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Where You Can Get after Logging 4000 Hours in KSP

posted by martyb on Monday September 17 2018, @05:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the out-of-this-world! dept.

hubie writes:

Kerbal Space Program (KSP) is a remarkably rich, open-ended physics-based space program simulator. The types of spacecraft and missions you can design and simulate, particularly with a very active modding community is practically endless. Do you want to fly the Enterprise? Which one? Perhaps see if you can survive out of Andy Weir's The Martian?

PCGamer has an article on a person who has logged more than 4000 hours on KSP. The user, known as ShadowZone in the Steam community, spends many hours designing and implementing complex spacecraft as well as calculating flight plans. It is an interesting read for anyone who has given this game a try, and if you're not careful you may learn something before it's done.

When I first spied the 39-year-old father of two discussing his playtime on Twitter, I wanted him to answer one simple question: What do you even do in Kerbal Space Program for that length of time? Well if you're Daniel, you spend it building staggeringly complex machines to then launch on missions so daring it'd make Arthur C. Clarke sweat—all while rediscovering that childish sense of wonder that makes space so captivating to begin with.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by ikanreed on Monday September 17 2018, @06:17PM (1 child)

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 17 2018, @06:17PM (#736100) Journal

    *manager voice*

    Look, those project plans mean accountability, and if no one reads them it's because you were accountable.

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  • (Score: 3, TouchĂ©) by Freeman on Monday September 17 2018, @07:29PM

    by Freeman (732) on Monday September 17 2018, @07:29PM (#736135) Journal

    Have you filled out those TPS reports. Did you get the TPS reports? Did you get the memo on the TPS reports? Please, make sure to file those TPS reports. Also, I'm going to need you to come in on Saturday too.. Mmkay, thanks.

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