climate change
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Sky News Just Dragged Xbox’s New Power-Saving Features Into Some Culture War BS Out Of Absolutely Nowhere
27Australia’s Sky News is very upset about Xbox’s recent upgrade to the console’s power-saving options, under the headline ‘Woke brigade is after video games’. Just take a moment now. Let that hang in the air for a minute. The first half of Sky’s piece, recycled from its U.S. counterpart Fox News, reads like a fairly…
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Makoto Shinkai On Your Name’s Success, And The Climate Message At The Heart Of His New Movie
Your Name, to the delight of millions the world over, made huge waves in 2016″putting esteemed anime director Makoto Shinkai on the international map, despite a career in the industry spanning over two decades. How does an artist follow up a career-defining piece of work? For Shinkai, it all came back to remembering his audience.
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Video Game Companies Vow Action On Climate Change, But Critics Say They Need To Do More
Within a couple generations, after climate change has more visibly ravaged the Earth, the easiest way for humanity to interact with lush forests and icy glaciers might be video games. It’s a bleak, maybe science-fiction potential future, but not an improbable one; according to some analyses, we have just 12 years to suppress catastrophic climate…
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Civilization Has Helped Me Feel Slightly Less Terrible About Climate Change
A large part of my day involves sitting on Twitter watching news break, and so a large part of my day is spent surrounded by people justifiably freaking out over climate change news. It’s depressing as hell, but help has come in the last month from the most unlikely of places: Civilization 6.