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

[Nertea]

Car seatbelt lock indicator malfunctions, displaying a "SRS" light on the dash.

All I see is SAS. Heh.

[lev]

When you go to sleep stressed because you need to catch a plane early in the morning, so in your dreams you're planning the fastest route to the airport using Hohmann transfers and maneuver nodes.

[Alchemist]

When you go to sleep stressed because you need to catch a plane early in the morning, so in your dreams you're planning the fastest route to the airport using Hohmann transfers and maneuver nodes.

When reading this you first thought about orbital plane insertion not airplane

[TheFlyingPigs]

When you get an account on the KSP forums and you go onto a Thread called "You know you play too much KSP when..." Thread, and you say why you play too much KSP and realise...

You play too much Portal:D

[magnemoe]

You press F1 to take a screenshot when using an app other than KSP. Hello help menu!

So many times its not fun.

[Tw1]

When you are helping run a lego robotics club, and you feel an instinct to replace the many little parts on a counterweight with larger, less complex parts.

And when you help a kid disassemble a segment for modification, both of you forget how it went together in the first place, and you feel the urge for press Crtl+Z...

But then again, that happens to me when using paper.

You know you've played too much KSP when you write your college paper about satellites because you know you can pad it out with stuff about orbital mechanics.

I rote a review of Kerbal for a course I did on astronomy. It was like converting gameplay time into uni study time.

When playing baseball, wondering what amount of Delta V your last hit was worth. Mentally plotting it's course and noting an imaginary apogee flag.

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When seeing road-side warning signs powered by solar panels, and wondering if that's the optimal placement of OX-STAT panels.

I do something similar in tennis, but I always did that. I do the same thing with solar panels...

[Motokid600]

When every time I pick up a can or bottle I picture fire coming out the bottom.

[dryer_lint]

When you hear about a risky NASA mission and catch yourself thinking "why don't they just quicksa- oh wait"

[Spartwo]

When you build a plane and the COL and COM line up without checking either.

[goldenpeach]

When you build a plane and the COL and COM line up without checking either.

When you can do that with your eyes closed, without practice.

[skeevy]

I rote a review of Kerbal for a course I did on astronomy. It was like converting gameplay time into uni study time.

I once did a full strategy guide on how to beat Emerald Weapon for FFVII on my 10th grade SAT's for the free writing essay. The topic was "write something in way to help others out".

[justidutch]

When I read an article about Minmus on the BBC website today, but then realized it actually said Mimas.

[GoSlash27]

When you keep screenshots of your latest creation as wallpaper on your work computer.

-Slashy

[RobotsAndSpaceships]

When whenever you are watching a video and the camera does a weird flip, and you think it's in orbit.

[Vallius]

When you're loading up your backpack to head to school or work, and think to yourself, "I sure have a lot of dead-weight to deliver this payload. Maybe there's a more efficient design."

True story, happened yesterday.

[Alchemist]

When after eating a chocolate bar you throw out the wrapping thinking "spent booster separation"

[Axelord FTW]

When whenever you are watching a video and the camera does a weird flip, and you think it's in orbit.

kinky movies will never be the same.

[moogoob]

When you dream about maneuver nodes.

[Yakuzi]

...when you realise real-life laboratory science is less boring than KSP science

[Las-pen]

When you realise it is Sunday. But it was tuesday two weeks ago just yesterday.

[RobotsAndSpaceships]

kinky movies will never be the same.

(facepalm)

[Vagani]

your brain automatically turns all real life things into ksp parts and how they would go together

[Dilir]

When you reinstall all you mods, then manually erase the parts you don't need to squeeze in a few more mods.

[SunChaser]

When I heard GnR's "Nightrain" for the first time in years, I thought one of the lines in the chorus was "Feeling like a spaceplane" (it's space brain).

[herbal space program]

When night after night, you spend hours half-dreaming fitfully about docking your last space station segment or trying to squeeze just a LITTLE bit more deltaV out of your SSTO.