You know the fire pit, the spike pit, the quicksand pit, the crocodile pit and all those other pits? Of course you do, because you play video games.

But those can hardly be described as natural hazards, can they? No, of course not, but before we start discussing the natural ones, let's talk about what got us to this point in the first place. And then where we are going after.

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