Yup, someone beat me to it, I had another design in mind but that will work too. I am referring to the Ukraine TLK-1000 underwater drone unveiled at the Defense Tech Valley 2025 exhibition in Lviv on Sept. 19, 2025. You see, fit this with a collar and you get a new type of defense.
Last year (might be two years ago) I designed a new way to hurt Iran. To sink its fleet, not at see, but in the harbour, to incapacitate its harbours for months. It is nice to have a harbour, but when it goes out of commission, it really hurts. You see, defense is ‘usually’ ready for the loss of a ship, a little less so when the harbour goes out of commission. And the nice part of Iran was that they were usually set to two entrance points block those and the harbour becomes useless. This is not completely the case with Russian harbours, but there are ways around that too. As such I came up with a stealth solution. You see, warships can take a pounding, but when you design a setting were you burn through the bottom of the ship, you can impede a ship really fast. They are all set to the principles of Archimedes. Take out the outer hull, the inner hull becomes a joke.
The setting is simple.
This is almost the setting of a dinghy. I ring constraint in shape by two bands and it is filled with pure oxygen. As it is released and inflated, it pushes itself to the bottom of the target, the wonder of floatation. And it is important that it is pure oxygen, not air.
Then the second part of the solution comes in action (and can be activated remotely)
The rods are hollow magnesium and with oxygen that become TIG welding ‘solutions’ a floater will have 50-60 rods and they will make a mess at the bottom of that target. Optionally you can release 2 of these per warship. As they burn a hole in the bottom of the target, they will be unaware of the setting they face and when the holes are done, something like a C4 ribbon will be exploded rising holes in the inner wall and the water can now scuttle the target. On that setting it will overlap most vessels (or warships) multiple partitions giving Archimedes a chance to work its magic on the principle of archimedes, which is the upward buoyant force exerted on a body immersed in a fluid (liquid or gas) is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body and with that equation gone that target gets a new view of the bottom pot that piece of water. When the timing is done precisely, that ship will become the natural blockade of the harbour or piece of water it is blocking, making the harbour inaccessible for months at a time. You see, everyone is so focussed on blowing things up, but a warship tend to be resilient and can maneuver out of the way, in this way they won’t have the time, because when the C4 ribbon does its magic it will be largely too late. Oh, and when you consider the engines, when they become ‘overly’ active, the sinking merely increases.
So whilst some politicians are talking, giving 2 weeks and uttering total disappointment, I made a solution and I hereby hand it to the Ukraine. I reckon that adding a collar with 5-8 floating welders, they could optionally sink 3-4 warships at the same time, impressing the Russian government with a dwindling ship count.
I think that if it is good for Iran, it would work on Russian vessels too. And with a collar on the TLK-1000 underwater drone, 50% of the work is already done. You merely have to include the collar. I reckon that each floater would cost less than $500K, considering that the average warship would be $2-$3 billion, it will be money well spend.
That is at times all of the settings we see. We see an idea and we focus on it. I for one am ‘smitten’ with that affliction. It came to pass as I have been playing AC Shadows and the story gives us the Portuguese. I remember that setting from the James Clavell setting given to us by Richard Chamberlain in 1978, with the work Shogun he, Toshiro Mifune and Yoko Shimada put Japan on our eyesights forever. This is not an attack on the 2024 Shogun, as I haven’t seen it yet (not out on Blu-ray in Australia) but I have heard many good things about it and I look forward to seeing Hiroyuki Sanada replaying the role that (as I see it) made Toshiro Mifune a great actor in the western world. That is the setting, but it is not what this is about. The setting is set around the Jesuit order, one that had influence in Japan (I am not judging whether it is good or bad) and there is no reasonable way that any jesuit makes for a good assassin. But the setting of AC Shadows could propagate the Jesuit settings, or as they call it ‘Societas Iesu’ founded in 1540, as such it has a rich history, and history being the capital setting as this society is founded on “evangelization and apostolic ministry in 112 countries. Jesuits work in education, research, and cultural pursuits. They also conduct retreats, minister in hospitals and parishes, sponsor direct social and humanitarian works, and promote ecumenical dialogue” for me the idea of prolongating education has another setting. You see, as classes go into disarray in the near future, we need to set new boundaries, not more investments. I see it that the backdrop of Assassins Creed could be used to a setting to learn languages AC Shadows Japanese and Portuguese, Just as the setting of AC Brotherhood could be the starting stage of Italian and Latin. Two programs that give rise to 4 languages. We don’t always get that lucky. There are settings where we merely could learn English (AC Syndicate and Watchdogs legion) so we have an old and new setting for the language. Students could learn a lot by what Ubisoft set in motion. There are settings for Greek, America (they don’t speak English, LOL) and from that we go on. And the fact is that these students can learn all the time (at home or at School) a setting to propagate knowledge and it goes far beyond the borders of that nation. See how these languages give rise to people in India have a much larger setting for languages. As some might ridicule the idea, the setting has been given and some (preferably in Ubisoft) will give rise to that idea and equip something like the Meta Quest 3 and walk around in these conditions, all whilst practicing your language skills. We get all the news on ‘sue strategy’ whilst no one is pushing that envelope to get something going. I gave visibility to this setting almost 6 months ago, so my quote for “Google and Amazon left billions on the floor” is hereby set to true. It is not the only setting there are more, so when you start realising that education is under the hammer and you are shown that education has to be cut, see where we could have given a larger rise to a new pedestal of learning. In that same setting AC Shadows give rise to culture (As does AC Brotherhood) we can argue that Paris in not a setting for culture (look at me, making another funny).
