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    "Great American Eclipse" II: April 8 2024

    in Science & Spaceflight

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    I was in Bend, Oregon for 2017 and now I'm off to Montreal for this one; I had my eyes on Dallas but after these forecasts, Montreal is looking a hell of a lot more promising.  Hopefully it will go as well as 2017 did.  I'm hauling along 7 years of accumulated equipment with me, so I really hope I won't have to wait until 2026.

    I started playing KSP in 2012. Now I'm at college for astrophysics. Here's how KSP has changed the course of my life.

    in KSP1 Discussion

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    5 hours ago, king of nowhere said:

    you started playing ksp at age 8?? like, you could actually understand something of what you were actually doing?

    Yeah.

    5 hours ago, king of nowhere said:

    what was the trick to get a child to use ksp with some competence so young?

    Well I was already interested in spaceflight since I had seen the launch of STS-125 in person, but my dad is somewhat of a disappointed physicist.  He graduated top of his class at one of the best universities in the world for physics, but is in a different field now (life happens, etc.), so he was able to teach me a lot.  It's not just about him though; I have a younger brother and after some help from me he was able to dock independently when he was 7.  So far as I can tell it really just boils down to interest and effective teaching.

    5 hours ago, king of nowhere said:

    How could an 8 year old understand a maneuver node?

    I have really strong spatial reasoning so I assume that's the main reason.  I'm not sure if maneuver nodes were even a thing then though, it was ages ago.

    I started playing KSP in 2012. Now I'm at college for astrophysics. Here's how KSP has changed the course of my life.

    in KSP1 Discussion

    Posted

    Well I guess I should give y'all an update:

    I'm now attending college and am having a blast.  I knocked out my first quarter with great grades under twice the normal courseload, so I think I may be able to graduate in three years instead of four.  I've also been able to get into research for next quarter on observing the early behavior of supernovae and perhaps other transient events.  I'm still super into engineering and spaceflight though - to satisfy that, I've been working on portablizing my homemade fusor.  Hopefully I'll have that done in a couple months.

    General advice: Do NOT buy KSP2 through Steam or Epic, buy it DRM-free from the PD store

    in KSP2 Discussion

    Posted

    Just now, Kubas_inko said:

    You can consider it DRM free even from steam and epic, as the game does not check anything and just runs (I moved it to a different PC after buying it on steam and it launched)

    I thought that the PD launcher made it such that you couldn't take it out of normal files.  If what you're saying is the case, then I retract my statement in the OP.

    General advice: Do NOT buy KSP2 through Steam or Epic, buy it DRM-free from the PD store

    in KSP2 Discussion

    Posted

    Pretty much stated in the title.  Buying KSP2 directly from the Private Division store (currently) bypasses all the infuriating DRM content that Steam and Epic seem to have in their installs.  Given the experiences people have been having with the KSP1 PD launcher, I expect KSP2 to be annoyingly difficult to separate out from the Steam and Epic control mechanisms, especially when modding comes around.  So yeah, if you want to be sure of an easy experience with mods later on, avoid Steam and Epic.  Get it directly from PD.

    Here's the link to KSP2 on the PD store for those interested: https://store.privatedivision.com/game/kerbal-space-program-2

    Please note that I am not saying that you should not buy KSP2, I'm just saying that if you do want to buy it, get it through the PD store.

    Intercept Games Official Discord is Now Live!

    in Announcements

    Posted

    28 minutes ago, AtomicTech said:

    Big discords can be troublesome if you don't find your niche.

    This so much.  I'm in a server with several thousand members and I just hang out in one specific channel for VFX artists - that way I'm interacting with maybe 20 people maximum, and they're people I'd like to interact with.  Same goes for my own server, even though it's considerably smaller (200+ members) - I just hang out in a few certain channels and sometimes check general chat.

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