"Yes, chef." "Yes, chef."

Shitshow of any kind: **exists** Fredrik: It's free real estate

Fred, the master of diverse topics

"Oh by the way, I play hurdy gurdy"

We love a well-learned king~

Perfect summary

"What's the worse that could-" *after the massive pileup* "You just had to say it..."

What a shitfest

Murphy's Law, my friend.

Holy clusterfuck that I had never even heard of before ! It was like watching 10 episodes of the Three Stooges all at once.

Bro went for the glass cannon build

​@@XXXTENTAClON227 da shin akuma ship

wut

he’s finally free from it

I haven't watched it yet but I intend to it's just a fucking beefy video

It's like a massive highway pileup but in slow motion and more lives at stake.

For real. Two submarines sinking with no survivors, even way after the battle. This is fucked

I felt a bit of relief every time those animations showed the subs and ships narrowly missing each other... just for it to zoom back out and show MORE subs and ships racing directly towards each other. And it just kept happening.

The first part is a big Fisher: But what if I do anywaaaay?

At least the Kamchatka wasn't present.

"Did you say *BACKWARDS* ??!!"

Well... British. So, "....I beg your pardon?"

"well, normally submarines... wait.. did you say backwards!?"

(spits out their tea)

It wasn't even his fault, but I imagine he had an awful case of survivor's guilt after that and blamed himself for the accident. What an awful clusterfuck.

@@BigPuddin I dunno about that - obviously the poor visibility relieves him to some degree, but the lights on a ship are colour-coded by direction specifically so something like this usually wouldn't happen to a competent captain

Remember that the lights were pretty scheisse to begin with, being dim and shuttered, so maybe it took him a bit of time to realize what light it was. @@Nero_Karel

@@stevemc01Seconding this. The design of the lights was extremely subpar for emergencies due to their directional nature. This was essentially a Swiss cheese model disaster, too many holes lined up.

@@Nero_Karel they were also shuttered so you would be able to see it from the impact angle.

And, horribly, NOT missing each other...

Watch Historia Civilis, and you can get emotionality attached to occasionally spinning squares and rectangles.

Ngl I almost cried watching the ovals plough straight through the dots

RIGHT IM SWEATING

I can't believe 104 dots were killed by THEIR OWN FLEET of ovals. Holy shit. I hope someone got fired for that blunder.

This WWI Bruh moment brought to you by the letter K.

That’s one of the best parts of the whole movie.

@@Aaron-hf5or Genuine question, no secondary meaning behind it: are you Romanian?

@@MCdouchbagcount

My heart goes out to you and your family mate. I hope this video gave you some comfort.

I thank you and your family for their service and sacrifices. Cheers!

@@silentotaku8 I thank you but I have never served. I’m proud to come from a family that served their country for generations and it’s them and countless others that deserve our thanks.

@@thomasjackson4059 I respect your modesty friend! I raise a mug in your honor and wish you a wonderful rest of the year, skål! (Cheers!)

@@silentotaku8 Cheers all round.

Oh sweet! Looking forward to it.

thank you!

Thanks

I’ve never been so excited for a KZfaq comeback. The Eve online rabbit hole will definitely take you on through the looking glass.

Excellent. I was worried.

You dont know my laundry room. RIP Horatio from apartment 3C, you will be missed

"Except people died." Nearly as many as at the Pentagon in the September 11th attacks at that. (102 deaths in the May Island incident, 125 at the Pentagon in the September 11th attacks)

Life hack #833: Put a towel on top of the dryer and put laundry on top of that. Pick the towel up by it's corners. Button up shirts can work too.

Now the sock needs a giant gun or a plane.

Early air combat was pilots throwing bricks at each others propellers, and firing pistols and sawed of shootguns at each other.

Maybe the most ironic thing you can say about WW1.

It's such an absurdly British tactic, too. "I say old chap, submarines are unsporting!"

It was like Submarine Polo

WW1 truly was a GREAT War 😎

That has to be some of the worst luck in the history of man.

Uh.. yeah! It was a one in a million shot, but we me managed to pull it off!

