@@dgwingnut8052 this is our likely future. No other explanation needed. After every human is dead, and AI runs the war to mechanical completion, nature will start again
I just had a thought. Those guys we see at the beginning are the generals of the millitary, and their minds are hooked up to the machine in order to create tactics without distractions (sleep, food, bathroom, relationships). At some point, part of the machine that was keeping them alive broke down due to the long and neverending war, and they all died because of the neglect/aging to their bodies.
@@marioq70 I just looked it up. That's freaking insane!!! So, an animated short like this can become reality at any moment. Scary. Who knows, maybe all of the powerful countries have that type of system.
I think this would make a great premise for a game. Your character is revived in this derelict base, the only survivor. You have to piece together what happened in the last 20 years while fighting to stay alive, maybe even fighting your own side, trying to shut down the damaged and now insane AI in the base before it launches a doomsday strike against an enemy that no longer exists. Game play would vary depending on whether you try to reason with, bluff, or outright fight your way to the system's core.
Someone beat you to it. It was a manga series called "Chirality", By Satoshi Urushihara. A few more survivors in it, but an implacable global "enemy" who is also trying to end the "war" by ending mankind first... and no, I'm not talking Terminator here, But an enemy that is trying to restore the earth to its primal splendour, by either incorporating, or destroying the plague thats ruining the environment; namely, the plague named humankind.
I’ve been re-watching this short and Fortress more times than I can count for the past 6 years.. I really wish we could have a fleshed out version of what happened leading up to this!! I love the tech and setting as well as the whole somber vibe this gives off. I really wish the creator of this made more of it!!
The theme it gives me is a future where the War went on so long they had to downgrade some tech because they were running out of recourses to make the modern equipment.
An alternate reality, about our days. In the described world, there were only 2 city states that had long been in a state of parity of industrial and military forces. The war had been preparing for decades, and all cultural and scientific progress was subordinated to it. People built bunker cities mostly underground. They made automatic factories of military equipment, created stocks of weapons. Sluggish conflicts with the use of tactical nuclear weapons, and weapons based on new physical principles, have made life outside the cities of states impossible. Due to the increased uranium content in seawater, cities extracted all the necessary energy on the spot. Vertical farms provided a huge population of cities with food. An AI suitable for military purposes has been invented, using the living as part of its computing complex. The “repeater" was invented. The module is embedded in combat complexes and remembers the processes in the pilot's brain, and simulates them. In fact, the pilot's personality (personality matrix). After the death of the pilot, the repeater continues to fight as a pilot for some time, but then begins to rapidly degrade, turning the combat complex into a heavily armed robotic zombie psychopath. If the stronghold is destroyed, some of them unite in detachments and try to fight as much as their mental abilities allow them. If the stronghold has survived, the identities of repeaters are regularly updated, forcing the ghosts of people in cars to realize their death over and over again, gradually going crazy. Combat complexes that have kept in touch with the command posts of cities are subordinate to one of the two surviving AI centers. In 30 minutes since the beginning of the last war, 99% of the population and military forces were destroyed in a meat grinder, the moon was cavitated, which is currently falling to the earth in pieces. But there are still a lot of active combat complexes in the world. Both single soldiers and groups. The living and the dead. Orbital nuclear bombers, automatic cruisers, tanks, bunkers, etc. There are also civilians trying to escape. Locked in the surviving bunkers and leading a “struggle for the survivability” of their homes, which are in fact also military facilities. The AI centers of the parties that survived the war thanks to the most powerful defense system continue the war to the “victorious” end. Victory in their view is the destruction of all opponents by all possible means. As the numerical strength of the sides decreased, the fighting did not become less fierce. With bestial cruelty, AI centers are fighting for every surviving soldier. Dead or alive. Probably, in the location of cities under the control of AI in the coming hours there will not be a single living person, but the main AI degrade very slowly, and continue to perform the task. Life is rapidly leaving this world. p.s. Few animals survived because AI did not destroy them purposefully, like humans. However, there are also heroes in this world. The dead hand project. The newest combat armor with a repeater having 0 percent degradation. (we don't really know if he's dead or not yet). Due to post-death trauma, he has lost his memory and is severely disoriented, but at the moment he is one of the few beings on the planet with free will and the ability to change something. vk.com/deadhandworld - author's group
"As the last ships left the bay, the last planes soared the sky, the last troop marched the ground, there was peace. Mechanized machinery toiled, their soft bleeps fading into obscurity. The once magnificent war machines that paraded proudly through streets and cities now march one final time. For even with their creators gone, they shall carry out their will. For the machine never forgets. Upheld humanities wishes, no matter how perilous, how destructive, how naïve. Now they rest, laying along side with their masters who marched with them so long ago. With the final wish completed, last rite upheld, the machine now rests, laying down arms. The naval beasts of the ocean now rest at the bottom of the sea. The flying bringers of death now join their masters on the ground. The mechanized vehicles that roamed the streets roam no more. And now, there is silence, there is peace. And where there is peace, there is hope. Not for the future of man nor machine, for their times have passed, but for those that come after, whenever that may be. Man's mighty accomplishments, tragic end, shall set an example for those who come next."
Random TH-cam Watcher perhaps, but perhaps not. Either way, i would say that is 6.5/10 bait. Sure you might catch the average internet user with it, but overall most people will pass it by in search of a more appealing lure
WithAStick AngryWhiteMan i can get behind the waifus, but i am confused if i commented on the wrong comment or if the person deleted their comment and thus making what i say have no context
I always thought of a setting where such a blend of technology could occur. And I pretty much came up with 3 scenarios. 1: Regression due to disaster 2: Certain advances weren't discovered 3: Resource scarcity
@@marrqi7wini54 I’m thinking that this is a alternate reality where ww2 never ended and the US decided to got to war with the USSR. Also computer tech advanced faster in this reality.
I'm 67 years old. My generation watched and worried about the younger generation's addiction to video games. And now, we see them use that technology to produce masterpieces like this! Humans always find a way to use their intelligence creatively. Well done, and thanks. Keep it up.
It was social media, that was the great evil that nobody, even older generations, saw coming. Old multiplayer games were still conducive to making friends (even if they're online, they were real friends). You don't have that anymore in social media, or even in most modern videogames anymore, which is sad.
@@RADIOACTIVEBUNY Real contact with humans is something I intentionally taught my son. Instead of just listening and talking, one needs to look into another person's eyes and see the goodness within, make friends with that. To fall in love with someone, realize the hormones and ideas are just pastimes, and one must fall in love with the goodness that animates someone's eyes. We fall more deeply in love, and become less lonely, when we remember to practice paying attention to the goodness in those we love.
Reminds me of an old story in Heavy Metal magazine where an alien invasion force attempts to conquer Earth far in the future only to be annihilated by robotic war machines (who were the only survivors of humanity's final war and also evolved themselves over thousands of years). The Earth robots had developed their own human-like culture but were so militarily advanced that Earth is declared unconquerable and quarantined from the rest of the galaxy for all time.
What really makes me tear up is the lack of information on the pilot. It lifts him or her from the abyss of the forgotten by making you wonder who they were while also having all the conviction that they were like you. young, brave, and hopeful. It's so crushing to know that they died before their War Machine failed. They didn't get to see a world without war.
this is actually referred to as a Hyperwar which refers to algorithmic or "AI"-controlled warfare with little to no human decision making. imagine 2 sides both have their entire militarys run by AI and all the humans need to do is watch.
0:39 seeing the different helmets, i like to imagine they slowly added exceptional generals to the AI, and as technology advanced, new helmet were invented with each new commander having a more advanced helmet
...And as each successive commander from the differing generations of technology have their life support systems fail on them. It eventually leaves only the last and youngest general to be left alone with his own thoughts who then resorts to inadvertent self-termination (by perhaps intentionally causing his pod to explode) motivated by a combination of existential grief (of the failure of what was the human race, and the loss of their fellow generals who were quite literally the only ones he had left) and mental deterioration. all this accidental (or totally intentional) world-building via environmental storytelling... luv that shit...
The modern mainstream public is a cancer that grows slowly to consume all soon everything will be devoid of meaning and purpose of any kind that is appreciable
Because it doesn't fit their extremist and totalitarian, tyrannical desires and their need to pus THEIR narrative, even at the cost of human lives, sometimes (ALED BALDWIN!). They just don't care about anything but their power and wealth, about THEIR side of their world, their own opinions. They're absolutely hellbent on forcing everyone into thinking like them, or erasing all other trends of thought - by ensuring nothing produced in media can provoke the mind. Not in terms of hostility, but in terms of critical thinking, analysis and investigatory capacity. The mind isn't challenged, and thus it goes more and more idle, and people rapidly become dumber. Apply this to education, and you get IDIOCRACY. That is where we're headed now. A world increasingly populated by idiots who can't tell right from wrong, good from evil, useful from useless. It's turning into a world of arbitration.
