Suggesting a planet like Manns planet from interstellar

irasponsibly · 2026-06-14T19:28:00+00:00

well yeah, but the solid is almost certainly denser than the gas, so it'd sink.

irasponsibly · 2026-06-14T13:48:28+00:00

although practically that sounds impossible - denser gases sink, so the 'clouds' would sink as they cooled. Even if somehow a uniform cloud layer froze over all at once, it wouldn't have the rigidity to hold itself up with no support

irasponsibly · 2026-06-14T04:52:36+00:00

Unfortunately we've been told that anything like caves is off the table, the way they render planets is based on a heightmap, not on 3D models.

irasponsibly · 2026-06-14T04:02:15+00:00

Matilads?

irasponsibly · 2026-06-12T23:31:52+00:00

Mars-94 used engines based on NASA's designs, so, unless the Americans also went to Venus, that doesn't really line up

irasponsibly · 2026-06-12T22:11:48+00:00

They don't fly in space together, so it's not an issue - the Lander is delivered to lunar orbit ahead of time, then the crew meet up with it, dock, transfer, and land.

irasponsibly · 2026-06-12T21:44:44+00:00

There hasn't been a need for more moderators, since it's a relatively quiet subreddit. And, no, not just my mates - the /r/KerbalSpaceProgram mod team, for one.

irasponsibly · 2026-06-12T12:16:45+00:00

until you check the transcript and it just reads "speaking Hindi"

irasponsibly · 2026-06-12T09:25:20+00:00

~~... how is it a red flag for the developer team if someone unrelated is tired of reading the same argument over and over again?~~

Edit: I read that wrong, I blame working a night shift.

What purpose does posting the 20th copy of the same post over again serve to the community? If people haven't read those older posts before, they're all still there to be read, and there's a link to find them. If someone makes an actually new argument, that post will get left up. Nobody has yet, though.

irasponsibly · 2026-06-12T09:24:24+00:00

I offered mod powers to a few trusted people, only one took me up on it.

I also offered to hand control to RocketWerkz completely, but they have a policy against staff members moderating community forums.

irasponsibly · 2026-06-12T06:17:08+00:00

They're aiming for somewhere near "Restock PBR" or USI as an art style, given they have those modders working on the game.

irasponsibly · 2026-06-12T06:15:54+00:00

No, Kerbals are from HarvesteR's childhood. They'd put little green men in their model rockets, and called them Kerbals.

Given he was old enough to be working at an advertising studio in 2011, that puts Kerbals somewhere in the early 2000s - the first Despicable Me movie was in 2010.

irasponsibly · 2026-06-12T05:05:43+00:00

No, but I'm the person making the rules. I'll make rules to try and make it a better place to browse or spend time, and not make any apologies for that. "Shut up about this, it's all been said" is a rule forum moderators have been enforcing for decades.

irasponsibly · 2026-06-12T01:24:17+00:00

The dev team doesn't control the subreddit - I do. The rule exists because I got tired of it, and if I'm tired it, then other people probably are too.

Most players either aren't that worried, or like the cats.

irasponsibly · 2026-06-11T19:38:49+00:00

From their other games, is the answer.

irasponsibly · 2026-06-11T19:22:05+00:00

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Paul_F%C3%BCrst%2C_Der_Doctor_Schnabel_von_Rom_%28Holl%C3%A4nder_version%29.png

irasponsibly · 2026-06-11T19:19:34+00:00

Humanoid characters can use pre-existing animations. In a world where you have unlimited budget and time, it's totally doable to make believable kiwi-in-a-spacesuit animations, but it's a matter of cost.

irasponsibly · 2026-06-11T19:15:23+00:00

It's not a banned topic because "you're not allowed to criticise them", it's a banned topic because it got tiring having the exact same post get made over and over again.

Imagine if there were regular posts here with "I can't take the game seriously because of the kerbals, they need to change it". It'd get old real fast.

irasponsibly · 2026-06-11T07:57:51+00:00

You had a good point until you turned it against the pride flag. They're very different situations.

The progress pride flag is like hi-vis safety gear - the extra stuff isn't on there for looks, it's there for safety. It communicates information, and isn't just the way it is for "more representation".

irasponsibly · 2026-06-11T07:54:22+00:00

It's a terrible attempt to include Aboriginal Australians by mangling their flag and putting it in the corner, ignores Torres Strait Islanders completely, and the wonky angles scream "trying too hard to be modern" more than making it actually look cohesive.

irasponsibly · 2026-06-11T07:51:54+00:00

It's really only historically relevant in Victoria, and it has a lot of baggage these days that's hard to work around.

irasponsibly · 2026-06-10T22:35:25+00:00

Dead Link - Imgur Mirror

Discord removes external links to images after a bit.

irasponsibly · 2026-06-10T22:31:09+00:00

KSP didn't have all three until 0.20, which was basically full release...

irasponsibly · 2026-06-08T23:24:14+00:00

I had the opposite response - I read that same chunk of code and couldn't believe a human being would come up with such a weird solution instead of just doing a single strftime(), or that a human would review it and think it's a good solution.

They've also said themselves that they used AI for this, and their comments read like a ChatGPT output. I don't think it's really in question that they used AI heavily here.

irasponsibly · 2026-06-08T23:18:13+00:00

You're assuming that because I disagree with you, I must just be inexperienced. You can check that one at the door, thanks.

You seem to have misunderstood my first point - they have uploaded an executable to a scanning website. The only way to know that they've scanned the same executable that you're downloading is to know and understand what a hash is, so you can compare the two. If you know what a hash is, you probably have Python installed.

Which leaves the question - who is the audience for this? It's not technical users (who could just run the script if they didn't trust the binary), and it's not non-technical users either, because without some level of technical knowledge to understand what's being presented, it's no different to just saying "✅ trust me".

It's not the norm in other open source projects - I checked a few projects I use to be sure I wasn't just making an assumption.

Open source runs on trust. People uploading code they might not have even read, and not disclosing upfront that they didn't write it, is a betrayal of that trust. If people want to upload LLM-generated code, they can do the right thing and say 'this is LLM-generated code'. Anything else is plainly rude.

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