Outstanding. Or sitting, depending on doctor's orders.
@lucienarindel5836 Жыл бұрын
Glad THE BEARD is safe
@bethh2930 Жыл бұрын
Yay! Remember to be kind to yourself!
@quantemwensday Жыл бұрын
"you can have it in *any color you want* as long as it's black" -henry ford
@noppornwongrassamee8941 Жыл бұрын
Modern resaying for the digital editting age: You can have it in any color you want as long as the Hue setting is set to either max or zero. Explanation: in picture editing software, you can choose what color to draw and paint with. Color selection includes a Hue slider which governs how light or dark a given color is. Slide it all the way up and all colors turn white. Slide it all the way down, and all colors turn black.
@johnbreitmeier32689 ай бұрын
This is also a tribute to Henry Kaiser's WWII fleet of escort carriers that flowed off his assembly lines to win the convoy battles. Look it up.
@meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee25 ай бұрын
F W Webb (B 1836 - D 1906) locomotive engineer of the LNWR is supposed to have beaten Ford to the quote.
@Privateerblack Жыл бұрын
When it comes to wartime engineering, Good Enough is perfect.
@zraal3759 Жыл бұрын
And, quantity has a quality all its own.
@snidecommenter7117 Жыл бұрын
@@zraal3759 Yes. During WW2 the Germans produced about 4,000 almost perfect Tigers. The Russians stopped counting at 85,000 T34s.
@zraal3759 Жыл бұрын
@@snidecommenter7117 yep. World war II showed the practical application of the affect of producing wonder weapons slowly vs producing good enough weapons in quantities.
@kireta21 Жыл бұрын
@@snidecommenter7117 Tigers were hardly "perfect", they had poor reliability, and required a lot more maintence and resources to stay operational. It was crafted, which made production slow and expensive, which is why only 2000 units of both models was made. Tank is only worth something if it actually shows up to fight, and in numbers that matter. They were adequate for their task, which was breakthrough operations, and that's it. Though it does fit theme of story very well because Panther, while even less reliable tank, could be produced on assembly line, and was only 40% more expensive and could be produced about as quick as its far less capable precedesor, Panzer IV. When Americans faced need for breakthrough tank for advancing into France, they came up with 2 heavy/breaktrough designs, only to settle on uparmored Sherman instead. Which was designed, put to production, and fielded so quickly, there was not even time to test it on proving grounds, normally required for any new piece of equippment.
@johnprice.2727 Жыл бұрын
I understand that reference.
@Swindle1984 Жыл бұрын
I like the reference to Henry Ford's "you can get it in any color you want, so long as it's black."
@GGrey1975 Жыл бұрын
That and the ability to make field repairs is a way of looking at it as an anagram made out of a name given to the Ford GPW of WW2. For it & the Willys Overland Company's offering (the MB) both had Just Enough Essential Part - as a JEEP transport.
@ICountFrom0 Жыл бұрын
For some reason I always love a story that comes back to throwing rocks in the end.
@riverraven7359 Жыл бұрын
The Apes do love throwing things, rocks, spears, relativistic speed heavy metals...
@taitano12 Жыл бұрын
Ah, yes. The Zerg Rush tactic. Wins more often than not.
@theicyphoenix_7745 Жыл бұрын
Overmind has joined the Chat Tassadar:here comes the Ganthrithor Overmind has left the chat
@ICountFrom0 Жыл бұрын
In a way, every ship having to be hand made, and completely custom, probably reduces the number of wars they had. .. HAD.. until the human ways came around.
@ArchonSG1 Жыл бұрын
Reminds me WWII's Shermans vs Tigers
@snake57 Жыл бұрын
A Tiger was as good as 5 Shermans but the Americans always had 6.
