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April 21, 2026 · 23:55

This is not centerfield

You might think that doesn’t make sense, but for me it does. I have been all over the field, mainly because a few things are hitting me at the same time. First there is the setting that I feel for, the Attacks on the UAE and a few other matters made me want to shout out towards the UAE. I ‘handed’ them the IP to hurt Iran, as well as a few other matters. So as I saw today ‘Disney (DIS) Increases Peak Ticket Prices to Record Highs’ source: Gurufocus news) I realized that the UAE has a larger recovery plan in place, as long as we deal with Iran and their missiles, the Trump setting does not help and a solution needs to be found, but the UN is useless as I see it, as such there is no expected help from that side. Then we get the false information (usually from people wishing they would become influencers) so that is a side that needs attending to (by the proper authorities) and I have little solution there. I can illuminate these losers, but it is like mopping the floor whilst the tap is still running. So whilst that Disney news is out there, there is a clear side for the UAE to increase the settings in that field But there is one side that could be dealt with, gaining traction through free options. My issue with this is that it is nice, but why should the Emirati government have to pay for it all. It then hit me that one thing that WaterWorld Abu Dhabi has is the Al Raha River. It seems like such fun and especially in Summer. It then hit me that this is one entertainment version that could be implemented near hotels. It seems like a low cost setting that beside the initial building, could offer entertainment, without the high cost. So consider places like Capital Park (Abu Dhabi) it has several hotels around the corner, people visit that place, what could be more inviting than something like the Al Raha River (with a different name of course) where people could relax, without paying a large amount (optionally the tubes have to be bought, or people bring their own). And this is merely one location, you could have a few of these in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, preferably in a place where several hotels are found. There is also the ‘need’ for webcams, or publicly accessible form of CCTV in public places, so that people can see that these wannabe influencers are full of idiocy. So that the world sees that the UAE is open for business and that people are there to have fun. It is a small step to increase the tourist settings as Gurufocus gave me is that Disney (at peak times) of $219 per person, this is nuts, because that amounts to 805 Dirham per person. I reckon that will feed a person for a week (an assumption from my side) the first thing that people who price themselves out of a market need to realise that their audience goes somewhere else. 

Places like Al Baik can feed two people for a meal for AED 55, so that amounts to 15 meals, so my assumption of feeding someone for a week can be achieved, you need even less if you go to a place like Carrefour. But it is not about food, it is about the UAE getting new and more visitors to their location. So whilst the UAE is hit with all kinds of nonsense not unlike “As of April 2026, Smartraveller advises Australians “Do Not Travel” to the UAE due to volatile security, high regional tensions, and risk of military conflict”, we can all agree that there is a risk of military conflict, but what exactly is “volatile security”? The UAE has been one of the safest places on the planet for years. We can agree that there are regional tensions, but this is what Iran threw at them, not in any form what the locals (read: Emirati’s) do. As I see it, it is still one of the most safe places, even with the military tension that exists to some degree. 

As I see it, there is always a need for free entertainment, the USA has it on TV and it is called C-SPAN (or was that C-SPAM)? There is a lot more in focus and places like Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI) should get global views, you see when that happens the bulk of the streaming solutions we are given (at a price), gets competition from Dubai TV, which is generally free-to-air, and now consider that the new Dubai+ streaming app offers free, ad-supported access to 30,000+ hours of content. This was the setting I was considering whilst I was working on ‘Just a Game’ for its part two. It is still a short film, but I tend to be a man of my word and I promised the Director of the NSA (now Army Lieutenant General Joshua Rudd) and the Director of GCHQ (still Anne Keast-Butler) a heart attack, don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against the institutions or the directors in charge, I just needed a hobby and this was the best I could come up with my lacking resources. 

Sometimes I walk through the park (to think things through) and I am watching what is in the park and I wonder, do they have this in the UAE? Totally irrelevant to my setting, but a nation, innocent of anything other then the welfare of its citizens is currently under attack from Iran, it made me consider what else I could do. Even as we are given (13 minutes ago) ‘Trump tells CNBC he expects U.S. to make ‘great deal’ with Iran’, it seems folly as the Islam Times gives us 40 minutes ago ‘Trump Turning Negotiating Table into “Table of Surrender”’ and in all this, the UAE is caught in the middle. So what to do?

I ‘handed’ them my military IP (free of charge) and I have one optional adjustment for the road solution, but that is a little matter. The real deal is what will help the UAE (or Saudi Arabia for that matter). I currently have absolutely no faith in any solution the United States administration brings. 

And there is no need for my actions, but when you see the world burning I want to do something and I tend to go in creative mode, it is just the person I am. It is clear that that this solution is not coming in a day, but there is the need to adjust what there is to improve the pull of tourism and also the joy of the Emirati’s, who serve to let of steam in the meantime. And I believe that tourism will improve if people know what is possible and what is expected and the idea that DMI goes global might be a first step towards getting there and this could be done before the dust settles and as these solutions come forward it would also improve the offer of scripts and talent towards the UAE, but it requires the global audiences to realise that the UAE is more than the Dubai Mall and zero taxation. As more options are shown, more solutions will become available to the UAE and optionally even solutions I never realized, I don’t know everything, so that makes sense. Then there is the setting that places like ADNOC requires staff, only yesterday places were advertising for 929 Marine ADNOC job opportunities, in this world where people don’t have a job because AWS, Microsoft, Oracle and IBM (optionally others too) have shedded over 55,000 employees, they might consider the UAE as a worthy place for their skillset, one can only hope. 

So as you can see, my brain is all over the place and not always in the best of state, but that is me, always skating in his little square like a goalie watching for the puck to come his way, so that he can slam it in the other direction.