With the buildup and the horror of the previous shit, I felt a chill of terror and horrific realization when he said that

Harder?

God, 60 lives just burnt away for the sake of avoiding embarrassment.

NIGHT AND LOVE

@@Intestine_Ballin-ism YES!! you have a great taste in music my good sir

Lol Royal Navy my ass

Yes lol Royal Navy my ass! 👌🏻

@@dante666jt yeah not like Britain was known for clapping every other country with its navy

I'm picturing in my head the captain saying "no no just wait this is gonna be good " But in a silly German voice.

What if they didnt notice and just heard a ton of breaking and lights and their just like "you hear that?"

Your pfp describes the whole video perfectly. *Pain.* Especially when K6 bisected K4. That was just....yeah...

Watchers: F**K!

"But this would not last"

Because videos about lolcows are better. Other people have covered this better and in less time

@@aydon1276 why are they better?

Not nearly as many people want to hear about awful horrible war attrocities

@@aydon1276 'They aren't

@@aydon1276 Thanks for your highly subjective opinion.

This is why I always come back to vids I watch, even years later. Sometimes, the people involved, who are unknown or not popular, show up and share some extra/specific info. I LOVE knowing slightly more than others on various things. ^_^

The engineering wouldn't have been so disastrous if not for naval leaders demanding these ships be created to their exact specifications. Seemingly misunderstanding how these ships would work in practice, and regardless of the concerns many engineers raised. This is not how to spark competent innovation. Often they would simply replace concenered engineers with others who would do it, and were deterred from asking questions. Essentially telling engineers to just get it done, and figure it out somehow. They made these decisions without any understanding of how these ideas would be implemented, or their functionality at sea. Due to the nature of the war, wanting to gain an advantage quickly. These projects were rushed aswell, to a point where serious design flaws were not noticed until it was far too late. The ones that were noticed only had superficial fixes. They did not keep many well working ships from previous years British crews knew how to navigate well as back ups, preferring to scrap them in order to start a new. The technicalities weren't being considered heavily enough by naval leaders, and they were too stubborn to see how unreasonable their demands actually were. The navy also disregarded opinions of skilled sailors telling them these ships were unmanageable, and there were too many issues with the limitations of communication technology at that time. I'm not saying the engineering isn't at fault, but the navy also played a key role in how this tragedy came about. They are both responsible for what happened to those ships, and the crews aboard them. This was a disastrous blunder by the navy as naval leaders continuously made poor, ill informed decisions. Stuck by them despite the obvious, and severe problems. Then once something truly horrifying happened, costing the lives of many. They tried to cover it up rather than take any accountability, or confront the families of those who needlessly died. Their actions were not innocent in this. The navy had many many opportunities to prevent such an incident, but they opted to ignore them. Utterly cruel, and embarrassing behavior.

These subs weren't running on coal, they were running on heavy fuel oil. The problem was the preheaters needed to make it a liquid before it could be used. And the problems here weren't anything to do with engineering, they were to do with violations of proper procedure and driving a squadron of large vessels into an approaching fleet without any idea if it knew they were coming. Without that, this was a minor collision with two casualties.

@@EmoLozer500 ^This You can't fault an engineer if he's forced to design something against their judgement because someone higher on the command chain forced them to do so. As a Geological Engineer, the times I've heard stories of colleagues who had to leave good paying jobs in the Geotechnical/Civil engineering field because the one putting the cash tried to force them to build something against regulations/plain proven science facts that would go against the structure integrity and therefore the lives of the people using such structure is too damn high to not be concerning. Most of the times is exactly as you said, first you raise the issue to your boss and then they either ask for other options that can cut corners while still being legally "safe enough" or they just straight up force you to retire and then find someone willing to do the job/dirty their hands for a quick buck. It's actually sickening how some people play with other people's safety/lives just to save some money because they made a bad investment/didn't care from the start.

@@chonchjohnch No, what's being said is that the "steam" part isn't the problem, it's that the power source was boilers burning heavy fuel oil. That was what caused all the issues.

Knudson: HOWEVER...

