Maybe it isn't oil. Maybe it's a special fuel created by aliens but manufactured off world to make it so any machine that takes that fuel will become useless if the combine end up beaten back in any way. That way the rebels can't use it as a reliable energy source without keeping off world transportation in some capacity. This explains how it seems to flair up in fire and then explode. No earth oil or gas acts like that.
TheD736 You're right... that's actually a really good theory that never occured to me. Now that I think about it, the buggy had an old engine, and that could be because they wanted to use an Earth-only fuel source, but couldn't find anything that would work with it other than that engine. However, that's kind of eliminating the idea of being more Earth-friendly.
***** You're right, it might be that the base is made in a more stable form off-world, and then transported to Earth so that they can complete the manufacturing process, so the Combine wouldn't have to do as much work. They have so many factories, I can see that happening! XD
"Human Resource"? Is that like using humans to make combine soldiers by cloning them or something like that because they made it so that no one could breed.
Genocide and enslavement at the hands of a race of giant slugs? Yay! :D Truthfully speaking, If the Combine showed up for real, I'd probably join the Overwatch in a heartbeat.
TheDiamondStar Eh.... My life sucks anyway. Getting to mow down Zombies, giant Antilions, and crowbar wielding scientists would be a step up. Even if it does come at the cost of having my identity erased and being encased in a life support suit.
If the Freeman's Mind theories are correct, then you may be right... Before Gordon teleported to Xen, he ranted about teleporters creating duplicates. Then, in the next episode: he was teleported to both Xen and Europe. European Gordon must've survived the Portal Storms and Seven-Hour war, changed his name to Mike, joined Civil Protection, then as he started drinking and eating Combine food, his memory of the Black Mesa incident and the years before the invasion slowly faded away. So he's now more consentual of the Combine's rule over the planet. it's been 20 years since Black Mesa, so that would make Mike AKA Gordon at least 50 years old, he's too old to really care.
@@scottm8292 i dont think there are 2 default models (unless half life 2 was updated at some point to change the model and that's what you're talking about)
Ross Scott, you are an amazing person, not only you make me crack up with all your other videos but you also show an intellectual side of you in this video. I like to get involved on enviormental issues and talking about the subject and do what i can to help out, so this video hits home for me. Thanks for making it!
My friends... ... ... I present to you... The decisions of government officials,in a nutshell... "But no,that would've made sense! We can't have that!"
This episode is what really turned me on to Civil Protection. I wish this episode would get more global views. Hopefully in another 50 years things will seriously start turning around for Earth. Too bad I'll either be dead, or a 99 year old man who keeps saying "What???".
Don't worry, by 2052 oil consumption will be more than the amount we have left So that's when we start switching to renewable energy or look for something else
Hey, I'm pledging my loyalty to our overlords right now so that even if I'm dead they'll bring me back with gene cloning technology to join the ranks of the combine. Suck it, everyone who believes in their countries constitution 🖕
Civil Protection reminds me of an inside look on Intsec-Troops from the Paranoia-RPG. Bumbling stormtroopers talking stupidly about the hellhole they live in. Beautiful
It's neat to watch this in 2020. We're still massively dependant on oil, but compared to 2008, which I remember well, we've made HUGE strides in renewable energy.
Its like Mike and Pyro were the same person but seperated, ending up the maniac side being the Pyro and more sane side being Mike, but having both have a piece of eachother in them.
Вроде речь здесь идет о серьезных вещах, но в то же время все это не лишено юмора. Джужище, я тебя искренне прошу, продолжи делать ролики. У тебя отлично получается. Тем более история о туннеле явно просит продолжения.