So, I am not a centerfielder, I am a goalie (a wannabe goalie for the Toronto Maple Leafs at best) and I am doing the best I can as such I am relying on my creativity (at almost 64 I have to) and I am doing the best I seemingly know. So answer for yourself. Who thought of visibility of the UAE by giving the Dubai Media Incorporated a global stage? Who thought of seeing what parks have and considering the concrete table tennis in Burwood (near Sydney) how many of these tables do the parks in the UAE (Dubai, Sharjah or Abu Dhabi) have? All thought of consideration and there are more sports that could be promoted in this way. The first step in doing something is to have the thought and instilling this in others. Only then will any action make sense. But that is merely me having a thought and optionally a useless one, but that is merely on me.

Have a great day.

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April 16, 2026 · 05:47

Lying for revenue

That is the simplicity of this construct. It is not an error, it was not an oversight and it was not the non existing AI, there is the chance that someone fucked up on programming the ML that connects certain procedures, but the truth is that LinkedIn likely is lying to you.

To illustrate this I am giving you

Here we see 3 profiles looking at individual ‘xzddbv’ it doesn’t matter who this is, because it could be you. I know for a fact that there were at least 4 profiles, but that is outside of a few kinks that LinkedIn gave permission for. It comes with the territory I reckon, the elemental part is that the second sample gives us 

That person (the stated ‘xzddbv’) has zero profile views. Isn’t that odd? A system like LinkedIn that is now accepted as a near global setting for jobseekers, they have no money, they have no options because the job settings on a near global bases is based on lies. I showed in 2013 that some places were unreliable, giving us that there were 1600 open Unix positions in Sydney, whilst most of them were bogus. And it went downhill from there, it ended up being a breeding ground for spammers and scammers and whilst these ‘job sites’ made their money for ‘marketing’ purposes they never cared what happened to the people looking for a job. Wasn’t that the revelation of the century?

But now there is every chance that LinkedIn is becoming as unreliable as others and that is just not on. On the other hand I just learned that Microsoft owns LinkedIn, as such the surprise fades (rather fast). So to fire up their engines, can we see if there is a Chinese alternative we can live with? A version of for jobseekers that operates with critical views in the Commonwealth and/or Europe? 

There is only so much we can forgive, it is time for change. Have a great day.

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April 14, 2026 · 23:23

Learning from the lesson

I recently replayed ME3, it was because I have had the legendary version for a long time and I decided to play it on the PS5. It was a fun time, and it made me remember the idea’s I had for Mass Effect 5 about two years ago. After I played Andromeda (long after it was released) and because my funds were limited, the amount of negative press stopped me from buying it at release time (or soon thereafter) it wasn’t until I saw it in a bargain box for $5 that I picked it up, I was after all still curious. And I saw the resentment most players had I was oddly in agreement. The game was to some extent rushed, I saw other flaws. But there was a shining light in that game and the game illuminated a lot of it. As such I started to design the 5th game. To make it more appealing I decided to combine it with Andromeda, so the larger play stayed. I did get rid of the memory triggers. They made no sense. The idea that a trigger on an unexplored world would be the key in something essential. There are more setting, but that was the one that made the least sense. 

The idea was to set to the actual size of the Hyperion to scaled in the settings, then there is the ark (a lot larger) and the other arks will be added over time. The mission games stay at the same level, but trough the Hyperion and nexus we get additional missions and storylines added to the game. There are some limitations that are removed over time (and as the story of ME5 progresses) but that would eliminate the triggers and we get human, durian and the other arks. 

But this is just window dressing. The original did do a good job to transfer the battle settings of the game and as this is enhanced in the new game, we get other settings too. Eos and Voeld will move in opposite directions, as Eos cools down, and becomes more and more fertile, Voeld will warm up and do the same. The setting will erupt when Voeld will get its original life forms evolving in the game. But the setting will give us a few other allowances. But figure this small fat. ME Andromeda was created in 2017, it is now almost 10 years later and still absence from all kinds of revelations? I created this setting over 2 years ago, which does not mean anything. But as I see it, I created over half a dozen games in my mind and set some to my blog for others to create the games and optionally the lore that these games imbue. But the lesson learned is that these so called game developers are set to lose whatever they designed. Others take over these gaming studios for the betterment of profit and as such they drive the excelling powers of game creators away. Electronic Arts, Microsoft and optionally Ubisoft too. As some state “the gaming industry is undergoing a turbulent restructuring, balancing record revenues exceeding $184 billion with intense market correction, including roughly 45,000 jobs lost since 2022”  So corporate greed is endangering the gaming world. And whilst we see some (for now) escape that. One example is Guerrilla Games and optionally Avalanche games. There are considerations that it is now optionally too late for Bethesda Gaming studios, but if they unstrangle themselves from Microsoft they might have a chance. There is all almost unwritten rule that creativity stands opposite greed. Some will come with ‘but there is’, in the end they are either part of the creative cloud or the greed cloud and those do not mix. Consider these studios and see where they went wrong. You’ll see it when the cloud gets a clear identity. Consider the setting I voiced and see how I created some form of Elder Scrolls 6 in 2014, ME5 in 2018 and a few more. Do you think I was more intelligent than they were, or did they get rid of the creative minds that stood in the way of their greed? It is merely a speculative view, but as I see it, it holds water. 

The world is getting more and more aware of the hidden dangers of gaming and that is why the PC is losing ground to Nintendo, because as these gamers see it, Nintendo has forever been about fun and that is what gamers sign up for. It is followed by Sony and the rest of them have become an optional problem. Even the setting of streaming games is now in danger of being warped into something different. 

As I see it, the only solution is to give the indie world the ideas for good games and whenever that happens, the greed driven community loses out. They are too small for the game exploiters (like Microsoft) and when these ideas pay off, these exploiters will have to pay through the roof for an empty shell and I move on giving more ideas to new indie gamers. I might not make anything, the only thing I see is that I created more and more creative solutions and my place in the universe is set. 