"Oh man i sure got lucky that this Destroyer missed me and didn't cut me into ribbo... wait is that 5 more of them?"

Its like a trainwreck spanning multiple tracks and dozens of trains... except depending on the severity of the crash the trains will sink into the earth killing literally everyone aboard.

Well they never identified the two unknown ships that set the dominoes off, maybe it WAS an enemy?

@@NotAGoodUsername360 One would think that if these ships were then they would have tried to engage the subs or that something else nearby would have been targeted, but it seems nothing like that was reported. It could have just been a pair of the mine sweeping ships went off course and didn't realise where they were or they might have been fishing ships or something. I suppose the key problem is that if they didn't find the answer at the time, there is little we can do now to find it either with any level of certainty.

Here on the internet we call it The Bruh Moment Incident

It's referred to as a "Battle" in a tone of mockery.

@@NotAGoodUsername360 Wikipedia says the two unknown ships were British minesweepers. Because of wartime secrecy, the minesweepers were not informed of this exercise, and had no idea about this. And the exercise navy had no idea about the minesweepers either.

I think the main takeaway I get from this is that night-time naval missions before radar were fucking suicidal. Even just going back and forth in the mist could result in death with no ability to know where other ships were. Something that just would never happen after this era.

My other takeaway from this is that most suffering of workers/soldiers come from the disconnected hubris of upper management. The unfortunate fact of war is that human lives are a resource to use and take away, but these admirals are so far removed from the war that they gamble away lives like a playboy just for the sake of proving they’re right. I’m not a war buff, but I think it’s also a huge mentality of the Great War, just throwing people at a barbed wall like a subtraction game, while the aristocrats of countries lie in comfort since “die” is a 3 letter word.

They say one of the few things that can match the size of human stupidity is human arrogance

unimaginable and eternal horror, back then you had no resources to heal from that

the nine survivors saw their crew mates get disintegrated into pools of bloody water. i think i'd go crazy after seeing something like that.

Sounds a lot like modern-day companies.

And what do they do with these deathtraps instead of dismantling them immediately? They slap ridiculous modifications on them and continue their use. "Put a big fuckin gun on it" *sinks, entire crew dies* "Now put a plane on it." *sinks, entire crew dies*

especially at 41:21

Pretty much, had an old naval Leutenent Comander talk about CBDR ( we are on track to crash in layman) and he said the only thing you can do that is pretty much fool proof is slow down or stop.

@@Zombiewizard And then at 43:54 5th battle squadron arrived.

@@hiddenshadow2105 Insert Avatar narrator voice: "Everything was going to hell and then the 5th battle squadron showed up"

@@lyravain6304 Exactly.

Yeah same XD Probably why the monument puts the biggest quotation marks around the word Battle.

I was kind of expecting the germans to show up during the mess and just kill everybody.

"Battle"

The British Navy decisively battled with the Stupidity Empire. Stupidity won.

Thought therebwas gonna be redemption but ended just depressed

Like what about monoxide poisoning? Wouldn't that be a problem?

@@YBPaladin The steam engine was for running the sub on the surface, these were submersibles, not submarines. U-boats did the same thing but with a diesel engine. They had batteries for running underwater, but the demands for ventilation and cooling meant it was a time-consuming process to prepare the steam engine for a dive (shut it down, close off all the ventilators, etc).

@@YBPaladin Luckily, as this takes place in 1918, carbon monoxide had not been invented yet

@@YBPaladin nah, steam is just hot water. Idk about Diesel Engines though, ig that since they use batteries while they're underwater, they only run the generators while on the surface, so that the exhaust can be vented outside the ship

Aren’t most nuclear reactors just steam engines that use nuclear energy to heat the water instead of burning coal? Like the ones used on submarines.

This was truly atrocious to hear

fuuuuk dude

During WW2, on more than one occasion, Allied ships not only ran over friendly sailors but also dropped depth charges into the water with them to try and sink enemy submarines.

And since the Admiralty decided to bury this incident and keep it a secret tells me they lied to the families of those who died in this incident about how they died. That's a lot of lying and that lying successfully added another fucked up kink in this story. Sorry for swearing but seriously there are no other words.

