#hhg2tg — Public Fediverse posts
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Don't Panic!
To all you hoopy froods a massively good Towel Day! -
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@noondlyt
#Myst was hugely popular, though I think it had more to do with being a "novelty"... a text adventure (ala #Infocom) with pictures.I've LONG wished #Activision (which owns the old Infocom library) would release 1st person 3D versions of all of the old classics (it can be done now. In the 8bit days, it would have been FAR too complicated.) #HHG2TG #Zork #LeatherGoddesses #Planetfall
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"Stick it up your nose," he said.
"Which is precisely the sort of thing we need to know," insisted the girl, "Do people want fire that can be fitted nasally?"
-- Hitch-Hickers Guide to The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
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"Well, you're obviously being totally naive of course", said the girl, "When you've been in marketing as long as I have, you'll know that before any new product can be developed it has to be properly researched. We’ve got to find out what people want from fire, how they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them."
The crowd were tense. They were expecting something wonderful from Ford.
"Stick it up your nose," he said.
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@phillipdewet Oh and while I'm on the "obscure #scifi has already solved this problem" train tracks... Pretty sure there was a spaceship in the Restaurant at the End of the Universe parking garage that was frictionless. "looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow..." #hhg2tg
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The only version of "You'll Never Walk Alone" I need is the one sung by Eddie onboard the startship Heart of Gold. #hhg2tg #eurovision #eurovision23
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@peter
Disguised by hilarious insanity, Douglas Adams gave us many gems of pure wisdom."To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
