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Well, my dear bloggers. There are approximately 4 months left until the end of the world, according to the Mayan calendar. And if we can survive this end of the world, then nothing good awaits us in the future. In December, along with the Maya, the Sumerians suggested their end of the world, due to the planet Nibiru. And in 2013, according to Scandinavian mythology, Ragnarok will happen, when a battle between the heroes of German-Scandinavian mythology will break out on the planet. If this does not kill humanity, then there will be a “cloud wreaking havoc” in 2014, a flood in 2016, and Nostradamus predicted a nuclear war for 2018. As you can see, we have a pretty tight schedule and we will all have to work hard in order to have time to disappear from the face of the planet so many times. Well, what about games??
And games, as always, put all sorts of Nostradamus, Wang and Maya in their belts. The imagination of the developers knows no bounds and every year new and sophisticated “Ends of the World” appear. Against the background of which, the global flood and the planet Nibiru cower and huddle in a corner, eating chocolate. Below, the following versions of the Ends of the World were collected from different games, and some from films, but they all add up to such a gloomy collection of the possible future of humanity. Get some tea and buns ready, we’re starting.
Man is the only creature that does not adapt to nature, but adapts nature to itself. He learned to turn mighty rivers back, destroy monolithic mountains, create new forms of life. And when all this goes beyond what is permitted, mother fights back. Eruptions, hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, storms. The extensive “arsenal of weapons” still demonstrates that man must not forget about nature, despite evolution. Otherwise..
A large-scale natural disaster is one of the most used cliches in the gaming and film industry. Giant tsunami in "Day after tomorrow". The most powerful earthquake of ten and a half magnitude in I Am Alive. They all cause enormous destruction. Why invent all sorts of little green men or some kind of mystical virus?? Cataclysms may not be the most epic and fantastic way of extinction of humanity, but this makes it even more dangerous and terrible. Turn on the TV and see that somewhere in the world forests are burning, cities are flooding, houses are being carried away. If all sorts of “little green men” still need to be found, then cataclysms are there, just reach out. And this makes me uneasy.
“Kill all people,” dreamily muttered the bright representative of robots – Bender. The uprising of robots and the imminent death of humanity has become one of the most “popular” ends of the world, thanks to the film “Terminator”. And the shot with the death machine ascending a pile of human skulls is an obligatory cliche of all such films and games. Indeed, robots are already being used in a variety of places. From factories to the battlefield. Although instead of a two-meter iron giant with a minigun you will see a small radio-controlled tank, but as they say, there is a precedent.
Although it is not necessary that the last days of humanity will pass to the sounds of the firm tread of humanoid robots. It is much more likely that some virus or artificial AI will be able to arrange a real apocalypse in a few hours, simply by starting a war between nuclear powers (shooting down a flying plane, dropping a warhead on some city), which will lead to mass exterminatus. Perhaps right now, some kind of AI is using your computer to “kill all people”.
VIKI in “I, Robot”, https://b-betscasino.co.uk/withdrawal/ Glados in “Portal”, Skynet in “Terminator”. All of them shook up humanity, some on the scale of one base, and some on the entire planet. But that doesn’t change the essence. In general, beware of two-meter iron robots with machine guns.
Single figures shuffle along the streets, making strange sounds and muffled muffled sounds? If it’s not January 1st on the calendar, then you’re in a zombie apocalypse. George Romero, a pioneer in his field, was the first to bring zombies to the masses. Since the release of Night of the Living Dead, hungry corpses have become one of the most popular tools for the destruction of humanity. Be it the canonical, slow zombies from “The Walking Dead”. Fast and Deadly from 28 Days Later. Or in general, mutated into God knows what, freaks from Killing Floor and Left 4 dead. Although, if everything goes according to the Day Z scenario, then most likely you will die from a fall from the stairs or a bullet from a school sniper.
Although it is not necessary for the virus to resurrect the dead, with an acute sense of hunger. It is much more likely that an epidemic of a more mundane virus will begin. Remember. In the Middle Ages, Europe was considerably thinned out due to the Black Death. She’s the plague. And this at a time when it took months to move from city to city. What can we say, when now people can fly around the entire planet in almost 24 hours?. Globalization, motherfucker. So, wash your hands often.
If anyone doesn’t know, Auto Apocalypse is when the person responsible for the death of humanity is the person himself.
A group of people clad in iron combat suits, with plasma rifles in their hands, are shooting back from hordes of mutants. And all this to the sound of crunchy jazz from the Pip-Boy. So they show us a post-apocalyptic world in Fallout. The exchange of nuclear weapons between China and America led to the wiping out of the majority of the planet’s population, leaving only people who had taken refuge in bunkers alive. Too dark? Then go left and see the big guy Max driving along the roads of Australia, living in the era of a massive fuel crisis that led to the apocalypse.
As you can see, the choice is quite narrow and is limited to nuclear strikes and fuel crises. Well, if you don’t count the “violation of the natural state of the space-time continuum” ala “Back to the Future” and “A Sound of Thunder”. But, unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), humanity has not matured enough to travel through time. So, get your cola caps ready.
Well, everything is quite simple here too. Our neighbors in the universe came to visit the Earthlings and began to mercilessly destroy them. For what? Why? And who will understand them?.
These could be the giant tripods from War of the Worlds, kidnapping people to create special plants. Or clever killers Predators, flying to Earth for safari and entertainment, killing everyone. Or maybe these are the flying freezing robots from Crysis. In general – a huge choice. Thanks to the imagination of the screenwriters, every year shows us dozens of new alien creatures.
Although it is worth noting that no one has visited us yet, and tripods are not visible on the streets. But meteors and asteroids flying near our Blue Planet are much more real. For example, on June 21, 2008, asteroid 2006 HZ51 only by luck did not hit our Zemelka. And in 1976, asteroid 2010 XC15 flew close to the Earth, at a distance equal to half the flight distance to the Moon. Yes, and the Tunguska meteorite also hints.
Imagine this:
You are a brave schoolboy studying in the freest and most democratic country – the USA. And then a detachment of commies lands on your democratic, green, like money, yard. They grab their communist machine gun and shoot the brave democratic teachers, and then, loading a communist rocket launcher with a communist charge, shoot at the democratic bus. Presented? We laughed? By the way, this is a retelling of the plot of American (oh well?) film called "Red Dawn". After that, the bears in helmets and Yuri the telepath from Red Alert somehow faded.
Used as a means of propaganda in the 20th century, the phenomenon of the Red Scare also became a way to destroy humanity (well, at least the democratic part). It would seem that the USSR is long gone, but games and films are still appearing when all this is over? Well, not soon. Soviet radio-controlled squids may have gone out of fashion, but here comes the new “Evil Empire” – China. About which, by the way, the remake of “Red Dawn” is being filmed. So, Vasilii davai pit’ vodka i igrat’ balalaika.
One of the most extraordinary Ends of the World. In one of the eastern religions, it is generally accepted that the whole world is a dream of their god. And if this god wakes up, then our entire universe will simply disappear. To put it even more simply, our world is a simulation. We’re like in the Sims game. Someone sits on top and watches over us, makes insidious plans and decides our fate. Or maybe our planet is a kind of zoo where aliens take their kids on weekends to make them laugh.
It is worth noting the Matrix trilogy, where our entire universe is just an illusion created to hide us from the real world and use us as batteries. And once you choose the right pill, a rabbit hole opens up for you..
Well then. We have quite a diverse future. There are many more ways for humanity to perish: from the invasion of some bloodthirsty monsters to escaped SCP objects. In general, it won’t be boring.