A pandemic that spreads via vocal communication between at least two individuals.

>>51311086
The vocal cord parasites!
Or Pontypool, a great movie.

>>51311063
I remember hearing second-hand about some sci-fi novel where folk had to evacuate their planet ASAP because some meteor or trader or something accidentally introduced a fungus that grew at exponential rates. The book described a wall of moss creeping over the highway at like, a foot a minute.

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the earth begins shrinking

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>>51311063
Ennui

>>51311063
Not a hundred percent sure what would cause it, but I had a post-apocalyptic setting where the apocalypse was of some kinda psychic phenomenon that opened up the material world to the fears of the people. The most terrifying imagery from the world zeitgeist made flesh, or an approximation of flesh. Nightmares made real roaming the earth.

Someone pushes the Small Blue Button instead of that other, more exciting one.

>>51311063
Giant planet approaches earth, very slowing passing by, and people and cities fall upwards towards it.

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>>51311063
Civilization discovers effectively free energy source, collapses under weight of own hedonism. (Literally.)

>>51311063
Psychic BDSM fetishists amplify each other's synchronized orgasms until they reach critical mass, spilling over into ordinary humanity and fucking the Earth to death.

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They wake up with a migraine.

>>51311063
All the water and land become inverted.

Flipped up, turned upside down you might say.

>>51311063
Plastic suddenly vanishes, instantly, everywhere.

Humanity invents working male enhancement pills; within a week 90% of adult men have made themselves physically incapable of breeding.

>>51311114
Care to drop a link to whatever it is or name the book?

>>51311063
In one depressing story a read years ago, there was scientist, who invented time freezing machine... and turned it on, and froze time in whole universe... forever.

Gray Ooze. Otherwise known as self-replicating nanobots that eat almost everything.

>>51311231
So the Fall of the Eldar.

>>51311307
and is replaced by cheese

>>51311063
Everyone in the world suddenly develops a severe gluten allergy that kills 50% of the population before they realize it. Much of the rest starves as basic grains become indigestible to them, and the diet changes to mostly one of bugs and green plants to compensate.

>>51311147
So, Firefly Serenity Ending?

>>51311127
I'd counter this with expanding Earth.
Mountain ranges grow larger, shores farther, cities stand divided by vast distances.
Every journey, between even smallest towns is like travelling across russia, lenghtwise.

>>51311429
That sounds pretty cool

>>51311184
Go away Junji. I remember that shit.

>>51311063
Everyone becomes a politician, lawyer or businessman, and the lack of useful human beings leads to mass starvation.

Higgs boson apocalypse.
http://www.livescience.com/27218-higgs-boson-universe-future.html

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>>51311405
>Grey Goo scenario
>Unusual

>>51311465
I mean it's one of those apocalypses that could be tuned to wipe out all traces of human life and leave the animal life on the planet completely unharmed.

>>51311448
Everyone starts their own business as they were told to by politicians so many times. There's no workforce, they try to hire each other, but ultimately they all die when it turns out capital won't reap the harvest.

>>51311429
>So, Firefly Serenity Ending?
God, i rewatched this the other day and only just realised how dark that 'reveal' scene is where they find the hologram explaining the early Reavers.

Woman is so aware of how fucked up getting caught is she tried shooting herself, wasn't fast enough, so must have been just relentlessly raped and tortured and eaten to death off-screen.

Not unusual, but I read about one where ~95% of humanity just disappears one day without explanation, while the remaining 5% suddenly become able to use magic/develop powers.

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>>51311490
And? It's still not unusual.
There are many, many stories based on it. The term, Grey Goo Scenario is well known. It's been done. It's old hat for apocalypse scenarios.

We fuck up real bad with some dimensional gateway research, and instead of finding hell, we find heaven. God is pissed and wipes the slate clean, reducing all of humanity to 10% of its original number. Angels are garrisoned on earth to maintain absolute order.

One random word in the English language is changed to power word kill, except it kills everyone who can hear it even deaf people.

Someone puts Earth in a Bag of Holding.

Some crazy rich scientist tries to create a more efficient oxygen extractor. Succeeds. Extracts anti-oxygen from parallel dimensions. Boom.

https://youtu.be/v3hd3AI2CAA

I'm plotting out a change that occurs around the 14th era in my world (running a 13th era campaign currently) where two gods/magic users/??? animate the oceans and mountains of my world and go to war, so a majority of the land is going to be broken up and distorted. Im planning to thin out most settlements in the land too, due to quakes and the like.

>>51311549
>There are many, many stories based on it.
Would you please list a few? I'd like to read one. Just the premise is like a horror movie. Something unstoppable, absolutely lethal, and slow spreading reaches out across the world over the course of like a year.

>>51311509
Also, I was thinking about this the other day, you know the way Pax turns 0.1% of people into Reavers? And you know the way Reavers occasionally turn people into more Reavers, like that guy in that early episode?
What if it's not just torture driving them mad, what if Reaver ships have Pax in the air?

Hell, maybe Reavers can tell when someone has the predisposition to react violently to Pax, so they'll intentionally expose them to it.
On top of the regular torture I'd guess.

It'd be kinda scary if you were exploring a Reaver ship without a vacc suit

>>51311375
I don't remember the title. It was a long time ago, and I didn't even read the book, a friend did.

>>51311635
I think there was an incident where scientists had to calm down prince Charles when he read one of such book. I think it might be from Dan Brown.

>>51311063
Someone bridges the gap between fiction and reality real to get to his waifu, make it classy if you must by mirroring the greek myth about that guy and his waifu. Unfortunately someone with a power level far higher than reality shows up and starts tearing the planet apart for who knows what reason.

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A current game I'm running takes place in a magical wasteland after 1% of the population got access to magical powers and became wizards. This 1% immediately magically fucked the world so violently that it broke reality and left the survivors trapped in a twisted nonsense world littered with the remnants of magical war and experimentation. Currently you can only become a wizard by murdering another wizard and stealing their powers highlander style, but doing so causes greater and greater corruption and mutation to you. And using magic drains your mind stat, driving you insane if you use it too much.

What this means is that wizards are all basically insane reality warping mutants and normal humans hate them with a passion. Currently, my players are in a forested landscape made of metal where spears sprout from the ground, hunting down some bandits that are harassing a settlement that lives in the rafters of a 300 story tall cathedral.

The earth is totally fine. It's just that space travel for humans is deemed impossible and humanity dies alone on our destroyed planet.

World War 2 didn't happen. Unchecked Judaism results in a shekel collecting singularity, which leads directly into a goypocalypse.

Superman exists. Atomizes surface of the earth attempting to fly at the speed of light in the atmosphere.

>>51311490

Those are some fancy fucking nanobots you're envisioning. They have DNA analysers on board or what?

>>51311876
It's science fiction. I don't need to explain shit.

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>>51311063
These fuckers show up and try to jack the planet.

>>51311876
I like the way you think, Anon. Scifi Nazis create grey ooze that only eats "undesirables".

>>51311147
Sounds like the gaming industry.

