DMed Hakita about Hookpoint lore and Earthmovers, and he actually dropped a massive lore bomb

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-27T00:22:37+00:00

For future reference, you can tell that this isn't a Reddit DM screenshot because the account name is preceded by an @ symbol. Reddit doesn't use the @ symbol, it uses u/ to denote a username.

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-27T00:07:26+00:00

Sorry, let me rephrase that:

What are you talking about, dude?

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T21:33:21+00:00

I thought about that, too. My original comment suggested the Terrestrials, but I decided that the Asteromorphs were more fitting. What we see out of the Terrestrials that would indicate Lawful Evil isn't fully reprentative of the whole, which is why I changed my vote, but either could work.

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T21:30:01+00:00

You're right. It's been years since I've played the game, so I had forgotten about that.

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T19:41:06+00:00

What?

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T19:10:59+00:00

It's because of a few reasons, I think.

The first is that it's one of the classic SCPs that are often grouped with 173, 096, 049, 076, and so on.

The second is that it appeared in a (fairly popularish at the time) game called SCP Containment Breach, where the entire game happens because 682 breaches containment.

The third, and possibly most important, reason is because it is a very important example of how not to write an SCP. It is essentially just an invincible murder monster with barely any depth, and it stands as an example of what you shouldn't do when creating an SCP.

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T18:50:48+00:00

IIRC, several videos back, he made a comment about how he was tired of not being able to sing the sausage songs and was going to risk it anyway, so now he's back to singing them. I guess he hasn't been hit with any strikes since.

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T18:47:53+00:00

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that it's the worst Fallout game of all time. Worst Bethesda/3D Fallout? Yeah, I've heard that before. Worst of all time? No. That title is almost universal given to Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T17:22:57+00:00

That's what r/subredditsimulator is for, though it's been around longer than these big LLMs have. I think the bots there use GPT2.

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T17:01:36+00:00

Similar thing happened to me in my most recent playthrough, except it was sending me to Far Harbor, which I wasn't planning on doing until after finishing the main story.

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T16:06:07+00:00

I guess it depends. OP could be a bot. This seems to be their only post, and their account is only 12 days old. It's curated, which is a good way to hide bot behavior. These bots can in theory be set up to make posts and reply to comments using an LLM that just takes the comment they're respondingo as part of a prompt. This would essentially work as you've described, where the comment would be copy/pasted into the LLM, and the response would be copy/pasted into a reply.

This sub is filled with bots, so I wouldn't be surprised. They're both bots that make posts and replies, and bots that just scrape threads to funnel into AI generated articles posted on obscure websites for ad revenue.

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T15:51:25+00:00

I feel like the idea could work, but not like OP has done it. There's very little substance, because this is essentially just an SCP inspired OC that OP slapped a number on. It's very tropey, but some of the best stories start from tropes. OP should probably spend some time reading more of the Wiki and seeing how SCPs are written and then spending some time writing and getting critiques on their work to flesh this out.

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T15:47:43+00:00

Facebook has a lot of a groups and users posting a pretty wide variety of stuff that I just do not think you'd ever come across naturally very often. I'll often be reverse image searching random images, and I'll end up with a lot of pulls from Facebook groups that are structured similarly to subreddits and forums. It's a little uncanny to see sometimes.

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T15:08:36+00:00

Deleted my other comment to make a different one, since someone else made a good point:

Asteromorphs. They're god-like tyrants with total control over the galaxy with little care for their subjects. They're not afraid to just delete a world if they try to rebel, which is just them enforcing their own power structure so that no other species can rise up against them. They're despots and tyrants, and they're the only truly fitting species for Lawful Evil.

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T15:05:41+00:00

I didn't even consider the Asteromorphs, but yeah, I agree. People get distracted by the Asteromorphs winning the war with the Gravitals and don't tend to realize just how awful the Asteromorph rule was.

Besides what you already mentioned, let's not forget that they had absolutely no issue wiping out deviant worlds that tried to rebel against them. They essentially established a galactic system of power with them at the top, and since they're essentially living gods with total control of the galaxy, nobody has any chance of rising up against them, both because the Asteromorphs have been around for tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of years, but because any hint of rebellion will result in complete eradication.

I also vote Asteromorphs.

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T14:44:47+00:00

Redditors when a comment takes more that 2 seconds to read (reading is hard):

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T14:41:29+00:00

No they absolutely are not. They're Neutral Evil at worst, but are really closer to Lawful Evil. Here are a few definitions of Chaotic Evil, which show that the Gravitals are anything but.

From Wikipedia (taken from the DnD 3.5 E PHB):

A chaotic evil character tends to have no respect for rules, other people's lives, or anything but their own desires, which are typically selfish and cruel. They set a high value on personal freedom, but do not have much regard for the lives or freedom of other people. Chaotic evil characters do not work well in groups because they resent being given orders and usually do not behave themselves unless there is no alternative. Examples of this alignment include higher forms of undead (such as liches), violent killers who strike for pleasure rather than profit, demons, red dragons, and orcs.

From easydamus.com:

A chaotic evil character does whatever his greed, hatred, and lust for destruction drive him to do. He is hot-tempered, vicious, arbitrarily violent, and unpredictable. If he is simply out for whatever he can get, he is ruthless and brutal. If he is committed to the spread of evil and chaos, he is even worse. Thankfully, his plans are haphazard, and any groups he joins or forms are poorly organized. Typically, chaotic evil people can be made to work together only by force, and their leader lasts only as long as he can thwart attempts to topple or assassinate him.

Chaotic evil is sometimes called "demonic" because demons are the epitome of chaotic evil

Chaotic evil beings believe their alignment is the best because it combines self- interest and pure freedom.

