Aliens Panic as Deathworld Earth Turns Night | Best HFY Stories

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[@Izlude7189]

I really like the Parem system. It's fair, if brutal. You can take all the time you want off, you can work as much as you want. You can take half-shifts when you want. You can take a break whenever you want. You get swole, you get paid well.

[@monkeyfat61]

i second that

[@mikkelnpetersen]

Agreed, I personally think there's certain jobs that should be more based on how much you do, and when it comes to things like mining is a good example.

[@TwirlingStar]

Honestly, that work environment gives really good incentives to have a good work ethic, since it’s essentially a meritocracy.

[@AliceI7764]

This was a really interesting take of two species living with each other and working with each other. And not once did I hear "it was far from over ". Terrific little vignette.

[@madgamingformemes]

Or the dreaded "palpable"!

[@pinkbiohazardmercurialcoll7133]

I also see a serious lack of determination...

[@sevenseven7990]

Honestly this is the kind of work i would love, You get what you put in. You're not forced to work if you arent feeling good, you dont have to slog through a work week for a paycheck.

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

Oh god, we're blessing hearts in space. That's gonna be trouble when the translators catch up 😂

[@stevensola3361]

I truly enjoy the People Reading these stories so much more. I would love to hear a several hour story with several of them reading different parts like an old radio show.

[@michaelpettersson4919]

There is a series in the format of an alien podcast about humans. And it is on this channel as well.

[@HrLBolle]

9:09 As a German who enjoys these stories This one makes chuckle, bordering on a belly laugh, our kind of humor

[@pistolpete0511]

Ja musste auch schmunzeln;)

[@user-iw6bu4iq4r]

I fully believe that if there is intelligent life else where in the universe, they would have evolved on tidal locked planet, for tidal locked world does not need a moon like that of Earth.

[@alganhar1]

They are also places of absolute extremes. Tidally locked bodies also tend to be VERY close to some other much larger body. Mercury for example is tidally locked because its so damned close to the sun. There ain't no effing way life is evolving there, let alone complex life. Its hot enough to leave some metals as liquids on the day side and sub zero in a major way on the night side. Another fun thing about tidally locked bodies, if they have an atmo they tend to lose it.....

[@Kags]

I imagine you mean eyeball worlds. There are 2 theories about them, either they have hurricane force winds all day long because the star facing side is so hot and the air rises rapidly, pulling all the atmosphere from the cold side like a perpetual mushroom cloud. Or the cold side is so cold that the atmosphere freezes and falls to the ground, is then replaced by atmosphere from the hot side and freezes again. This continues until there is no atmosphere left

[@CommentsProbablyDeleted]

Possibly only if such a tidally locked 🔐 world is the satellite of a giant primary like Jupiter

[@leiaclark8388]

When I was thinking about how life would be possible on a tidally locked planet, I was thinking how the direct heat from the sun would make north too hot, and south too cold. While the temperature differential would cause winds, I didn’t think it would be enough. Also, the moons cast shadow when they are on the north, helping decrease temperature in the north. Also, I thought that wouldn’t be enough, so to help stir the oceans, I gave Parem 4 moons. That’s the only way I could see a tidally locked planet being viable for life.

[@Mikkel-RS]

Dont forget, our moon does do some winding of our core, giving us our magnetic field and ability to keep atmosphere. Tidally locked planets might end up with a stalled core and no magnetic field, or very tiny like mars.

[@frogtank4407]

this doesn't sound so bad, honestly. no shitty boss, choice of what environment you work in, and day's off when you want them instead of shitty schedules made by people who can't understand "i can't work on this day"

[@old_Deviltounge]

then it gets evened out with "Too hot or too cold. pick a hell and work your ass off." "Your quota is .001 second late! no pay for today!"

[@frogtank4407]

​@@old_Deviltounge So? i live in Colorado. its always either -30 or 105. And as long as you get your shit done quick, you can stop working for the day. in my first job i got written up in 9 days because i was doing nothing after finishing my work early cause i busted my ass and got it done quick. At least this type of work rewards those who work quickly.

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

Let me tell you, working in that culture (or nearly) is amazing.

[@AsobiMedio]

Honestly sounds like heaven. You get paid for exactly what you do and the system in place is set up to maximize your productive capability. Aka, help you recover, minimize accidents, and minimize confusion with strict and direct instructions. And apparently, the pay was pretty damn good for those willing to put in the effort. And even if you miss the strict deadline you just have to wait until the next day to get paid, not an arbitrary pay date the next week or two weeks. That, and shitty coworkers get their comeuppance instantly without dealing with equally shitty HR. I'd take that job in a heartbeat if it was available, hard manual labor be damned.