Huh? Plenty of games have writing at this caliber. Primordia off the top of my head. Hyper Light Drifter does it without using any words. It can be easy to miss the writing in FromSoftware games but it's there and it's up to par. The Stanley Parable was written quite well. And while I like the new Fallout games from Bethesda fine, to pick one as an example of good writing I would point to Fallout 2. I've been working my way through The Fall, which has more than a few similarities to this. Homeworld Amnesia the Dark Descent
Well given how THIS base was able to send out one more bomber whilst the other side didn't, technically gives them the win in the last war. Get good, scrubs.
Samuel Lynch in wwII there was one situation with the Americans with b25 bombing raid that resulted in a 100%lost rate for the bombers and is known success so losing the aircraft is not considered losing the attack
Never thought of this way bro, but if I were that man, I would have been excited to see something man-droven but also scared that it's what led us into this hell
I don’t think a computer AI could declare a war be over. It would probably recognize it’s lack of personnel and equipment, then send out a request for more, which would never come, so it’d get stuck in a logic loop, sending out calls for help until it finally lost power.
I could imagine a movie or book based on this starting out with this narration: "Mankind has lost. Not against something else, but against itself. No more do men and women live on planet earth, the only signs of them having existed at all being the ruins, the corpses, and the autonomous machines that still carry out battles for a war long over. There are no characters, no heros to look up to or villains to despise, as they are all long dead. Only the machines, carrying out the biddings of their masters that have long since returned to the soil. Come, watch the last march of the machines. See the final failure of mankind finally set itself right and leave the world in silence."
The way things are going; that's how it'll go. It seems our claim to fame is that we learn how to build bigger and better war-tech before we can build the intelligence to use it sensibly. The only counter-example is the 80 odd years we've managed to not nuke ourselves into oblivion; but with the way things are going around the world. . .
SPOILER! . . . . This is the basic plot for Nier: Automata though. The androids are fighting against alien machines for hundreds of years, because it was what the humans built them for. It's only until you encounter an alien android that you find out the entire war is pointless. Both the aliens that the machines serve and the humans the androids are fighting to protect have long since died out centuries ago.
I'm gonna say this: We have a lot of mediocre or stupid superheroes movies in halloween costumes, which cost millions and are more or less the same lumps of dirt. And then there are a lot of small gold pieces just laying on TH-cam waiting for someone to pick them up and adore their shine and brilliance. There I am saying that the poor things comes to you on their own, but the good ones you have to look for...
@WithAStick AngryWhiteMan nope. Some dude use the E=MC² to made a bomb, Einstein became a Watchmen (Reference about the power to change everthing for ever)
@SWAT BOI -YA how do you know robots cant feel anything?! For all we know they could be more advanced than us, have more emotions and have developed feelings throughout their time being alive.
This remind me to a story I've read in the school library when i was young ( around early 2000s) Once upon a time, a powerful magical nation from the wizarding world managed to create a portal to earth. They sent a large magic army to conquer the earth which looks like it was in medieval times. They managed to rule over half of the continent before being destroyed by ancient robots and artificial intelligence. Around 3000 years before the story begins, the ancient humans were a very advanced race. They became extinct for unknown reasons, but their robots and Ai's have survived and have continued to renew themselves for thousands of years, while waiting for orders from their long lost masters. Their expedition to ancient ruins that were originally an AI and robotic base has sparked their return to the surface. Ai's regards otherworldly magical powers as unidentified entities and threats that must be destroyed. Missiles from bunkers, giant armored zeppelins with giant cannons, as well as tens of thousands of automatic planes and tanks continued to pound the magic troops to annihilation. Even the Ai managed to engineer portals and launch a counterattack on the wizarding world. Almost all the countries in the other world were destroyed and even the protective spirits called gods were unable to withstand the continuous barrage of nuclear missiles fired. The Ai of the earth finally decided to destroy the other world because they considered it a threat.
Glorious magic army : We are here to conquer this world. Now lower your head and.. what- R2 : Oh look, uninvited guest *PROCEDS TO LAUNCH 100 WMDs IN LESS THAN 3 SECOND*. Holy sorcerer : ah f*ck... 5 minute later R3 : Hey are you done? R2 : Not yet, let's destroy their world to eliminate the threat and save this planet R3 : Ok. How many WMD you need ? R2 : Enough to destroy all of their environment, oh and prepare the Gamma Burst Cannon R3 : WMDs and Gamma Burst Cannon will be ready in 3 minutes
@@caedenkelly9295 The story is called Serangan Balik which means Counter Attack. It was a serial that first appeared in Hai magazine in 1990 (as I recall). Their small company closed around 2004-2005 due to bankruptcy and their magazine was written off and I don't think that you will ever find them again. But i think you can find some references in internet
Watching fortress and then this, it is actually kind of sad to see the flying fortress go down. It has a really surreal feeling to it all. An absolutely great animation.
Battle complex 431 did her best to save the pilot, she simply didn't know, that pilot was dead long ago. Yes, I agree with you, I've even cried when the plane've commenced terminal operations.
And with that last airplane, man died. His story, his destruction of the planet, all his glories, all his tragedies, all his joy, all his greed, all of that ended.
Connor McLernon Well, automatic base's still operating, so, shadow of manking hasn't vanished yet. Also, Dima Fedodtov announced, that there'll be third instance in the "Dead Hand" series - "Intruder", IIRC.
I think this nails why seeing the fortress go down makes me so sad. It's really a two-edged sword isn't it - on one hand the war is over and machines can stop trying to kill each other for little reason, on the other hand things like the fortress were the last remnant of humanity, and once they're gone, humanity has become truly and completely inconsequential.
I found this right now and a really liked it. Has it got a part 2? Or is it the second part? Maybe the third? Or its just a simple 1 episode l9ng animation? It was very very good. 10/10, nice work. :D
Last week my pilot Jerry died and now I'm on my -113+5916-30%269 pilot. I don't know how he died, oh wait was it that nuke, no, wait, no right, maybe, I don't know.
Honestly we would like a sequel or just what happened before the war would be nice to have a sequel or what happened during the war and who are these people this little film would deserve a sequel or a trilogy.
This is heart-wrenching. At first I wasn't completely sure what was happening, but towards the end it became clear. ;-; I am teary-eyed now. Brilliant short cgi film.
Mans true destiny...To kill. Even in the face of total annihilation, man's thought process was to program AI to continue to wage war. Mutually assured destruction, M.A.D, as true and relevant today as it was during the cold war. Nature is the true winner after we have gone.
Basically humanity destroy itself with war. There are no humans left on the entire planet. Not alive anyway. Nature has taken over. Animals don't have to fear man no longer. There are signs of humanity throughout the planet. Planes, ships, human infrastructures. Vehicles, to toys, electronics, clothing. But due to humans unable to coexist with one another. Humans destroyed their entire existence. Could of been greed, lack of resources, to religion. Doesnt matter anymore. Humans are extinct.
in a valley of death, stood a red cherry tree. having no such luck like fate, it stood there silently. the human race has ended, the war is done. but the remains has never faded, never erased, never gone. for not all hope is lost, and not all is doomed. as long as there is stardust, and flowers that bloom. like the river that flows, life will go on. and our planet, which blue glows, will remain our home.
Viveycore Gaming well, the first thing you'd have to think of when it comes to basic intelligence... the first thing you would do in case of system failure is to reboot itself down to its original factory settings. which by the position of the pilot (at the wheel) was in control before the, NOT so retarded AI, had taken over its own destiny. thus #1 objective is to secure the pilot.
what do you totally care about? I didn't say you didn't care. I said artificial intellegencense as you or I.... or just me because you make no fuckin sense.
The point of these videos isn't about that. It's about the inevitable end, the destruction of Humanity. While a short about the start might be interesting to see, it would miss the purpose of what's already published.
Kind of like, even in death, he was a part of the war, strapped into the plane, ready for orders to take off and fight, and with his ejection and the fall of the aircraft, the war officially being over, he no longer has to wait on stand-by.
"ailens come to invade all humans are dead" finds the planet has been destroyed and they are getting attacked by the machine's that were built by us a very long time ago and somehow is winning.
Why is this sad, knowing that this AI still wants one last dying attempt at the war, and seeing that pilot skeleton in the space suit, just hit me right in the feels.
I think the impression of loyalty is created. People like to communicate and think that AI will be the same as us. To feel, to desire, to be afraid, to want something, but it's not so. And he doesn't need it either. He is not afraid, he does not want, he does not feel. He is simply fulfilling his task, and this, in our anthropocentric minds, causes admiration and awe of his devotion. If we think of him as a person, we see before us a person who, realizing the meaninglessness of his work, continues to do it only because he was ordered to do so, and this cannot but admire
At the beginning you can see a group of human remains inside preservation pods connected by some sort of neuron wiring masks and the fact that the status screen refer to them as 'thinking modules', Both are suggested that they were human brains made into organic CPUs for a computer.
Some of the Base A.I. sounds like the terminals in S.O.M.A....that game had the same feeling and atmosphere. All humans are dead, but the objective lives in the end.
@@midgetman4206 It was the last "Amnesia. The dark descent" but in the future. Where Earth is nearly lost to some kind of apocalypse, probably global warming. They had a research station doing research stuff. They created something bad. The bad thing is fusing human and robot or/and transporting their consciousness in a construct you escape from earth in a matriosca brain thingy.
