DrVenkman
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- Oct 17, 2025
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First the boring basics - middle age gamer dude. And if I'm being honest, getting well into "late middle-age" - sigh - I started with Pong. My first arcade experience was with Atari's Indy 800. Look it up - the 70's were wild, man. I've been fascinated by aerospace since I was a very small child - I distinctly remember the last Apollo missions, Skylab and ASTP. I eagerly followed the last few years of Shuttle development and cheered like a lunatic with Young and Crippen's STS-1 launch and landing. Finished high school and then earned a B.S. in aerospace engineering before working for several years as a life support systems design engineer on Space Station Freedom, what we now know and love as the International Space Station. Although I only worked on the program for a few years, I have hardware I designed in those early days still orbiting Earth today as part of every pressurized US, European and Japanese element of the space station.
So naturally I eventually gravitated to KSP, which I dabbled with a bit for a year or two before finally jumping in whole hog with v0.19 in March of 2013. I was instantly hooked this time and have thousands of hours in the game, I am far from the most accomplished player - never bothered with a real Jool 5, let alone an Eve Return - I'm not a masochist! But I can eyeball nearly any kind of orbital transfer; I can dock manually quicker and faster and more efficiently than MechJeb; and I just LOVED managing late-game programs with dozens of simultaneous on-going missions. My Kerbal Alarm Clock window often had a dozen or more alarms waiting to go off at any given point.
Of course I eagerly anticipated KSP 2 - I literally dreamed about the game the evening before release. And then ... the disappointment, The disillusionment. And eventually the betrayal. I'm really too old to have let myself get that emotionally invested in a videogame but whatever.
I've been following the KSA Discord for some months; rarely posting but watching the Dev posts, change logs and lately the release notifications. Can't wait for the first public builds and hopefully soon after, the ability to throw some funds your way to keep development and the dreams of so many alive.
So naturally I eventually gravitated to KSP, which I dabbled with a bit for a year or two before finally jumping in whole hog with v0.19 in March of 2013. I was instantly hooked this time and have thousands of hours in the game, I am far from the most accomplished player - never bothered with a real Jool 5, let alone an Eve Return - I'm not a masochist! But I can eyeball nearly any kind of orbital transfer; I can dock manually quicker and faster and more efficiently than MechJeb; and I just LOVED managing late-game programs with dozens of simultaneous on-going missions. My Kerbal Alarm Clock window often had a dozen or more alarms waiting to go off at any given point.
Of course I eagerly anticipated KSP 2 - I literally dreamed about the game the evening before release. And then ... the disappointment, The disillusionment. And eventually the betrayal. I'm really too old to have let myself get that emotionally invested in a videogame but whatever.
I've been following the KSA Discord for some months; rarely posting but watching the Dev posts, change logs and lately the release notifications. Can't wait for the first public builds and hopefully soon after, the ability to throw some funds your way to keep development and the dreams of so many alive.
