mayakovsky [any]

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Cake day: April 24th, 2025

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  • Over the last year I’ve read so much less theory/history/etc than usual. I don’t think I finished a single book. In the face of how fucking shit everything is, I just can’t seem to bring myself to learn anymore about exactly how shit it is. 20 billion pages of theory and we still live in hell world. So many books being published that I’d like to and likely should read, but I have started to have such contempt for all these authors just rehashing shit for the nth time, or worse, typing out 500 pages of marketing for their new terms. I feel doubly so if they have tenure, and quadruple if it’s at a university with ties to Israel (most of them tbh).




  • If you set minimus as a target, you will see the ascending and descending nodes on your orbit, if you create a maneuver on one of them you can match the inclination (angle) of minmus’ orbit to make your transfer easier. You use the triangle looking icons to change this.

    Right clicking any of these POIs on your orbit (like periapsis, apoapsis, or the ascend/descend nodes) will make them stay visible so you can see what your maneuver is changing.

    (after writing this, I can’t remember if you have to unlock the maneuver planner in career mode though, it may be a tracking station upgrade if you don’t have it.)

    It’s a complicated game at first, but if you mess around enough it all becomes pretty intuitive.

    If you find the contracts a bit stale after a while, there are a bunch of great contract mod packs that focus on building space stations or putting up satellites or scanning planets, etc. I usually just play the science mode and make my own goals though.

    I love KSP so much and have played it way too much. There are so many good mods for it that extend the game massively and make it very beautiful. CKAN is a great mod manager btw, it’s very easy to use and makes installing/removing mods a breeze.

    I’m currently playing with the Kcalbeloh system mod, and it’s so much fun to explore and learn a new system.







  • Every time I leave the city I live in, I become immediately depressed seeing all of the endless parking lots, big box stores, etc. Just a completely inhuman landscape. The only ones who matter are the hulking chunks of carbon emitting metal known as cars. Everyone in the cars are somehow boomers. Every restaurant is a chain which serves some ungodly postmodern combination of food where you can trace the references but it just ends up as an incomprehensible greasy mess.

    You then drive half an hour or so, and it feels like you are in the same exact place. If you take even a moment to step back from it, you realize how dystopian it all is. Capital destroyed and pillaged to erect a never ending horizontal monument to slop, and the piggies love it.