@@astingilbert582 Human advances to the point they can scan their brain and make copies of it which can be installed in automation during this time a comet crashed the earth ending all life except for a few who were at the time was in an undersea research facility called PATHOS 2. In this facility an AI known as the WAU (WArden Unit) was previously tasked for the day to day operation of the facility but due to humans faced with mass extinction its mission was changed to the prevention of the extinction of the human race but due to the WAU not fully understanding what it means to be humans the people who were in pathos were drastically changed to horrifying amalgamation of machine and human to keep them alive despite the fact they were no longer were
I don't know how many times I saw this video. To me it's a classic. That's right this short video is a classic. I hope the people who made this video have a part:2 , a part:3. This is a great video. The computers keep on going. The computers are still programmed to continue (to fight) the war. I just hope there will be a follow up to this great video.
Imagine aliens finding Earth after this occurred. A planet absolutely ravaged by war, utilizing weapons that split atoms on the molecular level. Ships that flew themselves years after their builders died. Imagine reading the history of Humans. They fought among themselves literally until the day their species died, only living so long due to their ability to adapt themselves using tools.
H-Bombs to further and use the initial splitting to fuse material creating even bigger blasts, and from the original it looks more like cluster bombs which is exactly what it sounds like and does more even damage than nukes Both are against international law though Posadists think a nuclear preemptive strike against capitalism is necessary though and after abolishing the system in nuclear hellfire survivors would establish a more advanced system (socialism) and thus the aliens who've been ignoring us for being too primitive will see we have finally reached a decent level of societal development and help us in rebuilding and eventually transitioning to communism Posadas was a crazy Trot though so don't try and test that
Почему-то так грустно стало. Люди постоянно пытаются уничтожить друг друга, и даже не замечают, что своими действиями они рушат мир вокруг себя. А ведь он такой прекрасный...
@@evmrox6234 , зачем Украину захватывать за два дня? Что с ней делать? Кормить, перевоспитывать, отлавливать по норам нацистов? Слушай Путина, неуч, было сказано - ДЕмилитаризация и ДЕнацификация, что прекрасно выполняется. Ни кто задачи захвата не ставил. Но, видимо, компенсацию за беспокойство взять придется...
The AIs seem to be fairly limited: In the first film, the fighter that attacked it drove straight into its defensive fire without input from the pilot, in this one, the plane can't do more than crash on what seems to be half-power and plenty altitude.
Exactly, the ai is limited which probably is a good Thing because they would soon become way samrter than the actual Pilot which would have been a bad Thing.
Actually a terrifyingly depressing concept. Long after we've killed each other off, the machines on both sides are still waging war against each other.
@@murawestern а смысл? Вам что-то не ясно из 2х серий? Неважно из за чего случится ядерный конфликт, неважно кто начнет первым - победителей не будет! Краткость сестра таланта.
may about the pilot his last moment of victory agenst an enemy who is alrady gone he died later by starvation in is plane bevore he had a chance returning to bace (where everyone alrady died to give him the chance to do this final citical mission)
its a fucking machine following its programming no more no less nothing honourable about it and its a thing of WAR and WAR is NOT honourable readardless or your reason
The machines in this video are level of reliability I strive for whenever I design something. I want my design to keep functioning so long that it outlives the species that created it!
@@raze956 It's easy to to misinterpret it, but when Einstein said "men", he was referring to the human race, and not directly at any gender. "men" or "man" were terms to define humanity back in old times.
I may have seen this 8 years late but it is such a great piece of work. Would love to see a full movie of this because it feels like i am watching the epilogue
This is gold. I want to see a series about this. Maybe one where there's a cryostasis center containing some survivors that due to power failure has to reawaken the survivors, much like how Fallout 4 started.
I would say this qualifies as horror, but it's really not. The emotion is closer to that of dread, where I know it'll happen one day, but can't do anything to stop it. This is a really good animation, man.
I think about this quite a bit as well, not so much this specific scenario, but that one day there will be the last human alive. One day our inventions and minds will fall silent, and the galaxy will be silent upon our death.
Irongear Gaming it's not the same Battlecruiser Complex as of what I've noticed. During the first part, when the wessel declared the report it was a name others than the one declared by the computer voice în the second part. I'd say that each part presents 2 different machines that are of same model. However, the 2nd part shows Battle Complex 431 as the only one remaining, probably first one's faith long sealed (2 different names are stated as of what I remember). still, it's memory lives through the 2nd unit of similar appearance until it fades as well. Or it could be the same unit...
In the begening of the second part. we shortly see the pin-up in front of the bomber. it the exact same one on the first part, but older. Also maybe the bomber swapped station after the first one failed? Or those difference are simply the animatot error. seems the different cockpits are simply a new style. But both are awesome anyway :D
There's no indication of what bases, the last bomber was stationed on. First part it indicate the plane number or amount of bombing run it made. Second part tell us what complex it was on: 431.
Found a source that Skynet launched the nukes to save humanity since Skynet realised that humanity would die anyways due to disease and over population. So after the nukes was launched Skynet planned to turn the remaining humans into cyborgs
вы только добавили новых вопросов, что с солнцем например, почему индикаторы на русском а ИИ говорит на английском почему у оленя космос на рогах, почему пилот сгнил а стратег свеженький и тд...
Having spent some time, the only thing I can really come up with is this... Sometimes (mostly in movies) you will hear leaders proclaim that "we will fight till the last man!" I don't believe this claim has ever been fulfilled (even in movies). This video shows what the fulfillment of that claim would look like. Fighting till the last man - until all available units are expended. To continue fighting despite the lack of enemies or forward progress. To blindly continue in a strategy that does not require tactical appraisal, leadership or even opposition. We will fight until every resource at our disposal has been expended - with or without you.
Английская озвучка и перевод части текстов были добавлены потом, исходно ролик был целиком на русском. Просто автор не стал переводить все надписи. По поводу состояния тел - в каментах проскакивала теория, что по базе долбанули чем-то, что убило в том числе микробов, так что стратег мумифицировался (состояние трупа в открытом шлеме соответствует), а пилот сгнил, т.к. контактировал с поверхностью, где живые микробы остались. Олень - символизьм! Солнце да, странное. По идее оно таким станет лет эдак через миллиард.
yeah we do its called people when in cryo sleep for a couple years and then fallout happened *who knew that matpat was right about all the games in a timeline*
Reminds me of the Ray Bradbury short; "There will come soft rains". In it there was also an AI house, carrying out all its duties even though all that was left of the family was stencils made from a nuke. Until even it failed. But nature did not.
In the quarantine of 2020 I'm reviewing this animation which, in my opinion, is one of the best I've ever seen. In my pov, the most interesting point is the ending, which shows that some animals apparently survived and adapted. Showing that, despite all the atrocities, catastrophes and everything else that humans have committed, nature find a way to thrive. Just beautiful
Very nice! It's rare to see 1 person make all these effects alone... Good sense of physics... the water landing looked natural... also the particle effects were well done... especially the dust flowing on the runway and the smoke from the engine
Who else was kinda sad about the death of that A.I. system? Even though the damage it caused because of it's automatic repeat attacks on nothing, it's death was really sad to me for some reason.
+Dima Fedotov beside that i don't understand one thing. Those planes we see... Are their from a kind of "pacifists unit"? Because in the first part, we saw that the bombs actually gave birth to some vegetables... Or i missed something?
+Ambientium Infinitium Did you miss the explosions after the bombs were dropped? I believe that plant was growing out of an old canister from a different bombing.
i KNOW, right? could be oh i don't know... a video game with perma death? people join, fight the war, and die? and then automated warfare continues on with you permanantly spectating?
Until the sun ages another billion years and liquid water no longer exists on the planet anyway... The planet isn't going to have life sustaining conditions forever, humanity can save the fated end of life on this planet and spread with us across the universe or we can fail to live and life ends.
@@NeverSuspects we would probably just move to another planet and colonize it. Although sci-fi is cools and shit. I don't see humans going past 2-4 planets. As we wouldn't need anymore.
this is so beautiful....i'm speechless.....and amazed. keep in mind...THIS IS 2016 ANIMATION..and it has the best particle animation i have seen in MY LIFE! this...this is...why did people dislike this...it is way past it's time....
i really love the "dark Fallout cyberpunk style" of that short film, specily the idea of the "thinking moduls" with their ......organic..... components, have scare the hell out off me ;) its a fantastic pice of art, thanks for that.
Yeah the "thinking modules" being turned off to provide power, last of the crew, kept half alive to this point... Adds a deep layer of messed up to all of this...
I definitely love the contrast between the synthetic/man made and nature by the end. Maybe it also shows that despite us humans are extinct and our machines just repeat our last orders, that nature would truly win in the end. Beautifully well done.
The last day of war would be a sad day, assuming it's not amid an extinction. For the circumstances under which no ward whatsoever would be fought are almost always going to be dystopian, bleak, and perhaps far more horrible a fate than any war can ever wreak. War makes us strong, it calls upon the bravest, smartest, most heroic of the human race to fight for their ideals, regardless of whos side they are on. In order to approach the endless frontier beyond earth, perfection and a practiced hand in war is necessary and vital to human supremacy.
