Our schools lunch guy fell so hard into this to the point he quit in the days before the date to stand outside the school all day with a sign warning us of whats to come. Great guy with a good heart but wow did those pastors on that radio station have a grip on him.
Yes you're right. But it was connected with the December date. It was the first youtube video to achieve 1 billion views on or around Dec 12, when the apocalypse was prophesied.
Ragnarök is quite cool, first there is huge battle between giants, gods and mortals. Then at the end when mostly all noteworthy characters are dead, surtur burns the whole mess down and sun turns black, stars fall and everything falls into boiling sea. And after all that world is reborn and there will be no more evil.
that would only "confirm" they were right all along and then the rest of us (or many at least) would immediately jump on the bandwagon in hopes for a repeat
I don't think a GRBurst is painless. Humans would still suffer greatly, from radiation poisoning symptoms. Infections, internal bleeding, etc. It would take days...
I don't think a Gamma Ray Burst would vaporize everything.. But I may be wrong.
Fair and fair. I'm sorry about your brain betraying you. I hope it gets better or more manageable at least. I didn't actually care for the movie or that whole trilogy, but that ending is impressive, visually.
The best apocalypse is the one you already have. There's no need to go out get a new apocalypse when your old one is dooming people just fine, that's how you start a climate apocalypse.
In my case, nuclear annihilation. I'm in an area where there's a pretty good chance when the clock strikes midnight, my city will absolutely be obliterated and hopefully I will disintegrate with it.
It'll suck for any survivors, but I have a good change of not having to live through it. I'd be dead weight because of being on life saving meds, so you don't want me in an apocalypse.
Reading the terminals in Fallout 4 and the heartbreak sprinkled within them. Lost people searching for lost loves in the wreckage of social collapse. Searching through twisted metal for any scrap to cling to your new existence. Defiantly a worthy apocalyptic hell scape.
Just as a heads up on this one. Cosmic rays have been doing the same things that have been happening at the LHC, but for billions of years and up to more than a million times higher energy. If the LHC could make a world ending black hole, cosmic rays would have already made one long ago!
Gaia, incarnated in her very sexiest avatar, walks, naked except for some dangly vines and flowers, through the cities roads, replacing the works of man with awesome verdant foliage. Old growth oak forest and crazy creepers growing at high speed everywhere. No more plastic or concrete.
When I was a freshly graduated paramedic I responded to a attempted mass suicide of a cult.(Around 15 people)
They thought the apocalypse would be coming... By inciting, well, basically an orgy,with all sexual inhibitions falling and humans sinning beyond belief. While some of their fears were at least somewhat relatable (like fathers laying their hand on their daughters) most of it was batshit crazy.
They believed they need to kill themself before that happens so they would still get into heaven.
...they fucked that up,massively,as well. None died.
Basically they underdosed so hard that even 14 year old drug addict does take more - and very likely their stuff didn't partially work at all, as they put it in tea.
So... Most of them did only feel very good/bad/nauseated, some got unconscious.
The crazy part was me coming into that room seeing them and VERY MUCH reconsidering my life choices. I graduated a few weeks backs, just got pissed and spat on the call before and now that.
And then panicing a bit and calling dispatch to "send me everything ".
Which they did and ended up...a bit much... Like...very much too much.
Can't remember the name and can't tell either,sorry. That is a long time ago,20 years+ some.
Wipes out enough people to give humanity a chance to at least try something new from the ashes of the old world, but doesn't leave a lingering threat like Zombies or Aliens or something like that. The survivors (ostensibly those immune to the virus) have struggles, for sure, but at least can rebuild without worrying about a constant existential threat.
I love that, despite being a comedy, they actually address problems that 99% of apocalypse media ignores such as gasoline going bad, reactors melting down, etc.
Vacuum Decay bubble sweeping over our solar system. That sould be straight tits. Its like the "Irish Goodbye" of reality itself. Just poof! And ya outta heeeeeeere!
I love that show. And unless the original, human, "others" are aware of the whole thing, that is, if the humans are trapped in their own minds/bodies, then I think the pluribus effect is a net positive. Pretty much all human suffering has ended. To rollback the whole thing is to create an incalculable amount of suffering.
Early abrahamic philosophers go over the god question like this, basically saying that if God/Yahweh/Allah exists and is all-powerful and doesn't stop suffering, then he can't possibly be good. Other religious philosophers figured life is a soul building experience, therefore the net good of making positive choices is greater than if everything was perfect by default.
The way the problem is set up in Pluribus is insanely well done.
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman is a great contender for an end of the world scenario.
Tl;dr: aliens set loose a super intelligent AI on the planet as the gameshow host to the elimination of nigh all life on Earth, as part of a running Survivor-esque intergalactic production.
If you've read or seen The Road, whatever that was. because it was complete and total. none of this half measures, pockets of safety and free cities bull shit
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flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 47 pts · 285d
The Mayan one in 2012 was pretty good, I really enjoyed it. It ended with the masterpiece that is Gangnam Style.
Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 285d
Our schools lunch guy fell so hard into this to the point he quit in the days before the date to stand outside the school all day with a sign warning us of whats to come. Great guy with a good heart but wow did those pastors on that radio station have a grip on him.
Erasmus@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 285d
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 283d
For a moment there I thought you were talking about gangnam style.
papalonian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 284d
I distinctly remember Gangnam style being earlier in the year (they played it at my freshman orientation), wasn't the "prediction" for December?
Hella fun at parties btw
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 284d
Yes you're right. But it was connected with the December date. It was the first youtube video to achieve 1 billion views on or around Dec 12, when the apocalypse was prophesied.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 285d
I dunno, I feel like it fell off with the entire Harambe act.
reksas@sopuli.xyz · 36 pts · 285d
Ragnarök is quite cool, first there is huge battle between giants, gods and mortals. Then at the end when mostly all noteworthy characters are dead, surtur burns the whole mess down and sun turns black, stars fall and everything falls into boiling sea. And after all that world is reborn and there will be no more evil.
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 284d
there is a song I really like about this one
https://youtu.be/PCpi1sZEZ1U
Actually a few songs.
https://youtu.be/U6xXsp03wyg
https://youtu.be/JFYVcz7h3o0
Also Loki by Amon Amarth talks about the end times.
There are "Twilight of the Gods" by at least Helloween, Blind Guardian, and Therion.
coolman@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 284d
I'm honestly super down for the Rapture. All the Christians getting beamed up to infini-church while the rest of us finally get to live without them
Jhex@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 284d
that would only "confirm" they were right all along and then the rest of us (or many at least) would immediately jump on the bandwagon in hopes for a repeat
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 284d
Honestly I wish they were right. I'd give anything to see those fuckers squirm in front of st peter
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 283d
Would be funnier seeing them lose their mind why they arent going to heaven but a "GAY TRANS HEATHEN!!AA!1" is
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 284d
Fuck that. I'll have no truck with a god that allows children to die of slow agonizing cancer.
Wren@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 284d
Plus mosquitoes.
Zozano@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 284d
God's gonna feel like such an asshole when those left on Earth don't descend into chaos
presoak@lazysoci.al · 2 pts · 284d
It ain't the religion, it's the people.
You've never met a smug dogmatic till you've met a Buddhist smug dogmatic.
I personally think the key to that door is psychedelics.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 285d
Not religious, but my favorite is the Gamma Ray Burst.
Totally invisible until it hits and BOOM, everything is dead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst
Inucune@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 284d
Same result, but false vaccum decay.
beSyl@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 283d
I don't think a GRBurst is painless. Humans would still suffer greatly, from radiation poisoning symptoms. Infections, internal bleeding, etc. It would take days...
I don't think a Gamma Ray Burst would vaporize everything.. But I may be wrong.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 285d
The Norse one has a wolf eating the sun. That's pretty metal.
DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 285d
Honestly, the visualization alone of Melancholia was pretty fucking amazing. Might as well end it quick, and with a bang, mates.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 284d
literally the only thing I enjoyed about that movie were the titties.
movie made me violently ill and gave me a migraine.
DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 284d
Fair and fair. I'm sorry about your brain betraying you. I hope it gets better or more manageable at least. I didn't actually care for the movie or that whole trilogy, but that ending is impressive, visually.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 11 pts · 285d
The best one is the show in the Restaurant At The End Of The Universe.
nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 283d
which is that? damn I need to reread hhg it's been a while
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 285d
The best apocalypse is the one you already have. There's no need to go out get a new apocalypse when your old one is dooming people just fine, that's how you start a climate apocalypse.
Wren@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 284d
This one is too slow :(
dumbass@piefed.social · 10 pts · 285d
Big tiddy Gothaclypse!
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 284d
In my case, nuclear annihilation. I'm in an area where there's a pretty good chance when the clock strikes midnight, my city will absolutely be obliterated and hopefully I will disintegrate with it.
It'll suck for any survivors, but I have a good change of not having to live through it. I'd be dead weight because of being on life saving meds, so you don't want me in an apocalypse.
Maiq@piefed.social · 7 pts · 284d
Reading the terminals in Fallout 4 and the heartbreak sprinkled within them. Lost people searching for lost loves in the wreckage of social collapse. Searching through twisted metal for any scrap to cling to your new existence. Defiantly a worthy apocalyptic hell scape.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 285d
IT’S A COOKBOOK
Wren@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 283d
Tell me more.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 283d
We go good with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 284d
Personally I'm a big fan of the Hadron Collider accidentally creating a black hole.
