LordLundar said:
I read the first line of the KSP one as "You could totally ruin your own space program, right?" and just had to laugh at my Freudian slip...
Wait, what?
Oh. Umm, never mind.
As a huge fan of KSP, I like to explain it this like this: If you haven't blown up a rocket today, you didn't show up for work. And then there's this scene from the film "The Right Stuff", or as I've dubbed it "How did they get footage of me playing KSP?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rwi_0DEd_0
It's almost like the Dark Souls for simulators, because it's hard but not cheap. While there are still some technical/balance issues, your spaceship not working is always because you screwed during either the design or operating phase.
It also gives me a lot of appreciation for the job NASA did going from suborbital flights to landing on the moon in about a decade, because space travel isn't easy.