Quoting: EgonautEveryone should be alarmed before buying games at Stadia, as the games are in Stadia only and google has a tendency to cancel projects very often. The other reason why I'm not interested in using Stadia is the spying of Google. Usually you would think that they don't use your data, as you are paying, but everything Stadia is connected to their other services, which all spy on you.

I don't disagree with you on the spying, but c'mon. That ship has sailed. The corps know all they understand how to ask about me. So far, it hasn't actually led to me ever once buying something because I saw an ad for it online, so that knowledge hasn't maybe gotten them quite as much as they might have hoped, but they have it.

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Quoting: g000hQuite impressed by how small it is... approx 650 MB download and uses about 1 GB of hard drive space.

Every so often you see something that drives home the scale of change in computers over the years. I suddenly flashed on when I was a teen, playing text adventures stuffed into 16K.

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There's something about this I find interesting and, well, pretty.

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I have the actual physical board game of Carcassonne. It's interesting, we play it now and then; the way it works is different enough from everything else (well, except this apparently) that I find it hard to figure out what represents good play/tactics past a very basic level. Although I usually win so I guess my basic level is still a titch higher than the rest of the family's basic level. :D

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThat's an odd "we", now that I think about it. I'm Canadian, and we never had the capacity, only the Americans did

Hey, don't talk yourselves down, eh?

Thanks for the shoutout! Oh, yeah, the whole Avro Arrow thing. Man I was pissed off with James Diefenbaker when I learned about that. We had the best damn fighter plane in the world, would have spun off to lots of Canadian high tech industry, and he canned it.

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Quoting: chancho_zombieOn the other hand it looks like the Russians didn't have much success with their computers their Argon System weighted 92 kg (202 lb) (the Apollo weigthed 30 kg, or 70 lb) and it was developed on 1969 http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/argon1.htm
The RAM capacity was 512 words. The soviets were always playing catch up.

Considering Russia had always been considered a really backward country by everyone in Europe, they didn't do that bad. And they stayed serious about space far longer than the Americans did; even when their economy imploded in the 90s they still did their best to limp along (which is why the US ended up having to hitch rides with them for years until Spacex got off the ground). I think the Russians still have a place in their heart for old fashioned manned space exploration that runs a lot deeper than the North American equivalent.
Meanwhile I suspect the Chinese don't really care--they're just doing it so they can say "We're a leading country now, we've got space capabilities like the big boys, so there!"

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Quoting: F.UltraThe Russians landed a rocket (Luna 2) on the Moon in 1959.

With people in it?

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One of my first memories is sitting in a pleasantly dim living room watching a little black and white TV set showing men in spacesuits walking and jumping on the moon for the first time.
Odd to realize that we couldn't do it today. Well, we could, but we'd have to first spend years and billions of dollars to develop and build new Saturn V equivalents. There is a capacity we had in 1969 that doesn't currently exist because we let it lapse.
(Edited to add: That's an odd "we", now that I think about it. I'm Canadian, and we never had the capacity, only the Americans did; while if I go worldwide, I don't know if the Russians might still have some rockets hanging around they could strap together and send to the moon--they never actually did that, but I wouldn't be surprised if an Energia booster could have done it. But perhaps the main spacefaring country had the capacity and lost it)

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Sounds like there's at any rate a bit more effort at . . . coherence? Plausibility? Some sort of ecosystem? Than in your typical dungeon crawl.

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Not surprised. Lots of people really love dinosaurs.

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