My Top Ten Games Enhanced By PS5

 

These games have gotten a visual boost with Playstation 5. They all feature increased resolution, increased frame rate to 60 frames per second, and smoother responsive controls than on the original Playstation 4 hardware. 

1.  God Of War
   
   
2.  Monster HunterWorld: Iceborne
   
   
3.  Ghost Of Tsushima
   
   
4.  Spider-Man Remastered
   
   
5.  Days Gone
   
   
6.  Titanfall 2
   
   
7.  Spider-ManMiles Morales
   
   
8.  Ratchet & Clank
   
   
9.  Killzone: Shadowfall
   
   
10.  Knack

Next-Gen Hardware Spring Update

As it stands right now in April of 2021, all next-generation gaming and graphical hardware is still pretty much impossible to acquire unless you are a scalper using AI purchasing bot tools. It is unachievable for any normal consumer to buy a new Playstation 5, or an XBOX Series X/S, or a GeForce RTX 3000 series GPU, or an AMD Radeon RX 6000 series GPU. These types of units have been unattainable since October, November, December of 2020 etc or when they all had their respective debuts recently. 

What's new is that Crypto-currency miners are now involved. Crypto-currency companies are now using bots to buy up all of the new next-generation GeForce RTX, and AMD Radeon RX GPU's (Graphics Processing Units otherwise known as Video Cards) in order to use them in crypto-coin hashing calculations and crypto-mining operations. This creates another huge problem and effectively keeps these useful GPU's out of the hands of gamers, and content creators and video editors alike.

The bots + scalpers are the biggest most obvious issue but are only part of the problem.
There is the abysmal quandary of not having enough units to meet the demand in the first place.
There is also the dilemma in which the manufacturers, and distributors are not setting rules for how the products are distributed by retailers. The manufacturers and distributors probably don't even give a damn since they are just able to just offload their full stock, and are already meeting their quota and getting paid.
An additional frustration is that retailers themselves are doing little or not enough to fight, let alone stop AI purchasing bots via the online avenue.
Similar in fashion to the manufacturers and distributors, the retailers probably just don't care about the actual consumers because they are able to just offload their entire stock to bots & scalpers and are still able to get paid. They don't really care if the product actually reaches the hands of real people, and real buyers, and real individual users.

COVID-19 is an obvious culprit, forcing the manufacturers to have lower than desired output of actual hardware. The current pandemic plays a big hand but, the supply & demand & hype trends have existed for much, much longer and continue the same patterns they've had for decades.

As long as retailers only trickle out a few hundred units at a time or relatively small quantities, there is no hope for us normal consumers. Bots will continue to snap up all of that limited stock every single time. If retailers are even able to push out thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of units, there would be a much better result for regular consumers. With plentiful stock, there would be absolutely no chance for bots to be able to buy up everything as they are doing now. The deceptive profiteers behind the maddening AI bots are just not rich enough to buy up all of the units if the inventory was ranging in the high thousands.

My opinion in the last three paragraphs in my winter blog entry still remains very similar:

If I could reach out to my fellow people and shoppers out there I would say this, "Please don't spend your hard earned money on next-generation hardware from Scalpers. Every time one of us buys from a scalper, we just enable them to keep doing it. Wait patiently and in a few months we will all have one from a retailer at a fairer price".

Because of how the supply and demand system works, there will still likely be a shortage of Next-Generation hardware well into 2021 and maybe even into 2022.

Retail online websites absolutely need to protect us consumers and change their websites and online sales systems. They need to implement a form of 2FA (Two-Factor Authentication) in order to stop these auto-buying AI bots from ruining everyone else's experience. One good example of 2FA would be introducing a Captcha form somewhere during the sequence of an online transaction. Captcha images usually rely on human user input to select either an image sequence, or selecting a word from analogue cursive writing style that is not using a regular text font. Another one is MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication in which a one-time alphanumerical code is sent to the human purchaser's point of contact, whether that be a mobile phone call, mobile phone text, or an e-mail address and then that code has to be sent back to verify that they are a real valid human being that is shopping.

One interesting tactic I had heard rumors about was that one retailer was very concerned with protecting it's human buyers. So this rumored retailer implemented a massive price hike of the PS5 to add something like $2000 over the retail price, but then only offered a specifically handed out coupon to real human buyers that discounted the $2000.  The positive result here would then cause these bot-using scalper type scammers to lose money if they attempted to buy up PS5 units.

Any of these can help deter AI bots and can significantly reduce the amount of non-human buyers.

Netflix Secret Codes and Categories Search

Here are the secret categorized Netflix codes that unlock a plethora of hidden movies and shows. 

