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Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Welp, I tried. Arrakis is supposedly the third planet in Canopus. In our universe, Canopus has just two planets and no references to the Dune Canon.

I may nip to Caladan now... :D

After that, I may go and check out LV 426.
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I've also visited Canopus hoping to find Arrakis - but was likewise disappointed to find no 3rd planet even... is it inhabited by a sufficiently advanced civilisation to build a planet-scale cloaking device - or has an unfortunate inter-dimensional incident involving a galaxy far, far away resulted in its destruction by an imperial space station? ...or were there Vogons involved? :unsure:

That Caladan looks just about right - a very watery world with a few patches of land... why on earth would one want to give that up for scorching desert and mile-long predatory worms? Oh, there was politics involved? The Spice Must Flow! :geek:
 

CMDR Timber McWolf

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Fnord Velkor said:
I have flashbacks of playing Donkey Kong on the BBC Micro with those awful joystick thingies. Who knew that Mario would go on to conquer the game world.

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I just realised it was actually called Killer Gorilla and didn't have Mario ... was it a rip-off or something?

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Source: https://youtu.be/OCcQfTMgKSE?t=34
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I would say so.
Though it could be that they actually licensed the game from Nintendo, who at that time didn't have a console of their own.
In the original (arcade) Donkey Kong, the protagonist was simply called "Jumpman".
If I remember correctly, the idea to name the character "Mario" came from Nintendo of America, in a way honouring their landlord...

My gaming "carreer" started as mentioned before with the SNES in 1993, followed by the N64, Gamecube, Wii and currently the Switch.

The usage of PCs took off in 1998, where I built my first computer, at first with some 486 cpu, which I upgraded over time, adding a 3D-GPU, a dedicated sound board, bigger RAM, a faster CPU and sometimes a new mainboard if the old one died of age, up until a new CPU socket was introduced, which prompted a new cycle. As I built my PCs myself, the only brands I could mention would be AMD, ATI and Creative, which would be in almost all iterations of my PCs. Since my last PC died due to a string of power outages, I am now playing on this Medion laptop, protected by an UPS (no, not those trucks) - with a prebuilt PC (nothing fancy) waiting for me to get this room redone.
 
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CMDR Timber McWolf

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I've also visited Canopus hoping to find Arrakis - but was likewise disappointed to find no 3rd planet even... is it inhabited by a sufficiently advanced civilisation to build a planet-scale cloaking device - or has an unfortunate inter-dimensional incident involving a galaxy far, far away resulted in its destruction by an imperial space station? ...or were there Vogons involved? :unsure:
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My money is on the Vogons. That hyperspace freeway doesn't build itself...
 

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Having finally got both L-6s up to G5, Mikael is piling up the bodies* of Azimuth Biotech troops in LHS 1163 :D

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* or should that be body parts?
 

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Tyres O'Flaherty said:
How are you getting on with that loadout? I tried dual L-6s once and it ended quite badly.
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Getting better with practise; though I only tend to use that loadout in High CZs. Both have Reload Speed, Magazine Size and Stowed Reloading. If I hadn't misguidedly put a scope on one ages ago, I might well have added Faster Handling to both too. Also definitely suits low-g battlefields, since getting a downward shot on a group on opponents seems to work the best!
 

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Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Out of curiosity, I've been looking at various planets from the "Dune" universe. So far, I seem to have found Arrakis, Caladan and Geidi Prime.

These, and LV 426 (Acheron), are places that I really need to visit.
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In Heinlein's Friday, the third act includes an interstellar cruise. There's a section where the route is described in full including some discussion of how 3D it is despite looking 2D in the sky. I think you could infer from that page which stars they are...

That one is probably a "just me" but this one might be better: has someone worked out the Asimov "Spacer" worlds?
 
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