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

[Raptor42]

When you are able to cut throttle using X with 0.1 m/s precision. And of course trying to move camera when watching KSP videos is one of symptoms as well.

[SiriusRocketry]

When you:

Start sectioning off parts of a school day for your KSP play through

Start wondering why Earth doesn't have two moons 

Use 'Jeb The _____' as your nickname for all online services

[Burning Kan]

u see this: and think

did the change the kerbals in 1.5? looks so different dont like teir new eva suits,too yellowish!

is KAS 1.0 released,nice kerbal actuators crane well done angel125 and oh man these new TU shaders are great, from shadomages/electrocutor fantastic work or Wazs EVE clouds(maybe the bundle the power and doin shadered clouds -yeah!),looks so realistic you can almost not differentiate from real!

ksp in gettin better and better 1.5

proves it, thx squad and community

[Flightgames66]

On 5/21/2013 at 12:04 AM, Gabe said:

When you pull into a parking lot and need to fight the urge to burn retrograde and turn on RCS to get into the space.

That is perhaps the funniest i've read. XD

[KerbolExplorer]

On 9/26/2018 at 9:58 PM, riki2048ksp said:

When you look at a railway map and wonder where are the delta-v values

I thought that in the metro today

[Kebab Kerman]

Constantly refer to Kerbals as "Inevitable casualties."

 

EDIT: I have over 1700 hours on this game, the whole time they have been inevitable casualties.

Edited October 22, 2018 by Kebab Kerman

[Lord Aurelius]

When the screen burn-in of the KSP UI elements is worse than that of your OS UI.

[cubinator]

17 minutes ago, Lord Aurelius said:

When the screen burn-in of the KSP UI elements is worse than that of your OS UI.

At that point, they're probably burned into your eyes too...

[kraden]

19 hours ago, cubinator said:

At that point, they're probably burned into your eyes too...

Wait... you mean life doesn't have a heads up display?

[foxbat2525]

When you fill up your car at the petrol station and wonder if you have enough Delta-V to get to the supermarket and back whilst carrying a full payload of bacon.

[Chel]

When you actually sketch ideas for spacecraft in your book so you can make them on KSP later

[Hydrothermalventclam]

When your dreams have lag from having a part count that is too high.

[Sharpy]

So, today, I saw a guy walking down the sidewalk, carrying a lamp shade. A classic 'cut cone' red lamp shade for a standing lamp, open top, rigid red material around. He was talking with a girl, and he was carrying the lamp shade behind his back. Don't ask me why, he just held it with both hands over his ass, wide side to his back, narrower behind.

Thought 1: Seems like atmospheric nozzle. Jet engine probably.

Thought 2: Methalox.

[THEdragon]

...When you see photos of real life spacecraft and recognise parts from KSP.

Alternatively, you know you're too emotionally attached to kerbals when you make sure to visit the administration building regularly, despite not having plans to use strategies, just to say hello to Mortimer, Linus, Walt, and Gus.

[GearsNSuch]

When your post:like ratio OCD spills over into removing or adding reactions from other people's posts so their numbers are multiples of five or patterned.

 

And... I just broke my perfect 50:50:25 ratio... Great. I shoulda never posted again.

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Also, would it be possible to change my join date to July 10? Or better yet, May or October 10? Also, has anyone seen a mod with only square parts and planets? And right-angle orbits?

 

Edited November 5, 2018 by GearsNSuch

[Xurkitree]

You know you're playing too much KSP when -

• You buy a new laptop with 8GB ram for the sole purpose of playing it, no matter what parents say
• You start to go crazy and misinterpret the rocket equation by thinking - hey,as I burn fuel, I'll get lighter and have more DV, yay! and then I celebrate for 2 minutes before realising that is exactly what the equation does - it accouts for the fact that you only have to life the fuel partways. This happened to me twice. Its like a mirage
• A DV map is stuck on a study noticeboard
• When You look at college textbooks having chapters on gravity and giggling because I know this excrements
• When you want to learn calculus in a lower grade
• You think your friends are politely putting up with you when you start to talk about rocketry, spaceflight and KSP 

[Skywalket]

On 10/20/2018 at 5:40 PM, Raptor42 said:

And of course trying to move camera when watching KSP videos is one of symptoms as well.

This happens to me all the time

[Geonovast]

1 hour ago, Skywalket said:

This happens to me all the time

If that doesn't happen to you, you're doing it wrong.

[Ub3rshadow]

When you fly an SSTO to Minmus, land it on Duna, land it on Ike, go over to Jool and crash it on Laythe.

Still havn't rescued them in years...

[Raptor42]

On 11/5/2018 at 1:28 PM, Xurkitree said:

You know you're playing too much KSP when -

• You buy a new laptop with 8GB ram for the sole purpose of playing it, no matter what parents say

8GB is not enough, maybe for stock. When using a bunch of mods 16GB RAM is almost must have

[Xurkitree]

You know you're playing too much KSP when you have 7 different installs of KSP - ranging from 0.13.3 to 1.6.0

[Curveball Anders]

On 11/8/2018 at 2:19 PM, Raptor42 said:

8GB is not enough, maybe for stock. When using a bunch of mods 16GB RAM is almost must have

8GB is enough for most mods, except the shiny ones.

Just remember to restart every 3-4 hours.

 

[Raptor42]

1 hour ago, Curveball Anders said:

8GB is enough for most mods, except the shiny ones.

Just remember to restart every 3-4 hours.

 

You might be right, stock KSP doesn't go over 4GB to often, so 8GB for most of the mods is about right, however I use a lot, and I mean A LOT of mods and also one planet pack, which may be the reason why I need more than 16GB of RAM to run it. 
*My KSP install has over 60 mods using a total of 9,15GB of storage space, I just checked

[Tw1]

May I bring this back? You know you've played too much ksp when 

-Your Dad is describing how to navigate their driveway, you must turn sharply, but not too sharply, and you think, huh, just like judging reentry altitudes 

-You pick up a pie, think "this is shaped like a reentry shield", and "fly" it in your hand into the microwave. Complete with imagined reentry streams. 

-At the beach at night, with a torch in hand, you point it at the ground, and are reminded of night side planet landings, and proceed to simulate a landing with the torch. 

Edited September 18, 2019 by Tw1
I love this thread. Aren't human brains funny?

[AHHans]

On 10/20/2018 at 11:40 PM, Raptor42 said:

And of course trying to move camera when watching KSP videos is one of symptoms as well.

OMG. The number of times I right-clicked in a picture here in the forums because I wanted to rotate the view...