Anyway, before I give more thought to the Third Horizon game (I already did, but I am awaiting what Guerrilla comes up with) and there is Bethesda who (through channels) made claim that TES6 was at least 5 years away and whilst that was the case, I constructed the idea of an Elder Scrolls 6 in mere weeks. Technology would take longer, but would it take 10 years? As said “Microsoft finalized its $7.5 billion acquisition of ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, in March 2021” and in those 5 years the gaming world suffered. So what does it take to ‘streamline’ billions of gamers through Microsoft? Well, I for one am not ready to find out. Where Microsoft gets involved gaming suffers and as I see it Redfall (2023) might be the most clear evidence of that. As one reviewer states “Redfall is a bafflingly bad time across the board.” And the setting does not end there, the gaming world is in danger and Microsoft made it so. We might want to rely on Guerrilla games and other s to save us, but they are doing their thing and we all have to step up to secure our gaming world, whatever it is and I am primarily focussing on Nintendo and Sony, there are others, but to some extent they are already under the Microsoft spell and whilst we are ignorant of that setting, we are allowing another US administration to come for our sanity. That springs from the old saying “The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play”, it comes from Star Trek, episode ‘shore leave’ (1967). As I see it, it is one of the clear sentiments that has been part of all our lives. And there is enough evidence to support it. So we can still still until a new game comes along, or we can fuel the innovators in programming and gaming to give them the ideas that could relax our minds, I personally choose the second option. If the stage is set on exchange of ideas, this is the only idea that makes sense to me, as such I will imbue the indie game makers with ideas to fuel our sanity. Life works in unintended ways doesn’t it?

So whilst my brain is contemplating additional settings for Mass Effect: Emerging Worlds and I transformed Elder Scrolls 6 for other uses, there are a few other ideas that could use my time for exploring. I created some thoughts on Hogwarts Legacy 2 and I leave Horizon 3 alone for now, they created 2 amazing games and I will let them create their thoughts in a new game I would want to explore on day one. Still, my mind considered a few steps, so I am curious to see what they come up with. I am not the only creative mind, as such I love to see what others come up with. So let the world of game creators dazzle my mind by showing me what they can come up with.

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April 14, 2026 · 10:05

Secondary reasoning

That was the first thing that hit me when I was introduced to the BBC article (at https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn08ep6d5ndo) named ‘US home buyers ‘frozen’ as sales slump over Iran war fears’ a few hours ago. You see, what it says here is not a lie, it is incomplete. We are given “The US housing market is struggling as the impact of higher mortgage rates, fuelled by the US-Israeli war in Iran, begins to bite. Figures from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) showed the number of homes sold in March hit their lowest level for nine months, falling by 3.6% from a month earlier.” You see, the population of the United States is starting to figure out that this president will throw them under any truck heading for them, hoping it will slow that truck down. So whilst we see “impact of higher mortgage rates”, which might be true, but there is a whole lot of other factors playing. We see labor statistics giving the media that 178,000 is good and much better then we thought. But in that meantime Oracle sacked 30,000 people and they are not the only one and whilst we partially accept that this is the fuel the AI pressures. Some will realise that AI doesn’t yet exist and that the fallout will be soon. And as Europe is abandoning Microsoft (for plenty of reasons) the setting of data centers when they are not getting filled with data is another setting in that cog. Then there is the Iranian clambake which is not about the clambake, it is about the price of oil, so whilst like the house as presented. Some will see that the heating bill will grow sand in the cogs and whilst the mortgage goes up by factions at a time, the heating bill will take gulps out of your budget and it will drive fuel prices up. So your house in a nice place, it is also miles form the place of work and that is the real driver. So whilst some are in the dark on how many people, drowned on the Titanic (1997, James Cameron) the world will agree that it was a boatload and the specifics are basically made redundant. 

So when we are given “following drops in January and February, rates have shot up since the US-Israeli war began. They are increasing on expectations the US central bank could continue to hold interest rates in order to keep inflation under control, dashing hopes of further cuts by the Federal Reserve.” There is no mention that President Trump bashed the hopes of home builders by pissing of Canadian lumber, driving those prices up even further, this gives additional money requirement to houses and which now requires a slightly steeper interest setting. So whilst you want to say that you are happy with the $200K home, the additional $780 on additional mortgage and the additional price of lumber (set to a rough $5125) is not in the budget and it drives the prices up. Now we get oil that was $69 per barrel in 2025, we now see that same barrel going for $98 dollar, almost 50% more expensive, so consider that some claim that by June that price is a plausible $150. So, who can afford to heat their houses at 50% higher energy bills, with the optional 50% raise in a few months. And it is all due to their kind and loving president (I believe his name is Donald Trump). 

So whilst the BBC article gives the people in the United States plenty to worry about, the US finance industry has a much tougher time ahead. Because at this rate close to (a speculated) 17% of the housing market will collapse and the people who are in dire need to get rid of their homes will not find any buyers. But I recon that the Finance industry will hold hands and become the new landlords to a massively tough market.

As such, houses are more expensive, fueling houses (electricity and heating) will make them unaffordable and the borrowing ability of the United States goes straight from ground level to basement level 5. So whilst we might give some validity to “Indicators point to “weakening housing demand following a recent jump in mortgage rates and a collapse in consumer confidence”, said Thomas Ryan, North America economist at Capital Economics. Both are “knock-on effects” of the Iran conflict, he added.” The words given doesn’t make Thomas Ryan clever, perhaps the fact that he is avoiding that all this was due to the American Administration is and the several factors that are ‘ignored’ have nothing to do with Iran, it has everything to do with some narcissistic individual that he was the next Jesus in a nasty line of nobodies. And make no mistake, when the other factors come to play, there is no avoiding the setting of the US administration, because when (not if) the European stability, which requires and absence of Microsoft come knocking. The data centers that have no input will be pushed in to a bad mortgage bank which will then be pushed into receivership. So my next question becomes: 

‘Who wants to own a data centre? They are going cheap.’

And I reckon that the silence that follows will be deafening. Only a fool takes on a war at two fronts (Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821) and only the king of fools sets a tariff and bully demand on 15 fronts (Donald Trump, 1946 – who cares). It is a setting that will haunt the United States until at least 2076, but some say that the United States will not survive until then, giving the history of the United States with less then 300 years, a setting of greed and exploitation in plenty of books to reminiscence over.

