Buelldozer
@Buelldozer@lemmy.today
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You can blame Reagan for a lot of things but not this and frankly even if it somehow was all his fault the Clinton Administration could have undone it.
The economy was already in trouble by the end of Lyndon Johnson’s final term in 1969. The Nixon Administration implemented some large changes trying to fix it but was unsuccessful. The Carter Administration also tried with very limited success. It wasn’t until the 1st Rise of Tech in the 80s during the Reagan Administration that things managed to get moving again. The Clinton Administration caught a lucky break with the 2nd Rise of Tech in the 90s so the streak got extended to right about 2001.
The amusing part is that Johnson, Nixon, and Carter bear no blame for the economic woes while Reagan and Clinton deserve no credit for the economic successes. They just happened to be the guy in the Oval when things happened.
Its a good chunk of the reason that everyone from Wall Street to the US Federal Government is trying so damn hard to make AI happen. They want a 3rd Rise of Tech, or something like it, in order to re-float the economy.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 2 weeks ago:
With the rise of game streaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and Amazon Luna I predict that the console market is basically over. I honestly don’t expect Microsoft to release another console and if Sony does it’s almost certain to be the last. Nintendo may stick with it longer since they just released the Switch2 but they seem to be prepping for it with the digital key thing.
It sucks for the players but it makes fiscal sense for the Publishers and Console Makers (Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo) if there is an industry wide pivot to game streaming where players are required to pay every month. I know that some games don’t lend themselves well to this, yet, but it’s blatantly obvious (at least to me) that this is where the industry is headed.
We’ve already reached the end of “Console Exclusive” games and I think what comes next is “Streaming Platform Exclusive” games. I think what comes after that is the Publishers establishing their own Streaming Platforms for their own games.
This is precisely what has happened with the rest of the entertainment industry and there’s no reason I can see for gaming, which is a subset of that same industry, to do anything else now that the streaming technology exists.
Steam and GOG will end up pushed out of the market or they will also become Streaming Platforms, just ones that cater to a different set of players.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 3 weeks ago:
This is a couple days delayed response, apologies for that I’ve been pretty busy.
With the rise of game streaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and Amazon Luna I predict that the console market is basically over. I honestly don’t expect Microsoft to release another console and if Sony does it’s almost certain to be the last. Nintendo may stick with it longer since they just released the Switch2 but they seem to be prepping for it with the digital key thing.
It sucks for the players but it makes fiscal sense for the Publishers and Console Makers (Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo) if there is an industry wide pivot to game streaming where players are required to pay every month. I know that some games don’t lend themselves well to this, yet, but it’s blatantly obvious (at least to me) that this is where the industry is headed.
We’ve already reached the end of “Console Exclusive” games and I think what comes next is “Platform Exclusive” games. I think what comes after that is the Publishers establishing their own Platforms for their own games.
This is precisely what has happened with the rest of the entertainment industry and there’s no reason I can see for gaming, which is a subset of the entertainment industry, to do anything else now that the streaming technology exists.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 3 weeks ago:
Likely no one. I wouldn’t be surprised if the next generation of consoles is the last one.
- Comment on Senator Josh Becker, who represents Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Mountain View, says he opposes a bill allowing multistory apartment buildings near transit stations. 4 weeks ago:
How do you get “USA” from one neighborhood in one city in one state?
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 5 weeks ago:
Oh wow, that explains why so many of the new Audis look worse than my 2015!
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 5 weeks ago:
I would argue that it is already the case that cheap cars look and perform excellently, compared with cars produced fifty years ago.
50 years? Try 30 and even 20 could be argued.
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content 5 weeks ago:
Ah yes, the classic “lOOk aT tHE TOlEraNt LEfT” argument.
The person I was replying too didn’t mention Left or Right and neither did I.
It’s a false equivalency.
Silencing your ideological opponents is ethically and morally inferior and I don’t care what your supposed motivation is.
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content 5 weeks ago:
My ideological opponents are already silencing speech.
Uh huh. I can fire up Social Media and find endless content openly discussing the entire spectrum of Political,Cultural, and Economic beliefs. You aren’t being silenced.
As long as fascists exist they must be silenced.
Define “fascist”.
When they seize power, they will not do you the courtesy of allowing you to speak…
Which is precisely what you yourself are proposing. Congratulations, you are rubbing elbows with the very people you claim to despise.
If you do not tolerate dissent then you are ethically and morally inferior. Full Stop.
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content 5 weeks ago:
Censorship of speech is a powerful tool. Why, if you have the true conviction of your beliefs, would you fight with one hand behind your back?
Yes, but have you considered the outcome of everyone doing this?
Moreover, I’ve seen no evidence in my lifetime that letting my ideological opponents speak leads to positive results.
Mmmmm, yes. All ideological opponents should be silenced. This is clearly the way.
Seriously, if this is what you believe then you are clearly stating that you have no interest in a Free Society.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 1 month ago:
Cross platform you say? So…like…ARM? 🙂
- Comment on Amazon has canceled its Wheel of Time series 1 month ago:
It would have lost nothing if it were trimmed to 7 books. It’s only 14 because no one smacked the author with a ruler.
- Comment on Amazon has canceled its Wheel of Time series 1 month ago:
WoT is not “Well paced”. It’s egregiously slow and long winded. Robert Jordan should have been beaten with a chair for the bullshit he put his readers through.
