How to Beat the HUMANS in "THE THING" - Part 2
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Part 2 of - If you had the ability to assimilate and imitate other organisms, and another form of intelligent life discovered and started experimenting on you, what would you do?
Part 1 Video - • How to Beat the HUMANS...
In this How to Beat video, we’ll follow The Thing, see if we can make better decisions, and ultimately attempt to beat the Humans in The Thing’s prequel. If you think you have a better way, let me know in the comments! If you like these how to beat videos, consider liking and subscribing.
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@@egegehqv7 good
I would be interested in seeing Nerd Explains craft his own horror film with his survival knowledge.
He is to much of an OP guy
The movie would only be 10 minutes
It would either have a happy ending or have an actual world ending threat
If he was in it, he would be untouchable!
it would be 30 hours of people hiding in a panic room with extreme paranoia
Don’t mind me just boosting this comment so he sees this
"I wouldn't even imitate a brain structure that unintelligent as yours" has to be in the top 10 most nerdy burns of all times. xD
Honestly, I think I prefer the way drunks and sailors insult people over how nerds and scholars do it. Simple, efficent, and they don't puss out as easy when you break their nose.
Dunno, just came to mind.
100th like hooray for you!
🥳
@@TheKing-qz9wd Yes, that's for sure but for nerds i think this one is brutal :D
@@TheKing-qz9wd I prefer the intellectual insults where most people reply with a "what"
@@ls200076
I just spit in someone's eyes. It offends every single person and animal.
Theory: The thing didn't initially replicate defects; the arm-brace, and fillings. It realized that this was a mistake so in the second station it does in order to blend in better, but backfired and had a it heart-attack due to a damaged heart.
Exactly what I was thinking, I was thinking that the things in the prequel were testing the best strategies to beat mankind and then recording those into the dog. So in the original, they replicate everything because they know that is a defect and shortcoming so they end up with the problem in the original. In the end, I think that every time infection happens some memories and information considered important are transferred but not all info.
@@septicsorcerer9620 the prequel wasn't that bad. what was a huge turn off for a lot of fans and other normies were:
- weak CGI
- kinda lame final
- semi good writing
It could of been a solid movie if the studio would kept the puppet/machinery practical effects which were finished in 80%, but scrapped cuz "producers didn't like them"
LMAO
@@lxdead5585exactly! Also the setup in the camp seemed more modern than the JC original. Granted the JC original was in 1982, but i don’t think they paid enough attention to time period details in this one to really immerse the audience. Like I half expected someone to whip out an iPhone any second.
It couldn't replicate inorganic parts, i.e. things that aren't part of our bodies (the arm-brace was just free-floating outside of the not yet assimilated body of Henrik, and the crew of the second station never even checked for fillings).
The reason why the Norris-Thing had a heart attack was because it replicated him exactly as he was.
So basically the plan is: "just sneeze at them"
Better than my plan "lick finger and poke"
Can't wait to see this strat again in "how to beat the humans as coronavirus"
Pog
Spit and RUN
Who's not wearing a mask is the Thing
Aliens up late watching this in their time zone like” just in case I find myself in the situation I know what to do”
Don't call me out like this
Shhhh
@@starro7890 He's on to us.
Slag, he knows.
Wait, would aliens even have this problem too? Poor bastards.
Things in a PTA meeting:
Thing 1: “So I carefully strategized and plotted out a full proof plan to maximize death and assimilation.”
Thing 2: “So anyways I started blasting”
Me and my buddy coordinating on proximity chat in Among Us be like.
@Ruosong Gao basically me
sounds accurate
Thing 2 = "Leroy Jenkins-Thing" 😄
Somewhere out there a newly assimilated 'Thing' is watching this video taking notes.
And that would be me
Assimilating a good life while Im depressed and bored as fuck
Noted
@@mentallyillbotanist sus
Ah, so that’s what was planned for 2021-
Or a yet to be assimilated one
If I recall correctly, John Carpenter said at one point that the Things' fatal flaw was that each Thing was selfish; for example, when Palmer-Thing sold out my boy Norris's Head-Thing. Hence humanity can defeat them by being self-sacrificing and so on and so forth.