Interesting thing is that oil companies, to make more profit, they will buy up oil wells in the United States, where it can fulfill its own oil needs with the oil it has (for a few decades, too), and then just sit on them. By cutting the supply, they increase the demand, ergo, the price of oil rises. Another interesting fact is that oil prices fluctuate more often in the spring and fall months because the oil refineries have to switch over production from diesel #1 to diesel #2. Additionally, diesel fuel is actually remarkably better than gasoline in its MPG and its cost of production. When gasoline is produced, it leaves behind a lot of waste products that are not produced during the production of diesel. Another plus to diesel fuel is that it is safer to handle; diesel doesn't explode like gasoline does, it merely burns off until done. However, due to the loud noise produced by diesel engines and their relative large size, most people own a gasoline engine; however, German scientists recently made a virtually silent diesel engine. This all, however, is outdated! The united states alone, in its current condition, can change over completely to solar, wind, geothermal, and hydroelectric power within the next ten years! This would completely negate the use of our current oil based engines, coal based power plants, and natural gas heating systems (the extraction of natural gas through hydraulic fracturing is actually EXTREMELY toxic, with over half of wells failing to contain the fracking fluid, which seeps into the water table of farmland and causing immense health concerns). Hell, things like this have been done before in South America with natural gas!
Fast forward some years later and the message changes to "Oh, nevermind, we found a shit-ton more oil. . . Should probably still be looking into alternate stuff, though."
Man I watched this YEARS ago back in like....middle school when I was way more clueless about the world at large. It never really struck me until rewatching this over a decade later that hey, this is actually like, a legit irl political statement and not *just* an animated retelling of Half-Life Verse's history. Wild.
I love the fact that Postal Dude has died during the alien attack. I mean after all the garbage he has gone through (soccer moms, butchers, police, swat, zombies, giant Mike Jaret-schachter mutant cow that shoots milk out of his udders, book nuts, Krotchy, Garry Coleman, the army, a fucking tank, ebola cows, even pigeons! PIGEONS!), it's ALIENS that finish him off!
Hay there i am from the future. i am sad to inform you earth never got conquered by aliens and we have to deal with our climate problems and figuring out new and better sources of power then oil. It was fun video back in 2008 and i love watching it now too, it has aged really well.
So i was listening to that mesmerizing background music at the start and at first i couldn't come up from which game, but watching this machinima again it suddenly came up in my mind... Soul Reaver! At the Elder God's lair.
I'm not gonna lie, seeing this kind of thing these days is just kinda... depressing. Like we still haven't fixed that problem, everything looks like it's entirely possible to spiral to hell due to a global economic crisis the likes of which nobody has ever seen thanks to a global pandemic that the US has no interest in addressing properly, and all the while oil is still a finite resource... man... this is the kind of shit that makes people turn to drugs.
Yup, it's only gonna get worse. The US is focusing on biofuels which consume far more energy than they put out under the guise of it being green because, it's made from plants? In truth big agro corps are just lobbying the shit out of congress and convincing them that they are doing the right thing while selling the very ground out from under them. Nothing has changed for the better in the 13 years since Ross put this out.
Mike is wrong. The concept Mike is talking about - the decline of available oil reserves leading to a potentially catastrophic energy crisis - has a name: "Peak Oil." It makes this video an interesting little time capsule because Peak Oil just...never happened. Instead, the oil-shale deposits that Mike dismisses proved to be *very* lucrative once hydraulic fracturing technology - "fracking" - matured. Technically, Peak Oil was only delayed by this, not averted entirely. But with the maturation of renewable energy technologies - particularly solar - it's not really fertile ground for doomsaying anymore. Mind you, I can absolutely see people having a conversation like this in the Half-Life universe, where the Combine invasion took off where Peak Oil was still a concern and hydraulic fracturing had yet to take off. ...also, you know, the Combine is utterly devastating Earth's ecosystem far more quickly than humanity ever did via draining the oceans and introducing invasive alien species. So there's that too. :v
Yeah.. Considering Mike's age(Probably early 30's at most. Half-Life 2 is about 20 years after Half Life 1, probably he dosen't had a full formal education), and also Earth is under Breen's control, It would be a Brainwash contents.
I don't know if they did drain the Oceans in the Civil Protection universe. Seems like that'd be something Mike would mention here, but idk. The only thing that seems different from their world and ours is that the combine rules everything and the human race has been significantly reduced in number. Mike and Dave are just normal cops and you see cities with cars and people going to work and stuff (in other episodes like the doughnut one). It's like a big reset for the planet basically.
