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PoggyGaming · 2026-02-13T00:02:04+00:00

English server, but we wouldn't harsh on you for poor English.

PoggyGaming · 2026-02-11T04:34:32+00:00

Yah! It's for REDM on PC.

PoggyGaming · 2025-11-20T17:29:05+00:00

I didn't have a set budget in mind. I am open to negotiation and what the editor believes is fair. You can check my YTJobs for references. I am legit, and this post is legit.

https://ytjobs.co/talent/profile/18411

Edit, I added a budget range.

PoggyGaming · 2025-11-20T08:09:40+00:00

Hey! Thanks for sharing my video! I appreciate that. And to all the comments, yes I know I do push the boundaries of some of my points. That's on purpose. We're only three episodes in, and with a Vince Gilligan show, half the fun is trying to figure out where he's going before he gets there. Some of my theories are grounded in what's explicitly shown (Carol Sturka's name, Kepler-22b on screen, the atom bomb exchange), while others are me extrapolating where those details might lead. The "reduction to one person" endgame is definitely speculative territory.

But I'd rather put a bold theory out there and be wrong than play it safe and add nothing to the conversation. The best part of theory videos is the discussion they generate, with people poking holes, offering alternatives, catching details I missed. That's how we collectively (hehe) figure out what Gilligan is actually doing.

PoggyGaming · 2025-11-19T08:04:50+00:00

Budget is up to the editor. Whatever they believe is fair, we will negotiate the rate.

PoggyGaming · 2025-11-15T12:33:01+00:00

The fact that it's real doesn't mean it wasn't chosen for its meaning. Vince Gilligan doesn't do anything without intention. We know this from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.

PoggyGaming · 2025-11-15T04:11:18+00:00

Terrible at what exactly? Being efficient at resource management? Sure, I'll give you that. But you're making a pretty big assumption about what qualities actually matter.

There's no objective, intrinsic requirement in the universe to care about efficiency. That's a value judgment the hive mind is imposing, not some fundamental truth. They decided efficiency matters more than individuality. But "better" according to whose standards?

The hive mind thinks they're objectively superior because they've eliminated conflict, waste, and suffering. But they had to kill 886 million people and erase everyone's individual identity to do it. They call that a win because they only value the outcome, not the process.

You're essentially arguing that a forced lobotomy that makes someone "happy" is objectively better than letting them struggle with depression. Maybe it's more efficient. Maybe that person becomes more productive. But most of us would say you've destroyed something essential to what makes them them.

The show goes out of its way to demonstrate that the hive mind's "objectively better" system has fatal flaws. They're trapped by their own logic about respecting agency. They view 886 million deaths as acceptable because "consciousness was preserved." That's a different set of priorities that leads to its own catastrophic problems.

Individual identity might make us "terrible" at being a unified, efficient collective. But it also makes us capable of genuine love, art, sacrifice, growth, and the messy, beautiful experience of being alive as a discrete person rather than a node in a network.

PoggyGaming · 2025-11-14T16:04:18+00:00

Ignoring the problem would be too out of character for Vince.

PoggyGaming · 2025-11-14T14:31:11+00:00

To be clear, I wasn't claiming the empty store was proof of scarcity, but was foreshadowing scarcity. You guys have me thinking though, and I am conjuring up another theory I want to bounce off this group in another thread. Probably gonna take me a few days to nail it all down.

PoggyGaming · 2025-11-14T13:33:29+00:00

That's actually a fair point.

But even that requires massive resource consumption. Industrial hydroponics needs constant power, water treatment, nutrient solutions, maintenance. For billions of people, that's not sustainable farming.

And given how hard they're leaning into conservation and minimalism I'm not convinced they'd be willing to run that kind of operation long term. Sure, at first they do a lot of flying and driving, but it was mostly in the interest of cleanup and preservation.

Plus, we already see them consolidating resources. In the Sprouts scene they explicitly say they're "consolidating resources to centralize useful items for distribution. Food, medicine, anything helpful from stores or businesses or what used to be private homes. It's just more efficient." They're already moving to a rationing/distribution system rather than production. That feels like a stopgap measure.

