My thoughts as well

Yup

This.

You do where that came from?

a good example of something infinitely scalable

FYI the exact quote is "I against my brother, Us against our cousin, the 3 of us against the world."

Well you could interpret it that way Hoped can be a future imperfect or a perfect past in English. If the author wanted to be clear and your interpretation was the intent the phrase 'had hoped' ( Past Pluperfect ) would be used.

I wouldn't say wasted, our diversity in thought and culture provides a diversity of progress and development. A truly united culture and thought leads to stagnation and ridged thinking, such a culture would be impossible to look at issues from different perspectives and angles. Only seeing what the rest expect to see. Look at NPCs in the media, all saying the same things in only slightly different ways across channels, the exact same talking points and bias.

@@raptorep Agreed, our divided status is a strength.

​@@anondabomb but only if we manage to unite in time of crisis. It's a strength, but also an exploitable weakness.

It's the "only I'm allowed to tease my brother" mentality. We all may disagree on something, but we all agree we are human and Earth is home, and no one fucks with our home.

At best it would only be temporary as once the test is over the politicians will need to divide us up again so they can stay in positions of power

@@raptorep hell we may not even all agree on what’s actually harming earth. I know plenty people who deny climate change and the extinction rate generally going up every year, but even they wouldn’t sit back and deny the reality of the situation if it was the actions of another species that harmed our planet. In that way it’s just as much “it’ll be our failure that kills our planet, never your victory” as it is, “no one fucks with my brother but me”

i also though the new race was humans and did not find out until the end it was not humans. Humans were the old race that lived within the Blighted Arm. Humans had sealed themselves off the the rest of the galaxy not for the protection of themselves from the galaxy but the protection of the galaxy from them.

The blighted ones are in Sol and have humor.

@@anondabomb damn true but can you imagine a humanity without humor? it's something i would seriously fear

He will be missed where ever he is

We do know who they are, "the Filthy Cowardly Xenos that dared touch Earth"

I mean, that phrase has been around for hundreds of years and was used to say this place is dangerous on maps

sadly just had one of those spam messages but reported it

To be fair they technically aren't extinct in that SCP. A good number of _other_ species went extinct in the war to defend humanity's Room, but the Dragons themselves (along with a number of survivors from different races and species) were relocated after burying humanity's Room on Fantasy's side.