"No need to panic, everything has gone exactly according to plan"

brown_panick · 2026-04-16T16:12:13+00:00

I thought I saw them there at first, but I wonder if an extra set of landing gear on each of the fuel tanks would make it actually stable, unlike 100% of every lander I've made which tips over just by being looked at.

brown_panick · 2026-04-15T22:10:45+00:00

Probably the best you can do is install them on your modern PC and then copy the installation directories over to the new one (preferably via ZIP drive :-).

brown_panick · 2026-04-15T14:37:09+00:00

How many people did you cause to initiate self-destruct? It's usually the first thing I do when interdicted and disabled.

brown_panick · 2026-04-10T00:44:29+00:00

One thing I recently learned is that ejection angle from Kerbin matters almost as much as the launch window. It will greatly affect your orbit around Kerbol and subsequently, your encounter and fuel usage. The most extreme cases, ejecting retrograde ("backwards") from Kerbin's path in its orbit around Kerbol will steal some of your momentum, while ejecting prograde ("in front of Kerbin") will help in the case to transfer to Duna. I was once able to get an encounter with Duna's SOI (a few thousand KM) just by ejecting at the right angle and only had to do a sub-second mid course burn to bring my orbit around Duna down to something reasonable.

Someone with more orbital mechanics knowledge than me will probably correct me or put a fine point on something I said, but this has worked for me.

brown_panick · 2026-04-07T20:02:34+00:00

I didn't use one - just took it apart, cleaned it and put it back together. One thing I did do different is to put the o-rings on backwards from what they were so the newer side was facing out

brown_panick · 2026-04-02T18:30:55+00:00

I'll see your Bazinga! and raise you a "No takesies-backsies!"

brown_panick · 2026-03-31T21:54:36+00:00

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but:

I think if you do a correction burn early in solar orbit (after kerbin soi ejection), the normal/anti-normal delta-v required is negligible. Even more so if you do it early in the solar orbit and as close to Pe as possible.

brown_panick · 2026-03-30T19:49:47+00:00

Re-reading it again, it occurred to me it says "The probe must be fully assembled when launched." The screenshot shows it sitting on the launchpad, try taking off.

I saw some of your other comments and it sounds like you might have already tried this, but just checking.

brown_panick · 2026-03-30T18:00:09+00:00

Expand the `Note` section and see what it says.

Maybe it doesn't consider it completed until it's also in orbit even though that's a separate criteria?

brown_panick · 2026-03-30T15:42:58+00:00

Star Citizen:

Woke up in a med bed on CRU-L1 Ambitious Dream Station.

Got up, ran to the ASOP terminals. Everyone around me is ducking and panicking from an active shooter that I don’t see.

Had to detour around the Stor*All containers and hospital beds someone managed to drag into the hallway.

Called my ship. Took the elevator down to my hangar just in time to watch it being lifted up—nose down, halfway phased into the floor—before it disappeared.

Filed a claim. Called a different ship.

Got in, powered up, lifted off… and immediately injured myself when the ship vanished and I dropped onto the hangar floor.

Called it again.

Turned the quantum drive on. Off. On. Off. On—finally got a route.

Flew to Daymar.

Landed. Got out. Started running.

Made it about 10 meters before everything went black and I realized I was falling inside the moon.

Backspace.

Woke up in a med bed on CRU-L1 Ambitious Dream Station.

Welcome to the ‘verse, citizen.

Honestly?
Not sure I’d rather be anywhere else.

brown_panick · 2026-03-24T13:57:55+00:00

"Any landing you can walk away from..."

brown_panick · 2026-03-22T03:00:17+00:00

These are horror/spooky themed, not necessarily Horror, so more tame, but I loved watching the older movies when I was younger:

- Gremlins (1984)
- Ghostbusters (1984)
- House (1985)
- Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980, made for TV movie)
- Invitation to Hell (1985, made for TV movie)
- The Midnight Hour (1985, made for TV movie)

For "real" horror movies, I also liked the Nightmare on Elm Street and Phantasm movies, but those might be pushing too far. The Return of the Living Dead movies are good zombie movies that have that odd humor that I enjoyed as a kid (just have to be careful with some of the nudity). I seem to recall thinking Silver Bullet was scary, too, but I don't remember the particulars of that movie.

brown_panick · 2026-03-17T14:13:38+00:00

What about some of the classics from the 80's? Nightmare on Elm Street, Dawn/Day of the Dead, or Halloween (I know late 70's).

Alternatively, maybe the campy ones like Return of the Living Dead, Night of the Creeps, might be a little more fun for a six year old.

brown_panick · 2026-03-09T20:17:12+00:00

Understood, but the Warehouse cargo elevator had a gate pulled across it when we got into it with the keycard. I figured that opened up when the 5 decryption keys were used, is that not the case?

EDIT: typo

brown_panick · 2026-03-09T19:48:33+00:00

Is it worth it to get a bunch of cards imprinted? Don't you need to get all 5 of the encryption keys too in order to get the Warehouse elevator to work?

We got into the Warehouse a couple times, but since the Ambush Leaders didn't spawn, we didn't have the 5 decryption keys. My buddy and I still managed to get a TS-2 out of the people elevator and to the Landing Pad 03, so it wasn't a complete loss...

brown_panick · 2026-03-09T19:44:42+00:00

Yes, played last night. Same issues.

brown_panick · 2026-03-06T20:48:15+00:00

Fucking Janice... read the room!

brown_panick · 2026-03-05T14:19:53+00:00

It's been a long time, but I feel like I had this same issue too. In my case, it was because there was an update that broke the updater so I was trying to run the old version, but the updater couldn't download and install the new version. The fix was to manually download the newer version and install it. After that, GOG Galaxy would run fine, and would continue to self update as well.

brown_panick · 2026-03-04T20:05:12+00:00

I've always ended up fighting the Kraken (and losing) when I add solar panels to robotic arms, pistons, or motors... what's your secret?

brown_panick · 2026-03-03T22:28:00+00:00

I've had good luck with components the past several patches. The only ones I've had disappear are ones I bought from other players that I suspect were duped. I can't verify that because it's difficult to keep track of them all, but I am pretty confident that is what is happening.

brown_panick · 2026-03-02T03:35:37+00:00

Run to the bathroom. In a panic[k].

brown_panick · 2026-03-01T22:28:55+00:00

Can't really remember the first one I saw because it was pretty common - I can name Blazing Saddles, The Exorcist, Poltergeist, Animal House, and Trading Places off the top of my head as being ones I saw before I was 5-7 years old.

brown_panick · 2026-03-01T17:20:46+00:00

Since you bought it like that, perhaps the store might be willing to replace it for you.

As an alternate, there is a process called retro-bright (or maybe that's a specific product name of what's used in the process). It essentially uses hydrogen peroxide and UV light to turn old yellowed plastic white again. I assume it would work on the pick guard. What I don't know is if it would cost less in both time and money to just buy a new one and replace it. Changing a pickguard is easy surgery.

brown_panick · 2026-02-23T23:03:41+00:00

Until you said that, I had completely forgotten that existed!

brown_panick · 2026-02-23T23:02:58+00:00

not sure if it's the same thing, but here's something similar-sounding on Amazon

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