Best quotes about KSP

[goldenpeach]

Not directly Kerbal but it does apply:

"Failure is always an option!"

Adam Savage

err... sorry to disappoint you but this is false.

In KSP, failure is NOT an option: it's mandatory

[Robotengineer]

The quote in my sig.

[Tex_NL]

err... sorry to disappoint you but this is false.

In KSP, failure is NOT an option: it's mandatory

I actually said in the past: "Failure is not an option. It's part of the design process."

[Bill Phil]

"You can't beat this game, this game beats you."

I saw that somewhere, I know not where...

[CptRichardson]

To quote TotalBiscuit:

"Kerbal Genocide Simulator". Never have truer words been spoken for some of our mad plans.

[Norpo]

Whackjob wrote a steam review, and I think it captures the essence of KSP fairly well.

Here it is. Did I capture the essence?

Imagine the most intricate, accurate to life space vehicle simulator you can. Dozens of toggle switches, displays ranging from the strange and esoteric to the vague and incomprehensible, buttons flashing angrily at you and daring you to press them. The screen shakes and aside from the roar of liftoff, the only thing you can hear is your own labored breathing and the pulse in your ears. Do you have this picture in your head? Good.

Because KSP is nothing like that. Take parts, attach parts, launch parts, land parts, detonate parts, survive falling parts. KSP is learning through failure. Unless you go on Youtube and look up the Scott Manley videos, you are going to fail. You gonna fail bad. But it's okay. Failure is only data by another name. Bit by bit, you'll learn how to do things right. You'll realize that putting the engines under the tanks is probably a good idea. Putting the crew capsule in a place not likely to be burned or detonated is also probably a good idea. Parachutes seem like a logical choice, but what the heck, right? Maybe you just need a five hundred meter long crumple zone. Nobody's gonna stop you. That's the great thing, isn't it? You can put anything at all you want on the launchpad, and nobody knows well enough to try to stop you. The Kerbish OSHA rep is permanently locked into the bathroom. He's not gettin' out of there. We welded the window shut, locked the door, and put model airplane glue in the keyhole. Cell phone reception in there is sketchy. You're safe. So go nuts.

There's places you can go. Land at the poles, the sea, the mountains, or all three at once with a creatively timed spray of shrapnel. There's other worlds. A big burning thing with no surface that'll tan you for free if you check it out. It'll tan you to the bone. So that's a bonus. There's other worlds. Red world. Purple world. Green world with little worlds around it. Hidden stuff everywhere. All of these places are fit to seed with refuse. Landers, rovers, living quarters, stations, battleships, pasteboard furniture, lawnmowers, spaceplanes, robots, scooters, springboards, et cetera. KSP is a litterer's dream. There's so many places you can leave stuff you have no hope of bringing home. And it's worth doing it just to see that stuff sitting there.

But I've got to warn you. You've reached TL;DR level four, so here's a bonus. This game has very unexpected side effects. You will learn things. Hoffman transfer. Periapsis. Apoapsis. How orbit actually works. Why orbit is halfway to anywhere. Launch windows. Free transfer windows. Free returns. If you make the horrifying inadvertent mistake of buying this game for yourself or your child, somebody's gonna learn things. It's unavoidable. Real things, even. Newton's spectre haunts this game. You will find no escape, and he fears no earthly garlic.

Lemmie wrap this up for the TL;DR folks who check the bottom summary. Just get KSP already. You aren't really learning anything from my review you probably didn't know already. Let's be honest with each other, here. Ok? You don't want to learn whether or not this game is worth buying. You're looking for someone to make the excuse for you. You're already gonna get it, you just want someone to possibly take the fall for you if you catch heat for doing it. And to you, good sirs and madams, I say; Yes. Yes, I'll take the blame. "That fat idiot Whackjob from KSP told me to get the game, or he said he'd cut me." They'll believe you. You're good. So do it. Hit that buy button.

Thank me later.

