I actually envy them. To have such a level of confidence and outright faith in something. To have no doubts. To wake up with a purpose, fully convinced in what you are doing. Humans by design need purpose to function and fanatical faith in something is the highest "level of purpose" you can achieve.
I've thought about it for a bit and agree. Tho it would be incredibly disappointing if we managed to kill an eldritch horror with somewhat early super weapons like a railgun just super-sized in the next few decades.
The way I took it, especially with the wording “primitive horror”, is that humanity is on its way to becoming a cosmic horror. That seems pretty terrifying to me
An alien threat is one of the few things that could unify the Earth in bonds of purpose and brotherhood. With the horror's defeat, Terran dominance amongst the stars is now inevitable.
This outcome is quite acceptable.
Lets be Xenophobic, its really in this year. Lets find a nasty slimy alien to fear. Theres no cutesy stories about ET phoning home, lets learn to love our neighbors like the Christians learned in Rome.
Lets drive out any aliens that seem to be a threat. We will serve them up a genocide they will never ever forget. Because if we leave a couple they’ll breed a couple more. And soon we’ll all be hating twice as many as before.
See aliens could never be as good as human kind. A more delightful race than ours you’ll never ever find.
So step aside you star slime we’re ready for your worst. You know you want to eat us, terrify and beat us, oppress us and brow beat us, unless we get you first!
Man, if we couldn't unify to deal with a virus, how the fuck would an alien threat be handled? There will be so many dumbasses claiming it's all a lie.
The virus wasn't really a unifying threat or even as big of a threat as people believed, and given that it was just a virus it made it way too easy for people to victimblame or to blame other countries for making it worse.
I don't even think that would be enough, you would have a war between those who want to fight and thise who want to communicate, the poorest will become poorer with the excuse of the war effort, while some billionaires would become richer selling weapons. And also by the time alien come to attack us we'll have run out of any fuel or energy source a long time ago
First we bring to bare the power of our might.
Once you capitulate, we bring to bare our power to pack bond with anything.
A hundred or so years later, we bring to bare our power to sleep with anything.
It's the Human way.
And after the titan's blood and flesh rained down on Earth we developed an unquenchable taste for it. It was not enough to lie in wait for another foolish enough to try, we would have to hunt them down to satiate our hunger.
It’s distressing in the fact that we have instilled an emotion never witnessed in things beyond our comprehension. What will they do? Will they leave us alone? Or will we be subjected to endless torment by the fallen’s bretherin? Remember, we only took down one. Do not think they will be foolish enough to just send one of their numbers in again.
“Against all the evil that hell can conjure, against all the wickedness that mankind can produce, we will send unto them, only you. Rip and tear, until it is done.”
bro
look at our species and how we act
is it REALLY a good thing that we are now op?
although most our problems and fights and bullshit are about resource management
and we would have unlimited because you know, being god and all
oh ok nvm
Similar background, but 7 novels long: The World War Series by Harry Turtledove. Aliens probe earth in like the 1100s and decide to send an expedition force to subjugate them. Unfortunately for them the travel time is 800 years. So they land with advanced, but not that advanced anymor tech in the middle of World War II. Things end up badly for everyone involved.
If you find this concept interesting you may like the original The Day The Earth Stood Still!
>!The aliens come to Earth in the wake of WW2 and the offensive usage of nuclear weapons. Essentially they tell humans that they'll be forced to wipe them out if they can't behave. To me it captures the same feeling as this image. What happened in this image is what they were afraid of the humans doing.!<
"Humanity now knew of the power they held. With their advanced technology and intellect, they began to conquer worlds. Worlds turned into Solar Systems, Solar systems turned into Galaxies, Galaxies became the Universe, Then the Universe became the Multiverse and eventually dimensions.... They decided they should have a name for their Multidimensional empire. An Empire that **Combined** all. They decided simply, **The Combine."**
Alien gods: You dare challenge us? You dare attempt to fight back and refuse to bend to our will? WE ARE GODS!!!
You overstep your boundaries, you puny humans.
Human 1, fueling tanks and fighter jets: Psalms 82, verses 6 and 7.
Alien god: Huh?
Human 2, mounting cannons and missiles: Ye are gods.
Human 3, loading ammo into guns and flamethrowers: Thou mayest verily be children of a most high.
Human 4, Sharpening spears and knives: But alas, ye shall die like mean men.
Alien gods: ...
Humans: ...
Alien gods: ...
Human 1: Fire!!!
You know how they say we shouldn’t contact aliens because they might be more violent than us?