- Comment on How do we avoid the next airport disaster like Newark? An expert says 6G could be the solution 2 months ago:
Trump is worse than useless but these failures are the result of DECADES of underfunding and mismanagement.
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 2 months ago:
Very odd comparison…
Not really. There are more people using Steam than own a PS5 or Xbox X. So in what reality does Steam “not work for most people”?
you just need to sign up and you’re considered a user.
You’ll note that I used Steam’s ACTIVE user statistic. That’s not people who just “signed up”, those are people playing games on Steam.
Steam works just fine for most people.
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 2 months ago:
Steam doesn’t work for most people? You sure about that? It has 132 Million active users, that’s nearly double the number of PS 5s that have been sold!
- Comment on Oblivion Remastered - Bugs, Glitches, and Fixes 2 months ago:
I’ll have to try the UET mod but the author’s changelog doesn’t inspire much confidence.
- Comment on Is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion still fun for a first-time player in 2025? 2 months ago:
It is fun, but it’s much smaller than I imagined.
It’s a product of its time. Oblivion’s game size was right at the 4.7G limit of what would fit on single layer DVD-5.
Oblivion Gates
Ugh, arguably the most boring and repetitive part of the game. Such a wasted opportunity too as they could have made each Oblivion gate be a hellscape mirror of the area that it spawned in (including towns). That would have been a fairly small amount of additional data for a huge gain in game play.
They suck, don’t do any more of them then you have too.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 3 months ago:
I believe it’s a pump-n-dump ahead of the earnings call on April 23rd. Those results are not going to be good and I expect that that the big investors who are driving this will start selling off next week to cash in.
- Comment on Mexico’s first homegrown EV faces a bumpy road 3 months ago:
Tesla employee or not they’re almost certainly correct, the barriers to entry in the automobile market are very high. Tesla made it, barely, through leveraging enormous amounts of Venture Capital. BYD made it by using even more enormous amounts of Government Funding and Venture Capital and those were both done in areas that already had stupendously high levels of ICE auto manufacturing.
Mexico has none of that and they’re competing with all of the established players. I wish them success but it’s extremely unlikely that they will succeed.
- Comment on Cybertruck Crashes in Light Snow as Driver Shouts "NOT AGAIN!" 3 months ago:
Yup, this is 100% a driver created problem. I know that Tesla and the CT are hated right now but the CT easily has the ability to pull that trailer on that trail it’s just that the driver doesn’t know WTF they’re doing.
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 3 months ago:
May I ask the name of this place? I’d like to pull it up on Google Maps and have a look at the layout.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 3 months ago:
The game may be old but that doesn’t mean a particular person has played it before.
- Comment on Any Xbox 360 Can Now Be Hacked with Just a USB Flash Drive 3 months ago:
You can already rip 360 games.
Using a PC you just need to make a .iso of the disk using whatever method or software you prefer.
You can also do it with an umodded 360 console.
The trick isn’t ripping the games, it’s playing them.
- Comment on Ads are a plague 4 months ago:
Just Stellantis doing Stellantis things.
- Comment on Star Wars: Kathleen Kennedy Expected to Retire from Lucasfilm 4 months ago:
Probably some big announcement coming in April where it would be obvious she’s leaving.
- Comment on Spider-Man 2 Debuts to 'Mixed' Steam Reviews Amid Serious PC Performance Problems 5 months ago:
I pre ordered Star Trek Voyager Elite Force
Sheeet. I had thousands of hours into ST:EF. Even clanned up for that one. Fraggers United!
- Comment on Ham Operator Must Pay in First-Responder Interference Case 5 months ago:
You do still have to pass the General Exam but on his personal page he said that he did both the General and Amateur Extra at the same testing session so I counted them as one…but he did in fact have to pass two.
- Comment on Ham Operator Must Pay in First-Responder Interference Case 6 months ago:
Everyone in the Amateur Radio community knows that the FCC is fed up with people using frequencies that they don’t have legal access to and as a result they’ve been issuing increasingly harsh penalties over the past few years.
As for whether he was “doing it in good faith”, well, I question that. The guy was trying to get firefighters to protect his radio repeater site and one of the repeaters located there was for his own business. He had a personal financial interest in getting a fire team over there.
I’m an Amateur Radio operator myself and I have limited sympathy for the situation this guy put himself in. The proper course of action was to leave the wildfire area and come back when it was over, not keep making illegal radio transmissions trying to get firefighters to come over and save his property.
- Comment on Ham Operator Must Pay in First-Responder Interference Case 6 months ago:
He wasn’t told not to, either!
First and most importantly Mr Frawley holds an “Amateur Extra” license from the FCC. That license class VERY CLEARLY doesn’t allow the license holder to transmit on 151.145 MHz. A person literally has to pass a proctored exam proving that they know this and on that part of the exam there are no trick questions.
Second and equally critical to your comment the fire operations section chief left the scene of the fire, drove to the airstrip and told Frawley to cease operations on the frequency. He got personally and directly told to STFU and obey the law, taking a section chief away from an active firezone.
The guy isn’t some n00b; he’s been licensed for a long time and well knew that what he was doing wasn’t allowed.
Looking at the guys profile page and the article it seems clear that he did this because there were two radio repeaters under threat from the fire, one Amateur VHF and the other his own business band repeater. He had a personal financial interest in trying to get firefighting efforts redirected to protect his property.
Everyone in the Amateur community knows that the FCC will rain breaks on you for doing stuff like this so as an Amateur myself I have very limited sympathy for the predicament that this idiot put himself in.