@alganhar1 Жыл бұрын
@@snake57 Oh? Ever seen maintenance on a Tiger, panther or a Sherman? Know what you have to do to take the Final Drive out of either the Tiger or Panther? You have to pop the turret, pull the transmission through the turret ring, then you pull out the final drive. With the Sherman? Unbolt the lower front Glacis plate, bang, there is your final drive. Another fun one, you want to replace an inner road wheel on a Panther. You have to remove 5 road wheels before you reach the one you need to replace, a job that takes a good maintenance crew hours. With an M4 Sherman? Unbolt the bogey, take it off, place a new bogey on, bolt it up, takes twenty minutes. You can have the best battle tank in the world, but its precisely zero use if the thing has broken down on its way to battle. The M4 was rugged, reliable, easy to maintain, and despite the myth stating otherwise actually had the highest crew survival chance upon being knocked out of ANY tank during WWII with the single exception of the British Churchill. As for that ridiculous it takes 5 Shermans to kill a single Tiger, you know where that ridiculous saying comes from? It comes from the fact that the US Army NEVER deployed single tanks. The MINIMUM number of tanks they would deploy was a platoon. You know how many tanks are in a US Army Tank platoon in WWII? Thats right, FIVE.....
@1985wolfman5 ай бұрын
forget the Shermans, it's more like a tiger vs a swarm of T-34s. you needed a hammer to even shift the damn things, but they made 50+ T-34s for every tiger made
@michaelyoung7261 Жыл бұрын
All hail the successor to the US Military Industrial Complex Praise be to the Narrator! Praises to the Author!! An offering for the algorithm
@Kualinar Жыл бұрын
When at war, pretty is a luxury. An unacceptable luxury. Humans : Your war ships are pieces of art and we are very sad that we have to destroy so many of them. Our war ships are clunky and ugly, but functional... And we can make a LOT of them very quickly. Your move. Your decision. Aliens : IMMEDIATE ceasefire. We can't afford to continue fighting you. By the time we can replace a single one of our ship, you can make THOUSANDS ! We MUST achieve Peace. Can we still be friends ? Please.
@seldonwright4345 Жыл бұрын
Also aliens. Hmm might make good allies.
@ThePamastymui9 ай бұрын
Allien1: The readings show this fleet was build in one system, in one shipyard, no longer than a year ago. Allien2: (swears for the mercy of the gods) Allien1: Yep. That's what I said.
@larrythompson8630 Жыл бұрын
It’s been shown many times. “Quantity has a quality of its own”. I always thought for space battles. A small gunboat. Unmanned. You launch it at start of battle with basic orders. Hopefully updating as battle changes. Just maneuvering, big guns. No waste for air/water, heat…
@andreapassante5653 Жыл бұрын
Drones, essentially...
@johnkackley383811 ай бұрын
In an idealized system maybe. Even if it works, powers that be will want improvements. In terms of recognition AI is inferior to a child. That features like heating would likely be used regardless of a passenger. Fuel injection freezing/Expanding and contracting of materials with temperature differential/Motherboard locking up from freezing. And in space we most clearly see Newtons third law: Action and reaction, so big guns would be a lot more efficient mounted on something bigger than them. While quantity can be a strength, it isn't always. Go to war with a thousand firecrackers or one grenade?
@multey11 ай бұрын
@@johnkackley3838i read this thought firecrackers then remembered that firecrackers do not equal firework rockets
@kirishima.nue1311 ай бұрын
Just remember, the scariest boats in ww2 were the PT boats
@reduande10 ай бұрын
@@kirishima.nue13scarriest boats of WW2 are U-boat and carrier. Even now... In space it would be stealth ships...
@danieljensen794 Жыл бұрын
You underestimated our ability to throw rock?! No wonder you didn't understand our manufacturing ability to make our special "rocks".
@MichaelDeHaven Жыл бұрын
It's good for them they're backing off. Because those ships may still just be pebbles. With how we adapt and learn... They would be facing true rocks very soon.
@Paul-yn2zy Жыл бұрын
As much as I like the humans are space orcs with over powered gear; I find this one to be satisfying believable and in line with our history.
@Bananabanana347 Жыл бұрын
Also quality vs quantity is also a believable factor since we can even look to our own history.
@masterpython Жыл бұрын
Without figuring out interchangeable parts and mass production I don't think a civilization would have the precision measurement abilities to get to space.