We need to consider that the art of culture might soon be lost as America squanders whatever it has to keep its billionaires afloat and here Ubisoft has a larger setting to push education to a larger stage in Europe and India, because 1 billion hungry Indians (hungry for knowledge) is a large population to push an idea to. There might be issues over time, but the Ubisoft solution is about 80% finished at present. So do what you want with this idea, but at least I was thinking outside of the box, no AI required and it is close to release (the voice interaction requires actual programming), so when you see another BS media piece on what to sue from who, consider that they never looked at the opportunities given, a simple setting I employed, with no real issue on getting profit (this will be in the hands of Meta and Ubisoft), a donation will of course be graciously accepted. Are you listening Yves Guillemot? 🙂
Have a great day and try to learn something today, even if it is in a direction you never expected. I today did my bit for education, technology, arts and culture. What will you do today?
There is a setting that was born in November 2007, it as the very first Assassins Creed. After that we got more and more, some were really good, some were bad and some were flawed to the maximum extent. So as I was contemplating a few things, my mind went back to those ‘golden days’. Not everyone was a fan, but the simple setting was that this IP was novel, innovative and it has been keeping fans going for nearly 20 years over several platforms and also over a few generations.
As I was contemplating a few thoughts I redesigned it into a new game with several new iterations. I made new IP from this.
INTRO The setting is 1096, the crusades had just begun and the Battle of Civetot was in near full swing. On a morning a commander was testing its Ballista a dat from the battlements of Nicaea, the commander was not taking chances as this was a new crew. For nearly two days these troops were mangled and tested to the max until the commander was ready. He ten ordered 50 troops to load up seven oxcarts with boulders to take to the front. There should be enough boulders around, but the tactic to blow opposition away with overkill giving them no time to react was his preferred method and as such the Siege of Nicaea was about to commence.
Unknown to anyone his test builders had a more profound impact. They hit a cave where a prisoner was kept. As the boulders hit the roof of the cave, the cave started to collapse in places and the prison was disjointed. Soon there would be no escape, the Black King had been released.
INTRO 2 As the Black King was released, he crawled out of his prison, He might be immortal, but after being imprisoned for nearly a thousand years without sustenance the Black King was as damaged as he had ever been in thousands of years. He slowly crawled like a snail over the cave floor. He then saw a light coming in from the ceiling. It was the sun that came through and as he felt the sunlight hit his skin, he was revitalizing to some effect. He was a long way from being better, but this was the best he had felt in over a century. He let the sun caress him and it took hours before the darkness set in. He then moved to the open air and more energy came to him, still slow to react to anything, he decided to stay out of sight until he felt more and more alert. It was the next day when the noises of battle came to him, they were far away and that was OK. Where there were battles, there were should to collect and there was the option of control of others.
As he slowly gained some powers, he saw a lone soul, but not something he had ever seen before. Did he remain unaware of so much change? He saw a rat and he possessed the rat and took the route towards the person sitting on a stone. As he closed in of that person, he felt the invigorating power of fear, he had never face a man so fearful before and it gave him energy, he was careful not to face the man as he was unaware how quickly the rat could be killed, so he observed from a distance. /he started to hear the voices in that mans head. And an unknown language came to him. He had heard that language before in Egypt in the time of the Roman general Marcus Antonius. He knew that language, but there was a second language he had never heard before. As such he had to learn what this man was.
That is how the game begins. You are the Black King, rejuvenating himself and as you become his servant you get more powers and more abilities. The fortress of Nicaea where you become a cook. You get to do chores, all whilst serving the Black King.
Now consider how the setting changes. You can be killed and when it is done in a later stage you get to inhabit another person, if too early you have to start from scratch. It will be (for the most) pure stealth. This game doesn’t have ‘viewpoints’ rather a setting where you can map at any given place at any time, when you get higher, you get a much better setting of what you can see. In addition, when yup learn how to possess birds they will bring you the layout of your lands. And that is where the plot changes. You get to see acts of violence, acts of crimes and you observe it all, more important you get to see it all and as you observe, you get to find clues about these new people. The game starts with observation which will leads to more powers and soon you will see the options to observe people from different points. Horses, dogs, wildlife. They all have a point of view and they care to the needs of the Black King and that is to provide sustenance. A simple setting from 2007, now with a much larger scope. You get to see the powers of the people and what they destroyed. From the Siege at Nicaea you will go to the foundations of Jerusalem where the actual game begins. The game is set on displaying what happened and the lore of the Back king. This is how far I got in a few hours. Perhaps Tencent can use this (they pretty much own Ubisoft now).
