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November 1, 2026 · 18:53

Aging

We all feel it and I felt it today in a massive way (with assistance from IKEA) it is not that I don’t get it, I get it just fine, but I face the aging of my body, it is getting to 70 years old now and varying three piece es of furniture to my trolley implied tossing 6 boxes on that trolley and each and every try one was throwing out my back (and then some). Still, the IKEA staff members were excellent in handing me support and assistance. I reckon that they were thinking “What the hell is he doing carrying 240KG in boxes?” A thought that should have occurred to me quiet plainly. And the next day (whilst I was eagerly destroying my knees) I occurred to me that there is a second setting of bias, bias of my own abilities. So when we (now) look at bias (like Rina Diane Caballar) we see “Humans are innately biased and the AI that we develop can reflect our biases. These systems inadvertently learn biases that might be present in the training data and exhibited in the machine learning (ML) algorithms and deep learning models that underpin AI development. Those learned biases might be perpetuated during the deployment of AI, resulting in skewed outcomes.”Humans are innately biased and the AI that we develop can reflect our biases. These systems inadvertently learn biases that might be present in the training data and exhibited in the machine learning (ML) algorithms and deep learning models that underpin AI development. Those learned biases might be perpetuated during the deployment of AI, resulting in skewed outcomes.” It occurred to me that bis and validating requires a timestamp of this validation, because out via of the outcome is becoming the bias of the equation.

So when we see “Skewed Outcomes: Machine learning models are trained on large human-generated datasets that often reflect real-world prejudices, leading to biased decisions in hiring, healthcare, and policing” which is what IBM is handing us, but the hiring manager is trying to do what a hiring manager is trying to do, rolling with the punches of time, but his ‘assistance wizard’ is not doing this and it becomes a grey/black issue for the machine, whilst the hiring manager is looking for that white resume. So whilst everyone is ‘bottoming his/her resume’ quality is falling in between the cracks of unemployable ad the traps they have.

We then get “Algorithmic Opacity: Deep learning models function as “black boxes,” making it difficult to trace how or why a specific discriminatory choice was made.” Which we get from the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner. And whilst these models are not to verbal on how decisions are made there is every chance that this will instill a brain-drain. You see, some others can see that some degrees sound impressive but they are useless (in the beginning) so whilst some will drag this out by handing their tech support to philosophy graduates. The hiring manager is confronting a new workforce where sone stay quiet, so will revert to the caveman analogy and we can go on a few turns on that, all whilst the hiring manager requires a programmer who correctly addresses the Machine Learning modules and start preparing for dozens of exceptions and exclusions, whilst the essential inclusions are largely overlooked (actually they are merely overlooked until it is too late to do something about that). And it becomes worse because the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner will try to explain the wrongful act of Discriminatory choices, making transparency even less likely.

And then IBM gives us a gem (a diamond in the rough if you prefer) “And while organizations are taking advantage of technological advancements such as generative AI, only 24% of gen AI initiatives are secured. This lack of security threatens to expose data and AI models to breaches, the global average cost of which is a whopping USD 4.88 million in 2024.” Does anyone realise that in hiring the lowest assistance can secure over 60% whilst the Gen AI is getting only 24% and that is before some could have thought of “Search for security gaps in AI environments through risk assessment and threat modeling.”, “Assess model vulnerabilities by using adversarial testing.” As well as “Invest in cyber response training to level up awareness, preparedness and security in your organization.” So whilst some might do some of these things, the investment of millions merely hands them an optional rise from 24% to 45% securing investments and whilst corporations are looking towards ‘Microsoft data centres swing to $326m profit amid investment spree’ all whilst they all listen to Satya Nadella talking up a storm, we see “Accounts filed with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission show the company increased revenue 33 per cent to $3 billion, and paid $165 million in income tax for the year” (source: Financial Review) and no one is looking for ACTUAL success stories. I saw one success story, it was BMW with “Cut vehicle production line downtime by 25% while boosting quality inspection accuracy to 92%” but was that actual AI in use, or was that machine language optimizing machines? We see all kinds of numbers thrown at us, but whilst we see ‘dodgy’ accounting in effect like “Microsoft has not laid off 60,000 workers; instead, in late October 2026, the company announced a Voluntary Exit Offer (VEO)—a buyout program—offered to about 60,000 employees (roughly 27% of its global workforce of over 220,000 people” So where are they going to go. And I am still of the mind, when the world wakes up to the flim flam AI artistry, we will see managers falling over themselves to rehire whatever they can and their opposition is doing the same and likely succeed where the VEO offers fails. Because when we see that machines cannot do it all, when the clarity that there needs to be a person who activates the verifying module and when these big wigs come back with the setting our AI does that, and whomever gets a day of looking into that, will see a tsunami of harm coming all their ways. But I have learned that managers who get rid of the people who gets them into hot waters, there is the opportunity for the adversary of that firm, but what am I saying, Microsoft and Amazon doesn’t have any adversaries, do they?

