Aliens Try To Poison Humans At Dinner But Humans Ask For The Recipe Instead | Best HFY Stories
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A lot of the comments were complaining about the amount of repetition in this one. You people really need to pay attention to the damned story! I get it! I've blocked channels that repeat the same bullshit too much. But the repetition in this story was an appropriate reaction to the intended target not effing dying. Next time you plan something and everything goes wrong, use a clicker and count how many times you ask yourself, "what went wrong?", "why didn't that work?". You'll be amazed at how many times you ask yourself "wtf?".
Honestly yes exactly what you said.
PEOPLE will listen to the news that goes Man does something crazy.
Crazy man does something.
*start of the paragraph of the actual story* A crazy man does something today. And these are the same people complaining about repetition here. No this story was amazing the dudes voice PHENOMENAL!
Other than that one line which sounds like the recording might have glitched out, yeah. This is mostly a really sensible use of repetition in the description of a character's thought process, and that's a good way to convey the bewilderment of someone watching an enemy compliment them on the delicious flavours in their poison.
Honestly for me the reptions of the wtf aspect was fine as you said it made sense but te me it just felt like they were talking in circles again each part was unique but when it was really boiled down it was food good, alien only eat efficiently.
That is to say I don't know how diplomats actually talk to each other but I wouldn't think they would act like beurocrats...
@@Johnfuchs-pm5wu Diplomats are a subset of bureaucracy. Talking in circles is often part of the process.
Fair enough then I shut my mouth on the talking in circles.
"Can I have the recipe?"
"Its complex."
"Can I have the recipe?"
"Its complex, and it has rare ingredients."
"Can I have the recipe?"
"Its complex, it has rare ingredients, and it is a ceremonial dish."
I wouldn't mind not getting a video as often if the stories are proofread, to prevent the main thing people are complaining about for this one.
SOME other channels do it even if they are ai-voiced. this is one of the better channels I watch for HFY, I hate seeing the quality slip like this.
@@PartytimeYOLO yeah, it's like someone came up with different version of the conversation to decide on one and somehow accidentally sent all of them to the AI to read and didn't even check! come on! they are having the same conversation over and over!
@@gibbbon Well, in this case, there is no A.I. reading it and no A.I. writing it, so we know at least that didn't happen here
He was trying to come up with a excuse to not give the recipe.
It's not unrealistic. Imagine if you were asked repeatedly for something and kept saying no. Each time you are likely to add a condition or reason.
This was great, and I can only imagine their reaction to the smorgasbord of dishes we humans have.
Ps. If part 2 becomes a thing, may I suggest Lutefisk as a dish too severe?
Lutefisk is dried whitefish, usually cod, but sometimes ling or burbot, cured in lye. It is made from aged stockfish, or dried and salted cod. The fish takes a gelatinous texture after being rehydrated for days prior to eating. Lutefisk is prepared as a seafood dish of several Nordic countries.
I wonder what level of insult and horror would befall the aliens when they get served a sampling of earth dishes, of which many probably would be lethal to them!
Aliens : ........you enjoyed this ?!?!
Human: * burp* who wee! That is awesome !
"yes, it was deadly, a real killer"
Spicy, tangy and full of salt? Yes please, more thank you
That’s some damn fine nachos right there!
"Ya got more back there don't ya?" I can already imagine her sassy look while zix'thar's horrified😂😂
"Now, how about something strong. Where's my whiskey...."
This is where they find out this is a human with low tolerances.
It's just one of those common tropes of "did not do the research"
She did tell him that she had only taken the Reaper Challenge once. I got the impression that, while she likes spicy food, her tolerances are middling at best.
As a Hungarian, my blood is around 50% Alcohol and the rest is pure capsaicin. Don't threaten me with a good time!
I just want a vereksian cook finding out they liked it and is all giddy but is trying not to show it "aaaw... it didn't kill them? Darn... they want the recipe?! S-sure.... I mean yeah yeah secrets....."
We need a story where the aliens piss off humanity and humanity shows up in Borg cubes confusing the hell out of the aliens and kicking their ass. 🤣
"The capsaicin is far beyond tolerable level."
For MOST species, sure. For Humans, however....
