L1[00:06:36] <taniwha> ;mission add You launch a ship using a null space drive.

L2[00:06:36] <LunchBot> Added mission: You launch a ship using a null space drive.

L3[00:08:11] <raptop> !outcome add Your strings are null-terminated.

L4[00:08:12] <LunchBot> Added outcome: Your strings are null-terminated.

L5[00:08:18] <raptop> >_>

L6[00:08:19] <raptop> <_<

L7[00:08:45] <taniwha> but that's normal!

L8[00:09:26] <raptop> That's the joke!

L9[00:09:35] <raptop> It looks like a bad outcome, but it's completely normal

L10[00:09:44] <SporkWitch> just pipe all the output to /dev/null

L11[00:10:41] <taniwha> I couldn't help but think of null space drives and null space communicators when I recently (re?)learned about null spaces.

L12[00:18:07] <raptop> heh

L36[08:26:48] <Mat2ch> !mission

L37[08:26:49] <LunchBot> You search for the main menu sandcastle. No pun intended.

L39[08:28:20] <Althego> that fell flat

L40[08:31:22] <Althego> zombanwa

L41[08:35:28] <darsie> what?

L42[08:42:01] <Althego> how a japanese spekaing zombie greets you

L55[11:37:16] <Althego> leet time

L57[11:48:55] <Mat2ch> !mission

L58[11:48:55] <LunchBot> You spend hours explaining in increasingly enraged tones how dividing by zero is not "scary" or "evil" or capable of "breaking the universe," it's just impossible, and everyone needs to shut up about it already. Failure is not an option, but happens anyway.

L59[12:02:15] <Althego> hehe

L60[12:02:34] <Althego> basically failing at explaining the impossibility of division by zero

L61[12:09:39] <FLHerne> nono

L62[12:10:25] <FLHerne> dividing by zero isn't an option, but happens anyway and breaks the universe

L63[12:10:52] <FLHerne> the people you were arguing with were right

L64[12:11:54] <FLHerne> it's quite easy to do impossible things that break the universe in KSP, ask Danny

L65[12:15:43] <darsie> Miracles are bugs in the universe.

L66[13:09:46] <Mat2ch> !mission

L67[13:09:46] <LunchBot> You present an Erinaceinae with a dilemma. The IRC server crashes.

L78[15:40:03] <raptop> poor hedgehog...

L79[15:41:52] <Mat2ch> !mission

L80[15:41:52] <LunchBot> You hire Big Man Japan for your next mission. For all the resultant horror, grief, and pain, you put your differences behind you and try again. For science. You monster.

L81[16:08:26] <Pinkbeast> Oh LV-Ns how I love your 12 minute burns

L82[16:12:46] <Mat2ch> and the physics timewarp that only goes to 4x.

L83[16:12:55] <Mat2ch> and is not very precise.

L84[16:13:06] <Althego> 12 minutes long burn is not even that long

L85[16:13:21] <Althego> you can do it in 2 parts if you are in kerbin orbit

L86[16:13:25] <SporkWitch> better timewarp mod will allow higher levels of physics warp, including when in vacuum, to make those long burns more bearable

L87[16:13:49] <Mat2ch> About precision. I'm playing an old game right now, a flight simulator. Originally from 1993. Back than it ran awfully and wasn't released until 1997 or so.

L88[16:13:59] <Pinkbeast> I have it but I mostly just read during the long burns

L89[16:14:15] <Mat2ch> I wondered for some time how they managed to have real 3d done only on the cpu. Until I remembered: They didn't use floats.

L90[16:14:56] <Pinkbeast> Eh, Aviator (1983) has 3D scenery :-)

L91[16:19:31] <Mat2ch> lines don't count.

L92[16:19:32] <Mat2ch> ;)

L93[16:19:49] <Mat2ch> I'm talking about real scenery here, multiple aircrafts in the air

L94[16:20:03] <Pinkbeast> Aviator has multiple aircraft in one mode

L95[16:20:09] <Mat2ch> a 3d view of the plane from the outside (with a function to see it in a flyby)

L96[16:20:25] <Mat2ch> Buildings, hills

L97[16:20:34] <Mat2ch> cities (also not very detailed)

L98[16:20:41] <Pinkbeast> Aviator has buildings! It even has a bridge to fly under.

L99[16:20:43] <Mat2ch> *although

L100[16:22:17] <Pinkbeast> More seriously, re simplifications, Elite (1984) had the ingenious idea of making you the centre of a polar coordinates universe. This not only simplifies a lot of the flight maths, it means the player's ship movement happens quite precisely - the further away from you something is, the more imprecisely its movement is simulated, but the player can't tell because it's a long way away.

L101[16:22:30] <Mat2ch> And I'm talking about drawing 3d objects with 30 fps in 1993 for consumer computers. Totally new back in the days

L102[16:23:44] <Pinkbeast> Nah, loads of 16-bit games were doing that (including Arc Elite, 1991)

L103[16:24:59] <Mat2ch> How many at the same time?

L104[16:25:26] <Pinkbeast> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)#/media/File:Arcelite_through_vipers.jpg

L105[16:25:36] <Pinkbeast> (but also, not delayed until '97)

L106[16:26:34] <Pinkbeast> Polygon graphics in flight sims are I think F-19 (1988)

L107[16:27:09] <Althego> hehe f-29 retaliator

L108[16:28:02] <Althego> the siren sound when your plane was seriously damaged, through the pc speaker, it still echoes in me

L112[17:32:13] <a_flayer> too tired to play kerbal

L131[22:01:59] <Snoke> opa

L142[23:00:11] <funkenstein> ;mission

L143[23:00:11] <LunchBot> You finally cave in and push the big red button. Unbeknownst to the employees at the KSP centre, Gus Kerman secretly runs a restaurant chain that serves Fried Chicken.

L144[23:00:18] <funkenstein> ;mission

L145[23:00:19] <LunchBot> You try to get your rocket out of a flat spin. Your Riemann manifold is punctured.

L146[23:00:44] <funkenstein> ;mission add You achieve 0 turning radius.

L147[23:00:44] <LunchBot> Added mission: You achieve 0 turning radius.