Doubt it. With a few more years of genetic engineering research we could *make* more animals, different species, etc. There are no aliens. No other life forms out there. If we want cool space-deer or aliens in the future, we will have to make them ourselves.
existence without intelligence is pointless. As pointless as these bombers bombing a already dead city. The universe is just a machine running on automatic with no purpose without intelligence.
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Four years later, this is still one of my favorite CGI animations.
The last missing piece of the story is how did the war start it'll be interesting
@@tolwel6418 Yeah I really wish more of the world was explained, there's just so much lore missing.
Same here
Watched this when first came out and Ive watched it dozens of times since.. it's just that good
@@dgwingnut8052 this is our likely future. No other explanation needed. After every human is dead, and AI runs the war to mechanical completion, nature will start again
I just had a thought. Those guys we see at the beginning are the generals of the millitary, and their minds are hooked up to the machine in order to create tactics without distractions (sleep, food, bathroom, relationships). At some point, part of the machine that was keeping them alive broke down due to the long and neverending war, and they all died because of the neglect/aging to their bodies.
That's a very good theory.
In fact this is not fiction besides the 3D models... the system exist since the cold war named "Perimeter" also known as "The Dead Hand".
@@marioq70 I just looked it up. That's freaking insane!!! So, an animated short like this can become reality at any moment. Scary. Who knows, maybe all of the powerful countries have that type of system.
@@tyragray2273 Is not casual that the autor is russian... lol...
@@marioq70 but it is only in Russia
I think this would make a great premise for a game. Your character is revived in this derelict base, the only survivor. You have to piece together what happened in the last 20 years while fighting to stay alive, maybe even fighting your own side, trying to shut down the damaged and now insane AI in the base before it launches a doomsday strike against an enemy that no longer exists. Game play would vary depending on whether you try to reason with, bluff, or outright fight your way to the system's core.
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Boa idéia.
Someone beat you to it. It was a manga series called "Chirality", By Satoshi Urushihara. A few more survivors in it, but an implacable global "enemy" who is also trying to end the "war" by ending mankind first... and no, I'm not talking Terminator here, But an enemy that is trying to restore the earth to its primal splendour, by either incorporating, or destroying the plague thats ruining the environment; namely, the plague named humankind.
You you have a social media page?
@@Bluecollarjoe6B9 Sorry, I don't have one.
I’ve been re-watching this short and Fortress more times than I can count for the past 6 years.. I really wish we could have a fleshed out version of what happened leading up to this!! I love the tech and setting as well as the whole somber vibe this gives off. I really wish the creator of this made more of it!!
The theme it gives me is a future where the War went on so long they had to downgrade some tech because they were running out of recourses to make the modern equipment.
Agreed
@@drywallpuncher1882 Sounds a lot like the 1000 year war on Skaro.
@@Moneynis great doctor who reference I agree
An alternate reality, about our days. In the described world, there were only 2 city states that had long been in a state of parity of industrial and military forces. The war had been preparing for decades, and all cultural and scientific progress was subordinated to it. People built bunker cities mostly underground. They made automatic factories of military equipment, created stocks of weapons. Sluggish conflicts with the use of tactical nuclear weapons, and weapons based on new physical principles, have made life outside the cities of states impossible. Due to the increased uranium content in seawater, cities extracted all the necessary energy on the spot. Vertical farms provided a huge population of cities with food. An AI suitable for military purposes has been invented, using the living as part of its computing complex. The “repeater" was invented. The module is embedded in combat complexes and remembers the processes in the pilot's brain, and simulates them. In fact, the pilot's personality (personality matrix). After the death of the pilot, the repeater continues to fight as a pilot for some time, but then begins to rapidly degrade, turning the combat complex into a heavily armed robotic zombie psychopath. If the stronghold is destroyed, some of them unite in detachments and try to fight as much as their mental abilities allow them. If the stronghold has survived, the identities of repeaters are regularly updated, forcing the ghosts of people in cars to realize their death over and over again, gradually going crazy. Combat complexes that have kept in touch with the command posts of cities are subordinate to one of the two surviving AI centers. In 30 minutes since the beginning of the last war, 99% of the population and military forces were destroyed in a meat grinder, the moon was cavitated, which is currently falling to the earth in pieces. But there are still a lot of active combat complexes in the world. Both single soldiers and groups. The living and the dead. Orbital nuclear bombers, automatic cruisers, tanks, bunkers, etc. There are also civilians trying to escape. Locked in the surviving bunkers and leading a “struggle for the survivability” of their homes, which are in fact also military facilities. The AI centers of the parties that survived the war thanks to the most powerful defense system continue the war to the “victorious” end. Victory in their view is the destruction of all opponents by all possible means. As the numerical strength of the sides decreased, the fighting did not become less fierce. With bestial cruelty, AI centers are fighting for every surviving soldier. Dead or alive. Probably, in the location of cities under the control of AI in the coming hours there will not be a single living person, but the main AI degrade very slowly, and continue to perform the task. Life is rapidly leaving this world.
p.s. Few animals survived because AI did not destroy them purposefully, like humans.
However, there are also heroes in this world. The dead hand project. The newest combat armor with a repeater having 0 percent degradation. (we don't really know if he's dead or not yet). Due to post-death trauma, he has lost his memory and is severely disoriented, but at the moment he is one of the few beings on the planet with free will and the ability to change something.
vk.com/deadhandworld - author's group
That pilot had a hell of a War Thunder queue.
Omg this comment is beautiful
Top ranks be like.
Wow XD
top kek, mate.
HOLY SHIT,you deserve more likes xD
It took a while, but he finally got discharged from the military.
Poor man, his wife is seen cheating at the end on the beach.
Cute Twilight! :) I've had that as my Discord profile pic for a bit now.
HEY MAN! I KNOW IT'S BEEN THIRTY YEARS BUT HERE'S YOUR DD-2.......oh shit.
Who cheated?
@@frostytheiceberg1127 Yeah, literally got boned🤣🤣
"There was a war"
"Who lost?"
"... Everyone"
Notice how the machine just says "war is over" not lost not won just over.
gives me spine chills imagine the reality of it'
This sounds similar to Infinity War, and could be an excellent key quote for a post apocalyptic movie or game.
NOICE
Fish: "Like hell..."
Honestly the saddest part of this is to think of the AI.
“What is my purpose?”
“To fail to fight a war that has been long lost”
"You pass butter"
@@hanyoukimura and watch the world that we built fade away
Wish he’d seen the skies of Baal on last time
Like putting turn signals on an Audi.
That was lost before it even began.
@@hanyoukimura "Oh my god"
"As the last ships left the bay, the last planes soared the sky, the last troop marched the ground, there was peace. Mechanized machinery toiled, their soft bleeps fading into obscurity. The once magnificent war machines that paraded proudly through streets and cities now march one final time. For even with their creators gone, they shall carry out their will. For the machine never forgets. Upheld humanities wishes, no matter how perilous, how destructive, how naïve. Now they rest, laying along side with their masters who marched with them so long ago. With the final wish completed, last rite upheld, the machine now rests, laying down arms. The naval beasts of the ocean now rest at the bottom of the sea. The flying bringers of death now join their masters on the ground. The mechanized vehicles that roamed the streets roam no more. And now, there is silence, there is peace. And where there is peace, there is hope. Not for the future of man nor machine, for their times have passed, but for those that come after, whenever that may be. Man's mighty accomplishments, tragic end, shall set an example for those who come next."
This is an underated comment
Awesome words
this could be a poem and i would love it even more this is so underrated
Except it won’t life is violent. Just look at nature, what ever developers next will still be aggressive and violent.
Dang. That was really good. Like really good
Strange how in the end, the plane saved the one thing it didn’t need: the pilot.
Random TH-cam Watcher perhaps, but perhaps not. Either way, i would say that is 6.5/10 bait. Sure you might catch the average internet user with it, but overall most people will pass it by in search of a more appealing lure
WithAStick AngryWhiteMan i can get behind the waifus, but i am confused if i commented on the wrong comment or if the person deleted their comment and thus making what i say have no context
I want more lore
Or the REMAINS of a pilot....
No the pilot is dead, all is Intelligency. Artificial!
Seeing the mix of 1900s tech with modern-near future tech feels weird yet good
I always thought of a setting where such a blend of technology could occur. And I pretty much came up with 3 scenarios.
1: Regression due to disaster
2: Certain advances weren't discovered
3: Resource scarcity
@@marrqi7wini54 what advances weren’t discovered?
@@hellopeoplee
I'd assume, jet and homing missile technologies.
@@marrqi7wini54 in the first video “fortress” there was a jet or rocket powered aircraft
@@marrqi7wini54 I’m thinking that this is a alternate reality where ww2 never ended and the US decided to got to war with the USSR. Also computer tech advanced faster in this reality.
I'm 67 years old. My generation watched and worried about the younger generation's addiction to video games. And now, we see them use that technology to produce masterpieces like this! Humans always find a way to use their intelligence creatively. Well done, and thanks. Keep it up.
This is not a video game...
