Necrosoft Games have organised a big California Fire Relief Bundle that's hosted on itch.io. Your chance to get a whole load of games while supporting relief efforts.
From the bundle page:
Southern California has been hit by an incredibly destructive wildfire which is tracking to become the most destructive in California history. More than 18,000 structures have been leveled or damaged and 29 people have died with more than 30 still missing.
The affected neighborhoods include a diverse swath of California residents, from the rich to the poor to the unhoused. 37,728 acres burned between the Palisades and Eaton fires alone. 150,000 people had to be evacuated.
Hundreds of game and tabletop game developers have gotten together to create this bundle in support of easing this pain. All proceeds, minus processing fees, go to CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort), a Los Angeles-based organization which offers direct monetary support to survivors of the fires, and supports projects for fire resilience in affected areas (and potential disaster zones).
It's $10 minimum and there's some really fun stuff included. The bundle minimum price is lower than the historic low for TUNIC, a wonderful game that's included so this is a genuinely good deal regardless.
See the bundle on the itch.io page.
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ElectricPrism 2 days ago
It's great when communities come together to try to turn something bad into something good, but even better would be if the population understood the source of these problems and made sure the infrastructure mismanagement was not a ticking time bomb to begin with.
California Fires have become a Fire Industrial Complex, when construction and industries run out of work you can be sure the next one is on it's way. That's not okay, take it as words of warning for the part of the world you live in.
The transformers aren't even made domestically, and the ETA from ordering to having replacement parts on hand is can require up to a year.
Why is power infrastructure on decaying falling telephone poles instead of in the ground if Wind Events are a problem?
Why has the state been allowed to monopolize power production and socialize it under their direct control with none of the responsibilities.
Caldathras a day ago
The other factor that they never really talk about is the forest management in the first place. They level (strip-mine?) whole areas, burn away piles of all the unwanted trees (usually deciduous), and then plant an undiversified monoculture of softwood/evergreen trees (spruce, pine or fir). Softwood trees go up like Roman candles in a fire event, live or dead. In a natural forest, the interspersed deciduous trees help to slow the spread of a forest fire. In a unnatural monoculture, the fire just sweeps across the area.
Caldathras a day ago
Why has the state been allowed to monopolize power production and socialize it under their direct control with none of the responsibilities.This makes no sense. Do you think that private, for-profit operators would handle it any better? Trust me, they wouldn't. I lived in a region where the government decided to privatize power production and distribution. It was a constantly escalating, expensive mess -- especially for the end users!
In fact, your quote applies better to private operators than it does to public ones. Private operators are happy to enjoy the profits while lobbing all the costs onto the government. Some utilities are better handled by the government. This is not socialist, just efficient. Better to keep this sector out of the hands of the shareholders, in my opinion.
@Pyretic
Is it not concerning to anyone else how many of these we've had in recent years?Absolutely, but that's climate change, my friend! We're just going to have to adapt to it, I suspect. (I do sympathize with the Californians this affected, however.)
Last edited by Caldathras on 1 Mar 2025 at 8:05 pm UTC
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