A thing I've discovered while trying to figure out what yoke to buy *when* they're on the market again is that only four flight yokes have ever been manufactured
it looks to me that the only options even before FS2020 dropped were the saitek/logitech, the CH products, and something called 'honeycomb'
in turn, these appear to be:
- bad (reviews say the deadzone is atrocious and uneven)
- ancient (looks unaltered from 1994's model)
- extremely chinese-ODM (pianoblack plastic and weird, tonally inconsistent trim and lighting)
this is one of those things where you can easily just walk around believing that it was a whole market with dozens and dozens of products but in fact it's a niche no manufacturer really cares much about and people have been buying the same dismal product for 25 years
This happens way more than capitalism bootlickers would care to acknowledge. if something sells less than a million units a year, there is no market, there's just one company that dipped their toe in in 1993 and is still using the same molds
This is probably why the FS2020 release emptied the shelves at every store instantly - yokes are simply not a market anyone cares about and stocks were never high.
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you won't find anything really interesting coming from nearly any media business because their revenue sources aren't "put out interesting writing which people can only get here, so they have to subscribe." now it's... god, I don't even know.
the way things sucked before was so interesting, and now it all sucks in the same way.
it's always the same thing. every day, the same thing. everything is bad for the same reasons. I used to complain about businesses. I gave up. There's no point. It's always the same explanation, and everyone already knows what it is.
thinking about how we've fallen so far from gods light. in 1994, a pc magazine writer tasked with covering doom bit their lip, thought a little, and said "i should put a complete map editing tutorial in there. maybe next to the cheat codes"
let me tell you why the future we live in sucks so much dog shit every single second of every single day: data. as recently as the 2000s, businesses were stumbling through life completely lost and had no idea what they were doing. now they know, and everything sucks
do you fucking know how many people got paid anywhere from a living wage to big bucks to sit around and "i don't know, do something", and then nobody knew how to figure out if the thing they did made any money, or in fact, if they did it at all?
I haven't even hit 100k subscribers and this is what my inbox looks like. every day i get emails
I now receive multiple shill offers daily. Most are "from" electronics "manufacturer" storefronts on amazon that likely do not exist as anything more than a sheet of paper in a government office in China and one of hundreds of rollstamps at a factory in Shenzhen.
I can't figure out the scam, honestly. I'm positive these "businesses" don't exist in any meaningful way - all the six-letter names you see on Amazon and Aliexpress cannot have staff and offices. There have to be millions of them, it's unthinkable.
so it turns out that the rubberized coating on the Latitude E6420 is not the only thing that high-test isopropyl dissolves. it strips the paint right off the plastic.
well, nothing to do but to do it
the upper 2" of paint are absolutely nuclear-grade. must be baked on there from years of heat, took as long to remove 1/3 of that part as it took to strip the whole rest of the thing