~Whackjob of KSP

[BrainiacBlue]

'There is nothing that can't fly with more boosters and space tape'

I also really liked the 'any landing you walk away from counts as a success' one.

[tntristan12]

My favorite is still "dude, it's squad" (Regex) in regards to Squad's annoying habit of nerfing, diluting, or oversimplifying otherwise complex and meaningful features because "it's a game, not a simulator."

To be fair, though, they've been getting better about that.

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"MOAR BOOSTERS!"

The perfect solution.

"FOR SCIENCE!"

The perfect excuse-er, explanation for everything.

I'd like to roll my eyes at this, but - truth be told - "MOAR BOOSTERS" has actually made a few of my less successful designs make orbit at all. There's a time and a place for it, but this is sound advice in some situations!

[Nemrav]

Hmmm..... I could ABUSE this...

-Danny2462

another

I present to you the safest mode of transportation : the rocket unicycle.

If your only tool is a booster, how do you brush your teeth ? - GIC

[McKerbin]

Can't remember or find the exact quote but when I first started playing someone posted in the "What did you do in KSP today?":

Finally got Jeb, Bill, and Bob to [Random Planet or Mun], crashing the lander in the process.

KSC declared the exploration mission a success and that Jeb, Bill, and Bob were to start a new colonization mission.

[viktor19]

"Harder you fall, higher you bounce and maybe even into orbit."

"Dream it build it save it fly it and try not to crash it."

[Daze]

I will concur. I am personally not fond of the "moar explosion"/"kerbals can't build things that don't explode" family of memes, since I've always felt the game does better when it presents an easily accessible way to show people the wonder of rocketry and space exploration.

I know it's meant to be funny, but I can't help but sigh and shake my head a little.

Happy to know that i'm not the only one

[worir4]

"Harder you fall, higher you bounce and maybe even into orbit."

"Dream it build it save it fly it and try not to crash it."

Hey that first one is mine!

''Kerbals don't blink, why should eye? I mean I?

[Boris_T_Roach]

"If at first you explode... congratulations , you're doing it right "

Boris

...currently playing Elite: dangerous in much the same way he pilots a Kerbal spaceship

[MrWalrus123]

"KSP's secondary motto; well it was better than last time!"- Unknown

[Alchemist]

Kerbal scientific method: if it suddenly explodes, launch it again and watch how it explodes

[Yellowburn10]

"A wise man once said if you can make to orbit, you're half way to anywhere."

From the Kerbal tracking station info on Kerbin.

[Scarecrow88]

If it flies like a bucket of rusty nails, you may want to tweak the design a little.

The boomerang conundrum - "Getting there is the easy part."

[Frank_G]

Everything that explodes flies...

[Deutherius]

Not exactly about KSP, but it applies here as well: "Anything with a big enough engine will fly - no matter how badly."

[StrandedonEarth]

"Actually, it IS rocket science!" - Unknown

"To build, perchance to fly..." - StrandedonEarth (as far as I know I'm the first to say that, I just came up with it now)

[Tank Buddy]

As WhackJob put it:

I do not fear failure. Failure is data. I fear not learning from failure. Failure to learn from failure is stupidity.

[Tirello]

Flying

There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying.

The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Pick a nice day, and try it.

The first part is easy.

All it requires is simply the ability to throw yourself forward with all your weight, and the willingness not to mind that it's going to hurt.

Clearly, it is the second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties. You have to miss the ground accidentally.

If you are lucky enough to have your attention distracted just in time, please take note of the following: ignore all consideratinos of your own weight and let yourself waft higher, do not listen to what anybody says to you at this point because they are unlikely to say anything helpful (They are most likely to say something along the lines of "Good God, you can't possibly be flying!" and it is vitally important not to believe them or they will suddenly be right). Waft higher and higher, try a few swoops, DO NOT WAVE AT ANYBODY.

Landing is another story.

[Scarecrow88]

Edison's maxim: I haven't failed 100 times, I've just discovered 100 ways that don't work.

[Bev7787]

Moar Struts!