Wow, this episode really made me think that entertainers can entertain AND help us solve important problems. I mean I already watch things like John Oliver's Last Week Tonight on H.B.O., but I'm just really astounded by what's been just presented to me.
screwthepresent I always wondered why should people make a logical argument about anything if you could just use extreme pathos and suspicion to get the masses to do what you want, then with media such as Jon Stewart, this, and many other things, I learned that you can be entertaining and appealing, and have a logical argument. This changes my perspective on speech giving and opposing viewpoints a bit.
screwthepresent So, if I'm hearing you correctly, when a show host talks about a topic that has opposing viewpoints with a viewpoint you believe that most people agree is the better chose, show hosts are just repeating ideas that make themselves look good?
This video from 2008 kinda forsaw the future. We saw it coming from miles away... and there's not going to be that alien invasion so it's gonna be worse.
Even in the final release, this doesn't make much sense. Although many of the wasteland chapters were ultimately cut, we know they are still canon, because we see a glimpse of the inner wastelands during the teleportation sequence in "Red Letter Day". We can see along "Route Canal" how incredibly polluted it can be in the outskirts of City 17. The seas have noticeably been drained in "Highway 17". Many fish species are implied to be extinct in "Lost Coast". Also, is it any coincidence all the Overwatch and Civil Protection troops are wearing gasmasks?
So basically the future is Fusion and Nuclear Power. We will still have to have Coal, Oil, and Gas in reserves in case the Fusion or Nuclear power collapses, but the best scenario is for a global consolidated research effort into creating an effective and affordable source of creating Fusion energy.
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"But no, that would've made sense. Can't have that." Best line out of the series.
And totally applicable to the current administration here in the US!
I think Human race in it's entirety has fallen under that rule since the Current Era.
Took the words right outta my mouth.
@@masonsykes2240 *laughs in european*
I say that at least once a week at work.
Ross casually predicting things correctly since 2008.
Except the last never happened. Nvm I bet OP is an alien
@@aidencampbell9120 Tell no one
Predicting? Most of what was talked about has been happening since the industrial revolution.
Took me 9 years to realize that "Oil's Well" is a pun for "All is well."
Oil's well that ends well.
Took me 1 minute thanks to you
Yep
it's a double pun, actually
@@Catnippy Yeah knowing Ross, it's also a reference to the old DOS game of the same name.
3:34 I refuse to believe that the Postal Dude would be taken out by aliens. He fought convenient store clerks who had more fire power.
I believe that was a trainee. Any real veteran of the Postal Service knows a thing or two about urban combat and survival.
@@dsandoval9396
as an american I can confirm
every member of the USPS is a special forces commando par de jour
They poisoned his cocaine
@@KoishiVibin Considering the work you get put through I wouldn't doubt it.
He might be the other postal dude from paradise Lost, he Is nothing compared to the real one
I find it kind of funny that there are explosive oil drums all over Half-Life 2!
Maybe it isn't oil. Maybe it's a special fuel created by aliens but manufactured off world to make it so any machine that takes that fuel will become useless if the combine end up beaten back in any way. That way the rebels can't use it as a reliable energy source without keeping off world transportation in some capacity. This explains how it seems to flair up in fire and then explode. No earth oil or gas acts like that.
TheD736 You're right... that's actually a really good theory that never occured to me. Now that I think about it, the buggy had an old engine, and that could be because they wanted to use an Earth-only fuel source, but couldn't find anything that would work with it other than that engine. However, that's kind of eliminating the idea of being more Earth-friendly.
***** You're right, it might be that the base is made in a more stable form off-world, and then transported to Earth so that they can complete the manufacturing process, so the Combine wouldn't have to do as much work. They have so many factories, I can see that happening! XD
Guys,no need theories about oil drums since that shit is scattered all over in COD and other FPS games
Wouldn't be crude oil, the flash point is too high for it to ignite from a gunshot.