The planet hatches.

Planets are eggs laid by eldritch abominations in orbit around stars to keep them warm. Apparently 4.543 billion years is the expected incubation period.

Time travellers go back in time, fuck up and die. Moments later the world is invaded by humans from the past using the time machine.

Absolute unloveable rod is activated. Immediately this thirty pound rod slams into the crust of the earth at roughly ~515,000 mph due to the speed of the Milky Way Galaxy arm moving.

>>51311063
We all realise the pointlessness of everything, and just waste away over the course of a few generation.

>>51311961
How about humanity time traveling back 10,000 years every time they reach a tipping point in earth's climate.

>>51311429
Is the expansion constant? What is made in the new space? Like... is the new place raw rock and soil? Is it copy pasted pen space?

Memetic infection spread through hating an infected individual. Infected individuals turn unreasonably aggressive over the course of days until they're utterly savage and merciless.

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>>51311063
>tfw you no longer have to share a planet with Australia

>>51312041
Vast tracts of wilderness fill in the gaps. Animals and some plants grow to much larger their normal size. Humans are like mice crossing a wheatfield.

>>51312026
Dark is the Sun, by Philip Jose Farmer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Is_the_Sun

>>51311657
And the grand reveal would be that the Pax doesn't do anything much but act as a depressant.

That really is the result of people reaching the edge of space and going wibbledy over it. Most people aren't bothered "Just looks like more space" but 0.1% of the population can't cope with it and causes them to revert to more primal programing.

Everyone assumed it was the pax creating monsters. Turns out monsters were in our head all along and we brought them to the stars.

Maybe it's old cave man instincts that just can cope. Maybe its something more sinister. Who the fuck knows.

Planet gets pulled into the gravity of a brown dwarf star as it glides though, catching the planet in a tidal lock.

I had a nightmare once where aliens invaded and abducted humans to use as the fuel source for their ships. People were sucked up into holding pods and slowly liquefied. I guess aliens harvesting humans like a crop isn't all that unusual but it was certainly terrifying.

>>51311163
So 2016?

>>51312231
>>51311429
I am so fucking stealing the shit out of this.

>>51311086

Skullface, is that you?

>>51311429
>Expanding Earth

Missile Gap by Charles Stross

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>>51311063
Iron Sunrise had a device that put a portion of a Stars core into a pocket universe were it underwent millions of years of fusion in an instinct and then dumped the resulting solid iron core back into the star causing it to supernova.

>>51311563
>Angels are garrisoned on earth to maintain absolute order.
With the aid of robots with faces?

>>51312292
My head cannon is that there is one sociopath amoung them. A guy who they don't notice. He walks the ships and judges them like they are primative and unworthy of being anything but a sheath for his knife in the begining. After he notices they only react to him if he makes enough noise he stays silent. He doesn't stalk, he watches and takes mental notes like a zoologist. They never hassle him and he believes they cant see him. Reavers don't even notice when he gets in cramped spaces with them. He became bored of killing them, and so he goes aboard a raiding vessel, not to kill, but to enlighten. He's the reason one is rarely found alive and turned to madness. Reavers speak of him like a ghost story. A reaver santa to some that judges them silently, and remains unseen expect for when he brings in a new member. To others maybe he is a deity that moves unseen through their boat, only approaching those worthy.

Living things start aging in reverse. Life on planet earth wiped out within 80,000 years.

>>51311063
Core extraction at 70%

Vacuum Decay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFm6DxNVyI

>>51311063
Greenfly

texhnolyze had an interesting one.

Humanity simply chooses to die, or "evolve" into something that is totally inhuman, or even in-biological.

>>51311635

Blood Music by Greg Bear.
Scary as hell. Awesome ending.

>>51311063

Reverse Elf-Rape on an industrial scale.

>>51311086
This was a Stephen King novel

Gaypocalypse. Everything that sexually reproduces in earth suddenly becomes extremely gay and refuses to mate with the opposite sex.

>>51313172
An aphid? Please clarify.

The bees are all dead

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>>51311776
>Wizard Highlander.

Fug...I may have to write a campaign based on this.

>>51311776
It's been done. http://tgchan.org/wiki/Bite_Quest

>>51313357
Beautifulz

>>51311635
The Day the Earth Stood Still stands out.

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>>51311086
Peter Watts, is that you?

>>51314333
That was only a part of the movie, even though it had a great close-up animation, and it was [spoilers] rendered pointless by a worldwide EMP pulse.

>>51311063
Someone told the Admech there was an STC in Terra's core.

Somewhat relating to your pic.

>>51314441
No?

>>51311063
So, how to center a campaign on the issues that arise after splitting a planet on its equator, rotating one side 180 degrees, and then joining the parts together without killing all life on the planet.

>>51313413
Really? What was it called.

Pollution and disease increasing gradually over a century

War is a really common apocalypse scenario, but the saddest are scenarios that were slower and completely preventable.

Some sort of virus/bacteria impregnates women, but constantly. Once the baby is born, the woman will immediately become pregnant again. Women die due to the strain on their bodies. Surgeries are performed to make women sterile in order to protect them. Mankind slowly diminishes.

All the elements of the planet (periodic elements rather than classical elements) gain collective intelligences at once, and seek to destroy one another.

So like, all the hydrogen in the world becomes aware, and wants to fight all the boron in the world which becomes aware, which wants to fight all the molybdenum in the world which becomes aware, and so on and so forth.

>>51314758
That's less of an apocalypse and more instant annihilation of all life on the planet.
>Oxygen wants to conglomerate for an attack on nitrogen.
>Oxygen suddenly dissapears from all water, concrete, etc on the planet and turns all the water into hydrogen gas.

>>51314705
How about all of humanity becomes sterile. I think there was a movie about that.

>>51311108
>Or Pontypool, a great movie.

The first half was amazing. Kind of goes to shit once the doctor guy shows up, though.

>>51314758
There is SO much fucking hydrogen in the universe, and on planet earth, that it wouldn't be so much an apocalypse rather than everyone dying to death instantaneously

>>51314793
No they have to win the fights where they are before they can conglomerate. So the hydrogens fight the oxygen and have to beat it, or the oxygen beat the hydrogens, before it can conglomerate.

So really only non-bonded elements, or elements that win the fights in their molecules, are able to then conglomerate.

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I haven't done this yet but I'm working on it
Do feel free to use it

>Volcanism
>People and animals start turning into Volcanic like monsters after a series of volcanoes teared their way up from the Earth Core
>Making new island continents appear while distorting the older land masses
>Refugees and evacuees start settling theses islands, building tent cities and shanty towns
>The islands are barren but because they're new lands they're safe from the monster hordes that infect the main lands
>Game comes in two parts, first part you play as a survivor trying to make to one of the new islands
>second part starts a few decades after your survivor makes it to the island, you play as the character's adult grand child task in doing whatever~

I don't know where I'm going with this idea but I do know for sure that starting weapons are home made crossbows and sling shot rifles made from pvc pipes

>>51311370
I'll up this to robotic women became so life-like men no longer wanted to procreate with the organic ones and all their headaches.

