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MottiKhan

MottiKhan
I have the complete hitchhiker's guide compilation, but haven't gotten too far into it. It's pretty slow to start.

I tried to watch the movie, but was ready to poke my eyes out from boredom early on.

I'm sure that there's some redeeming quality to it somewhere, but a little action would have helped imo.
 

Valorin

Valorin
CMDR CPT Boris said:
just saw this online



Could it be related to Elite somehow ?

it's funny because it looks like it could

References to

-the nice community (all the available guides online)
-the 2.8% of thread "i quit"
-the fish
-the codex
-well.. mostly harmless (quit explanatory)
-beagle point

the author is even named Adams !!

...could it be ?
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Just to be sure: you are aware that this is one of the most monumental work of nerd culture, right? Easter eggs relating to it are everywhere. Funny thing is that "Mostly Harmless" has been released 1992 which means after original Elite. :D
Also, with Q4 the galaxy will have 42 areas.
 

Frank

Frank
MottiKhan said:
I have the complete hitchhiker's guide compilation, but haven't gotten too far into it. It's pretty slow to start.

I tried to watch the movie, but was ready to poke my eyes out from boredom early on.

I'm sure that there's some redeeming quality to it somewhere, but a little action would have helped imo.
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It's not really a film, a book, or for that matter a song. It's a radio show.
 

CMDR CPT. Boris

CMDR CPT. Boris
SpocksOddSocks said:
Am I the only one bothered by the fact that the OP has not stacked them in chronological order?
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Sorry, i had no knowledge about this, i grew up in the 90' and started speaking English about 10 years ago. [big grin]
I do know monty python thought

edit : thinking about it, it *may* have been traduced.
Also, i found the post online, did not stack them
 

Ian Phillips

Volunteer Moderator
Ian Phillips
I listened to the original radio show.

Sunday mornings. Get up, visit my friends and eat a large, slow, leasurely breakfast, timed to finish at midday.

Midday, listen to the latest episode.

Afternoon (defined as starting after the show had finished) off to the pub to discuss the latest episode. Fun times :D
 

RymdLazer

RymdLazer
The movie... eeewwwww.
The books (haven't heard the show. Uncultivated fin in sweden) had a huge impact on my perception of reality from a early age. You simply can not ignore its importance in sci-fi.

(Have a ex-mother in law who loves fantasy. Yet she is proud to never have read Tolkien. Unrelated to topic yet still comes to mind.)
 

Nick Sticks

Nick Sticks
Ian Phillips said:
I listened to the original radio show.

Sunday mornings. Get up, visit my friends and eat a large, slow, leasurely breakfast, timed to finish at midday.

Midday, listen to the latest episode.

Afternoon (defined as starting after the show had finished) off to the pub to discuss the latest episode. Fun times :D
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I would have two fingers hovering over the play and record buttons before noon to record it without any announcer.
If I'd have known they were to be released on CD many years later I probably wouldn't have been so pedantic.
Who am I kidding? I'd have still done it!
 

Achilles7

Banned
Achilles7
This set me on the inexorable path to my love of all things HHGTTG - & space, for that matter - at 14 years old:

[video=youtube;K50UVfgwVuA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K50UVfgwVuA[/video]

Btw, I was directed to watch Radiohead's rejected 'Spectre' song on 'Dailymotion' after it was removed from YT...

...& stumbled across the 1980s BBC series in its entirety! Its probably still there, if you're interested - it's better than the Goddamn awful movie, anyway!
 

Achilles7

Banned
Achilles7
Hacker#451563 said:
I've not seen this Hitchhikers guide, I had no idea ól Alan was in this role.

The one I was thinking about was the BBC version from my youth.
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"I've seen it...it's rubbish!"

Arghh - it's nearly midnight! 'Been browsing on Amazon all evening & time flies....I've just bought a YardForce, self-propelled lawn-mower...'guess that's my life over now then!!
 

Phil JMac

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It's hard to describe how much Douglas Adams influenced my thinking as a kid. The books were funny and silly, the characters flawed and believable (well, if you were English - It's very, very English) but he also introduced me to so many concepts that i never heard of at school. He gave a generation permission to think about stuff only discussed at Universities and made it accessible and fun.

I think that was why when I found Elite '84 (BBC B) I fell in love with the game.
 

Frank

Frank
Is the Total Perpective Vortex honoured somewhere in the game? It would be a great name for a black hole
 

CMDR CPT. Boris

CMDR CPT. Boris
after reading all these replies i'm definitely having a look at them.
(should i go with the books or audio version ?)

I hope i'm not too late, it's 2018
 

bootsam

bootsam
It is never too late. If you can, get the radio series and listen. But I also really enjoy the books because I enjoy reading. But I'd heard the radio first, so had the characterisations in my head when reading.

To be fair the orig BBC TV show isnt too bad either, but its prob a bit dated.

Doug really ticks my humerous bone.
 

Nick Sticks

Nick Sticks
Frank said:
Is the Total Perpective Vortex honoured somewhere in the game? It would be a great name for a black hole
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The Total Perpective Vortex is located on the Frogstar, specifically Frogstar B, which is not in the game.
I wanted to go there for sun, sand and suffering.

There is a star in ED called Frog, but it only has one world.

It would be a good name for a black hole.
 
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