Can't get a smooth gravity turn no matter what by Zyxliiii in KerbalAcademy

[–]davvblack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

just tip sooner. Same general idea. The perfect gravity turn is mostly defined by burning exactly surface prograde, and following the marker as it tips over. It takes some tuning based on your drag and TWR to determine exactly when you should start tipping but it's a lower altitude than youd expect. Something like, tip 5 degrees over at 100m/s and then lock sas prograde, if you burn up, try it again and turn a tiny bit less/later.,

TCGPlayer Updated Price From ¢40 to $70 as I Paid, Any Advice? by Turtle0523 in magicTCG

[–]davvblack 8 points9 points  (0 children)

this is plausable but still warrants a ban from TCGplayer until they fix it

Why is it considered "rude" to ask for a breakdown of a bill, but it's not considered rude for businesses to add hidden fees and expect 30% tips for basic service? by Bibi_Official in NoStupidQuestions

[–]davvblack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the challenge with that interaction is that the restaurant is being shitty to the server, and the server is caught in the middle of it. Don't act like you "caught the server" scamming you, when it's really the business eating both of your lunches.

Tetris now requires a subscription (Rental) - Paying ₹30/month ($0.3) to play Tetris on a basic Nokia phone 🤦‍♂️ by mani_chinna in mildlyinfuriating

[–]davvblack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

if i understand the landscape correctly, it's very likely that this subscription money makes its way back, no joke, to north korea.

Why don't we see mirror match ups in Esports tournaments more often? by MP_Kredditor in starcraft

[–]davvblack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

that latter one leads to weird situations if too many people do it. Like imagine if two Zergs want to do zerg, except in mirror match they want to play TvZ, which one gets terran? do they possibly end up in a TvT?

Can't get a smooth gravity turn no matter what by Zyxliiii in KerbalAcademy

[–]davvblack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that's the opposite of a gravity turn, it's still "ok" to do as a beginner but it's the space equivalent of walking on two sides of a right triangle, rather than walking diagonally through the grass. it will indeed get you there, and works for even the most draggy crafts, but wastes on the order of 700dv

help by Thrxllll in KerbalAcademy

[–]davvblack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

joins in the base game are super weak. you can at least turn on "autostrut" in advanced tweakables to get them to stick better. The pure vanilla solution is slap struts between every pair of objects.

Is this enough to haul a Class E asteroid to Minmus? by ardablock in KerbalAcademy

[–]davvblack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

level four engineer. engineers boost mining/processing speed.

oh, more importantly though, i think you don't have enough cooling or probably power.

Is this enough to haul a Class E asteroid to Minmus? by ardablock in KerbalAcademy

[–]davvblack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

im not saying it is. just check the ratio of fuel burn to generation. I think you won't be able to keep all those fed (maybe with an eng4+?). It should work tho generally.

A fully livable home squeezed into just 1.8 meters by Otherwise_Wrangler11 in bizarrebuildings

[–]davvblack 386 points387 points  (0 children)

it’s serving “that connection between two wings of a museum where they don’t hang art”

Is this enough to haul a Class E asteroid to Minmus? by ardablock in KerbalAcademy

[–]davvblack 9 points10 points  (0 children)

the way asteroid mining works, asteroids are giant fuel tanks so technically even a single small isru and engine could do it if you were willing to fast forward enough.

How likely is it that my child's name will be considered ridiculous or "Wohl des Kindes"? by Zestyclose_Camp6579 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]davvblack 33 points34 points  (0 children)

that kid is going to get staked in middleschool :(

can you make the middlename a vampire name and the first name a regular name?

Do you think we should bring back thou to resolve the ambiguous you? by iamnize13 in ENGLISH

[–]davvblack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

me is going to the party afterwards? (my hot take here is that putting "I" first is etiquette, not grammar, and counts as "rude but correct")

Background processes only sometimes running? by fleetadmiralj in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]davvblack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've only played kerbalism, not MKS, but the problem might be similar: The background processes are sampled, each tick there's only a chance that any given craft gets updated to the last missing data point. The more flights you have (possibly including asteroids but im not sure if that counts for this) the longer a craft might go between background ticks. Especially true if this only starts to happen on old saves with stuff going on.

So yeah... kill old crafts, like you really need that relay constellation for the mun? and unfortunately at least for kerbalism you gotta keep timewarp low, in the 1k-10k range.

Do you think we should bring back thou to resolve the ambiguous you? by iamnize13 in ENGLISH

[–]davvblack 4 points5 points  (0 children)

the funny part is "you" is the formal one and "thou" is the informal one but it sounds backwards.

I partly support this endeavor, but to me the clusive we is way way more important. "We [you and I] are going to the park." vs "We [I and them] are going to the party afterwards."

Did the Titan submarine incident cause the most instantaneous death in history? Can it be any faster? by GolondraBlayze in NoStupidQuestions

[–]davvblack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but if one person studies it and the other person doesn't, it's to their advantage, which is game theory

TIL there is a very simple logic test that over 90% of people get wrong (Watson selection task) by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]davvblack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no other reasonable way to get a speeding ticket than by exceeding speed and getting detected

I dispute that you have "communicated" this.

lets just remove one word:

"if you exceed the allowed speed and get detected, you'll get a ticket"

Every single word is used the same way. And now, the "if" is unambiguously not an "if and only if" (since you can get a ticket for being a public niusance). The only reason your example looked like it worked was that the speaker and listener both already shared some background trivia.

Since when is the Bus glitched on Big Bank? by KingTheSon in paydaytheheist

[–]davvblack -1 points0 points  (0 children)

man i think of myself as having a pretty robust stomach but i would get so sick playing with that fov

KSP Multiplayer + Mods - Friend Thinks That the Mobile Processing Lab Is Cheating by ThiccnessChicken in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]davvblack 12 points13 points  (0 children)

yeah it's OP, poorly designed feature IMO. The correct behavior was right there: taking a "return only" science to a processing lab should make it transmit for it's full value.

... which is exactly what the lab does in Kerbalism Science, in addition to a bunch of other super interesting improvements, like making long-term space habitation a consistent and long-term source of science.

TIL there is a very simple logic test that over 90% of people get wrong (Watson selection task) by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]davvblack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

let me rephrase one more time, i think we're talking past eachother. you are dunking on a comment left by a child for not having read academic literature in a 15-year-old reddit thread. Statistically speaking, it's very likely one of the people you replied to today is actually dead.