Pyrrhic Victory & Had to be done featuring

[@GrimDarkNarrator]

Thanks for having me as a guest :)

[@AgroSquerril]

My Pleasure

[@paulhuston9991]

I'm glad to see you expanding big guy! You deserve it!

[@robertshank9778]

Great Reading, GDN... Love that you worked with Agro... You're one of the Guys that got me into Warhammer 40k Lore...

[@sleeplepeople7313]

GDN for the win!

[@yelenady6328]

Grim you sound like a robot voice from a disabled person wheel chair

[@OriginalUnjustifier]

Second story: They're lucky they specifically mentioned the spiders were non-indigenous, they might have had to glass the planet first and ask questions never otherwise.

[@arakheno4051]

Nuke it from orbit .. its the only way to be sure .. there will be no questions asked... A cat sized tarantula with wings and a stinger. . non-indigenous? .. Ok Where the hell are they from .. we got a lot of Thor shot ..

[@thepcfd]

hey human, why did you glass that world? answer: some shit need to be done.

[@chrisdufresne9359]

@@thepcfd In the background, another person shouts "Had to nuke the site from orbit, only way to be sure we got rid of the skittering bastards".

[@yomogami4561]

'it's the only way to be sure' ripley and hicks

[@rheinbewachen1211]

First story: literally a wall of young adult aliens going to fight in the glorious war only to fail miserably. Second story: I don’t like big spiders, so now we’re allowed to burn any we find.

[@kopkaljdsao]

To be fair second story is about a cross between a tarantula and a murdere hornet. Not even the Aussies will be fine with such an abomination.

[@morcova]

I adore jumping spiders, I think they are the cutest goddamn thing I've ever seen.... show me a jumping spider the size of a cat and I'm going to be tempted to grab my shotgun.

[@Allantitan]

@@morcova how about 2 flamethrowers and a tanker full of flammable liquid?

[@victormontes7007]

I wonder how other species would react to stories of small groups of human warriors holding against overwheming odds, coming back from the dead after being bombarded by leathal gas or how single soldiers captured hundreds of enemy soildiers by themselves

[@chrisdufresne9359]

Blessed be the holy Algorithm and cursed may the Wasp-Spiders be

[@AgroSquerril]

indeed , For the algorithm

[@LordGertz]

Loved the first story and while I agree with the sentiment of the second story I hate it. Am now in bed with the light on and can't stop thinking about cat sized spiders. Anyone have a handy flamethrower they can lend me?

[@radioactiveassassin5218]

I know a guy named Hans...

[@Mike-ne3bu]

They sell them at a local gun shop.

[@henrypaleveda7760]

you can make one with hairspray or any pressurized container you need one canister for propellant and two for fuel, one canister feeds a "pilot light" (the smaller constant flame at the front of the weapon - effectively its safety), then the can pf propellant should have a mixing feed into the secondary fuel reserve. The propellant will push the fuel out and the pilot light will ignite the mixture as it goes.

[@chrisdufresne9359]

It depends on what the spiders look like. If they look like oversized jumping spiders, I'd try and pet them. If they look like big Widows or Recluses, I'm likely gonna use the Oklahoma legal flamethrower.

[@evernewb2073]

@@henrypaleveda7760 you don't need to do anything fancy like that, almost every aerosolized product is already a flamethrower minus an ignition source, so take anything from febreeze to hairspray to oven cleaner and stick a match or lighter or whathaveyou in the way of the nozzle and you've got an indoors-range flamethrower. ^it's the stuff usually used as propellant that burns, having something highly flammable like hairspray as the product being aerosolized obviously helps but you can have an aerosol can spraying water and it will still go fwoosh when you light it up. on the subject of things that burn: the chemical processes and mechanical systems that crunchy critters use for dealing with breathing (at least the ones here on earth) are both exponentially less effective as the creature's volume goes up and exponentially less capable of bleeding off excess heat, a housecat sized spider would cook it's "lungs" within under a second, there's a reason most tarantulas have such mellow temperaments and the biggest bug in the world is hyperspecialized towards NOT doing much moving. we should probably check in on coconut crabs in a couple million years just to make sure they haven't gotten any funny ideas and maybe check in on the rest of the aquatic arthropods for suspiciously lung-like gills but for once that really _is_ a future people problem.