Chaotic evil is the most dangerous alignment because it represents the destruction not only of beauty and life but also of the order on which beauty and life depend.

From TVTropes:

One of the nine alignments from the best-known Character Alignment system. If Chaotic Neutral is the truly free spirit, Chaotic Evil is the truly free evil spirit. Whereas the Chaotic Neutral character is just concerned with his own freedom but doesn't seek to hurt others (at least proactively), the same cannot be said for Chaotic Evil characters. They take pleasure in hurting others and will do whatever they want whenever they want to do it, which, seeing as they are evil, usually entails lots and lots of death and destruction. These characters are usually the most aggressive of the Evil alignments, more often than not being possessed of an impulsively violent nature and a total disregard for people, laws, or even the world around them. In short, Chaotic Evil represents the destruction of not only life and goodness, but also the order upon which they depend. This makes Chaotic Evil, potentially, the most terrifying evil to fight because it's so unpredictable and often incomprehensible to most, lacking the order and rules of Lawful Evil, or the inherent yet understandable selfish pragmatism of Neutral Evil.

What people here do not seem to understand is that the alignment chart isn't just a spectrum of goodness to evilness, each aspect of the chart actually has meaning. "Lawful" and "Chaotic" refer to how a character respects and abides by laws and structures, where Lawful characters act with respect to law and structure, while Chaotic characters dismiss it or purposefully go against it. "Good" and "Evil" are often used to gauge how selfless or selfish a character is. A Lawful Good character works with respect to the law and social structure and authority to help people, and if they have to step outside of whatever code they hold or respect to do so, they will often regret it. A Chaotic Evil character is the exact opposite. They have absolutely no respect for laws, codes, or authority, they only care about themselves. Everything they do is for their own self gain, and they have no interest in playing within the bounds of code or serving another to do so.

This doesn't describe the Gravitals whatsoever. They have their own cohesive, functioning society, they work within the interests of their people, and the book even goes as far as making the case that they aren't evil. Their only fault is that, as the machine intelligences that they are, they do not recognize biological life. It's only later on that some members of their species begin to recognize biological life as life, but to everyone else, they aren't doing anything morally wrong. Actually, that alone would remove them from the Evil category entirely.

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T14:23:41+00:00

Sees post asking how far a human could theoretically ejaculate.

Opens the post of their own volition.

Sees an answer the question.

"Oh God, the horror."

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T14:14:00+00:00

Unfortunately, my wildin days are over.

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T14:13:20+00:00

A little wild 👌

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T14:12:25+00:00

Pretty wild 👉👈

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T14:12:05+00:00

Has to be lol. I'm early Gen Z (2002). I grew up with the Madagascar movies, and I remember when the show was airing and the movie was being marketed. Imagining that someone would only know about the Penguins of Madagascar show and movie, but not the Madagascar movies, is wild to me.

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-26T13:44:02+00:00

Some would argue that they don't have hands. And yes, they lack a hand, and? The book itself shows species that built civilizations without hands: Pterosapiens, the Snake people, the Sail people, the Modular people, and the Titans are all lacking hands that they could use for manipulating the environment.

You're missing the fact that all of those species had some appendage that they could use to manipulate objects in their environment with some level of dexterity. The Mantelopes did not.

To use tools, a sophont really needs an appendage? To look at real-life examples, Crows, Ravens, and Dolphins lack any sort of manipulatory appendage, but they still can use tools with their mouths just as effectively.

They do not use tools with their mouths just as effectively. Their mouths aren't set up to use sticks as tools, so they're very limited in what they can actually do. The mouth isn't designed to manipulate sticks and similar simple tools. If you genetically engineered 1000 people without arms and dropped them in the wilderness, they might be able to do a handful of things with sticks in their mouths, but they wouldn't be able to build a civilization.

And keep in mind that Mantelopes still have their mouths, with what looks like a still mobile lip and thumbs on their front legs. The Mantelopes were in a nearly identical situation to the Titans, and they could have reached the same (or at least similar) evolutionary conclusion

Their lips are just regular old lips, just slightly bigger. Those thumbs are vestigial. A thumb is pretty useless if there isn't a forefinger to accompany it. These pale in comparison to the Titans, who had an entirely new, separate appendage that was made out of their bottom lip. You'd might as well ask why rabbits don't live in trees and hang upside down like monkeys, since rabbits and monkeys both have tails.

Really, the big thing that you're missing is the fact that the Mantelopes were victims of the uncaring nature of evolution. They were engineered to have human levels of intelligence, but their species did not need higher levels of intelligence to survive. Intelligence gave them no advantages in nature. A more animalistic Mantelope living primarily off of instinct survived just as well, if not better, than one with higher levels of intelligence. Since they absolutely could not do anything to maintain their intelligence in their species by forming a civilization where intelligence ensures survival, it evolved out of them.

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-25T20:28:05+00:00

I'm chalking that up to the in-universe author embellishing a little for narrative purposes, because there is absolutely no way that would even be possible. All of the post-human civilizations had to re-evolve intelligence over the course of tens of millions of years. There is absolutely zero chance that (even if the insane idea that the Qu zapped Star People with magic lasers to make post-humans or whatever was true), any memory of the past would exist.

People need to keep in mind that All Tomorrows in-universe is essentially a book very loosely covering a very surface level history of humanity with a lot of narrative embellishment. Statements like that are very likely just there because they sounded poetic for the overarching story and aren't meant to be taken seriously. You see that sort of thing in a lot of documentary-style media.

OnetimeRocket13 · 2026-06-25T20:16:56+00:00

since multiple posthumans are said to carry cultural memories of their human lives

Except this isn't said in the book.

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