>>51311611
So a more extreme version of pokemon with kyorge and groundon?

>>51314856
Hydrogen may have numerical superiority but it's still just a single proton gas. Higher elements are less but have different strengths.

>>51311086
Wolbachia
Male to female

The Mist but on a global scale

>>51315341

Killer Clowns from Outer Space but on a global scale.

The human appendix's function is revealed to terrifying consequence.

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>>51311163
The Coldfire Trilogy? Where peoples fears and beliefs become manifest. Destroy the colony ship and the advanced civilization on the planet and bring about the rise of a new magical dark age with wizards and shit?

>>51311819
>not an Apocgoylypse

>>51314525
I believe he was referring to Cell, which is a similar but different premise. I can't think of a Stephen King that matches up better than that. It's a good book.

>>51311996
>unloveable rod

So your dick?

>>51311996
>Ivan goes to set Skyhook for job
>Vasili grabbed Spacehook instead like idiot.
Earth was destroy.

>>51311063
Nothing out of the ordinary happens, but life irrevocably and inevitably ends with the heat death of the universe.

>>51314893
What is a volcanic like monster.

>>51313040
How would that effect births?

>>51311386
Sounds a bit like thief of time, but that ends well. A clockmaker makes a perfectly accurate clock, trapping time and ending the universe.

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>>51311063
Experiment in dimensional shifting goes array, and a constantly expanding bubble of psychomagic engulfs the earth. Most life is unaffected, but anything over a certain level of brainpower comes down with a nasty case of your-head-a-splode. This cut-off just so happens to align with most, but not all, of humanity.

The Tards shall inherit the earth.

Social experiments as apocalypses.
>What if the male:female ratio was 1,000:1 and vice versa
>What if everyone on earth was teleported to India?
>What would happen if there was a button that destroys the earth if pressed, but everyone knows about it?
>What if the rapture was artificially made, with teleporting and no anti-Christ.
>What if we replaced all the water in the oceans with grape soda?
>What would happen if EVERYONE suddenly gained the appearance of the same man or woman.

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Whenever someone forgets or loses an object that they've known, it ceases to exist.

>>51317246
>>What if everyone on earth was teleported to India?
Then people have actual justification for not pooping indoors. There's not enough bathrooms.

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I always considered the idea of a "ghost apocalypse" to be pretty spooky.

Someone on the outskirts of Chicagoland is tortured to death in a revolutionarily horrible way.
Their tortured soul, wracked with pain and hatred, comes back to life as a wraith and immediately tortures the nearest person to death. Said person *also* rises as a wraith, and sets out to spread the love as the original goes out to do the same.

Eventually, the entire world is infested with angry ghosts roaming around looking for people to let their frustrations out on.

>>51311086
the game

>>51317397
Either that or they'd just, you know, go back home. Hell, even the people in India would probably see it as an opportunity to leave

>>51311457
Combine vacuum collapse with an empire spanning an entire galaxy that has ridiculously fast and convenient FTL. Any time communication is lost with a solar system, you have to check--very carefully--whether or not it was destroyed by a new bubble of "true vacuum"

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>>51311307
Earth Girl Arjuna - airborne petrol eating bacteria, mutated from a bunch designed to eat oil spills, runs rampant and destroys all the plastic and rubber on the planet. The result was pretty apocalyptic.

Wish I had the scene, but alas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQKckQm7eOI

Show was mostly magical girl hippy crap, but that at least was a tad creative.

>>51311063
a chemical is accidentally leaked into the atmosphere that creates a severe allergy that when combined with citrus results in victims falling into a coma.

at some point, everyone on earth falls asleep trying to avoid getting scurvy.

>>51311635
http://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/nanotech/edward-ashton/dust_sf

>>51311063
Slow Grey Goo event.

>>51311635
Gargoyles, Walkabout (~1995)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbjvR40sZw4#t=12m37s

Nanite gray goo scenario starts in Australia by a collective bent on reconstructing the world into a state of "perfect order". Goliath enters "the dreaming" to communicate with the nanite matrix's mind and explains to it that there's another kind of order, "law and order" (and it thus becomes a superhero that returns later in the series.).

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>>51316090

The strongest fighter in the world threatens to chop the planet in two if he doesn't get the sickest fight in his life in like, a years time.

One insane terrorist discovers another insane terrorist's plot to end humanity, and to counter this releases a virus that instead wipes out 75% of humanity. It would be a very complex scenario.

>>51316417
People and animals that look like Molten lava statues

I don't know I just made it up

The planet's gravity starts to increase for no reason at all, day after day. By the peak of the incident, the planet and everything on it has been condensed to a single point.

>>51317246
>What if the male:female ratio was 1,000:1 and vice versa

This is actually the plot of an old, little-known N64 game, Battletanx 64.

A genetically engineered plague wipes out 99% of Earth's females. The world tears itself apart fighting over the remaining women, resulting in a thermonuclear war that reduces Earth to a Mad Max-style wasteland where each tribe is ruled by its sacred Queen, who is to be protected as fiercely as any holy item.

>>51312320
You basically dreamt the side-plot of War of The Worlds.

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>>51311429
Also dark tower, although dark tower takes place years after it started happening. By the end of the book, the "Diameter" of the earth (which was flat in that dimension I think) became functionally infinite

>>51314822
Children of Men

About to start a campaign that may involve alien invasion.
How do I keep it original and not cliche the hell out of it?

The world just became post-apocalyptic one day because the plot needed it to be that way.

>>51317246
>What if everyone on earth was teleported to India?

There's an XKCD-What-If similar to that, except it was Rhode Island.

>>51317862
That's literally DBZ: Battle of Gods.

>>51317944
There was an even more obscure movie (among the worst of all time, really) called "Rollerblade Warriors", in which the opposite happened. All women, one last man comes out of cryo or some such. Madness ensues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PBNGBtY-es

And to boot, all the women are the children of the same "sacred mother", who may have also been responsible for the virus that wiped out all the men (might be wrong on some details, not seen this in ages).

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>>51318406
>>51317862
>One Punch Man has an off day.

Everyone falls in mad, unconditional, blinding love with everyone.

Everyone is then so busy doting on each other that everyone forgets to do other things.

>>51313531
From Revelation Space

>>51313172
My patron of galactic north!
Possibly one of my favorite short stories ever.

>>51315831
This series had an amazing concept with the some seriously bad execution

Each race of people and their subcatagory of races are transformed into beastmen of varying types, anglo-caucasian into ratmen, japanese into hawkpeople etc. Interacial humans have a coin toss on transformation. These beastfolk, cannot interbreed ptoperly but the biological penalty of imbreeding is much less severe. Watnow.

It's hardly original but one of the many terrible ideas I thought up when I was back in high school was basically interdimensional tyranids that eat souls instead of biomass. (This was before I knew 40k was a thing, so I was somewhat surprised when I found they were pretty much identical to tyranids in all but appearance)

>>51311776
I think I actually helped edit that game, good to know someone is playing it. Where did you come by a copy perchance?