@@ujsmaster6309 Obviously, but is a virtual direction,
@@ujsmaster6309 why did you take out the time to mention it was a video game was the concept of his statement not clear? Lol
It was social media, that was the great evil that nobody, even older generations, saw coming. Old multiplayer games were still conducive to making friends (even if they're online, they were real friends). You don't have that anymore in social media, or even in most modern videogames anymore, which is sad.
@@RADIOACTIVEBUNY Real contact with humans is something I intentionally taught my son. Instead of just listening and talking, one needs to look into another person's eyes and see the goodness within, make friends with that. To fall in love with someone, realize the hormones and ideas are just pastimes, and one must fall in love with the goodness that animates someone's eyes. We fall more deeply in love, and become less lonely, when we remember to practice paying attention to the goodness in those we love.
Imagine a war that lasts so long no one remembers how and why it began in the first place.
We had 108 years war today eceryone kniw how it started and hiw it ended
Hundred Years’ War between England and France.
@@connormclernon26 reconquista something near 800 years
@@toothpasteman3400 Pretty sure that was through multiple wars
@@captainjackpugh6050 so was the hundred years war but people still refer to it it (or them) as a single war
Reminds me of an old story in Heavy Metal magazine where an alien invasion force attempts to conquer Earth far in the future only to be annihilated by robotic war machines (who were the only survivors of humanity's final war and also evolved themselves over thousands of years). The Earth robots had developed their own human-like culture but were so militarily advanced that Earth is declared unconquerable and quarantined from the rest of the galaxy for all time.
у нас у русских есть система "небесная сеть" или как говорят в сша " dead hand" даже если все погибнут она нанесёт удар по всем
Do you remember the name of the story?
I think that in real life the last day of the war will be the first day of the war
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What was the name of the story? Or the issue?
After 4 years, I'm back...
After days of searching,
I've found it.
I assume you've found a way to come back too
I've watched this many times over the years.......... Stirs strange feelings.........
SteeVeeDee Agree
Check out Paths of Hate animation if you liked this it's also very special
Been trying to find this and boom recommend to me
Yes I've found a way back and iam in love ones again
What really makes me tear up is the lack of information on the pilot. It lifts him or her from the abyss of the forgotten by making you wonder who they were while also having all the conviction that they were like you. young, brave, and hopeful.
It's so crushing to know that they died before their War Machine failed. They didn't get to see a world without war.
CGI shorts:
10%-funny
90%-depressing af
Edit: Just for the record, I’m not criticizing the video above. It’s one of my favorites
You are
That's angsty students films for ya.
True. And if there's a supportive sidekick you feel just a little sympathy towards, he's 100% going to die.
nathan biller..then make your own bitch
It is a beautiful art...
A cool premise for a movie would be we’re humans have gone extinct but robots are still fighting the good fight against each other for them
the point is that its not a "good fight" it's ultimately pointless
So, just like the average 2019 Hollywood blockbuster, then. :-P
basically, you are describing "nier automata"
and then bring back humans after?
Ur pic plus what u typed...not in just imagining Mr. Handys flame throwing synths
The fact that the machine revived itself ONLY to send an already dead pilot was genius to a war that already anialated each other pure genius!
this is actually referred to as a Hyperwar
which refers to algorithmic or "AI"-controlled warfare with little to no human decision making.
imagine 2 sides both have their entire militarys run by AI and all the humans need to do is watch.
Oh man, spoiler alert.
@@johnlucas6683 shit bro.
0:39 seeing the different helmets, i like to imagine they slowly added exceptional generals to the AI, and as technology advanced, new helmet were invented with each new commander having a more advanced helmet
...And as each successive commander from the differing generations of technology have their life support systems fail on them. It eventually leaves only the last and youngest general to be left alone with his own thoughts who then resorts to inadvertent self-termination (by perhaps intentionally causing his pod to explode) motivated by a combination of existential grief (of the failure of what was the human race, and the loss of their fellow generals who were quite literally the only ones he had left) and mental deterioration.
all this accidental (or totally intentional) world-building via environmental storytelling... luv that shit...
This is absolutely spellbinding. It saddens me that storytelling of this caliber is utterly lacking from modern mainstream film and gaming.
The modern mainstream public is a cancer that grows slowly to consume all soon everything will be devoid of meaning and purpose of any kind that is appreciable
Because it doesn't fit their extremist and totalitarian, tyrannical desires and their need to pus THEIR narrative, even at the cost of human lives, sometimes (ALED BALDWIN!). They just don't care about anything but their power and wealth, about THEIR side of their world, their own opinions. They're absolutely hellbent on forcing everyone into thinking like them, or erasing all other trends of thought - by ensuring nothing produced in media can provoke the mind. Not in terms of hostility, but in terms of critical thinking, analysis and investigatory capacity. The mind isn't challenged, and thus it goes more and more idle, and people rapidly become dumber. Apply this to education, and you get IDIOCRACY. That is where we're headed now. A world increasingly populated by idiots who can't tell right from wrong, good from evil, useful from useless.
It's turning into a world of arbitration.
Не печалься , чёрный человек с фалосом до колена и в прозрачьно платье успокоит твоих детей. Но ваше племя этого нп увидит ...
Huh? Plenty of games have writing at this caliber. Primordia off the top of my head. Hyper Light Drifter does it without using any words. It can be easy to miss the writing in FromSoftware games but it's there and it's up to par. The Stanley Parable was written quite well. And while I like the new Fallout games from Bethesda fine, to pick one as an example of good writing I would point to Fallout 2. I've been working my way through The Fall, which has more than a few similarities to this.
Homeworld
Amnesia the Dark Descent
Metro 2033.
Well given how THIS base was able to send out one more bomber whilst the other side didn't, technically gives them the win in the last war.
Get good, scrubs.
Lmao
But the aftermath of the war...
Samuel Lynch in wwII there was one situation with the Americans with b25 bombing raid that resulted in a 100%lost rate for the bombers and is known success so losing the aircraft is not considered losing the attack
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
LupusGelos that comment just shows the mentality of some people, and why this will one day be reality
I like to think there is someone still alive, and they just happened to see the bomber ejected an escape pod and now he thinks he's not alone anymore
Bro that’s mad sad
Never thought of this way bro, but if I were that man, I would have been excited to see something man-droven but also scared that it's what led us into this hell
Biggest letdown ever
Fuck....
I feel like the time i watch girls last tour. and they see that city in the distice
I don’t think a computer AI could declare a war be over. It would probably recognize it’s lack of personnel and equipment, then send out a request for more, which would never come, so it’d get stuck in a logic loop, sending out calls for help until it finally lost power.
this makes me very sad
I could imagine a movie or book based on this starting out with this narration:
"Mankind has lost. Not against something else, but against itself.
No more do men and women live on planet earth, the only signs of them having existed at all being the ruins, the corpses, and the autonomous machines that still carry out battles for a war long over.
There are no characters, no heros to look up to or villains to despise, as they are all long dead. Only the machines, carrying out the biddings of their masters that have long since returned to the soil.
Come, watch the last march of the machines. See the final failure of mankind finally set itself right and leave the world in silence."
That's just fucking epic tho
The way things are going; that's how it'll go. It seems our claim to fame is that we learn how to build bigger and better war-tech before we can build the intelligence to use it sensibly. The only counter-example is the 80 odd years we've managed to not nuke ourselves into oblivion; but with the way things are going around the world. . .
Your comment is already real we lost against ourselves - Covid 19
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This is the basic plot for Nier: Automata though. The androids are fighting against alien machines for hundreds of years, because it was what the humans built them for. It's only until you encounter an alien android that you find out the entire war is pointless. Both the aliens that the machines serve and the humans the androids are fighting to protect have long since died out centuries ago.
I'm gonna say this: We have a lot of mediocre or stupid superheroes movies in halloween costumes, which cost millions and are more or less the same lumps of dirt. And then there are a lot of small gold pieces just laying on TH-cam waiting for someone to pick them up and adore their shine and brilliance. There I am saying that the poor things comes to you on their own, but the good ones you have to look for...
wow, are u a writer
@@loshivs680 I'm a welder.
@@BajdonX wtf
@@BajdonX it is impossible
@@BajdonX it is possible but man u are talented
Jeez, the ending was just *SAD*. Everyone’s just dead. I actually feel sorry for the robots...
@WithAStick AngryWhiteMan A. Einstein said that
@WithAStick AngryWhiteMan nope. Some dude use the E=MC² to made a bomb, Einstein became a Watchmen (Reference about the power to change everthing for ever)
I feel mostly for that poor plane, the auto pilot looked so scared and confused before it crashed.
@SWAT BOI -YA how do you know robots cant feel anything?! For all we know they could be more advanced than us, have more emotions and have developed feelings throughout their time being alive.
@@harrychattaway1556 Intruiging...
