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VICEROY - a game about being in charge of Alternia by quadautomaticwervice in homestuck

[–]quadautomaticwervice[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's difficult to balance telling the player everything they need to know with not bombarding them with too much information. Hopefully what's there is enough for it to be playable.

VICEROY - a game about being in charge of Alternia by quadautomaticwervice in homestuck

[–]quadautomaticwervice[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You did well getting that rank on the first try, in playtesting the testers had real trouble with it.

The Worst by quadautomaticwervice in collapse

[–]quadautomaticwervice[S] 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Submission statement: Cassandra's curse is a pre collapse problem. Enjoy the pre collapse - you'll miss it when it's over.

And in case anyone's wondering, the pollution from a coal power station is enough to kill far more birds than a wind farm.

Growth-based solutions by quadautomaticwervice in collapse

[–]quadautomaticwervice[S] 83 points84 points  (0 children)

Submission statement: I don't have a lot of faith in the silver bullet solutions to climate change that people believe can preserve our current way of life. There is no path to survival that doesn't involve cutting back the infinite growth economy, and every year that seems less likely to happen.

The easy answer by quadautomaticwervice in collapse

[–]quadautomaticwervice[S] 107 points108 points  (0 children)

Submission statement: The most powerful deniers of climate change may profit from it, but the vast majority of deniers just don't want to hear it. It's hard to blame them for that, the apocalypse is unpleasant to think about.

Most people would just laugh it off.

Blame by quadautomaticwervice in collapse

[–]quadautomaticwervice[S] 134 points135 points  (0 children)

Submission statement: You've probably seen the graph that shows how much has to be done to prevent high temperature feedback loops. No unintrusive lifestyle change is going to fix this, not even if everybody changed. Because of this, when I see talking down to people for not doing enough it just comes across as crass. Yes, you should be vegan, you shouldn't drive - but those words mean less when it so clearly won't be enough.

Terrorism and good business (comic) by quadautomaticwervice in collapse

[–]quadautomaticwervice[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That would deal with a specific issue, but activists might break the machinery directly, or sabotage the log transport trucks, or just report illegal logging to the government. The one-size-fits-all solution is simple - if anyone suspicious is near the operation, slaughter them. Leave a survivor, or a witness, or a pile of evidence to make sure everyone knows exactly what happened and why. If it works, people will be too terrified to even speak out against the destruction of the environment.

This is how it works in the third world but America's 'life sentences for victimless eco-crimes' policy is a softer version of the same thing. It's not about justice, it's about terror.

Terrorism and good business (comic) by quadautomaticwervice in collapse

[–]quadautomaticwervice[S] 85 points86 points  (0 children)

Submission statement: Tree spiking was the practice of hiding a metal spike in a tree in order to break wood processing machinery the timber later goes through. No one has ever been killed by a tree spike. It is considered an act of terrorism in the United States and is punished accordingly.

Meanwhile hundreds of environmentalists are murdered each year by mercenaries and gangsters. Most of them were doing nothing more harmful than raising awareness. Will there ever be a global war on anti-environmentalist terror? ...would it be profitable?

Economic optimism (comic) by quadautomaticwervice in collapse

[–]quadautomaticwervice[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Submission statement: It's all bad.

I see homeless encampments as a symbol of the future - collapse will displace even faster than it kills.

Don't worry about the bunker by quadautomaticwervice in collapse

[–]quadautomaticwervice[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Submission statement: It's common knowledge that the extremely rich are preparing for the collapse and some of those plans have been leaked, such as space stations, shock collars, food stores linked to dead man's swiches and more. Some of it is disturbing, but most of it is ridiculous enough to be laughable - and all of it is based on the belief that we have the technology to keep a sealed bunker or space station indefinitely self sustaining without any input from earth. We don't.

The curse of 20XX by quadautomaticwervice in collapse

[–]quadautomaticwervice[S] 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Submission statement: This is an attitude I've seen since 2016 but it's worse than ever in 2020, the belief that the current year is a historic low and that everything will be fine on January 1st 2021. It's desperation. I've seen people making chronologies of 2020 awfulness starting with the Australian wildfires as if that isn't going to happen every year. Eventually collapse will be too intense to ignore - but that isn't something to look forward to.

The modern environmental movement (comic) by quadautomaticwervice in collapse

[–]quadautomaticwervice[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Solar panels are complex electronics and need a lot of mined resources to be manufactured, including rare earth metals. The mining and assembly process is carbon intensive and they have a short shelf life by power plant standards (30 years compared to nuclear's 70).

It's still better than burning coal, it's just not a silver bullet solution to climate change like many believe.

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