So what does any of this to do with aging? Well, there are a few settings “Data aging is the process of moving old, low-relevance, or historical data away from active, high-performance storage or memory into secondary or historical storage areas” (source: SAP) as well as “It moves inactive or closed records (such as old financial transactions) from hot in-memory storage to cold disk partitions within the same database. This reduces the main memory footprint and speeds up queries for active day-to-day data, while keeping historical data accessible via specific SQL range restrictions (WITH RANGE RESTRICTION).” The question becomes have these training modules kept up with these aging routines? Because that element is often not in exported data, as such the validity of the data as well as its verifying functions are failing. So whilst we are considering “such as old financial transactions”, so how are these records of Gerald Payne, World Plus and a few others are seen by these ‘machines’ and whilst we are aware that there is a link between these settings, the setting of ‘with age restrictions’ might not be used everywhere as such the amount of credible data is failing (harshly) and I am merely stating obvious cases, but these poi scheme settings are still being used and some are ‘confidential’ because they are being investigated and syphoning out these dealers gives them a case for suing for discrimination. Because in the United States (as far as I know) “Under federal law (Title VII of the Civil Rights Act), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) states that blanket bans on hiring anyone with a criminal record can be discriminatory.” So these people merely need to prod the fake AI system to see where they are ‘disregarded’ and start a case against these discriminatory parties. I reckon that this will be a class action case for 2027. Don’t take my word for it, just watch the news, it will happen. I feel decently certain of that.

So there am I (still aging) taking up my fight with the white Fågelfjället, I will not be defeated by my age or that massive amount of wood (even if it kills me).

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October 28, 2026 · 20:13

Out of moves

That was the first thing I thought when I saw the BBC article (at https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckpdg4pl7pgvo) with there title ‘Police using AI risks making discrimination worse, researchers warn’, the article itself was three days old, but I have had a few things on my plate, it is not the greatest excuse, but it happens to be the truth. We are given “The growing use of AI in policing risks increasing discrimination against minority groups, researchers have warned. Studies suggest that predictions of future crime hotspots may be based on biased data, which can magnify existing prejudice and create a dangerous feedback loop.” I couldn’t have said it better myself and but it is also based on settings that are more true than anything the truth could bring, because (as I have said over and over again) AI does not (yet) exist. It is mere predictive analytics and that requires data moreover it requires validated and verified data, the outcome in any different setting is what we call the GIGO law (Garbage In, Garbage Out) and that pretty much spells inaccuracy, bias and outright discrimination. And we are given “This would involve checking the data that forces use to find and remove any bias, according to Dr Carolyn McKay, an associate professor and researcher in digital justice at the University of Sydney Law School.

“The public functions of state policing ought to be subject to human oversight and scrutiny,” she says.” This could be the start, but until the data is thoroughly scrutinized the outcome of these predictive models are at best debatable and in the worst case a mere blanket of discrimination, although the policing parties will cover this with ‘Mister X’ looked at the data and we believe it is accurate and when the first case comes where we validly can deny the truth of it, the class actions will come calling. Leave it to any lawyer to see the business end of wrongful convictions and as I see it, that is the only path that will be seen as merit. The article gives it in a different shape, but it is the same outcome, here we see “The problem, according to McKay, is that AI systems are trained on data that already contains human bias, and this can lead to self-fulfilling prophecies. Think of AI as a map-maker asked to draw a map of a city they have never visited. They are locked in a windowless room and can’t go outside. All they have are maps that are 50 years old.” Take one mere consideration “London police corruption in the 1980s was defined by deep-seated internal networks, ties to organized crime, and systemic cover-ups within the Metropolitan Police and City of London Police” and anything connected data that is used is mere gap fillers for a bias and discrimination in London alone. Now we get back to the village of Sydney (the one in NSW, Australia) where we see “Police corruption in Sydney during the 1980s was a systemic and deeply entrenched feature of the New South Wales (NSW) Police Force, particularly within vice, drug, and detective squads in areas like Kings Cross” now these two villages were not sanitized over a day (or even in years) that means that any documentation is tainted with ‘accidental’ inaccuracies and this goes on for close to two decades. Consider that tainted data to be the beginning of predictive analytics and you have yourself a massive amount of class actions and personally hit people demanding representation and even if there is human oversight. How can that person rely on any data he/she sees?

