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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: kgbsquirrel on September 09, 2019, 03:04:11 AM
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Anybody else a simulated rocket surgeon?
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I've watched some letsplay stuff when it shows up on Reditt but never actually played. Cool looking game though.
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Thought you were talking about the F3 race at Monza Saturday.
https://youtu.be/UZJclBJIMOE
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(https://i.imgur.com/1l8NPZY.png)
Haven't played it for a few weeks though because it was constantly crashing. Not sure if its my hardware or a bug in the game. :'(
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I don’t game very much anymore but KSP has been a favorite when I have the time.
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My hon cajoled me into streaming my near-death experiences of kerbalkind.
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But wait, there will be more
Kerbal Space Program 2 Cinematic Announce Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_nj6wW6Gsc
Kerbal Space Program 2 - What We Know About The Sequel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D353IVwY_1g
Kerbal Space Program 2 Developer Answers Important Questions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-xM_e5x6oc
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But wait, there will be more
Kerbal Space Program 2 Cinematic Announce Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_nj6wW6Gsc
Kerbal Space Program 2 - What We Know About The Sequel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D353IVwY_1g
Kerbal Space Program 2 Developer Answers Important Questions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-xM_e5x6oc
My last Moon landing was just like that.
First the pogostick legs flop the landing on the side. Second attempt, Jeb tumbles down the side of the lander. :lol:
ETA: Going for another moon shot now. twitch.tv/yaivenov (My wife made me.)
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Uh oh
A bit of trouble in Kerbal Land Space
Take-Two terminated KSP 2 contract from Star Theory, and then tried to steal its employees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZPfhFE9RR8
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Longer video w/more details
They were aiming for a spring 2020 release date. It's now fall 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U-9YZUzGEc
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Shows faith in the dev team but not in their management.
Also some weird rumint floating about.
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Ah, RUMored INTelligence.
Had to look it up.
Seems to me the concept did not need an acronym, but was the result of the militaryish fetish for generating cool ABBRs regardless of the negative impact on actually conveying INF in an EFFMAN.
("Effective Manner." Or "efficient manner," if you PREF.)
IHALOMILFUNITR.
(I have a lot of MILFUN in this regard.)
T
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZPfhFE9RR8
At the 1:32 mark: space station vaguely resembles Babylon 5.
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Ah, RUMored INTelligence.
Had to look it up.
Seems to me the concept did not need an acronym, but was the result of the militaryish fetish for generating cool ABBRs regardless of the negative impact on actually conveying INF in an EFFMAN.
("Effective Manner." Or "efficient manner," if you PREF.)
IHALOMILFUNITR.
(I have a lot of MILFUN in this regard.)
T
It's a play on actual intelligence categories:
IMINT imagery intelligence
SIGINT signals intelligence
- COMINT communications intelligence
- ELINT electronics intelligence
HUMINT human intelligence
RUMINT rumor intelligence
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Yes, thank you.
All "the result of the militaryish fetish for generating cool ABBRs regardless of the negative impact on actually conveying INF in an EFFMAN."
It's almost as if the party who generates the coolest military acronyms gets promoted over everybody else. Yes, yes, "ACROPROMs." Yes.
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Yes, thank you.
All "the result of the militaryish fetish for generating cool ABBRs regardless of the negative impact on actually conveying INF in an EFFMAN."
It's almost as if the party who generates the coolest military acronyms gets promoted over everybody else. Yes, yes, "ACROPROMs." Yes.
Well, those are contractions, so... =D
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I occasionally regret not getting a copy of DICNAVAB - The Dictionary of Naval Abbreviations, when I had the chance.
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Heh. Oddly, RoadKingLarry (RKL), that's what started my pointless but amusing campaign against excessive acronymizing.
I had to review some Navy specs on a test device. They started out using the full descriptions or names with their ABBRs or ACROs in parentheses. But that was the only time they equated the two, and continued to use the ABBRs and ACROs throughout the remainder of the booklet.
It took approximately three times as long to get the sense of what was being said because, unlike NAVGENIUSES, I could not remember all of them and had to keep going back to look them up.
Now I recognize that in some things, like Morse Code, it is better to ABBR commonly used concepts (e.g., the Q-codes and the 10-codes) because the information rate is pretty slow, but as time went on (the Precipitating Incident (PI) was back in the 90s) it seemed more and more obvious after the PI that ACRO generation was more of a mind game for the participants than a practical necessity.
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Now I recognize that in some things, like Morse Code, it is better to ABBR commonly used concepts (e.g., the Q-codes and the 10-codes) because the information rate is pretty slow, but as time went on (the Precipitating Incident (PI) was back in the 90s) it seemed more and more obvious after the PI that ACRO generation was more of a mind game for the participants than a practical necessity.
I'm pretty sure the point of acronyms is to avoid saying or writing long phrases repeatedly. Sure, you can overuse them, but who wants to keep saying the same long phrase 7 times in the same conversation? Or reading the phrase 15 times in a manual?
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iFF
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iFF
Me:
Heh. Oddly, RoadKingLarry (RKL), that's what started my pointless but amusing campaign against excessive acronymizing.
...it seemed more and more obvious after the PI that ACRO generation was more of a mind game for the participants than a practical necessity.
Yes, I know what IFF means.
"BAH-WEEP-GRAAAGHNAH WHEEP NI-NI BONG"
Let it rest there.
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