@ComotoseOnAnime Жыл бұрын
@@Bananabanana347 Just look at Germany during WW2. Masterwork craftsmanship for their ships, tanks and fortifications, pretty much unbeatable 1-1 on the field. Then the allies come along with America's Sherman tank, which were basically Lego blocks on tracks with a variant for every occasion and endlessly replaceable, The British with the DH-98 Mosquito, a wooden plane that ran circles around the Luftwaffe, or the Soviets PTRD 41, their single shot bolt action anti tank rifle that was developed in like 22 days and outfitted the *entire* army within like two years. Sometimes, the lower tech, good enough, mass produced quantity route wins out over immaculate, handcrafted quality.
@scottclark3761 Жыл бұрын
Panzers were works of art. A well made vehicle. The Russian tanks often had primer instead of paint, and they didn't bother grinding down the welds, even. But the Soviets lost more tanks in Operation Barbarossa than Germany made during the entire war. And still had tanks. Production matters.
@davethompson3326 Жыл бұрын
Russian tanks had no frills like upholstered seats. Crews of lend lease tanks had to carefully guard their vehicles against soldiers looking for leather to repair their boots.
@quentintin1 Жыл бұрын
works of art only insofar as their production was terribly inefficient every 15th tank effectively different from the ones that preceded it in some small way, assemblers had to file parts to make them fit in the factory and every variant changed the vehicle in some manner that made many components incompatible meanwhile soviets kept variation to a minimum, and any part was generally compatible on any tank (from the same factory, things became dicey with cross-compatibility) and changes were added in batches with application to the whole of the production effort at once and soviet production tanks had upholstered seats, just american upholstering was of a much higher quality
@scottclark3761 Жыл бұрын
@@quentintin1 But the Panzers came off the line looking gleaming and awesome. The Soviets didn't care much about looks. They cared about how many they could get to the front in the least amount of time. It's not the quality, but the quantity that made the difference. The Russian tanks were also simpler to operate and maintain. German supply lines were getting longer. General Winter and Mud, the two greatest Russian generals in history also played a role. But the Germans tended to try to overengineer. A solution to every possible problem. The Russians just wanted something that functioned at the lowest cost possible. It's a crucial difference in philosophy.
@blank_376811 ай бұрын
wherent the panzers always breaking down with tank crews having to abandon them?
@quentintin111 ай бұрын
@@blank_3768 greatly overstated, a lot of tanks broke down all the time, be it because of poor design, overloaded components or it's that one tank that managed to last the entire war the abandonnement part was more an effect of the german army being constantly on the retreat after Stalingrad, thus every small issue a tank encountered spelt doom for it's ability to continue the war
@lupaswolfshead9971 Жыл бұрын
He just had to slip in a we throw rocks line lol
@Shadow.Dragon Жыл бұрын
Germany and Japan learned this lesson in WW2 when the U.S. entered the war and flooded it with materiel (men, planes, ships, and ammo)!
@marvingulanes5577 Жыл бұрын
Yeah the hand crafted Tigers Vs the off the assembly line T-34s and Shermans
@colincampbell767 Жыл бұрын
And as the war progressed - the US stuff got better. People talk about German superweapons. After about 1942 US aircraft began to be superior to what we faced. The Germans couldn't match the P47 and the P51, the M1 rifle was the best rifle of the war, US artillery and more important - artillery fire direction was superior. Even the Sherman tank could be considered to be the best tank of the war for it' reliability and the fact that it kept its crews alive. The proximity fuse was another unheralded wonder weapon. And a secret weapon we had was the fact that the people who ran our industrial mobilization were from the automobile industry. All the factories were designed for mass production. And the automakers brought in something that wasn't really considered as important by the military - ergonomics. Having stuff that's easy and intuitive to use is a huge combat multiplier. Trivia Note: The Sherman tanks used in Europe after D-day all had stabilized main guns that could be fired while the tank was moving. The reason nobody was trained how to use the stabilization system was because the system was classified at a higher level than the people in the tanks had. So they could not be trained how to operate and maintain it for 'security reasons.' (The navy did something similar with the Mark 14 torpedo. All of the instruction manuals and maintenance manuals were literally in a safe in the basement of the Navy Ordinance Bureau.)
