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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.
i ramble about aerospace sometimes
I take rocket photos and you can see them @aWildLupi
I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory
they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"
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the ksp youtubers have taken to interviewing all their contacts at every stage of KSP2's development and publicly blasting the story of how take2 ratfucked the game from the very start
this goes beyond even what I knew and had surmised from my time as a KSP1 playtester working with Private Divison era Squad and KSP1
It sounds like the initial idea to basically release a remaster with added content and new graphics could have worked out OK and actually released in a functional state but also it kinda sounds like that wouldn’t have been as compelling a pitch for a literal sequel, and when they (the publisher) adopted the more ambitious ideas they didn’t really back it up with the resources to make it happen
it's more than that and its worse than that
but in so many little ways
i think maybe he's being too generous to take two about the Contract Revoking Ratfuck but that was.
ALSO THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO CONSULT ANYONE, EVEN THE ACTIVE KSP1 DEVS, OR EVEN THE PLETHORA OF FORMER KSP1 DEVS THEY COULD'VE BROUGHT ON AS CONTRACTORS, BY MANAGEMENT, WHICH IS MADDENINGLY WTF
even for the most tame idea of a remaster and a polish job. YOU KINDA NEED PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND THE CODE YOU'RE PICKING APART IF YOU WANNA PICK IT APART GOOD
IM SO ANGRY ABOUT BEING RIGHT ABOUT THE "THEY THOUGHT THEY'D BOUGHT THE NEXT MINECRAFT FOR A SONG AND HAD A GOLDMINE ON THEIR HANDS" I SAID THAT AS INFERENCE AND NO APPARENTLY THE T2 MANAGEMENT ACTUALLY FUCKING SAID THAT
And then the hyper secrecy and sequestering of the team from anyone with experience on the first game (a niche title with a lot of specific gameplay characteristics that are the draw for a lot of its fans from the sound of things) makes it sound like they knew there was potential but they didn’t really understand what they were working with and thought it was just like “normal space video game with cute characters” or something and not something with extremely specific mechanics and game feel