[@t900HAWK]

technically speaking someone told me the bible says youre supposed to be paid your wages at the end of the day. not sure how true it is but that would be really nice.

[@bryandoyle765]

“Like Gev almost said, I’m Carl.” Haha 😂

[@epicgamertool]

We need a part two that goes further into the exploration and preferably with the same narrator, you have serious talent!

[@mikkelnpetersen]

I feel for Fred when it comes to the questions, he said it as simple as possible "you get paid based on your work, you want to work for 30 mins and take a break the rest of the day, you can, as long as you reach your quota" "When it break time?" "I BASICALLY JUST TOLD YOU, WHENEVER YOU WANT AS LONG AS YOU REACH YOUR QUOTA"

[@Piemur1]

6:30 I was quite amused at the thought that there are just sometimes the dumb ones that don't know how to hold a book right.

[@taitano12]

Yeah, I've had jobs like that a few times right here on earth. Not as bad as the guy who argued thought it was, but his exasperation was understandable. Once you get used to the per quota pay and the hyper strict schedule, it's not not that bad.

[@sevenseven7990]

what are these jobs, please i need to know because im sick of working retail with shitty bosses.

[@taitano12]

@sevenseven7990 Mostly farm work. Berry picking and the like. You get paid on what you produce. I did have a job that paid per piece making a variety of stuff, but the quotas were ridiculous. It ended up paying just a little more than minimum wage - unless you worked at an Asian grandma pace. However, if you are constantly taking breaks and days off, they'd still send you packing. With the farm work, you usually don't get a day off till the planting/harvest is done. They're dependant on the weather and seasons, so the break thing may apply, but not the day off whenever you want.

[@FreeSkyRebellion]

Carl was done perfect.

[@charlesrockafellor4200]

The water everywhere reminded me of deployment. You're in the sandbox? You _need_ that water.

[@leiaclark8388]

I’ve been on those deployments too. Water water water.

[@whyjnot420]

I spent years working outside in New England. Saw plenty of hot days in the summer where you would need a ton of water (I always filled a 2 gallon cooler to take with me every day for most of the year and one tends to take note of the water levels). Then one summer I went to the Bahamas for my sisters wedding. Walking out into the sun down there felt like getting slapped in the face. As it was summer both the heat and humidity were at their upper end. While the sun felt like getting slapped. The humidity felt like... idk, inertia, like a weighted net maybe. It was oppressive. Thankfully as I was part of a wedding party, I had complete access at a Sandals. So much booze. So much. And a pool and steak and more booze. Not to mention that a quick walk down the beach will find you whatever it is you are looking for... within reason. (It was probably a good thing that I was only down there for a few days)

[@charlesrockafellor4200]

@@whyjnot420 When my first wife and I escaped from New York, as it were, I was stunned by the effect of the heat and humidity of South Carolina. Brooklyn got plenty hot in the '70s and '80s, but the effect of SC was literally stupefying; I was lethargic, barely ate, and this was the start of October. The one saving grace was that I got a nightshift job, so necessarily didn't have to deal with daytime there. Funny thing is that the Florida panhandle a few years later wasn't nearly so insane (and conversely, the ISO dock in summer in Japan, right after that, could soar to 120° in general, and 150° inside the C-130s' wings and engines... 10 minutes on / 45 off [I think that it was _supposed_ to be 15 off or 30 off], tons of water, and you'd sit there watching the sweat bead up at a visible pace).

[@whyjnot420]

@@charlesrockafellor4200 I hear that South Carolina and Georgia can get brutal even compared to just a little bit north in VA. Prior to the Bahamas, the furthest south I had been was Virginia. Mainly out in the Shenandoah Valley, since that is where my dad is from. But I spent a fair bit of time over in the eastern parts too. I've still never been further south inside the US. (with the exception of a stop in NC on my way to and from the Bahamas, but I never left the airport) There is all of one time I was in the position to truly watch perspiration gather at an alarming pace. I'll spare the details, but you know it is bad when it becomes a serious slipping hazard. These days though, about the most strenuous thing I do is paddle around the lakes and reservoirs with a kayak. Truly it is much nicer to go to a body of water, rather than creating one with my own sweat. Oh, one trick I learned from one of my landscaping bosses was to eat spicy stuff in the heat if you aren't feeling that hungry. He grew a bunch of hot peppers at his house. Its amazing how good a mildly spicy pepper is at getting you hungry when its hot. (which is probably one of the reasons people first started eating them or so they say)