@@Wildstar40 The death reports given to families in the two World Wars very rarely reflected what actually happened to their loved ones. It was seen as being kinder to report that they died quickly and doing something brave. See for example the letters scene in _Memphis Belle_ . All of those letters are real.

The use of music and sound effects in this video elevates the tension of this seaborn tragedy so much.

when those destroyers were encroaching on the survivors in the watermy mouth was agape in disbelief and anticipation of the horrifying event that was to come.

Tyvm. I don't use twitter and was about to ask what happened to his channel.

Stfu

@@obodobear Dude wat

@@obodobear Who hurt you?

"Gerhard, get me the popcorn"

my mom doesnt let me say fuck thanks for censoring it

🤣🤣🤣

The k12 plowed into k14 which was rapidly followed by sharks with bees in their mouths and the Martians landing their flying saucer on k22. After some time the meteor struck.

@@informitas0117 🤣🤣🤣 sounds accurate

Narrator: "you have no power here I control how your story starts and ends."

@@informitas0117 And then, the fire nation attacked.

He's working on a 6 hour long one

Vada a bordo, cazzo!

I see my fellow culturemen

“He cocks up at the worst possible moment”

"Wait, I've seen this trick before!"

No Schetinos on board these boats/subs, thank God.

lmaoo i feel so bad for laughing at that part

that was the worse death, they all suffocated, i wonder who long they lasted and what happend on that sub.

imagine supervising the M1's dive test. "Sir, they're supposed to _come back up_ at some point, right?"

I don't quite understand what he meant by "dive backwards". As in, it moved backwards? Is that really serious? I figured that most subs usually stay upright or w/e when diving. I don't understand how diving backwards would cause issues, can someone explain?

@@ToyokaX I think you actually stated the problem yourself there. I'm not an expert, but as far as I know, submarines are generally _supposed_ to submerge evenly. If the front or back goes down first, then that might indicate a serious issue with the ballast.

I call this "The very Inflexible"

Operation: Tiger

Back then “hell” was a much harsher swear, too

Vibin

Everyone's got that friend.

Very true

That's the magic of Fredrik Knudsen for ya

He turned into an owl and talks to other animals on twitch

Tbf he's left a lot of traces he gives consistent updates on his Patreon

Not unheard of. during WW2 Germany lost to itself in an Aircraft/Ship engagement where both German sides confused each other for enemy.

depends if flares count

@Rafael Enriquez Thanks for the name of it. I only remembered the rough outline from Qxir's video on it.

It's almost like a real life Twilight zone episode.

@@arciks11 the royal navy also accidentally shot at each other during the chase of the Bismarck

Or a plane!?

It added a new feature lmao

Haha jk *unless...*

Great idea! What else could possibly go wrong?

@@roberte2945 Crewman: What's the plane for? Captain: So I can escape. I mean... search for u-boats. 😏

Yet submarines are boats not ships

An Australia, a New Zealand, an Indomitable, and an inflexible sail into fog...

New Zealand’s captain wore Maori war gear during the battle for good luck.

In a battle between Britain and Britain, britain lost

@@phoebe5 The history of Britain, in one sentence.

the battle of the Superiors ego and the sub mariners lives....

So do I :( but he regularly streams on twitch if you’re willing to listen for a few hours! :)

Did he mean diving while going in reverse or diving stern first?

@@KlaxontheImpailr Presumably the latter.

It really was so critical. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History series on WW1 goes into it in fantastic detail. Politics and arrogance abound.

@@eddedmonds5753 “just run at the machine gun nest, it’s going to work at some point”

The only thing to match human ingenuity is human arrogance, after all.

A lot of Europe's generals were around the end of rank and file combat and were members of the upper class

That's what's it was all about

funfact they also applys to space during the space race the russians made a laser pistol specifally ment for cosmonauts to point blank shot america satiletes solar pannels to destroy them

@@wilmagregg3131 and launching the 30mm cannon from a BMP on a satellite

This kind of shit is what I worry about with the modern navy. Ffs, hitting modern radars is as easy as hitting the broad side of a barn, and I doubt that they are armored.