26:57 If all you care for is efficiency, you will be destroyed by anything that may resemble a challenge. Change is a challenge, and so is life. Experimentation with different art forms, weapons types & handling techniques, technological advancement. To quote Asura's Wrath,
"You fight, then eat good food. You fight, then drink fine wine. You fight, then sleep with beautiful women. Hell, fight with beautiful women! That is what it means to live!" -Augus
Hot wings and fried pickles are standard diet of the Captain. Enjoyed the story 👍🏼
It'd be funny if this us normal for humans. Turns out every negotiation was actually a failed assassination attempt, and humanity just went along with it XD
😂😂😂 Humans love, salt, heat and tartness, buddy! Humans love good food. ❤
and once again @Starbound HFY I finish a story, thinking there's a lot more, only to realize the story ended. . .y'all really know how to do cliff hangers
This alien is like agent 47 in how many death double entendre he has.
I very much enjoy the cadence and presentation provided by this narrator.
Council obviously knew what the Kra’Thor feast actually was…
and of course they knew what the humans would do if they found out. One less council member and one less race at the table
Makes you wonder what Rasputin ate.
she's a naive captain. completely clueless of her reality while the council clearly figured out the attempt at her life. her understanding of the veraxians is hilariously shallow and that the council was seemingly wise enough to not react from her assessment. shes lucky she survived. great story, well read. keep up the good work guys!
I'm only four minutes in and I'm regretting playing The Clicking Mandibles drinking game.
I imagine that drinking game is a death sentence with this channel. Considering they're really good at describing an alien's physiology in these stories. And they're definitely not afraid to use insect like aliens or aliens with mandibles.
The reader was close to channeling Scott NcNeil voicing Dinobot on Beast Wars.
Ha! Thank you! I couldn't remember who voiced some of the dinobots.
Perhaps Humanity should return the favor in kind. Like inviting the Virexians to a Christmas feast, along with some traditional festivities and games like Snapdragon/Flapdragon -- a 16th century game where participants pluck raisins from a bowl of burning brandy with your fingers to see who can get the most.
I really don't like how half of it was repeated
Amazing narrator! Well done, sir!
Indeed. At moments, he almost had a Morgan Freeman-esque resonance to his voice.
The captain really is a USA American : no table manners (eating with fork only, elbows on the table, stuffing herself with large quantities of food) and doesn't mind over-salted and over-spiced food.
I listen to you to go to sleep and while I work, I love these stories! Thank you!
let me guess, it was also heavily laced with MSG.
MSG: Make Shit Good
The woman is probably from Louisiana. 😉
Yeah, the bayou version of shrimp gumbo that I got to taste made me sweat. But it WAS GOOD!
Or Colorado, Korea, Arizona, Spain, Mexico, Brazil...
From anywhere but britain 😂
I keep hoping you'll do a followup to the human/Varn alliance story.
Honestly sounds good. I grow Carolina reapers, I like to dry and grind them so I can sprinkle it on everything.
Carolina Reaper? You mean that seed pod that is classified as both a Level-20 Biohazard and an "Alpha and Omega"-level Chemical Weapon in 20 star cluster systems and 3 quantum dimensions? 😊
I’m watching this while eating peri peri chicken on a blistering hot day and I am satisfied 🤤
Some repetition, but not too bad. edit: later on. Nope, it's bad. I didn't need to hear for the seventh time that what was intended as a weapon was perceived as a challenge. The story should have been cut down by half.
To be fair about the repetition in zix's thoughts he just watched her eat what is to them severely toxic(they even specified that they made it even more toxic since they had heard of humanity's resilience and wanted to be sure it would work) and love it. He is incredulous and in shock.
This would be like a human serving a meal of battery acid, uranium, mercury, led, anthrax, etc with the intent to kill the recipient only for them to enjoy it, want more, and even want the recipe to make it themselves later.
It wasn't that bad! Actually the repetition was appropriate to the situation. Even people will keep asking themselves "why" when carefully laid plans fall apart. I've blocked several channels myself because of repetitive BS. But I laughed at his consternation. Why? How? She's supposed to be dying! This was situational use of repetition.
@@michaellinnet6095 All the plans fail in the same but different way: humans can tolerate X with different Xs.
This is the same kind of repetition as the "lower" quality channels, where they repeat parts to reinforce a point.
Hell, they even use the cliché "humans can adapt" line.
I'm more concerned with what I call editing record skips, where a line is repeated because the timing is misaligned, which happens...
As for repetition of thoughts with a rephrasing, shows how a conversation can sometimes loop on itself when the author forgets about the potential political conversation that could have been used as a layer with the inner monologue...
@@adiaphoros6842 Of course they use that line. Do you not understand that the HFY in the title means Humans F***k Yeah? It's a human centric channel.
Zix'thar(thinking): The acids should have finished her!
