The "You know you're playing a lot of KSP when..." thread

[User Unrelated]

when your itunes library begins giving you mission instructions.

and then

I know what I am doing this weekend

[mnemon]

My day has suddenly improved greatly. That is so encouraging to hear.

My son loves to watch me build stuff in the VAB, and even more so he likes planes and tells me what to do, but he refuses to let me launch them: "No no, I just want to look at them". He will actually start to wail when I start a launch. I think he is afraid that they crash, and even me showing him how I can bring them back did nothing to soothe him.

He´ll turn four soon, maybe I can try again then.

[Daman453]

When you post at school about KSP!

[Captain Vlad]

Here's one for two people: When you're eating at Dairy Queen on your lunch break and text someone about revisions you're planning to make on your spaceplane.

And they listen.

[Frank_G]

...when you toss some waste into the bin from a distance and ask yourself, what its height at apoapsis might be...

[EatVacuum]

When you look at your "hours in game" on Steam and realize it's more time than you spent at work in the ten months since you bought the game. Or slept...

[Starwhip]

[Jokingly]

You know you've played too much KSP when you wake up in the morning, start playing KSP, and get really involved in making a new spaceplane. Just a few hours later, or at least, what seemed like a few hours, you decide to check the mailbox. A five-foot high by three-feet wide pile of newspapers greets you, and the most recent one reads: January 29th, 2137.

[in reality]

You know you play to much KSP when you start looking at real-life spacecraft and parts of said spacecraft and think, "Oh, hey, that's an R-10 solid rocket motor!"

(Like this one here)

[possum]

When you are driving to dinner and see a side street "Mainsail" and start thinking your newest Duna transfer stage might be underpowered.

[Red Iron Crown]

When you are driving to dinner and see a side street "Mainsail" and start thinking your newest Duna transfer stage might be underpowered.

LOL, there's a Mainsail Drive near where I live, I think of boosters every time I drive by.

[justidutch]

When… *cough* … you call in… *cough*… sick because you're… *cough*… busy building Elysium

[CaptainKipard]

I had my very first KSP dream last night. I clearly remember attaching the LT-1 Landing Strut to something. Happy

[_jack]

When KSP stopped working for me for a while, I drew the ships I was planning on sending places. (This was back when I first got the game and had a really crappy computer)

[problemecium]

I've had the KSP dream too O_O

In fact I think I had it twice now. The more recent one was about the ARM patch coming out. You know you play too much KSP when you check the forum five times a day for news about the next patch and then have a dream that the next patch came out!

Help, I think I've gone insane......

[karolus10]

You know you play too much KSP when you check the forum five times a day for news about the next patch and then have a dream that the next patch came out!

Help, I think I've gone insane......

It sounds nearly like FOMO for me. You may try to check forums only once a day (same for Facebook and other webpages) or less... this should help a bit.

During 2 years of playing KSP I catch myself couple of times on trying to use time-warp keys in other games or when computer was slowing down... of course it didn't worked .

[TheGamingNoobster]

When in manual arts I ask my teacher 'Sir, so what do I put in the Laythe, er, lathe?' Mission accomplished officially played too much ksp when my physics teacher tells me to pipe down on the orbit physics and now my manual arts teacher has to put up with it.

[TheGamingNoobster]

After finishing a physics exam I drew an in game blueprint for the 0.23.5 asteroid patch with the delta v calculated and with a science assignment on planetary alignments and eclipses I see a place in Australia named ceDUNA. KSP why do I write Mun not Moon, Kerbol not sun, Eve not Venus, Duna not Mars and Kerbin not Earth? Why did I only realise that after I got it back! Well, I still only got an A- (Next time my precious, next time.)

[Frank_G]

...I see a place in Australia named ceDUNA....

Man, what should i say? I live in MÃœNster in westfalia, germany... I cant even leave or enter my hometown without thinking about the next mission...

[FritzDC]

Uuuh, having so many of these happening to me, in addition:

- Several times during a work day, you go and reload forum pages to see if ARM or 0.24 is out.

- You are already planning for a sick leave when that happens

- Contact a former school friend for the first time in 10 years just because he knows Scott Manley...

[Grunf911]

When you want to create maneuver node to get home from work

[Red Iron Crown]

When you want to create maneuver node to get home from work

Meh, I let MechJeb drive me home.

[Kaptain]

breaking up with your girlfriend gives you nightmares of falling though Jool... forever until you wake up so sweaty you think you pissed the bed... I need therapy....Duna has done this to me also, but I cant slow down enough and I end up crashing into the surface, in my dream.

[Grunf911]

Meh, I let MechJeb drive me home.

Yeah, MechJeb is almost like a regular public transport of KSP

[Endersmens]

When you take time out of your day to explain the kraken to somebody.

[Procyon]

when you watch KSPTV and other ksp channels on twitch, while at work, on your smartphone... my data usage is insane....

[FanaticalFighter]

When in a flight the captain announces you're at 11 km and the only things you can think are, "That sunset looks exactly like it does in KSP" and "Late for gravity turn."