And I am merely pushing two obvious places in the foreground. Take a harbor town like Rotterdam (Netherlands) or even Antwerp (Belgium) or Paris (France) and these are harbour cities, as such there are many parties who ‘disregarded’ and ‘adjusted’ reports and data, the entire setting is drenched in ‘obliging’ failure. But not to worry, the legal system will proceed and defend the damaged parties and their bills will not be cheap (they need a cushy life too) and this setting (as I speculatively see it) will give these lawyers thousands of hours and these players go for roughly $750 an hour, now take that times 50,000? Is anyone seeing the outcome of that failure?

And that is before you see the outcome of class actions that might reach an easy billion in punitive damages. And I have been making sure that the settings of validation and verification was clearly mentioned in most of my ‘fake AI’ articles. And whilst we consider that and in TechCrunch via a writer called Anthony Ha (in LinkedIn), we see ‘AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, Apollo economist says’ where we see “AI hasn’t benefited the bottom line of any big corporations outside the tech industry, according to a note recently published by the chief economist at Apollo Global Management (the private equity giant that used to own TechCrunch). Apollo’s Torsten Slok focuses on what he calls the S&P 493 — the S&P 500, minus Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla — finding that profit margins and revenue per worker appear to be flat, with no evidence that AI is improving productivity.

“Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech,” Slok said.” Now take that equation to what some call a failing police force with tools that make things harder, less reliable and legally expensive. That is the setting these police forces are seeing. So whilst ‘some’ made statements, the one that reverberated in my mind was “Masayoshi Son, the chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group, has been the primary SoftBank executive speaking out about the AI bubble. He asserted that global AI infrastructure will require roughly $5 trillion annually and argued that AI will eventually transform the economy to generate massive profits.” The fun part for me was $5 trillion annually and ‘AI will eventually transform the economy to generate massive profits’ but as I see it, AI is 15 years away (at the very least), so who is paying for the $75 trillion? And what profits will be gotten? And the issues of data validity and data verification will not go away and they better start today if they want their boat comes in in 15 years, because unverified and unvalidated data is still junk data. (Punters might call that CCC data) so it is worth less than nothing. So how exactly are profits coming in? Because as I see it, the police will be using that same junk data and the money is gone and no one knows where to find it and to give you an example Reuters gives us “STAR50 Index Collapse: China’s main AI and semiconductor stock index, the STAR50, plunged by 40% in under four months, erasing about $480 billion in market value.” As I see it, hardware is the first to fall and the mentions of “Western markets have experienced milder pullbacks—such as a roughly 6% drawdown on the Nasdaq—as major tech firms and chip giants continue to draw heavy capital inflows and massive infrastructure spending” is as I believe it to be false creations. They merely hide it better and the 5 large investors are covering each other and investing in each other, so when that bubble burst (I personally believe it is already bursting) they make claims of tax write offs and pay no tax for a few years (a speculated view by me).

So in this atmosphere you want the police to use fake AI whilst it is predictive analytics and I am not against predictive analytics, it is a good tool if the data is reliable and that is in too many cases seemingly not the event we are hoping for.

So you tell me, where is my thinking wrong? I worked in data analytics since 1992. I saw the rise of predictive analytics, but the people never trusted this, so someone came and called is AI, but it is not AI, not even close. And no one is thoroughly investigating data validation and data verification, because these two settings is where it all goes wrong, horribly wrong.

So you all have a great day and don’t let my words make it sound gloomy, the news won’t tell you this, but that is them. They are now all about the digital dollars. And the start of this article was given to you by young British science writer Adrian Dredge wrote about the potential pitfalls of AI and policing. The essay won the 2026 Young Science Writer Award, chosen each year by the Association of British Science Writers. A man I do not know, but he was awarded the honour by people who know things, so that is seemingly good enough for me.

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October 28, 2026 · 00:52

Truth be told

There is a small issue. First of all I love Frontier games. I have been a fan of Elite since 1984. That love still remains. And when I got Planet Zoo on the Xbox One, I loved every bit of it, it was a nice journey into gaming. So when I heard its successor was out, I never hesitated. But here we get issues and issues is a small setting, optionally nothing. Lets show you the stage:

It is the second run on the career. First we get Locate the Warthog Habitat. Which took seconds, just look to your zoo, soon in and soon you have it, nothing too fancy and it works, but then you need to Locate and select an Exhibit, so here the issue starts. After 10 minutes I was unable to do this. And as you see, there is an abundance of choices, but what to do? The issue is that after 5 minutes, the ‘educator’ should have said something according to the lines of “Are you having problems with this? Go to any exhibit and now press ‘whatever needs to be pressed’ or even illuminate the buttons/options in an illuminating colour like ‘gold’”. As I see it, the game has a lot more to offer, but in this stage the younger gamers will abandon the game, which would be a shame as the game looks truly inspiring, as much as the first game was.

