I got Kerbal Space Program today.

Now I'm no rocket scientist, but I'm aware of the basic rules and mechanics of space flight and aeronautics. Lift surfaces on the centre of mass, slingshotting off planets, Delta V, aerodynamics, that sort of thing. It would help if I did the tutorial, now I'm stuck because I don't know all the hotkeys. I got throttle up, zoom and camera rotate as well as the aerofoil control keys and that's about it.

There's a long road ahead...

It's hardly unusual for me to go to a convention- after all, that's where most of my income originates, in a dealer's room.

But I've decided to go to Dallas this weekend, using credit card points, for Nightmare Nights... and NOT sell things.

(Well, that last bit was decided for me. I applied as a vendor months ago and wasn't accepted.)

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Today I flew the second mission for the next chapter of CSP. All I have left to write is the outcome of that flight and the epilogue, and another 25,000-ish word chapter will be complete, or at least ready for final edits.

Expect a Changeling Space Program update next week.

New Changeling Space Program chapter completed.

Current draft: 25,508 words.

I will spend my non-sales time this weekend at my booth at Delta H Con editing, getting viewpoints more consistent, punching up descriptions, and definitely looking for deadwood to trim.

But I don't anticipate finding much.

And once I complete this final pass, the thing will get posted.

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Fanfiction Reader has rendered a voice-synthesis version of Changeling Space Program on YouTube! The program doesn't have any sense of timing, and it stumbles badly trying to pronounce unfamiliar words, but it provides a way to read (or re-read) the story without staring at a screen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAJkWGZt-Zg&list=PL9t4yi6D1qAnclJl8AvSnq8W8rpay8guE

Jesus, ten years already? Gosh, I feel old.

Anyway, one of the best horror and sci-fi games ever made. The graphics still hold up shockingly well without being that taxing on your rig, and I've never seen a studio just completely grok sound in a vacuum on the level the now sadly defunct Visceral Games did in this series.

Definitely check it out, if you haven't already.

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I started a long burn on ion engines in KSP an hour ago.

It's about 1/8 complete.

This is what happens when you're going low-end interstellar with a 270-ton craft powered by twelve ion engines.

My first FiMFiction story, Uncertain Stars, is now up - or at least the first chapter. All feedback welcome!

So, I've had a frustrating and mostly futile afternoon...

... so of COURSE I'm going to top it off with a livestream of Kerbal Space Program in which I try to correct last week's fuckups.

Begins 7 PM Central time (about an hour and a half after I post this).

There will be another KSP livestream Thursday at 7 PM, by the way.

http://twitch.tv/redneckgaijin

Tonight and Thursday, 7 PM Central:

http://twitch.tv/redneckgaijin

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Pun intended.

I'm not even running a game for crying out loud, and these aren't the highest temps for the week yet, which are supposed to get here for the weekend.

Note: Part 1 of this flashback can be found here Barro Vs. Luna Part 1

Canterlot Castle
Three years ago

"You want me to what?"

Barro turned to face her. "Reconsider."

"How did you even get in here? Is that..."

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In today's writing decisions, evidently what this equestrian space program needs is a hard-drinking chemical engineer from Glorious People's Sovyet of Stalliongrad.

'Cause you can't go to space without appropriate accents and excessively dangerous liquid fuel, now can you?

Here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/38tpyyu3xsmrb4z/AAAaQh9Iz_olrWGT9b4mVa0xa?dl=0

Includes both the ship as designed in the spaceplane hangar and the Shuttle-type launch stack.

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Or at least an idea for anyone who feels like writing it...

See, I saw this:

( http://silfoe.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Luna-and-the-CMC-495480810 )

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OK, based on the votes:

MONDAYS and WEDNESDAYS - Kerbal Space Program Career Hard Mode
SATURDAYS - XCOM Chimera Squad
All times 7 PM Central.

EXCEPT

SATURDAY, MAY 9 - KSP: CHANGELING SPACE PROGRAM MISSION TWENTY-THREE (plus Q&A)
That one will begin at 3 PM Central

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