Blanca Juti, chief brand officer for Rovio Entertainment, wants to leverage the popularity of their blockbuster Angry Birds game franchise, to raise awareness of “global warming”.
According to Bloomberg;
“You can learn a lot about the world around you from gaming,” said Blanca Juti, chief brand officer for Rovio Entertainment Oy. “Games talk with you, they don’t talk at you.”
The Finnish company is establishing a partnership with the Earth Day Network, following similar moves it made in the past. Rovio joined NASA in 2012 to promote Angry Birds Space, which offered insight into the weightlessness of space and planetary physics. It was unveiled on the International Space Station by astronaut Don Pettit, who used a stuffed version of the game’s character “Red” to demonstrate the science of trajectory.
The obsession in some quarters, with raising climate “awareness”, is a mystery to me, given that the media is saturated with climate scare stories, every time there is a gust of wind somewhere photogenic. The problem is not a lack of “awareness”, the issue is that most people have other priorities.
The Angry birds franchise has been suffering a fall in sales lately, though some of their ideas for keeping the franchise going have been good – I liked the Angry Birds Space Game
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Whenever someone tells me they are trying to “raise awareness” about something, I ask if they honestly think there are people who have never heard of breast cancer/homelessness/autism/climate change/whatever cause celeb they are going on about.
They usually don’t know what to say.
Appropriate, just like the CMIP3/5 ensembles… in silico is the only place CAGW exists.
Imagine a seven-year-old who wants something really bad, namely your credit card, and will engage in constant, high-pitched whining until they get it.
Now imagine they don’t need to eat or sleep.
That’s the new normal.
Deleted, but will consider reinstating if they add wind generators and reflecting mirrors to fire the birds threw.
LOL!
Through, not threw, it was time to dump that game.
Back in the real universe
Suddenly the SC24 has gone into overdrive. Another large sunspot on horizon.
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_1024_HMIIC.jpg
Geomagnetic response
http://www.n3kl.org/sun/images/noaa_kp_3d.gif
Did you see the incredible prominence that launched a CME off the eastern limb?
http://0e33611cb8e6da737d5c-e13b5a910e105e07f9070866adaae10b.r15.cf1.rackcdn.com/David-Strange-Sun_20150414_1509h_dgs3_1429043830_lg.jpg
Could the heliospheric density have an effect on how far the plasma can be stretched before the actual ejection?
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‘”You can learn a lot about the world around you from gaming,” said Blanca Juti, chief brand officer for Rovio Entertainment Oy.’
Oh, I agree whole heartedly. Yessiree. Just think of how much better the US Constitution and Bill of Rights would’ve been if the Founding Fathers had been gamers. Oy vey.
Yeah, just like you can learn about climate by never studying anything but models. I wonder how previous generations ever managed to learn at all until computers took over. (sarc-o-matic injection activated)
If they need sales maybe they should try putting out a game called “Annoyed Birds” for the people who are tired of hearing about CO2-based CAGW that maybe-just-possibly-might happen by 2100?
What’s wrong with a company playing both sides of the fence?
As a Finn ,I am ashamed of that stupidity.Somehow people who gained something big too quickly seem to start feeling superior towards common people.From their Ivory Tower they feel that they must lead us stupid peasants with their superior skills.That seems to apply to certain actors and presidents too, so upstart gamemakers can join them as equals in faith…
A gaming fantasy model with declining fan base to save the day for climate models suffering from declining support. Let’s see how this works out for both groups.
It appears the new strategy is to weave the Climate Change mythos into everything. I recently reread National Geographic’s synopsis of DNA haplogroup migrations, and it appears they were edited to include suppositions about why the migrations took place–climate change.
It appears the new strategy is to weave the Climate Change mythos into everything.
Bingo! Non-stop, constant propaganda refreshed regularly to ensure that the scam is put back on the top of the stack.
BFL I do not think that was a bird strike test, but merely a blade off test, using an explosive charge to remove the blade and test whether the duct contains the blade, so that the blade does not strike the fuselage.
“Games talk with you, they don’t talk at you.”
Sounds like that’s about to change.
If you look at their logo, it may seem obvious, but Rovio is a Finnish word meaning bonfire or stake (as in burning witches on the stake). Telling perhaps of the company’s mentailty towards differing opinions.
They don’t have sufficient democratic leverage, despite liberal distribution of opiates. They are hesitating to force it through executive action or judicial decree. As it is, neither public school nor public television have been able to establish a flat Earth society. They need to indoctrinate unplanned Posterity through exploitation of games and other childhood pastimes.
Given the toll that wind farms and certain types of solar power generators take on birds, you would think that birds would be angry at green energy policies,
We have elections here in Finland next weekend and the party most likely to win is planning to go crazy with renewables. Besides our “own UKIP”, all the parties have batshit crazy energy policies. So Finland’s future looks extremely grim. I’m already making plans to move abroad to escape the insanity.
Thanks. I’ll start deleting the app on various devices starting now.
Birds are for the birds. What about the frogs?
Angry birds protest windmill gauntlets and solar ovens that “slice and dice” and roast their Posterity and posteriors, respectively.
The things I would do to put the likes of Michael Mann into a slingshot and fire him into a wall just to watch the house of climate models collapse into a pile of junk…
Over reach is useful for one thing. It informs us which orgs and products to avoid.