But then, I could be wrong. Do you think I am wrong, or are the factors you see starting to make sense and when that happens where will you place the media in all this. A mere reporting entity or a bleeding effect of greed and digital dollars?

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April 13, 2026 · 16:16

With the coming of Linux

That is not entirely the truth, Linux has been here for some time but now France is going the way of Germany and Denmark, pushing Microsoft out of the door. I reckon that Microsoft played their cards too early and against the wishes of their audience. We cannot blame the Trump administration for everything, so as France goes. I reckon that Monaco will also dial down the Microsoft beast and not to forget Lichtenstein. It has deep roots with both France and Germany, as such there is every chance that they, labeled one of the world’s wealthiest countries, boasting a GDP per capita exceeding $200,000. Which is uncannily high. It has a specialized financial services industry and also has deep roots with Switzerland. So, there is a chance that this might also end the power of Microsoft in the land of cheeses (banks also). I don’t think that Microsoft will yield the field, Excel for its origins in Lotus 1-2-3 has become the power system to call home for many in the financial industry snd there is no way that others can dethrone Excel, but that is pretty much the only application that is sitting safely and pretty. 

TechCrunch gave us (at https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-to-reduce-reliance-on-us-tech/) the setting “The country said it plans to move some of its government computers currently running Windows to the open source operating system Linux to further reduce its reliance on U.S. technology.” It is high time that this happened, but it still might be done in time before all these data centers would be holding onto EU data, they’ll still hold a lot, but not everything and that is when the dollar value of Microsoft goes into decline. Brian Sozzi (Executive editor Yahoo Finance) gave us “Goldman Sachs analyst Gabriela Borges pinned the company’s 23% plunge this year to two factors in a new note on Monday. First, upward revisions to capital expenditures without commensurate upward revisions to Azure cloud sales. This resurfaced concerns about returns on investment and Azure’s competitive positioning against peers such as Amazon’s (AMZN) AWS.” I reckon that the hundreds of millions of users that Microsoft will lose in 2025 will add to that pain, but to what extent, I personally have no idea.

With the American Administration the way it is, that pain is only getting worse, because the bulk of the world does not like that this American administration can get access to any data server that is founded on American soil, even if these data centers are in Denmark (or France, or the EU), these people want out as fast as they can. And that is happening right now. I don’t think that all EU nations will leave, still the idea that Satya Nadella lost roughly 450,402,641 users will have to hurt his ego a tiny bit. And I reckon that the stock price of 370.87 will equally take a hit, as such the valuation of 2.75 trillion (aka 2,751 billion, or 2,751,000 million) will decrease. I have no idea how much it will decrease, but as I see it, the gaming section was hit harder then they expected and now we see other venues take the proverbial dive. That is before people realize that the 27% stake in OpenAI is also seeing some ‘hindrance’ and as they quite recently invested $13 billion in that field. All whilst OpenAI also had a deal with AWS for $50 billion, rumors are there that the Microsoft legal divisions are ready to get their shares back, but I have no idea how deep this is and how far along this is. But when we see this on top of the setting with Fractal Vision (aka DeepSeek with AI for a fraction of the cost OpenAI is heralding), it seems that when the dust settles, the chance of Microsoft seeing 2 trillion vanish like snow in a volcano is not entirely unrealistic. 

How deep this losses go is unknown to me, but you could optionally ask Jamie Dimon (phone: +1 212-270-6265) at JPMorgan Chase & Co. He would know better than me. Still, France is a new cog in this delayed revenue fading machine. And it has the option of dragging several nations with them and from there the losses merely increase. The old expression goes ‘It never rains when it pours’ and I reckon that Satya Nadella has never seen a version of Compound Troubles seen explode on his table and here I was thinking that Microsoft CT was about community training. Ah well, you learn something new every day.

Well, I have to stop now, because I am giggling slightly too intense to enjoy coffee at present. So you all have a great day and consider downloading LibreOffice, it is 245 MB, free and installs easily. Time for me to consider another setting in gaming later today.

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April 13, 2026 · 00:42

Redo from start

Yup, I went there, an old CBM64 error message. And it comes to us through the BBC who (at https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce84rvx0e6do) gives us ‘Great at gaming? US air traffic control wants you to apply’ So, why the error? Well, I had the inkling to go that route. I loved Kennedy Approach on the CBM64 and whilst in communications with the UNSC (posted in El Gorah, 1982) I was briefly ‘involved’ with flight following and in this case involved meant that I was sitting next to Flight Lt Wruck who was doing the job. It seemed simple and he was exceedingly good at it. So, I saw this getting done for weeks and it looked appealing, but then at 19 nearly everything looked appealing. These thoughts overwhelmed me when I saw the message in the BBC with the added “In a new ad campaign, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is explicitly calling for gamers to apply for jobs in air traffic control when its hiring window opens next week.

The Xbox one logo appears at the start of the video before dissolving into a montage that cuts between images of men playing various online computer games and people, including women, in air traffic control towers looking at their own computers.” And I have two reasons for not doing this. First of all it is in the United States and in this political climate and with the current administration it is the last place I want to be, although that job in Canada might still be appealing. 

The second reason is the setting that it is tainted by Microsoft. And with ““You’ve been training for this,” the ad says.” My thoughts go to “Really? How?” You see, in 1985 the message was clear, anyone stating that Kennedy Approach was reason to become an air traffic controller was given a red flag. I have no idea why, because as I saw it, ATC is something you either like or do not. And what games give you the ATC vibe? Fortnite? I can play that game, but I was used to real weapons and real ammunition. It takes the air out of the opponents (as they stopped breathing), but seriously? What makes a gamer a good ATC person? As we are given “The new strategy tapped into “a growing demographic of young adults who have many of the hard skills it takes to be a successful controller”, he said.” I am not debating against it, I merely want to know what makes the gamer a good ATC person. I personally would think that an updated Kennedy approach that gives people the skills to do that job, either with additional coaching or with added explanation, or with added settings and more scenarios. Kennedy Approach was initially a Microprose product and I loved playing this game. Then considering that Kennedy approach was insufficient to cater to this (it was merely 58Kb in size) as such an upgrade would be required. But that field could be catered to for Canada and many other countries. You merely need to adjust the settings of a 40 year old video game.