*THESE ACTUALLY WORK! I CHECKED THEM!*

Just input the numeric code in the search bar and it gives you all the shows, documentaries, and movies without searching each one individually by name.

Action & Adventure (1365)
Asian Action Movies (77232)
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Action Comedies (43040)
Action Thrillers (43048)
Adventures (7442)
Comic Book and Superhero Movies (10118)
Westerns (7700)
Spy Action & Adventure (10702)
Crime Action & Adventure (9584)
Foreign Action & Adventure (11828)
Martial Arts Movies (8985)
Military Action & Adventure (2125)
Anime (7424)
Adult Animation (11881)
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Anime Dramas (452)
Anime Features (3063)
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Anime Series (6721)
Children & Family Movies (783)
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Disney (67673)
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Dramas (5763)
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Faith & Spirituality (26835)
Faith & Spirituality Movies (52804)
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Foreign Comedies (4426)
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Horror Movies (8711)
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Romantic Foreign Movies (7153)
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Romantic Comedies (5475)
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Sci-Fi Adventure (6926)
Sci-Fi Dramas (3916)
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Sports Comedies (5286)
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Every First Game I Ever Had...

Do you remember the first game you ever bought for any of your gaming consoles and PC? I dug way back into my archive and made my list. Each of the games that made it onto this list aren't necessarily my favorite for that system or platform. It just means it was likely one of the first available and I had to absolutely have it with each new system when they were released.

Here's my list of every first game I ever had for every console and PC I ever owned.

Atari 2600 - Frogger (1981 by Konami)

ColecoVision - Buck Rogers: Planet Of Zoom (1982 by SEGA)

Intellivision - Burger Time (1982 by Data East USA)

Nintendo Entertainment System - Duck Hunt (1984 by Nintendo)

Nintendo Game Boy - Tetris (1989 by Nintendo)

Sega Genesis - Sonic The Hedgehog (1991 by SEGA)

Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1992 by Capcom)

Sega 32X - Mortal Kombat II (1993 by Midway)

PC Pentium Windows 3.1/DOS - Dark Sun: Shattered Lands (1993 by Strategic Simulations Inc.)

Nintendo 64 - Super Mario 64 (1996 by Nintendo)

PC Pentium MMX Windows 95 - Diablo (1996 by Blizzard)

Playstation - Tekken 3 (1998 by Namco)

PC Pentium II Windows 98 - Final Fantasy VII 7-disc Collector's Edition (1998 by Square)

PC Pentium 4 Windows XP - Diablo II (2000 by Blizzard)

Playstation 2 - Final Fantasy X (2001 by Square)

Xbox - Halo: Combat Evolved (2001 by Bungie)

Nintendo DS - Mario Kart DS (2005 by Nintendo)

Xbox 360 - Gears Of War (2006 by Epic Games) 

Nintendo Wii - Wii Sports (2006 by Nintendo)

Playstation 3 - Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007 by Treyarch)

PC Intel Core 2 Duo Windows Vista - Left 4 Dead (2008 by Valve Corporation)

PC Intel Core 2 Quad Windows 7 - Starcraft II: Wings Of Liberty (2010 by Blizzard)

Playstation Vita - Gravity Rush (2012 by Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Studio) 

Nintendo Wii-U - New Super Mario Bros. U (2012 by Nintendo)

Nintendo 3DS XL - New Super Mario Bros. 2 (2012 by Nintendo)

Xbox One - Call Of Duty Ghosts (2013 by Neversoft Entertainment)

Playstation 4 - Killzone: Shadowfall (2013 by Guerilla Games)

PC Intel Core i7 Windows 8 - Far Cry 4 (2014 by Ubisoft Montreal)

Playstation 4 Pro - Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (2016 by Naughty Dog)

Xbox One X - Forza Horizon 3 Ultimate Edition (2016 by Playground Games)

Nintendo Switch - Super Mario Odyssey (2017 by Nintendo)

PC Intel Core i7 Windows 10 - Forza Horizon 4 Ultimate Edition (2018 by Playground Games)

Xbox Series X - Gears 5: Game Of The Year Edition (2020 by The Coalition)

Playstation 5 - Marvel's Spiderman Miles Morales Ultimate Edition (2021 by Insomniac Games)

Wi-Fi Terminologies & Important Notes

Wi-Fi 6e    * The 802.11ax Wi-Fi standard in 2021, but it is extended to the 6 GHz range for even more spectrum space. The 6 GHz expansion leads to even more stable connections and even less Wi-Fi interference.

802.11ax    * referred to as Wi-Fi 6 and the newest 2019 Wi-Fi standard.
   
