A Fairytale from DIY Space
The launch pad roars. Amplion shouts: Timeless rocket. Ryzen 7 rocket motors installed, RAM and control modules connected. Mousenaut boards the spaceship. Space Center: “Default settings?” Pilot replies: “It’s not working!” The launch sequence fails before Mousenaut can remove the helmet cap. After several failed attempts, the rocket finally lifts off the ramp and flies away. “We’ve landed on Windows Planet. The system is running… but gravity is weird.” Mousenaut instantly begins to lift off the surface, hop, hop, hop… in uncontrolled jumps. He returns to the rocket by force of will. Stopover on Linux Planet. Mousenaut runs like he's the fastest runner on Earth. Four platforms to jump on, free snack packs. Unusual place. But there aren't many toys here. Mousenaut starts to get bored. And then the Linux Planet collapses. Mousenaut barely manages to escape in a rocket. He forgot a few pages from his notebook on this planet. But he didn't forget about the good snacks and the speed of movement. In the end, he unintentionally returns to the Windows Planet. Mousenaut learns to control movement, because he'll have to spend the entire 7 months here like this. The Ryzen engine has cooled down. The rocket tries, but it only moves a little to the left and right. The universe seems to move differently than a true mousenaut would expect. The Space Center wakes up the rocket system: “Did you try… a different mouse?” 🤡 “According to the instructions, everything is supposed to be stable. I don’t like it here. I wanted to play. But it’s all jumping and falling. I want to go home. But that rocket… it’s big and fast, everyone wants it… I guess so too, right? Nice rocket… and I don’t want to leave here :’(” The old mousenaut cries, it’s all his fault. Exhausted by trying to fix everything, Mousenaut falls asleep. The Space Center is busy with calculations for the correct operation of the engines. The Core 5 rocket is already waiting impatiently in the hangar. But Captain SoViel von Elf gets into the old Comet 3 rocket and lands next to the Ryzen 7 rocket. He shakes hands with Mousenaut. “What if we swap rockets?” He winks at Mousenaut. Mousenaut: “Maybe this is my friend.” Then he climbs into the old rocket. The system reports: Engines: OK. RAM bay: Normal load. Control modules: Linked. Settings: Default. Mousenaut impatiently taps the start button. At that moment, flames shoot from the engines. Hooray! The rocket takes off from the launch pad like a wildcat. Mousenaut is pushed into the seat… and he smiles. “I’m flying.” The old LED decoration on the gravity coupling module is no longer lit. But the boots work. Mousenaut runs around happily in the rocket. Landing on Windows Planet without any problems. And SoViel von Elf? Needless to say, this young veteran handled Ryzen. The Ryzen rocket took off and landed back on Windows Planet as if there was never any problem. ---------------------------
Notes:
DIY is not about FPS in an ideal world.
It's about whether the rocket will fly on the first day and whether the planet is friendly.
"When something goes wrong, you know
that it's always the mouse's fault."
Dictionary:
DIY - home PC builder, DIY
FPS - frames per second, a unit of speed in games