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Here's another one. You may think I copied the KSP2 trailer but really they copied me as this is from like 2013.

I don't understand this statement. What aspect of being underwater kept you from clicking it?

I'd be pretty jazzed to see this when I booted up the game.

Seeing as they don't have my name, address, likeness, photograph, picture, portrait, or biographical information, and I'm not submitting them with my entry nor are they required to receive the "prize" of being put in the game... I'm not really all that worried. They only thing they can get is my voice and that's just because I do YouTube videos.

Yeah a Flea + part + capsule + parachute are generally all you need for splashed down. Part + capsule for "landed."

As surprised as you are, I'm surprised that you can find 3 games that you'd rather play than KSP2. I've dropped $60 on 2 games in the past ... oh let's say 5 years. I enjoyed both of them immensely but none as much as I have KSP in that same time frame. I paid $20 for KSP. I've dropped... oh jeez I have no idea. A couple hundred on several dozen other games in that time. One of them was Rimworld. I played that for multiple hundreds of hours. Another was Factorio. I'm pretty sure I've got 1000 hours in that and it's not even released yet. Most recently I've picked up Slay the Spire and have hundreds of hours in it already. Each of those are worth $60 but I'd have never bought them for that. All together I spent about $60 on them which - now that I know - I consider a STEAL. The other who-knows-how-many games all fell to the wayside. I bought them, tried them, got bored, and moved on. In each case I was only out $5-$10 so no big deal. The $20 ones hurt a bit more (I'm looking at you Space Base!) but they were still throwaways. You buy 3 games for $20 each and find one worth $60, you broke even. That's the way I see it. Based on the known factors from KSP (that I have had an almost unhealthy love for it since the day I downloaded the demo, and that KSP 2 will seemingly provide a much larger canvas in multiple ways to enjoy what I enjoy about KSP), I'm pretty darn sure it'd be that one game worth $60 from the group of 3. I don't know how sure exactly, but I'm really, really sure. This is speaking for me only, of course. Your opinion seems quite different from mine. From what I read, KSP2 is EXACTLY what I want in a sequel to KSP, in much the same way that KSP was EXACTLY what I wanted in the first place. So for me it's a slam dunk. $60 for as near a guarantee as you can get of a multi-thousand-hours-of-pure-enjoyment? Shut up and take my money. Will I also drop a hundred more on 10 other games, 1-3 of which will catch my fancy as well? Sure. But I have no idea which of those games I'll actually love, and which ones will sink to the bottom of my Steam list.

That's why I added a clause to the idea. I was of course joking. It's hard to justify even doing it the way we do it now, but justifying changing it in any way other than eradicating it entirely? No thank you.

Now I'm curious what that little ship could do. Land on Gilly? Land on Laythe? Return?

I'd consider a command chair and a Kerbal to be 2 parts as you can right click them individually. I wonder what the craft info panel says though.

Haha those were my 3 parts! Part 4 was a decoupler

If you're allowed to turn off the need for comms I can get any reasonable orbit (as in, right at the SOI edge) with 5 parts. If you're allowed to also cheat power I can do it in 4. I may be able to do it in 4 anyway if I can afford a Kerbal with my dV budget

I assume you received your official Community Manager uniform? (And congratulations!)

You know other than the lack of any documentation about the code base.

I was once offered the chance to join in on a class action lawsuit against Netflix. They said "No late fees" in their ads, but continued to charge the agreed upon monthly fee to customers who got mailed a DVD and then never mailed it back. To me, and every other reasonable person in the world, this is fine. But someone got it in their head to sue Netflix and the blanket "no late fees" statement was vague enough that a lawyer agreed with that person. I've no idea if they won. I declined to participate. But I always think about that when some company answers what seems to be a simple yes/no question with an oddly specific answer. TL;DR companies aren't the only unscrupulous jerks out there looking for an easy buck.

I'd be curious to know which mods they wrote. Or their user names on the various mod sites. Where you got this info would be a boon because it seems pretty big and this is the first I've heard of it.

I think they should add a few seconds to each day so we slowly creep forward over the year, and that way we can "Fall back" twice a year instead of having to "Spring forward" which is the big problem with DST. I also think the year should be exactly 360 days long and consist of 12 30-day months. Any days left over should be a big "New Years' holiday." The months should consist of 4 7-day weeks and the last 2 days should be little mini "New Month holiday"s. Yes this means you'd get like a full week off at the end of every year. I like holidays. But no. I think the whole thing is ridiculous and should have never been instituted in the first place. I don't care what time they set it to it just just stay the same.

It's basically KSP to VGAP's Orbiter.

(Taking to PMs as this is super OT but really anybody out there give that game a try. It's a 4X masterpiece)

Oh. My. God. I loved that game. I wrote the first 2/3 of the official strategy guide.

I don't find that controversial at all. 60 units is a sizeable amount in many currencies. It gives me pause in my own units of US dollars. There are plenty of games out there whose predecessors I've LOVED that I haven't bought yet because I didn't want to pay for them. So the next Steam Summer Sale, then

Assuming that everything they said would be in the game is in the game, and everything they've said won't happen won't happen - which is something I'm 100% assuming with no concerns - then the only thing that would keep me from buying it was some crazily egregious UI/UX issues that just simply made the game unfun. Like they decided to eliminate the keyboard as an input device and only use mouse input. Or science mini games where you had to solve a little tower of Hanoi or slidey-picture puzzle or sudoku or something every time you wanted to get a temperature reading.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh No I know that. I just liked how the description was vaguely specific enough that that it could be used to describe Mystery Goo.

That sounds horrible.

I'm against those kinds of parties because I'm a serious academic. And I don't get invited.

It also shows the install path. Shouldn't be an issue unless your user name is like your social security number or something like that. But you can easily obfuscate that sort of stuff with a simple search/replace.