Game Theory: Oops, Lethal Company Accidently Ended The World

Hello Internet, welcome to Game Theory, the show that's never afraid to go out for scraps before you know what I've been in a bit of a bubble recently, as these are my last few episodes. I've been so focused on bringing together continuing franchises that I've grown over the years doing episodes that I never had the opportunity to do. Honestly, I've been missing out on some of the newer

game

s that have been coming out, but today I'm going to change that simply because this

game

has been impossible to make, it's been all over the YouTube space, it even managed to sell more copies than the last Call of Duty.

I'm talking about everyone's favorite co-op survival horror game of the moment, Lethal Company, the game itself. It's pretty simple, you and up to three of your friends have been hired by a mysterious organization known simply as The Company. You travel around different moons with abandoned bases collecting scrap and when I say scrap I mean literal trash, broken engines, road signs, even teeth, basically. If you can find it on an episode of Hoarders, the

company

wants to get your hands on it. Oh, and did I mention there are also horrible monsters trying to kill you all the time?

No, well, neither does the

company

, so now you and your team have to do it. You risk your lives to meet the company quota, you don't meet it in 3 days and suddenly you are released from your duties in a style. If you manage to toe the company line and reach the quota you will be handsomely rewarded with another 3 days of work and a new higher quota capitalism, it's great these days, this game has no end, the cycle keeps repeating itself over and over again until that inevitably your team fails to gather enough scrap or you die trying and for most players that's where it ends, they're just happy. running around collecting scrap metal screaming and twerking like they do but the experience doesn't have to end there oh no my friends the company is hiding something from us you are referring to the fact that you are playing a game about landing on things that don't exist Tom , we're over this, the moon exists, okay, that's what the company wants you to think, forgive him, he's out of line, but he's right too, not about the existence of the moon, that's clearly stupid, but the company's idea of ​​a conspiracy is let's see by finding hidden files by scanning creatures in the game and using some old fashioned real

world

history we can start to piece together exactly what happened in the thistle nebula why everyone is missing for why there are monsters patrolling these moons why the company is behind it everything fits on your ships, loyal theorists, because we are going to salvage every piece of junk that deadly company has to offer now to find out what's going on with the company, first we must find out what's going on with the

world

or worlds. the company currently operates in, I mean, these places are completely desolate, monsters aside, and yet here we are collecting remains of human-based civilizations, like kitchen utensils or noisy cushions, and something tells me that maybe These mutant spiders don't like farts. jokes that clearly people used to live here on these moons, but then something happened, something that managed to wipe out not just one planet's people, but dozens of people.

When we are playing the terminal tells us that the year is 2532. So your initial thought might be that years in the future we kill the planet, colonize the moons only to become extinct as a species anyway and you know how right you are about that, What's probably more surprising is the timeline of That Happens on Your Ship. You can find a sticky note that gives you a secret code to enter into your computer terminal. This gives you access to a former crewmate's personal records. A character known as Sigard Sigard gives us a lot of information about the operations. from the company, but what caught my attention the most was the fact that they were manufactured in 1968, a year before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon for the first time.

Now that sounds pretty conspiratorial to me and it turns out there is some space travel. Conspiracy theories that align perfectly with these dates. There is a

theory

that believes space travel was achieved during World War II by the Nazis who sent a group of their high-ranking officers to the Moon to avoid prosecution. These officers then built a base. on the dark side of the moon and continued their war efforts from AF far, far away, waiting for the right moment to counterattack now, obviously in real life this is ridiculous, but in the game world this would actually relate to the idea of ​​lunar bases. and the ability to traverse the galaxy before the 1960s, there's even an in-game poster that seems to confirm this type of timeline inside your ship.

There's a poster right here that talks about food preservation. This isn't just a fun poster made specifically for the 1960s game, it's an actual poster that was used during the 1940s, which seems to imply that humanity has been operating in space since at least that time, yeah not even before, except obviously this sign isn't German, it's from Pennsylvania. Notice down here says in cooperation with Work Progress Management, this was a government program designed to employ people to work on public projects such as building and road construction and in the game this clearly seemed to have progressed towards similar projects as well, which It would seem to imply that the company was not always in the business of collecting scrap metal, but it seems to suggest that the company got its start by helping the US government win the space race.