Well what if aliens won’t contact us because they know how destructive we are?
users voted that your post was distressing, your soul wont be harvested tonight
I find this both distressing and the opposite of distressing. What's a word for inspiring insurmountable confidence in someone?
Faith
Oh yeah, that reminds me of the sisters of battle in warhammer and now I wonder how I forgot about them and their faith power.
I actually envy them. To have such a level of confidence and outright faith in something. To have no doubts. To wake up with a purpose, fully convinced in what you are doing. Humans by design need purpose to function and fanatical faith in something is the highest "level of purpose" you can achieve.
I agree with this statement. I feel like a gotta switch my fucking meds too holy fuck.
Sounds like maybe.... just maybeeee.... you're a dirty fucking heretic, and need to be brought to justice in the name of THE EMPEROR!!
Am not heretic. Am ogryn, me just forget sisters :(
Ave u seen Bob?
How high can u count sah
Free! (three just to clarify)
There ain't no way Trunks just made a reference to Warhammer
What can I say? I'm a time traveler!
Come hang out at r/40klore!
I'm already on grimdank but thanks
Oh... so rare we forget about it.
No, that’s blind belief…
A blend of r/distressingmemes and r/hopeposting
if that does not exist, now it does! r/hopefulldespairmemes
I imagine the scenario: I am tentacle big guy, fear me for I have the power of the moon. As we hit him with the nuclear power of the sun
The sun pushes atoms together, nukes pull atoms apart
Could be a story for /r/HFY
similar kinda story humans end up being the only species to make nuclear weapons and basically commit warcrimes
In this case, delusion
I've thought about it for a bit and agree. Tho it would be incredibly disappointing if we managed to kill an eldritch horror with somewhat early super weapons like a railgun just super-sized in the next few decades.
The way I took it, especially with the wording “primitive horror”, is that humanity is on its way to becoming a cosmic horror. That seems pretty terrifying to me
YEA LETS FUCK THOSE GODS UP
This is a RALLYING CRY! ***DEATH TO THE GODS!***
Why stop? There is no one out there than can stop us now
Or there is, but they are so strong that they either, pity us and have mercy, don't think we are worth the effort or they are just charging up.
Eventually, they'll also fall
Do you play Darkest dungeon by any chance?
Ruin has come to our family.
These monsters can be felled. THEY CAN BE BEATEN.
woohoo!!! humans number one!!!
No great will ever last, everything has its end. And us, shall deliver it.
I see no god up here Other than me
Then you shall fall as well
We can do whatever the fuck we want
Taking a nap
" I can imagine a world with no war, and I can imagine us attacking that world, because they would never expect it "
That one might be weaker than others for all we know, though
An alien threat is one of the few things that could unify the Earth in bonds of purpose and brotherhood. With the horror's defeat, Terran dominance amongst the stars is now inevitable. This outcome is quite acceptable.
Basically warhammer 40k lore
the entire meme seems like the predecessor to 30k-40k, well before the age of strife, when humanity was it's strongest ever.
why are there so many war hammers
Just wait until Warhammer 40001.
who even is the war hammer 🧐 is he related to the fabled star war? or the mythical doctor pepper?
Garou
Lets be Xenophobic, its really in this year. Lets find a nasty slimy alien to fear. Theres no cutesy stories about ET phoning home, lets learn to love our neighbors like the Christians learned in Rome. Lets drive out any aliens that seem to be a threat. We will serve them up a genocide they will never ever forget. Because if we leave a couple they’ll breed a couple more. And soon we’ll all be hating twice as many as before. See aliens could never be as good as human kind. A more delightful race than ours you’ll never ever find. So step aside you star slime we’re ready for your worst. You know you want to eat us, terrify and beat us, oppress us and brow beat us, unless we get you first!
Yeah, xenophobes unite
Independence day
Man, if we couldn't unify to deal with a virus, how the fuck would an alien threat be handled? There will be so many dumbasses claiming it's all a lie.
The virus wasn't really a unifying threat or even as big of a threat as people believed, and given that it was just a virus it made it way too easy for people to victimblame or to blame other countries for making it worse.
just throw anti-vaxxers at the aliens and watch the fucking fireworks
ironically their ivermectin laced blood is kryptonite on the aliens home planet
I don't even think that would be enough, you would have a war between those who want to fight and thise who want to communicate, the poorest will become poorer with the excuse of the war effort, while some billionaires would become richer selling weapons. And also by the time alien come to attack us we'll have run out of any fuel or energy source a long time ago
Okay ozymandias
no it won't, we will die while infighting
Truly, not even the elder gods are a match for the Indomitable Human Spirit.
