Sending my mega yacht to Laythe. The first step of the journey.

Some months ago I shared a video of a test run of my mega yacht (linked in the comments).

I gave it a massive overhaul and it’s now ready to go to its final destination: Laythe.
3 floors all connected, massively extended the floor inside the hull, all connected and walkable with free IVA, 134 seats, lots of comfortable habitats, labs, greenhouses, even a large fish tank, control rooms, a garage with science copter and much more that I can’t show in this video. Maximum stable speed of 120 m/s on the water surface.

I turned it into an SSTO of close to 1000 tons, brought it into a low kerbin orbit, sent a custom refuelling craft, and it’s now ready to depart. It’s a floating city, ready to explore the new water world. This whole process took way longer than I planned, so I’m only showing the first step of the journey for now. Whenever I find the time I’ll make a following video of the journey and life onboard on Laythe.

Any tips on a smooth landing are welcome. Tests of reentering kerbin and landing in the ocean were successful.

Low fps because the thing is truely massive. I’m hoping it will get better once I get rid of the wings and engines after landing.

Edit: ran out of fuel attempting to get to laythe orbit.
Option 1: send a tanker to refuell
Option 2: establish a small mining and delivery operation on one of the moons and be safe on fuel.

I’m not sure when, but I’ll land this thing one day.

u/pitchymacpitchface — 4 days ago
▲ 11 r/Garten

Ich hab meinen winzigen Balkon geopfert. Ich glaub ich habe ein Chilli-Problem…

Die Chillies haben meinen Balkon komplett übernommen, ich komme nicht mehr raus!
Und das nur für den frischen Schmerz. Ist es mir absolut Wert!
Habanero, Scotch bonnet, Cayenne, Dalle Khursani.
Die großen sind 4 bis 5 Jahre alt, und ich hab sie lieb wie Familienmitglieder.

u/pitchymacpitchface — 6 days ago

I sacrificed my tiny balcony. It’s getting out of hand, I might have a pepper problem.

Tiny flat and even tinier balcony. The chillies took over, I can’t step outside anymore. The things we do to get the fresh pain we need…
Habanero, Scotch bonnet, Cayenne, Dalle Khursani. In the Center of Berlin, so space is valuable. And I’m using it for my spicy girls XD.

The big ones are 4 to 5 years old, and I love them like family members.

u/pitchymacpitchface — 6 days ago
▲ 594 r/germany

Come at me, heatwave!

Floor insulation panels. 10mm Styrofoam, with a reflective outer layer. At the end of June, it was over 30 degrees inside for more than two weeks, even at night. All the windows face south. I saw these panels for 35 euros and just decided to pick them up. The package was just enough for every window in the apartment.
Air conditioning next year, I hope this will still help me this summer. Each window has two single windows that can be opened individually, with a few centimeters of space between them (old zweifachverglasung). Just enough space for these panels. Please tell me that this isn’t going to overheat the windows or anything else that’s dangerous.

Spoiler edit for tldr: it works really well. I turned some of the panels that get full sun around, because people warned of cracking glass, reflective side to the inside. It’s been 30 degrees and sunny all day, came home at 5pm, 21,8 degrees inside.

Edit1: too many people are warning me, and I do t want to take a risk. The windows that get direkt sun, I simply turned the reflective part to the inside. It’s basically just like a very dark and insulating blackout curtain of styrofoam now. Not sure how much that will help, we will see. The window in the images is shaded by a balcony above, so I’m thinking about leaving the reflective side to the outside.

Edit2: I slept like a baby, just because it’s complete darkness when the windows are closed. We will get close to 30 degrees today with full sun, I’ll make another edit when I’m back home tonight to see how well everything worked.

Edit 3: I works! It works really really well! Even though I turned some of the panels that get full sun around. I left my house around 08:30h, 21,2 degrees inside. It’s been 29-30 degrees outside all day (still is), full sun. Came home at 5pm to a refreshing temperature of 21,8 degrees. Usually on a day like today I would expect at least 26 degrees or more inside.
Can recommend!

Edit 4: just realised I won’t be able to open my windows until late at night, if I want to keep that temperature. If you do something similar, just make sure that your apartment is very clean and nothing smells bad.

u/pitchymacpitchface — 27 days ago

Baum ist neidisch auf mein Leben. Ohne Unterschrift ungültig, deshalb leider weiterhin ein Mülleimer und Aschenbecher, bis die Unterschrift nachgereicht wird.

u/pitchymacpitchface — 1 month ago

I’ve created a monster

Nearly 2 meters stalks with almost 20cm leaves. Some more of them behind the window in the background. Unlike all other plants I have, these just grow upwards with huge leaves. I didnt want to cut their tops because they look interesting and I wanted to see how far they can take that style. They don’t get a lot of direct sun in that window, might that be the reason? All other plants in the sun grow normally.

