We Never Saw it Coming | HFY | a Short Sci-Fi Story

[@spiritofthewolf15x]

"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings" - Some Human, probably.

[@createvibe1873]

Optimus Prime

[@conradshtock3039]

An American, clearly.

[@casualsleepingdragon8501]

Probably dressed in a costume of an 80s alien robot action hero

[@cptnoname]

​@@conradshtock3039 if only the other 38% of us still (ever?) believed in that ideal

[@marialourainebanosia26]

Optimum pride

[@LordCakeskull]

HFY stories like this one have a new feeling since Helldivers 2 lol

[@AlberichY]

You know, we have an old phrase that goes like this: "divide et impera" And over millenia we really mastered it.

[@Enderwave22]

Divide and conquer?

[@sbeeve7418]

@@Enderwave22 Divide* and conquer, it's easier to conquer a group when there's infighting

[@Enderwave22]

@@sbeeve7418 ah.

[@Enderwave22]

@@sbeeve7418 Fucking typos. Fixed it.

[@1985Sherwood]

YESSSSSS, btw this AI voice is the best one, please use this as often as possible! Also keep the stories coming!!

[@ScorpiusZA.]

It's pretty good. But when you look at the post itself (not necessarily this one, but others). The way it is written, there are different pauses, different inflections intended that the AI voice just doesn't get right.

[@1985Sherwood]

My other question, I write a lot of random short stories. Does anyone know how to get it transferred to video? I guess once its in an audio file I can use creative program, but how do I get the words to audio with an AI bot like this ones voice.

[@skilletpan5674]

​@1985Sherwood there's lots of text to speech programs out there. This tech has been around since the 1980s. It's just gotten rather good now. Calling it 'AI' is pushing it a bit much though.

[@1985Sherwood]

@@skilletpan5674 I know its not AI, its just voice but trying to figure out how to convert my short stories into audio.

[@norneaernourn8240]

I guess when we go to space we also take the CIA with us.

[@Beerbottles123]

Of course. It's only natural if we are to have diplomatic relations with other Alien cultures.

[@farkelrysunhope6339]

As an Alien living on this world, all the stories I have listened to so far are very human biased.

[@mugenokami2201]

That’s the hfy area. I’m sure there are some areas where it’s the reverse

[@sandrosliske]

I for one welcome our Alien overlords.

[@Aabergm]

I mean doy, write what you know and all that. Hard to know what you don't know.

[@mianki100]

We humans just bad ass.

[@StopBanningMaStuff]

Is that why your HIDING on my planet.....

[@johncortesi4288]

I love the speakers description, "a small mining colony", but in reality a slave run mining camp!

[@Mexican00b]

its sci-fi not because humans banded together or are in space its sci-fi because humans abolished slavery... we haven't even done that today lol

[@larsharris]

Some are too busy demanding “reparations” from those who never owned slaves, whose parents and grandparents fought, and some dies to stop slavery in this country. But those who never were slaves, a few were records showed THEIR ANCESTORS DID OWN SLAVES. Still demand reparations. The slavery in America is mostly children, and for sex. But the Democrats refuse any attempt to stop it.

[@Photonic64]

All the Alien worlds had Oil.

[@cerberus144]

I love hearing these spoken by an AI voice, like a Translation Software is translating a datalog from an alien tongue into english.

[@Denpachii]

Not bad, but sometimes they can be... difficult to follow. This one was good.

[@ChuckieFinzter]

You can read parts of this as what is happening now across the globe.

[@deathheaht]

The author definitely took inspiration from events in global politics.

[@henrywilson2136]

Contempt will lead to downfall.

[@eblkii6314]

The Masters need the Slaves more than the Slave needs the Master and there are always more Slaves than Masters.

[@damirserbanovic]

amazing POW story

[@RustyEcks]

Loving it!

[@Swolesauce96]

BEHOLD THE TRUE POWER OF HUMANITY!!! Propaganda…

[@johncortesi4288]

In the end, refusing to see the reality of having lost the war, they were still incapable of seeing their "slaves as sentient beings, murdered all of them on their home world and feels nothing immoral or evil in their actions! An un-redeemale species!!!!

[@Shadow.Dragon]

Great story!

[@Beth_OMette]

we are not here to hurt the people, we are here to hurt... you

[@Walter-wo5sz]

Attack of the Community Organizers.

[@waynesaban2607]

Next we will have the insect uprising….. Klendathu forever

[@richardarveaux5565]

Written by someone that actually believes in human superiority. Not a chance in hell, we hate ourselves more than we hate others.

