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Twitter was fading when he overpaid for it. He just pushed the horse off a cliff before it could die on its own. My main beef with him is he's a huge jerk if he doesn't get his way, and is also a huge jerk when he gets his way. Like those kids trapped in that cave. He offered to save them with robotic submarine things and the people were like "no we got this no need to test your hardware on our human lives but thanks" and then instead of just accepting he's not Tony Stark he questioned the morals of the people doing the saving. Those kinds of people are the ones I cut from my life when I can. So I cut as much of him from my life as I can.

I don't mind being tagged though I don't have much to contribute. Communities fade, it's just a sad fact of life. In all the communities I've ever been in I was always one of the more... prolific posters. These include: Doom Usenet groups Stars! Usenet groups Magic the Gathering Usenet groups and forum National Novel Writing Month forum Various podcasting forums** Minecraft forum FTL forum** KSP forum* Factorio forum Dyson Sphere Program Discord Some of them faded away. Some of them my interest faded away. Some more (**) changed to Discord and I'm still on them in a very diminished way. One single community (this one) has both stayed in its original form and has kept my interest for over a decade. Both of those are in doubt now, which is sad but... I guess everything goes away eventually. I'd go to a new forum of it popped up after this one went away (but not before probably). Same with a Discord server though I'd be far less active on one. I won't commit to helping set one up enough. I feel that phase of my life is petty much spent.

Yeah that amount would probably buy a lot of the figurines for sure.

This is all a thought experiment anyway because it'll never ever happen, but to be frank I don't care about answering any of the "important" questions like who's in charge or where will the repository be kept. If among the 127 forks of the newly open sourced KSP2 (including the inevitable Kaifu fork) there's one that's relatively bug free and has some fun stuff in it I can play, then I'm cool with that.

I'm by no means for the idea but making it open source would work for me.

Pay off my house, then put a down payment on a new one. #OldAndBoring

Even the stalwart play button isn't immune from that. I can't guess the times I've wondered, "does the play icon mean it's playing, or that I should press it to play?"

I don't understand any of it, but there is a LOT. https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/ksp/api/index.html

I think it's a twofold thing: There are too many people who know the current UI to change it, but the need to add new things causes them to get crammed in wherever they fit. As systems get older, programmers leave and are replaced and the new programmers either don't get the original paradigm or don't like it enough to put their new stuff in a different place. Together these things cause confusing setups where you have to go through 8 menus to do something you do every day, but options you never need to change are on the main menu taking up space. I work with this kind of software daily and it drives me nuts.

I never said anything about the movies being important to see. Just that a significant portion of people, if you mention you haven't seen it, will say you should. Schindler's List was the movie that started this whole thing in my head. Jenny was Princess Buttercup. Er I mean Robin Wright. Most everybody else in the movie was background so of course nobody remembers them. Except the "real" people but I don't think you'll give me credit for remembering that both Kennedy and Nixon were in it I thought that was the point. It was a fun movie with lots of pop culture references. Ferngully in space. I could add the water one after it because there's no way I'll waste a 2nd set of 3 hours in that IP.

I have 2 work laptops. One is older, on Windows 10, and among other nice things has 2 video ports (HDMI and VGA) so I can easily use 2 monitors without any fuss. The other is Windows 11, and spends 99.9% of the time turned off and the other 0.01% of the time booted up once a month to log onto the network so the big corporation I work for can check a checkbox somewhere that says I didn't lose it. Seems a lot of my coworkers are in a similar boat, so they told us we should return one of the laptops and just keep the better one to do our work. Now, their definition of "better" is different than mine, so I had to go through several loops to be allowed to keep my Windows 10 laptop, and return instead the Windows 11 laptop that I don't want. Then 3 days later, they go "okay your laptop is really old, we're going to send you a new one. When you get it, return that old dinosaur to us." Seeing the thread we're in, you can guess what the new laptop is like.

One good thing about the Heat Death of the forum, tagging me has a chance of guessing correctly @Jacke I don't know who actually plays this so.... @Nuke?

I'm going to bookmark this post so I'll never have to say this again. I'm not defending anybody. I'm stating a fact.

So it's brighter than it was! HYPE (yes I know why this is different)

I hate to hope too much about anything (not about KSP2... just in general) but I'm kinda hoping they dump every buggy system (maybe with a toggle to enable/disable them) and whatever half-baked modding API they happen to have, and call it done. Then maybe modders can make it playable and fun in various ways.

I won't comment on which ones, but a couple of those are really bad movies that are really good BECAUSE they're really bad. I will comment on Primer though. I found it really really boring. The time travel stuff was good because it was so thought out, and the plot was good too, but the actual minute-by-minute watching was never actually enjoyable. While I agree with this almost entirely, if that means I lose Strange New Worlds all bets are off. I'll watch Discovery over again in its entirety (even if it means I'll need a bucket in front of me) if it means they make another season of SNW. JMS pitched B9 to ... whoever was doing Trek. They turned him down, then "coincidentally" came up with this "entirely different" show called Deep Space 9 in the Star Trek Universe. Frankly I think he just doesn't want to burn any bridges.

My wife and I have this exchange sometimes. I usually follow it up with "It's not my fault that reality has a negative bias." But as has been stated several times, being negative is not fighting. Be as negative as you want to be. We all want to be at least a little negative right now. Eeesh who overcharged you $10 more than they should have? Or do you live somewhere where $60 is semi-equivalent to the $50 it costs in the US?

Fair. I won't edit the OP but will happily change it to "owed more than we were given"

I think this is one the major disparities between what I'll call the 2 major factions* on this forum. One group thinks the developers owe us a lot and their not delivering on that is a major fault. The other group technically agrees with that but has been burned so many times that they don't expect anything from other people, and just accept that they won't get what they want. *It may be that there are 3 factions, and the faction I think I'm in is actually just me, and there's a whole other faction that actually thinks everything went swimmingly.

I already own Juno (Played it a lot less than I did KSP2) so anything that makes it more attractive to me will be welcome.

When in flight, the contract window will put check marks on everything as you complete them. If you got all the check marks checked at the same time but did not complete the contract, that's a bug. Hit F11, and somewhere in those menus you can force the contract complete. It's "cheating" if you're really strict on cheating, but cheating to fix a bug in my opinion isn't cheating. If one of the check marks doesn't check even though you think it should, take a screen shot and post that here and one of us can probably tell you why it didn't get checked.

When SpaceBase DF-9 burned me, I decided to learn a different lesson from it, because in today's gaming world it's hard to actually avoid Early Access altogether. The lesson I learned then (and stick to today, and think it's a major reason I don't hate everything gaming related) is to purchase a game based on how it is right now, not how anybody says it will be in the future. Then EA becomes a huge boon for you, because you bought a game you wanted then, and thought was worth the cost then, and at the VERY WORST you got that game and no more. This whole "I'm going to invest in the future of this game" thing is bull, as we've all seen demonstrated in KSP2. You're not an investor. Your opinion doesn't matter. They don't owe you anything and thinking they do is just going to lead to sadness and increased investment in antacid. Oh and regarding Small indie publishers with great communication with their community, I'll be frank and say that doesn't matter one whip either. It's nice, and I prefer it to not having it, but in the end a small indie publisher with great communication with the community can take the money and run just as easily as anybody else.

I'll go so far as to say it's a terrible idea and any attempt at a future KSP should boldly state "We're not doing multiplayer and we're not sorry."

You got us. We were in on it all along. High five everybody, another clean sweep of a game community!

Ahhh student debt. It's a miracle.