@voss07495 ай бұрын
@@colincampbell767 It wasnt that it was classified it was that the original guys were trained in how to use the system but their replacements were not plus lack of maintenance.
@voss07495 ай бұрын
@poiujnbvcxdswq Where the P-51 had a clear advantage was that it was better at the high altitudes that the Bombers flew at. The Fw-190D matched it but it came out too late and at that point germany did not have enough good pilots left.
@Zael_Moonblade Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the design choice for the US Navy during WWII, 'Why wast resources on a super ship when you can build entire fleets of dependable middle of the road ships for the same cost?'
@yomogami4561 Жыл бұрын
monkeys can throw a lot of rocks [sorry for the paraphrase] i really enjoyed the story and the aesthetics of the aliens. i'm glad the human leader acknowleged it and that alien high command faced reality thanks for the narration
@SilverMKI Жыл бұрын
Quantity is a quality all of its own.
@kurtismiller9544 Жыл бұрын
Always with the humans throwing rocks... LoL! For da Skwerl!
@RealArcalian Жыл бұрын
Greetings, Mentlegent! For the Rhyhtm that is Algo "Outnumbered" taken to a Whole New Level.
@ryanstewart2289 Жыл бұрын
Aliens: "We've been space faring for millennia, you can't match the power of our ships!" Humans: "True, we can't. We CAN, however, drown you in numbers."
@belorianuskane195211 ай бұрын
"We underestimated just how many pebbles the humans were capable of throwing." ... "When in doubt , bring a shotgun." 🤣🤣🤣
@keithvernonlewis94033 ай бұрын
My wife loves you're voices. She used to do the voices to stories for our boys when they were. Small .
@snidecommenter7117 Жыл бұрын
That last line about so many pebbles.
@carminedesanto6746 Жыл бұрын
Henry Ford..you can have any color you want …as long as its black .
@sam2x13 Жыл бұрын
Humans are known to throw more than just pebbles. We've even been known to throw things the size of a telephone pole at the speed of sound.
@KP-dy1yq10 ай бұрын
Operation Plumbob There's a manhole cover zinging through space proving you right 😂😂
@GGrey1975 Жыл бұрын
This is an example of Human Enginuity & Tenacity coming together in a war/threat economy... The ships, if they were pure peer vessels, would be like comparing the firearms of the American Civil War - Hand crafted, accurate & longer-range muzzle loaded rifles primarily in the South verse the mass-produced leaver action repeater rifles using cartage-ammunition from the North via interchangeable parts. Which can put more lead down range faster? Then, starship building as Henry Ford made the Model T (because of interchangeable/standardized parts). You can have any color you want, as long as it is space black.
@bradwolf07 Жыл бұрын
I was shocked it took these Xenos so long to build their ships. But as soon as I realized that, I knew how their doom would arrive
@elduquecaradura146811 ай бұрын
I do find interesting they become spacefaring without an industrial revolution prior. But I guess that it might come out as any way as possible
@brentmartin683311 ай бұрын
Well, a finely crafted ship takes time. Maybe they united early and instead of as many wars they took to space with a large artesian effort.
@TheJasonBorn11 ай бұрын
A pebble is just a pebble, until there are hundreds of them being thrown at you at the speed of light.
@Elmithian Жыл бұрын
I respect a general that is able to see where the wind is blowing this quickly. It shows that they the cool mindset you need to have whilst on the field.
@kurtismiller9544 Жыл бұрын
Took that title from Henry Ford model t any color you want as long as it's black
@emilschw892411 ай бұрын
This reminded me of "Superiority" by Arthur C Clarke. A must read.
@chrisdufresne9359 Жыл бұрын
Ah yes, overly constructed works of art vs a fleet of space tractors. Sometimes, quantity is a quality all its own.
@Iluvantir Жыл бұрын
We have nice things. Very nice things, in fact. We just don't send them into battle... very often. Function over form. Oh... and more dakka-dakka than your foe is always a good thing!
@allenmorgan1007 Жыл бұрын
For the Algorithm, for the Author(s), for the Holographic Voice!