Have a great Sunday to the west of me, your almost at the foot of Monday.
Ubisoft, Tencent, Assassins Creed, Black King, Al-Malik al-Aswad, Nicaea, Jerusalem,
We all have them, yet after a few confirmations I had over the last few days I am hit with self-doubt. I think it is natural for me to have them. You see, to merely contemplate my thoughts, I tend to doubt everything, even my self. As I do that I redesign the ideas I have and further optimize them. This is how I roll. I always try to improve the ideas I see and have, there is always better. As I call whatever I create ‘good’, I know that there is always ‘better’, just out of reach. When you do not take that approach you will soften and others will pass you by with your IP. I think that is why I always try to improve all settings in gaming in my mind. Is there an exception? Yes, of course there is. I cannot vouch for every game to give it the ‘approved’ setting. As such I was too unimpressed with Infamous: Second Son. There are sides that unimpressed me towards a rating slightly less then good. Even though the storytelling in that game is nothing short of sublime. The setting and a lot of elements are exceptional, if it wasn’t for the linearity of the game. The game would have been an easy 90% game. So what is the exception of a game? Well I am not the ‘choice’ on that ruling, but I played a game again which I haven’t touched since its release in 2016, remade from the 2002 original. That game is as close as perfect as a game gets. And my joy feeling I had when replaying that game last week for almost 6 hours straight until I realized it was close to midnight. Insomniac Games really did a piece of fine work on that and it is clear that it deserved all the ratings that was between 80 and 90 percent. The game has layers of achievements and you need to replay levels more than once to get all the goodies. Do not forget that it was mostly OK (the 2002 version) and that was on the Playstation 2, a system that is three generations old. As such the game is pretty fantastic.
Loss This game also leaves me with a feeling of loss. Why aren’t more games with this feeling? It seems that most games are about the hip, the adrenaline. Not the joy of gaming. Even Sony has made this mistake in their games. Lets be clear there games are mostly awesome, yet the joy of gaming is leaving us. If I get the sentiment correctly Astro Bot (2024) is the one exception to this (I still haven’t played it). Personally for me Hogwarts Legacy (2023) was the last game where the joy of gaming was abundant. It might be me, but I think that whilst gaming firms are leaving it all to business majors, they forgot about the joy of gaming and that is making me sad. And in this the only exception is Nintendo. Not sure what their setting is, but as I see it joy is the larger component to anything they do and they do it well.
So what brings this around. You see, in all my reengineering I often forget about joy, the joy of gaming. I see it and I recognize it, but I don’t follow that path myself. I cannot cater to joy, merely the exceptional need to make the better game. It is a failing in me and I see that.
This also reflects on most things I do. Although I focus on the engineering side of things, I see that the joy part in anything we do is essential. It isn’t merely gaming, it is all we do that requires the joy of more and that is sad.
Reflection That reflection also hits the Russian side of the Ukraine war. You see, we are made from sterner stuff, unlike the pussies in Washington DC stating “U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that NATO membership for Ukraine was unrealistic and suggested Kyiv should abandon hopes of winning all its territory back from Russia and instead prepare for a negotiated peace settlement to be backed up by international troops” (source: AP News). This is the response of a near bankrupt nation that seemingly puts the words of Wall Street as the go getter sentiment. All whilst 11 hours ago we are given “A senior U.S. official on Thursday said the United States had not ruled out potential NATO membership for Ukraine or a negotiated return to its pre-2014 borders, contradicting comments made this week by the U.S. defense secretary ahead of possible peace talks to end the Ukraine war.” (Source: Reuters) As I personally see it different people take a different look at Wall Street politicking their money views against what is right and Russia is a problem for everyone. If only DARPA had taken my word seriously. You see as I see it, the nuclear solution I had for Saudi Arabia, which would take Iran’s nuclear aspirations to their basement was based on Russian nuclear reactors. As such works for party B as easy as party A. And in my (perhaps incorrect view) when Russia gets a second meltdown Russia would need to divert too many resources to their own reactors and Russian armies come to a stand still. Yes Ukraine does plenty of damage, but until summer it is electricity Russia desperately needs and when 46 reactors (plus one on meltdown) are on lockdown their sense of freezing changes and that stops a lot of actions. Call me superstitious, but I believe that Russians prefer freezing over glowing in the dark. But that could just be me. You see, this reflects on the gaming sentiment over warfare as warfare is not about joy. Wall Street will reflect on the essential need of joy, which comes from victory. But Russia left that feeling behind by getting beat by the 20th largest army in the world. When you try to improve things you also gain the ability to make things a lot worse through the view of what was not found. The flaws of a system allows for certain improvements of a personal nature and what is more fun than seeing a Russian reactor melting down? So whilst politicians volley about what ends a war as it is said in Euro News as “The new US Secretary of Defence has categorically ruled out granting NATO membership to Ukraine as a security guarantee to end Russia’s war.” A statement he had to walk back a mere 11 hours ago. So how settled is this new American administration on claims? Their one win seems to be the Gulf of America. As far as I can tell the tariffs on Canada and Australia are being met with consideration and that is igniting the Commonwealth a lot stronger than ever before.