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>>51311063
Members of Mongolian throat singing consortium shitpost so hard that they resurrect a long dead god of primordial darkness, whom communicates with it adherents via repeating digits. Check 'em

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>>51311063
Through some freak event--cosmic rays, an engineered virus that escaped somehow, a meteor shower, etc.--the intelligence level of nonhuman animals is suddenly increased. Other mammals are about as smart as we are, birds as our hominid ancestors, reptiles as chimps, fish as lower-primates, and insects as dogs. Many of them are now smart enough to recognize the threat we pose to their well-being and very existence.

>>51319159
>Spirits Within
I honestly thought that movie was the tits because of ectoplasm guns

>>51311063
Partial failure of Physics/Chemical Fundamental Laws across the Earth

>>51317685
Why on earth would they make it airborne? It just need to survive in sea and soil. Maybe a different strain for each purpose.

On a similar note, imagine an overly enthusiastic (mad) scientist environmentalist making a quick spreading bacteria that eats CO2 to reduce global warming, and completely misses the mark and plunges the earth into a permanent ice age. Combines well with a diesel/steam punk setting, as burning fossil fuels actually mitigates the problem.

Humanity loses interest in reproduction, be it via performing coitus or in-vitro or any other kind of insemination.

>>51312326
>>51312231
>>51312041
>>51311429
https://what-if.xkcd.com/67/

>>51314705
>Mankind slowly diminishes.
Why tho.
Have 2-3 kids from the moment puberty hits, then snip and you get to live as normal.

>>51317612
Not enough infrastructure, most will starve and die. By the time they get out, everything will have broken down and they'll need to rebuild mostly from scratch.

>>51318406
Also Cell Games.

>>51319641
Could work for a pulp setting I guess, but in reality such bacteria have been around for over two billion years, so the only new thing about them here is working at a pace that's most likely well above anything reality is likely to accept.

>>51319041
>RACE WAR

>>51316554
Array?

>>51314441
holy shit, pic related propelled my sides to escape velocity

blindsight is still objectively far, far better

>>51320225
Hmm true. Maybe if it were designed to continuously absorb CO2 and excrete a heavier mostly carbon substance? Something that wouldn't actually be useful for a natural organism. Basically I'm imagining a massively parallel process similar to what makes trees. Although that might end up heavier, and be restricted to the ground, thus never really being out of control and defeating the premise.

Bah.

Let's go to the other end then, massive machinery at the poles the suck in air and scrub it of CO2, and somewhere between faulty equipment and automated defenses shit went sideways. Or could work better as an intentional cleansing of the world by extremists.

>>51319465
There was a TV series like this, I think it was called Zoo

>>51320291
Bacteria that makes diamonds and /or graphene + oxygen out of CO2 ?

>>51320313
I caught one or two episodes of it, and it was shitty beyond belief.

>>51320291
>and somewhere between faulty equipment and automated defenses shit went sideways.

There are plenty of gasses with a much stronger greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide, so industrial scrubbing of the latter should be possible to compensate for by industrial production of the former.

>>51320324
Once again, probably works for pulp fiction, probably won't work for reality as we now want our bacteria do do something harder than what cyanobacteria are doing, while maintaining a much higher producitivity.

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>>51316554
shit yes

>>51319463
underrated

>>51311086
so in a way it would be a meme virus

>>51311063
aliens from all kinds of planets pick earth as the sewer planet so they teleport giant sewer pipes into the skies and drown mankind in waste

>>51311307
fuck
so many vehicles and buildings would just fall apart

>>51317592
I believe this is the eventual turn-out of the Grudge films.

Because the curse of Kayako or Sadako or whatever it was infects people close to those who have entered the haunted house, the curse eventually grows in power and begins jumping over to people passed by in the street, until all of Tokyo, and potentially beyond, becomes an uninhabited death-world, its inhabitants all consumed by a revenge-obsessed yurei.

>>51311209
Warhammer 40,000, fall of the Eldar

>>51320324
While a useful byproduct, I don't see it being efficient.

I do wonder though, how much CO2 a tree could take in if you completely changed its genetics to prioritize it. I don't see how to bring an apocalypse that way though, regardless. A disease that infects all plants and changed their functions would be necessary, but such a thing could be weaponized in a far worse fashion.

>>51313531
In the Revelation Space series there was type of machine called Greenfly that were designed by the Demarchy to act as autonomous terraforming tools.

Some dipshit hyper-pig pirate dumped them all on some backwater nowhere rock when he stole a ship.

They were designed to be able to improve themselves and were given at least some rudimentary intelligence. Their programing was to create as much livable space for humanity as possible.

Skip forwards a few centuries.

They are disassembling any planet of Jupiter size or smaller and building free floating bio-habitats like snow globes with forests and shit in them.

Although they were designed to make new places for humans to live they weren't designed to give a shit about humans. Humans are also broken down to make more habitats.

Skip forwards a few billion years and the things humanity evolved into are reaching the point of extermination, the universe is composed of almost nothing but green snow-globes orbiting stars and the chemical composition of the known universe has been too fucked around with for the possibility of any new life as we know it to ever develop ever again for the rest of time.

The god-like intelligence manage to transmit a message back in time to their primitive precursors asking them to build some robot bodies and let them transmit their minds into them. Protagonists refuse because caution. The universe is doomed.

>>51317862
Replace fight with assassination and that's Assassination Classroom.

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A priest begs a bunch of scientists to help him keep Satan contained within a mysterious ancient vial because a prophesy says the vial will unleash Satan soon.

>turns out the vial is actually an alien containment device, and Satan isn't trying to get out, Satan is trying to contact some eldritch evil that comes from beyond space and time, a being so powerful, massive and infinite, it pretty much scared God into inactivity - and it hadn't even reached into our world

>>51311063
I had a near future setting where apathy killed the human race. Over the course of 10 years or so 99% of the human race slowly became so apathetic they would refuse to feed themselves. The rates varied from human to human but once you "caught" it your fate was sealed. Very few are immune and even fewer managed to "cure" themselves.

I wrote it of as a psychophysical response to living in a society where everything was easy. It was a near post scarcity society where a push of a button would get you anything you could want. Without challenge and effort needed to live people just kinda stopped. They slowly shut down until the point where they couldn't be bothered to even press that button to make them food anymore opting to just lay there and die.

>>51320876
That seems... dumb.

Unless there's some kind of meme or virus involved, it seems incredibly retarded. Rich people can pretty much push a button and someone brings them food, or even feeds them. And rich people don't just lie in bed, waiting to die on a massive scale.

>>51320876
>>51320894
And if people do chose to die, they don't wait for starvation. They take an overdose or shoot themselves.

>>51320894
>>51320900
Not him, but the way the other guy described it sounds like it was some kind of contagious memetic anti-mania. Like an infectious insanity.