And if gaming is no longer a red flag, my mind starts cruising to mach 8 to get the adjusted settings to work. Still the idea is decently novel and could be applied to several fields. If I remember this correctly, the US Navy had a similar approach as they used Times Warner interactive to produce AEGIS: Guardian of the Fleet, or at least that was what I was made to believe. It was a tactical game and has almost no high res gaming screens, but the tactical screens were most excellent.

And the additional catch was “The ad also highlights the salary on offer to controllers, saying it is $155,000 (£115,000) after three years of work.” I reckon that this will attract plenty of gamers, especially as you see the the graphic card requirements that these systems require now. 

But this is not a novel idea, it has been voiced before, but the powers that be see gaming as a non-go setting, but in this day and age, gaming is different and it is real life that now starts emulating games, not the other way around. So as we are given new stations to jobs that are showing a lack of people, gaming is a way to get around to that and the funny part is that these people could get the gist of that job whilst finding out if this is something they might want to entertain. There are settings that work and settings that are less than stellar for a gaming solution. On that note, I failed the doctor test in 1985 (The Surgeon decided I was never going to be a doctor) And we can consider more pressing approaches but it is all between your two ears (the brain). And whilst we think that Kennedy Approach is a good way to see if you could make it as an ATC’er. There are plenty of other sides. Silent Service is not the way to find a sub commander. 

Yet, seriously, did it take 40 years to go from red flag to gamers are welcome? Or is the need for more ATC’ers now too pressing that they will consider all options? This is a serious question, because the underlying setting is that if there are no ATC’ers, flights will have to be cancelled. That is the real question that is part of that. I am fine with the idea that those who scored great in Kennedy Approach (or whatever is now the closest to an ATC screen) are set for a career in ATC at the FAA. But there are questions, because as this approach comes from 2021 under President Biden and we are given “The FAA said last year that it would be considered fully staffed with 14,663 active controllers. It was at least 3,000 controllers short at the time and said twice that many controllers were expected to leave their roles by 2028.” The setting that airports would be short of ATC’ers and the station that hundreds of flights would be cancelled if this is not resolved is not without its own set of cascade failures of flights required. It would be the next massive joke if ground crews are stopping flight crew from getting the job done. And there are additional questions that people will have to ask, because there is no way that this is a setting anyone would like to be on their front door as they are flying to their vacation spot, only to be stopped because there are no Air Traffic Controllers available. 

Yes, sarcasms slaps you it becomes irony and I am not being the doom speaker, merely a person who wants a clear understanding and personally it is too late for me (about 25 years too late) but I kinda like that gaming could invigorate a class of people to take up a new career. 

So have a great day, my Monday started 40 minutes ago.

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April 10, 2026 · 01:49

Creation and creativity

That is the setting I see. Someone ‘alerted’ readers that Israel will be preparing for a ‘forever war’ and that might apply to some extent. They reacted poorly to Iran, but not all in all unexpected. Israel was under attack for the longest time of my life either direct, or indirect by Iran. So their setting makes sense to me. But in that same setting a new door is opening up for the UAE. They get the option to open the door of creation and creativity is where the bucks come. You see, if my setting of the United States make sense, America is about to become hindered by its own arrogance and their new reality of ‘we can no longer play that game’, but in that same sense of one, the other setting also becomes clear. 

So I will take a step back and lead you through that setting. Arabic is spoken in most of the Islamic nations and in that setting we get: 

Egypt – population of 90,000,000
India – population of 200,000,000
Indonesia – population of 250,000,000
Pakistan – population of 233,000,000
Bangladesh – population of 150,000,000
Turkey – population of 80,000,000

Which gets us a population of more than a billion and we still have all of the gulf states to get through. These are merely the top 6 and as I see it, it will be soon that the population of the United States will no longer be able to service them. A billion in Business Intelligence and all the dollars that combine them (as well as the Gulf States) and it is business right there for the picking up. So whilst we get IBM and their statistics, Oracle and their databases, Oracle Database provides extensive support for the Arabic language through its National Language Support (NLS) architecture, which handles character sets, sorting, and cultural conventions. But that setting might lose ground support from the United States, now combine that with Business Intelligence, the training of these people and the support from other regions is now getting close to a freewill and adjusting regional support (like Tourism) gets a new lease on life. Combine this with the settings that NICE (an Israeli customer care solution) gives the world, we see settings that might (might is still the operational preferred word) to a population of well over a billion and for the UAE and its near unique position would be able to service this setting to these nations and other too. And as things go from services, the education there might also be in a near free-fall as we see that the United States will lose more and more handle as their services fall short. The UAE could be one of the first to pick up the shortfall and takeover of these elements. As such the UAE comes out stronger and now we see an acquired setting where others might not be ready to take over the elements that were in hands of the United States for the longest of times. But as its settings fall short, they will make knee-jerk reaction to hold on to so many things and more and more service will fall free into the air. A perfect opportunity for the business sense of the Emirati people. 

When you get to think of this, you might think that the United States would hold on to this, but when the first services started to fumble, a lot more comes clear for a free-fall. The AFR gave us (on Tuesday) ‘Jamie Dimon is counting the straws that will break the market’s back’, Forbes is giving us “Every April, Jamie Dimon publishes his annual letter to JPMorganChase shareholders, and every April, the financial press spends a week dissecting his views on the economy, geopolitics, and regulatory reform. Meanwhile the technology section and references—arguably the most consequential parts of the letter for anyone working in banking or fintech—get the least attention. But not from me. Here’s what Dimon said about technology, and why every community banker and fintech executive should be paying close attention:

In a section on new products, Dimon wrote that the risks around customer data misuse are “likely to get far worse with AI and agentic commerce.” He framed this as an opportunity for JPMorgan to position itself as a trusted intermediary—essentially a consumer data guardian—and flagged plans to roll out products around “control of personal data, safe commerce and customer-friendly algorithms.” Community banks should be asking themselves who their answer to that question is. Buried in the macroeconomic risk section, Dimon mentions that five hyperscalers (Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta, Apple) will spend $725 billion on AI-driven capital spending and construction in 2026, up from $450 billion in 2025. The scale creates two problems for smaller banks: 1) the infrastructure gap between large banks and community institutions is widening at a pace that periodic tech upgrades cannot close, and 2) the talent required to actually deploy AI—not buy it, but configure it, govern it, and integrate it—is getting absorbed by the hyperscalers.”