So what do these two things have to do with one another? That is a valid question and there is no clear answer. There are too many optional answers, but my take is that a game creator has no funds and it trying to make it work, America has little to no funds left and is trying to make that work too and in some funny way it is appeasing Russia to make their budgets work and in this it is laughable that the Republicans are appeasing towards Russia, a sight that they tend to blame Democrats for.
And now Canada is shelving American goods and I reckon Australia is merely one step away from that as well as setting the purchasing need on Canadian goods. America has merely made things harder for themselves (This could be my wrongly view on matters).
So in the end we merely need to doubt self to some degree and see what we can do to make it better for us and I understand that America does what is best for Americans. In that same feeling Canadians and Australians need to do what is best for their nations as well as the Commonwealth. That is the uniting side of the matter. Will it bring joy? It is too early to tell, but appeasing Russia and President Putin will not bring any joy, of that you can be certain.
Have a great and peaceful day and try to make life a little better for yourself.
Yesterday this setting passed by my eyes. Someone had placed the CBM64 music from a game called Zoids. I remember it, because it was the only real appealing part of the game. It was based on a toy. I also remember seeing the toy. I never had a Zoid, but the setting was interesting. A smaller Zoid could be merged and create a larger Zoid. As such you can go from Spider to Scorpion and so on. That is all I remember of it. A novel idea, but it wasn’t as enticing as the toymaker was seeming to push for consumerism (to buy more and more) and I do not support consumerism with children (or really young adults). The game was basic to say the least, as such it didn’t have much of a future.
Now ‘seeing’ that set my mind in motion. Consider the setting of combining pieces and take a game like Paradroid (CBM64 and Amiga) and my mind went on a tinkering tour. So take a setting of you waking up in a sleeping dome and you have no idea what was going on. So as you explore this ‘mall’ you find that things are dead, robots and utilities are also dead. There is a catch. You have an innate knowledge of technology and systems, but as you find out (in the beginning) your face is mangled, scars all over your face and chest. You do not remember how you got them. As such you need to get out into the open and the mall you find yourself in is dead in nearly all aspects. So as you start repairing janitor class drones (cleaning and utility drones) the place is starting to get alive. So you start with disposal, servant and maintenance classes. From there the messenger classes come into play (as you enter the second stage), this gives you the lore of the game. There is a larger stage here where you need to clean things up and get things working. That leads to a crew droid and there we have service droids and from there we get retail, medic and logistic droids. The logistic droids give you more lore on the place you have, the medical droids lead you to the medical location. This is where you can get you to be repaired (after some repairs to more maintenance droids). The crew droids are androids, below that they are small machines like your vacuum cleaner. So as this is done you get a first glimpse of where you are (more lore) and at this point you get to a point where the windows could be opened.
The lore initial lore gets you the setting that outside is dangerous.
So you need to be ‘careful’. So when you get to upper levels you will find broken sentinel, security and battle battle drones. Last of this is a command drone that is in charge of the facilities.
This game would have about a 12 – 20 hour challenge per location and there are 5 locations. The Mall, the transit tunnel, the airport dome, the hangers and a fifth location (still pondering that). So whilst the game seems open and exploring, the airport dome introduces stealth to you. The security drones here are all about keeping people out of some locations. There is more, as you repair stuff (essential) you will get more security systems online. You will also get to seek security tags. They can be wearable items. And that introduces gender specific issues. You can find female or male tags and neutral tags. So you can only be ‘caught’ with your own gender tags or a neutral tags. There are also ID cards and these work nicely in the beginning but from the airport dome the ID card need to correctly suit you.
That is as far as I got in about 2 hours. There is also the replayability (my demand), so the locations are ‘redrawn’ every time you start a new game, so as the Mall (level one) is mostly the same, walls will be redrawn making the route differently. From the transit tunnels onwards it is more of mess getting to pass and that is where replayability comes into play. So as some game makers give you more of the same, I came up with something mostly new (the ideas were already in part out), I merely redesigned this into something no one had ever played before (ain’t I great). That is me at 5 and Ubisoft at 1. Not a bad feeling to have this morning. Oh, and I just thought of a new function for the Medical systems.
So that was my second thought. Tomorrow something completely different (sorry Monte Python). So enjoy the day, Vancouver just started Monday, mine is mostly gone now. Have Fun everyone.
That is often a question of unbridled proportions. The pun was intended, make no mistake. You see as we were looking at houthi tactics regarding shipping, there was a song nagging in my mind. The song is a dutch song from 1968 by Rob Out. It is called ‘come from the box bed my darling’ and for the longest time I couldn’t match one with the other (I have some health issues) so it didn’t make sense to me. That was until a few minutes ago.
You see a box-bed is an old fashioned bed in a cupboard. It stopped being the rage at the end of the 60’s, but it was a definite fashion sense. So as Iran is fuelling this and trying to keep their hands clean, the setting can be swayed by setting a different stage.
