17:17 <Iskierka> playing Children of a Dead Earth for the first time and goddamn the orbital controls are awful

17:17 <Iskierka> can only adjust burns with very awkward mouse dragging

17:18 <Iskierka> can only view the *entire* trajectory in a single reference frame, and that must be the reference frame the burn is in, so there's no prograde burning out from a moon

17:18 <Iskierka> and this has been out for years. how is it this much worse than principia's burn editor

19:46 <Pinkbeast> Talking about orbital mechanics in here? That's a blast from the past.

20:40 <OvercastRaptop> Well, it's description of Lagrange points is wrong >_>

20:40 <UmbralRaptor> (Barycenter ≠ primary body)

20:40 <UmbralRaptor> *its

23:00 <UmbralRaptop> https://twitter.com/qntm/status/1149448582443012097

23:00 <kmath> <qntm> [35 minutes later] Okay so as near as we can tell the crows broke into the machine, ignored the food, stole all the… https://t.co/lpa7Sxy797