[@calvingreene90]

The Zeebian Defence Minister, "Why did you design a 'kiloton per second blast energy' anti-tank pocket pistol?" Palmetto-Kalashnikov Sales Rep with a shrug, "Spiders are creepy."

[@justapitbull6575]

So a cat sized tarantula wasp that sounds like the breaks on a train going straight to hell.... sounds like the only reasonable action to me...

[@thomastruant8837]

I'd say that's not enough shoulda glassed the planet edit: I'm not even scared of spiders

[@robertschumacher2707]

'Fall back, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.'

[@AgroSquerril]

need to figure out where the home planet is before you destroy evidence , then bombs away

[@thomastruant8837]

@@AgroSquerril I knew you weren't human, no reasonable person would have a sane reaction to those things existing

[@AgroSquerril]

@@thomastruant8837 lol

[@Warutteri]

Kudos to the quest narrator, great job, got yourself a new subscriber ☺️ Also great job as always Agro! And lastly: For! The! Algorithm!

[@StarSong936]

I have a spider living in my bedroom. There was a different spider there until last year when we got freezing weather. I let them live here because they help me out. The current one lives in my closet, while the previous one live behind my bedroom curtain. No they are not one of the dangerous kinds. Still, I wave at the current one whenever she shows herself. Not that she cares. Still, I would rather them than wasps or other insects I would consider dangerous. There was one time I was on break from work talking to one of my co-workers. I held my hand out palm up, and a red wasp landed on my hand. I looked at the wasp and said "Are you here to hang out, or are you going to continue on your way?" The wasp did a 360 on my hand and then took off. The girl I had been talking with said "If that had been me, I would have freaked out!" My reply was "What makes you think I wasn't!"

[@ChrissieBear]

Ard'utan: "That system is holy to us! You must be cleansed in the name of God!" Humans: "I see no god up here other than me!"

[@paulhuston9991]

Oh shit! Love you GDN! Thanks for bringing this creator out! I love that you guys are making good things happening!

[@RTanna89]

Holy shit I miss grim dark narrator doing stories, highly recommend his battletech audiobooks! Start with decision at thunder rift.

[@gcramer30]

I truly appreciate your narrations. And by that i mean truly your narrations agro.

[@AgroSquerril]

Thank you , glad you enjoy

[@Mustangofold]

Nice seeing you do a guest spot on this channel Grim Dark; first found your channel with the BattleTech Lore.

[@joshuaban2407]

I think a flamethrower isn't the right tool for that spider someone get the nuke its the only way to be shore.

[@arakheno4051]

F.A.S.. Well met Grimdark Narrator, always enjoyed your Battletech specs series. Kill it with FIRE!

[@GrimDarkNarrator]

Thank you.

[@allenmorgan1007]

For the Algorithm, For the Author(s), For the Disembodied Voice! Edit: Thanks for all the quality content, Agro!

[@AgroSquerril]

For the algorithm and its a pleasure

[@bathroomprophet2310]

For the squirrel

[@sedevri864]

Fire, the only way to be sure.

[@AgroSquerril]

indeed

[@kurtismiller9544]

Spiders must DIE! ROFL can't blame the guy for roasting and toasting THAT particular one....

[@AgroSquerril]

indeed

[@kennethhummel4409]

GrimDark!!!! Glad to hear you!

[@thelaughinghyenas8465]

I liked the second reader. The guest reader of the week program might be nice!

[@AgroSquerril]

would be tough to keep filling to spot every week. The occasional one I may be able to swing

[@localcryptid3127]

We have just created our own religion for the algorithm just…because we liked it, this should be a topic of one of the stories honestly

[@widdershins5383]

Yep, if I saw something like that winged spider abomination of nature cursed xeno, fire and devastation would be the only logical resolution lol nah man, we can’t live peacefully, not with that. Nope nope nope.

[@miclang1436]

That spider wasp sounded cute

[@davidteh3807]

Wait ~ is that a face hugger !

[@AgroSquerril]

close enough

[@merlinathrawes746]

We know well how to wage war and win or at least be certain you lose. Maybe a net just to study it and find out what it can do.

[@FYLLBILL]

Awesome! I love GDN!

[@sherylcascadden4988]

A comment to appease the algorithm and help the channel. Some of the spiders from Australia are pretty impressive.

[@michaelmoolick9419]

GrimDark has full Novels and does Battletech content too.

