confuse the system enough to trigger the backup "speak to a real person" command. Lemme tell you, that was a fun time back when one of my meds had a shortage and I had to call a bunch of local pharmacies to see if they had any and if I could switch over my prescription. Whoever designed those automatic phone programs never thought to include "speak to a pharmacist about my medications" so I can only imagine the kind of infuriating things they'd leave out of a "speak to the president to prevent nuclear war" menu. (But seriously whoever designed those speak-instead-of-numpad menus deserves to burn in hell)

[@NorthernGreenEyes]

Then an option to call you back..ugh

[@rogerreger9631]

I like to think the commander of NORAD is also going through a similar dilemma, their like "WTF we see the rocket on radar, why do I need a six digit code to just identify myself and 3 more codes to just lunch one counter attack missile WTF"

[@Hakkai181]

Because, ironically, i think there was a time there was a false positive on a nuclear launch. If that kind of bullshit didn't got on the way we will had a nuclear war years ago.

[@rayplays06]

This is why all countries need to create a Cut through all red tape security code

[@kotzpenner]

@@rayplays06 which is why nuclear codes are usually 00000000 because the security around such bases is good enough and you need more than one commander anyway.

[@mid1429]

@@kotzpenner Its actually not there is an alpha numeric code that changes every day and both the president and the director of a launch site have to agree so if they wanted to they could override the presidents decision if they believe he is compromised

[@livingcorpse5664]

@@mid1429 Well, for decades it was just zeros. I also know that launch silos need two guy with keys to turn their keys at the same time to even activate the nukes.

[@sashimiroll5055]

This is such a simplistic game but it’s so deep and so well done.

[@trevorfilis537]

The movie is Fail Safe starring Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau, 1964. It was remade in 2000 with a star studded cast as a live tv movie event. Really good movie.

[@defaulted9485]

I love Kafkaesque horror. I'm grateful that this game embodies my trauma dealing with bureaucracy and systematic failure.

[@conq1273]

Truly kafkaesque

[@user-vh4lu8xh6b]

The person at the phone was a man turned insect the whole time. Who used to be a hunger artist.

[@jackspies444]

how tf you got trauma over bureaucracy 🤣

[@conq1273]

@@jackspies444 It's like American Healthcare and paperwork. One wrong move and you have to go back. Just like endless homework. Homework after homework you have done but it never stops

[@jackspies444]

@@damien678 yea thats pretty bad

[@cruiseelroy1679]

"Can you tell us more about what type of emergency you are experiencing?" "The apocalypse."

[@cristiancastro5853]

1K like and no comments? Let me fix that

[@RandomPerson-dr4py]

US: oh there’s a nuclear bomb? Heading towards the US? Do you have the code? No? Well the World be dammed

[@VictorDeveze]

Before I’m even finished watching, I can already tell this is about patience and waiting to hear all the option

[@paufernandezboj5517]

😶 WTF The last thing that you want when you can have in 10 minutes The armagedon

[@smugbowkid9919]

This dev is super creative honestly, their games manage to be both fun or humorous, while retaining a certain type of horror and suspense.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

Kafkasque

[@p0p7art]

Babasuqi

[@tylern6420]

I love how this is a perfect emulation of automatic hotlines, while being chill about an emergency Also that waiting music is just 🗿🔥

[@ausdorian3252]

Stress*

[@youtubeuniversity3638]

Imagine if the numbers were randomized every reset.

[@tomaetoma359]

Then I would have honestly said "fuck it!" and just let the damn world Explode 🤣 I don't got time for this shit! You feel me! Edit: It's been a month and I'm now realizing I forgot to put "Explode" in my comment..! 😅

[@Seblak]

Still doable since by then you more or less know the menus. But it feels that it was made to be finished in your 2nd or 3rd try, that menuing is really desperating lol

[@TheFinalChapters]

@@Seblak It would definitely be hard to do it on your 1st try. You'd have to aggressively press the numbers to navigate and re-navigate the menus. The worst part would be having to wait to be told that the President is away *twice.*

[@danny9405]

I’m watching this is in bed, with the lights off, in New York. At around the 4 minute mark someone randomly lit fireworks in my neighborhood and I nearly shit myself.