But personally I believe that the story is incomplete (and partially inaccurate) AI is not here, no matter what people say. There is a doom setting towards people not implementing AI, but AI is not here yet, it won’t be ready for decades and people are in this tailspin of doom and all the headless checks squawking ‘Get AI, get AI’ are delusional (some call these squawking chickens Influencers)  and if you pick through that balloon you get a lot of air, but that is all it is. Still the setting of DML and LLM could give some kind of relief when properly applied. I never denied that, but DML/llm is not AI, no matter what the chickens say. And in all this one name on the list is missing. IBM and their Business Intelligence and that is a powerful setting and take their BI and apply it to the top 6 you get one hell of a business venture. And normally there is no getting in-between that. But President Trump and his Big Beautiful Baloney gave life to this opportunity. Too bad for them that the internet is fueled by a WWW setting, not a BBB setting. And now this becomes the option for the UAE (optionally Saudi Arabia as well), but the UAE has a more powerful BI and business setting (this is a speculative setting I see, but I could be wrong), so as we see how the United States is faltering, the failing services for the top 6 named here gives rise to the business opportunity that is falling almost directly in the lap of the UAE. And whilst I might fail to see the how it falls, I believe that Abu Dhabi and Shariah might have the strongest settings. I am not short selling Dubai, merely seeing that these new ventures might be served better in a lower costing setting.

So whilst we see the BS the media feeds the population in the US and optionally EU too, a gap of options will open up in the UAE. Snowflake is already in the UAE (in Saudi Arabia as well), but I lack the knowledge to see where they are at present and I believe that the opportune mind will see a larger field of opportunity. So whilst the world is all screaming (like headless chickens) “Apply IA, apply AI” we tend to forget that only 5 years ago that setting was nil and BI was for almost three decades and out is that soon as the services from the United States are faltering, the UAE now has a option to capture this market and make it Arabic, because the language is part of the new stream, these 6 nations will be the first to capture that opportunity. That has always been the case. As such I say, look where you would go and the United States turned it always into: “Come to us” and when that falls flat, the new players will see what is there for them and I see great options for the UAE (I also want them to enjoy the shortfall others have) which gives rise to the statement “The UAE comes out stronger” and I believe that this believe in self is what is required to had a larger win of an economy handed to the USA for far too long.

So have a great day, my run to the weekend started 90 minutes ago and consider, what else did I miss? I cannot tell where your shortfall is, but I do know that I cannot have seen all the settings of opportunity in a mere three hours. I am clever, but I am not THAT clever, I don’t mind.

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April 7, 2026 · 18:48

Skins

That was the thought that was invading my mind and for the biggest part it came from an app known as WinAmp. The current generation might not know what I am referring to, but their mommies and daddies know exactly what I mean.

You see, the world has forgotten the medium of long term marketing. And it saddens the brain. Creativity starts by shedding this to all the brains it can entice. And we seemingly have forgotten that. Consider that the TV goes on and the same settings are given to everyone. But there Is nothing stopping you from adding that to your TV or digital medium player. Have library that could be added to your TV or even PS5, a skin where we see the addition to your Netflix, Disney+ or Hulu app that gives it a little spice. A setting where the creative person turns the Netflix logo into a Cauldron and we see the books appear, where the books are movies and soundtracks. The Disney+ logo where the image of the Mandalorian comes alive and we see items that are movies, but refer to items seen in that series (never saw the Mandalorian) and the idea is not even merely  being scratched. You name it and it is likely to have a fanbase of millions. 

We can go into any venture from that and the brands themselves might shed ways into that setting. Whether it is Sony, Coca Cola, Steam Deck, Disney, Harry Potter or any other brand that speaks to the mind of others. 

Now consider that you are a brand bitch (like me) and you see your Sony environment, but when you also have your PS5, you might wonder why everything is so clearly cut and whilst the PS5 invites creativity, so does the Nintendo and I see a flaw here. They might have their own boundaries, but there is nothing stopping from a Switch (or PlayStation) to invade the borders of the TV and make over what people do there. As I see it, I would my Switch to take over the TV and set its boundaries there, so whilst we see Pikmins all over the screen of my TV, others might realise that some PikMins have familiar titles and as such, we might see games on that screen, games that we currently and almost forever have been playing. It might be the icon of a game box, the con of a hero (like Luigi) or the dreaded Bowser on his kart. All images we and others relate to the game we love to play. And on top we see the icons that relate to our needed setting like a D+ logo that gives us the Disney look and from there the iconic series that they have invade the screen. The better part is that the kids will relate to this instantly and it gives them an edge in creativity. The same could be said for the PS4/PS5, Netflix, or Hulu groups. Something got lost over the last 15 years and it saddens me, because for amount I thought it made sense and that I the sad part. We are so drawn to making achievements in games that we are forgetting the image to play. Someone once said that the more complex the end becomes the more enticing the image of play gets to be. And they were seemingly right. 

