am I a bad person?

[Khrissetti]

So I'm at a party for a friend of my girlfriend and I find my mind drifting from the endless small talk to wondering how to build my next kerbal space station?

Has anybody else experienced this or am I just a bad person?

[Procyon]

You are a guy,

[astropapi1]

I dream new rockets, and they actually work when I wake up and build them...

You're not a bad person, you're just a KSP player .

[LeonG17]

This is one of the many side effects of too much KSP. Other symptoms include seeing things from it everywhere like Jeb in a crowd or a fuel tank by a railway and using KSP terminology in real life like wondering how much Delta-V you have and whether that is enough to get to your house.

[Rage097]

You are a guy who plays KSP in space station with your friends who are discussing how much delta-V...Wait...Hold on...That's not right is it?

Whatever, I'm sure it's perfectly normal.

[Stazi]

I could hardly sleep last night because I was up until about 7-8am using RCS thrusters to bring a tug back from the Mun. When it was over and I went to try and get some sleep, all I could think about was how to redesign the ship to have better dV so it doesn't get stranded again.

So no, you're not a bad person for having KSP on the brain. I'm sure a lot of the dedicated players think about it throughout the day.

[corvus2606]

for 3 weeks i did barely anything at work other than plan the next stage for my space program. Managed to get it out of my system before the boss noticed though.

[Sempiternal]

i write mission plans in my school books

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

This is one of the many side effects of too much KSP

I think it's the other way around. It is a side effect of having a girlfriend. She will want to do things together. And one of those things is attend to social events such as parties, weddings, baptisms and the like.

The opposite, for some reason, doesn't normally happen. Men don't always expect women to go to where they want to, in fact in many occasions they don't want them to come along.

PS: I wonder why I'm still single.

[dr_jt]

Going dark. Post removed.

Edited June 5, 2013 by dr_jt

[Khrissetti]

Haha love that I'm not the only one. I'm pretending to care about weddings and colours or something. All I can think of is how many launches I need to finish the station. Hmm if I launched the Combs module attached to the fuel module... No! Concentrate on tedious social blather...

[Voidryder]

Just play more KSP. The whole girlfriend/relationship thing will take care of itself...eventually.

[CozmikR5]

Come to our gamer meets in Montreal. Every 14 days rock steady for the past 5 years

[Khrissetti]

Bit of a jaunt from Birmingham UK I'm afraid.

[Sir Nahme]

Better to let your mind wander to docking a station rather than docking to someone at the party idly.

[Kosmic Debris]

if I can get 5 fuel tanks up then I could look at using maybe 3 orange tanks, each with an LV-N...I gotta work up the Dv. Push or maybe a pull with the new big docking adapter......

Oh, I'm sorry - were you saying something?

;-)

[Pingonaut]

i write mission plans in my school books

Yup, same here.

[Echostatic]

Sounds like you need to ditch the lady so you don't have to deal with the distraction of parties. The space program is all you need.

[Khrissetti]

Virtually word for word

[Guest]

Khrissetti, you're not a bad person. You were putting your brain to better use than trying to keep up with party small talk of how much a @%$!*^@# Justin Beiber really is.

[Voidryder]

Wait...who's Justin Beiber and why does Jack Wolfe hate him so?

[sadron]

We should only really be worrying about you if your girlfriend offers "bedtime fun" and you'd rather go play Kerbal Space Program instead.

[hugix]

Sometimes when I'm out with not so fun people. Or just really bored I start doodling new Kerbal ideas. I work in a venue and a few days ago we had a quite evening so I doodled a new space station. It was the first time I ever thought about the different modules before I started building. The station is now about 50% done and is living quite up to the doodles I made .

[CalculusWarrior]

That's me--all day today I've been distracted by how to get my interplanetary mission to Moho. On paper I have enough delta-v, but I'm worried that there won't be enough to circularize after the inclination change. I was debating on whether to send up a refueling tanker along with the interplanetary ship, swap out drive stages, etc... Needless to say, I'm not one for small talk at the moment

[Tw1]

If it gets bad, take a break for a bit. You don't want to become so obsessed it harms your life and relationships. Otherwise, it's not an uncommon syptom. I spend much of highschool daydreaming/planning my city in simcity 4 rush hour (which was heavily modded), and a lot of first year uni planing out parts of my rail network for Kuju rail simulator. KSP has been the most recent one in quite a line for me.

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