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Making this the topic of the next Call of Duty would be a great move for the rainforest and bring a ton of awareness.

by bentt 3y ago

diggan 3y ago
And also ensure they can continue their journey to having 1TB large game assets, as suddenly hundreds of 3D modellers need to create thousands of new foliage models each.
- gambiting 3y ago
  >>, as suddenly hundreds of 3D modellers Creating realistic looking trees is one area that has now been almost entirely automated with tooling - there are some absolutely incredible tools for generating whatever kind of tree you want in any number of permutations. So really this would be more like 2-3 people just in charge of verifying the output and making sure it's stylistically consistent.
  - Apocryphon 3y ago
    They also didn't spend that much effort last time they had a Brazilian level https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG6lJ6rz-Rs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG6lJ6rz-Rs
AdmiralAsshat 3y ago
As someone who went through grade-school in the 90s, with all of our "Save the Rainforest" campaigns, all I can think is: a fat lot of good that "awareness" did...
- schoen 3y ago
  In my grade school we were asked to donate money to buy part of the rainforest in order to stop it from being cut down. I thought this was a brilliant idea, and it wasn't until the first time I visited Brazil (which is, somehow, 20 years ago now) that I learned that it wasn't really helping at all. In part, it's not that easy to "buy part of the rainforest". But more importantly (as the article describes), small-scale miners and loggers don't usually respect those property claims (or designations of areas as protected parkland).
- catskul2 3y ago
  But how would we know though right? I mean without having an A/B comparison. Sure it didn't stop the destruction, but I don't think that was ever in the cards. But it might have helped by some amount even if small. 1%? 2%? 6%? If it reduced destruction by 2%, would that have made the campaign worth it? I think there's a chance it did do some good in that it was in enough awareness to end up somewhere on a foreign policy agenda higher than it might have otherwise been, and thus policies might have been negotiated in trade agreements, treaties, company due diligence source tracing, etc.
tmpz22 3y ago
The last few Call of Duty games has featured Mexico and involves raining fire down on forested environments with an AC-130 gunship. So maybe not the best example of environmental protection.

Making this the topic of the next Call of Duty would be a great move for the rainforest and bring a ton of awareness.

by bentt 3y ago

Making this the topic of the next Call of Duty would be a great move for the rainforest and bring a ton of awareness.

And also ensure they can continue their journey to having 1TB large game assets, as suddenly hundreds of 3D modellers need to create thousands of new foliage models each.

gambiting 3y ago
>>, as suddenly hundreds of 3D modellers Creating realistic looking trees is one area that has now been almost entirely automated with tooling - there are some absolutely incredible tools for generating whatever kind of tree you want in any number of permutations. So really this would be more like 2-3 people just in charge of verifying the output and making sure it's stylistically consistent.
- Apocryphon 3y ago
  They also didn't spend that much effort last time they had a Brazilian level https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG6lJ6rz-Rs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG6lJ6rz-Rs

AdmiralAsshat 3y ago

As someone who went through grade-school in the 90s, with all of our "Save the Rainforest" campaigns, all I can think is: a fat lot of good that "awareness" did...

schoen 3y ago
In my grade school we were asked to donate money to buy part of the rainforest in order to stop it from being cut down. I thought this was a brilliant idea, and it wasn't until the first time I visited Brazil (which is, somehow, 20 years ago now) that I learned that it wasn't really helping at all. In part, it's not that easy to "buy part of the rainforest". But more importantly (as the article describes), small-scale miners and loggers don't usually respect those property claims (or designations of areas as protected parkland).
catskul2 3y ago
But how would we know though right? I mean without having an A/B comparison. Sure it didn't stop the destruction, but I don't think that was ever in the cards. But it might have helped by some amount even if small. 1%? 2%? 6%? If it reduced destruction by 2%, would that have made the campaign worth it? I think there's a chance it did do some good in that it was in enough awareness to end up somewhere on a foreign policy agenda higher than it might have otherwise been, and thus policies might have been negotiated in trade agreements, treaties, company due diligence source tracing, etc.

tmpz22 3y ago

The last few Call of Duty games has featured Mexico and involves raining fire down on forested environments with an AC-130 gunship. So maybe not the best example of environmental protection.