[@craftysmithkeith3653]

the guest reader reminds me a lot of admiral yulauren from star wars

[@radioactiveassassin5218]

Something tells me that none of the soldiers were from australia, otherwise they wouldn't get scared.

[@AgroSquerril]

whose a cute little fella then?

[@JamesSavik]

Giant Spiders! GLASS THE PLANET! 🕷

[@thomastruant8837]

I was gonna laugh if arch did the second one

[@willgallatin2802]

Good stories, and good narrators. Great way to start the morning.

[@AgroSquerril]

glad you enjoyed

[@theguyonthecouch6109]

Have to laugh at this. I've been going through your backlog for a while now. It was GDN that brought me to your channel a few months back.

[@helkdona226]

Although I am not a fan of grimdarknarrator I love the idea of guests narrator

[@Snipergoat1]

Hear hear, the grimdark genre always seems to require annying levels of stupidity from everyone involved. It's just too damned annoying. I may get slagged for this but I never played Warhammer 40K for that very same reasons. A distant future with scifi tech and everyone fights with the same brillance and tactics of a WW1 general. Like the guys voice though, very 1950's radio program like.

[@DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH]

Bless the Squerril Bless the Author

[@kennethhummel4409]

Shoulda just took the humans deal. It would have been a lot less painful.

[@AgroSquerril]

yup

[@genericuser984]

neat

[@yomogami4561]

good stories both. not bothering to sleep tonight thanks the the 2nd story [arachnophobe]

[@davidvincent5701]

Grim Dark must be a son of one of the narrator's from the old school class lecture videos. His voice just takes you back to sitting in class and watching some old projector film or VHS tape. No offense of course.

[@AgroSquerril]

lol

[@henrypaleveda7760]

Let's go UTG!

[@SkylerLinux]

Had to be done, both

[@AgroSquerril]

indeed

[@jamiemease2220]

The guest author needs a better mic

[@jasonpatterson8091]

The story itself is fine, but the first is not about a Pyrrhic victory - the humans didn't lose. It was a war of attrition. Just sayin. A Pyrrhic victory would have been the aliens defeating humanity then being unable to continue due to their own weakness, or something similar.

[@ChrissieBear]

That... is literally what the story is about. About how the humans would rather force the aliens into a pyrrhic victory rather than surrender.

[@chriscook1628]

I listen to these because I enjoy your voice, pronunciation, and eruditness. The second one... Not so much.

[@silvadelshaladin]

I prefer your narration.

[@paulross225]

The author's name is Grim. Is that correct?

[@josmeijers2818]

F.T.A!

[@AgroSquerril]

for the algorithm

[@WiredTurkey316]

For the algorithm

[@AgroSquerril]

for the algorithm

[@angrydragonslayer]

Neat

[@AgroSquerril]

:)

[@Cluxystardom]

P

[@helslayerknightclaw1339]

HFY, Great Reddit, Shit Mods

[@merlinwizard1000]

118th, 23 January 2024

[@thomash2959]

Not a fan of robot man story telling

[@andrewstrongman305]

Er, the past tense of drag is dragged. The past tense of drug is drugged. "As the war drug on" is not just poor grammar, it is absolute SHIT! Even if the author is so illiterate as to make such a mistake, why was it not corrected/edited, even by Agro?

[@AgroSquerril]

I have heard people use both

[@andrewstrongman305]

@@AgroSquerril Come on, really? Think about how valid that explanation sounds to an English teacher who just called you out for repeating poor grammar... One is correct, the other is pig-ignorant. Why would you promulgate ignorance in language? Note, such language may be used by a character to illustrate their educational deficiencies or limited intelligence, but it must not be used otherwise.

[@AgroSquerril]

@@andrewstrongman305 Poor grammar is common in these stories and so is me repeating not only poor grammar but spelling mistakes as well. If I have heard enough people say something a certain way , like for instance a lot of things Americans say. Then I don't register there is a problem as I assume is a localization of the language or just a mistake which happens.

[@vonkug]

If you're good on 40k, read my contribution?

[@AgroSquerril]

from what i have hears GW is going after everything 40k related and nailing creators

[@torkusqerdoon1062]

sorry, but monotone is not… a good idea…

[@AgroSquerril]

fair enough

[@RETAMOZA]

I just don't like the guest narrator's voice

[@AgroSquerril]

fair enough

[@asandrewsilvaw]

For the algorithm