This remind me to a story I've read in the school library when i was young ( around early 2000s)
Once upon a time, a powerful magical nation from the wizarding world managed to create a portal to earth. They sent a large magic army to conquer the earth which looks like it was in medieval times. They managed to rule over half of the continent before being destroyed by ancient robots and artificial intelligence. Around 3000 years before the story begins, the ancient humans were a very advanced race. They became extinct for unknown reasons, but their robots and Ai's have survived and have continued to renew themselves for thousands of years, while waiting for orders from their long lost masters. Their expedition to ancient ruins that were originally an AI and robotic base has sparked their return to the surface. Ai's regards otherworldly magical powers as unidentified entities and threats that must be destroyed. Missiles from bunkers, giant armored zeppelins with giant cannons, as well as tens of thousands of automatic planes and tanks continued to pound the magic troops to annihilation. Even the Ai managed to engineer portals and launch a counterattack on the wizarding world. Almost all the countries in the other world were destroyed and even the protective spirits called gods were unable to withstand the continuous barrage of nuclear missiles fired. The Ai of the earth finally decided to destroy the other world because they considered it a threat.
Glorious magic army : We are here to conquer this world. Now lower your head and.. what-
R2 : Oh look, uninvited guest *PROCEDS TO LAUNCH 100 WMDs IN LESS THAN 3 SECOND*.
Holy sorcerer : ah f*ck...
5 minute later
R3 : Hey are you done?
R2 : Not yet, let's destroy their world to eliminate the threat and save this planet
R3 : Ok. How many WMD you need ?
R2 : Enough to destroy all of their environment, oh and prepare the Gamma Burst Cannon
R3 : WMDs and Gamma Burst Cannon will be ready in 3 minutes
holy shit!!
What is that story called? I would be very interested in reading it myself.
@@k-132_44 Jumping on the bandwagon sounds like a good book series whats the name?
@@eldevastador6271 I forgot the title, but it's from old local magazine in my country called 'Hai'.
@@caedenkelly9295 The story is called Serangan Balik which means Counter Attack. It was a serial that first appeared in Hai magazine in 1990 (as I recall). Their small company closed around 2004-2005 due to bankruptcy and their magazine was written off and I don't think that you will ever find them again. But i think you can find some references in internet
Watching fortress and then this, it is actually kind of sad to see the flying fortress go down. It has a really surreal feeling to it all. An absolutely great animation.
Battle complex 431 did her best to save the pilot, she simply didn't know, that pilot was dead long ago. Yes, I agree with you, I've even cried when the plane've commenced terminal operations.
And with that last airplane, man died. His story, his destruction of the planet, all his glories, all his tragedies, all his joy, all his greed, all of that ended.
Connor McLernon Well, automatic base's still operating, so, shadow of manking hasn't vanished yet. Also, Dima Fedodtov announced, that there'll be third instance in the "Dead Hand" series - "Intruder", IIRC.
I think this nails why seeing the fortress go down makes me so sad. It's really a two-edged sword isn't it - on one hand the war is over and machines can stop trying to kill each other for little reason, on the other hand things like the fortress were the last remnant of humanity, and once they're gone, humanity has become truly and completely inconsequential.
I found this right now and a really liked it. Has it got a part 2? Or is it the second part? Maybe the third? Or its just a simple 1 episode l9ng animation? It was very very good. 10/10, nice work. :D
Don't you just hate it when you request your pilot and he's dead?
Mason Lee yeah I called him at least 5 times I just gave up on him and called another pilot only he wont respond to my calls hmm...
Last week my pilot Jerry died and now I'm on my -113+5916-30%269 pilot. I don't know how he died, oh wait was it that nuke, no, wait, no right, maybe, I don't know.
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That wasn't funny
@@skeletonlord5255 it was
Honestly we would like a sequel or just what happened before the war would be nice to have a sequel or what happened during the war and who are these people this little film would deserve a sequel or a trilogy.
Yeah, great idea
I think the point of the people without identitys is to show how meaningless all of it is since no one is left to remember them they are forgotten
How can you forget if there is nothing to remember?
Look up VIOLE NOIR
It's another cgi short called fortress with the same ship
This is heart-wrenching. At first I wasn't completely sure what was happening, but towards the end it became clear. ;-; I am teary-eyed now. Brilliant short cgi film.
Mans true destiny...To kill. Even in the face of total annihilation, man's thought process was to program AI to continue to wage war. Mutually assured destruction, M.A.D, as true and relevant today as it was during the cold war. Nature is the true winner after we have gone.
can u explain to me... i dont really get the ending
Basically humanity destroy itself with war. There are no humans left on the entire planet. Not alive anyway. Nature has taken over. Animals don't have to fear man no longer. There are signs of humanity throughout the planet. Planes, ships, human infrastructures. Vehicles, to toys, electronics, clothing. But due to humans unable to coexist with one another. Humans destroyed their entire existence. Could of been greed, lack of resources, to religion. Doesnt matter anymore. Humans are extinct.
@@neverlanduniverse Humanity is dead, long dead. Nature will prevail without us.
You are relived of duty soldier, thank you for flying with us til the end.
in a valley of death,
stood a red cherry tree.
having no such luck like fate,
it stood there silently.
the human race has ended,
the war is done.
but the remains has never faded,
never erased, never gone.
for not all hope is lost,
and not all is doomed.
as long as there is stardust,
and flowers that bloom.
like the river that flows,
life will go on.
and our planet, which blue glows,
will remain our home.
@Grand DestroyerYT thank you!!^_^
I was thinking more like a mass grave.
Because i mean the earth is housing the entire dead human population.
Hahaha I'm plagiarism boy I use this when it comes spoken poetry thnx bro
JuSt A pAnDa beautiful
What a faithful steed, saving it's pilot in the bitter end.
Though it doesn't have a working heartrate monitor...
or it was broken,or the system got corrupted
Viveycore Gaming well, the first thing you'd have to think of when it comes to basic intelligence... the first thing you would do in case of system failure is to reboot itself down to its original factory settings. which by the position of the pilot (at the wheel) was in control before the, NOT so retarded AI, had taken over its own destiny. thus #1 objective is to secure the pilot.
Viveycore Gaming AI is as intellegent as you or I. thats why its called intellegence.
what do you totally care about? I didn't say you didn't care. I said artificial intellegencense as you or I.... or just me because you make no fuckin sense.
Now that's some good durable engineering. Good stuff.
I would love to see a short about the start of the war
There is part I called Fortress I think.
These is but the war is basicly over there aswell, everyone is dead but the automatics keep on rolling.
I know but the thought of what started a end game war is fascinating
Greed, stupidity, overconfidence in some combination
The point of these videos isn't about that. It's about the inevitable end, the destruction of Humanity. While a short about the start might be interesting to see, it would miss the purpose of what's already published.
I feel glad for the pilot at the end as he can finaly rest in peace after so many years.
Steven Pal never realized how trapped that pilot was until now
Even in death he was forced to do his job for 20 more years before release
Kind of like, even in death, he was a part of the war, strapped into the plane, ready for orders to take off and fight, and with his ejection and the fall of the aircraft, the war officially being over, he no longer has to wait on stand-by.
Alright where’s the air force guys with jokes?
C’mon this is just tee’d up and waiting.
Steven Pal even in death I still serve
Smoking C96 damb deep
Those artillery pieces once sang a beautiful tune.
did it sing katyusha or something?
@@euphoriess No, the tune of battle
Thanh Hà Nguyễn no they were 88mm they sung Erika
@@yourlocalmemeandanimedeale807 So, it will be Soviet march
I’m not sure if artillery guns in the future would be able to do full automatic mate...
I know I'm late to the party here, but, wow. Just fantastic. Great storytelling. Great world creation. Great animation. Beautiful message. 11/10
Switzerland coming out of the toilet: "Oh man too many chocolate , what did I miss gu-"
Oh shi-
Welp i guess there's just me time to take over.
Switzerland: its free real estate
_Carolus Rex starts playing_
"ailens come to invade all humans are dead" finds the planet has been destroyed and they are getting attacked by the machine's that were built by us a very long time ago and somehow is winning.
“War did not determine who is right, only who is left”
In this case: no one is left
the deer won.
@@elivevile lol XD
No one won.
Something that is beyond us
Deer FTW
Я горд, что человек из моей страны сотворил этот шедевр. Дима, теперь у тебя есть ещё один поклонник.
А чего за страна, позвольте полюбопытствовать?
@@Thecubel21 раха
You can say alot of things about Russians, but if they do something.... they do it right! My respect to the person behind this😉
@@ТУРБОБАНДЕРА Славо богу, что не хазарский каганат, который временноо оккупирует исконные русские территории.
@@toomaskotkas4467 хазароссия
A war that lasted so long, no one would survive to see its end. Poetic.
Why is this sad, knowing that this AI still wants one last dying attempt at the war, and seeing that pilot skeleton in the space suit, just hit me right in the feels.
that is not a space suit.
I think the impression of loyalty is created. People like to communicate and think that AI will be the same as us. To feel, to desire, to be afraid, to want something, but it's not so. And he doesn't need it either. He is not afraid, he does not want, he does not feel. He is simply fulfilling his task, and this, in our anthropocentric minds, causes admiration and awe of his devotion. If we think of him as a person, we see before us a person who, realizing the meaninglessness of his work, continues to do it only because he was ordered to do so, and this cannot but admire
At the beginning you can see a group of human remains inside preservation pods connected by some sort of neuron wiring masks and the fact that the status screen refer to them as 'thinking modules', Both are suggested that they were human brains made into organic CPUs for a computer.