You see the song sounds out of synch in today’s environment, but the premise remains the same. There are Houthi’s with equipment they do not understand (in mere basic senses), there is a separate setting where the drones are used in ‘abundance’ to get to ships that are almost at the edge of their awareness. Now, I have no real intelligence on this, so my mind is out on a limb.
The idea is sound, but a drone operator might see the lacking side in this, in other sides this might stir ideas to get the process to work out. You see the blue marker is our ship. In a similar course a group of drones take up a close knitted cluster making themselves a more appealing target (green dot) and as it is identical to the ship and a little ahead of the ship, the drone operator might not notice. It is then that message (I) and (II) are set into intelligence. (II) will be point to point, but drones will be able to get a sort of marker on where it comes from. That is when on of the drone flock will ‘abandon’ its flock and will go and get closer to the enemy. When it has a more certain lock it will signal the ship to missile the drone command. You see the setting is that drones can be replaced, command centres a lot less so. And perhaps this setting is already out there and my writing is doubling up, but I will do my bit is stopping Houthi forces and Iranian forces alike. This was my step. I cannot proclaim victory over DARPA like the other 7 times as there are unknown elements in play here. But it feels good to see my brain a little better at finding solutions that are out there.
It sometimes happens to any of us. Our brains get cluttered in all kind of ways and I am no different. For me it all started yesterday when Final Draft gave me a free update to version 13. It felt like that very late Christmas present you never expected, but when that email arrives you are more than double happy and I really felt the happiest I have felt that entire year (relax it was only day 10 of that year) but there you are. It was that happy surprise.
So, as I am continuing that stride with the first script, this one meant for Al Saudiya, I see that I have a lot of work ahead of me. There is a mini series, a three season TV series and another series which has no defined size yet and all of them have parts all over my blog, as such I have plenty to do.
It was that point when I saw ‘Amazon to Lay Off ‘Several Hundred’ Across Prime Video, Amazon MGM Studios, 500 Cut at Twitch’, it wasn’t the Variety version I saw first, but it was the first that turned up now (at https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/amazon-lay-offs-prime-video-mgm-studios-1235867454/) there we are given “Additionally, 500 employees — or 35% of the workforce — are being let go at Amazon-owned livestream platform Twitch” this is not trim ming the fat. Even as Amazon has broken expectations all over the board. This is about tax year 2024 and this is about meeting the shareholder expectations, or at least that is what it comes over at for me. Mike Hopkins gives its staff members “It is hard to say goodbye to talented Amazonians who’ve made meaningful contributions on behalf of our customers, team and business. Thank you for your dedication and work. To help with the transition, we are providing packages that include a separation payment, transitional benefits as applicable by country, and external job placement support.” The fact that this is not some hard time point makes it a lot harder for some.
You might think I am making fun of the situation, but I am not. This one piece of music is now part of the Library of Congress. I don’t think that the composer imagined that when he wrote this in 1866. His music would outlive him by some length. Did we have any idea how timeless some movies would become half a century later? There was Jaws, Alien (not the short movie), Close Encounters of the third kind and Star Wars.
All 4 movies relatively close together, these 4 and one in particular on the mind of movie watchers three generations later. To be honest, I never cared about Twitch, its not my bag of tea, but it has a following. Twitch streamers optionally earn money from sponsorships, affiliate links, some advertising, and a variety of other methods. Now, what comes next is largely speculative. Never cared ab out Twitch, but that service has 140 million Monthly Active Users as of 2024. The total number of active Twitch streamers is around 7.5 million. This number was 7.1 million In July 2023. That is a population that matters, this is not about trimming fat. I reckon that Twitch is up for offering but when it is offered it needs to become a clean package and now the 35% staff reduction starts to make sense. Amazon is gearing up for something, what for? I have no idea and this is largely speculative. I have no idea what is up and perhaps Amazon fears the competition it faces from Apple, Disney and Netflix. It might see what I expected would happen. People are unable to afford all four and in that race Amazon is the first cut from consideration. I honestly don’t know if Apple or Amazon is better, but Apple is making presented strides, as far as I can tell Amazon at present is not.
So what gives? March of the Amazons (1866) shows us that some gems are kept and in movies that matters. To have any of the previous 4 still on the mind of watchers matters because streaming is graded on what is watched and for how long and those 4 really broke the mould. The important part is that we cannot tell that at present with the new series, this process takes time and board members of any modern age are not a patient lot, they need to see overwhelming results or they cut things. I personally think it is a setting when the merely expect searing steak, all whilst the slow cooker presents its own kind of deliciousness. One is not the other and I personally think that the old metrics and approach do not work on streaming systems. That being said, Amazon seemingly dropped my IP not realising what 50,000,000 subscriptions in the first phase alone will get them. It is a cluster they never had and others never had either. Yet when we see this we see an optional speculation on what they are missing and speculation is where it is at. I have no clue why they are trimming the fat. I am guessing it is the 2024 results, to meet them head on and people are dropped because of that. However, I could be wrong.