@shiroshini Жыл бұрын
God you're such an awesome narrator. Podium Audio would be blessed to have someone you on their team.
@MidnightSmoke Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the story. Here is your like and comment as payment and to help your channel grow and get you the recognition you deserve.
@aj_the_infamous1013 Жыл бұрын
Well we are good at throwing rocks
@josephperrelli83082 ай бұрын
This is basically what happened to the Japanese during WWII. Valuing training and craftsmanship over better tech and faster production. Most of their equipment was practically WWI holdovers and arguably even the Italians had better equipment.
@garysprandel18179 ай бұрын
Interstellar Sherman tanks. Not good one on one but so rapidly produced and relatively easy to repair in the field overcome their " superior " opposite number.
@lenorevanalstine121910 ай бұрын
yea sounds bout like humanity we might be angry monkies with pointy sticks but we are a hell of a lot of angry monkies with a lot of pointy sticks
@mystikmind2005 Жыл бұрын
This story confirms my thinking on how they screwed up the Babylon5 Earth Mimbari war... but, what can you do when the story demands that a Mimbari ship can only be damaged by human weapons when there is a great leader on board that needs to be killed, or, when your main character who is the only smart human in the entire universe destroys one! Such a good series marred by these two stupid things.
@brentmartin683311 ай бұрын
The only thing that I can think of that makes that work is UE has become a totalitarian state (even with a president) for a while so human intelligence & ingenuity have devolved. Whether people (in story) recognize that or not is up to debate. I think some did and were trying to fix it, and others only realized even later on and maybe not realizing how long the slide was. And yes plot armor 😀
@leechowning271211 ай бұрын
Good to see you back man. Hope things go well. Don't play numbers games against humans. You will always lose.
@carminedesanto6746 Жыл бұрын
Quantity has a Quality of all it’s own.
@joseas1518 Жыл бұрын
They thought one pebble wouldnt hurt. Ha. They didn't know we could throw THOUSANDS of pebbles at a single time. That will leave a mark.
@scarletrhine451011 ай бұрын
Never underestimate human ingenuity. Also Q-ships come to mind.
@TS-bj8my Жыл бұрын
Quantity has it's own quality!
@JRMshadow260a Жыл бұрын
A lesson we still haven't learned about ourselves still...
@artyd42 Жыл бұрын
Quantity is a type of Quality. Welcome to Space Station "It Go Brrr" and hope you enjoy your stay.
@gligar4510 ай бұрын
Ahh, Someone Misses Naked Corvette Spam in Stellaris :P
@Maddog306010 ай бұрын
"Quantity has a quality all its own."
@user-dc6yw7nv2h11 ай бұрын
Wishing you all the best for good health, happiness, prosperity. Sounds kleshay but true.
@Yistern8 ай бұрын
Thumbnail reminded me, "You can have death in any color, so long as it's black or gray."
@nathandc Жыл бұрын
For the Pebbles! For the Algorithm! and for the Narrator!!
@Ryu_D Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the video.
@Type_blazenil8 ай бұрын
If you can fix it with chewing gum, duct tape and a malot, appearance is the secondary concern
@nigelsmith7366 Жыл бұрын
Wishing you all the best bro
@unclepewter41617 ай бұрын
Get enough pebbles together and you have an avalanche
@larryjanson4011 Жыл бұрын
Henry Ford would be proud about his assembly line. back when Americans had the will power. nothing was impossible.
@KuDastardly9 ай бұрын
Prefabrication is key right there. >:)
@arcuserarc1201 Жыл бұрын
Great Story
@elfeater1760 Жыл бұрын
For the Health of Agro!
@t.p.3456 Жыл бұрын
Quality by quantity
@KwaterbugBUTCHER Жыл бұрын
For the Algorithm ,For the Author(s), For the Disembodied voice!
@kennetth138911 ай бұрын
Somehow it all comes down to throwing the most rocks...
@SammywiseG Жыл бұрын
The Illhushar brought Tigers, the humans brought Shermans.