Some of the Base A.I. sounds like the terminals in S.O.M.A....that game had the same feeling and atmosphere. All humans are dead, but the objective lives in the end.
I thought the same thing! This gave me so many SOMA vibes.
Could you give me a quick rundown? I've never heard of this game
@@midgetman4206 It was the last "Amnesia. The dark descent" but in the future. Where Earth is nearly lost to some kind of apocalypse, probably global warming. They had a research station doing research stuff. They created something bad. The bad thing is fusing human and robot or/and transporting their consciousness in a construct you escape from earth in a matriosca brain thingy.
@@astingilbert582 Human advances to the point they can scan their brain and make copies of it which can be installed in automation during this time a comet crashed the earth ending all life except for a few who were at the time was in an undersea research facility called PATHOS 2. In this facility an AI known as the WAU (WArden Unit) was previously tasked for the day to day operation of the facility but due to humans faced with mass extinction its mission was changed to the prevention of the extinction of the human race but due to the WAU not fully understanding what it means to be humans the people who were in pathos were drastically changed to horrifying amalgamation of machine and human to keep them alive despite the fact they were no longer were
@@wowarmy8154 eventually the WAU improves enough to create functional Sapient Trans-Humans and thats where the game starts.
The War Has Ended
No cheers, No Remorse
Nothing To Win but,
Everything Is Lost
This is how intelligent lives accross the universe writes its fate
Good qouat I will remember that .
Fiasco. Lem. The final product of the escalation of war is white noise forever. Killer book.
Epic
* for certain values of 'intelligent" only!
I don't know how many times I saw this video. To me it's a classic. That's right this short video is a classic. I hope the people who made this video have a part:2 , a part:3. This is a great video. The computers keep on going. The computers are still programmed to continue (to fight) the war. I just hope there will be a follow up to this great video.
Imagine aliens finding Earth after this occurred. A planet absolutely ravaged by war, utilizing weapons that split atoms on the molecular level. Ships that flew themselves years after their builders died. Imagine reading the history of Humans. They fought among themselves literally until the day their species died, only living so long due to their ability to adapt themselves using tools.
H-Bombs to further and use the initial splitting to fuse material creating even bigger blasts, and from the original it looks more like cluster bombs which is exactly what it sounds like and does more even damage than nukes
Both are against international law though
Posadists think a nuclear preemptive strike against capitalism is necessary though and after abolishing the system in nuclear hellfire survivors would establish a more advanced system (socialism) and thus the aliens who've been ignoring us for being too primitive will see we have finally reached a decent level of societal development and help us in rebuilding and eventually transitioning to communism
Posadas was a crazy Trot though so don't try and test that
And thus the gears of war start once more through other species
What happen if they found human weapon?
Not aliens. Peoples only
Владимир Калашников In that situation: Do you think if anyone survive?
Почему-то так грустно стало. Люди постоянно пытаются уничтожить друг друга, и даже не замечают, что своими действиями они рушат мир вокруг себя. А ведь он такой прекрасный...
Ну судя по концовке.. Мир теперь, прекрасно, заживёт без человечества. Без войн, загрязнений и разрушений окружающей среды)
@@efog.9933 Пока обезьяна снова не возьмёт палку (если верить Дарвину)..
ты не понимаешь, никто такого не хотел.
путя просто хотело укроину за 2 дня захватить, но что-то пошло не так.
так всегда у колхозников.
@@evmrox6234 , зачем Украину захватывать за два дня? Что с ней делать? Кормить, перевоспитывать, отлавливать по норам нацистов?
Слушай Путина, неуч, было сказано - ДЕмилитаризация и ДЕнацификация, что прекрасно выполняется. Ни кто задачи захвата не ставил. Но, видимо, компенсацию за беспокойство взять придется...
М-да уж, действительно....
Funny how the plane tries to rescue the only thing it never really needed: The Pilot
The AIs seem to be fairly limited: In the first film, the fighter that attacked it drove straight into its defensive fire without input from the pilot, in this one, the plane can't do more than crash on what seems to be half-power and plenty altitude.
If you look at the monitor than you might see that it asks for instructions from the pilot in the first and second film.
Exactly, the ai is limited which probably is a good Thing because they would soon become way samrter than the actual Pilot which would have been a bad Thing.
SKYNET !
It at least makes a decent attempt of controlling the descent.
Actually a terrifyingly depressing concept. Long after we've killed each other off, the machines on both sides are still waging war against each other.
Спустя столько лет эта короткометражка до сих пор прекрасна.
Обрезали
Вот бы полноценный фильм сняли бы, было бы здорово!
@@murawestern а смысл? Вам что-то не ясно из 2х серий? Неважно из за чего случится ядерный конфликт, неважно кто начнет первым - победителей не будет! Краткость сестра таланта.
Актуальна.
Но есть вырезки, а это уже нехорошо.
@@murawestern
И больше спецэффектов, а иначе в сша это смотреть не станут. Хотя, я думаю, и после этого не задумаются. Их этому не учат.
I would love to see a prequel to this. I want to see how the war was fought, the last moment of the last human, that sort of thing.
may about the pilot
his last moment of victory agenst an enemy who is alrady gone
he died later by starvation in is plane bevore he had a chance returning to bace (where everyone alrady died to give him the chance to do this final citical mission)
There is a final battle talked about in Revelations. Imagine being part of the last war on the mortal plane.
Then do...
th-cam.com/video/pyMNIFZTQkg/w-d-xo.html
Ya me too I was very confused
@@xenon53827 I was not aware that part existed. Thank you.
Awww. The valiant cyber war plane faithfully carried out its missions to the very end, and can now rest in peace. Farewell, honorable warrior...
very honorabru
Big sad
@Mekratrig: You have got to be sh.tting me. smh
its a fucking machine following its programming no more no less nothing honourable about it and its a thing of WAR and WAR is NOT honourable readardless or your reason
@@alexvanhorssen7914 YT really brings out the trash of the internet I see.
The machines in this video are level of reliability I strive for whenever I design something. I want my design to keep functioning so long that it outlives the species that created it!
The hamster's dead but the wheel's still spinning.
Lol, so true.
hahhahaha
I like this comment as well as this cartoon :)
I bet you are! :-D
You are a genius.
“I know if I just wait in my seat I’ll get assigned to a mission eventually!” *Narrator* - “He technically did get a final mission...”
"So long as there are men, there will be wars" -Albert Einstein
my gf works as a nurse in a team with only woman. lets just say, man are not the only ones capable of war.
@@raze956 It's easy to to misinterpret it, but when Einstein said "men", he was referring to the human race, and not directly at any gender. "men" or "man" were terms to define humanity back in old times.
@@gidmichigan1765 you know ants have genocides and wars all the time right?
@@kyodairiker you know ants are incapable of rendering a planet into a dust ball right?
@@corvus6178 that's not the point of my argument
I may have seen this 8 years late but it is such a great piece of work. Would love to see a full movie of this because it feels like i am watching the epilogue
3 years, 3 years and this is still the best short film that I have ever watched
Still after 7 years
This is gold. I want to see a series about this. Maybe one where there's a cryostasis center containing some survivors that due to power failure has to reawaken the survivors, much like how Fallout 4 started.
War...
War never changes
@MrDjBigZ Humans are needed for the earth
Why would you want fallout 4 part 2
I would say this qualifies as horror, but it's really not. The emotion is closer to that of dread, where I know it'll happen one day, but can't do anything to stop it.
This is a really good animation, man.
I think about this quite a bit as well, not so much this specific scenario, but that one day there will be the last human alive. One day our inventions and minds will fall silent, and the galaxy will be silent upon our death.
@@Username-jc1ut The galaxy is already silent now. Nothing will notice when humanity is gone, except for aliens maybe.
Not even that, it's just melancholy.
It is the thrill of fear, and longing for the inevitable
This is one of the best productions I've ever seen. It would have been great to see a full length movie come from this
4:07 One last time it tried for the pilot, in a desperate attempt to hear back
Pretty impressive that the automated technology went for another 10 years after its last encounter.
twitchyflash333. Also don't forget they repaired turret #3.
But of course
Irongear Gaming it's not the same Battlecruiser Complex as of what I've noticed. During the first part, when the wessel declared the report it was a name others than the one declared by the computer voice în the second part. I'd say that each part presents 2 different machines that are of same model. However, the 2nd part shows Battle Complex 431 as the only one remaining, probably first one's faith long sealed (2 different names are stated as of what I remember). still, it's memory lives through the 2nd unit of similar appearance until it fades as well. Or it could be the same unit...
In the begening of the second part. we shortly see the pin-up in front of the bomber. it the exact same one on the first part, but older. Also maybe the bomber swapped station after the first one failed? Or those difference are simply the animatot error. seems the different cockpits are simply a new style. But both are awesome anyway :D
There's no indication of what bases, the last bomber was stationed on. First part it indicate the plane number or amount of bombing run it made. Second part tell us what complex it was on: 431.
basically what happens to SKYNET when it realizes its killed all the humans. end program.