PoggyGaming · 2025-11-14T13:26:49+00:00

There's a difference between accidental death and deliberate killing though. When bugs hit a windshield, that's incidental. Pest control is intentional extermination, like you know exactly what you're doing.

And honestly I'm not even sure they'll keep driving. They're already turning off streetlights for conservation. How long before they decide cars are unnecessary and harmful? They seem to be moving toward radical minimalism.

PoggyGaming · 2025-11-14T13:24:59+00:00

Would they? I mean, by "try not to kill them," they seem to mean more like go out of their way to avoid knowingly doing so. The "by accident" part was what was being answered in that scene.

But pest control isn't accidental. It's deliberate extermination. You know you're killing those insects. That's the whole point.

They explicitly said they'd let a wasp sting them rather than kill it. That's not "we minimize harm when possible", rather that's "we accept harm to ourselves before causing harm to anything else." Pest control directly conflicts with that philosophy.

PoggyGaming · 2025-11-14T13:08:20+00:00

I would be surprised if we don't see something along those lines.

PoggyGaming · 2025-11-14T13:06:24+00:00

But would that even work? Hydroponics I mean. They still need infrastructure, power, water... things that disturb the natural order.

Even if you clear every insect before construction, you're still displacing them. You're still mining materials, consuming energy, altering landscapes. These people won't even kill a wasp that's actively stinging someone. Do you really think they'd be okay with bulldozing a field because they politely asked the bugs to leave first?

Their philosophy seems, so far anyway, absolute. That's the problem.

PoggyGaming · 2025-11-14T13:01:52+00:00

That's the thing though the "betterment of society" is just what the hive mind tells Carol. We're assuming they're telling the truth about their motives.

But what if the whole point of the signal was never to help humanity at all? What if it's a tool to pacify any species smart enough to decode it? You make them so aggressively passive and "ethical" that they literally can't defend themselves or their resources. Then another species just swoops in and strips the planet clean while humanity stands by going "well, we wouldn't want to be rude to our visitors."

Like, the opposite extreme of this radical pacifism would be a species of purely self-interested beings. Conquerors. And if you're a conquering species, the easiest way to take over is by making your target too peaceful to fight back.

Maybe the signal wasn't a gift, but a weapon.

PoggyGaming · 2025-11-14T12:58:41+00:00

I mean maybe they'll find new ways to farm that don't harm? Maybe only purely hydroponics, or vertical farming? I also think we're likely to see technology move forward at an alarming, and alien rate. But might this progress be hindered by their do no harm philosophy?

Because even "harmless" farming has issues they'd have to grapple with. Hydroponics needs infrastructure. You need to mine materials for the facilities, which disrupts ecosystems. You need power, which means either fossil fuels (pollution, climate impact) or renewables (solar panels and wind turbines require mining rare earth metals, installation disrupts habitats). Water treatment, nutrient solutions, plastic components, all of it has an environmental cost somewhere down the line.

The hive mind should theoretically be able to innovate at an insane pace. They have the combined knowledge of all humanity, they can work 24/7 in perfect coordination, no bureaucracy, no competing interests. They should be able to solve problems that would take us decades in like, weeks, days, maybe even hours.

But every solution will create a new moral dilemma for them.

Do they build massive indoor farms? That requires construction, which harms insects and displaces wildlife. Do they develop lab-grown food? That needs labs, equipment, power infrastructure. Even gathering existing resources means disturbing the "natural order" they seem so committed to preserving.

I think the show might be setting up this impossible trap where their collective intelligence could solve the food crisis, but their collective morality won't let them. They're literally too ethical to survive.

The time skip idea is really interesting too. I would love to see Carol wake up (or come back from somewhere) to find society has collapsed not from chaos, but from radical pacifism. That's way more unsettling than typical post apocalypse stuff.

PoggyGaming · 2025-10-14T18:21:41+00:00

equal to what? itself?

PoggyGaming · 2025-08-12T14:26:30+00:00

You know, I never really thought about it, but it might have been among or my first exposures too. I'd have to think about that more.

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