Why do I see nyan cats on the KSP load screen?

[jimmymcgoochie]

On several occasions recently I've seen a load of little nyan cats scampering around on the load screen doing some orbits of each other. It first happened when I tried to load a Kopernicus-based game in KSP 1.8.1 before Kopernicus worked in 1.8, but today it's happened twice in two different KSP instances both on 1.8.1 and one of them had minimal mods installed (and Kopernicus wasn't one of them). Anyone know where they're coming from?

[Guest]

Your Module Manager is out of date.

[VoidSquid]

Oh is it? Nyan Cats ftw!

Wish I'd had been my idea, imo they're just brilliant.

[XLjedi]

Wow... in honor of my daughter's birthday today!  

Nyan cats for all!

[VoidSquid]

Man, all my best wishes wishes for your daughter and your family!

It's good to hear some positive news, and this definitely is!

[jimmymcgoochie]

58 minutes ago, Brikoleur said:

Your Module Manager is out of date.

MM at 4.1.3, the most up to date version for KSP 1.8.1

Apparently it's a module manager easter egg to celebrate Japanese Cat Day or something, they also appear on April Fools' Day and when Kopernicus is incompatible which confused me (and apparently quite a few others on the forums too).

[Geonovast]

Moved to modded tech support.

 

Yes, it appears to be the cat day aspect.  Just got it myself when launching KSP.  I kinda wish they'd show up more often.

[steve_v]

1 hour ago, Geonovast said:

I kinda wish they'd show up more often.

-nyan-nyan == cat on demand.
-ncats == more cats on demand.

Edited February 22, 2020 by steve_v

[verniervonkerman]

cat day 2024 pog

[Second Hand Rocket Science]

meow :3

[Jebby Boi]

MF I THOUGHT THIS WAS MALWARE OR SOME SORT OF VIRUS AND DELETED ALL MY MODS N' STUFF

50+ MODS GONE

At least add some text or smth man, what