[@misery978]

You should have just told them the nuke has oil. we would have responded immediately

[@andreah9587]

I find it fascinating how the theme/plot of this game seems to correlate with a real life event. In 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a USSR submarine came across a U.S. navy submarine in international waters. The USSR sub had lost contact with the mainland, and weren’t sure if a war had broken out and if they should shoot the sub down with their nuclear missiles or not. The captain ordered to launch the missiles at the US sub, but in order to do so, the three officers aboard had to unanimously agree. One officer, Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov, refused to launch the missiles. He was shamed when he returned home, some saying he should have launched the missiles and gone down with his ship in an “honorable death.” He died 16 years later from radiation exposure when the reactor coolant of the submarine he was on sprung a leak. Today, he is credited as he man who solely prevented a full-scale nuclear war. Had he not refused to launch the nuclear missiles, the world today as we know it would not exist.

[@Warsie]

I believe it was a Us destroyer/Us carrier task force dropping practice depth charges to try to get the soviet submarine to surface

[@YUN6_V3NUZ]

@@Warsie either way, its pretty unnerving to know the fate of the world very much depends on the decisions of people who generally make stupid decisions, but lickily this wasn't the case.

[@dominickstewart433]

Wow between that and Stanislav Petrov we owe a few russians our lives

[@IzBirch]

A bear also almost started it..

[@arcadiaberger9204]

During the Cold War, U.S.N. and Soviet Navy nuclear submarines used to meet on the surface near 49 degrees South, 123 degrees West, aka Point Nemo, for secret and highly unauthorized "summits", which began as grim acts of desperation after the Cuban Missile Crisis, although by the 1980s they had become more like "Burning Man at Sea". Nuclear submariners had a shared perspective no other people on Earth could understand. That's why not even the KGB political officers aboard the Soviet subs ever reported the gatherings, and looked the other way while logs were fudged to conceal them.

[@TeasilaNova]

This bring the anxiety of dealing with automated calls to nuclear levels.

[@neoqwerty]

why isn't this comment more liked

[@TeasilaNova]

@@neoqwerty probably... a missed dial. x'D

[@bobb.boberson4437]

Oh my God, this captures the psychological horror of having to navigate bureaucratic phone trees to a T.

[@tristanpesic4436]

"We are very concerned to hear you are experiencing an emergency regarding nuclear war😊"

[@patd2806]

truly the scariest thing in the world, complicated phone call menus

[@valevale3287]

I LOVE HOW MANLY FRUSTRATEDLY SCREAM "ARGH" WHEN THE OPERATOR SAID PRESIDENT IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE HAHAHAAHHAHAHA

[@fishscalecocaine]

You must be confused because he didn’t make any noise when the operator said the president isn’t available.

[@heiko5209]

@@fishscalecocaine 9:03

[@mcflyingfury]

I like the implication that people accidentally target the U.S. with nuclear weapons and need help intercepting them so often that they made an entire automated phone line just to order special delivery missile interceptions without any real person having to get involved on the U.S. side.

[@leduckified1534]

It's important to note that the actual hotline was a direct line to actual people

[@Field_Marshal_Emu]

Found this video completely by accident. You've earned my subscription, sir!!

[@ramses3033]

I believe that this is a recreation of a real story when in 26.09.1983 Stanislav Petrov refused to approve of launching nuclear weaponry on the US as the answer to supposedly already launched rockets by the US. These "rockets" turned out to be radar malfunction.

