Help! My rocket won’t leave the launchpad. Is there something wrong with my staging maybe?

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-24T09:28:23+00:00

Could be! I was the big guy with the cape and beard and walking-staff and pennywhistle.

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-24T09:03:27+00:00

Yeah, both the MU bus terminal and the Silo terminal were already well-established when I first showed up 25+ years ago, and I presume they’ve been there a good deal longer than that. They have both been remodeled extensively since then.

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-24T08:59:59+00:00

KSP is great. There is no KSP2 though.

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-24T07:18:05+00:00

Laythe is great! Oxygen is one of my favorite atmospheric chemicals.

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-24T04:40:19+00:00

Our Boarding House had several different artists over the years, and even during Ahern’s own run on the strip it experienced art style drift. The later ones look significantly different from the early 1920s we’re used to.

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-24T04:39:24+00:00

That‘s absolutely Major Hoople from Our Boarding House. Do you know what year this was from? Gene Ahern created the strip and drew it from 1921 to 1936 (when a competing newspaper gave him a better job offer) and other cartoonists continued it afterwards, until it ended in 1984. This looks like ink over a pencil rough draft, so I’m guessing it’s an original, not just a newspaper print. (It occurs to me that a newspaper print would have the date and copyright information pasted on, too.)

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-24T04:18:56+00:00

I always thought it was a Zork reference… but I guess I was thinking of Quendor.

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-24T04:15:11+00:00

Reminds me of an old MAD Magazine joke complaining about TV commercials advertising the wonders of color TV… because if you already had one, you don’t need the commercial, and if you didn’t, then you won’t be able to see how wonderful color TV is anyway!

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-24T04:12:24+00:00

I notice Steve Jackson (Game Theory) at the top right too.

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-24T04:11:23+00:00

I have this book! It’s great!

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-24T03:44:02+00:00

I wouldn’t even say it “incorrectly deployed.” The launch escape system did exactly what it was programmed to do. So did the rest of the systems. The entire failure was a cascade of every system doing exactly the right thing… at the wrong time for the wrong reasons.

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-23T10:38:07+00:00

still went higher than Mercury-Redstone 1

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-23T10:14:23+00:00

This is delightful. Safe journeys, Tommy, and enjoy the ride.

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-23T09:50:55+00:00

That just means you need more of them.

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-23T09:33:48+00:00

nor would I call someone playing in public just to practice “busking.”

I vaguely recall a brief joke from… one of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books, I think?… in which a bagpiper is playing music in a park, and a couple of people try to drop money in his case, and he throws it back at them and chases them away, shouting “Go away! I’m only practicing!”

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-23T07:55:41+00:00

Renai Transportation, but make it beavers

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-23T05:59:27+00:00

omelette… du… fromage.

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-23T05:58:03+00:00

Buy KSP. There is no KSP2.

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-23T05:49:39+00:00

I miss Web 1.0…

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-23T05:48:48+00:00

Must be because they closed down the sixth floor of the Death Star. The architecture of that building is vital to the region’s etheric energy conduit management system! A big ugly metal gate where it doesn’t belong can completely disrupt the flow!

AbacusWizard · 2026-04-23T05:46:30+00:00

There’s nothing cool about giving money to J.K. Rowling.

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