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

[Rus-Evo]

When you are sitting in a classroom and imagining a tiny rover descending all the way from the ceiling to a desk somewhere.

When you watch "Gravity" and get annoyed at things that arent possible!

[Rus-Evo]

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."

And you hope he doesnt turn too quick for his velocity bubble.

[EpicRootHairCell]

When you post a thread on the science lab discussing the possibility for real life kraken drives.

[Sophistry]

When you are sitting in a classroom and imagining a tiny rover descending all the way from the ceiling to a desk somewhere.

When you watch "Gravity" and get annoyed at things that arent possible!

You mean when you watch it and go "Pfft, that's a GOOD day at KSP, what's all the fuss about?"

My personal one would be when you have piles of A4 filled with maths and rough sketches of "ingenious" rocket ideas scrawled in the backs of envelopes, to the point your flatmates and family think you're planning on threatening the world with a home-made ballistic missile.

[problemecium]

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

Ordinarily I do. Sometimes I check the usual stuff twice if I have school or something - once before or during lunch, once in the evening. But... ARM patch! ARM PATCH!!! Gah.

Oh, and my boss at work thinks I'm trying to create some kind of missile every time he catches me checking the forum. xD I'm not sure he quite gets video games.

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

Done that. In fact I recently blamed the Kraken for a problem I was having with a programming project - one that had literally nothing to do with physics, Space, or KSP.

When you are sitting in a classroom and imagining a tiny rover descending all the way from the ceiling to a desk somewhere.

I used to do that in middle school. In fact I had a whole headcanon about this sci-fi universe that happened to almost perfectly match the shapes of the desks, pencils, lunchboxes, etc. (Lunch boxes were freighter ships, pencils were missiles, desks were hangars/landing pads/the ground, trash cans were giant incinerators with black holes inside)

Edited March 30, 2014 by parameciumkid

[Rus-Evo]

I used to do that in middle school. In fact I had a whole headcanon about this sci-fi universe that happened to almost perfectly match the shapes of the desks, pencils, lunchboxes, etc. (Lunch boxes were freighter ships, pencils were missiles, desks were hangars/landing pads/the ground, trash cans were giant incinerators with black holes inside)

I'm glad I'm not the only crazy one

[possum]

When lurking the forums instead of studying or spending time with the family. Or thinking about what to do for 110 days game time while waiting for a transfer window instead of actually studying.

[Taki117]

When you are typing a really serious research paper for college, and replace the word Moon with Mun...(True Story by the way)

[Shna_na]

When you end up saying "Munar" every time you try to say "lunar", or equally when you say "thrust" instead of "trust" (boy can that get awkward... "come on, you can thrust me").

[mavlymax]

When you refer to Kerbal planets instead of RL ones

[Shna_na]

When you refer to Kerbal planets instead of RL ones

I've done this too many times...

"Hey, heard of Mars One? They plant to send people to Duna by... I said Duna, didn't I?"

[CitizenAerospace]

You know you play to much KSP when you start day dreaming in class about how your next KSP Mission.... All the time

You know you plat to much KSP that when your running you make sure you turn your head in the right direction to get enough "Intake Air".... I did this in a 5k yesterday....

[Alchemist]

Whaen you have a dream where you perform a mission in KSP and in the end... it crashes and you wake up.

[shynung]

You know you play too much KSP when you remember all the planets and moons in the Kerbol system from memory and can't remember a single planet from the Sol system (our solar system)

ALMOST fell to this one.

[Wheffle]

A review for DC's Injustice bugs you because the Flash and Superman would totally fly off at escape velocity if they actually tried to race laps around the Earth.

[MineAheadTV]

You know you've been playing too much ksp when you start stabbing your algebra textbook repeatedly with a pencil and muttering angrily to yourself because a word problem completely botched orbital physics.

[Shna_na]

You know you play too much KSP when you put very loosely course-related equations into your physics paper purely because you know and can use them.

[tutrakan4e]

You know you're playing too much KSP when at a boring class you try and time accelarate.

[MarvinKitFox]

Bugreport to microshaft:

For some unknown reason, I can no longer use right-click rotation of images in your software? Please correct this immediately!

[Overfloater]

You know you play too much KSP when you look at the morning/evening sky, see Venus, and exclaim "There's Minmus!!!"

[zekes]

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[Beeburgers]

When you try to calculate the Delta-V your car has instead of how many miles are left in the gas tank.

Alternatively, when you attempt to figure out how many Orange Tanks it would take to get said car into a 100 km orbit.

...

Also, when you start to wonder if your car has a descent lifting body or if it would need wings or if you should just install Ferram Aerospace already and start playing around with the fairings.

[Overfloater]

Zekes, that's nice! I also have an urge to do that, but no time! & Beeburgers, GOOD ONE... xD

I got another one,

One morning when I was waking up, I was trying to remember whether I'm in a stable orbit, to know it's safe enough for me to EVA from my bed and go take a wee... xD

[EpicRootHairCell]

You have decided that when you get your first car you will replace the spedo with one that reads in m/s

[xrayfishx]

You know you've played too much KSP when you're daydreaming about women and suddenly, for a moment, you think "how the hell do you put rocket engines inside a [female reproductive organ] anyway?".

I hope this moment of confusion in my head was worth the necro.