Captain Reeves(aloud): Got any lemonade? Or a whiskey sour?
honestly, knowing that Virexians don't use any form of spice, let alone flavor, in their normal food, among the other things that would be known about them, i would at least have a thought of it maybe being an attempt at poisoning that they underestimated and so didn't work, and so bring that up
Wonderful, i love food, the part they improved and said add more spice was a LMAO moment. I do say i heard at 1.5 speed. To bad Humans never knew the truth or know how they would react at this assassination attempt, and excuses for purposely doing so. Few stories end in cliff hangers, no issues, maybe as some do continue in a second part or i enjoy using my imagination of what happened next. Thanks.
Morgan Caution Reeves is an interesting name for an envoy who is intended to show human resilience. It clearly worked, though.
Also, it might be worth cutting from 9:03 to 9:17 which includes some duplicated lines without subtitles.
Human: "Hey, how about some Carolina Reaper wings?"
You specified made by people. Does that mean some Storys are made by aliens?
I know he said it because of ai made stuff
Council got the hint
Famous last comments: Socrates, " I drank what?"
They both ask the same questions again and again...
Yea what's up with that?
Neither one can comprehend that the other can stand to eat what the other does
One eats only flavorless slop, the other eats spice like candy
Have you ever had a plan go wrong at every single step? Next time it does, try counting how many times you ask the same question as you attempt to understand what is happening. You will be surprised how much you repeat yourself
Feels like we should send them bland foods like Poi, mozzarella sticks, hummus, white bread, mayonnaise, etc.
There was quite a bit of repetition, but not bad
To be fair about the repetition in zix's thoughts he just watched her eat what is to them severely toxic(they even specified that they made it even more toxic since they had heard of humanity's resilience and wanted to be sure it would work) and love it. He is incredulous and in shock.
This would be like a human serving a meal of battery acid, uranium, mercury, led, anthrax, etc with the intent to kill the recipient only for them to enjoy it, want more, and even want the recipe to make it themselves later.
Trust me. As someone who listens to lots of HFY, it's not that much.
@czar6203 thanks to a lot of AI stories on TH-cam. I know what low standard story writing looks like, especially when it concerns repetitiveness in a story. This story in particular is paced quite nice and I enjoy it.
51:29 the greatest misunderstanding of intentions
No way this isnt part ai written
too much repetition
This is part 3 to the Varexian stories
Edit: I was wrong. It seems this is at least part 6. I'm now going to binge the rest of them. Also, the captions on the last Virexian story I watched seemed to be wrong. It's spelled Virexian, not Varexian.
Which ones are part 1 and 2?
Kind of, this takes place during the Virexian Conflict in my universe. There are several parts including Genesis, Rise to Power, Virexian Conflict, A Time of Peace, and A Larger Universe.
@@Radio-hfy Can you give the name of the videos in a Chronological Order so some of us will know which ones to watch?
See now I need to find parts 1 through 5. Thanks for the clue in the
@@eliandervalderen5849 I still need to know what's the video's titles are and in what order do I watch them. Hope someone tells me at some point.
Damn, that meal sounded great. I love stupid spicy meals and I eat lemons like candy... bring on the feast.
Round and round and round..... typical diplomatic exchange.....
If I have to hear nutrient slurry one more time…
The story is good, but i'd say it's about 20 minutes too long. The same storybeat is played over and over again but not in a new way. The first time we hear zix'thars confusion about how reeve doesn't die is funny. the second time is stoll amusing. But by the third time it becomes tedious. Especially since he doesn't show any new reactions. The same goes for other storybeats like reeve asking for the recipe and zix'thar frantically making up reasosn for why he can't give it to her or reeves praising the dish.
INCONCEIVABLE!!!
There's a Freiren video you forgot to put on the Playlist. It's about humans running.
In your efforts to publish more often, I'm afraid your story quality is suffering.... :(
The Capsaicin tolerance trope has become cliched, it's a wonder they didn't offer her a cup of coffee to finish with....
I don't think they heard of the Chili cook off.
this story could have been 20 mins long without missing a thing.
Quick, someone send Zix'thor and K'rathin a link to Hot Ones!
Man she really wanted that recipe
Story has too much repetition.
I guess the alien dish is delicious, capsaicin is delicious to us here, so his little act really backfire deliciously, I might add! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😋😋😋😋😋
"unaligned craftsmanship" - do you mean 'unparalleled"?
Spicy, Corrosive, Salty. TBH, sound likes my favorite Asian food.
Try Thai food in Thailand or ghost pepper.
Seriously, I can't watch this story. It's loop the same concepts so much and doesn't actually add anything for minutes! I thought i press something and jumped the video 15 min back or something.
I normally really like the stories in this channel but this one was awful. Could be reduced to 25 min and it would be any different.