[@charlesrockafellor4200]

@@whyjnot420 Ooh, yeah. I'd forgotten the slipping hazard, since we worked on diamond-grating stands. What stood out to me is the strange flavor of the air when there's no breeze and the sweat is soaking the air that you're trying to breathe. Mmm... spicy food... I'll definitely keep that in mind! I love me a good curry (ahh, CoCo Ichibanya, how I miss that place), and will happily snack on jalapeños as if they were carrots. ❤

[@judahsmyth5398]

honestly, even though i'm not that athletic, i'd probably like trying a job like that on a different planet, especially if it'd force my body to become more athletic

[@casard5235]

'Gimme a break!You need a break? So, take a break. Thanks for the fun story.

[@leiaclark8388]

You did great! The artwork for Fred was perfect! And also for Lucy’s Loo. Thank you!

[@Fylasfrommabi]

so where's the ocd german town where people get ever more obsessed with the parem ways and are secretly banned from earth and everytime one tries to get back the government hatches ever more elaborate shemes to try to get em to a different planet? XD

[@TheAzynder]

They refuse to participate due to poor worker protection, like unpaid sick leave :)=

[@Fylasfrommabi]

@@TheAzynder lies! It ez all in ze contract so zis is how we do it!

[@Terran.Marine.2]

Riding down saves the knees. Ever watch NCIS? Somebody knee's are no bueno, stairs up, elevator down.

[@SSTR87]

😂😂😂 Carl's orientation was way too accurate! Narrator has the cutest way of telling her r

[@CommentsProbablyDeleted]

I enjoyed the narrator's style and the in-depth research of the content. Her voice just hit the right notes. More stories with her voice would be welcome.🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@whosagreekgod4135]

Bro! Parem is based AF!!! Would totally work there. 😂😂😂 But yeah this was a great story. Loved it.😊

[@NadLei]

Loved the story, especially how it was about understanding each other avoiding unnecesary conflict

[@KeithChastney]

Another top quality story, thanks.

[@kenlee5509]

0:44 Temperate zone, not "temperature". Yes I am an editor, :P can't help it. Keep up the great work! Another excellent story! Bravo Writers!

[@SakarianOutcast]

The subtitles said, "temperate," so it's likely an error on her brain not reading the whole word.

[@intensehumanbox9662]

The cursing in this story felt more realistic last one just felt like a 16 year old going ham on his fan fic lol

[@BarnardBinPerson]

Ah yes Aliens from a tidally locked planets was shocked to find Earth wasn't tidally locked. How awesome =:P

[@SakarianOutcast]

That opening trill was awesome!

[@intensehumanbox9662]

Once again asking to see if a humanity discovered by aliens that possess magic as a HFY story could be possible I think it would be cool if written well (well ig anything written well is good lmao)

[@haywirewindgod]

They did that one. It was "humans have electricity inside them", it's the second part to "earth isn't A deathworld, it's THE deathworld".

[@intensehumanbox9662]

@@haywirewindgod maybe im not remembering that one correctly but wasnt that one not about magic?

[@nightmarepokemon1143]

@@haywirewindgod Could you put the links to those 2 videos? I can't find them :(

[@judahsmyth5398]

@@intensehumanbox9662 yeah, i felt like that one was moreso that humans for whatever reason in that case are the only sentients with, well, electricity in their bodies, and as such it messes with things like shields for some reason

[@vanishl.2693]

@@judahsmyth5398after watching the vid it did seem like the human in that one was some kind of mage.

[@Bob.Jenkins]

Excellent, well thought out and logical story which was narrated extremely well.

[@SilverAranda]

Really not a bad working place.. aside of the crushing atmosphere and extreme climate... We all could use a coworker like Carl, Carl is cool... The month thing was cute xD waitwait waaaait.. a CEO that understands their workers need and Adapts to it and improve their life style.. ok now I know this is a Scyfy tale xD

[@Zucca101]

A social club for meeting aliens and maybe even having hanky panky? Sign me up!

[@Speedfly1]

This story are a interesting though on how it could be, if we had planet traveling work. It is ok but a little tame for me. Good Narrator.

[@serpentinious7745]

A single strip mining vehicle would harvest more ore per minute than a hundred humans with individual carts could hope to do in a day. Nobody tell the paramites. Edit: Bucket wheel excavators (I had to look up what they're called)

[@leiaclark8388]

I took your comment seriously. The reason why will be explained in the next Fred story.

