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My "laptop" seems to have died. Not the one that I got recently. The used one I've had for over a decade, with the dead screen that I was using as a server. It stopped responding on the network, but it appears to start booting if powered off and back on. However, the screen dies* before booting finishes, so I haven't been able to determine what's wrong. It had my entire KSP database system on it. I've managed to get it up and running on my Pi, but right now I've lost all the history it had on it from previous saves.** *I think it's the backlight. The screen shows fine when I first turn it one, but it starts turning reddish, and then dies. The machine still runs and works with an external monitor, and it's never been worth it to fix. **I've been putting off starting a new save for a while now, so I didn't lose anything in progress.

Please, no. I create my own stories, and I don't want someone else's constraints imposed on me.

It was years ago, and I couldn't remember who it was, but I have seen The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). I can only agree, if you get the chance, see them! Edit: Oh hell. It's on youtube. There goes my evening...

Reading Shakespeare is not something that should be done in the first place. He was a playwright. His plays should be performed and watched, not read.

But haven't we been there for years? Speeches have been reduced to sound bites or a handful of phrases. What, besides "Tear down this wall", did Reagan say in that speech? What were the "other things" that Kennedy mentioned in his Rice speech "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things..."? Out of an hour-long press conference, what did Nixon say besides "I'm not a crook"? We've been there for a long time. We've just gotten better tools for doing it now.

“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.”

No, he didn't. He was not aware of any such thing. He was just responding to the many times KSP has prematurely been declared dead.

If I could go back and start over, I think that would be a good path to try.

But it is the key to getting a "decent sum of money", which tends to be the reason businesses exist.

That's kind of the point of a company, though.

Someone decided that I need to be at work today. I've had one email today, and it wasn't even to me, just a cc. The phone has not* rung once today, and everything is up to date. Out of five people, there's two of us in the office. And the person from the other department is the one that no one can stand, but is friends drinking buddies with management. *Of course, while I was typing this, the phone rang.

I need to pull out the discs and watch that again. It's time to get the children addicted to it. That game drove me crazy. It took me years to figure out how to finish it.

What? They added graphics to it?!?

KSP died with version 0.14, when they turned it into a money grab by charging for it. KSP died with version 0.15, when they decided to focus on planes, instead of space. KSP died with version 0.16, when they added EVA. KSP died with version 0.17, when they added other planets. KSP died with version 0.18, when they killed off any mods for docking. KSP died with version 0.19, when they... umm... Well, I can't think of anything, but I'm sure whatever they did ruined the game. And so on, and on, and on and on. KSP has been constantly getting one day closer to its death every day.

How can you be sad when you get to read a sentence that says "... his journey into the atmosflat will mark the first phase of his ambitious flat-Earth space program."?

Yakety Sax

Release date by the end of January.

Office politics.

I can't remember where I saw it, but I found this reference: http://uproxx.com/hitfix/watch-davy-jones-last-song-was-about-meatloaf/

It was the last thing he recorded. I have to say, that show had some pretty decent songs. It was one of the few cartoons I could sit and watch with the kids. (Or without them, sometimes.)

"National boundaries are as invisible as meridians of longitude, or the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. The boundaries are arbitrary. The planet is real." -Carl Sagan "From space I saw Earth -- indescribably beautiful and with the scars of national boundaries gone." -Muhammad Faris "When you're finally up at the moon looking back on earth, all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend, and you're going to get a concept that maybe this really is one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people." -Frank Borman "I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of 100,000 miles their outlook could be fundamentally changed. That all-important border would be invisible, that noisy argument silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions..." -Michael Collins "The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth." -Sultan bin Salman Al-Saud

Indeed. It really is quite limiting, and one of the reasons I don't see a large-scale multiplayer KSP working. It's also why I would expect multiplayer to really only be useful when all players are trying to do something together, rather than splitting up and doing different things. I'm not saying multiplayer KSP is a great idea, just that it is workable (within limits), and that I have my own preferences on how it should work. See also:

Personally, I dislike that idea because it allows paradoxes. You have one player (A) in the future relative to another (B). Let's say that A docks to a space station in B's future. In A's past, B arrives at the station, and docks to the empty (because A isn't there yet in B's timeframe) port that A already used in the future. How should this be handled? Who is docked to the port? If it's B, because B arrived first (in the unified timeline), then what happens to A's ship? If it's A, because A arrived first (in reality's timeline), then what happens to B's ship? Or what if B deorbits the station before A docks in the future? What happens to A's entire timeline, since there was never a station to dock with in the first place?

You mean... multiple players, all playing the same game? For KSP, it works if they're all doing something similar, such as building a station, or traveling to Jool. It's utterly ridiculous to expect multiplayer to work if one is building a station and one is going to Jool. If a Jool-traveler is playing with people that are building a station, then time compression is the least of the player's concerns, and said player should reconsider why he's the odd one out that doesn't fit with what the other players are doing. Otherwise, it's not really multiplayer, it's just everyone playing alone. Might as well just have everyone playing on their own game, and have a chat server instead. I mean, it's not really multiplayer hide-and-seek if one player is playing chess, and another is building a birdbath, is it? But please, go ahead and explain to me why I'm wrong.

Or maybe the Jool guy can go play somewhere else, instead of constantly whining at the space station folks? Posting to a topic a little over 24 hours after it was last posted to is "bumping old posts"? Wow.