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

[zeppelinmage]

I keep trying to convert my car's gas gauge into delta-V, and thinking of highway on-ramps as Hohmann transfers. >_>

[SSSPutnik]

Yeah I keep trying to rotate pictures...

[Sgt. Cookie]

When you see circular red lights on the car in front and the first thing that springs to mind is "Ion Engines".

[MrCoolx10]

When you balance out your shopping in the trunk so it is symmetrical.

[Sylandro]

When you press "M" to get out of the slideshow-reading mode in microsoft powerpoint

[Ravenchant]

When you only ever buy Orbit chewing gum. (it's the cheapest one around here, too!)

[Starwhip]

You know you play too much KSP when you forget to check for updates because you are obsessed with getting to Eeloo. (Happened to me. I was still at .20 and the game was at .23)

[justidutch]

When you have finally stopped having all those silly fantasies and daydreams. You know the ones, where you are going out with friends, watching sports, sleeping, eating, paying bills, having a few pints...

[razark]

When you only ever buy Orbit chewing gum. (it's the cheapest one around here, too!)

I would think Beeman's would also be appropriate.

[maccollo]

One night, during the point where I was still learning about how to work with orbital mechanics, I stayed up late playing KSP.

The next morning I was woken up because family members wanted my chauffeur services. For a few moments I was just babbling about how there wasn't any point in burning at that point. "we gotta wait until we reach periapsis, otherwise we will just be wasting fuel!". I assume I must have had a pretty intense dream about the interstices of orbital maneuvering.

I then realized that a car is not a rocket, roads are not space, and driving on them does not have anything to do with orbital mechanics.

Edited January 25, 2014 by maccollo

[Nick7892]

When you are on a plane and think "This plane has enough fuel to go to space, why aren't we going to space?!"

[Dooz]

When you start saying things like disney world escape in 4 minutes

[Mr.Rocket]

...When you try to save your Word documents with f5 and then your computer flips and a window pops up.

[katateochi]

When watching a documentary on the ISS I found myself wondering if its part count caused much lag.

[Felsmak]

You're travelling somewhere, and when you're halfway to your destination you assume that the other half will take less time because of gravity.

[CalculusWarrior]

When you zoom out in Google Earth and expect to see the Moon orbiting around the planet.

[Tiakatt]

It's probably been mentioned a few times, but the kerbal-themed dreams of orbital mechanics and interplanetary travel are pretty fun.

I'm also really noticing the lack of orbital mechanics in the fiction I enjoy. It's slightly immersion breaking, but I still love those other games and films/shows.

[problemecium]

...when you aerobrake in your car.

[Tripzter]

When you go to bed and build rockets while you're in a lucid dream.

[TechnicalK3rbal]

...when you aerobrake in your car.

Fixed that for you:

When you aerolithobrake your car.

[BullseyeP90]

When you try to plan a free return trajectory to the grocery store

[Alchemist]

You perceive normal speed stuff as something sped up. Because you play with large ships...

[kBob]

Your ships are always perfect first time out...then you wake up.

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

Fixed that for you:

When you aerolithobrake your car.

Let me fix that for you

When you areolithohydrobrake your car.

[problemecium]

Lemme fix that one more time:

When you <strike>aerolithohydrobrake</strike> encounter the Kraken in your car.