This then begins to look a lot less like the Nazi moon base conspiracy and more like the 1959 study known as Project Horizon, this study was conducted by the US military and was essentially their attempt to colonize the moon in the name of good old-fashioned patriotism, but obviously this was the military, so of course a big part of the plan was to build outposts and design weapons specifically. For lunar and space combat, one of those weapons was a modified claymore or a land mine and remind me again what one of the dangers we have to be aware of while exploring all these abandoned moon bases in the game, oh yeah, it seems like They are landmines.

To me that in this universe the Horizon project was a success or at least something like the Horizon project, it seems that the company has been there from the beginning, you will notice that all the land mines and turrets that you can find throughout the game are suspiciously controlled. through the terminal aboard your company's ship, it is likely that the reason we can connect to all this technology is because the company designed these systems to work together, they created both the ship and the weapons found on these moon bases, so if you are a company that has a government contract to make some space weapons how can you make good money inciting and fueling a space war in one of the data logs? sigard says quote I miss dad I hope he doesn't stay on Titan people say he won't look the same in 2 years they just told us they are about to go to war and everyone is waiting for him every time we go to sell the building The company shakes like there's a noisy furnace inside.

War is brewing in this galaxy and everyone seems to know it's coming, and while it's unclear what exactly the noise is within the company's walls, the fact that the noise has been activated at the same time that Sigard begins to talk about an imminent war gives me reason to believe that the company has increased production of all its weapons and just like Project Horizon recognized the need for newer and more efficient weapons in space, the company also appears to have developed a new type of weapon for use in this upcoming war. The most common type of base you explore throughout the game is called a factory. in the game files and this makes a lot of sense, remember that these are the bases that are controlled by the company's technology, so it is likely that these were the factories that were used to create the weapons we have been talking about , but outside the minds of the turrets there is another type of horror that awaits us inside these factories the monsters that are actively trying to chase us and kill us some of them are descendants of creatures from our own world such as the flea trap and the lizard Spore which are part of the same class as centipedes and alligators respectively, but there are others that occur less naturally.

The Nutcracker or the Jester, for example, are man-made objects that have been repurposed and brought to life to become deadly weapons that might seem overkill. or at least it is until you take a look at the beast of the game by reading the beasts of the game. Do you find entries like this for the coil head quote? They have been known to burst into flames when dissected or even deactivated. and they carry dangerously high levels of radioactive particles because of this and other reasons, there has been much speculation that they were created as biological warfare weapons, this was how the company was going to prove themselves during the arms race, biological weapons, creatures that would kill. all they found and caused untold devastation for years to come thanks to their radioactive composition and I suspect it is these weapons that devastated Titan and probably all the other moons we visited as well.

Sigard was right, these places would look different in a couple of years. Instead of prosperous colonies, we find desolate wastelands, abandoned factories, the only signs of civilization we find are scrap metal that we are collecting, items belonging to the former inhabitants of the moon that are now wasted after a war, a war of which the company itself benefited. But if this was so profitable for the company, why are we now reduced to a group of scrap metal collectors? Because, like every other evil corporation in these types of games, they eventually took things too far and lost control in one of the first Sigur games.

In the records we heard mention of a golden planet that was supposedly destroyed by a passing meteorite. This sounds like it could be another conspiracy

theory

and Sigaret and his team certainly think there's nothing like it, but surprisingly the idea of ​​a golden planet is totally plausible. reality featuring 16 Psych, a minor planet orbiting between Jupiter and Mars as part of the larger asteroid belt. Because of how reflective it is, scientists have hypothesized that the surface could be covered in large amounts of metallic elements such as iron. , nickel and yes, even gold, the approximate value. Of all that precious metal it is estimated to be worth 10 trillion dollars (48,000 Elon Musks) worth of metal in this thing.

In fact, because Psyche is noticeably more metallic than most other asteroids, some scientists have hypothesized that it may actually be the metallic core of what was once a larger planet-like object, one which was destroyed when it was hit by a meteorite in the records, we hear that Cigarett eventually discovers that the golden planet was real, although the only difference is that it wasn't a meteorite that destroyed it, but rather something much bigger and much worse. One day, while Sigar and his team are selling scrap metal to the company, he turns on the walkie-talkie and begins to hear strange sounds behind the wall of the building, the sound of screams, but among the blood-curdling screams, the card can make out a voice that tells him that the Golden Planet was not hit by a meteorite, but was swallowed by something called The Beast, that whoever was sending this message was inside the Beast that is currently being digested by it, this planet-devouring monster is locked up.