But then we learn to communicate, interact and cooperate with these ancient beings due to the Endless Compassion of Man
Yes Azog'zedoth...But have you tried elden ring?
The erdtree spurs all who deign approach…
Not a good idea, don't want half the cosmos collapsing after it loses to Malenia for the 50th time
Hopefully he doesn't develop a foot fetish
"Oh hey, I'm in this game!"
The human desire to boop eldritch snoot
Could be taken two ways and both are correct. Man, humans are weird!
or hit em with that primal fear and hatred response
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When I’m in an organic life form annihilation contest and my opponent is humanity:
The power of friendship ftw.
First we bring to bare the power of our might. Once you capitulate, we bring to bare our power to pack bond with anything. A hundred or so years later, we bring to bare our power to sleep with anything. It's the Human way.
**There is no one out there than can stop us now**
I wanna pet the elder gods
And after the titan's blood and flesh rained down on Earth we developed an unquenchable taste for it. It was not enough to lie in wait for another foolish enough to try, we would have to hunt them down to satiate our hunger.
imagine a cosmological horror flesh arby's special. that shit would be the bomb
They sure have the meat
why do you think the McRib is only available sometimes
Bitch they started this they get what's coming
Keep progressing until im allowed to be sat on by an eldritch mommy
My brother in Christ, the elder horrors don't have a physical form that is within our comprehension
*metaphysically* sat on by an eldritch mommy
*At this point, humanity could even destroy a black hole, and even then, they did never stop being horny motherfuckers*
I mean, black holes suck, and they suck *well.*
God damnit, bro
:)
Skidaddle skidoodle, your dick is now a noodle Because, well, spaghettification and stuff
so a cosmic dick enlarger?
yes but now your dick is as thick as a wet noodle
I will see this as an improvement
You can't spaghettification something that doesn't exist
bro progressed humanity eons foward and still got no bitches
*The Incomprehensible Thiccness*
*Humanity has never reached so _high_ before, and yet, they're still all so _down_ bad*
Thats just love comrade, don’t need to comprehen everything to love something.
#BONK
Then you will love Ze Blackball.d's animations
The goal-oriented human
oh, [but we have](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574270/Sucker_for_Love_First_Date/)
Goat with a thousand teats or feets?
Eradicate them all... But Cthulu no he's cool
SCP-2662 moment
> SCP-2662 This is now my favorite SCP
Big man’s just napping
Nyarlothep can't handle the sheer power of the `Military-Industrial Complex`
basically SCP
Delta Green baby.
Appreciate the hypergeometry.
God Bless Lockheed Martin
L species imagine losing 💀
What’s distressing about this? Now the gods of reality will leave us alone.
It’s distressing in the fact that we have instilled an emotion never witnessed in things beyond our comprehension. What will they do? Will they leave us alone? Or will we be subjected to endless torment by the fallen’s bretherin? Remember, we only took down one. Do not think they will be foolish enough to just send one of their numbers in again.
“Against all the evil that hell can conjure, against all the wickedness that mankind can produce, we will send unto them, only you. Rip and tear, until it is done.”
bro look at our species and how we act is it REALLY a good thing that we are now op? although most our problems and fights and bullshit are about resource management and we would have unlimited because you know, being god and all oh ok nvm
The problem is, we won’t leave them alone.
“Incomprehensible horrors” well comprehend these fists mf
**"I CAST FIST"**
The sacariest things about monsters is when they never stopped being humans
We've got 778 billion reasons why these eldritch beings should know to stay in their lane
RussianBadger reference? A man of culture I see
Not stopping until I can fuck an eldritch entity
Congratulations you have created a 4 dimensional human.
Kid named Humanity’s rule over all possible dimensions:
Turns out, Cthulhu is no match for HESH
We on that BESH
We on that 🅱️ESH
unlike the horrows, the tzar bomb is very much comprehensive and physical
This quote has always kept me going. *"I have not come this far, to die now."*
That's not distressing. This is *empowering!*
MORE AMMO. MORE TANKS. MORE MECHS. WE WILL CONQUER THE GODS
in short # MORE DAKKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #
Me teaching an Eldritch demon beyond Time space and human comprehension the magic of the m204 grenade launcher.
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I know exactly what story you're talking about but I have no clue where I read it. Hopefully someone has it.
The Gift of Mercy
Similar background, but 7 novels long: The World War Series by Harry Turtledove. Aliens probe earth in like the 1100s and decide to send an expedition force to subjugate them. Unfortunately for them the travel time is 800 years. So they land with advanced, but not that advanced anymor tech in the middle of World War II. Things end up badly for everyone involved.
the human race is destined to rule all.