So I feel a little sad that this was never discovered in the final testing. So when we get to that latter part Select a Lion and enter Animal Camera, I wonder why an earlier option Walk through the park and see what the visitors see wasn’t there (at present), and this is the second stage, the first stage was great, drive around in Africa and take a few snapshots. I had a blast and it felt like it was a great successor and it was a great look. So what went wrong, because either I am doing something massively wrong and the game didn’t pick up on this, or as I see it, they failed in educating the gamer. It could go either way, but I am not stopping this game. I loved the first game and I feel certain that this hiccups will be resolved. Perhaps the tester did this on a Monday morning, whatever the reason. This should’t be happening to a software house with decades of experience, but that might be merely my view on the matter.

Have a great day today

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October 27, 2026 · 13:02

Lousy wake up call

We get that at times, some are expected, others never were and when they come they git you like a freight train. This morning I woke up to the knowledge that Walter Koenig left us at the age of 90. He was an acting giant and I remember him from the early days of Star Trek in 1971 (the Netherlands got it a little later then the rest of the world) and we loved seeing him as the Russian ensign on Star Trek

We saw his work over the 79 episodes of the original series, we saw him in the movies all the way to his promotion to admiral (The voyage home) and after that in the movies that followed. So, you would think that was the end of it, no, it was not. He accepter the role of Alfred Bester in Babylon 5 and grew his fanbase even more. He was not the most popular character, but he made excellent work of him being quasi evil (according to security chief Garibaldi), but I think he had his own axe to grind.

What goes without saying that millions of fans in two series are mourning the loss of him today and to them, his family and friends I wish them the sincerest condolences.

We lost a titan today, and it hurts a little, but we have an escape. We can watch his work again and again and see the splendor he brought to the screen.

I wish you all a happy day, whether you ever met Walter Koenig or not. Whether you saw Pavel Chekov, or Alfred Bester or not. We all will row with the oars we have and I wish you all a decent week as it is only Tuesday here and Monday in the Westlands (aka Canada).

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October 26, 2026 · 00:05

An idea for someone else

That happens, I am a true believer of IP and its real owner. There is no leeching involved. I am hereby going the idea to JK Rowling, ho could optionally hand it to Avalanche software, the makers of Hogwarts Legacy and the sequel.

I was watching some YouTube with fanfares and it suddenly appeared to me that we know very little About the original founders. We like to believe that Gryffindor is good and Slytherin is evil, but that would be too bleak a setting, its like saying all bad people are truly evil. Ghengis Kahn, Benito Mussolini, Donald Trump. The setting seen now is not the setting as it was a thousand years ago. And as this is all Wizarding world this becomes the ownership of JK Rowling.

Anyone who knows me knows that I like RPG and that I really like replayability. In this the origin of the houses one to mind. You get to go to the places where Helga Hufflepuff, Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin originated. You get to see all four lands and do missions in them but only the house student gets to do that one mission where you could own and restore the houses, with an optional secret passage from Hogwarts to your place (and it gives the room of requirements a moments rest). So any house can do missions there (optionally within these four towns) and learn spells and make friend, but only the hour student can embark on the one mission that will grant them the original house of a founder and they all require reparo (and perhaps a few new spells) to get the place in a spit spot place (Mary Poppins made me say that). There is also the settings that these places have mixed muggle and wizarding people The idea that there is a lot more to offensive spells and therefor other spells need to be created. Like an are disillusion spell, that gives a ‘nasty’ dislike to the place as muggles. And there is a drive (in me) to let these houses look a little like the houses at Hogwarts, so Hufflepuff will be a burrow, Ravenclaw will be a tower and Slytherin will be an underground house (optionally by a lake) and Goodrich place will be in Godric Hollow, optionally Harry’s place of birth with a few extra basements. Because I do not know how far HL2 is, I can’t write missions on them and only on the parts I wrote here. But there is a setting where we could see the interaction with muggles and that could confuse a few things. So I am a little in the air on that. But the wizarding people will come with missions, lost items optional overrunning spiders and a fair bit of Inferni. There is the chance of Trolls and perhaps a new kind of troll depending on where you are. There is a side where we could save as many Centaurs as we can and destroy the ash winders. But there is also a time limit, so that you have to rush to save the Centaurs and the more you safe, the greater your fame becomes. There is also the setting that not all trolls are bad and that frost trolls and frost giants might be worthy of saving (but that is merely a first thought), so as each land has its own dealings, these are dealings that you take back to school, optionally in your sixth or seventh year (not sure where HL2 is) it makes things less complex by adding Hogwarts and the surrounding areas, and this offers the makers to propagate the save game they had in the first HL, making this a continuation and optionally a reason to play HL again.