The plants are Dalle Khursani (Dalle Khursani is in some ways comparable to some sort of cherry pepper, but the nepalese version and as hot as habaneros) Others of that kind in the sun grow in a normal way that you would expect.

u/pitchymacpitchface — 1 month ago
▲ 206 r/Studium

Ich wurde von meinen Prüfern geghostet. Kleiner rant.

Ich bin seit April mit meiner Masterarbeit beschäftigt. Prüfer 1 hat direkt gesagt, dass er so ausgelastet ist, dass jegliche Betreuung über Prüfer 2 laufen muss. Wenigstens hat er noch die Zeit gefunden mein Exposé zu kommentieren. Also angefangen, ein erstes Treffen mit Prüfer 2 zu planen. Während der Planung hab ich ab einem gewissen Zeitpunkt keine Antworten mehr auf meine Emails bekommen. April ist verstrichen, Mai ist verstrichen. Ich hab regelmäßig nach dem Stand der Dinge gefragt, keine Antwort. Also hab ich mir die Kommentare zum Exposé angeschaut, und angefangen meine Arbeit dementsprechend zu bearbeiten. Bis vor 2 Wochen hab ich vergeblich versucht Prüfer 2 zu kontaktieren. Ich hab mir irgendwann wirklich Sorgen gemacht, vielleicht gab es ja einen Unfall oder was weiß ich. Deswegen beim Prüfungsausschuss meine Kontaktversuche dargelegt, mit der Bitte, mir zu sagen was ich machen soll. Und dann kam endlich die Email von Prüfer 2, nachdem wahrscheinlich der Ausschuss bei ihm nachgefragt hat. Es tue ihm leid, dass er nicht auf meine letzte Email eingehen konnte, und wird nun bis Ende Juli in den Urlaub fahren, deshalb alles bitte über Prüfer 1 regeln.
Seitdem plane ich vergeblich mit Prüfer 1 ein Treffen. Ich hab gedacht diesen Freitag wird es endlich klappen, weil er mir explizit diesen Tag genannt hat. Also Hab ich Freitag zugesagt. jetzt hat er anscheinend doch keine Zeit mehr, und hat unseren Termin abgesagt. An den alternativen Terminen diese Woche hatte ich keine Zeit. Gestern Abend schreibt er mir einfach ohne Scham, dass er auch ab Montag für 3 Wochen im Urlaub ist, und ich ihm doch Donnerstag (morgen) meine Fragen per Email schicken soll. Mittlerweile ist meine Thesis so gut wie abgeschlossen, weil ich Ende Juli ohnehin abgeben muss.

Danke fürs Lesen, ich hasse gerade alles und jeden. Kotz. Ich hab also eine Masterarbeit geschrieben, ohne jemals einen der Prüfer dabei zu Gesicht zu bekommen. Ich hoffe, deren Urlaube werden so richtig beschissen.

Edit: ich war nach seiner Email am Dienstag Abend so wütend und frustriert, dass ich sie anscheinend nicht richtig gelesen habe. Er wollte die Fragen bis gestern Abend haben, um heute zu antworten. Tja….die Fragen schick ich ihm gleich zu, wer weiß ob noch was kommt bevor er sich in seinen tollen Urlaub verpisst.

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u/pitchymacpitchface — 1 month ago

Bought habanero seeds in a hardware store (Germany), but what is this?

This first fruit doesn’t look like a habanero, and there aren’t any other fruits yet to compare. I’ve grown many habaneros over the years, but this looks like the ones from all the people on here who got pepper joed. Can anyone confirm? Or is it possible for habaneros to look like this when they’re still small?

u/pitchymacpitchface — 2 months ago

My favourite part

15 electrical units per second, almost feels like cheating. I don’t know which mod it is from, does anyone else?

Edit: I’m stupid, it says right there blue dog design bureau.

u/pitchymacpitchface — 2 months ago
▲ 37 r/leaves

1 month!

It’s 2:10am where I am, and I have been sober for precisely one month now, this very minute. I thought I could never do it after more or less 12 years of smoking up to 2 grams of flowers every day, and trying to quit for countless times. Just sending this out there as a motivation for anyone else who needs it. if you really want it, you can do it. It was hard. Extremely hard. especially in the first 2 weeks, I felt like a zombie. but I’m happy now and being stoned feels like a distant memory and a strange thing. I don’t even want to be high anymore. Cravings are still there every now and then, but it’s easy to talk myself out of it by now.