[@serpentinious7745]

@leiaclark8388 I look forward to it. Also, I looked up the machines in question. They're called "bucket wheel excavators." They are the largest land vehicles on Earth, with the current record holder being the "Badger 293" at 14,200 tonnes. It moves 218,880 tonnes of earth per day.

[@Izlude7189]

Who's going to do maintenance on those? Still need humans, we're the ants of the universe.

[@serpentinious7745]

@Izlude7189 Of course they'd still need humans. Bucket wheel excavators are vehicles, not robots. Just not nearly as many humans per tonnage mined. And it'd go a lot faster.

[@PikaEast]

They'd have to be redesigned for the heavy gravity first pika

[@shanelennon9359]

That was a good story and your voice is good to. Ill sub.

[@Radzas]

Loved the name pronunciation!! :D

[@patrickdurham8393]

Anyone else remember Isaac Asimov's story Nightfall?

[@cmdr_stretchedguy]

Reminds me of Nightfall, originally a short story by Isaac Asimov and later a full book by Robert Silverberg

[@douglasdingler9405]

Welcome to your standard chain gang. This is EXACTLY the same thing they go through with the same problems.

[@nicholaschisholm7018]

Fred carried this story and his crew lol

[@stevevaden3971]

Well read. Ty

[@georgepollastri601]

Very well done, need a part 2 - 3 ect......

[@sandwiches-o3f]

You are a fantastic narrator!

[@derisathartfelt]

love these

[@Juhnekk0]

After weeks of ai readers, to find a human is just the damned best!

[@HimitsuYami]

These guys are good, I also recommend NetNarrator and ArgoSquirrel

[@sinan2.71]

Good one !

[@xyrothelast227]

I listen to these at work 🧐

[@doylewillis9587]

Very interesting story and very well done❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@JMM33RanMA]

Very interesting and original. You folks do earn your "Far Better Than Average" score!🏅🎊🏅🍾🍻❗

[@dr4c0r3x5]

I like Fred, I'd follow his example

[@Verrisin]

just hire Nordic people. They are used to it.

[@ericbarnes6371]

Remind me of working in the carnival

[@benjamincabreraaparicio8684]

not surprised humans have difficulty following rules, but the rules are extremely simple

[@PythonPlusPlus]

I am astounded by how long the humans took to understand how the rules worked. They are so cut and dry, it should be obvious.

[@leiaclark8388]

Have you met humans?

[@Negative_Clover]

You have clearly never worked for a temp agency.

[@PythonPlusPlus]

@@leiaclark8388 Unfortunately I have. And their stupidity takes me by surprise every time.

[@Espen_Danielsen]

Good story, but confusing change in the middle. It's like it is to half stories coupled together... Second time I hear one of those in a row on this channel. Reader is very good! Nice voice and ok pronunciation. Thanks!

[@jeffhall4228]

My first story here. Very good story. The narrators voice is amazing.

[@nenaviboe1841]

This reader sounds like the one who read for the "Divergent" audiobooks.

[@stikkychaos]

FOR CARL!

[@EdricLysharae]

Sounds like the fairest hell ever devised.

[@cjandauntieyaya1446]

We Atheists are anything but devout.

[@satinsteeldad]

Humans can get used to just about anything give a no chance to get away from it

[@Terran.Marine.2]

Seems extra height would be contra-indicated with and extra portion of acceleration due to gravity.

[@AugustTangvald]

👌

[@gg-eo6ez]

The only issue with it is the author hasnt worked in scorching oven level temperatures, not even the newbies ever began crying to themselves because it was 120 degrees. Oh, and we were on Earth, so we didnt get to just quit the day whenever we wanted. In fact, we were on call 24/7/365

[@leiaclark8388]

I have absolutely lived and worked in oven level heat, before, during, and after the military.

[@gg-eo6ez]

@@leiaclark8388 The idea that humans would react in such a manner from the author means that the author has never experienced anything other than middling temperatures and weather, definitely not a soldier or a member of any other branch by any means

[@leiaclark8388]

@@gg-eo6ez I grew up in Las Vegas. when I was a cook in the Navy during Desert Storm and it was 130 before you even walked into the kitchen, I thought it was hot. The poor bastards down in the engine room and fire room had it even worse. How hot do you think it should have been?

[@gg-eo6ez]

@@leiaclark8388 I'm currently experiencing a weird glitch where the Comments box is displaying or possibly even sent you something I typed to a completely different person on a different videio.

