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

[Umlüx]

... you search for the staging controls in your car when the gas tank gets empty.

[zpox357]

When you hold up your pen, and slowly dismantle it piece by piece, making subtle hissing and clunking noises.

(and then proceed to forget how it fits back together )

[NASAFanboy]

When you start hallucinating/making odd references.

Just a few hours ago at a fight:

"**** you! I'll knock you down faster than deorbitijg a Jumbo with the Mainsail at Apogee!"

Right after this, I grabbed a water bottle, splashed it all over him, and started smacking him with it and punching him very, very hard.

"Death to the Kraken!"

Fight end, when he pulled out a sharp object, so I ran, slipped, fell, and awkwardly limped away in front of a small crowd at my school.

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

When you play almost 200 hours worth in 5 months of owning the game x.x

Try playing 200 hours in 2 months

[JebIsMyHero]

When you hold up your pen, and slowly dismantle it piece by piece, making subtle hissing and clunking noises.

(and then proceed to forget how it fits back together )

I DO THIS.

When you decide to do "just one more mission," then look at the clock and realize it's 7am (and you started at 7pm.)

[Guest]

You know you play WAY too much when you want to, not only get a degree in astrophysics, which was already my plan, but now rocket science.

Good job, KSP. You changed my unimajor to a dual-major. in a few years, at least.

[zekes]

You know you play WAY too much when you want to, not only get a degree in astrophysics, which was already my plan, but now rocket science.

Good job, KSP. You changed my unimajor to a dual-major. in a few years, at least.

Yeah, i wanted to be a pilot before this game. Now im gonna be an engineer.

[[email protected]]

When you are reading a KSP thread and realize your shift ended twenty minutes ago.

[Whirligig Girl]

When you start going through withdrawal problems when you stop playing KSP for a while

I was going crazy during my summer vacation, until I bought some rockets at a firework shop on the way back. I told them they were "my precious" in the voice of that wierd looking guy from that one movie.

[Wallace]

when you start doodling plans for spaceships on important documents.

[TechnicalK3rbal]

When you briefly say, "I should hit F5 before trying to parallel park" to yourself before realizing you're in real life.

When you try to use RCS translation to parallel park....

[Maxwell Comp]

When you wake up from a bad dream and say to yourself "oh, it was only an alpha build... It'll be patched soon." when the dream had nothing to do with KSP or software at all.

I write a bit of software. And yes, I once did think a dream was an alpha version of real life.

[el_coyoto]

... when your girlfriend, otherwise insensitive to the beauty of orbital mechanics, lifter designs or space in general, stares at your screen and says "Are you sure this is going to fly?"

Since then, she learnt that anything can fly if you strap enough boosters...

[Johno]

When you step off a ride at Disneyland with your kids, "accidentally" check the forum and realise that 0.22 has been released, then you think "Aw man, I can't wait to go home so I can download it . . . "

(Not ENTIRELY a true story, but uncomfortably close! )

[MightyLampshade]

When you are excited to come home from 8 and a half hours at work to spend the evening playing KSP

[FuzzyLlama]

When you have successfully convinced the tech teacher at the school you admin to use Kerbal as an educational tool!

[Bekiekutmoar]

... when you drive to Berlin and think you've got enough "Delta-V" to reach the city and "land" in the correct street.

[Deadpangod3]

When your answer to every problem to something not working is "needs moar boosters"

Or for something broken being "needs more struts"

[Commander Jebidiah]

When your friend asks you "What is the largest planet in the solar system" and you answer "Jool"

[Bacterius]

When you read this thread and consider posting a reply.

[vexx32]

... when your skin starts to turn green, and you start to shrink. Your head shrinks slower than the rest of you, and changes shape. You lose your nose, and your ears. Your eyes bulge and swell to twice their size... and a wormhole snatches you out of this universe itself. You have become one with the game.

[OrtwinS]

... when your skin starts to turn green, and you start to shrink. Your head shrinks slower than the rest of you, and changes shape. You lose your nose, and your ears. Your eyes bulge and swell to twice their size... and a wormhole snatches you out of this universe itself. You have become one with the game.

...when you seriously consider picking the above scenario if it were offered as an actual choice. (Thought that also may be flight or procrastinate behavior from 'real' life)

[Madrias]

When you build space planes that work perfectly fine from the Spaceplane Hanger... Without using the Center of Mass, Lift, and Thrust markers.

[Javster]

I did it. I actually typed Mun instead of Moon into google.

[Mr. Entropy]

You get in you car and wonder where the navball is.