I honestly wonder what possessed makers like Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, and George Lucas to make what they did. Not the normal setting, but what drove them from the inside and did they know or realise that they created cinema greatness? I never doubt that they wanted to make the best they could, but were they aware just how good it ended up being half a century later? Consider that movies in those days were made for a year, perhaps 2-5. We see movies like Coma, Chinatown and Deliverance and we all agree that they were great, but these 4 outlasted them all. Time works different when it comes to books, movies and music. So how to prevent to cut the people who could be making the next whatever. It was at this point that I realised that something had gone wrong. At some point someone thought that it could always be redone, the movie greats of the 70’s are largely gone. Perhaps monumental movies like Dances with Wolves are bound to happen, but when you consider the 4 from the 70’s, what is left? Dances with Wolves? Titanic? You tell me, but I personally fear that as Hollywood started to snag the process, they lost something and there is a chance that Amazon at present it digging its own grave, even thought they cannot see it yet. Even as they are (as speculated) trimming the fat. But there is one consideration. With that job loyalty is bound to go out the window as well. They might not care, but what happens when the next Herman Melville? You might not remember the man, but you do remember Mobi Dick, the book he created in 1851. That book is on some minds almost 175 years later. The slow cooker needs a different process, any chef can tell you that. I wonder how long it takes for the streamers realise that their process is set to different elements, to different seasoning. Just a question, but they appeared as I was dealing with the clutter in my brain. And as for the march of the Amazons? Consider that The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy is an average song, but when the speed is increased 17% it becomes a whole different story, yet this is the consequence of re-arranged music. As such I doubt that Emil Stigler is that, but I never looked at that part (I am not a musician), did you? We are unlikely to see another Darth Vader march by John Williams, I doubt that even he saw that his song would be so iconic 44 years later. That song calls for an image with billions, not something I would have imagined when I first heard it. I knew it was stellar, we all did, but this iconic? Streamers have a like minded setting to some music, different metrics are in play (still speaking speculatively) does Amazon realises that?
Just a question, enjoy your day, my Friday starts in 30 minutes.
I have had some questions thrown at me, some very nasty ones. You see, there is a massive difference between me and Americans. They are all about “What gives me the best deal” because it is one and optionally valid path to take. I do not believe in that path. You see I have always and forever been about “What shows me to be the best return on investment” and I believe it is the best path to take in this day and age. Would I refuse a decent offer by Amazon (either Jeff Bezos or Andy Jassy)? No, of course not. I would have some reservations, but that is OK. For that same setting I would accept a decent offer by Sergei Brin or Sundar Pichai (if they pass the qualifying question). To be a good source towards THEIR return on investment matters. OK, in case of Google there are a few other issues, but for the most it should be fine. Microsoft is out and they are pretty much done for but I will return to that part shortly.
So why UAE? It is merely one place and there are two players Emaar Properties (Mohamed Alabbar) and DAMAC properties (Hussain Sajwani), both multibillionaires and both on the top of their field. In this (as reported yesterday) Emaar could see an additional growth of what I speculated was “an additional stage that would bring more than Dh680 million.” This is not a massive growth, this would be the impact if my solution brought a mere 1% to that table. Anything more and it becomes a serious amount of money. We can posture and speculate on how much more and you can do that all you like. It matters not. What matters is that these two gentleman see what I can bring to the table. IP with global implications. The fact that it will be registered and tested in Dubai first is merely one way to look at it. The registration gives them a 25 years advantage and that is what matters. It opens doors for players like Huawei to get additional traction in an area they never considered before and all because American players stayed asleep. And that is merely the beginning. The moment I prove one side, the other doors will open and they have several parts to grow in. Even now, only last night did I consider another path for one of my IP parts. This will merely be an innovation patent but it gives the implementors time. Time that places like America no longer have. We see all the news on ‘growing consumer confidence’ but it is like yapping to reeds. You see America is down 33,000 billion dollars. The interest impact will slow them down more and more and in this Microsoft is starting to wage a losing presentation war. Even now (actually a few hours ago) we were shown “If Windows continues to shed market share, it could hurt other parts of the business and the company’s efforts to monetise AI.” Is this a surprise? I predicted this BEFORE June 24th 2023 when I wrote ‘Path of a slippery slope’ (at https://lawlordtobe.com/2023/06/24/path-of-a-slippery-slope/) As such I saw this well over 6 months ago. That list goes on for while and whilst we are all about the presentation in the end results are what matters and It seems that the tycoons of the UAE have figured that out. In addition the woke and impassible setting in America will hinder these larger companies in several ways. So you tell me when these two tycoons get a technology advantage, one that could have opportunities on a global setting. What do you think they will do? And that is merely a first step. We all know the first step is the hardest, but anything after that becomes a lot easier when you show that there is a return on investment. They would never hesitate to pay me 12.5% on this setting (with an annual bonus of course on achieved sales) and when it shows to be more than 1% the equation drastically changes for them. That is the win for them (and me of course) and in all this America no longer mattered. They are losing too much money. Presentation firms are staging ‘presented success’ all whilst we can see that Microsoft lost their marketshare 5 times over and now someone else is seeing that they are shedding market share in their office and OS environment a place they never worried about before. Suddenly that 100 billion for gaming becomes an anchor around their necks and they will have little or no winnings to show for that for some time to come. They can present all they want but Tencent Is about to launch its own solutions and they stand to gain well over 50 million gamers. And well before phase two is completed they stand to get within 2 years what Microsoft required to get in 81 months (58 million units) that is what America is about to face. The sure thing of presenting consumers confidence all whilst these consumers see new shores and all these shores aren’t American firms. They are other shores and the only one who has a chance at present is Amazon (Google walked away from that). It is merely one side of business but it is a side America ignored all for the need of ego and presentations. As such as the stage goes on at present my prediction for December 2026 is still on the table, but now there is additional IP and none if it is going to Microsoft, they lose out yet again. How much longer until America is getting the gist that the party is over and the wrong people are making the decisions.
