what are we doing here man
i'm gonna make a fork where typing license() tells you to set a particular environment variable and try again, at which point it needs another different environment variable, and so on for eight or so iterations until it tells you that it's run out of copies of the license, and you have to start the whole thing over and remember all of the environment variables you needed to set
i'm not still bitter about the babelfish sequence in the h2g2 text adventure, honest
@luna haha I knew something seemed familiar about your hypothetical...
@luna there was an Infocom game called Deadline which you were expected to play over and over, Groundhog Day stylee, so on your final run through you could be in the right place and time for all the crucial events to happen. I've never played it, but it sounds extremely frustrating.
@luna
>>> license()
'Spoot! A copy of the license shoots out the right USB port and lands in the gutter.'
@luna Troll ass game I swear