Palmer Luckey

The people who are really good at Kerbal Space Program are displaying a really useful skill.

Yes, Kerbal Space Program doesn't have real physics, but to do really powerful things, you have to understand what the limits of that world are, how they've set up the physics and the gravity and the mechanics and the things that exist.

And you have to be very, very good at doing systems level trades of

which direction you're gonna pursue, how are you best gonna put together these components, how are you then best gonna come up with a plan that uses them in the optimal way.

People who are very good at Kerbal Space Program have to be good at a lot of systems level and strategic thinking that I think is not that common.

really, really good at Kerbal Space Program.

If they're the people who are building a low part count cheap system in that game that is able to go to the farthest reaches of the solar system, pick up samples and come back and do so with margin to spare, that is a person who, even if they have no engineering capability,

If they were to become an engineer and were able to develop the engineering skills, which I think is totally doable, I think you can learn to be an engineer.

But if you're the type of person who can do that systems level thinking, you're probably going to be unstoppable once you're also a good engineer.

I will say I'm not very good at Kerbal Space Program.

I like it.

I like Kerbal Space Program, but the things that I build are certainly not optimized.

And I think that that's probably, for example, I'm thinking, what's the counter example?

What's the game I would least want people to be playing?

And it would be like other games that I do like, but probably are not useful is probably Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament or maybe Call of Duty.

Ones where it's primarily based on repetition of twitch muscle reflexes.

And I'm all about that.

I think it's really fun.

But someone having really good hand-eye coordination, probably not going to be the thing you need to succeed at Andoril.

Probably.