HurlingDurling@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 284d
I don't want to be turned to interstellar spaghetti thank you very much
22NewtsInACoat@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 283d
Just as a heads up on this one. Cosmic rays have been doing the same things that have been happening at the LHC, but for billions of years and up to more than a million times higher energy. If the LHC could make a world ending black hole, cosmic rays would have already made one long ago!
presoak@lazysoci.al · 8 pts · 284d
Gaia, incarnated in her very sexiest avatar, walks, naked except for some dangly vines and flowers, through the cities roads, replacing the works of man with awesome verdant foliage. Old growth oak forest and crazy creepers growing at high speed everywhere. No more plastic or concrete.
philpo@feddit.org · 8 pts · 283d
When I was a freshly graduated paramedic I responded to a attempted mass suicide of a cult.(Around 15 people)
They thought the apocalypse would be coming... By inciting, well, basically an orgy,with all sexual inhibitions falling and humans sinning beyond belief. While some of their fears were at least somewhat relatable (like fathers laying their hand on their daughters) most of it was batshit crazy. They believed they need to kill themself before that happens so they would still get into heaven.
...they fucked that up,massively,as well. None died.
Wren@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 283d
Jesus Christ. Can you tell us more?
How did they fuck up dying?
Can you say where/what they called themselves?
What was the most batshit crazy part of it?
philpo@feddit.org · 8 pts · 283d
Basically they underdosed so hard that even 14 year old drug addict does take more - and very likely their stuff didn't partially work at all, as they put it in tea. So... Most of them did only feel very good/bad/nauseated, some got unconscious.
The crazy part was me coming into that room seeing them and VERY MUCH reconsidering my life choices. I graduated a few weeks backs, just got pissed and spat on the call before and now that. And then panicing a bit and calling dispatch to "send me everything ". Which they did and ended up...a bit much... Like...very much too much.
Can't remember the name and can't tell either,sorry. That is a long time ago,20 years+ some.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 283d
Solar-Punk apocalypse. All plastic gone. All oil gone.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 284d
I'd have to go with Virus.
Wipes out enough people to give humanity a chance to at least try something new from the ashes of the old world, but doesn't leave a lingering threat like Zombies or Aliens or something like that. The survivors (ostensibly those immune to the virus) have struggles, for sure, but at least can rebuild without worrying about a constant existential threat.
bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 284d
Like the show, The Last Man on Earth. I'd take that deal.
superduperenigma@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 283d
I love that, despite being a comedy, they actually address problems that 99% of apocalypse media ignores such as gasoline going bad, reactors melting down, etc.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 285d
Fake vacuum decay
JPSound@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 283d
Vacuum Decay bubble sweeping over our solar system. That sould be straight tits. Its like the "Irish Goodbye" of reality itself. Just poof! And ya outta heeeeeeere!
laranis@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 283d
I'll take one, please.
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 284d
Global basilisk hack. Everyone staring at a screen has a fatal seizure and tips over. Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon basin inherit the Earth.
blarghly@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 284d
And those guys on the island who murder anyone who comes close to them
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 283d
This implies that the earth is ours. That's such a christian worldview.
sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 284d
Hyperspace bypass.
Tedesche@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 284d
Fairest apocalypse because notice was posted.
sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 282d
Exactly.
What do you mean you've never been to Alpha Centuri?
Tedesche@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 284d
Dual-vector foil from the Three Body Problem series. Everything just gets lethally downgraded from three-dimensional to two-dimensional.
makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 285d
Recently PLUR1BUS seems alright, one of the characters in the show even argues that things are better
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 2 pts · 285d
I was going to say that.
beSyl@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 283d
I love that show. And unless the original, human, "others" are aware of the whole thing, that is, if the humans are trapped in their own minds/bodies, then I think the pluribus effect is a net positive. Pretty much all human suffering has ended. To rollback the whole thing is to create an incalculable amount of suffering.
Wren@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 283d
I love the way you put it in that last line.
Early abrahamic philosophers go over the god question like this, basically saying that if God/Yahweh/Allah exists and is all-powerful and doesn't stop suffering, then he can't possibly be good. Other religious philosophers figured life is a soul building experience, therefore the net good of making positive choices is greater than if everything was perfect by default.
The way the problem is set up in Pluribus is insanely well done.
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 284d
Guy had amazing lines
RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 285d
The latest one. My favourite part is people giving away their cars and homes.
Maiq@piefed.social · 3 pts · 284d
Metalocalypse
Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 284d
The one from the end of Bugonia seemed pretty good
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 284d
spoilers, man
30p87@feddit.org · 3 pts · 284d
Minecraft House vs Tsunami (Noob vs. Pro vs. Admin vs. Hacker)
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 283d
A virus that makes 9/10 of humanity infertile.
TeddE@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 283d
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman is a great contender for an end of the world scenario.
Tl;dr: aliens set loose a super intelligent AI on the planet as the gameshow host to the elimination of nigh all life on Earth, as part of a running Survivor-esque intergalactic production.
Bruncvik@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 282d
Flip the switch, and the virtual simulation we're in shuts down.
HurlingDurling@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 284d
Infinity war style, snap of the fingers and its all over
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 283d
If you've read or seen The Road, whatever that was. because it was complete and total. none of this half measures, pockets of safety and free cities bull shit
Jhex@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 284d
Best in what way?
More humane? best chance of recovery? most brutal?
Wren@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 284d
Dealer's choice.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk · 0 pts · 284d
TWD zombies ofcourse.