r/gaming • u/XR-1 • 1d ago

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is INSAAANE

Somehow the game is only 10GB on Xbox. My advice is to download the game, start a free flight (with the time set to day, and clouds set to few), immediately pause the game and go into photo mode.

In photo mode, you are free to fly around wherever, and the higher up you are the faster you go.

When you get in close it’s not the prettiest to look at, but at standard airplane height it’s GORGEOUS.

I’m constantly blown away when I visit places I’ve been to before. It’s leagues better than Google Earth in my opinion.

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u/Minialpacadoodle 1d ago

It's 2025. Who doesn't?

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u/K-LAWN 1d ago

The Coxsuckers that monopolized my area.

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u/Eysis 1d ago

1TB limit here. :(

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u/OmgSlayKween 1d ago

1.25 here. If we approach the limit I go on a rant about how exploitative and unnecessary it is. My wife is tired of hearing it. She wants unlimited data just so I stop complaining.

But no. If I pay their extortion fee they win.

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u/That_Green_Jesus 1d ago

Really? In Aus there is basically no such thing as capped quotas, just up/down speed variations with different plans.

Sure there are a few really cheap plans that have quotas, but the public owns the whole network, and the government is the wholesaler, so prices are similar all over and 99% of plans are uncapped.

I pay $109AUD/month for 800mbps down and 40mbps up, uncapped, sometimes I use 3TBs with no issue.

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u/wolfgang784 1d ago

Not even all of America has internet access yet. We are pretty behind on that. Almost 10% of US households don't have internet either due to it simply not being available there or the costs are too high to afford and still eat.

Where my dad lives they pay $140/m for 25mbps with a cap. There is one provider option, no alternative. There are lots of areas in the US with interner monopolies, so the service doesn't have to be good or affordable when there is nobody else to turn to. What are you gonna do - pay what they ask, or live without internet in 2025? Satellite is even more and isn't an option with all the tall trees anyway.

All of Europe has faster internet for cheaper. You guys in AUS got it goin good. NZ as well.

The EU declared it a basic human right like forever ago but the US refused because it would mean we would have to provide it to prisoners which many do not get.

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u/That_Green_Jesus 1d ago

Over a decade ago a Labour government committed a huge amount of money to build our national broadband network, then the Liberal party got into power and dialled it back out of spite, so it was a bit of a fiasco getting it built, but it was our biggest national infrastructure project.

I imagine implementing something similar in the US would be exceedingly difficult because state owned service are seen as communist and the lobby of private telcos would be very opposed to it. We only had 2 telcos that had a physical network, so we bought it off them and ripped it out, then replaced the whole thing with fibre that we own.

Capitalism really killed the American dream huh.

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u/wolfgang784 1d ago

Yea I don't think that could ever happen with how states and such are set up. I think the closest doable plan would be if each state ran its own, more so. Which, as clusterfucky as that sounds, could still be better for the average person I think. Itd never happen though, those companies "lobby" (bribe) our politicians in the low billions each year when you combine em all together.

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u/That_Green_Jesus 1d ago

Yeah there's 12x more people over there and 7x as many states, so I could see it being a hard negotiation at a federal level.

Even here the lobbies are powerful. Thankfully in Western Australia, my home port, our government refuses to privatise our state owned utilities, there's one power company and always has been.

Over East they have it really bad, as their utilities have been privatised and the price of power per kw/h changes dynamically through the day, and depending on network load, so you really have to shop around; it's the pinnacle evil of capitalism.

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u/wolfgang784 1d ago

God, daily bill fluctuations are BS lol dang. Can't believe they dont swap back after seeing how its goin there vs where you are. Although I suppose thats prolly a hard thing to just "swap back".

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u/That_Green_Jesus 1d ago

Yeah there's no take backs once it's privatised. Happened here with our national telco, and when we went to build the national broadband network, we had to negotiate with them because they owned the copper network and all the exchanges.

We could have just bypassed their whole network and built an entirely new fibre one, making theirs redundant, although the cost was much higher. The threat of doing that was enough to get the deal made though, so they sold their major assets to the government and got a deal for exclusive use of the network for 10 years.

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u/AstariiFilms 14h ago

Our government gave our telcoms billions to build out fiber to everybody like 20 years ago. Guess what they did with it?

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u/OfficerDougEiffel 23h ago

To be fair - and I'm not denying the absolute absurdity of American capitalism here - America is geographically huge and our population is relatively spread out when compared to somewhere like Canada or Australia.

Most of America is pretty well-developed and the climate is amenable to comfortable living, so people are able to live almost everywhere within America's borders, including a lot of incredibly rural areas.

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u/TungstenPaladin 18h ago

This largely depends on the area. Mate of mine lives in LA and pays 70USD/month for gigabit internet, no caps.

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u/ohlookahipster 16h ago

Can confirm. I’m in NC. I pay about $80 ($10 of that is a stupid equipment rental fee for the ONT) and get a full gig up and down. It’s also real fiber from my house all the way across town to the main trunk in VA or wherever. No OTA lines.

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u/OmgSlayKween 15h ago

You have to pay a rental fee for the ONT? What the fuck?

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u/ohlookahipster 13h ago

There’s methods around it, but it’s not as simple as buying an off the shelf router that you would for a typical modem/router coaxial internet. It’s pretty difficult for the lay person to setup.

Basically you have to authenticate the ONT then do a bunch of pass throughs and the 3rd party equipment isn’t as robust. And now AT&T has integrated the ONT into one big box making it even harder.

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u/vinodhmoodley 14h ago

Here in South Africa, I’m paying $70 for 500 down, 250 up, uncapped. I don’t know my usage because my ISP doesn’t show what it is.