OFDMA        * An updated version of OFDM. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access. Using multiple frequencies to carry data on multiple data streams to avoid inteference on a single stream.
Similar to CDMA (cellular division multiple access)

OFDM    * orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. It is a term used in legacy Wi-Fi networks preceding 802.11ac. Using multiple frequencies to carry data on multiple data streams to avoid inteference on a single stream.

BSS Color    * Basic Service Set color is a feature of Wi-Fi 6. It is used in SSIDs to solve high density. an AP + 1 user = a BSS. identifying each individual BSS, helps in re-using spatial streams within a channel.

TWT    * a feature of Wi-Fi 6, Target Wake Time is used to increase the efficiency of battery life in Wi-Fi 6 devices only. Wi-Fi 6 enabled devices, can sleep their Wi-Fi connection and resume as soon as data as transmitted, rather than always being on.

PHY     * predicitive physical data rate within 150m
    * data rates are measured by Megabytes per second or Mbps

dBm     * decibel milliwatts measures signal strength range
        -70 dBm (minus 70) is the minimum but poor signal
        -67 dBm is nearly double the data rate and is optimal (-3 difference is double)
        -30 dBm is at the maximum end and is usually only 5ft or less away from AP
 

Acceptable Signal Strengths

RSSI	Rating	Requirement for
-30 dBm	Amazing	Max achievable signal strength.         The client can only be a few feet from the AP to achieve this. Not typical or desirable in the real world.     N/A
-67 dBm	Very Good	Minimum signal strength for applications that require very reliable, timely delivery of data packets.    VoIP/VoWiFi, streaming video
-70 dBm	Okay	Minimum signal strength for reliable packet delivery.            Email, web
-80 dBm	Not Good	Minimum signal strength for basic connectivity.         Packet delivery may be unreliable.    N/A
-90 dBm	Unusable	Approaching or drowning in the noise floor.         Any functionality is highly unlikely.    N/A
(source =  http://www.metageek.com/training/resources/understanding-rssi.html )

MIMO    multiple-input and multiple-output. Similar to OFDM in concept. Specifically refers to a practical technique for sending and receiving more than one data signal simultaneously over the same radio channel by exploiting multipath propagation.

RSSI    * received signal strength indication
    * Cisco RSSI is usually measured from 1 to 100 and is similar to dBm
    * the higher the number, the more powerful the connection and signal

There is sometimes confusion with SNR vs RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) vs Signal Strength. Cisco RSSI is always measured in positive values ranging from 0 to 100 in order to simplify the relative measurement. The true value of RSSI is difficult to interpret as different manufacturer brands use different scales. Atheros uses a scale from 0 to 60. Cisco uses 0 to 100. Other manufacturers may use anything between 0 and 255.

RTLS    * Real-time locating system.
    * used to automatically identify and track the location of objects or people (RFIDs) in real time, usually within a building or other contained area.

RFID    * Radio-Frequency Identification.
    * a small device used in RTLS systems as tracked units. Also referred to as Smart Labels. Can be attached to inventory as tags. Can also be used as wrist-bands on individuals.

WIDS/WIPS    * Wireless Intrusion Detection Software, and Wireless Intrusion Prevention Software

802.11ac Backwards Compatibility:
The AC standard is backwards compatible with 802.11n. All connected clients do not revert downward to 802.11n and AC will support both clients simultaneously. This is a feature of the new Wi-Fi 80211ac 5 GHz band.

On the 2.4Ghz band the same is not true. It is opposite. For example ‘N’ standard down to ‘G’ or from ‘G’ standard down 802.11b standard, the lowest common denominator will revert the whole section of LAN subnetwork to the speed of the slowest client connected.

Bluetooth operates on the 2.4 Ghz frequency. Similar to 802.11g/n. Used in short range wireless electronic accessories.

Cellular mobile phones operate on the 800Mhz and 1900Mhz frequencies typically.

DECT (6.0)    * wireless phone standard designed to minimize interference with Wi-Fi
        * Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications
        * operates on 1920 MHz–1930 MHz, or 1.9 GHz
        * older generation cordless phones without DECT usually used 2.4 GHz which interferes with Wi-Fi.

Typical Wi-Fi Range    * 802.11b/g (2.4Ghz) WAPs and routers support a range of up to 150 feet (46 m) indoors and 300 feet (92 m) outdoors. (75 ft radius from center)
        * 802.11a (5.0Ghz) is approximately one-third or 50 feet propogation. (25 ft radius from center)

QAM    * Quadrature amplitude modulation
Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) uses both the phase and amplitude of a radio frequency signal to represent data bits. WiFi 6 will support 1024-QAM and new modulation and coding schemes that define higher data rates.