There might a reason for Avalanche to launch both games together on the Switch 2, but that is up to them. What does matter is that I gave form to these ideas (optionally being completely rejected by JK Rowling) but that is her right, it is her IP. I am merely spitting a few ideas and hopefully they land in willing ears and optionally not fits what Avalanche Software had in mind.

So have a great day all and soon I have to start Hogwarts Legacy for the fourth house (Gryffindor) as I saw that place in the 8 movies, as such I wanted to see the other places first.

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October 24, 2026 · 20:16

That one script

So, things are going rather poorly in my life. Movers that give no response (not knowing what their timeline is) then we get the nasty setting of double rent (old place and new place) and a few other factors that are going not so great. So, as I was contemplating the words that Trump has defeated Iran (which is no a real thing) I was contemplating what can I do to upset the balance of power. Not the rich ones, they have their bitcoins their squared away billions. But the average man, to one from the lowest to the top 75%, what happens when President Trump has them squared against him, so what would it take?

As such a ‘script’ for TV came to mind. It has all the likely things drawing people to the screen, partially nude ladies and men all wondering what happened to their clothes and a mere fraction might be safe. Then I remembered the composition of US currency. 75% cotton and 25% linen. It is made by one one place and it is prohibited to own that kind of paper (unless it is US currency). Then the nasty demon (sitting on my left shoulder) pricked me with his fork and said “Do it, don’t be a pussy”, the angel on the right shoulder kept quiet (he usually does) and as such I created the makings of a biological weapon, not against people, they are mostly immune, as such people had no idea what was going on, but their currency was getting eaten (although that was not entirely clear in the beginning) the linen wearing nurses were first out in their lingerie and as such a few more who were betting on cotton clothing and optionally linen too. From there it went bonkers (except for California, where nudity is seemingly a way of life), so whilst people with their hands were providing the handling of cash and forwarding these microbes, the setting became almost non entertaining for banks as one bill set on a stack would infect the whole tray of cash and when it came to light that their money was getting devoured and over a trillion dollar went up in smoke chaos became the new ‘news item’ of the day. And the lower classes who live by the dollar had nothing left at the end of the day, the banks had even less and their policies had these savings on file, but no longer in their vaults. You see, this is the foundation of chaos. Take an everyday item of the table and the world goes mad. On the other hand, drug cartels with their stored money will soon learn that they have a little less than nothing, so there is that to consider.

As I see it, the Bitcoin will make a rapid rise, so if you are into that invest before the script becomes a TV item that will scurry the American population into fear and mayhem.

So whilst we are in the setting of a digital boom, consider that diverse weapons have many more diverse consideration and the ones that don’t kill might do a hell of a lot more danger than you consider.

Well, that is my blowing of steam. I wonder what I will come up with tomorrow. I already had an idea on how to nullify Iranian oil in very much the same way. You see, someone advocated (on LinkedIn) a microbe that eats oil. For oil spills a radical efficient way to take care of business. To drop a bucket of that stuff in a 122 million barrel storage vats, so what happens when you poor a bucket of that stuff in those vats? How long will that oil hold? Makes you think doesn’t it and no missiles were needed to destroy them and the contaminated oil will propagate to every oil dump in these vats. It must be my week to be nasty and vindictive.

So have a great day and I will focus on getting the calm back into my soul.