And for the comment that says how it's supposed to loop their thoughts because the assassination attempt wasn't working... Well, that's one hell of a way to add a nothing burger to the story. Literally, could they try to add more characters? Or trying to make the dish more "toxic" in the second plating. Something of the sort. At the end of the day it just loop the same idea around without moving the narrative foward.
How many times must they repeat "If not this, then what _do_ you typically eat?" "Nutritionally optimized slurry." There are a handful of repeated exchanges similar to this; "But it's poison, and they like it?" and "Too complex and too many rare ingredients to be reproduced elsewhere," were a couple of standout moments of deja vu. This really needed a heavy pass by a more experienced editor. There's a much tighter 35 minute story here under the bloated repitition. That's about as far as I made it before I got bored enough to give up on it; I'm not gonna give it the last 20 minutes at this point.
I think this was an editor's earlier attempt in their experience... Video, story, or both...
seriously: moustache-wax!
I like spicy 🌶️, but I can’t take much horse radish, it just hits different.
LOL. I actually like horseradish and have a hard time with peppers like habanero.
Wasabi and other horse radishes do hit different from peppers...
The first time I tried wasabi almonds, it cleared my sinuses...
One of my first times with Wasabi, my cousin dared me to eat a teaspoon of the stuff. For a moment it was "this isn't so ba..." then it kicked in.
Still quite like it, but not in that quantity all at once.
@@DarrylCross Yeah, it's almost as bad as that first ever sip of "White Lightning". "WOW! That shit's smoo...., OH MY GOD!"
So nice not to have to put up with the b/s AI 👍
This is one of the less strong ones. It's not hard to tell which stories were written by a human and which ones were made by AI. This one screams AI. It has a lot of repetition and redundancy in it. It's a lot like some of this channel's early work, back before you got good.
Sorry you felt that way (writer here) it was a challenge finding a long enough story for this topic. I will try to do better in the future. With that said I am indeed a human 😉
@Radio-hfy I do apologize for the assumption. Don't feel bad, though. Every creator, no matter how skilled, ends up making a stinker every now and then. Just gotta keep going, learn, and move on.
Great premise, but as others have pointed out - too much repetition. I'd love to hear about more food-based diplomacy, though.
You should have a talk with your AI about not repeating underlying story ideas explicitly 3 times within 10 minutes, really!
Oh, and maybe come clear about the usage of his/her and their ...
We don't use ai for stories here, but thank you for the feedback!
Writer here, thank you for the feedback. Although I’m not an AI I will definitely take your feedback into consideration.
Writer!
Thanks, now I’m hungry 😂
Good job homie keep it up.
ça aurais été marrant que le capitaine dise que le repas était "mortel", même sans se rendre compte que c'était censé le tuer
Holy crap!!! I’m number 10 to comment!!!!
You get a cookie as a prize!
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@@roughneckmp Only one story has used them as a prop that I know of so far.
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This story was fairly repetitive. It wasn't the worst, but ... the constant looping back to the Virexian preference for "efficiency" in their diet, and the "fun" of spicy food, kind of wore thin pretty quickly.
This was oddly bad for Starbound. The narration was top notch as usual, but the story would have been right at home on an AI writer/reader channel. Not only repetitive, but an entire story based on good Mexican food.
Could have been worse Zic, she could have been Indian...
Loved the narration but the storyline dragged out a bit too long. Like a student trying to reach the minimum word count on an essay.
Spicy, tangy and full of salt? Yes please, more thank you .......... yes, sounds like my local CHINESE FOOD but without the regret after eating do to old sickening fry oil and 3rd class food imitation meat all chewie.
Not one of your better ones, felt like the same story repeated 3 times.
This sounds like an AI story, irritatingly repetitive.
Far too drawn out
Second!!
third
Third
Sixth
while it is a nice story, do they have to repeat the same conversation three time with the "this dish is exeptional in our culture, our usual food is based on efficiency", come on, you only need to say it once! edit: i had paused the video on the third time, and i just paused it again! they really did the whole "our standard meal are optimized for efficiency" BS! stop repeating yourself!
First
There was a king reigned in the East:
There, when kings will sit to feast,
They get their fill before they think
With poisoned meat and poisoned drink.
He gathered all the springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling, seasoned sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
They put arsenic in his meat
And stared aghast to watch him eat;
They poured strychnine in his cup
And shook to see him drink it up:
They shook, they stared as white's their shirt:
Them it was their poison hurt.
--I tell the tale that I heard told.
Mithridates, he died old. ----A.E. Houseman
I was thinking about "Rasputin" by Boney M.
@@apveening One of my favorites!