Kids+Orbiter=Bad?

[Dig Gil]

Ar81: some people don't know (or don't wanna know) about it.

Robert H: An happy end as I never heard about!

unknown.exe: What sort of spaceship was he using? A trip like that trying to don't mess up using the 1000X time compression
is very boring without a fast spaceship!



Post Edited ( 04-04-08 11:04 )

[Kadet]

Hmmm...I'm surprised to see so many people responding to this topic, I didn't expect that at first.

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"Tobi is a good boy!"Why let HIM join Akatsuki!?

PS:I is with a heavy heart that I have quit Orbiter 2006P1, well not that heavy.

[sunshine135]

Everything in moderation. You young folks out there...I couldn't think of a better way to pass the time. Us older folks with
families... we need to balance our time a little better.

Cheers,

[Kadet]

for all you guys (and gals) that are younger than 18, you all must understand why parents want their kids to NOT use
orbit.

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"Tobi is a good boy!"Why let HIM join Akatsuki!?

[Kadet]

BluryBlue wrote:
Well, unless Orbiter gets really really really fun, with astronauts blowing up and their every limbs flies off into space, I
have no idea why anyone would think this. It's the most coolest simulator though, I must admit.:hot:

My friends think NOT:zzz:

[MattNW]

I wonder what I'd have made of Orbiter as a kid, though... Microsoft Flight Sim came out when I was about 13, but I
tired of
it pretty quickly.  It never came close to the views or experience Orbiter offers, though, and now as an artist I'm always
trying to balance myself out with a little hard science now and again, so my priorities are a little more mature.  The kid in
me does wonder what a combat sim based on Orbiter would be like, but most of me doesn't want to see it tainted by something
like that.

When I was a kid the closest thing to a space sim was an Estes rocket. I got into computers in high school and people back
then told me I shouldn't mess around with those things. That all they were good for was playing games. Now those people pay
me to fix their computers because they can barely figure out how to turn one on. Oh and of course they need it fixed as soon
as possible because they want to get back in touch with their friends on YIM.

bilbo8888 wrote:
just say lol ....

but btw i'm pretty sure a few astronauts ( in the past for sure ... ) drank beer, get drunk and ... yes ... had sex

LOL

See ya high

I think NASA had to warn the early astronauts several times that they were role models now and to ease off on the partying. Of course nowadays kids have gun toting gangsters who sell drugs and do drive by shootings for a role model. They even have highly realistic computer games to assist them in learning how to jack cars, shoot old ladies and rob liquor stores. Astronauts who have completed multiple college degrees in physics and engineering are almost unknown to most kids today.



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[unknown.exe]

I think NASA had to warn the early astronauts several times that they were role models now and to ease off on the partying. Of course nowadays kids have gun toting
gangsters who sell drugs and do drive by shootings for a role model. They even have highly realistic computer games to assist them in learning how to jack cars, shoot old
ladies and rob liquor stores. Astronauts who have completed multiple college degrees in physics and engineering are almost unknown to most kids today.

True, true. it's a shame.

[James.Denholm]

MattNW wrote:
...highly realistic computer games to assist them in learning how to jack cars, shoot old ladies and rob liquor stores.

Of which a new version was just released.

[Dig Gil]

There are computer games that do just the oposite of that, like PeaceMaker.

[ar81]

This is Grand Theft Auto role model for kids...

[Dig Gil]

What about hacking GTA to change game roles.:pft: Instead of killing and thiefing the player would need to help and
make a better life for people.
With such graphics and gameplay as GTA any game could be very sucessful.

[Kadet]

Just goes to show how insecure some parents are, and how they never enforce some rules, and that after 3 months
without orbiter I got myself back in the saddle, and it's weird to find out how old everybody using orbiter is , I
think I'm the youngest though.



Post Edited ( 06-13-08 02:29 )

[ar81]

SlyCoopersButt wrote:
It's been an educational experience for me to use Orbiter (I'm almost 19). Without it I never would have trully been
able to grasp and understand basic orbital mechanics as well as I do now. And it's fun while you're at it. I think it's
great for children and as soon as I meet some I'll tell them about orbiter. I use orbiter far more than my fancy
computer games nowadays. There's always something new and educational to do. Like copying missions or going
where no man has gone before!

I am a gamer too.  I have spent tons of money on games that are now incompatible (from Run Protected mode to
DirectX5).  Now orbiter is my fav.

Robert H wrote:
I have a friend who has a teen that was always getting into trouble. The guy could never, really sit still. He was
always all
over the place. He was loud, and very disrespectful to most people, and he had an additude problem that was epic,
but besides
all of that this person also was very intelligent.  I found out one day that he was really interested in space flight and
flight simulation, so I gave him a copy of Orbiter.  This was back in 2006.

 Since 2006 he's been a very quiet loner.  I guess he now spends most of his time locked away in his room playing
orbiter,
and for some reason has ceased to be annoying to everyone around him.  His parents keep asking me what did I tell
him, or
give him that shut him up.   I never bother to answer them because I find the whole thing very funny.

You gave him a non toxic drug called "simulator".

MattNW wrote:
When I was a kid the closest thing to a space sim was an Estes rocket. I got into computers in high school and
people back then told me I shouldn't mess around with those things.

When I was a kid I had Star Raiders which then became Wing Commander saga and Freespace.
I also had Activision's Space Shuttle which now is Orbiter.

[Kadet]

unknown.exe wrote:
Lol.... I had a kid at school that has a higher IQ and GPA then all the MIT kids have combined. I gave him a copy of
Orbiter and the next day in the library he was completing a round trip from Jupiter to Earth... something I havn't even
fathomed (funny word)... also I got Orbiter about 2 weeks before a major space test from NASA... the one they use
for potential astronauts. I got a C+... the average APPROVED Astronaut gets a B+.... so I guess Orbiter pretty much
taught me almost everything. Kick ass sim !

Wow, quick learner , so you didn't get approved?

[Comrade Mudkipzhov]

MattNW wrote:
[...] They even have highly realistic computer games to assist them in learning how to jack cars, shoot old ladies and rob
liquor stores. [...]

I don't consider GTA "Highly Realistic"... In fact, it's on the border of highly unrealistic...

[MattNW]

Comrade Mudkipzhov wrote:


I don't consider GTA "Highly Realistic"... In fact, it's on the border of highly unrealistic...

Compared to Donkey Kong and Space Invaders it's virtual reality. It's all in the perspective.

Point is that kids could be playing much much worse games than Orbiter. Of course even Orbiter can be played too much
although I can hardly imagine too much Orbiter but I guess if you played it until your skin bleached to the color of wall
plaster and your muscles all atrophied except for your joystick arm so that you couldn't get up to go to the bathroom that
might be an indicator you need to get out from in front of the computer a little more.

[Dig Gil]

First I would get bored then the computer would punch me .

[Kadet]

First I try to fly the shuttle in orbiter, next I fly the shuttle in my sleep and destroy the VAB, and redirect one of my
boosters into the ISS, sounds likely...no one heard or read a thing...



Comon, whats the worst you can do?
*ChainSaw starts up*
Oooh thats bad...