​@@userequaltoNull The solar panels are covered in thick plates of steel to protect them.

Had I been alive back then, I would have volunteered to be a 'smash-lad' and would have done it naked. Could you imagine the German's befuddlement peering through a periscope in the open ocean only to see a naked man with a hammer smashing your periscope lens? 'Un Gott in Himmel, Franz, I'm going mad.'

He's been working on a HUGE six-hour one for the last year and a half

"Sir, these ships are terrible." Admiralty: "Put a big gun on it lol."

@@CarrotConsumer "Sir, it's gotten worse" Admiralty : "You're right... Put a plane on some of them instead so they can't dive"

Ship too heavy to work properly? Put big gun. Still no work? Put plane hangar.

@@CarrotConsumer I've said this elsewhere, but Fred got that wrong. The M class weren't K class refits, they are a novel design. Most obviously, they didn't have a steam engine.

@@CruelestChris that somehow makes it worse. Because not only did they get one submarine obscenely wrong, they got two

Just tag me next time bro

You know how road rage is fam

If you shouted that at me, then I would have no choice but to continue what I was doing *insouciantly*

Lol I thought that exact same thing

What the HELL are WE doing ? Just does not have the same punch tbh

“chugga chugga boom drown”

Ehhh im no engineer but that sounds pretty messed up idea.

@@d.aardent9382 it seems forever go down in history as one of those instantly recognisable bad ideas like the steam powered aircraft and the nuclear powered train Oh and that nuclear-powered bomber the Americans tried making that one time

they woulda been better off ramming them like they did everyone else

Unreal

@T teg Egg Too big to fail.

If you're going to F something up, do it so badly they put your name in the history book.

Corollary: If you're high enough to make a huge mistake, there is none above you to fire you.

Ego >> Everything

If you're doing something wrong, just keep telling everyone you're doing the right thing. -Might as well be a quote by Matt Hancock, current Secretary of State for Health and Social Care for the UK; still in government nearing 4 months after being declared to have acted unlawfully by a High Court judge in regard to contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds. EDIT: Deleted a duplicate post that somehow occurred.

w math

Its 6 hours long, so there's that. And his patrons have been getting regular updates of his progress - any of them that were frustrated with his progress unsubbed long ago.

This was a great series. I wonder where he went?

@@Fionalah he's still working on his latest video, which hopefully should be out sometime by the end of this year. Unfortunately, he decided to do a video on a subject that's everchanging and constantly evolving, so the script just kept getting longer as new events began to unfold. I think once it's out, it'll be one of his best works yet, and hopefully he'll return to a more normal schedule.

@@crystalkami5166 Listen, I don't pay him a dime and his content is excellent so he can do what he wants... But what the f@#k are YOU doing? Are you paid to apologize for this guy? Do you have issues of your own that might be a more reasonable use of your time? It doesn't take two years to make a 100-million-dollar epic film! Do you foresee him being able to release something that undeniably justifies TWO YEARS without content? No. Nothing could do that. Obviously. Also, why not just sneak a couple of real quickie videos in while apologizing for the unjustifiable wait? Right? It's free to me, so fine, but this amount of delay CAN'T be legitimate.

@@TroubleToby3040 nah man, I'm just a fan who likes to keep up with his work. It's purely courtesy to tell people what's going on with the next video when they're out of the loop. iirc he sneaks stuff on his patreon and will post stuff about it on his twitter but when the subject he's doing this time (EVE Online) is such a fickle and everchanging one you'd understand the extreme delays. This is a five hour long video we're talking about, covering one of the most complex, rich, and interesting video game histories of all time, it's going to take a while. Take a chill pill and just wait.

ok he did

What were your total?

Hey! Trains can't go in water. Only ships and subs do. More like a shipwreck.

I just keep saying “oh god no, oh god NO”

“Dude what the fuck?” Was mine.

How many times can a ship decide to steer port side to evade collision. Only to be met by chaos.

