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CMDR CPT. Boris

CMDR CPT. Boris
just saw this online

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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 ?
 

nanite2000

nanite2000
I just spent a couple of minutes trying to figure this thread out, but I give up.

OP - what are you talking about? All I see I see is a photo of some books, and a your list of references. How are the 2 connected?
 

CMDR CPT. Boris

CMDR CPT. Boris
nanite2000 said:
I just spent a couple of minutes trying to figure this thread out, but I give up.

OP - what are you talking about? All I see I see is a photo of some books, and a your list of references. How are the 2 connected?
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Sorry if it lacks explanation, it was a bit late yesterday :)

Well these books remind me terribly of Elite and i poorly try to made a connection between these books and elite

they are probably not related at all
 
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bootsam

bootsam
"The first ten million years were the worst, and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline."

I approve of any thread thats related to Doug. Overwhelmingly the greatest author to have ever had a 5 book trilogy.

"... a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: nonhitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with."
 

[VR] Marrs

[VR] Marrs
'Mostly Harmless' is a direct reference to Hitch-Hikers. I'm sure Douglas Adams was a big influence on David Braben in his youth as he was for many commanders who play the game. Coincidentally, I am wearing a Don't Panic t-shirt as I write this (true!). Undoubtedly, there are other references in the game as well.
 

bootsam

bootsam
Just about every single element of british scifi has an element of Doug behind it. I would even say his influence is global or universal. Those books have been read by me at least 20 times, as have his Dirk Gently books. He was my absolute favourite author. His influence over me is catastrophic as now I cannot take life seriously. The whole of Elite feels his influence. I heartily recommend people seek out the original bbc radio series and listen to it. I accidently bumped into it in 78 when I was detained in my bedroom for a variety of juvenile japes. Ive been a fan ever since.

The newer film is a bit pants though. The orig bbc tv series is good, but the radio show is brill.

"Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts With my blurglecruncheon,
see if I don't!"
 

M00ka

M00ka
Marrs said:
'Mostly Harmless' is a direct reference to Hitch-Hikers. I'm sure Douglas Adams was a big influence on David Braben in his youth as he was for many commanders who play the game. Coincidentally, I am wearing a Don't Panic t-shirt as I write this (true!). Undoubtedly, there are other references in the game as well.
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There are a few references to the trilogy in five parts in Elite. The 42 new regions for example and I am yet to check it but it wouldn't surprise me to find a few of the systems/planets from the books in the game as well. I just wish they would have put "Don't Panic!" somewhere on the Codex :D
 

Aashenfox

Aashenfox
Marrs said:
'Mostly Harmless' is a direct reference to Hitch-Hikers. I'm sure Douglas Adams was a big influence on David Braben in his youth as he was for many commanders who play the game. Coincidentally, I am wearing a Don't Panic t-shirt as I write this (true!). Undoubtedly, there are other references in the game as well.
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My first internet screen name was foxy42 (and still is my steam id). :)

RIP Doug the great.

"High atop a rocky promontory, sat an electric monk on a bored horse". Fans that haven't should check out the Dirk Gently books.
 

bootsam

bootsam
I agree Ashen. The very idea of a robotic priest constructed to do teh believing on behalf of humans is prescient. But the horse steals the show.
 
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