It’s crazy to think that a handful of people who have floated around Obsidian/Interplay/Black Isle have created (in my opinion) some of the best games to have ever existed.

You put a name like Chris Avellone or Tim Cain onto a project and I’m going to pay more attention to it than any AAA with millions put into trailers and other bullshit to sell you down the river.

Think I’ll support the people trying to bring awareness to a humanitarian crisis rather than the people who have arrest warrants issued by the ICJ.

Cute rant though.

The reasonable RCP pathways we’re trying to follow require us to remove a net 2 Gigatons of CO2 a year from the atmosphere per year.

And yeah we can’t really do it this way because of entropy unless we work a miracle, best we can do is tip the Earths natural carbon sinks into our favour but we’re doing the exact opposite of that.

Those carbon sinks can also take millenia to find a state of equilibrium as well.

I know I sound like a pessimist so here’s my take from this, these companies have insidiously compartmentalised an existential threat to our species to the confines of the economy.

These companies will never amount to anything significant, they will ride a model of perceived hype around some vaporware tech that flies in the face of thermodynamics.

This detracts from real solutions to a very real problem that falls beyond the comprehension of these arseholes and they don’t deserve our attention much less the time of day.

Luckily for Google, its predictive AIs were clairvoyant on this one and it has been running at 110% evil so any cuts to evilness do not impact peak evil performance.

Friendly reminder that the IPCC models have consistently been conservative in their approach, mainly because the reports are influenced by policymakers and a biased committee before they reach daylight.

You can look this up yourself, there is plenty of criticism from the scientific community.

IIRC the AR6 said it had high confidence that we would not reach 1.5c before 2030 and medium confidence we would reach it around 2035.

Because of this I want to say that the 1.5c limit is an arbitrary bullshit number for policymakers to appear as though they’re aiming for a goal.

There is no safe level of warming, and a large amount of these feedback loops have and may happen because of factors other than ONE fucking number. (E.g Human influence on the Amazon)

Pfft we got rid of that yonks ago, now you just have to have an AI rewrite your documentation as a million shitty tutorials that are all search-engine optimised on different websites and hope the user finds one semi-legible.

It’s a piece of piss, literally.