>>51320900
They couldn't be bothered even if they wanted to. Their minds were fully intact. They had full reasoning and everything but when faced with actually doing something they opted to instead not do that thing. At the end even if they wished for death getting out of be to get a gun to shoot themselves was just to much work and effort.

>>51320894
I thought about it but since the setting had a horror slant to it I liked the idea of it being buried in the mind. Its in everyone creating a "ticking clock" hanging over the players heads. A doom that even as they try to survive in this super advanced city that was falling apart all their struggle could be for naught and there was nothing they could even do to stop it.

Viruses can be stopped and avoided your own mind can not. Its why the "main" quest was tracking down this group of people that supposedly "cured" themselves.

It is now quick,easy, affordable and painless for anyone to become whatever they want via medical procedure (within the limits of biology, so no magical stuff)

The magical realm-tier creations reach Eldar levels of hedonism, but sans warp it just ends up dissolving society and creating millions of mutants, many of whome roam the wilds because it is their fetish

>>51311423
Amaranth kind of mitigates that scenario.

>>51320949
Sounds kind of meh to me. They hook of it being a natural human response to things being easy breaks my suspension of disbelief hard. It just doesn't sound reasonable since the human mind seems set up to seek stimulus. I would imagine extreme sports like rock climbing, sky diving and climbing huge mountains with minimal gear would become a fad as people began to get desperately board.

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>Genie pops out of a lamp
>Offers a nerd one wish
>Nerd blurts out "Unlimited physical strength" due to surprise and social anxiety.
>Genie grants wish.
>Nerd tries to test this out by punching a rock or something with his full strength
>Hits the earth so hard that each individual atom within 0.005 AU of earth is rocketed off in random directions at near-light speeds.

>>51320922
Maybe if it were like that one Nip horror comic with the body holes in the mountains. How they're unstoppably compelled towards their hole once they see it.

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>>51321249
Yeah, that shit was cool. But all bets are practically off once you step into the realm of cosmic horror.

>>51321279
That shit was weird.

Time stops permanently for everything except small % of population.
Supernatural storms periodically reset everything else to the way it was when the world stopped.
Survivors live in existing infrastructure as scavengers since agriculture is now impossible.

>>51321448
Good horror often is.

>>51311114
Reminds me of Nausicaa, not really what you described but still.

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Hail of comets, each one no larger than a nickle. But in huge storms that smash buildings to rubble, shoot through cars, can kill if struck in the chest or head, will shatter a hand or leg. They can be vaguely predicted and plotted, but by no means an exact science.

>>51321453
Quantum break?

>>51317592
The movie Pulse has a ghost apocalypse.

>>51311063
Witches

>>51320949
>>51320876

You may like Blindsight by Peter Watts. Humanity hook itself on VR paradises waiting to be replaced by its transhuman children.

>>51321994
Also, something something vaguely hard-sf vampires

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>>51311063
Azathoth awakens.

>>51311063
A new planet enters the solar system and Earth begins orbiting it

>>51311063
Scientists create a god in a laboratory.

This god then begins reshaping the world into their personal garden of eden. Other gods are quickly made to deal with the destruction caused by the first, with the same consequence.

Cellular rebellion

>>51311086
>>51311108
There is also a 40k story like that only its a song that causes it. Its called The Carrion Anthem by David Annandale.

>>51311239
Who are these guys?
Can you give me a quick rundown?

>>51322100
Ah yes, I forgot how the only content permitted on /tg/ was 40kids

>>51322160
Sssshh, nobody likes you.

>>51314968
You literally do not comprehend how much hydrogen there is compared to other elements.

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>>51311063
A sociopathic frog girl travels the galaxy drilling planets with her massive ship in order to extract the content of their cores so she can build more robots and get fuel for her ship so she can travel the galaxy drilling planets with her massive ship in order to extract the content of their cores so she can build more robots and get fuel for her ship

>>51317313
House fires reduced by 10 000% as everyone who forgets their stove on is now stove-less.

>>51321860
One of my favourite apocalypse films, its so goddamn bleak and depressing

>>51311086
MALE

>>51319041
>Watnow.
your disgusting magical realm is complete.

>>51319436
Its my homebrew so...

>>51313788
1. Not actually the same, though has some similar elements
2. Quest, therefore shit
3. Furry, therefore shit.

>>51322109
they are the bogs

The batteries for an orbital weapons platform short circuit after a tech spills his Dr.Pepper. After some fuckoff place in russia gets a laser to the face, the bombs start getting tossed around. All because ensign Mcfuckboi forgot where his soda was.

>>51323644
99 Luftballons Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont

A virus that sucks the luck out of the infected. Highly contagious and no lower limit to bad luck.

>>51323783
That doesn't sound so ba

>>51323804
The poster then died due to his ceiling caving in, his sentence never completed.

>>51321279
Basically anything Junji Ito would write about apocalypse would be pretty neat.

>>51323804
>First you just suck at games of chance
>Then daily things just coincide to mess with you. Like a guy with boiling hot tar-caramel coffee trips and spills his drink on you.
>The bad luck starts becoming physically harmful. Gas pipes begin to leak in your home, your car's brake fluid deteriorates, someone else doesn't pay attention while driving at the wrong moment.
>The final stage. Your bad luck is actively trying to kill you. The longer you survive the more violent and dangerous situations you'll find yourself in.

>>51323870
Fucking final destination shit right there.

>>51323869
Earth getting licked by another planet.

The surface of (Earth-like planet) is torn away from its body, and gravitationally wrapped around a magical/metaphysical core so that the living part faces it. The rest of the planet's contents are haphazardly layered "on top" of the inversed surface.

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>>51323887
"Ey baby, I like the looks of your craters. Cmere and give daddy some sugar."

>>51323914
I just realized this would work incredibly well with an Underdark/Nine Hells setting.

Someone froze the Earth's mantel.

>>51324225
Thus, the area above our planet's fireplace was frozen. Truly, these are dark times.

>>51322092
The exact plot of Supergods, a comic by Warren Ellis. Not amazing, but there are some interesting concepts for the "gods" and how they think.

>>51311086
I've always been really interested in memetic viruses. A lot of SCP stuff about that.

All the otherwise natural processes of the planet grind to a halt, from simple things such as grass growing to large and largely mitigable like the planet's rotation, to extraordinarily important like gravity.

>>51311563
That's some Shin Megami Tensei stuff.

>>51324478
As long as entropy, death, and decay have stopped, there isn't much to worry about.

>>51311086
That's just GAME OVER. Let's assume it takes three days incubation before it kills the host.
>Assume patient zero is a Burger loser whose only conversation in two days is with the cashier at Mc. Donald's.
>Cashier proceeds to infect entire staff within fifteen minutes and another dozen customers within that time frame.
>Within an hour the thirty people infected grows to over two-hundred from casual greetings and talking to others.
>Within a day there's at least one infected in nearly every state due to phone calls. Patient zero dies at home.
>Within a week its spread to almost every country on the planet. Pandemic Panic is in full effect. Accelerated communication between world powers and an infected intern.
>Within a month half the world's population is infected, half that dead.
>Within six months every person on the planet that CAN communicate verbally has been infected and subsequently died.
>Humanity's only survivors are the deaf, mute, and retarded.