So my strategy of “we’re fucked, royally, so nuclear scorched earth it is! BOOM!” would probably work?
@@PokeMageTech actually radiation would be an amazing strategy, every cells membrane losing its capability to regenerate or grow each thing just being ghost walking
@@stephen19590 radiation damages the DNA by punching holes through it, if the thing can alter it's RNA/DNA at will radiation isn't effective
@@__-zo6qithat depends oh the amount of radiation and how prepared the thing would be. If it could duplicate something like the water bears ability to withstand high amounts of radiation they might make it or if the radiation put enough holes in the dna it might work. Plus most ways I can think of making radiation ALSO produce a lot of heat, which things don’t like
@@__-zo6qi
We don't know if it can repair its own DNA, and if it can, how fast can it do it?
Like with all known life; if you successfully cause sufficient damage to its DNA with, for example, radiation it might lose its normal, healthy functioning, preventing it from correctly doing what it normally does.
Of course, it could circumvent the degradation of its entire body if it managed to avoid being incinerated by the blasts and have any remaining healthy cells start killing off the damaged ones and expelling irradiated materials, but unless it can find enough nutrients to replace the discarded cells this would ruin its disguise.
I'm 99,99% sure that the "I won't eat you guarantee" that comes with his merch is just so we let our guard down around him and then he can kill us in our sleep.
Its definitely to let our guard down around him, yeah, but I feel like he'd have far better uses for a troupe of willing followers, like using us as human shields or for suicide missions to distract whatever the danger is. Hell, he might even make a cult, and at that point why not use your willing followers for evil?
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@@glitchwolf1384 lord nerd
I think it is more of an "I will eat you last" kind of thing.
I think each "thing" is only focused on its own survival and not on collaborating with other "things" to destroy all the humans.
Yeah, I think it’s the whole point is that every individual part is trying to preserve itself. Like the head that scuttled off or the blood reacting to the shock,
Also the smaller things are less intelligent, so breaking off into smaller parts would just result in a bunch things only capable of self preservation
Yeah, things absolutely are _not_ intelligent. They can mimic humans and use their memories, but that's totally limited to "flamethrower bad. blood tests bad. radio bad. destroy them."
I dig this video anyway, because it's really well thought out as, like. An AU or something. But actual Things are just instinctual predators with about the same intellect as, say, a xenomorph.
Smart enough for you to say "...Clever girl.", but not smart enough to criticize it for "using someone as stupid as Juliette who couldn't even clean up after herself or get Kay alone earlier". That's not Juliette-thing NOR Juliette's fault.
Juliette isn't stupid. The Thing is. Every other Thing was dumb as fuck and blew its cover, but for some reason this channel only singled out Juliette as "having no intellect" while the other Things got excuses like "chose the wrong plan" or "was too weak and HAD to transform in front of everyone".
Not even joking, I typed out that last paragraph there because it bothered me so much. Why did this channel even do that? It's so weird!
Never thought about that for someone reason that's so true. It doesn't care for other things only its own personal survival. And it assimilates because it wants some"thing" else to help it out lol. Damn thanks for that thought
@@baydiac you're right I didn't even notice that all things are pretty dumb and are very focused on their personal selves and surviving. They literally do nothing to show that they want bigger "things" lol. But just surviving and using other things to put their own selves out of harm's way but end up being stupid. They really don't have a purpose for even living they're just some disease or something tbh. Like they really don't have anything else going for them it's just existing for themselves
Imagine, when Split face got torched all his arm/leg things just detached and turned into those spider arms.
That’s gonna give me nightmares now
Isn't Nerd Explains making himself a Thing Target by publicly expressing his knowledge of how to beat and win as the thing?
He's probably counting on there being no thing which, I gotta say, is against his own advice of always assuming the worst case and being ready for it
It's probably already too late.