In all this nothing is new, yet for me it remains to be a return on investment, a lesson greed driven America hasn’t figured out yet and that works for Huawei who is implementing cloud centres in riyadh and I reckon in the UAE soon enough as well. Another marketshare lost to America. In this the BRICS members have an advantage in all this and it is my believe that China will prosper massively here too.
So enjoy your day and consider what side of business is passing you by. It might be trivial, yet in that ask yourself the other question. What gives you long term gains. You see long term implies (not proves) that the other player will be ready to commit to what YOU bring to THEIR table. It does not revolve around ‘Cash is King’ but in this day and age commitment is everything.
That is how I feel, it started hours ago, the brain went into high gear and would not stop. New (remastered) games, new ideas, new IP and all in the blink of an eye. Now do not get your hopes up. None of this is thoroughly by me, as such it might all be nothing, but the sensation was rather nice (and scary). So whilst the Saudi Gazette gives us (at https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/636019/SAUDI-ARABIA/Saudi-Arabia-China-consider-enhancing-economic-and-trade-relations) I need to look and saw that I made mentions of this danger 3 years ago. It is in the Gazette that we see ‘Saudi Arabia, China consider enhancing economic and trade relations’ with “The two sides have discussed ways of strengthening economic cooperation, and trade exchange, and enhancing the relations in these fields. They have also discussed joint investment opportunities in a number of targeted sectors, and increased access to non-oil exports between the two countries, in addition to several topics of common interest.” Most of this is not new. It is another source that gives us that Saudi Arabia is now considering a Chinese nuclear reactor. Another economic loss for America and the EU. They can get mad all they want, but they created this mess themselves. It was my mommy, who stated when I was very young (more than half a century ago) that you should not bite the hand that feeds you and now we see China walking off with several billions more. So whilst everyone is creating anger and hate on some notion that Microsoft had plans to buy Nintendo (I reckon that Nintendo would never be that stupid), China gets a clean sweep economic deal after economic deal and the west remains largely quiet. I merely got what I read from Al Jazeera and funny enough the west merely mentioned it a month ago (as far as I could tell), yet there were pages and pages of news that Microsoft did consider in 2020 to buy Nintendo (as if). So what news is more important? Or has the media now resorted in ignoring economic news? The fact that this reactor is close to the borders with the UAE and Qatar implies that they could be supplying more and more energy all over several nations. That is actual news we should know about.
In the meantime I had another idea considering a remaster in a few ways and even a new notch on the setting of the game that never existed before. A setting to give it a little more realism (of sorts) and it would please the Amazon lobby as it is a direction they might not have sailed before with their Luna, but the idea is not fully grown yet and the machine learning part to get these two parts done will not be easy either. It might have been done before, but I am not aware of it. As such my runaway brain is running on all thrusters and might soon need another dose of food to fuel its engine.
In the meantime whilst I see X (Twitter) fuel more hate messages on the Microsoft over Nintendo issue. The reality is that I do not expect Nintendo to ever be this stupid. The Japanese population would all turn against every Nintendo executive in Japan. I feel that they are not that silly. Is there a. connection? Yes, it is the media, they are so drawn to the stories that flame digital dollars that the other stuff is neglected. The media is marketing itself out of existence and that has repercussions, large ones. We see all the messages on how populism interferes in all kinds of ways, but the media is directly responsible for that. It is the effect of flaming all over the field for digital dollars, all whilst important issues are not the main course, it is added stories and the people can no longer tell what is important. So feel free to debate the small issue on something relating to Microsoft and leaked emails. Just so you know, over the last 4 weeks China had created an inside track towards another $5,400,000,000 revenue option. Its not like the US or EU needed that money, did they? The US government shutdown must be imaginary (at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2023/sep/19/government-shutdown-mccarthy-republicans-trump-biden-politics-live) and when that happens? What next?
Several nations in some stupid deadlock whilst they should have been minding the revenue store. Go figure!