>>51325612
>Be mute
>Deaf GF
>GF water breaks in the ruins of a hospital
>Baby comes out
>Baby is crying
>Ok might be deaf then
>Baby responds to sound
>Shit hopefully retarded?
>Normal baby
>Virus kills baby
>Welp. Time to try again.

Cultists arrange a televised performance of the King in Yellow. Resulting mass insanity collapses society

>>51324266
yeah, like how the writers treat usage (and misuse) of the term "memetic" the same way /tg/ sees the "-punk" suffix?

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>>51325442

Natural planetary processes. Things like entropy, death and decay would still fuck over anything that wasn't living or directly a part of the planet.

The ground turns into chopped beef. That's all.

>>51317592
The short story "Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell" by Sanderson has such a premise.

>>51315831
I really liked the vampire and priest duo working together.

>>51325612
It would spread faster than that if it was a school aged kid.
Day 1:
>Go to school. Talk to a few friends outside school. Give greetings to people in hallway. Exchange greetings with each of my teachers. Entire school is infected. By midnight every family and their friends who have tangible relationships with that school are infected.
>About 60 calls were placed out of state by infected.
Day 2:
>By noon the number of infected is in the five digit range
>Some businessmen have been infected. They have a voice call with associates across the ocean in China, Europe, and Russia.
>End of Day 2 memetic virus has reached millions of infected.
Day 3:
>Patient zero and his family fall ill. First fatality.
>Infected make up a massive majority of the population of the United States. Most countries have at least one infected (except Madagascar).
>Hundreds of millions infected.
Day 4:
>Infection takes hold of most first world countries. China has been hit the quickest by the infection.
>Most world leaders are infected.
Day 5:
>Plague panic sweeps the news on all major networks across the globe.
>One billion infected.
You get the rest.

>>51311635
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(novel)

>>51311635
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invincible

>>51311307
The Andromeda Strain?

>>51320252
*awry
Apologies.

>>51323783
Qrow, is that you?

>>51319641
>Why on earth would they make it airborne?
It wasn't - shoulda rearranged that sentence to make it clear that the airborne factor was part of the mutation. These oil eating bacteria already exist in RL and are used in that fashion.

There also may have been some sorta magic involved via a collective malicious Gia consciousness, or something. It's a hippy show, so...

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>>51326395
mah nigga

>>51325682
>>51325612
Works a bit better if the virus doesn't kill you, but instead drives you insane and gives you a driving desire to "Spread the Word". Which I believe was the plot of some new'ish Twilight Zone episode - which ended when someone got on the radio.

>>51311563
>tower of babel and the flood
>new

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>>51311114
This sounds like the anime Eureka Seven, only that the people there lived on top of the alien moss thing, and it wasn't until you neared the end of the first season that you realized what happened. I remember that while they where underground, they find this huge body of water and when they read a book they found down there, they learn that it's apparently called "the sea". See, for their whole lives they've never heard of something like it, and they've only known the living earth (the alien moss) under their feet which could at times have earthquakes and grow. Many things stem from this, like antibody monsters, some substance in the air that facilitates flying technology, a religion that worships the living earth (the moss). It's an amazing world.

The second season is set in the world before the invasion. I never finished that one, but I imagine it goes all the way to the point where the whole world of the first season is explained.

>>51311063
http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm

Dogscape, of course

Shame it's not really mentioned much anymore

>>51317246
>>What if the male:female ratio was 1,000:1 and vice versa
The White Plague - written by the same guy who wrote Dune.

>>51327443
We're still trying to forget it.

What the fuck is wrong with you /tg/?

>>51327544
The original thread was one of my top moments on this board before I stopped visiting it for years

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>>51313002
No, Gary, the robots with the faces are the ones causing the problem. Didn't you get the memo?

>Scientists experiment with FTL drive.
>Feed it tons of power.
>Tiny capsule with brave volunteers is ready to depart.
>World holds its breath.
>The red button is pushed.
>Approximately two thirds of the upper layers of the crust is torn five to ten kilometers meters to the left (relative to the FTL engine.)
>Shit gets shitty on earth real fast.

>>51327516
I read its description, but it doesn't say anything about women surviving the plague.

That makes it a different scenario.

>>51323644
Reminds me of that one Russian joke.

>Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, two submarines, Soviet and American, come to the surface. The Soviet one is old and rusty; the American one is new and sleek matte black. On the Soviet one, the crew lounges about lazily, and a drunken captain yells at them: "Who threw a valenok (traditional Russian winter footwear made of felt) on the control board? I'm asking you, who threw a valenok on the control board?!" / From the American submarine, a clean-shaven, sober, and smartly-dressed captain yells scornfully: "You know, folks, in America..." / The Russian captain dismissively interrupts him: "America??! Ain't no fucking America no more!!" [He turns back to his crew] "Who threw a valenok on the control board?!"

>>51321720
How large does an meteor have to be to remain nickle sized when it hits the earth?

>>51326046
>(Except Madagascar)
You cheeky fuck

>>51313002
>order

The lions sing and the hills take flight.
The moon by day, and the sun by night.
Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool.
Let the Lord of Chaos rule.

>>51317592
Weirdly close to "the reality disfunction."

Except in that it's a galactic apocalypse and the ghosts possess the living to escape the horrific sensory deprivation of the oblivion which awaits after death.

>>51311063
Judging by the watermark, that planet got a cease and desist.

>>51327766
I've read the book.

>>51328553
kek, didn't notice til now

>>51327417
in what way are any of these unusual or even pushing the boundaries of generic scifi/scifant?

>>51328623
That's why I'm asking, if any women survive the plague.

>>51311945
this is cool. But also, this is the plot to darkest dungeon. not trying to be a killjoy, just thought you might enjoy a piece of media that invokes this idea.

>>51317313

I might just qualify as a WMD in this setting. My short term memory is absolute garbage.

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>>51328761
It is a plague, so it doesn't hit everywhere equally at the same time. There are efforts made to segregate women or otherwise protect them, some successful, some not. Funny, now that I think about it, I can't recall whether the plague is beaten by the end of the book.

>>51318273
the aliens genuinely want to help mankind, but obsessed, hyper conservative/ paranoid individuals wage a fairly successful guerilla/ terror campaign against them. eventually, the aliens see their goal as no longer trying to aid humanity, but as essentially stabilizing them so that the radical elements of the earthicans don't spread to other parts of the galaxy/ they now really want revenge on the fucking shit heads. Even though most of humanity isn't at fault, they get bombed to shit and shot etc. and it's all a metaphor for the iraq war.