4:32 I keep imagining Dr Breen explaining paychecks to the Advisors.
It's interesting to think back to 2008 when this originally came out and now there's a show about an "Amish mafia".
How's it like 6 years later? :D
For the record the aliens were draining resources much faster than now, for their own use on other planets
Also, the Combine are an inter-dimensional Empire, not an inter-stellar one.
*their
Yes, it's canon
"Human Resource"? Is that like using humans to make combine soldiers by cloning them or something like that because they made it so that no one could breed.
Hey I wasn't tryna be smart, it was an actual question, also thanks for the answer.
This is _exactly_ what this planet needs to get back on-track.
Thank you, _Civil Protection_, for opening my eyes to the truth.
Genocide and enslavement at the hands of a race of giant slugs? Yay! :D
Truthfully speaking, If the Combine showed up for real, I'd probably join the Overwatch in a heartbeat.
***** DAE life is bad guise
360Nomad that would probably be a horrific desicion of your life
TheDiamondStar Eh.... My life sucks anyway. Getting to mow down Zombies, giant Antilions, and crowbar wielding scientists would be a step up. Even if it does come at the cost of having my identity erased and being encased in a life support suit.
Humanity is only an extra military stash for the Combine, why else are they making augmented super soldier's?
I guess someone drank the water
+tan man dont drink the water, they put something in it, they make you forget! i dont even remember how i got here!
stickymaggot252345. Good quote from Half 2 from that guy sitting at the table
If the Freeman's Mind theories are correct, then you may be right...
Before Gordon teleported to Xen, he ranted about teleporters creating duplicates. Then, in the next episode: he was teleported to both Xen and Europe. European Gordon must've survived the Portal Storms and Seven-Hour war, changed his name to Mike, joined Civil Protection, then as he started drinking and eating Combine food, his memory of the Black Mesa incident and the years before the invasion slowly faded away. So he's now more consentual of the Combine's rule over the planet. it's been 20 years since Black Mesa, so that would make Mike AKA Gordon at least 50 years old, he's too old to really care.
@@Rune3D amazing thought
I just noticed, Mike has a 107 armband, and Dave has a 148 armband. So they don't just have the same texture.
Little touches!
There are two different CP models, Ross used both
@@scottm8292 I thought the default CP model has "C17" on its arm?
@@scottm8292 the default metrocop model has a "C17" armband though right?
@@zhankazest One of the 2 default models does
@@scottm8292 i dont think there are 2 default models (unless half life 2 was updated at some point to change the model and that's what you're talking about)
Ross Scott, you are an amazing person, not only you make me crack up with all your other videos but you also show an intellectual side of you in this video. I like to get involved on enviormental issues and talking about the subject and do what i can to help out, so this video hits home for me. Thanks for making it!
This...hits way harder now Ross. You made another truly timeless video.
i miss this series
My friends... ... ... I present to you... The decisions of government officials,in a nutshell...
"But no,that would've made sense! We can't have that!"
Damn, this is dark
1:50
"We should have just burned it all, burn everything."
Wiser words have never been spoken.
Fahrenheit 451 philosophy in a nutshell
@@theradiumgirl9298 YEAY! Fahrenheit 451! The temperature at which books ...BUURRRRRNN.
this is still my favorite episode of the series, a silly machinima still holds up well 17 years later
This episode is what really turned me on to Civil Protection. I wish this episode would get more global views. Hopefully in another 50 years things will seriously start turning around for Earth. Too bad I'll either be dead, or a 99 year old man who keeps saying "What???".
Don't worry, by 2052 oil consumption will be more than the amount we have left
So that's when we start switching to renewable energy or look for something else
Burn it all.
Hey, I'm pledging my loyalty to our overlords right now so that even if I'm dead they'll bring me back with gene cloning technology to join the ranks of the combine.
Suck it, everyone who believes in their countries constitution 🖕
@@freshrot420 *BURN*
@@scottm8292we'll be dead at that time
this episode is genius is so many ways.
We are doing this for the sake of humanity.