But when we learn this survival tips where gonna overpower the thing.
I saw this quote like alot
Humans are more dangerous and scary than any other monsters
What if Nerd Explains is a thing monster himself and made this video to discreetly send survival tactics to other thing monsters
Thing: "I can perfectly replcate humans with just a few of my cells, immune to any attack but fire, and can turn any limbs I replicate into monstrosities.."
"...How did you screw this up?"
Plot
Just gonna calmly set my entire island on fire and wipe The Thing off it. Restraint and overkill are myths.
@@TheKing-qz9wd if you know about it existing, it should already be too late for that
@@runtergerutscht4401
Oh you'd be surprised how unfortunate and early I can pick up on things.
@@TheKing-qz9wd are you a thing that decided to genocide its own kind?
I would be interested in seeing nerd explained being put in a simulated survival/horror movie experience to see how he performs
damn honestly same or just any social game type senario
I dont think he would actually do very well because he would be killed while overthinking everything
“How to beat the humans”
*well how the turn tables*
How the turns have tabled
*table has the turned how?*
Turned how the table turns
Turn table how
Orange juice r u a thing i mean look at that smile
This was probably already mentioned by a few other people in the comments, but you can't actually infect people with only a few cells. Fuchs in the 1st movie stated that the infection has to be done through violent means (forcibly fusing large amount of cells together) for it to replicate someone. That's where the whole "ripped clothing" things come from in the first movie. The wiki on the movie also confirms this.
Now there isn't any good reason given for it other than plot device, as it would be way too easy if a simple touch or sneeze would infect everyone, humans wouldn't even have a chance to begin with. But yeah that throws a bunch of these ideas on how to win as The Thing out of the window.
I love the idea of a The Thing rolling it's eyes when it gets caught and being like "ugh you snitch-"
I've always wondered if the Thing could be reasoned with. Hear me out!
When it assimilates a person it gets access to their memories as it replicates their brain. If your best friend was in there, could you appeal to its humanity? If it assimilated enough people, or very kind people, could the Thing be influenced by latent human value systems in its being?
If I were assimilated, could my love for my family stop it from killing them?
Can't we all just get along lol
apparently, it can be reasoned with. but it's no longer human, it's become a thing version of that human, which has none of the qualities that make humans 'human'. if they did show some humanity, it'd all just be alien cunning.
You'd be stuck with the scorpion and the frog.
The Thing cannot deny its nature. Like a human in pain, it flails.
ok but like even if this theoretically happened
normal humans would be racist to thing humans, it’s inevitable
Found one
If they copy memory their target has they have much complex personality than humans has already.
If you got all memories of 7 year old would you start thinking like a 7 year old?
YYYYYYYEEEEEEEHHHHH BABY, LETS GO IM TUCKED IN IN MY BED, and im ready for another 40 mins of this "how yo beat, series"
Facts
Shame they take so long because I love this stuff
Yes i am laying here at ca. 23:57 watching this Video too.
YYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SAME BRO WWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Epic
Doing these from the monsters perspective is so much more fun.
These aren't really things that he does but I would love to see him talk about how to contain/terminate SCPs from the SCP foundation
Ot 682 though. I have seen too mach people give ideas where the answer against it is always “They already tried that.”
Example: infographic’s show suggested 3-5 nukes. That thing cannot be burnt to death by acid, can’ be shot and nukes have been tried already. If acid 24/7/365 wont do it, a few nukes will
You should check out Roanoke gaming, he covers things like scp's, resident evil/game viruses and other things like that
One of the big factors that isn't mentioned is the Griggs thing might not be fully dead and after the crash it (or pieces of it) could've gotten away from the crash site and refroze. Cuz its already known that even burnt remains still have cellular activity.
If Nerd Explains ever gets turned into the thing, "That's it, man. Game over, man. Game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?"
Idk
_bring in the nuke_
Nerd explain vs the thing who will win
Someone needs to tell me why this dude doesn’t have 10 million subscribers
idk
By far the best of all the "how to beat" channels.