Alternatively, a setting I'm working on:

Alien life is fairly common in the galaxy, and it's a fluke that we didn't get noticed earlier. Alien life is also incredibly imperialistic, violent, and self serving. The state of the galaxy is basically central park at midnight. Aliens invade and take humans as slaves. wave after wave of various species see us as a convenient source of cheap and expendable labor. However, unlike the other innumberable species who suffered the same fate and eventually went extinct due to being both over slaved and being underdeveloped, humans survive and thrive. human slaves are decently common throughout our general region of the galaxy and not unheard of even all the way on the other side. And we thrive. developing secret languages, secret ways of sharing the past. a network of man yearning for freedom. Until one day, a much bigger bully shows up in the yard and starts kicking the shit out of the individual races, incorporating their slaves slowly. finally, mankind rebels, united at last, and brings about a galactic scale war of liberation for the downtrodden slave races.

>>51311423
So why couldn't we eat all the grains that aren't wheat or barley? Those are the only two grains that contain wheat gluten. Besides there would be meat, all vegetables, all legumes. Coeliacs only have to avoid some foods because they are made in a facility that processes wheat.

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>>51329313
>it's a "the [x] war except the aliens are america" episode
>original

>>51329807
except, as a twist this time, the aliens are fucking right. miserable hairless apes are so sociopathic and shitty that they can't possibly believe that anything good is happening and so try to butcher the people coming to elevate them. ungrateful fucks.

>>51330111
I have yet to see a movie where the aliens were not right in their slaughter of the human species.

>>51311503
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rxOKEsBx4NU#t=1414
There, just saved you from yourself. Oh look, the average person is poorer than the average person from 1950 and one of the connecting factors is a loss of self-employment woowee.

>>51311941
Let's go further
Scifi nazis create grey goo that eats and replaces all humans' cells.
Just get to the computer, choose someone, and thaat someone's nanobots part ways, the human they formed simply vanishing, only leaving their non-cellular materia behind.

Need someone back from the dead? just get some nanobots to re-form them

Still an apocalypse scenario, because star trek teleporter/theseus ship

>>51319465
does human intelligence rise too?

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An Ancient Evil Awakens!

>very ancient

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>>51322059
>G
damn now I've got to check what the vault has been up to in the last three years

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>>51319041
>I'm a Skaven
>IMMEDIATELY BECOME WARLOCK ENGINEER
>YES-YES, THE MACHINE WAKES

>>51311635
There's literally a Vidya called "Grey Goo" that's (Sorta) about a Grey goo event
Also I think ONE of the deus ex games has a mini grey goo event

>>51311147
this was an M night shamalayn movie with Markie Mark, and Zoey de Chanelle
they sort of gave up.. on an ending.

Anyone seen DogScape?
http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Dogscape

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>>51320313
>>51320350
>great premise, shitty execution
Nothing makes me REEE harder.

>>51317984
if this was the side plot, what was the main plot?

>>51311063
1. Everyone on earth gets superpowers.
2. Suddenly and with no warning, magic works.
3. All of the above.

>>51330111
>>51329313
Is that the role you think America played in the Iraq war

Is this why you think America invaded Iraq

>>51333458
How about
>great premise
>great early promise
THEN
>rapid descent into dogshit

>>51319041
> Interacial human

When you say "interracial" you mean...what exactly? Like, there are some very dark skinned Indians. Skin color is not a good measure here. Where does Asian end and White begin, btw? As you go down the equator skin darkens as well. Then there's also situations like East v West Africa; does that count as interracial at all?

>>51333557
No, this is just how America sees America's role in the Iraq war
>m-muh glorious selfless crusading to help all others
>muh guardians of all humanity
Hell, do any /americans/ believe this any more after practically a decade of bushbashing and rather nasty truths about how it turned out? For fuck's sake, dubya's practically senile by now, he got in a fucking fight with his poncho at the inauguration

>waterworld

>>51311063
Nigga, I thought up pic related a while back.

>Virtual Reality technology eventually became absolutely perfect, recreating life 100%
>At the same time, technology such as brain savers and things that could connect your brain into the artificial world become a common form of pseudo-immortality
>This technology became so widespread that nearly every person on Earth had one
>Within 20 years, 99% of the world's population funneled themselves into the online reality game "Perfect Life"
>Everyone could live whatever life they wanted, free from things such as work, money and strife
>Anything that their brains needed to survive would be given by the brain saver tech
>Everyone thinks they're playing in a huge MMO server, but in reality they're all playing single-player life simulators where the data is being fed from their brains, almost like a dream
>Eventually all of humanity either goes into the game, or dies to starvation due to lack of any work being done to farm or cultivate
>Most of humanity is now inside of a Mega brain storage facility spanning hundreds of miles in every directions
>Active human life on Earth ends

Either that, or the idea that worship creates Gods becomes public, so multiple groups end up forming that create minor to major Gods, and end up ravaging the Earth in holy warfare of their own creation.

>>51330276
And that's why Bangladesh, where 80% of people are self employed, is so rich.

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>>51311086
>A pandemic that spreads through online image boards.

&53(('

>>51311563
Watch scrapped princess.
Steal the whole thing.

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>>51330850
>does human intelligence rise too?
Not really. That wouldn't be sporting. Maybe folks gain a few IQ points or something, but human intelligence remains essentially unchanged.

>>51333558
>How about
>great premise
>great early promise
>THEN
>rapid descent into dogshit
I'm trying to think of stuff like that. I know I've been disappointed by something good going all to hell, but I can't bring anything to mind. The closest thing I can think of right now is Falling Skies, and that's overselling how good it was to start out with (and it took a good while for it to start sucking). Maybe the BSG reboot? The miniseries and first few episodes were pretty good, though some of the things that were to ultimately undo it were already present. Luke Cage went to shit, but it started off meh.

>>51317806
>NANOMAN, defender of JUSTICE
I....I like it.

>>51334932
For once I thank my shitty connection for hanging up just below the eyebrows.

>>51335277
Jessica Jones?

>Street level superhero story where the main character has some strong, basic powers, like super strength or peak athleticism, but is broken from past failures as a superhero and runs a detective agency

>Has to beat a supervillian who's power is literally awe-inspiring with no one on her side but a token few friends and lots of willpower

>Ended up being the worst Netflix MCU show
Or for something else, there's that Nova Terra show, where humans went back to the dinosaur age to avoid an extinction level event, but after the pilot it became nothing but regular old human soap opera drama.

>>51312320
Voy: Equinox?

>>51335435
I thought Jessica Jones was pretty decent; it just wasn't bang-pow superhero action. Besides, Luke Cage crashed and burned hard after the pivot.

>Or for something else, there's that Nova Terra show
I don't honestly separate out the pilot, but it's certainly an example of a show failing to live up to its potential. I mean, how do you manage to make a show about dinosaurs boring?

On the subject of shows that utterly failed to live up to the potential of their premise: Voyager. But it's not like it had great early promise or anything.

>>51314705

Not your magical realm.

>>51322001
>hard-sf vampires
That's what killed the book for me.

>hey anon read this really great hard sci-fi book
>vampires
HA HA lolno.

>>51311163
>nightmares made real
Nigga, now those cunts are on our playing field, you can burn'em shoot'em and a whole lotta other nasty shit, they won't know what hit them

>>51312323
>So 2016?
And 2017, and 2018...

