I swear that what follows is true and that I am not making it up.
Climatists at the German state media broadcaster Südwestrundfunk (SWR) have used the mandatory license fees they collect from all German households to produce an astounding virtual reality video game called GreenGuardiansVR. In this game, players shoot lasers at flying climate denialists to defeat disinformation and save the planet (h/t RatSays). This is literally true, this thing really exists. It will be released to the public sometime in the autumn; the Steam page is here. In the meantime, they’ve set up a whole stand to debut this lunacy at Gamescom, the Cologne video game trade fair.
Everything we know about this exercise in state-media propaganda comes from the trailer that you can watch here. It’s in German, so I’ll walk you through it.
The trailer opens with an advertising jingle and animated letters jumping around. “E.V.I.L.!”, announces a chirpy narrator, “– for a carefree future consisting of more of the same!” The letters form the word “EVIL” as the narrator speaks; the “I” is stylised as a smokestack, belching multicoloured emissions.
From there we cut to a monologue by an anonymous fossil fuel villain from the E.V.I.L. corporation (played by the popular German YouTuber LeFloid), who appears to have actual oil flowing through his veins.
He delivers a sneering pitch:
Climate, weather, disasters: Do dark forecasts cloud your future prospects? Don’t let it get you down! We at the Environment Venture Income League will show you that everything’ll be wonderful if we don’t do anything about climate change. Let us upload your brain into the future so you can see for yourself how extraordinary life will be. We’ll upload you into one of our brand new stainless steel robot bodies. Experience a tour of idyllic Lake Constance and learn about the wonders of fossil fuels!
Before you have any chance to ponder how this scenario makes any sense, what a bizarre name like “Environment Venture Income League” could even mean or why time travel is contingent upon being uploaded into a stainless-steel robot, you find yourself zapped into year 2112…
and wandering with your fellow robots through a “high-tech” train full of amusements, with images of Lake Constance projected on video screens that stand in for windows.
To one side of the car is a disturbing arcade game called “Fossil Fuels”. It consists of a globe with massive udders hanging beneath it. Players are invited to “Milk the Earth!” and asked “How much oil can you milk in 15 seconds?”
Opposite is another game called “Renewables”, which is like whack-a-mole, except that you use a hammer to whack not moles, but virtual wind turbines, which pop up out of holes, as wind turbines do.
In the centre of the car is a model of the future Lake Constance, where we find that the town of Lindau has been renamed “New-New-New Lindau”, I guess because it has been destroyed so many times by climate catastrophe. We also see that the island Mainau is no longer the “flower island” (as it is today) but the “cactus island”, because climate change of course.
On the wall, there is an Environment Venture Income League poster:
EVIL
FOSSIL FUELS ARE THE FUTURE
We are giving it our all to keep humanity dependent on fossil fuels in order to keep the planet warm, comfortable and profitable for future generations.
YOUR E.V.I.L. CORP: WHERE THE FUTURE BURNS!
Then a digital disturbance interrupts our fossilian recreations. A freedom fighter, girl-power eco warrior (played by the Twitch streamer itzjanina) hacks into our climate-denying dystopia. “Hey!” she shouts from a floating screen. “Don’t get sucked in! Join the Green Guardians! Help save the future!”
She appears to have oil blood too; I guess that’s just how everyone will have to live in the twenty-second century. At this point, you and the other robots notice laser guns, which, for some reason, are suspended in glass cases throughout the train.
You break them out and rapidly begin shooting at things to defeat disinformation. You blast away the train walls to reveal the emissions-addled wasteland outside. Climate-denying aircraft are rapidly approaching.
As you continue to shoot, one of these aircraft lands on the now-open train car, carrying none other than the E.V.I.L. executive you met at the beginning. Everyone directs their laser fire at this final boss of climate denialism.
From the press release:
Young people especially are put off by bad news and dystopian predictions. “We wanted to counteract this,” Philipp says. “We realised that young people from Generation Z are primarily attracted by entertaining content. Youth between the ages of 14 and 25 want to have something to do; they want to be involved and interact in groups,” Philipp says.