@@LCaaroe and cinema summary and film herald
@@arcticlab7170 amen
@@LCaaroe I mean not by far, film herald is a close second, but from there they all kinda blend together
Film theory time: What if the Thing was a Hivemind instead of individual minds? That would mean that it would actually have a more difficult time telling who was who, and as such panicking easier. While typically Hiveminds are larger than a handful of people, when you're an assimilating and stealthy monster, you'd probably have a difficult time processing and analyzing all the new memories that are flooding into the Hivemind. This could be a viable excuse as to why it does stupid things, like transforming. It could also explain why it would know where the ship is, how to use it, etc.
Thing: And I would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for that meddling Kate and her stinkin flame thrower!
Imagine that there is a ‘Thing’ out there studying these videos, getting smarter and stronger.
This would be a fun movie. A Thing film where it is the protagonist and it actually uses these ideas and manages to succeed, with the latter scenes of the movie showing it's post-antarctic endevors.
Someone needs to make a "horror" movie where the protagonist has all the knowledge and wits they need to just breeze through
"You're Next" is pretty close to this
Isn’t that the scary movie series
Isn't Scream like this
How to beat the humans:
*Go to the nearest Red Cross and become a regular blood donor.* 🩸🦠
Well your doing good but also bad noice
They do blood tests...
@@drakecrepe5271 well they'll imitate the blood so we'll that it can't be differentiated from the original.... The only way human know that a *thing* is actually a *thing* is by watching the thing cells actually assimilating it's host cells.... Buuut if every cell's a thing.... They can't do shit *Boom*
@@undead_6662 yew, also, like you said, the thing cells imitate the normal cells so the body won't detect it, so it is pretty much impossible to detect the thing unless they somehow seen the persons DNA, then again DNA most of the time has nothing to do with blood donors.
@@undead_6662the cells would react violently to the blood test sterilization process that donated blood now goes through.
The thing in comparison to any other hostile alien creatures we saw in movies has one big difference, it’s trapped in an specific scenario, in antártica inside a block of ice.
If the ship landed everywhere else, The Thing will surely win.
@Acceleration Quanta if that's true, the moment he assimilate one of the humans he Will begin to talk to them to tell that he doesn't want anything rather that get the hell out of there.
Remember, the thing already has assimilate another alien species, he doesn't want nothing more that gain knowledge and spread himself everywhere.
Noted for when my little sister eventually reviles her true self
lmao
lol
LOL
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
LOL
0:26 " they r so dead " I lost it lol
I have always wanted an ability like the one of The Thing or The Flood. Have always found it so fascinating!
Aliens: Thanks for the tutorial now we can invade you're planet now
The plot armor Kate had is immeasurable they really wanted her to live
Yeah. Kills on ( most of) the other characters are instant/ nearly instant. Kate always gets plenty of warning to slip out of its "traps".
Well she is the main character and the only intelligent one. If she died nobody would have discovered anything.
There was two endings to this movie. She does of exposure in the original, off screen. The other she takes the other snow cat and makes it to another station.
Honestly hope to see more stuff like this in the future. Seeing how to best the scenarios from the antagonists perspective is interesting.
Like I said before, simply act normal until you return home then become a blood donor or assimilate the blood donor station
You still have to stop them from researching the blood. No going home once one of the researchers figure it out.
The thing (pun not intended) is, Blood gets treated before its given to patients. And as instances of the Thing get dumber the smaller they are, a blood conserve will probably display a defensive reaction. So thats a no no. But it could easily try to become a STI. That would be pretty damn hard to spot before its to late.
@@theexchipmunk or like op said, the thing could assimilate the whole donor station, no one is gonna do research when they know that all of them have the same plan.
@@theexchipmunk STI?
@@AbstractTraitorHero STA. Sexually Transmitted Alien
"Sabotage weapons and communications"
So we're going the Among Us way
God damn there needs to be more of these 'Beat the main character' type episodes.