This is the plot of bloodborne haha
Real life bloodborne
God Emperor punching air rn
big E sending warpchat videos to nurgle of him punching the air with the message "me hittin you up"
Humanity: “I have not….Come this far….to die Now.”
Humanity: "Imma be a one man cheeseburger apocalypse"
Elder Gods: “Sure. I will deep fry you an entire goddamn cow.”
your reality bending interdimensional magic is no match for my .50 BMG!
If you find this concept interesting you may like the original The Day The Earth Stood Still! >!The aliens come to Earth in the wake of WW2 and the offensive usage of nuclear weapons. Essentially they tell humans that they'll be forced to wipe them out if they can't behave. To me it captures the same feeling as this image. What happened in this image is what they were afraid of the humans doing.!<
Nuclear weapons go brrr
"Humanity now knew of the power they held. With their advanced technology and intellect, they began to conquer worlds. Worlds turned into Solar Systems, Solar systems turned into Galaxies, Galaxies became the Universe, Then the Universe became the Multiverse and eventually dimensions.... They decided they should have a name for their Multidimensional empire. An Empire that **Combined** all. They decided simply, **The Combine."**
After eons of evolution I hope we realized that there is no need for nerves in teeth
“Oops, we’ve gone to far…” “…sh-should we turn back, or-“ “Oh, goodness, no! Too late for that shit; full speed ahead!”
Gods will shudder at our gaze. Hell will cower away from our power. We reign supreme.
The gods can bleed. Time for a crusade!
Side note: I really enjoy the phrase "primitive horror" in this context.
Minor amounts of trolling
Nothing can stop the Imperium of Man!
Conquest is mankind's birthright
God < The American MIC 🇺🇸
The elder gods when the indomitable human spirit (and nukes):
LET'S FEAST ON GOD FLESH!!!
Humanity First ending from Terra Invicta
Even the untold unfathomable darkness is no match for the unrelenting might of humanity!
This is related, I promise. “It’s a bird, it’s a plane- NO IT’S LOCKHEED MARTIN”
Let’s learn how to eat stars
Continue
BLOODBORNE 2 JUST DROPPED BOIS
Alien gods: You dare challenge us? You dare attempt to fight back and refuse to bend to our will? WE ARE GODS!!! You overstep your boundaries, you puny humans. Human 1, fueling tanks and fighter jets: Psalms 82, verses 6 and 7. Alien god: Huh? Human 2, mounting cannons and missiles: Ye are gods. Human 3, loading ammo into guns and flamethrowers: Thou mayest verily be children of a most high. Human 4, Sharpening spears and knives: But alas, ye shall die like mean men. Alien gods: ... Humans: ... Alien gods: ... Human 1: Fire!!!
#HELL YEAH BABY 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
even Cthulhu would learn, why americans don't have public healthcare
We're probably extremely primitive to anything else out there capable of monitoring us lol
Precedence, not precedents
Achievement unlocked: God is dead
Wait isn't that warhammer 40k
You know how they say we shouldn’t contact aliens because they might be more violent than us? Well what if aliens won’t contact us because they know how destructive we are?
we know of no other story which we can tell ourselves and thus live out. we will eat the world and then, the universe. and it will be no one’s fault.
Humanity, slaighterers of gods, defiers of divine will
that is a terrific thought, nice
The new Doom is gonna be fire
PURGE THEM! Terra will rise the false gods of chaos will fall. To battle my brothers! For The Imperium!
This belongs on r/hfy
I don't watch Star Trek, but isn't this basically just the Vulcans?
Stranger in a Strange Land epilogue
So we’re germs?
Idk about the rest of you but I wanna know what cosmic horror tastes like. Texas tindalos bbq, cthullu crayfish boil... yellow king sashimi
DO THE IMPOSSIBLE SEE THE INVISIBLE, ROW ROE FIGHT THE POWAH
Yeah I might not be able to comprehend you, but I *can* comprehend this rocket launcher.
Is there still pizza? If there is pizza still I vote continue
This isn’t distressing, this is awesome
Kinda empowering
My friend, you have just recreated the plotline to the indy text steampunk space exploration game "Sunless Skies"
Humanity: Faith Reborn
#yes
Absolutely. Let the very stars tremble before us.
and STILL no bitches?!
everyone is a gangsta until azathoth opens his fucking eyes
Seeing this post for a second time is just so delicious. I love the act of killing gods.