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    Officer, I Can Explain!

    in Forum Games!

    Posted

     

    Quote

     

    You are pulled over on a road right next to the railroad mainline with a heavy-duty crowbar and various railroad-dismantling tools.

     

     

    I'm Gordon Freeman the train engineer, obviously!

     

    You get pulled over next to a mansion with a harpoon, gloves, and a bomb in the back.

    What would you do if you were the last person on the planet?

    in The Lounge

    Posted · Edited by michaelsteele3
    A word.

    On 11/1/2015 at 1:27 PM, ZedNova said:

    I'd go to where the supercomputer Titan is located, install KSP on it and enjoy 20k part ships at 4k 144fps.

    (Yes, i know what bottlenecks and chip architecture is, and that KSP wouldn't work on it...lemme have some fun pls)

    Power 8.2 MW
    Operating system Cray Linux Environment
    Space 404 m2 (4352 ft2)
    Memory 693.5 TiB (584 TiB CPU and 109.5 TiB GPU)
    Storage 40 PB, 1.4 TB/s IO Lustre filesystem
    Speed 17.59 petaFLOPS (LINPACK)
    27 petaFLOPS theoretical peak

     

    Oh dear the things I would do with 693 Terrabytes (693500 Gigabytes) of RAM.

    And what would I do with 40 Petabytes (693,500,000 Gigabytes) of memory?

    I'd DOWNLOAD. THE. INTERNET.

     

    But I would probably still lose faith in humanity by any internet blog post.

    Make a Word From Random Given Letters!

    in Forum Games!

    Posted · Edited by michaelsteele3

    Okay, so I just randomly came up with this a few minutes ago, and I'd rather not lose the idea.

    If this exists somewhere else, I'm sorry.

     

    Description:

    Basically, what you do is make a word as close as possible to being correct with a set of randomly-smashed keyboard inputted letters that the poster above you makes.

    It does not have to be spelled right, it just has to sound like the word if pronounced out loud

    You do not need to use all the given letters

    Rules:

    • Keep it clean
    • Do not use a letter more than once
    • Try to keep your random letters somewhere between 5-10 characters
    • You can make short phrases rather than short words, but keep in mind to not use the same letter more than once

     

    Example:

     

    Poster #1:

    iunerfoa

     

    Poster #2:

    foany (phony)

    fgwojwg

     

    and it goes on and on...

     

    I'll start:

    ______________________________________________________________________

     

    ohwibvhg

    Make-A-Joke! (Game)

    in Forum Games!

    Posted

    On 1/10/2016 at 9:40 AM, WinkAllKerb'' said:

    i think it's here now ; ) but i still don't need ; ) rep is kinda useless to me

    Dat bump tho.

     

    Oh well, I guess I could make a joke.

     

    [joke]

    So I'm voting for Donald Trump

    [/joke]

    its a joke guys c'mon

    Why does my rocket keep exploding?

    in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials

    Posted

    Hi all

    Basically, I flew successfully to Minmus in an adapted version of the Kerbal X (just a bit more fuel for the lander) & landed safely.

    But, (long story short) Jim Kerbal somehow bumped into the craft and tipped it over. Attempts to right it failed and the thing exploded. I have three surviving Kerbals on Minmus, and I need to send up an unmanned craft to rescue them.

    Well obviously Jim was carrying out his plan to take over and rule Minmus but didn't think it through very well. Any person named Jim is always a shady person.

    What is this sorcery?

    in Kerbal Network

    Posted

    So I took a break from the forums over the summer. Riding bikes and playing Gmod, all that stuff.

    So I just noticed a change in the Reputation Bar. Some people (Like Red Iron Crown, for example) have one white rep bar. What does this mean?

    Feedback from the high school teacher who tried KSP

    in KerbalEDU

    Posted

    Hi guys,

    I'm going to be introducing the game to a new year of students this year, but still trying to work out the kinks from last year as students were too discouraged by the game in comparison to other games I tried like Minecraft (including the Galacticraft Mod which pretty much adds space travel to Minecraft)

    Thanks for the feedback though. I'll try to give the EDU missions a go, although from what I see there aren't that many and like someone mentioned, it's sad they stopped developing them.

    I think this game would be perfect for a summer program, especially if you introduce mods like kOS that allows kids to use basic programming to program their launches and teaches kids the idea of coding. Then again, I think Minecraft has advanced so much more in that sense and mods like LearnToMod in Minecraft make that a lot easier to implement and a lot more affordable too.

    I'm sort of stuck with this dilemma now. I do want to use KSP, but my students are obsessed with Minecraft a lot more and not a single one had a positive comment after their KSP edu experience :/

    Two of the girls flat out told me (albeit jokingly) "we hate Kerbal Space Program" because they kept crashing and had trouble understanding the idea of orbits compared to other kids in class. They still loved the experience because cmon,they got to play a game in class, but they just didn't enjoy it as much as when we switched to Minecraft and got to become masters of their own world.

    I think the overall learning curve is a bit too higher for middle-high school kids and in my opinion, many teens do not have the maturity level to persevere through constant failures that KSP throws at you. I'll see how it goes this year though and I'm kind of excited to do it with them as it's kinda fun to see kids scream "oh noooo my Jebedian died! oh wait, he's fine"

    And yet my school hardly allows phones.

    Anyway, glad you're still considering KerbalEDU! Unless I've missed something, I'm sure SQUAD is still working on the project. However, their main focus is on the actual game itself, not KerbalEDU. You just have to teach the kids about it, as KSP is known to have a huge learning curve, they will benefit from it, because I know I did.

    And if I may say so, I really don't think Minecraft's GalacticCraft mod is a good way to study orbits in geometry class. It doesn't exactly even have orbits, just the fake feelings of one. Your kids like it because, hey, let's face it, it's Minecraft. Of course your kids are going to love it.

    Anyways, I hope you give KerbalEDU another shot. Feel free to ask me or the rest of the community any questions you may have :)

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