People of the world. Hear my wisdom as an “old”

In the before times of home computing, anyone and their mother could make and try to sell video games, floppy disks and cassettes were plentiful. The barrier to entry was essentially non-existent. You could get fully fledged games in magazines. (In fact some magazines included the actual programme for you to type out yourself)

But it turns out when publishers just shovel slop onto the market it drowns out good quality Indy stuff and even some of the high production value games. This feels quite similar to before the great video game crash.

There’s a reason Nintendo started putting their “Nintendo seal of quality” on their games. To try and reassure buyers that they didn’t just shovel slop people mailed in. At one point you even had to send them a video tape with evidence the game could even be completed. Interestingly that seal is still found on their games.

We’ve almost returned to that state of low barrier to entry. Digital distribution means there is no real difficulty in physically producing and distributing the game. AI makes it so that anyone’s half baked idea can be shoved on Steam.

Don’t get me wrong there are many excellent games that would have struggled to make a name for themselves using steams old green light system.

On the off chance you aren’t here in bad faith… I’ll attempt to clarify.

indeed there are cycles in earths climate and we are at a particularly stable time in earths history. The issue is scale. Outside of cataclysmic event, caldera explosions / asteroid impacts for example. These cycles are particularly slow, so slow that the majority of species that would be affected will naturally adapt with the environment. We are experiencing an incredibly rapid change in GLOBAL climate.

And what’s more damning is that we can actually see this acceleration at exactly the same time we started to pimp pollutants into the air. To within a couple of years.

A good example of this is oceanic currents, we KNOW that they can collapse and change course. But geologic evidence along with ice core samples and fossil evidence shows that while such things do happen. They are slow and a usually paired with feedback loops that can limit the runaway. What we are seeing in one generation is a process that should be on the scale of hundreds of years. Not decades.

So yeas, when the earth formed it was much hotter, but we can see and explain quite well how we got here and what’s even more telling… We have been predicting this since the 70s (and in some cases earlier). We can measure the pollutants and calculate the effects… And so far we have been incredibly accurate considering the immense number or variables.

I know this is Bloomberg… But “dire economic consequences”

Doesn’t matter how many people die or losie their homes.

But the economy… Won’t some please think of the shareholders!