[@user-to2vs1hl6r]

Actually, I think it is. Your comment must be in top, so the other people can know about the historical event that have become an inspiration for the game)

[@generalrubbish9513]

I don't really think so, seeing as they were plenty of other accidents during the Cold War that almost caused a nuclear holocaust. It's honestly a wonder that we survived this long - check out "List of nuclear close calls" on Wikipedia, it really is quite wack.

[@someguy4512]

this not only happened in 1980's but also in 1960's

[@Link2edition]

@@someguy4512 Oh yeah, the world has nearly ended several times.

[@helbent4]

Petrov's actions that day are getting more notice. His part in the nuclear command and control system was solely to pass along the information of a possible US strike, he did not have authority to authorise a strike. He simply delayed passing the alert up the chain of command, as he did not there was therefore no chance for the order to be given. He was criticised afterwards for not doing his job and received a reprimand. The explanation was it wasn't his job to decide if a strike was inbound or not, that was the job of command, who had access to a wide range of sensors, plus the "hot line". The Soviet high command insist they wouldn't have launched a counter-strike anyways (after all, if Petrov could figure out this was a false alarm, then they could as well) his action was not needed, and if it was a real attack their command system was compromised. But we will never know if the Soviet high command would have made the right call, and it's for the best we never needed to find out!

[@yaoibabe]

"how do I know if it's fast moving?!" Manly, it's coming from Russia to the US in 10 minutes. It's EXTREMELY fast moving 🤣

[@PeterDivine]

THEY'RE *MISSILES!* THEY'RE ALL FAST-MOVING!

[@lollllolll.]

To put that into perspective an actual missile is much faster, remember that the earth is a globe, so Russia wouldn't launch a nuke westward but *eastward* or *Northward* Russian missiles in the far eastern Siberia can easily reach the biggest cities in the western coast of the U.S If Russia decided it would fire northward the missle would pass through Greenland and reach new york and Washington D.C in a very short amount of time Let's not forget that the USSR was an master at hiding submarines, they most likely wouldn't have fired from mainland Russia at all, most likely the Atlantic or Pacific ocean, or hell even an small island or an Soviet affiliated nation (like Cuba). In all honesty terrifying, killing millions took our ancestors entire decades, but if we wanted to kill billions, then we can do it in less than 10 minutes

[@ninetailedfox579121]

@@lollllolll. Nah, that is actually almost twice as fast as an actual ICBM would travel. The distance from Moscow to New York is 4664 miles, so to achieve that distance in 10 minutes would require an average speed of 27,984 mph. The average speed of actual ICBMs is only 15,000 mph. The distance between San Franciso and the eastern part of Russia is about 3000 miles, so even that would take about 12 minutes at the actual speeds.

[@lollllolll.]

@@ninetailedfox579121 i know but as i stated this game took a big liberty from where the warhead was launched, as you stated the warhead would be slow (if fired in the same direction as the game) so my point was that it would take the same amount of time that the game portrays if fired from somewhere else (Cuba as i said) But take those measures and apply them to the locations and methods i mentioned you'll get my point, i find it hard to believe the Soviets would fire a missile from Moscow, through Europe, through the Atlantic and then to reach the mainland U.S, as i previously mentioned the Soviets were masters at hiding these type of things, for example, in the U.S, 5 nuclear warheads almost blew up in the American soil because of transport hic ups (not joking this actually happened). Meanwhile the Soviets, who clearly had more nukes, never reported such an accident, even though there's 100% possibility it happened due to simple human error. I'm not big on math so sorry if i miscalculated it, but since you're better on this subject could you tell us how long it would take a Russian missle to travel from Cuba and Far eastern and far northern Siberia to reach mainland U.S, assuming it wasn't fired from a submarine ofcourse

[@ninetailedfox579121]

@@lollllolll. Well there would be little risk of a missile strike from Cuba, it is so close they would likely just use planes. My previous measure of Russia to San Francisco was from the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia, which is that little dinky bit that hangs off the eastern side of the country, so it was already about as east as it could get. But of course ultimately this game is completely inaccurate as to think the US doesn't have constant surveillance of key Russian locations would be silly.