Oh hai
Yeaaaaah but I don't see any other life on earth anymore. Not much point making the planet awesome again if nothing can enjoy it right?
Oh go diddle yourself. you took my suitcase at the train station.
By reducing the reproduction of our own species to absolute 0
Making us the last generation of humans.
Sake of what killing 10 billion would wonders solve most of our social ploblem
Civil Protection reminds me of an inside look on Intsec-Troops from the Paranoia-RPG. Bumbling stormtroopers talking stupidly about the hellhole they live in. Beautiful
bring back these series please.
"How about knowing most of the people you ever knew in your life are all dead now?"
"Nah, they all sucked anyway."
^ This xD
11 year anniversary of this episode recently
aged well, extremely well
It's neat to watch this in 2020. We're still massively dependant on oil, but compared to 2008, which I remember well, we've made HUGE strides in renewable energy.
You guys are great machinima artists and comedy writers. Keep up the good work my bros!
It's neat how this episode features unused enemies in the flashback.
close to a decade and a half later and this still makes me sad
I, for one, welcome our new intergalactic ultralords.
Its like Mike and Pyro were the same person but seperated, ending up the maniac side being the Pyro and more sane side being Mike, but having both have a piece of eachother in them.
The massive amounts of water pollution caused BY the combine: am I a joke to you?
Don't forget the ever expanding combine facilities literally eating up land.
"yeah good thing we dont have to worry about any of that stuff anymore" he says looking at the camera
damn dude
Just realized this uses the Pillars theme from Soul Reaver 2 as an ambient track in the background.
Вроде речь здесь идет о серьезных вещах, но в то же время все это не лишено юмора. Джужище, я тебя искренне прошу, продолжи делать ролики. У тебя отлично получается. Тем более история о туннеле явно просит продолжения.
I don't need go to school to remember this. I could just watch this video multiple times.
This video was one big, deep thought. It was AMAZING.
Yes! Thank you so much for the reuploads!
I love this series.
Interesting thing is that oil companies, to make more profit, they will buy up oil wells in the United States, where it can fulfill its own oil needs with the oil it has (for a few decades, too), and then just sit on them. By cutting the supply, they increase the demand, ergo, the price of oil rises.
Another interesting fact is that oil prices fluctuate more often in the spring and fall months because the oil refineries have to switch over production from diesel #1 to diesel #2. Additionally, diesel fuel is actually remarkably better than gasoline in its MPG and its cost of production. When gasoline is produced, it leaves behind a lot of waste products that are not produced during the production of diesel. Another plus to diesel fuel is that it is safer to handle; diesel doesn't explode like gasoline does, it merely burns off until done. However, due to the loud noise produced by diesel engines and their relative large size, most people own a gasoline engine; however, German scientists recently made a virtually silent diesel engine.
This all, however, is outdated! The united states alone, in its current condition, can change over completely to solar, wind, geothermal, and hydroelectric power within the next ten years! This would completely negate the use of our current oil based engines, coal based power plants, and natural gas heating systems (the extraction of natural gas through hydraulic fracturing is actually EXTREMELY toxic, with over half of wells failing to contain the fracking fluid, which seeps into the water table of farmland and causing immense health concerns). Hell, things like this have been done before in South America with natural gas!
We should learn from Germany.
www.resilience.org/stories/2013-01-10/shale-gas-how-often-do-fracked-wells-leak
No we can't. We can switch over to mostly Nuclear, we can't switch over to anything else.
This is aging well
I can't help but feel that right now? This is incredibly relevant. Prepare and stay safe.
"Crime is at its lowest in recorded history" then came the revolution...
3:33 I spy with my little eye: Postal Dude!
+predcon1 Shit.
Good time to come back to this after our oil stocks are dipping into the negatives
This video rings far too true in 2022
The Combine Empire sounds like a real utopia.
That guy on the conveyer belt going to the ditch looks an awful lot like me.
LOVE SO MUCH CIVIL PROTECTION SERIES, BEST MACHINIMA EVER MADE.