A setting is getting lost in the wiring and it should sadden us all. And the Australian Financial Review is giving us ‘Jamie Dimon is counting the straws that will break the market’s back’ which comes with “JPMorgan’s chief executive can see a long string of growing risks, from geopolitics to private credit. Will that be enough to burst the market’s optimism?” And he came to me last night in a dream handing me 4 billion for my IP (it was a lovely dream) but here he is right on his turf but it is also the setting of a larger play. He sees a “a long string of growing risks”, yet I see a string of losing strings of creativity that will hold us down, because those who turn away from creativity are lost forever to a sea of demands and the turmoil of loss and that deeply saddens me. Simply because if we become pawns of the populist voices, we are actually doomed to make mistake after mistake and we need to see now that there are more ways. This all adds up to President Trump saying (according to the Guardian) “Donald Trump said he was “not at all” concerned about committing possible war crimes as he again threatened to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants”, but in this setting he defies his real fears, the first time is the use of ‘possible’ and the second setting was that he said it at all. He is really scared that he will be put in the Hague in the accusers box facing the consequence of his illegal war. I reckon he is counting on the world being to broke when America folds its finances and he would be wrong. There are dozens of people who are actually innocent and used the Black letter law to the extent they could and President Trump is the one who stopped the game from continuing. I reckon that the one place where President Trump might be save is as a new inmate of Lefortovo Prison or Lubyanka Prison. Anywhere else he is likely to be toast. So there is no easy escape to the Bahama’s or Monaco for him. Too many people there will blame him for their easy escape and they will hold him to account. And there isn’t enough ammunition to keep him safe in the United States. 

So that is where I am and the people who needs distractions are being withheld a simple setting where their creativity is fed, not their frustrations and rage. And my mind is grabbing back to the simple setting of Winamp controls or the theme settings that Microsoft opened in 1995. Who did not have a whole range of themes to brighten up their Windows experience? That is seemingly lost now in a sea of patches and Knowledge Base (KB) numbers. So who gave the world the outlets of creativity? Adobe?

So have a great day and consider where we might be when our need for creativity is fed in all sorts of ways. Time for dinner now.

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April 5, 2026 · 22:39

Who sets the stage?

That is at times and particularly now the question. Metro UK gives us ‘Sony has not choice but to release the PS6 in 2027 but it’s huge risk’, first of all, who decides this? Metro? The audience? I think it is up to Sony to decide this and I am open to a release of the PS6 at some time. But at present, my PS5 (the non-pro edition) is doing ints bit right and proper and as I see it, there is only the Nintendo that is a possible ‘threat’ and I see no reason why the Sony people cannot have a Nintendo Switch (1 or 2) next to it. I still have my PS4pro as well. Both are behaving particularly nice. So what gives? Games? The ones that are coming in 2026 are well adjusted to the PS5 and so is are the ones also facilitating to the PS4. So why would we need a PS6?

Don’t get me wrong I would be happy to have one if there are games that go way beyond the need of the PS5pro, but the only games that might (might being a stretch) get to the edge of the PS5 pro are allegedly Wolverine and optionally Horizons 3.

I imagine a setting where the PS6 could be the Horizon start tile, but I would love to see this release with the trilogy release with Zero Dawn, Frozen Wastes, Forbidden West and Burning Shores as part of this trilogy release. These would be a must for all PS6 gamers. But is that the case? Is Horizons 3 running at the edge of what is possible on the PS5pro? I doubt it, because the makers made it to run on the PS4 pro like a Swiss watch. Wolverine is still not in a golden status, as such it is possible and we see what is possible and we love it, but is it demanding a PS6?

So where does metro come with ‘Sony has no choice’? As is see it, Sony has plenty of options, especially as Microsoft dropped the bal and their balls on the gaming industry, Sony has plenty of choice so whilst wee are given “Namely, if there’s the demand businesses will produce the commodity to satisfy it and if not, they won’t (or else go under). But things are rarely that simple and Sony are its proof.” So this is called an idiots premise. The business doesn’t demand, teenagers without money desire it, that is not a demand, it is folly. And whilst we see that there are teenagers making demand, it is seemingly merely the people who trusted Microsoft for all the wrong reasons. They are not even steam deck masters. So whilst Metro needs to give a real reason (best with supporting data) there is the setting that we filter out the wannabe’s without cash, which takes care of allegedly several millions of wannabe’s.

Oh, and there is another side, whilst many are awaiting Hogwarts Legacy 2, there is every chance that this will require a non pro PS5 to run smoothly. So whilst many gamers are now looking in getting the additional Nintendo Switch 2, we see that the gaming era is changing. Now that Microsoft is likely leaving the scene, the actual gamers will focus on enlarging their focal points. Some will get a steam deck, see will add Nintendo to their domain, but the Sony domain is clear, it is set and it is in that gamers life. I have my PS5 and I am happy beyond believe. At some point I will consider the PS5pro, but at present, my PS5 is doing what it needs to do and it does it well. 

I am merely wondering if WW3 comes to town if I can still play my console if I am glowing in the dark. There is a lesson here, but I cannot see it. No matter what happens, I got Aloy to come out of the forbidden west victoriously even with the plus game requirements largely filled. So will we get a new Hogwarts? Likely but not before 2027, as such the need for a PS6 before 2028 is likely ludicrous and that makes sense. 

Consider the following timelines:
PS3 – November 2006
PS4 – November 2015
PS5 – November 2020

As such there will not be a PS6 before 2028, but there is another level and we are forgetting that. The games, we can see that the games pushed the hardware, only when we saw The last of us on PS3 did we realise that the limits of the PS3 were reached and it showed its superiority again on the PS4. Zero Dawn did the same for the PS4 in 2017 and that was proven the moment the PS5 appeared. I reckon that we will see several games that will push the PS5 (or PS5pro) to the limits. There is a chance that Wolverine will push those limits, but it is unlikely. The PS5 is just too powerful, but that doesn’t mean that Insomniac won’t reach these limits. Time will tell, and that will give us a real anticipated release date. Still the games are only part of this and the sudden chance of a war will also stop these hardware frolics from becoming reality (that and this so called fake AI). We see escalations and the demand for more and better stuff comes when limits are reached and as I personally see it, the PS5 is nowhere near these limits. These limits are not reached because some developer thinks he needs them, he get there by delivering short of where he wanted to get and that require people like Hideo Kojima flexing his muscles, only to realise that he cannot flex them any further. I this trend I have only seen Mathijs de Jonge (Guerrilla Games) and John Blackburn (Avalanche Software) get there in the last 20 years and they seemingly have not reached the limits of the PS5, so we have time. 

