NeartherRealm Studios announced that their newest installment in the popular Mortal Kombat franchise, aptly titled Mortal Kombat 1, will reveal that all fatalities are the product of man-made climate change.

The climate crisis — as fire god Liu Kang calls it — is inevitable, and the only thing humans can do to end the gradual fluctuation of temperature in Earthrealm is to kill each other.

[If this wasn’t from the Babylon Bee, I may not have even thought it was satire. I’d even bet that some gaming house is working on a nihilistic setup like this already, in fact. — Ed]