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

[RoadRunnerAerospace]

Muhahaha

[DualDesertEagle]

When u have an idea of setting up a huge bunch of orbital and ground fuel stations throughout the kerbol system and think of the best ways to pull that off even at work...

[qzgy]

When Mars is known as Duna in your brain.

[DrearyKnight187]

Whenever I get on any airplane in real life, I think the wings are too far back because most of the planes I make in ksp that work have wings that are REALLY far up. 

[Fengist]

When someone likes your post in this thread from 3 years ago... and you're still here to get the notification.

[RedPandaz]

On 11/30/2016 at 8:48 AM, AndroidSub said:

When, while studying Ionic Equilibrium, you see the dissociation constant of sparingly soluble salt, which is represented as Ksp , and immediately think about your first Duna mission, which just launched yesterday

 

p.s. this incident happened to me today lol 

That happened to me last year ^^

[JP_Magoo]

When you never realized that Mercury has an atmosphere because moho, its counterpart in KSP doesn't. 

Edited September 29, 2017 by JP_Magoo

[ioresult]

When you're watching Musks BFR plans and you're mentally designing it using stock parts.

[Geonovast]

I just hit F1 to take a screenshot, then stared all confused at Pinta for a good 4-5 seconds when it told me the clipboard was empty and had nothing to paste.

...I wasn't playing KSP.

[Julian.]

When You Have One Dream That Is KSP Related And Know Some Of The Worst Possible Ways In Stock KSP You Can Kill Kerbals

[NSEP]

When you play Minecraft on PC and you mess up the GUI and the Screenshot button. That is likely the most annoying little mistake i make playing those games.

[Terwin]

Your multi-rescue vessel has enough fuel left after collecting 4 LKO stranded kerbals to swing past Mun, and you do so because you must got the mun fly-by explore mission.

(Playing a career with KR&D since 1.2.2 has really messed up my ability to eye-ball ships) 

[Delay]

You know you're playing a lot of KSP when you try to explain orbital mechanics to your dad, who still thinks rockets go up vertically. He doesn't get it.

[Geonovast]

2 hours ago, Delay said:

You know you're playing a lot of KSP when you try to explain orbital mechanics to your dad, who still thinks rockets go up vertically. He doesn't get it.

Right along how this game has made me appreciate SciFi TV/Movies a little less...

Every SciFi Show/Movie, pretty much ever:

Ship in orbit, tootling along.

Ship's engines cut out.

"OMG WE'RE PLUMMETING TO THE GROUND WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE."

Granted, I already knew how silly that was, but my suspension of disbelief is now pretty much gone.

[Tyko]

4 hours ago, Geonovast said:

Right along how this game has made me appreciate SciFi TV/Movies a little less...

Every SciFi Show/Movie, pretty much ever:

Ship in orbit, tootling along.

Ship's engines cut out.

"OMG WE'RE PLUMMETING TO THE GROUND WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE."

Granted, I already knew how silly that was, but my suspension of disbelief is now pretty much gone.

yea, I went to the Boeing Museum in Seattle last weekend. They had a new 3D movie called Space Next that was supposed to talk about current and future space plans. The movie was so riddled with classic dumb movie errors that my buddy (who also plays KSP) and I were really disappointed.

They showed a ship banking and swooping amongst an asteroid field while it's primary thrust engines stayed on full power the entire time - it never turned to use the engines to thrust different ways, it just kept banking and turning like an atmospheric fighter. Lots of other comparable mistakes too that I'd expect from Hollywood, but not from a pseudo-educational video at Boeing

[MoarBoostersRUS]

When you see someone fall and think "well they forgot to add reaction wheels and rcs thrusters"

[NSEP]

You know you play to much Realism Overhaul when you can identify a rockets fuel just by looking at its plume for less than 10 seconds.

[Delay]

You can? How?

[cubinator]

4 hours ago, Delay said:

You can? How?

The color of the flame is unique. Hydrolox, for instance, makes a clear blue plume. Methalox is purple, I think. 

[HerrCrazi]

When you're speaking about Dv and gravity assists with a person you don't know, but is talking about KSP too

When you open Stellarium to show the day's night sky to a mate and say "Look ! Tonight we'll be able to see Saturn and Duna here ! Uh.. Mars..."

When you open a pack of crisps and says "How this would fly?"

When you're talking to a surfer friend about prograde and retrograde vectors applied to surfing and the fact that surfboards have infinite free Dv.

When you can't watch a Sci Fi movie without screaming at each technical / physical error. "Nooo ! When you're orbiting, you've to cut the engines !"

When you're wondering about the feasibility of flying aircraft carriers.

[NateisKerbal]

When your friends on Steam stop speaking to you because you only play KSP.

When you're building a PC and you ask "but can it run KSP at 400 FPS?"

[PaperAviator]

When VAB/SPH music replays in your brain

over and

over and

over and

over and...

[MoarBoostersRUS]

11 minutes ago, NateisKerbal said:

When you're building a PC and you ask "but can it run KSP at 400 FPS?"

I did this last year asked them how much ram I should get to run ksp with 100+ mods at near 4K graphics

[HerrCrazi]

When you're damn late and wants to reload the save.

When you're doing this kind of stuff :

[RoadRunnerAerospace]

13 minutes ago, HerrCrazi said:

When you're damn late and wants to reload the save.

When you're doing this kind of stuff :

Love the engineers report