Found a source that Skynet launched the nukes to save humanity since Skynet realised that humanity would die anyways due to disease and over population. So after the nukes was launched Skynet planned to turn the remaining humans into cyborgs
It then had to wage war against its fellow program and rival The Turk which would not stop until it exacted revenge for the death of human kind.
programmer i could really use alt delate right now we got a AI killing us all
I think this is a sort of message of hope right now.
machines that attempt to continue war efforts without humans...
I'll have to ruminate on this.
That was my goal :)
вы только добавили новых вопросов, что с солнцем например, почему индикаторы на русском а ИИ говорит на английском почему у оленя космос на рогах, почему пилот сгнил а стратег свеженький и тд...
Стратеги в консервирующей жидкости плавают. Олень - олицетворение силы жизни и природы.
Having spent some time, the only thing I can really come up with is this...
Sometimes (mostly in movies) you will hear leaders proclaim that "we will fight till the last man!" I don't believe this claim has ever been fulfilled (even in movies).
This video shows what the fulfillment of that claim would look like. Fighting till the last man - until all available units are expended. To continue fighting despite the lack of enemies or forward progress. To blindly continue in a strategy that does not require tactical appraisal, leadership or even opposition.
We will fight until every resource at our disposal has been expended - with or without you.
Английская озвучка и перевод части текстов были добавлены потом, исходно ролик был целиком на русском. Просто автор не стал переводить все надписи.
По поводу состояния тел - в каментах проскакивала теория, что по базе долбанули чем-то, что убило в том числе микробов, так что стратег мумифицировался (состояние трупа в открытом шлеме соответствует), а пилот сгнил, т.к. контактировал с поверхностью, где живые микробы остались.
Олень - символизьм!
Солнце да, странное. По идее оно таким станет лет эдак через миллиард.
Damn space elks. We could not defeat them
It has got to be hard to kill a herbivore that can carry the sun in its antlers. I'm just sayin...
yeah we do
its called people when in cryo sleep for a couple years and then fallout happened
*who knew that matpat was right about all the games in a timeline*
are you stu, its a damn moose
@@jeremyyang5573 A space moose.
@@jeremyyang5573 That doesn't even look like Bullwinkle. LOL
Reminds me of the Ray Bradbury short; "There will come soft rains".
In it there was also an AI house, carrying out all its duties even though all that was left of the family was stencils made from a nuke. Until even it failed. But nature did not.
May life on earth survive the madness of mankind...
"A last day of war is only guaranteed when no one is left to fight it." -???
In the quarantine of 2020 I'm reviewing this animation which, in my opinion, is one of the best I've ever seen. In my pov, the most interesting point is the ending, which shows that some animals apparently survived and adapted. Showing that, despite all the atrocities, catastrophes and everything else that humans have committed, nature find a way to thrive. Just beautiful
There's something hauntingly beautiful about this and Fortress. It's hard to explain.
Still one of the best shorts CGI has shared on this channel
Incredible..... I sometimes really get burned out on TH-cam, But when I see something on this scale...
You've earned yourself a subscription.
Thanks:)
Will there be more parts too this?
But this channel didnt make it, Dima did. Subscribe to Dima, the guy who actually created this
Shouldn't there be credits to creators channel in the description? Can they leave it out? It seems kind of a dick move..
Very nice! It's rare to see 1 person make all these effects alone...
Good sense of physics... the water landing looked natural... also the particle effects were well done... especially the dust flowing on the runway and the smoke from the engine
1:50 waiting for matchmaking be like
Lol, yes
Fr0sTyPlAyZ MC hahahahahahaha that's great!
Ahahaha true.
True
So true
I am FOREVER amazed at the talent that creates these short films!
INCONCEIVABLE!!
@devildog1982z bit like you then
A world without war is a world without humanity.
Who else was kinda sad about the death of that A.I. system? Even though the damage it caused because of it's automatic repeat attacks on nothing, it's death was really sad to me for some reason.
"Only two things are Infinite, the Universe and Human Stupidity........and I'm not sure about the former.
" - Albert Einstein
Einstein was a RACIST hack. Fuck him.
kilamanjaro Mountain Fuck off, leave the dude alone, besides he made this a month ago, get over it...
@@dontrustwhiteyevery1 EINSTEIN was ask if he is a geniu, ansewer with: ask Tesla
@@dontrustwhiteyevery1 truth hurts
@@dontrustwhiteyevery1 really? 'Cause he was heavily involved in the civil rights movement.
damn...
I REALLY would like to see the actual war....
The design of the airplanes
+Dima Fedotov
beside that i don't understand one thing.
Those planes we see... Are their from a kind of "pacifists unit"?
Because in the first part, we saw that the bombs actually gave birth to some vegetables... Or i missed something?
+Ambientium Infinitium Did you miss the explosions after the bombs were dropped? I believe that plant was growing out of an old canister from a different bombing.
+bwolfeman ah k.
Sorry I always try to understand somethinG "deep" in short films XD
Thanks
sms more likely it was a dud bomb, and the grass was already there
i KNOW, right?
could be oh i don't know...
a video game with perma death? people join, fight the war, and die? and then automated warfare continues on with you permanantly spectating?
Wright-Cyclones with counter rotating props. Nice touch!
Even after Humanity destroys itself, Life Will Find A Way.
Until the sun ages another billion years and liquid water no longer exists on the planet anyway...
The planet isn't going to have life sustaining conditions forever, humanity can save the fated end of life on this planet and spread with us across the universe or we can fail to live and life ends.
NoSuspect
It wouldnt matter because we'd be dead for a long time.
@@NeverSuspects we would probably just move to another planet and colonize it. Although sci-fi is cools and shit. I don't see humans going past 2-4 planets. As we wouldn't need anymore.
You read my mind!!!
nope !
this is so beautiful....i'm speechless.....and amazed.
keep in mind...THIS IS 2016 ANIMATION..and it has the best particle animation i have seen in MY LIFE! this...this is...why did people dislike this...it is way past it's time....
This should be a love death and robot episode it's perfect for it easy self enclosed narrative that works so with great animation.
С каждым днем все актуальней
i really love the "dark Fallout cyberpunk style" of that short film, specily the idea of the "thinking moduls" with their ......organic..... components, have scare the hell out off me ;) its a fantastic pice of art, thanks for that.
Yeah the "thinking modules" being turned off to provide power, last of the crew, kept half alive to this point... Adds a deep layer of messed up to all of this...
I definitely love the contrast between the synthetic/man made and nature by the end. Maybe it also shows that despite us humans are extinct and our machines just repeat our last orders,
that nature would truly win in the end.
Beautifully well done.
It looked like the sun was about to go Super nova in the end and consume the Earth though.
Apologies, I know this is a 2 year old comment.
A lot of people are asking about the start of the war. I think that would lessen the impact.
The war started 80-100 years ago... The end of everything is close...
serioushamster the other part is “fortress”.
@@03taru The war started in 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve New World Order
It was an argument over a small pie
Today it is more relevant than ever before ...
"The last day of War".
Pity nobody will be alive to see it.
@@BayouBoy2443 Humans... Maybe the only species with the mindset to destroy what it creates.
Now that's beyond a Joke!
@@BayouBoy2443 You're not wrong there.
That explains why everyone is dead
The last day of war would be a sad day, assuming it's not amid an extinction. For the circumstances under which no ward whatsoever would be fought are almost always going to be dystopian, bleak, and perhaps far more horrible a fate than any war can ever wreak.
War makes us strong, it calls upon the bravest, smartest, most heroic of the human race to fight for their ideals, regardless of whos side they are on. In order to approach the endless frontier beyond earth, perfection and a practiced hand in war is necessary and vital to human supremacy.
Enemy A.I: *Unresponsive*
Allied A.I: Poggers, I Am Superi-
*low power*
5:11 That part broke my heart...
Well you're in for a treat then! That image is a reproduction from a real burial, search for 'the lovers of Valdaro'.
Every second of this needs to be in a video game
6:01 that deer is the new dominating species. Look at that antlers, thats no ordinary antlers.
Evolution mate
thats some alien x shit
Yep. Evolution. Probably radioactive evolution, for that matter...
Nanomachines, son.
It has a snout like a bear
*war end and no human*
Nature: its my time to refresh my self
Its rewind Time.
Let evolution take its course. If evolution is real
If some ape species like the chimpanzees are still alive after the war then humanity will return in the farther future
a race of sentient deer people will create new civilizations.
@@elivevile Not only deer, but furries
Sometimes I wonder if THIS is the *happy* ending for our civilization.
Not the best for us, but the best for the rest
considering the animals still alive it's no so bad
Doubt it. With a few more years of genetic engineering research we could *make* more animals, different species, etc.
There are no aliens. No other life forms out there. If we want cool space-deer or aliens in the future, we will have to make them ourselves.
existence without intelligence is pointless. As pointless as these bombers bombing a already dead city. The universe is just a machine running on automatic with no purpose without intelligence.
Such as Trump getting elected as POTUS.
Помню смотрел этот мульт еще в 17 или 18 году .. и сейчас смотрю второй раз.. он до сих пор выглядит круто!!
Очень жаль полного метра не произошло((