Tetris creator Aleksey and few of his company were bought out and borught to Seattle in early oughts by Microsoft and they made a bunch of games for MSN Zone. There was one called Hexic that I remember him posting into a Russian email alias with an offer to take whoever got 5 black pearls first to dinner with him, which I think took out od a good portion of Russians on that channel out of circulation for a day or two…
I played in the (end of) 90s a funny asdf Russian PC game with frogs you should jump from ever-shrinking lotus leaves... anybody know what it was, and even better, find it again for a run down the memory lane?
Video games made in the USSR (2020)
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For me, the surprising part was learning how many Russian people I know have parents or grandparents who were born in Ukraine. I knew that Soviet Ukraine had ~50 million people. Almost 20% of the USSR, and a bit less than France, Italy, or the UK at the time. I knew that Ukraine was one of the most developed and densely populated parts of the USSR, and of the Russian Empire before that. I had some idea how the border…
At the individual level, the boundaries are really blurry. I'm a Russian. I know many Ukrainians. Often, when you meet a Ukrainian, you'll never know that they are, in fact, from Ukraine, unless you ask. Sometimes their pronunciation ("г" as "h" instead of "g") would give them away, but other than that, there are practically zero differences — especially cultural ones. We really are mostly the same people and we shou…
As a Ukrainian living abroad for 12 years it’s the opposite for me.
It’s easy to spot russian person: visually, by russian accent, by English accent, by the way of carrying themselves and so on.
There were always tons of different queues: not 100% accurate, but many good heuristics.
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Novgorod was conquered by Moscow a couple hundred of years before Kiev. Yes it's now considered to be an integral part of Russia but I historically it's not really more of a predecessor of the modern Russian state than Kievan Rus is, it's just another East Slavic/Rus subjugated (quite brutally) by the Muscovite empire.
>"Novgorod was conquered by Moscow" Every territory got conquered at some point. Most "Quite Brutally". This is how current countries were born.
Perhaps, but I was replying to the comment above... Modern Russia is clearly a successor state to the Grand Duchy of Moscow so I don't really see how can it have a bigger claim to the history of Novgorod than to that of Kiev/other ancient city states in the current territory of Ukraine.
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I played in the (end of) 90s a funny asdf Russian PC game with frogs you should jump from ever-shrinking lotus leaves... anybody know what it was, and even better, find it again for a run down the memory lane?
This one? https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika
YESSS thank you! But... Perestroika frogs??? Anyway I think I played the Toppler version (no Gorby I remember) and it was really fun. I'll start digging for it right now...
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At the individual level, the boundaries are really blurry. I'm a Russian. I know many Ukrainians. Often, when you meet a Ukrainian, you'll never know that they are, in fact, from Ukraine, unless you ask. Sometimes their pronunciation ("г" as "h" instead of "g") would give them away, but other than that, there are practically zero differences — especially cultural ones. We really are mostly the same people and we shou…
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The message is very different. The Russian government propaganda boils down to "we would have won this war already if The West™ wouldn't supply Ukraine with weapons that they then use to commit the utterly terroristic acts of taking back their land". Or "we aren't all that different which means Ukrainians shouldn't have their own sovereign state". Or "Ukrainians are Russians who just forgot about that and are now on a misguided path of western influence, we're here to remind them of their Russianness". You get the idea.
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It did, do you think it went from a rural imperial backwater to... A second-rate industrialized economy in the span of a generation by accident?
(Despite being ravaged by five years of civil war, and then four years of a world war.)
A lot of awful things were done in that time period (and the one that followed), but you have to be blind to not call much of it nation-building.
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What is your opinion on FOSS?
Has FOSS produced a popular game that isn’t a copy of an existing one?
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'second biggest industrial power' assume this is a joke. Poor quality: anything that was made was so bad, this habit is still alive and even russians hate their own products. Stealing: ancient car designs and engineering is good example. And as you know it never improved. Millions of lives were taken to achieve nonsense goals, people were starved, frozen, deprevated from food. What kind of human you have to be justif…
I have a Soviet camera lens built for the domestic market (so worse quality) from the 80s and its build and optical quality is fine. It doesn’t compare to similar vintage lenses from Japan but was much cheaper new at the time.
Japan in the 60's and early 70ś produced the same crap or worse than the Soviets, similar to Chinese clones for hardware today. Later in the 70's and the 80's they produced amazing hardware.
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Indeed geography has a well-recorded way of shaping civilizations, cultures, and their competencies.
Are you referring to Jared Diamond? My understanding is that he overstepped his boundary as a scientist here and lack recognition for that particular theory. But I’m a random guy; I might be off base myself
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