Emu War: Finally, a worthy opponent

Who would win, the greatest naval power on the planet, or a bit of water vapour?

@@zad_rasera I want a war between Emus and fog now

BRITTANIA RULE THE WAVES

The sun may never set on the British empire, but the fog sure does.

It’s really all needless

"dying in such a needless way" WW1 In a nutshell

Operation tiger I think it was called. When the allies in ww2 were field dressing the d-day beach landing in the English southern coast. The flotilla of men cargo ships and men in Higgins landing boats were mistaken for an enemy landing force and shot at. Many numbers were killed and injured. It was buried because it was a week before June 6th and for secrecy.

The whole war was needless, the main leaders were all fucking cousins, since they all shared Victoria as their grandma.

dying in war is already pointless. you die for the politicians, who refuse to talk like normal people until thousands are needlessly killed

"Drive us in close, Klaus. Lets give them a handicap." "Sir they have fired a torpedo- impact is imminent!" *dud* "Well. There is their handicap. Set course back to Germany, Klaus."

"Well we could just tell the Kaiser we were the ones who did it."

@@BloodfelX lol are you making this up or is this from something

@@ASAPShitPost Based on the incident mentioned in the video where the only time a K-Class came in contact with a U-Boat it hit it with a dud torpedo.

hes a vtuber now, aka based.

The only thing they would be able to make a video on is the legion of butthurt losers who are unreasonably upset that he decided to do something else

@@AlphaCarinae based

as it was the details legitimately made me feel sick- i knew, vaguely, that there was a minimum of one collision/ramming incident (have been curious about AFV's/warship since primary school), but i had no idea the...whole thing was...such a ...mess.

yea i actually found myself almost laughing and then i just felt like a psychopath when he started talking about the destroyers going through the survivors of the sunken sub

That's what's tragic about this. Hundreds died and the whole thing felt like a circus event.

Same; my moment of "I shouldn't be laughing at this" came when I started imagining the utter fear of swinging and listing wildly through the dark as a mountain of nearly invisible battleship bears down on you, warning lights and fog horns and flares going off all around. And then it happens again fifteen minutes later.. and again

It wouldn't be so appalling if it wasn't at the expense of frankly completely innocent sub-mariners who were given such woefully inadequate submarines. The fact that the people at the top received no repercussions for this is unforgivable.

Imagine having to be the guy to clean and salvage the turbines the men fell into..oh god..

@@asneakylawngnome5792 he probably had PTSD after looking at those turbines.

@@asneakylawngnome5792 Probably felt similar to the guys cleaning up tank crew remains out of the damaged tanks. Horrible.

They didn't die for their country, they died by their country. I don't mean that their country killed them, which it definitely looks like, but from an existential standpoint the only thing you can really say for certain is that they died off the coast of their country.

and not only have you lost them, the government is so embarrassed that they refuse to acknowledge that your relative is lost for the rest of your life.

Mutsu's 3rd Gun Battery is a Good Example

I would say, many. Probably many on a smaller scale, but still, many. Many. The more I write and look at the word 'many', the stranger it looks.

A-4 Incident Not really on the same scale, but I just feel like more people should be aware of the fact a nuclear warhead is currently at the bottom of the Philippine Sea...

I can only imagine all the messed up "top secret" shenanigans going on. The amount that gets leaked only to be covered up or thrown in the mud as a "conspiracy theory". I have no trust in the deep state or any government bureaucracy. Psychopaths will do anything for power. Shit dude. The world monitary system is built off of debt and death. Maybe I should learn how to become ignorant and optimistic again....

@@facepalm5134 once you have the burden of knowledge you cannot turn back

I believe May this year

Lemony Snicket wrote this battle.

Same. This was put out 11 months ago, we need some more rabbit holes.

If this wasn't kept secret for so long we could have asked them.

That legit sounds like a joke from The Simpson

I'm trying to visualize this. Do they mean like the good ol stand up right in the water like the Titanic and sink vertically, or just drive in reverse and submerge?

@@MrFusion stand up like titantic, nose in the air, propeller down.

well you're in luck! :) get ready to lose 6 horus of your life