Fast forward some years later and the message changes to "Oh, nevermind, we found a shit-ton more oil. . . Should probably still be looking into alternate stuff, though."
Mike and Dave DO realise that the Universal Union is DRAINING the world oceans right? XD
Sad how true this is...
Seriously relevant. Especially today, almost 12 years later. Thanks Ross!
Came here after the third follow up episode of the game dungeon. Still relevant as ever
I think I've learned more about the plot of Half-Life from these Civil Protection videos than I did from playing the game.
Ages like fine wine.
No idea how yall came up with this stuff but I love it
Man I watched this YEARS ago back in like....middle school when I was way more clueless about the world at large. It never really struck me until rewatching this over a decade later that hey, this is actually like, a legit irl political statement and not *just* an animated retelling of Half-Life Verse's history.
Wild.
I was 5 years old in 2008. I'm 15 now. Damn man.
Ross was way more socially conscious in 2008 than I was
Man this video hits home after the great reset.
This is just the sort of video Dr. Breen would show to Civil Protection recruits!
"Hey whats with the machine gun?" "Oh I was gonna try fishing with it."
I love the fact that Postal Dude has died during the alien attack. I mean after all the garbage he has gone through (soccer moms, butchers, police, swat, zombies, giant Mike Jaret-schachter mutant cow that shoots milk out of his udders, book nuts, Krotchy, Garry Coleman, the army, a fucking tank, ebola cows, even pigeons! PIGEONS!), it's ALIENS that finish him off!
This is becoming more relevant by the day
I wish this series had more views. It's so well made, sometimes I forget it's actually G-Mod.
Actually, it's Source SDK.
In conclusion we need the combine to invade us
The Combine please start the 7-Hour war, we need you now more than ever!!
I wouldn't mind if I was over 18 ;-;
Hay there i am from the future. i am sad to inform you earth never got conquered by aliens and we have to deal with our climate problems and figuring out new and better sources of power then oil.
It was fun video back in 2008 and i love watching it now too, it has aged really well.
This has to be my favorite episode aside the Tunnel.
Gotta love the use of the pillars theme from Soul Reaver 2 edited throughout this
9 years later oil prices still sky rocketing
Dave be like: hmmmmmm a 50 call sniper rifel... IM GONNA GO FISHING WITH IT!
With shale oil becoming a corner stone in the US's oil production, this video really shows it age.
postal dude at 3:34
He knows what you're thinking but the funny thing is, he doesn't even like video games
"Postal Dude's Mind" would've been insane
Augusto Vitor but postal dude talks
Kadi not that hard to take his voice off the game data
+Augusto Vitor true
we need more peaceful apoclypse games/videos
So i was listening to that mesmerizing background music at the start and at first i couldn't come up from which game, but watching this machinima again it suddenly came up in my mind... Soul Reaver! At the Elder God's lair.
I'm not gonna lie, seeing this kind of thing these days is just kinda... depressing. Like we still haven't fixed that problem, everything looks like it's entirely possible to spiral to hell due to a global economic crisis the likes of which nobody has ever seen thanks to a global pandemic that the US has no interest in addressing properly, and all the while oil is still a finite resource... man... this is the kind of shit that makes people turn to drugs.
So true, I think this that parts of this episode are very relevant today
Just be like dave he doesn't care about anything.
Yup, it's only gonna get worse. The US is focusing on biofuels which consume far more energy than they put out under the guise of it being green because, it's made from plants?
In truth big agro corps are just lobbying the shit out of congress and convincing them that they are doing the right thing while selling the very ground out from under them. Nothing has changed for the better in the 13 years since Ross put this out.
I like to see Dave fishes with using only a machine gun
me watching:
Yeah.... i guess its good the combine took over
me after realising:
wait a second
This is why we need the combine.
I loved this series I wish Ross could make more
Mike is wrong.
The concept Mike is talking about - the decline of available oil reserves leading to a potentially catastrophic energy crisis - has a name: "Peak Oil." It makes this video an interesting little time capsule because Peak Oil just...never happened. Instead, the oil-shale deposits that Mike dismisses proved to be *very* lucrative once hydraulic fracturing technology - "fracking" - matured.