Behind the walls of the company and now the company is doing everything in its power to keep you satiated when you return to the junk the game plays one of the company's few short voice lines normally these things are just vague platitudes of the company we value your commitment they are true professionals, but in reality there is a small chance of around 3% that a strange and secret voice line will be played, and these are much more sinister, we need you, we need you, the fragments we deliver to get these voice lines are the things that keep the beast in Bay, after all it's a planet eater so we just feed it whatever we can find and, you know, whatever fetches the highest price , a gold bar perfect for the monster who has an appetite for planets made of exactly the same material. things that sigur in your records also start connecting the dots quote What if there really was a big monster in the company building like the voice on the walkie-talkie told me?

They caught him and we fed him to keep him tamed, but what does it all mean? It has to do with the company taking too much advantage of the war, aren't theythose who are trying to help in this situation? Remember earlier I said that one of the company's biggest sources of money was making weapons, and over time, the weapons become more and more advanced. It is a kind of inevitable law of war in our world, we go from muskets to rifles, bombs, missiles and finally we get to weapons like nuclear weapons, which are so dangerous because of their massive and indiscriminate amounts of destruction, everything and anyone that caught in the explosion is lead. waste and then what happened after the United States detonated a couple of nuclear bombs during World War II?

They went in and tried to repair some of the damage they caused. Since then treaties have been signed regarding the use of these weapons of mass destruction because they are so dangerous for everyone and everyone involved and that is what I believe is happening here at Lethal Company as the company continued to manufacture larger weapons and Even more complex ones, like coil heads, would eventually evolve into an even more powerful weapon, one that would devour anything. and anyone who crosses his path in one of Sigur's logs mentions that he tries to use his flashlight to look towards the company building behind the counter where he leaves his scrap metal and says: "My flashlight didn't even go back there, the beam just went out." It sounds an awful lot like a black hole.

That has been created as the next stage of biological weaponry, think about it, if someone had the power to create and control their own type of black hole they would be unstoppable, the problem was that they clearly lost control. instead of simply laying waste to anyone who resisted. in its own way, it devoured an entire planet, including the innocent residents who remain conscious within this monster to this day, knowing that they had just made a massive scream, the company swooped in and tried to fix the bug contained in the monster within. from one of his old complexes and constantly feeding him to keep him satiated so he doesn't cause any more unnecessary destruction, maybe that's why they simply call themselves the company and only use text to speech voices, specifically they are trying to appear generic and unidentifiable so that people will not suspect that they were the ones who caused the disaster all those years ago.

That's probably also why they only send you to planets they know are desolate. I'm sure there are other abundant places with more resources in the universe, but that would draw too much attention to what they are really doing, they need to keep this whole operation a secret that leads us to today and the ever-increasing quotas we have to reach to keep things under control in the words of Sigur's crewmate. Desmond Quote, It's all guys, we're supposed to think everything is a transaction, but our real job is to keep an incredible Terror fed for how long until his fullness runs out and his hunger is insatiable.

In fact, I think there is an answer to that question. Secret lines I mentioned before, well there is one that sends us a very specific warning: this wall cannot contain the Beast right now, it is contained within these walls while we feed it, but as Desmond said, the Beast is never really there. fills you up the more you eat. Its hunger increases as we play through the game, with each passing 3-day cycle the amount of scrap we need to bring in only increases, but there is a limited amount of scrap in the universe and the beast's appetite only grows stronger with time. eventually there won't be enough scrap to keep it full you can't win in Lethal Company it just delays the inevitable but here's the thing, although the game has been purchased over the internet it's still only early access which means there's more story along the way and probably a real ending at this point, you could just loop over and over again until you can't meet the quota, but the players have managed to find something that I think relates to the actual direction of the game if you manage to park underneath.

In the company building, you can actually find a drill on a track that points directly to the wall of the company building. Two pieces of scrap metal known as appliances used to power factories on distant moons are currently missing. It's speculation, but I think when the game is complete. releases, this will come into play, perhaps we are following Sigard's path believing that there are people who need saving behind these walls, so we end the game by powering the drill and Boston only to reveal the Beast who then leaves. Basically, the developers put us in a perfect Catch 22, either we stop playing and stop feeding the Beast, which causes it to leave the company building, or we continue playing, find the gadget and finally free the Beast using the drill. of the company that builds ourselves in any way we are condemning the thistle nebula there are no good endings in Lethal Company and that, my friends, is the story of this game, an alternative universe where war, speculation in space It leads to the inevitable death of humanity, no matter what you do.

Do it, it's a grim ending, but you have to admit the name of the game, it's very accurate, a business that dooms the entire galaxy, it really is the definition of a

lethal

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