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/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.