[@Anomaly-uz9pr]

Hooah

[@al145]

Meanwhile, on nonfiction present day Earth...

[@robertescalante1154]

Kudos on pronouncing alien names. ^_^

[@0minous187]

looks like you drew the short straw for this one huh? these names are ridiculous lol.

[@Rebellion90s]

High stress work society... Japan does so too except if you are late then you are late, but you can give your employer the reason why in the form of paper signed by the service provider, so that it won't be recorded in the lists of bad behaviors and tarnished your resume in the process. However, you can't turn in any form of materialized evidence you better hope yourself to be involved in a RomCom manga situation. As for languages, in case you guy wondering if the 1000 languages were true, well, maybe yes or maybe no. i live in Thailand, we have 3 main languages (Thai, Cantonese Chinese, certain Islamic language used by Muslim I'm not sure which one), and Thai language itself has at least 4 variations excluding those that used by minor ethnics

[@tc-tm1my]

Work and work out at the same time

[@SchiwiM]

the american dream in space, lol

[@rontompkins5966]

i need this kind of job

[@Golden_Pawz]

Narrating

[@metaempiricist]

They're reptiles right? Seems like drawn out Rs like a hiss than chirping.

[@metaempiricist]

@@wesleyward5901 I mean it said they are reptiles. Its pretty safe to assume its drawn out R not chirping.

[@monoham1]

IS THAT MFKING CARL FROM GTA?! 33:00

[@docdat3468]

German would be the same if the DB would be on time

[@JoeEarlofKittrelMcKnight]

Alien OSHA 😅

[@MrKelra]

They are a spacefaring species, have climatized loo trucks, but cant build dozers and trucks with enclosed cabins to gather their ressources? Shitty AI story, even if they paid a narrator to deliver some voice samples for the TSS-engine to train

[@MaxwellMoore-d1u]

Hey ive just Found out whats up with Trump he fell out of a tree has a kid and hit every Branch with his then Fell the last 30 feet onto Granite head 1st .

[@bigbcor]

Death world earth turns night…but yet this planet has higher gravity. Earth in SciFI is considered a DW because of its gravity lol. So backwards

[@leiaclark8388]

I wanted to do something a little different than the usual “all humans are super-beings” Schtick. Having the gravity be higher than Earth was a way to balance things out between sentient species.

[@tc-tm1my]

Higher gravity, natural disasters, predator species, etc.

[@gurugurukuma]

30:59 "simulate" not stimulate.

[@Wifibee]

The premise is kinda dumb ..

[@tk0rahl327]

Just curious how a near equal level of death world with higher gravity and maybe 25% of the world being habitable, how is that not worse or near the same level of death world. Poor story writing...

[@lol_cerdef]

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[@Golden_Pawz]

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[@Wkklllll001]

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[@Golden_Pawz]

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[@lol_cerdef]

this was the 9th comment

[@King-n00bi3]

Early

[@JanWyman-dv1qh]

Its just BORING SNORING!

[@Golden_Pawz]

Don't watch it then.

[@c7iC]

so basically communism

[@Erick726]

Explain something to me. What's with the universal terms like "deathworld" and "crucible" used in HFY stories? It gets annoying and almost sounds like an AI wrote these. I don't mean this story specifically but all of them.

[@jowiemonster]

Deathworld is so common in HFY story, that alot of people don't need explanations of the concept. For the alien in the story looking at Earth logically , it is something so absurd that it would cause their deaths. So thats how you got the notion of death worlds. It explains alot in two words. The fun part becomes how is earth a deathworld in the stories. The flipside is a paradiseworld or edenworld.

[@leiaclark8388]

@@Erick726 the HFY genre pretty much has it set that Earth is a Deathworld. Neill DeGrass Tyson (the celebrity scientist) also basically described Earth as a Deathworld because of all the crap constantly trying to kill you: animals, terrain, diseases, regular weather, storms, bacteria, viruses, plants, etc. I’m also a Trekkie, so when I picture aliens living on Earth, I picture cities like Las Vegas, Phoenix, Cairo etc having a little Vulcan, and Calgary, Juneau, Oslo, and Siberia having a little Andoria.

[@noneyadamnbiznezz]

These HFY stories are “fairly tolerable” upto “Pretty Damn Good” when REAL PEOPLE performing the narrations and voice acting!! Those channels running a Narration Program on a ten year old PC, THEY ARE HORRIBLE!