There should be a game where you are playing the Thing and you must devise strategies to get a camp, a village, a city or the entire world under control.
god lord the asimilations on this movies are just too much holy shit
19:59 What a wonderful roundabout diss
F**k yes I’ve been waiting for this! Can’t wait to see your future content, this channel covers what I think about on every movie
Watching how good he would be at surviving the apocalypse makes me feel reassured.
Watching how good he would be at starting the apocalypse makes me feel nervous
It probably wouldn't work but if I was the thing I'd pretend that getting infected was like a cool ability, like "hey guys check out my weird tentacle hand, I have no idea how this happened, this is awesome", "Omg I have superpowers, you guys should touch the weird alien thing so you guys can ALSO have superpowers :D", "wow my teeth don't need fillings", "whaaat my knee is fixed, I don't need a metal brace anymore" like there'll be skeptics but when a couple people are like "wow superpowers, so cool" they're eventually gonna cave 😂
the things are very defensive, e.g the greg thing was so cautious that he turned bad when they *picked him up*
I like how he just refers to him as Tormund because that's who he'll always be to all of us.
Ive been learning how too keep myself alive thanks to these tips 😌💕
The reason behind it ejecting the inorganic material could be that it needs to 'digest' a target in order to replicate them, it is stated in the original that 'it rips through your clothes when it takes you over' so its creating a genetically perfect copy (even health conditions) but its also a copy of before they needed the braces, fillings and such.
I would like a sequel about surviving the apocalypse with these things
I am now 100% addicted to this videos
Hell yeah, part 2! I love these videos.
They should have done what the body snatching aliens from The Invasion did; use every opportunity possible to spike all sources of drinkable water with their infectious biomaterial.
smh literally all it had to do was get some high-quality plot armor
I love the idea of a sentient autonomous being that is it’s self made up of a hive mind it’s kinda cool.
It would be cool if there was a virus controling humans that was called "The thing"
so all infected would say something like:
"Carl, are you part of the thing?"
"What thing? Ah wait, that thing. Yea, I´m already in on it"
10:00 Griggs was literally the first Earthling the Thing infected. It might've made mistakes interpreting human memory storage. Maybe the reason some Thing-humans act dazed is because they've got both their meat brains and their bacterial software telling them different things.
can you do the descent?? - how to beat the monsters in it
How to beat them ? Just don't make noise :p
Man I finished part one earlier today and I was like "Welp, time to wait a month" and then you put this out today and I'm happy now
The Thing seeing anything: *tasty snack*
The Thing: Yes, the sun will be lunch.
Hey man, I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy watching your videos. I love listening to what you have to say and always look forward to the next one.
Took you long enough, can’t wait :)
I love that you did this from the Thing's perspectives
How to beat the humans: Be a killer Cameraman
pretty damn good coverage
biggest caveat with this is that to make sure no one could taste the blood in the coffee it would as you said need to be kept to small amounts, which doesn't give a very good chance of cells adhering to the lining of the throat of mouth. both have decent bacterial cocktails which could protect against the thing, and the stomach has digestive enzymes (obviously).
edit
also a submarines sonar might kill thing cells on mass.
Yes finally 🔥🔥
I love he is Tormund in everything he plays in now.
The cgi is this movie is a slap in the face to the original’s practical effects
this movie had a ton of practical effects, what are you talking about? and even then, what invalidates the effort of CG artists? that its CG? get ahold of yourself
@@brownspottedcat this movie had a 80/20 CGI to practical. Watch the original, then watch this one. The original is so much more natural and better looking. Look up rotten tomatoes or literally any review site, the main criticism is always the sub par CG
@@thebigfellacole3757 Originally the entire movie was done with practical effects, but overheads saw it and forced the team to CGI over it. original Griggs Thing looked like this: i.4pcdn.org/tg/1372669589845.jpg
@@KamenArts that actually looks better
Sweeeeeeeet thank you!!! Been waiting for this one for a while!
Honestly if I saw someone's face split like that l, I'd shit myself then faint😭.