@michaelsoland3293 Жыл бұрын
Except the Tiger was pretty shit, the Shermans were far better suited to every area of the conflict, especially later versions. The whole 5 shermans to kill a tiger is entirely a myth, a 76mm Sherman could happily fuck up a tiger or panther, hell Shermans in France had a 3.2 K/D against Panthers
@alistairwolfe6644 Жыл бұрын
Keep safe and get well my friend and thank you for another great naration
@Type_blazenil8 ай бұрын
We're not throwing pebbles, we're dropping stones from trees
@Darkwintre Жыл бұрын
Good story
@AgroSquerril Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@ayushthakali8343 Жыл бұрын
i really appreciate your work.
@Maeshalanadae Жыл бұрын
We call it death by a thousand cuts.
@gamesmore6583 Жыл бұрын
Like the liberty ships of WWII orT-34 tanks.
@davethompson3326 Жыл бұрын
Paint them black, because everyone knows you detect enemy ships by looking out the window. @_@
@GreatGreenGoo11 ай бұрын
Well we do throw rocks good, we throw rocks very good
@waldemarhachaj Жыл бұрын
Quantity is quality by itself...
@quantemwensday Жыл бұрын
death by tiny pebbles
@unspacy2099ad Жыл бұрын
epic!!!!!!!!!!!
@owenbrau63 Жыл бұрын
Look up Vanport, OR, and what they did for the US.
@crowgrabber_former_er5bb8yb2t9 ай бұрын
You have balistas, we have machine slings.
@mikkelnpetersen9 ай бұрын
3 words "military industrial complex"
@Uzzgub Жыл бұрын
A Interaction for the Interaction God, a Comment for the Comment Throne, for the Almighty Algorithm
@kevinhonomichl9999 Жыл бұрын
As Stalin said “Quantity has a quality all its own”
@captnaberystwyth2879 Жыл бұрын
Which explains his moustache..
@captnaberystwyth2879 Жыл бұрын
The og red army tactic..
@Bidimus111 ай бұрын
Kaiser shipyards would be proud.
@noctusdoesthings Жыл бұрын
Accuracy by Volume
@bignasty48747 ай бұрын
"Quantity has a quality all its own" allegedly attributed to Joseph Stalin.
@balzdagger7834 Жыл бұрын
Sing praise to the Agro Squirrel! Nake sacrifice to the Algorithm!
@hydra_gaming556711 ай бұрын
just asking because im curious but will you be picking forgotten dungon back up now thats its off hiatus?
@user-xy5uz1sc7rАй бұрын
“We make up for by quantity.”- China’s Minister of Trade
@calamity466611 ай бұрын
There's a story I Want you to do when you can it's called human vengeance also I just read comet that you came out of surgery so I hope you're doing well
@derekdrake8706 Жыл бұрын
Stories of "quantity is a quality" always get a fail in my eyes because that's not how war works in real life.
@macshadow1150 Жыл бұрын
They kinda sound like as they came from 40k universe
@quinnhasse9170 Жыл бұрын
Wow i am early for this video
@justsomeguywithahandlebarm2456 Жыл бұрын
Algebra
@riverraven7359 Жыл бұрын
Have rock, will throw...
@wyrmhand Жыл бұрын
For the almighty algorithm
@armycowboy4313 Жыл бұрын
The author missed out on a chance to call the human ships the Liberty ships in nod to the cargo ships the US produced in ww2
@darkPrince10101 Жыл бұрын
That's actually the ships produced in the shipyards in Vanport (among other locations), and was a direct inspiration for the story!
@armycowboy4313 Жыл бұрын
@@darkPrince10101 I will admit I missed that part. But still equally amount awesome that I was added to the story.
@user-jq5bz4wp2e Жыл бұрын
Fairly new to listening to these stories but... anyone else kinda creeped out by the intense human exceptionalism vibe? Any aliens out there listening in on our internet must be really amused. At least we can hope they are amused. No really, we must hope and pray they are amused. Things could go badly. I bet Putin believes in Russian exceptionalism. Like I said, things could go badly. Walk softly and don't let anyone know how big your stick is unless you know how big theirs is.