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you seem to be getting replies enough in this thread

Is this another thread where some people wax melodramatic over some fringe group nobody really cares about? I think it is.

I'm not going to sacrifice my gaming experience and hard earned knowledge for the sake of a short thrill. to elaborate, I derive much satisfaction from sharing my creations with others and talking about the game and discussing the possibilities, working on vehicles and structures, exploring, etc. it's not going to seriously change the quality of my life if I can't experience the first time again, but it's definitely going to be a huge detraction from my life to forego everything I know about the game. suddenly a billion new experiences I could have had are now closed off to me. experiences dear to me are lost, times I shared with friends who like the game are lost, all because I wanted to feel a little high again.

I just haven't really bothered. It's a pretty planet, though.

A cadet in the Dark Basement Occupation Force

I'm not very proud of the userbase myself, and I'd argue that there's good reason for a "hey... stop it!" post. There are plenty of kind enough people and smart cookies, yes, but there is also plenty of outrage, buried resentment, and general insecurity to go around. The explosion of "WHAT THE **** SQUAD" sentiment with regards to SAS not long ago was at least a decent example; to say nothing of MechJeb debates, animosity toward the userbases of other, ostensibly less "nice" or "smart" communities like those who enjoy the Call of Duty franchise or the Minecraft forum, animosity surrounding fan threads, etc...

It may surprise you, but some people don't come to the internet looking for trouble by which they might enact their insecurities upon some unsuspecting teenager with a penchant for animé or who hasn't yet learned how to draw up to your standards. I've never been afraid of moderator action in writing critiques on peoples' artwork; and, frankly, I doubt many others are either.

No, it's definitely about what you say. I agree with the rest of your post, but I don't think that's a good way to summarize it. A death threat, outright insult, putting people down etc, is definitely not just a shade of how people voice their concerns; it is quite different.

I define it as "that one word used a lot by jerks who like to tell people how you 'objectively' can't have fun taking the game seriously" or some such tripe

Soyuz rockets are fueled by RP-1, as well as the first stage of the Atlas 3 and the Common Core Booster meant for use on the Atlas V, and perhaps others I have not found yet. There are a number of Russian rockets that use even worse fuels (usually some mixture of hydrazine as the fuel) than RP-1 by pure specific impulse considerations, but which are chosen rather for ease of storage and energy density, although they are often extremely toxic.

Should we abandon everyone who doesn't feel confident about everything all the time? It's not always a matter of whether or not you let it; you have to at least have the knowledge that you can judge your own achievements based on something other than someone else's system of merit, and not everyone is adequately prepared to understand that right off the bat. That you seem to write it off as a matter of "insecurity issues", as though it could be easily solved by kicking your own ass hard enough, is my main qualm with your post.

The point brought up in the post you were replying to referred not to the fact that people post their achievements for others to see but that a fair number flaunt their achievements as being objectively better than those achieved with another approach to gameplay. Not everything is a simple matter of "You just aren't trying hard enough to be confident."

There are plenty of people here under the age of 18. Whether or not you'll meet them in real life depends, but that's more or less the case with any game that isn't mass-marketed on a big budget. I haven't met anyone in real life who played SimCity before the latest incarnation, for instance.

The argument of stock vs. not stock is not the same line of discussion as whether or not we should be arguing about these things in the first place.

I like Stargate and I play KSP all the time

My load times have been decreasing drastically with each release since .19, so no

Wammoe Cabum Iksploat

I used one on a transmunar tug to slow down into Mun orbit. About an hour of game burntime

Assign her/him to the task of landing a 100-ton base on Moho ...If you want to; more seriously, if they like math and like to think scientifically, you could assign them to build a vessel to collect temperature and atmospheric pressure data in the atmosphere of Duna. If they succeed, then their next mission is to do the same on Eve, Jool, Laythe. Provide a bit of introduction to the concept of calculating and measuring phase angles as a way of enabling interplanetary transport, and how it does this by showing you the point where you need the lowest amount of fuel for the journey. Listen to them, answer if they ask you questions.

Gravity assist maneuvers. Planning them, setting them up within a timeframe, performing multiple assists on the same timeframe.

I was born in a hospital in Tokyo's Shinjuku ward, and lived for a time in a small (air quotes) fishing town called Choshi in Chiba prefecture. It's a big place for sardines and soy sauce, apparently. This was all before I was 2.5 years old, so I don't remember any of it myself, but most of the remaining family I've known live across the ocean from me  the other half live in north Florida. Currently, I live in the SF Bay Area. Specifically the South bay: used to be peach orchards, but nearly all you'll see now is the product of gross suburban sprawl and in turn (so I've heard) veteran migration in the wake of WWII.

So I guess I paint Kerbals sometimes

Some very interesting toys.

If you wish to take it that way then you can interpret my point as being that KSP forums are much the same as most other online gaming communities. To others in general, this place is not better than "those little 14 year old ****s who make up the broad majority of the Minecraft forums" precisely because of the people who scapegoat them in this way, and this kind of comment is especially inane considering the fair number of people below the age of fifteen this forum plays host to itself.

KSP forums are nice on the surface but it masks an undercurrent of bitter viciousness that plays out often whenever "controversial topics" are brought up, i.e. Mechjeb, realism, or ponies; and an undercurrent of bandwagon-style egoism that tends to show itself in threads like these where people have the opportunity to degrade other communities that they know people on this forum don't favor, for a small rush of validation with regards to "their own".