Technically, Peak Oil was only delayed by this, not averted entirely. But with the maturation of renewable energy technologies - particularly solar - it's not really fertile ground for doomsaying anymore.
Mind you, I can absolutely see people having a conversation like this in the Half-Life universe, where the Combine invasion took off where Peak Oil was still a concern and hydraulic fracturing had yet to take off.
...also, you know, the Combine is utterly devastating Earth's ecosystem far more quickly than humanity ever did via draining the oceans and introducing invasive alien species. So there's that too. :v
Yeah.. Considering Mike's age(Probably early 30's at most. Half-Life 2 is about 20 years after Half Life 1, probably he dosen't had a full formal education), and also Earth is under Breen's control, It would be a Brainwash contents.
I don't know if they did drain the Oceans in the Civil Protection universe. Seems like that'd be something Mike would mention here, but idk. The only thing that seems different from their world and ours is that the combine rules everything and the human race has been significantly reduced in number. Mike and Dave are just normal cops and you see cities with cars and people going to work and stuff (in other episodes like the doughnut one). It's like a big reset for the planet basically.
Please make more civil protection. I love this. I have seen every single freemans mind you need to continue this
I feel like Ross because this is really happening.
MIKE: Hey uh, what's with the machine gun?
DAVE: Oh, I was going to try fishing with it.
This is why I love Dave
No mention of Nuclear Power as an alternative? The LARGEST fuel:energy ratio in existance?
Wow, this episode really made me think that entertainers can entertain AND help us solve important problems. I mean I already watch things like John Oliver's Last Week Tonight on H.B.O., but I'm just really astounded by what's been just presented to me.
screwthepresent
I always wondered why should people make a logical argument about anything if you could just use extreme pathos and suspicion to get the masses to do what you want, then with media such as Jon Stewart, this, and many other things, I learned that you can be entertaining and appealing, and have a logical argument. This changes my perspective on speech giving and opposing viewpoints a bit.
clyax113 When it's done well, sure. When it's done by show hosts, it's preachy.
screwthepresent
What's the difference between taking a side in an argument and being "preachy" in this circumstance would you say?
+clyax113 When there's no other side to an argument, it stops being arguing and starts being preaching.
screwthepresent
So, if I'm hearing you correctly, when a show host talks about a topic that has opposing viewpoints with a viewpoint you believe that most people agree is the better chose, show hosts are just repeating ideas that make themselves look good?
Thought of this randomly, massive nostalgia
3:34 POSTAL DUDE!!
what the hell? did this man for real just start to predict the future holy fuck that scared me
I literally facepalmed when he said "I was gonna try fishing with it"
I love how it was all philosophical and wax environmental then at 3:20 it takes a total 180.
They've got a talented mapper, I must say
And here we are
This video from 2008 kinda forsaw the future.
We saw it coming from miles away...
and there's not going to be that alien invasion
so it's gonna be worse.
and the varus didn't help much with global warming and the like
we didn't learn shite
If they were in Beta, they wouldn't say that
Oceans drained
Even in the final release, this doesn't make much sense. Although many of the wasteland chapters were ultimately cut, we know they are still canon, because we see a glimpse of the inner wastelands during the teleportation sequence in "Red Letter Day". We can see along "Route Canal" how incredibly polluted it can be in the outskirts of City 17. The seas have noticeably been drained in "Highway 17". Many fish species are implied to be extinct in "Lost Coast". Also, is it any coincidence all the Overwatch and Civil Protection troops are wearing gasmasks?
If Accursed Farms started using Source Film Maker, or G-MOD to make documentaries like this. I'm not gonna lie i'd probably watch the hell out of it.
So basically the future is Fusion and Nuclear Power.
We will still have to have Coal, Oil, and Gas in reserves in case the Fusion or Nuclear power collapses, but the best scenario is for a global consolidated research effort into creating an effective and affordable source of creating Fusion energy.
If by fusion you mean solar.