Samee
Yea honestly anyone would do that or freak out and crawl away
Thank you Nerd Explains this is one of my favorite film channels.
I've always had the opinion just based on its esthetics and story telling that, The Thing was super infectious within the body but wasn't super at transmission. That it didn't spread airborne , that it didn't easily spread through skin easily and that's why hostile attacks were effective. Much like in general something like Ebola or HIV is highly infectious but doesn't transmit like measels. The doctor seemed most concerned about food for example , not telling people to wear gas masks. If it spread like measels well then good guys lost day one.
It's based off of the HIV scare of the early 80s. In case you were wondering.
41:11 When were The Thing films set? I'm pretty sure that they were set in what was considered modern day at the time the original film released and thus the Thing wouldn't have access to knowledge about Halo.
the amount of times i have tried to click on this notification is concerning
Man I was waiting for this for what felt like forever and it was amazing thank you for all of your great content
The movie should have been named: The Plot Armor. It's more of a horror story for the Thing than the humans.
I was really waiting for this and now my life is complete
An alien, human, vampires, zombies
IT DOESN'T MATTER
This man survives either way
Edit: He not only survives BUT HE BEATS HIS ENEMIES
The idea of one form going beast mode to distract the team while another imitates and sabotages is fun.
Alternate title: "How to win perfectly as the imposter in the thing"
This is such a cool take on your content, the perspective of the villain
After watching this my only real question is... what is there for the things after they've won? Without a way to really leave what is there for them on Earth? The thing superorganisms seem like they would have a pretty rough time being the only biology on a deadend planet so the intelligence in there would have to work towards something, but travel before starvation seems unlikely.
It doesn't care. It's a galactic virus. It takes over a planet then goes to the next.
It had the knowledge on the first one to build a space ship out of scrap metal, It could also repair its crashed ship and head to the next. In theory it could start working on that half way through earths assimilation and move on.
I'd love to see you do invasion of the body snatches
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Thank you for the approval, turtle.
Ever since I saw the first part I thought that the best way to take as many people as possible down is to turn into the smallest form possible like a bee or ant, if it could fly it could swarm the survivors and if they couldn't just creep into small spaces and sneak up on them, leaving them little to no chance even if they have a flamethrower. I also wondered if they could replicate someone based on image without even having to assimilate them as long as if they had the same eye and hair color
It needs the DNA of a fly in order to do that. Not a lot of bugs in Antarctica my guy.
Nerd Explains was not the impostor.
I hate horror movies, but when it comes to Nerd Explains and Cinema Summary i cant stop watching
How to beat the humans in the thing: DONT ACT SUS *QUEUE AMONG US SOUNDTRACK*
So if all these creatures fought each other in a free for all who would win?
The Necromorphs from Dead Space, The Biophage from The Callisto Protocol, Calvin from LIFE, Alex Mercer, The Thing, The Wallrider from Outlast or Evelin( The mold carrier) from Resident evil 7.
Next Video: *How to Beat the SECRET SERVICE in "THE CAPITAL"*
I love this channel Just a couple days ago this was recommended to me and now I can’t stop watching
Should have listened to Ramona Flowers
God this movie destroyed everything that made the original good.
Prequels do it in general. They are hard to pull off because the viewers know how it ends from the get go
And my Saturday evening entertainment has arrived. Thank you Nerd
when i read the title i was like:
"What"
"What"
"What"
"What"
Soy
Still talking about fish with legs still makes me wonder if you've seen Gyo yet. That'd be a fun how to survive video.
This movie may be an inspiration to among us.
Among us is a game inspired by "The Thing" from 1982.
lets gooo thank god you dropped man keep it up
I'm surprised the things haven't gone extinct as a species with intelligence like this
I love your ending part with the submarine. The Thing most certainly could have wiped us out, no problem. It's intelligent enough to socially mimic humans, so it shouldn't have much of a problem keeping up it's treacherous and deceptive ways long enough to infect enough people to call it a day.