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Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« on: September 09, 2019, 03:04:11 AM »
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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2019, 10:27:04 PM »
I've watched some letsplay stuff when it shows up on Reditt but never actually played.  Cool looking game though.
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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2019, 11:46:50 PM »
Thought you were talking about the F3 race at Monza Saturday.

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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2019, 12:29:45 AM »


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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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2019, 05:28:18 AM »
I don’t game very much anymore but KSP has been a favorite when I have the time.

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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2019, 06:03:58 PM »
My hon cajoled me into streaming my near-death experiences of kerbalkind.

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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2019, 06:14:28 PM »
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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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2019, 06:40:15 PM »
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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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2020, 10:33:08 AM »
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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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2020, 11:16:18 AM »
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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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2020, 11:59:19 AM »
Shows faith in the dev team but not in their management.

Also some weird rumint floating about.

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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #11 on: June 09, 2020, 01:20:27 PM »
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.)

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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2020, 01:36:03 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZPfhFE9RR8

At the 1:32 mark: space station vaguely resembles Babylon 5.
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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #13 on: June 09, 2020, 10:34:25 PM »
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.)

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(I have a lot of MILFUN in this regard.)

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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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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #14 on: June 10, 2020, 05:16:12 AM »
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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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #15 on: June 10, 2020, 12:16:34 PM »
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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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #16 on: June 10, 2020, 07:42:50 PM »
I occasionally regret not getting a copy of DICNAVAB - The Dictionary of Naval Abbreviations, when I had the chance.
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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #17 on: June 10, 2020, 08:12:21 PM »
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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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #18 on: June 10, 2020, 10:51:01 PM »
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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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #19 on: June 10, 2020, 10:57:15 PM »
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Re: Any Kerbanauts in the house?
« Reply #20 on: June 15, 2020, 11:22:04 AM »
iFF

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Heh.  Oddly, RoadKingLarry (RKL), that's what started my pointless but amusing campaign against excessive acronymizing.

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...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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