[@i_likebeing_home8733]

The introduction of the game could be easily changed from "1962" to "2022" ...

[@Godzillafan78]

It’s been 2 years since 2022 we still alive

[@PoProstuBoniacz]

​@localmisinformatorBut we was REALLY close tocactually die

[@prosto_a_user]

​@localmisinformatorThis was a triumph... I'm making a note here:HUGE SUCCESS

[@tinkly_winkly]

Watching you play through this horror game helped me overcome my own fear with phone calling. Tbh I don't know what to make of that, but thank you lol

[@fifthrider]

Never mind the game, this is such great social commentary. The world is on the brink and here we are battling stupid phone menus. It's the game that isn't a game, but a terrible reality.

[@tanker00v25]

No? Nothing seen in the game is in any way real, therefore it is not reality

[@qwertydavid8070]

@@tanker00v25 I feel like that's kinda the point. I know we probably shouldn't look to deep into it, this could literally just be funny haha the world's ending and you need to get through the funni phone menu to save it. But people can have different interpretations, and I think OPs interpretation is perfectly valid. Most things that are social commentaries are always exaggerated and blown out of proportion, to exemplify the intense emotions the author may feel about the topic. This just shows how ridiculous and stressful red tape and bureaucracy are, it uses the example of nuclear fucking Armageddon to make the situation that much more stressful. It's like how in Wall-e the company's solution to pollution it to just skedaddle out of the planet and leave it to rot. Again, could be taken as symbolism of how companies just run away of environmental issues. Could also just be worldbuilding and nothing else. It's up to interpretation :)

[@tanker00v25]

@@qwertydavid8070 I understand this interpretation and I do believe that the point if the game is to make fun of bureaucracy and robocalls, however I still wanted to point out that this is just a mockery of something real and bot reality itself

[@marzipancutter8144]

​@@tanker00v25 But with the phrasing that OP used, everything he said was a very apt description of reality, not of the game. Depending on political views, you might differ on the question whether the world is on the brink, but assuming that OP takes climate change seriously it's an accurate description of reality. The phone line thing might seem blown out of proportion, but I recently did have to take on a phone menu on a matter as serious as securing the livelihood of a friend.

[@tanker00v25]

@@marzipancutter8144 fair point, but I don't really have anything to say that I haven't already said

[@MrBioWhiz]

"oh god what am I doing" Not what you want to hear from the person tasked with stopping nuclear Armageddon

[@robloxserversded]

I like how odly specific is when they ask you what emergency you are experiencing and they give you the option of nuclear war

[@Hmm_Ace_Attorney_Channel]

"Can you tell us more about the nature of your emergency?" "The apocalypse" Lmao

[@jay_the_nerd]

the phone itself is stressful enough the nuclear emergency countdown is the icing on top

[@ShionWinkler]

God, after the first 1 minute of this I would have said "F-it," and let the world end, anything is better than dealing with a robot on the phone....

[@NorthernGreenEyes]

Facts

[@plaguenplay3516]

I mean, if the world gets destroyed, so will get this moronic machine, so it's a fair exchange

[@ShionWinkler]

@a skittle in your skittles bag Thank you Captain Grammar, you have saved the city from another heinous word crime. 👍👍

[@proloycodes]

@a skittle in your skittles bag so proud of you

[@tf2juice]

this game captures exactly the horror of having to deal with a hotline, I was literally choking to death while sick once trying to get a call with a doctor, and by the time I got in a call with a doctor I was already in the emergency room.

[@annoyinggasta]

The fact that this is scarier than the like of RE speaks tons about how handling time dependent emergencies must be for a President/ Chairman like in the game

[@vidulysserewop2715]

"If you're issue regards economic issues, Press 1. If it regards a possible Nuclear threat, Press 2." Really going from 15 to 85 in 10 seconds.