As I see it, Sony has choice and plenty of time. They merely need to keep the gamers on the 92.2 million PlayStation 5 happy and as I see it, we are plenty happy. The offside of the cow that influencers try to persuade there is require data and they cannot hand is data, merely conjecture (if at all). Metro UK should keep that in mind. We are happy because we get to play the games and we would like to play more games, so players like Bethesda and Ubisoft might remake some of their games for the PS5, it does help, but it would be better if they consider making games that will genuinely take us to the edge of the PS5, only then when we have these titles and we are considering that it could have gone further will we see the impending need of the PS6. 

Have a great day gaming today on whatever system you like to game on. My weekend ends in 87 minutes, darn.

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March 22, 2026 · 01:28

I am not economical savvy

That is the setting and we can conclude that I am intelligent, but not that economical savvy. I have known for the length of my years that if you spend less then you get, you might get rich at some point. I know it is a little simplistic, but I am not an economist. I know data, I can read, write and comprehend data, almost any data. So when I saw something almost a week ago, I wrote ‘Is it insight or data?’ On March 16th (at https://lawlordtobe.com/2026/03/16/is-it-insight-or-data/) and I stood behind Oracle, not because I am so economical, but because I know technology and Oracle is an essential technology. In some ways it is now chased by Snowflake, but that is the nature of the beast. Oracle might be at the top, but it is forever being chased by whomever wants to get into number one. Snowflake is speeding past all the others, but it will not (for some time) go past Oracle. So when I saw that Oracle had half a trillion in their pipeline, the other news made little sense and I wrote about that and 4 days later (the day before yesterday) we get a fool, a Motley fool no less (at https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/03/20/news-oracle-billion-backlog-ai-stock-buy/) give us ‘Oracle’s $553 Billion Backlog Could Make It the Most Important AI Stock of 2026, But Is It Too Late to Buy?’ Pretty much exactly as I said it was. But they give us more. We also see “It’s worth noting that Oracle stock has lost 49% of its value in the past six months, owing to multiple concerns, including a reliance on OpenAI for a significant share of its contractual backlog and taking on sizable debt to build artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. However, those concerns took a backseat after Oracle’s beat-and-raise quarterly report. Let’s see what worked for Oracle last quarter. Then, let’s take a closer look at its valuation to find out if it’s too late to invest in this AI stock that has the potential to soar impressively for the rest of the year”, with an additional “Oracle’s quarterly revenue jumped 22% year over year to $17.2 billion, exceeding the $16.9 billion Wall Street estimate. The company’s non-GAAP earnings growth of 21% to $1.79 was a bigger surprise, as analysts would have settled for $1.70 per share. The company’s cloud infrastructure business also outperformed expectations, with revenue increasing by 84% year over year to $4.9 billion. That was higher than the $4.74 billion consensus expectation. Even better, Oracle’s cloud infrastructure business is likely to continue growing at a terrific pace in the future. Its remaining performance obligations (RPO) jumped a whopping 325% year over year in the quarter to $553 billion.” Now lets be clear, I get most of that data, but unlike that fool Motley there is a lot I do not see, mainly because I am not an economist. 

And here you might think that there is confusion, because I have (and still) say that AI does not yet exist. But data does exist and when it comes to data Oracle is the Rolls Royce of data systems. So, whatever these people want to make you believe, they can do it better with a good data solution. And all DML (Deeper Machine Language) as well as interactions with LLM (Large Language Models) require the best solution (which gets you to Oracle with optional Snowflake) so whatever data solution these people select, they need to rely on their data ventures and that puts Oracle in the picture and when you comprehend that, the half a trillion dollar pipeline starts making sense. 

What astounds me is that some people like to make some kind of consideration and as I see it, Oracle is a long term investment. You might think it is about the wealth of Larry Ellison and you would be partially right there, he brought Oracle to life (as the saying goes) and whilst some people are in it to play the markets, Oracle is above that. It is the safe place to put your dineros (as the expression goes). 

So why Oracle? As I see it, for over 30 years the people who wanted to get into data emulated and copied what Oracle did and called it innovation, but there is only one Oracle, the rest is almost a joke (OK, Snowflake might be the exception, but it is not as great as Oracle). Some tech firm bought Sybase and flogged it off as THEIR baby and they did well, but it is not the same a being the actual innovator. So as some call it, some stock is up to scrap and as I see it, it would be Oracle. 

Whilst I am writing this something occurred to me and this falls on the mattress of Google. We are given “Oracle (ORCL) is widely considered a strong buy by analysts following robust Q3 2026 earnings, surging cloud demand, and a massive $553 billion backlog. With a 4-star rating from Morningstar, the stock is viewed as moderately undervalued with significant growth potential, although some analysts caution about high capital expenditures and heavy reliance on AI partner OpenAI.” And the two points are in the first “following robust Q3 2026 earnings”, so they decided on earning that will not be completed for another 6 months? Explain that to me, because as far as I know time travel is not a valid method of predicting earnings. Then we get “heavy reliance on AI partner OpenAI.” Why reliance? So, who calls the shots there? Is there a given that OpenAI demands Oracle? I get that people who are in the ‘spell’ of AI require Oracle, that makes sense. But think of that for a moment. There are numerous data vendors. Do you think they all select Oracle because Microsoft/AWS/Google/IBM are all Dodo’s? It is all dependent on what solutions these customers have now and that might set the bar for what data is selected, don’t get me wrong. Oracle is the best as such I applaud their actions. But I have seen my share of boardroom meetings where someone was in favour of whatever they had, as such I have an issue on the use of ‘reliance’ as in ‘heavy reliance’, but that might just be me.

In the end, we all take what we can get and data people select Oracle for the simple setting that it is the best. So select what you think is best for you and consider that Oracle will continue no matter what, because there can only be one number one. 

Have a great day, It is not Sunday here. Time to imitate a sawmill as It is massively past midnight.

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