Yup, that’s me, but not in the way that we saw in comic books. This is real. I set up the setting for Microsoft to lose out a few times. And with Amazon staying asleep at the wheel, the option is now with Tencent technologies in one direction, but there are a few more directions to consider. So now it is time to take care of Bethesda, or hat was Bethesda, it is now Microsoft. I saw the claims that it might come to PS5, it might not, yet the reality is that this is stalling technique. It is not the first time that Microsoft did this. They made similar settings in the 90’s. As such some developers out there will have the option to grow in amazing ways. You see, it is time to create two new games. The first is already on my blog. Search for “lawlordtobe + RPG” and you will get most of it immediately. There is one condition, the simple fact that the game will be made for PS5 and Amazon Luna only, optionally later on Tencent, but that is still some time away. You see Microsoft paid 23 billion for Bethesda, as such making them bleed is a nice present for messing with gamers.
The RPG game A lot of it is already on this blog, yet I considered a few more items. One setting is that you could get a lot more out of a new era. Between 1568 and 1748 the Dutch had over a dozen wars which involved Spain, Germany, Portugal, England, Sweden and Austria. It would also involve the Golden age of the Netherlands. People like Rembrandt would show the world what the Dutch were capable of.
My issue here comes from a setting in the Ezio collection. Ubisoft was great in those days and I just replayed these games learning that they are still massively good. But there are issues, nothing against Ubisoft on those titles. But the setting of Brotherhood gives the stage a much larger setting when you apply those graphics to Dutch settings and adjust it for the 17th and 18th century. When we consider that outfits were merely cosmetic, that could alter. You see someone in German garbs would be massively distrusted, but not in Germany. The same for the Spanish but not the French. Outfits matter and that gave me the idea to have tailors with several layers. Three levels of tailor and you could help these tailors out to gain a level. They could only gain ONE level, as such choices become important. Yet a level two tailor would not talk to you until you are dressed as a level 2 person (and live in that city, or have fame). The same for weapons and in some places you cannot walk with a sword, but you could have a dagger. All things that were assumed in Assassins Creed, but now the systems are powerful enough to deal with it (the Xbox 360 and PS3 could not). It allows for new kinds of stealth. Yet line of sight is important, but so is minimal distance and unless you are correctly attired you get all the attention that you never wanted. Also there was no ‘police’ or protection in every corner. There were a lot more in high society places but that was about it. Still the police was not the worst opponent. Cutthroats were that and now we have an entirely new kind of stealth. When we apply that to an RPG it becomes a challenge, no doubt about that. And when you apply this to cities in the Netherlands it matters. You see, the big places were Utrecht, Deventer, Zwolle, Kampen, Haarlem, Leiden, and Amsterdam. The Hague would not get its city rights until 1800.
Yet this setting towards an RPG would create a new era of gaming. Like the other settings I mentioned you get to have the first two games with similar mechanics, merely a totally different side towards gaming. The Dutch side is often ignored because of its size, yet they had a war that lasted 80 years, in those days that spanned 5-6 generations, then Napoleon made a mess of things and that setting reflects into a nice setting to RPG gaming with optional stealth settings.
As we start the game we get an choice of three
The initial option is Killer, Soldier and Thief. Each with strengths, but there are three more. You can grow in both sides, so the thief can also become a Brigand or a robber (they are not the same and as you can grow to lets say 5 degrees in the first choice, you can only grow 3 degrees in the second and third options. It allows for a lot more playability. But a good RPG game will have limitations. For example, the Thief will never be allowed in the Merchant guild, as such he cannot grow shops, but he can steal art and become really wealthy that way. The brigand has opportunity there as a smuggler, the robber does not. It is that interaction of styles that allows for the play style a person prefers, or they can really leave their comfort zone and do the opposite. The thief robber and brigand will have much better stealth options than the other styles, the soldier side will have better weapon skills and the killer will be equal if not better with some weapons and have better stealth than the soldier, but less resistance to attacks. That is merely one side. The Dutch had the golden age and as such they had all kinds of art and in those days it was very cheap (by our standards). As the Bethesda games have their own niche, the time to create a new niche becomes important. From a Bethesda point of view the time is right, no matter what they claim, they have time restrictions and Microsoft is making it harder for them and there is the option for the new developer and when you get it right with Sony, you get a new hardcore fan group with up to 32 million fans, no matter what some Microsoft driven guru states. This game was played before and you will have to stick to your guns. The options are clear. Are you a real developer or a wannabe? These ideas are free for exclusive Sony and Amazon Luna developers.
I talked about one side and gave you another. Yer when you do the search I stated at the beginning you get a lot more and it all fits together in a few ways. When we connect the points you see so much more and you got it without investing time or money. As I stated before, lets collapse Microsoft before December 2026. Lets show Ubisoft that the claim of every year an Assassins Creed game is a BI setting and not an art setting. Is a game business intelligence of art? I see it as art with added mathematics (at times). Let’s teach some of them a lesson by yanking away their markets and in case of Microsoft, who just (apparently) lost their Blizzard/Activision deal. Lets show them that messing with gamers and yanking away gaming pleasure for $7,500,000,000 comes at a price, one they never counted on. The shareholders meeting of Microsoft could end up being massive fun in 2024/2025.
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