Thank you to everyone in this sub for giving me motivation to pull through. Spending time here has helped a lot, I’m a glad this group exists, and I hope many more people find the support and motivation here that they need.

I stayed up just to celebrate this, but going to sleep peacefully now, and looking forward to maybe some nice dreams, which I’m really getting fond of lately. Adventuretime!

<3

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u/pitchymacpitchface — 2 months ago

Volumetric clouds V5, I feel like I’m playing a different game. Chasing storms on Kerbin is my new favourite thing to do.

I just got the most wonderful mod ever created for this game, and I just can’t get over how beautiful everything looks now. I just want to recommend this to everyone out here. Spend 5 bucks, and your game will look like this (plus a few other free mods like parallax continued and TUFX with ballistic fox’s coldHDR profile most importantly). Don’t pay attention to my ugly ass plane, I’m still experimenting. Enjoy the view.

Edit: I didn’t want to push anyone to pay for it. I just wanted to show a way to make this game look as good as it can. I’ve been hestitating for a while to download it, and it was definitely worth it for me. Paying for mods is highly controversial, but I’m just happy I did for this specific one. A mod has to be extraordinarily good for me to pay for it. This one definitely is.

u/pitchymacpitchface — 2 months ago
▲ 412 r/germany

Get a fan and get naked. Hear me out.

I’m writing a thesis from home right now. During the day, my flat heats up to 33 degrees in the past few days. Yet I am comfortable working from home. I got a huge, bigass fan, which is creating a storm in my room, blasting directly towards me. I’m sitting here completely naked, and feel very well temperated. Getting my skin wet every now and then actually makes me feel a little bit chilly! so, for anyone struggling, and for those who have this as an option, I just want to recommend this. Get a biiig and strong fan, get naked, get your skin wet, and sit Infront of it.

As a wise meme once said: I’m unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In my Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

Edit: to answer many comments here: ACs aren’t forbidden in Germany, I just can’t afford one. This is a cheap solution that works. If you can afford an ac unit, you should probably get one.

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u/pitchymacpitchface — 2 months ago

Trainsurfer

Es gibt eine Gruppe auf Reddit über „trainsurfing”, und dort ist der letzte Abschaum versammelt. Leute geben sich gegenseitig Tipps, wie sie auf allen möglichen Zügen auf dem Dach „reiten“, planen Aktivitäten, und prahlen mit ihren Fahrten. Auf allen möglichen Zügen, von der S-Bahn, über ICEs bis Frachtzüge.
Ich bekomme regelmäßig Posts von dort vorgeschlagen, und mir fällt jedes Mal das Kinn runter. So viel Dummheit, Ignoranz und Egoismus habe ich selten versammelt gesehen. Wenn sie damit nur sich selbst schaden würden, wäre es was anderes. Aber was bei einem Unfall schiefgeht hat weitreichende Folgen für die ganze Bevölkerung. Traumata für die, die die Person finden und das betroffene Zugpersonal. Auch wenn’s vielleicht unwahrscheinlich ist, aber: Ich stell mir dann Kinder vor, die an den Gleisen spielen, und Leichenteile finden.

Dann muss die Strecke gesperrt werden, tausende Leute kommen deshalb nicht nach Hause, und das Bahnunternehmen hat enormen Aufwand und Kosten alle Folgen zu beseitigen, von der gleissperrung, über Reinigung bis zu dem gestörten Ablauf. Die Liste geht endlos weiter.

Was geht in den Köpfen solcher Leute vor? Ich würde mich gerne weniger darüber aufregen, aber immer wieder sehe ich Videos von irgendwelchen vollpfosten, die all das in Kauf nehmen.

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u/pitchymacpitchface — 2 months ago
▲ 6 r/leaves

Tell us about your withdrawal dreams

Dreams can get crazy during withdrawal, we all know and probably expected that. Super vivid, from entertaining to extremely scary.
I would love to hear what you guys have experienced so far!
So far (16 days sober), my dreams have been a blast and I am actually looking forward to them a lot before bed. It feels like I’m in controll of my actions in them, and they are just so weird, funny and real, when I think about them in the morning. It’s like going on an adventure every night.
I didn’t expect this part of withdrawal to be so entertaining and enlightening about my life, because I read about so many of you having nightmares. So, what’s your experience with dreaming during withdrawal?

Edit: Going to sleep again now at 6am for a few hours after trying process my last one. I’m excited to read your comments later!!!

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u/pitchymacpitchface — 2 months ago

I have to make these harder. So, where was I?

If this will be solved within 20 minutes as well, I’ll eat a brick. So, where is this spooky place?

u/pitchymacpitchface — 3 months ago