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October 23, 2026 · 07:27

The claim of game time

We all see it, we all endure it and in some cases the game makers think that 100 hours is forever, then they add a few tidbits and they think they are saved, which is nice, but in this dat on internet ad almost instant fame through Tik Tube and Youtok these maker get a nasty surprise. Now I don’t want to do this, but the same goes for plenty of RPG games. When I play an RPG I look around in places and admire the views they bring, but I realise that not everyone is like that ad one of the first ‘adjustments’ were made by me in early 2014. My mind loved Oblivion and I thought that adding Skyrim to this might be an excellent way to make 400 hours into 2000 hours. But the mind didn’t stop there so as I ‘designed’ this new setting we got Elsweijr and Valenwood to the mix. In my mind there was a unbalanced settings there (I don’t want to call it a civil war, as this is a setting for Skyrim) But this setting gave me a few ideas into Creating New Kvatch. Not a simple mission, because a city is the work of a lifetime and this was done through labour force, so as you create solutions to missions you were rewarded with a few slaves (call them unpaid labor),which gives you the burden of creating housing, produce local hands (for farming) and the need to upstage it all, this stage he’d three stages and you had to find books. You could find the common books on building a  town (brick and iron), or you could find rare books on Dwemer metallurgy (which gives you the Dwemer doors) and you could find advanced books on Whitestone mining. So, you might find a book von moonstone mining and from there the moonstone doors were created and you could find Daedric books, as such there were paths, but there was a catch, you get ONE option, so whilst there is a need to find the books, the choice selected is matching your selection and there is no cheating here. These books are rare to find and you could be playing for 300 hours finding one of the rare books. But the town that was created would make you a council member and whilst you complete missions that give you more and more slaves (volunteer miners) and you need to advance some of them to be overseers or even chief smiths because these are the people that get you the doors. And there is the need for more and directed more. A simple setting that you get by finding quarries and there are a few in the land. And these quarries will get you the stones you need to complete the towns, so whilst Stone might be readily available, White stone that gets you an Ayleid look are not early achieved. So while you are ‘involved by getting the doors and entrance created, the rest is automatically done and when you have an pretty workforce the city comes alive in a few years. It will have all the niceties of smiths, grocers, herbalists and whilst you do not need to do anything for that, they only stay if the city has a clear chance. Now consider Cyrodiill 9 times the size, Skyrim roughly the same size and there would be Valenwood and Skyrim and now we get  the other side. You get one dark brother hood, one fighters guild, one mages guild (which would always be in cyrodiill) and one thieves guild. So consider that some say that Skyrim is about 37 square kilometer, Cyrodiill is about 450 square kilometer and now we add Valenwood and Elsweijr masking them an adjusted 200 square kilometer. Now consider the setting of an RPG with 700 square kilometer challenge and that will keep people busy for years. Because that is the setting we need to realise. Funds are drying up and people can only afford 1-3 games a year. Wouldn’t you want to do everything to make YOUR game the one they chose? And the time of creating viral content on YouTube is almost over. And you can remain in denial all you want (especially if you see yourself as the content creator) but as I see it, RPG’s have a decent chance in all this and we start seeing people with writers block, they need a stage where they can shine and whilst there is a winning team (Bethesda made a massive hit with Skyrim and whilst it was created for the PS3 and Xbox360, it kept people happy for over two generations, which is quite the achievement and now they face the amazing Horizon games and both of them are making quite the splash, so consider that you could try to make something that surpasses it all, or you could set a new frontier and the idea of combining Oblivion, Skyrim and the Valenwood and Elsweijr (optionally after the next installment is added) that is one gaming side that will find a massive appeal in the elder scrolls fans. And as I see it time is running out, because whatever Horizon 3 brings will decide the taste of gamers for some time. And whilst we see all these fake AI’s telling us that 2026 is the biggest year in gaming so far with 5%-6% YoY growth, it is mere speculations, and they are decent speculations, but no one saw the oil setting and that price, or the impact of Bitcoin miners, hardware us getting more expensive data s getting more expensive and that comes before the prices of food and drink and that will cost. Wallop in the next two years. Things will not remain the same and you either get ahead of the curve or you fall behind. Bethesda has the setting that they have the IP to make it work and whilst there would be some redesign, there is a chance that they could pull it off and make millions of gamers happy at the same time, because whatever they do could impact all Skyrim and all Oblivion players and that is one hell of an audience. But the truth is that they are no longer alone in this field and consider the question If you could only afford one game in the next 2 months, would that be Elder Scrolls VII, or Horizon III? And how will that impact your gaming and that is before the Harry Potter fans come out and go nuts over Hogwarts legacy 2? Yes some will be able to afford them all, but that group is shrinking fast, much faster than these so called analysts are seeing and whilst they are staking up the reasons for the why, the real deal is that funds are depleting and that is a hard pill to swallow.

So you have a great day and consider the question that will be on the front of your mind soon enough. GTA6, Elder Scrolls VII, Fallout 5, Hogwarts legacy 2 or Horizon 3 and you could only afford one, which one would you pick? I wonder if that is what Sony saw when they decided to abolish physical games? I actually don’t know but there is more behind their reasoning.

Time for my brekkie.