He and his team have therefore developed a multiplayer game called “GreenGuardiansVR” – a game for augmented reality goggles for up to three players.
“GreenGuardiansVR” is a game in which a fictitious oil company transports players into the near future. “This company wants to suggest to players that ‘business as usual’ is possible,” Philipp explains. “It’s a disinformation campaign that we are supposed to fall for.” Players have to learn to see through this corporate campaign – in a playful way.
This has to be one of the dumbest exercises in climate propaganda ever attempted by anybody, anywhere. If we had deep-cover allies on the inside, I doubt we could achieve anything more discrediting and ridiculous than this retarded nonsense.
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Every decision involves a trade-off – which means that full data should be available and not waved away by a wave of an activists hand.
In my work, I’ve tried to obtain these sorts of data from official and/or reliable sources. It’s either extremely difficult or, more usually, the data is simply not available. And that’s before you have to face the possibility that some of the data is fake.
Perhaps windmill fires are as ‘rare’ as battery cars going up in flames and toxic smoke. There was a more unusual one where a battery scooter in the boot caught fire and burnt a normal car out.
‘exposed to the same flow of oxygen that fuels fire’
Glad they mentioned that. I’d have wondered otherwise …
And don’t ever forget ‘they are designed to catch the wind’
You learn something new everyday!
It does seem to be written for the ‘hard of thinking’ doesn’t it… also there’s a quote an engine was damaged… surely they mean generator?
Unless they have a motor to make the turbine go round on calm days, to create the impression it’s doing some good, and create a breeze to drive the next turbine downwind?
Don’t worry, I’m not being serious.
Joking aside, I wonder if they do have a small diesel generator as a power backup of last resort… it certain conditions they need to be able to brake the thing, or furl the blades (I think that’s the term used)
Don’t worry they are connected to the Grid! But if that fails there will be a problem.
That’s what I meant – say your wind farm of 100 turbines loses its grid connection and a storm is coming, they must have some inbuilt backup power to park them / protect them somehow or you could lose the lot. Maybe some stored air or similar + batteries for control gear
Except on the days when it is too windy to generate electricity……
Ohh… but no problem the con-companies still get paid
The smoke from that fire is reall pollution. What will the greenies say – nothing, I suspect.
Plus the carbon compounds.
Probably saved a few birds by burning down. Chris Packham should be happy!
Not for nothing some three hundred years ago were all those dark satanic mills powered by the high density, high gradient, high continuity hydrocarbon energy that superseded flaky windmills and waterwheels inherently subject to the whims of weather.
And three hundred years later, dimwit politicians and media still don’t get it.
Bring me my bow of burning coal, bring me my arrows of fire.
Bring me my arrow & I know where I’d shoot it…
More please.
What a good job wind energy is so cheap and plentiful. They’ll have plenty of money in the coffers to buy replacement turbines.
I’m in ironic mode today.
They destroy on so many levels and yet they are held to be benificent. You don’t need a clearer illustration of the Satanic nature of this agenda. You find it in every area of this project. Everything they produce is the very opposite of what it purports to be. The electric car is an increasingly conspicuous example. Just consider their conceit, the assumption that we would all just go along with this agenda and eat the bugs. It really shows you how much they are high on their own supply.
I’m sure the insurers have the data
“Firefighters arrived to find a well-developed fire involving a wind turbine…”
I’m certain this fire would have been visible from some miles away.
I tried, a few years ago, to find Health and Safety statistics for Big Wind. Both onshore and offshore.
For some strange reason, official statistics of serious injury and fatalities were then hard to find.
No doubt the HSE are now all over the case, such a blatantly high risk workplace!
I well remember how keen Her Majesty’s Mining Inspectorate were, quite rightly!
Surely, it couldn’t be the case that different H&S approaches were applied to different industries??
Add that environmental hazard to the thousands of EVs that are catching fire when it is least expected. The fire caused by a damaged or faulty battery is very toxic and incredibly difficult to put out.