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by Groxx 1887 days ago
When you do that, you have to start specifying what reference-point you're looking from. And then regardless of what you choose, you get these awesomely-weird spiraling / spirograph-ing orbits in some cases, e.g. like Principia shows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU-kLLeE7n0

The non-continuous flip lets them keep orbits exclusively centered around the you're-most-likely-orbiting-this thing, which makes them all look "normal" and the same. Though I would like to be able to see either option in the stock game - they both have their uses.