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October 18, 2026 · 15:53

An idea in the making

I had this idea going when I walked by the postal box service. And as I am in a moving mood (wishing the next seven days I will be writing from a different location) and I got thinking into a new service. You see Kennards, Taxi Box and several others they all have their own idea and there is nothing wrong with them. But what is a student to do? Then it hit me, a new service that could fit those who cannot get a car, or other reasons and these boxes merely fit 4 boxes as such they could fit nearly all the students personal belongings and even if it does not, the idea that a second box was to be rented is still an option. Those who need larger space could fit a normal storage space, it is those with less stuff that fall between wall and ship. The nice part is that most of these places have enough space to either fit these boxes or they could convert one storage space into 10-20 storage spaces. And they idea is to charge these storage spaces $5-$10 a day or optionally $50 a week. There might a requirement that they have to rent THEIR boxes, os that a proper fit is guaranteed and there is a second setting. People who want to move things in part because of car or other reasoning are equally given the options to get out of a bad rental setting could be covered. The locking setting could be your mobile and one setting is that if there is a mobile ‘mishap’ the qcodes (three of them) could be used in the office and the manager could unlock it, or add a 4th code to guarantee unlocking during the day. And app that creates 4 qcodes after the money is posted for the lock and that is when the codes gets deployed. The Three codes (one with an EIMI code, one with a personal ID (like photoID, drivers license or passport) and one free of candles but could contain a password that the user signifies and optionally a location code.

I have seen several settings where it would be a good idea to have such a box at our disposal and in many cases we could have a more generic use for this, not just merely when we are moving, but when we need a place to store something and for these places a $5-$10 er box per person could infuse these people with additional income. I am not discouraging the costs involved, but I reckon that sacrificing one box to create spaces that could generate $150 per day could be a real appeal. And it might catch on, especially in this setting of hardship in many locations. The idea that a person cannot use the needed car until its driver has finished the day is another setting that especially students are given to.

A simple setting that could fetch these storage spaces a tidy coin and it could transfer to Universities, I have seen the inside of a few and the idea to have these storage spaces have a clear abundance of places. And it could be an idea for these universities (especially if they have dorms as well).

So, that’s my out of box thinking (to keep appeased with the subject) and perhaps it is an idea. I don’t know the cost of these postal boxes, but I reckon that it might be feasible to use this idea. So have a great day and it is not time to enjoy some passionfruit juice to stop my aching muscles today.

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October 16, 2026 · 21:05

The preamble to psychosis

There has been a way of thinking induced. It started when I was focusing on two scripts. It wasn’t that I ‘needed’ to write both, more that the setting of a stage was required. This happens. I let my mind wander and waver until something clicks. Then at some point I was considering the reasons for psychosis. I am (apparently) unaware of its settings. Then my mind started to play with combinations psycho sociopath versus a sociopathic psycho. And I went from there. But then an idea came to me. Not for the two scrips, but it might be an idea for one of them, an episode out of these thoughts. Still, the ideas came calling.

In this idea the character was moving and the first thing he encounters is that his computer is stolen, but he sees the thief and from there he goes on a killing spree. His killing game show so to speak. So he goes on a murder bender, killing the thief in a rage and removing the evidence, although the rage seemed real, it was his way to show the world that he was out of control, but it only seemed that way. His methods are too calculating and too precise, which is why the police isn’t focussing on him. Then he sees what was connected and he goes deeper and deeper into that maze. And whilst we see that ‘maze’ we see the elements of jealousy and envy so whilst he is confronted with the want of something that belongs to him and their fear of losing something that already was the main character. In this he continues his killing spree, a spree that frightens the people behind the thief, their envy becomes apparent but their fear is checked by their greed and that drives the point along. And in my mind, the idea is that their fear of death will push them to betray the people that least deserved to be betrayed and that might give a link to (I won’t call them) organized crime (unless they wield a PDA or a Filofax) but this setting is one that drives several options to the surface and hills, I like where this is heading, it is merely one episode in that tale and in the other setting I am not of a clear mind, but the other one needs to go in a different direction, because the ‘American’ way of ‘adjusting’ the same idea in several paths is not the real deal of any storyteller. Perhaps those with the mere focus of making money, but that is where the ‘Hollywood’ strain comes in.

As there are other options Canada, Saudi Arabia, UAE (both Dubai and Abu Dhabi) are the settings for the next generation of storytellers and as storyteller we have to look where the markets are. And even if I struck out with my first script (me looking somewhat sad), I still have arrows in the quiver, or is that a script in my quill? Although my quill has a keyboard and a screen I can till call it whatever I like, it is mine to name it.

