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Only two slides for tonight. What was supposed to be a standard firewall upgrade at work somehow devolved into a 'let's make the load balancer for the web server think it's on Dres with no antenna' activity. So now I'm listening to engineers trying to find things to blame and maybe, eventually, resolve the issue. About an hour (and several near catastrophic injuries later) I think my first shot at making a mod will be a KAS/KIS air sickness bag. And it turns out that tonight's little adventure in engineering was that someone couldn't follow a backout plan. They never undid their configuration change from step 1. It only took them 4 hours to realize that.

Reservoir Kerbs, starring Mr. Green, Mr. Green, Mr. Green and Jeb, not coming soon to a Squad forum near you! Once I do the reveal, I'll explain the motivation. And the Floyd certainly is at the center of it all. But here is some more story, and another new character! I also adjusted the gradients to take out the far end of the light or dark. I'm hoping it's a bit easier on the eyes.

These two concepts are not mutually exclusive, but the answer is someplace in between but closer to one. Answers will be coming soon, though, I promise. It could be Planet of the Apes or Wizard of Oz... or is it Wizard of the Apes as directed by a PG rated Quentin Tarantino? (OK, these ARE Kerbals, so it would have to be Michael Bay to account for all the gratuitous explosions) This is a good suggestion. I'll make the switch, and then I'll go back and redo Bill's panels that are already up sometime down the road. Thanks! While the theme is much the same as before, the actual details of the original story were, well, a hot mess. And how I actually was playing the game to accompany the story was totally wrong. I haven't gotten around to posting my full mod list yet, but I'm playing it in RSS although the Kerbs are treating it as stock + OPM, because that's all they know. One of my soundstages, though, is the stock system, because some of the mods don't play nice with RSS. Have to be real careful with camera angles there.

The next part of this story is a tribute, in a way, to my step-mother's first husband. In the early 60's, he built a one man civilian space program and set the high-altitude manned balloon record which stood until Felix Baumgartner broke it in 2012. There have been several books and even a movie done on his life, Angry Sky, which is available on Netflix. Spoiler alert, And now the story continues...

And now, Chapter 2. Let's meet our team of intrepid enterprising moderately enthusiastic explorers.

Thanks! I started getting my shots for chapter 2, and then my 5 year old decided he wanted to play Kerbals on the PlayStation. He's actually made it through the first 3 tutorials without much help, but flying a rocket with a PlayStation Controller just seems weird. I tried to help him and didn't fare much better than he did.

James Cameron, the guy who made Avatar, said it: But Jim's story thread isn't the place to continue the discussion of outside stories unless we're tying them into how they influence the telling of his story, which my post here is not doing.

Feature request - adding to the Final Frontier integration mentioned above, how about being able to get a picture of each of our Kerbs? I'm sure there are many people who use Texture Replacer to get different uniforms and faces. It would be another step towards presenting an integrated space program page.

I haven't NOT made a spreadsheet for a game in quite a while. I end up spending more time in the spreadsheet than in the game. My wife thinks it's some sort of Excel addiction.

3 more pages tonight. I'd post a link to the George Carlin Airline Announcement bit, but he uses many of the 7+ words you can't write in the forums.

I started telling this story back in January, and got a few chapters in when I came to the inevitable conclusion that if there was something to be done wrong, then I was doing it as wrong as Kerbally possible. And since I'm still about 42 reboots behind Batman, I'm trying this again... and hopefully less wrong! This series of reports will be using KSP 1.13, RSS/RO, Strategia, Research Bodies and about a bazillion other mods. The story itself is inspired by actual events. I'd encourage you to read up on the Carrington Event of 1859, and then try not to think about what would happen if it happened again tomorrow. Links to chapters on Imgur: Chapter 1 - Echoes Chapter 2 - Point me at the Sky Chapter 3 - Learning to Fly Chapter 4 - Fearless Chapter 5 - Nobody Home (Now Playing) Chapter 6 - Green is the Color (Coming Soon™) Chapter 7 - Childhood's End (Coming Not Soon At All™) And more (I hope!) I'm open to feedback and discussion, but not so much to suggestions. The story itself is pretty much written. I just need to play it out (and remember to get pictures). And now, on to the story...

If you have seen Dances with Wolves or Pocahontas, you've seen Avatar minus the multi-million dollar special effect budget.

Now I'm glad I stayed up a few extra minutes!

Jeez, now my Friday afternoon at work is going to seem even longer. Can't wait to get home and get my game going again. Thanks!

I'd make Kerbal Automotive Program, but it looks like Detroit beat me too it.

We didn't see Ghost on Game of Thrones the other night either..... Kuzzter is George RR Martin!!!

But, for all we know, that could be the Kerbalese word for what we English speaking hoomans call a bacon cheeseburger. And since bacon cheeseburgers are what makes the Earth go around, it makes perfect sense that some little green aliens would name a craft after a food that makes their world go around.

@noisybit Yep. They're working on it now. My guess is it will be ready for 1.12 about the same time 1.13 is ready, as is the natural way of things

Looks like studded tires for driving in snowy conditions to me... not some glitch. Gene is using a purpose built machine to achieve his goal, like one would expect of a Kerb of his caliber.

If we're not careful, Kuzzter's next interlude is going to be Spaceplane! and introduce us to Ted, Elaine and Otto Kerman.

I... get.... the joke... But shouldn't it be..... William.... in command.... of the Enterprise? Either way, the laughing still made me get another round of really weird, disapproving looks from other denizens of my cube farm.

If you get to sell the franchise to Disney for $8 billion, it will almost be worth it!

But you have manatees!