[@darnit1944]

Even funnier because for the US, economic problem is the no.1 and literal nuclear annihilation is no.2 according to the order of priorities

[@martiellmo738]

If a nuclear threat is 85 what the fuck is 100 lmao

[@Nova-1936]

@@martiellmo738 guns

[@Kasumi_Tashi]

@@martiellmo738 a waffle house closed

[@zandaroos553]

That’s… actually pretty accurate to US priorities

[@BuckBlaziken]

I like this type of horror where it’s somewhat comedic how absurd the situation is

[@RhodokTribesman]

Just like Dr. Strangelove haha

[@seancorbett8777]

Absurd but I bet something of this sort has definitely happened maybe not on this scale but still lol. I know there’s a story of a Russian general who refused to press the button when orders came from the president after false reports of incoming nukes from the us. Had he pressed the button, after finding out their mistake, this exact thing could have very well happened 💀

[@antogaming9232]

I can’t believe this game was made to test if you’re good with phone menus

[@NachosElectric]

"New York City has fallen." Oh no that sucks. Anyway...

[@Zack-xv2yc]

Hey Manly, there's a REALLY unsettling nuclear war game, probably way more horrifying than this one, called *"DEFCON".* A game where YOU are the one causing said war, pushing all the correct buttons and levers to set it off. It's probably the best psychological horror game I've ever played, where the concept of *you* are the monster is set to the most extreme here. You get to see all of the atrocities you've committed on a screen. It's like Plague Inc but you actually feel guilty af after destroying the world.

[@user-ej4eq5im4r]

Naaah,defcon is fun

[@AtomicBlastPony]

There's also a modern remake called ICBM, much less arcade-y and more realistic.

[@seantaggart7382]

There's also FIRST STRIKE Which is nice

[@AtomicBlastPony]

@@seantaggart7382 No, First Strike is garbage. Not only is it extremely simple and unbalanced, it's also broken. There's a chance you'll be stuck on the intro screen when launching the game and no amount of restarting or reinstalling will fix it.

[@seantaggart7382]

@@AtomicBlastPony Well it worked for me! Also Huh? I've played the game And ITS REALLY GOOD have you gotten the new version?

[@nitrogenFox]

This is one of the few "horror" games that genuinely upset me lol. Freaking out at the stupid menus and recordings while that timer is CONSTANTLY there

[@saturn6563]

Don’t forget that on the screen above the telephone, it shows the arrow getting closer and closer to the US. That ticking clock doesn’t help either.

[@Daphne70]

Same

[@CramcrumBrewbringer]

Like just don’t freak out 😂 These types of people should never be in a life/death scenario. They panic too much.

[@gardenofsn5955]

@@CramcrumBrewbringer Too bad you don't exactly choose to be in a life/death scenario. What a dumb comment lmao

[@Georges_IV]

@@CramcrumBrewbringerim sure dealing with this type of situation is quite stressful

[@sambenavidez7067]

I love how to save the world, it's going to come down to customer phone service.

[@nickmoreno3885]

I love your voice bro. It’s so NPR soothing

[@Ax1007]

At 10:00 left - "Why is the timer 10 minutes, this seems easy" At 9:30 left - "Ah, everyone is going to die"

[@samschiang]

i dont think ive ever seen a game that embodies trying to get in touch with a government entity so accurately

[@joelcraig9803]

At some point your like "Is it worth this to save the world?"

[@temkin9298]

Like,"i don't want to be sitting in a armchair when world ends in 2 minutes, let's launch other nukes then i can drink coffee and watch as world ends. Maybe i can visit my child's school performance"

[@TerribleChannel69420]

the 70 stressed out as hell military dudes just sitting on their chairs hoping the world doesnt go into some apocalypse all because of this phone line lmao

[@drakothedragon]

“There’s going to be a lot of new open real estate in New York pretty soon if you do not pick up that phone.” Daaaaang, Manly.