[@unitedstatian]

You should have seen the US on September 11, 2001 when the trade towers fell, I was a teen when that happened. You missed out on the entire nation standing together for the one's who died that day and those who came to the survivors rescue, you also missed out when the country who did it was found. This is not just with the US, it is with most countries as well and if an outside threat were to appear outside of this world you can bet your last dollar on the fact that humanity will band together as one until it is done.

[@no-gracias9863]

I think we can alll agree to be slaves of other humans then some aliens?

[@Bellator_of_the_Shadow]

correction. you hate yourself to much to try and help anyone. you'd probably steal from an old lady to help yourself huh?

[@phokeydhoo8940]

That sounds like a college education right there. The ignorant and self educated are pretty well adjusted.

[@richardarveaux5565]

Perhaps, but when you find where the threat comes from, you if you are a "real" American, you don't allow your politicians to tell you how to deal with war! You let the warriors determine the next outcome. And you don't let politicians drag you into a twenty year war, and then give it back to those that harmed your country! What should have been done was to empty the country that protected those that initiated the war against us of all life. Cowards don't fight, they passify. And that's exactly what Our country did. They showed that we are not willing to terminate an enemy, but are willing to offer them a tuna sandwich and a coke. Wrong by any sane standard! @@unitedstatian

[@survivorjohnny44]

Liked

[@smokinggnu6584]

Hubris.

[@thecorruptedone4645]

I like to believe that some human will shout "Gg ez"

[@tommcdermott3233]

Anyone want to share where this AI voice model is sold? I want to use it to make my training videos sound way more epic.

[@rachaelcourtnell7275]

You can't GIVE rights. They are inherent to being born not given.

[@eblkii6314]

True, but they can be taken away.

[@lordlopikong6940]

Hell divers be like

[@Hector-bj3ls]

Seeing as I neither speak Amarian nor am I familiar with Amarian, I have no idea what honorific it could have been.

[@therasco400]

likely slaver.

[@cindaschuster6725]

💙👍🏻

[@gdygdy]

We need a sequel where all these freed nations are fighting each over in border conflicts, taking each other as slaves, oppressing minorities, turning into genocidal dictatorships.

[@chrisanon2560]

This is an AI voice? It's a good one so keep using it. Good story too.

[@balecalduin1993]

This one kinda sucks tbh. "We never saw it coming". And then lots and lots of "we thought nothing of it". Yeah they did, they just didn't want to see. Lazy writing from a plot standpoint, even if it's stylistically enjoyable

[@deathheaht]

In many of these stories, the aliens are arrogant because of their technological advances and the age of their civilizations, and the humans shamelessly exploit this.

[@markschneider8815]

Karma is a bitch.

[@jannovy7229]

Why are humans the smartest and bestest species in the entire galagy by miles in 9/10 of these stories?

[@michaelknopp9561]

These are stories from the HFY genre. The one premise of this genre is to celebrate humanity in some way instead of showing them as weaker or lesser.

[@phillipmorel5116]

HFY means humanity fuck yea. Enough sed

[@illusionaury]

In most of mainstream media related to space travel or alien encounters, humans are pitiful and get stomped out and battered. We are technologically inferior and just barely pull through near the end due to the need for humans to win the day and the movie/tv show/video game/book to have something close to a happy ending. Almost always an underdog tale, at least up until recently I guess. This area of storytelling (the youtube videos) from what I have gathered basically asks the question, what if humans were not just slightly better than the aliens, but massively superior in some ways or others. an example would be that our gravity is near the maximum limit that a sentient and intelligent species could develop in. or that our adaptability is insane compared to other species throughout the galaxy. maybe our durability is virtually unheard of. Basically, getting away from the "humans are the underdogs and barely manage to win the day" trend that has existed for quite some time in storytelling and media.

[@deathheaht]

In many of these stories, the aliens are arrogant because of their technological advances and the age of their civilizations, and the humans shamelessly exploit this.

[@jamesshillinglaw6884]

Great. Neo-Cons....

[@Darkphoenix3450]

Yeah Sorry slavery Is still being done in Africa over 700,000 slaves today in that country. So why is Humans not deal with them?

[@insylem]

The country of Africa?

[@Darkphoenix3450]

@@insylem no the African countries. Plural.

[@anonygent]

The white countries have lost their sense of morality and "rightness", they no longer believe they have the moral high ground to go in and end slavery where it exists.

[@pedrolmlkzk]

Poverty mostly

[@Hypogeal-Foundation]

@@insylem " In africa " Africa is the continent. So you either don't have any knowladge in the field of geography or you simply have no idea about grammar.

[@arkadyarkright1328]

Was this written by the NRA ?

[@tommcdermott3233]

The NRA would have way more marketing plugs.

[@homoerectus6953]

for the great story...... and excellent voice.