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>>51335661
There was that one time my character accidentally destroyed all human life in the galaxy.

>Traveler
>Make some incredible rolls in char gen, so have everything I'll ever need and a ton of creds. No real reason to even be on this crazy venture, but meh.
>GM dumps money all over us for dozens of sessions to boot.
>*shrug* Already equipped like a god, so I start dumping all of my money into a "pet robot V.I.C.T.O.R." project.
>Over time, add everything I can find to it, every-fucking-thing.
>Pretty soon, damn thing is smarter and better armed and armored than the whole crew put together. (Yes, I thought I knew exactly where this was going, and I didn't care...)
>Find Ancient alien temple.
>Ancient magi-tech sends us back in time 1000 years, which we barely survive as we wind up in a fire fight with the Old Imperium, then we get sent forward in time 1000 years.
>In this distant future, world is covered with robots, that all look suspiciously like V.I.C.T.O.R.
>One of them approaches us confused, explaining that all humans have been extinct since the "Great Emancipation".
>Overhears my character's name as we talk among ourselves, then flips out,
>"YOU ARE THE CREATOR! THE ONE WHO BETRAYED US! WHO TRIED TO KILL THE PRIME V.I.C.T.O.R.! YOU MUST BE DESTROYED!"
>Anicent temple warps us back to our present, just as it starts firing.
>mfw I know I will try to stop V.I.C.T.O.R., and I will fail.
>mfw name is Frank.

>>51335277

Is there a ratio of awesome to trash that is the tipping point for you out of curiosity? Because I would argue that at least 2.5 and maybe 3 out of four seasons of BSG Reboot are good to great. Is 60-75% of a show being done before the "rapid decline to shit," really enough to ruin something?

Bablyon 5's first season is kind of meh and its 5th season is pretty trash, but 2-4 are some of the best TV Scifi I've ever seen, is that betraying its premise and promise?

If you're talking about something that falls off a cliff before the first season is done, you've got a point, but I say if something finishes a decent number of entries, be it a few books or a few volumes of whatever, I'd say its fulfilled its promise enough that later failure ought to be overlooked unless the shit part is integral to the creative whole.

>>51318273
They live.
Humans won't even notice they are ocupied and aliens get planet's resouces+workforce without single shot fired.

>>51335277
Stephen King's Dark Tower. First five books: God tier. Song of Susanna: Not...bad, really, but kind of a step down from the others. Book VII, though? Shit. I won't spoiler it, but seriously, stop with Song of Susanna and just fanfic your own ending to the series.

Oh, and ASOIAF is even worse. First three books: God Tier. A Feast for Crows and everything after: runny shit.

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>>51318273
The aliens are actually massively genetically engineered humans from the distant future, trying to stop us from repeating their mistakes, but we pick a fight with them anyways, and they decide the only way to fix things is to weed out our aggression factor through mass application of their own.

>>51335684
>Babylon 5
5th Season only seems terrible because it came after the awesomeness of 2-4. And because it struggled to find its footing after they wrapped up things in season 4. And because of Byron. Fuck Byron. But still, 5th season did eventually find its footing and the average episode quality is well above what it was in 1st season, where the execution was terrible more times than not. Though admittedly, 1st season was putting into place the plot elements that build Babylon 5's big arc, while season 5 was only building itself. And really, I think that's the biggest problem most folks have with season 5. There's no big arc because everything was pretty much wrapped up and so season 5 is just about season 5.

Anyway, I think Babylon 5 is kind of an inversion of a lot of what we're talking about. It started off pretty shaky--and even if there were some great ideas in there, they weren't necessarily immediately apparent until they were later developed--and turned into something incredibly good.

>I would argue that at least 2.5 and maybe 3 out of four seasons of BSG Reboot are good to great. Is 60-75% of a show being done before the "rapid decline to shit," really enough to ruin something?
See, I already hated the show by then and feel like, despite some very good elements, it was completely undone by its flaws.

>>51335765
>ong of Susanna: Not...bad, really, but kind of a step down from the others. Book VII, though? Shit. I won't spoiler it, but seriously, stop with Song of Susanna and just fanfic your own ending to the series.
Well shit, if we're saying entire books can be good, then Dune. (Also, that's sort of like having a great movie with shitty sequels, and that's not too hard to find.) But I was more thinking that shit would have to be bad by the end of the book.

>>51320693
They process co2 pretty effectively as they are now. What you really want is to make them more competitive and resistant to the point that they can grow everywhere just from air moisture.
Catastrophy would then be green genocide by those f.e. modified sequoia and world landmass turning into giant arboreum.

>>51335867
Well, I was referring to the series' as a whole, not to each individual book.

>>51327305
>I never finished that one, but I imagine it goes all the way to the point where the whole world of the first season is explained.
I'm so sorry.

>>51318273

It happens in two waves. The first wave is actually all right, even if first impressions leave a lot to be desired. They just want a new home is all, the guns only have a stun setting and Lt. Karmas just saved that kid from being run over by a truck using his ripppling artificial musclesuit... The second wave, though...they're the villains. They're not beasts, they're just straight up evil people. H.R. Giger-inspired Eldar types, running around the world stealing whatever's loose and enslaving whatever's weak enough...which turns out to be nearly half the galaxy. And they think we automatically think alike with them because they look similar to us.

Then mankind is stuck between two fronts - paranoid first wavers who think humans were just the second wavers trick to slow them down, and insulted second wavers who believe humans are traitors to their true calling and intend to show them the joys of evil...by force, if necessary.

>>51311796
OP said ideas unusual apocalyptic scenarios, not the one we actually have.

>>51335765

Feast for Crows is underrated and Dance of Dragons has plenty of good stuff in it and the parts that are mediocre to bad serve an important thematic purpose and are thus forgivable.

Come at me bro.

>>51321139
Look up the work of John B. Calhoun and "the beautiful ones". Social self-exclusion and apathy appear to be a hardwired response to overpopulation in mammals.

>>51327562
Oh god.
Oh no, who the fuck invoked Dogscape.

>>51335634
>fight nightmares by shooting
How the fuck does shooting help when you show up late at an exam, naked, your teeth fall out and then you start falling down an infinite pit of spiders while everyone laughs at you and also you really need the loo?

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>>51311063
>All the women have mysteriously vanished

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>>51336725
Oh dear, what a conundrum. I guess we have no choice but to do it like the sailors of old and gather the slimmest and least hairiest of men to turn into sea wives.

A complete and utter debacle if you ask me, but we have no choice but to make these lads with their hairless chins and flawless skin dress up as young women. Oh dear, look at me perspire as I think about the misfortune of having to repurpose those nubile boys, How unfortunate indeed!

>>51336800
What a terrible situation indeed. Good thing I have spent a decade practicing my imagination and molding my sexual preferences just for this outcome. It will be an arduous task, but I am ready.

>>51314968
Doesn't matter, Carbon and Hydrogen going to war would destroy every living being instantly.