But as we name our tools, we tend to limit its potential. Don’t ask me why, it merely is that way. So from parchment with quill we went to ballpoint and paper then a typewriter and paper and from there we went to computers, laptops, tablets and so on, but at every step we lost something along the way as writing went faster, we forced our brains to go faster and I don’t think it always held up to what the writer wanted it to be. As we gained time to ‘write’ faster, we lost time to think and that is where it all happens in these gray cells, that is where our stories started, not on paper or on screen, in our minds. And whilst we consider what we gain in speed, we lost creativity against time and that is the conundrum and even I see this, no matter how fast the idea evolve in my brain. I realise that the time gained is lost into a second or even a third thinking over the idea I had.

And there we see the preamble, an introduction of events that comes before the formally formed writing or even the written action to explain its purpose and optional background. The is the setting and I let set this to a more direct setting. The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem containing 15,693 lines divided into 24 books. But how long did it take to write it? I cannot find anything stating that, merely that it was written around 762 BC. The is as good as it gets and compare this to the 28 verified deals across the year (with some industry tallies tracking roughly 19 to 23 core summer/seasonal milestones), but how many scripts were offered? Some say 20000-25000, I honestly have no idea. But in this stage where we see so many scripts making the rounds. How many are honestly originals? I can’t tell if mine is original. I personally think so, but the idea that someone had a similar idea is not out of the realm of possibilities. As such I put parts of my scripts online, it gives a timeline of originality (or so I believe it does). And as I am contemplating more settings (which beats the stories on politics of today) and in some aspects the warmongering I have, because that at least comes with the grounds of originality. And we all admire originality in ourselves and in others. It is the beginning of innovation. And whilst we see the need for innovation, some are merely in it for the money (those numbers with a preceding $) and whilst we can accept that, I have a lessened need for that, this is why I gave the ideas I had on dealing with Iran to both Saudi Arabia and the UAE, they can see if it works for them and as such I will have done my duty as a person.

Perhaps I will gain some out of it, but it is not my goal (still it is nice to get some) and whilst it is not the main setting, the idea is to make it part of my story is still an added part of it. Why matters is that more people are looking into their options to stop players like Iran in ways I never considered. I optionally took out the railway systems, the harbours and a few other settings (like refineries). They are merely optional settings but someone else who could have had chemical degrees (My chemistry knowledge is massively below par) could have found a way to poison the oil. My limited setting is merely set to add yellowcake (no idea how to put my hands on that, or if it would even work) to the oil, irradiating it all and making that mix useless for generations (as well as spending billions in separating the two). There are likely a lot more options (I reckon the members of the Pentagon never earned their stripes), and that is merely a thought coming to mind and optionally the start of another setting for an episode. And I do like to surprise my self, just this day I surprised myself wth a slice of Tiramisu, best surprise ever (they ran out of Black Forest cake).

So time to think of a few other settings and hopefully Final Draft works out their copy/paste problem, so I can set at least a few more options to ‘actual script’ Have a great day.

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October 13, 2026 · 04:07

How Google is losing the plot

Yes, it happens and in this age of all the fake AI it will happen a lot sooner than you think. So, you want to see evidence? Easily done. 

So here you see the result of the query [lawlordtobe + “tome”]

Seems simple enough, so why was “https://lawlordtobe.com/2021/07/22/tome/” omitted? It was a simple enough request and whilst we see results that ‘kinda’ answers the request from 2018, all whilst the ACTUAL article was not there and it was published in 2021. We get an AI overview, we get all kinds of articles, but not the one I asked for. So how did Google lose the plot? I am kinda curious. Because the query itself is really simple. There was even an older article in 2020, but that one was called ‘Tomes’ so it might not have made the ‘query setting’ but then neither did the other ones because the one we do see is tagged with “iBook”, but the title is “An actual competitor” so whilst we get into the setting of blame (like) “You should have done ….” No, I asked for for the specific query and I might have gotten more and that would have been fine, but the one mention that I actually needed was not given. 

We seem to have the ‘old fashioned’ setting that Google responds to OUR query, what we wanted and they are even selling Google ads on that premise “do what the question asks” so why is Google missing the point by over a mile? 

So whilst we were given n the past ‘US v. Google Antitrust Verdict’ with “A US federal court ruled that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly in the search and digital advertising markets through exclusive default agreements with phone makers and browsers” I am contemplating that some of that ‘overlapped’ in different fields (and contemplating does not mean that they are doing this or that this is happening). But in this day and age where we kinda rely on Google giving us the goods, the simple fact that it does not, is a massive cause for concern.

And this was merely me looking up something for myself regarding what I myself wrote, so how much more is there out there?

Have a great day (I am still 240 minutes from breakfast) 

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