[@paufernandezboj5517]

More like all The world would fuck Up pretty bad

[@PickledThyme1]

As someone living in New York, it’s super fun hearing about my home being targeted by accident. Super fun!

[@conq1273]

They had been the fav spot for alien invasions too

[@someguywithbagels5907]

It was probably targeted due to your pfp

[@ragejay1063]

With the stereotype y’all New Yorkers have, y’all might have it coming

[@Frozendown]

Nothing of value would be lost

[@Khim_0129]

It's always New York being targeted by the enemies in movies. What's up with that?

[@daledenton2391]

This was on the same level of stress as Uncut Gems on Netflix 😂

[@barrydickfire7262]

i love this concept. those circular phone menus always feel like a certain kind of hell, but imagine if you got stuck in one trying to make the most important phone call of your life.

[@supleted]

As a pharmacist who had to call other pharmacies for prescription transfers, this is pain. Just call your doctor and have them write a new prescription to us because I always forget which button to press to speak to the pharmacist and your transfer won't be completed today because none of the pharmacies I've been to are properly staffed and we have literally hundreds of scripts to fill.

[@_connorsseur]

Thank you for the work you do. Anyone who does something good in the face of red tape is a damn hero

[@123apacino]

Here is a linus tech tip for Walgreens; when you call the pharmacy and get a automated voice asking what you want, say "SPEAK TO A PHARMACIST" 2X, you need to say it twice as an answer before you get to talk to one.

[@speedyhomo]

yooo I'm a pharmacy tech and if i have to deal with one more insurance company phone line similar to this game while a patient stares at me through the glass assuming that everything will be fixed in .2 seconds of me picking up the phone, i might just lose my mind

[@wetsockfullofhotmeat]

I applaud the absolute shit out of you. I'm training to be a medical assistant and just the idea of transferring calls to other clinics makes my blood pressure spike, so I can only imagine how much worse it is to have that shit be 99% of your job.

[@seaman_de_man]

I've tried to get a new prescription in the past but I had to go through a different doctor and he didn't listen to me and prescribed something different 😐

[@user-vh4lu8xh6b]

7:40 “We need to confirm you’re not a robot” 😰

[@montimuros2837]

This is next level social commentary...

[@Lilmaudx999]

The way you started this video takes me back to 2016…the good ole days

[@A_Simple_Neurose]

I like how people have started making videogames about stuff that really makes my life hell. First it was filling forms in a bureaucratic hell (actually hell), now it's calling a service and listening to a pre-recorded voice talking to me for like 10 minutes before I get to ask my 1 minute question. Maybe next year I get to declare tax on income. (please do not make a game about filing tax forms)

[@2dheethbar]

There is one. I believe you play a man who sorts his own mail in order to toss scam letters, but keeping tax refunds/checks(?) every round. After a few rounds, more scam letters appear. The world around you slowly starts to degrade, and your character winds up in a padded cell, still sorting through scam mail and checks that gradually looks more warped and spooky.

[@owo4983]

@@2dheethbar Do you know what its called?

[@ninetailedfox579121]

You've never played "Kirby Does His Taxes"?

[@owo4983]

@Work and Stuff oh neat! thanks!

[@katier9725]

I recommend Papers, Please. It's about the hell of trying to get into another country and your passport getting rejected for even the tiniest of errors. Oh and YOU are the guy at the checkpoint, so have fun stamping REJECTED on anyone's passport with even the tiniest of errors.

[@Mortomi]

I think i can tank a point blank nuke, no pressure manly.

[@Card_lol]

Simply built different

[@Sky_darts]

**CONSUME THE NUKE**

[@qwertydavid8070]

I would simply dodge

[@admiralpepper6933]

Just simply suplex it, my dude

[@asherwoodrow7471]

I would say no, works every time (if you ignore all the times it dosent)

[@darracqboy]

After listening to this, I found myself walking in circles around my kitchen!