Chris PetrilliMay 11
Douglas Adams died 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad. And has been widely regarded as a very bad thing.
Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱May 11

@petrillic

Good grief. I adored the books of course, and then in an early computer job, my buddy and I had the Infocom game of #THHGTTG, and we spent *hours* on it when we were supposed to be working 🙂

One of my abiding memories of it was:

“Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button?
Ford Prefect: I wouldn't-
Arthur Dent: Oh.
Ford Prefect: What happened?
Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press this button again.”

In the game, if you then hit the button a second time, you died immediately.

Show threadThird spruce tree on the leftMay 11

@bytebro @petrillic

Wait for permission!

_The shoe event horizon! The whole economy overbalances! Shoe shops outnumber ever other kind of shop, it becomes economically impossible to build anything other than shoe shops and bingo, I get to press the button again!_

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEI19kJ5GfU

Shoes...

YouTube
Show threadFish Id Wardrobe ⁂

@tezoatlipoca @bytebro @petrillic he wasn't wrong, was he? just not specifically shoes.

i do wonder if we're reaching the Datacenter Event Horizon…

May 11 at 9:45pmWeb
Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱May 11

@fishidwardrobe

I'm sat almost daily these days waiting for the inevitable Kessler Collapse of the whole satellite thing, essentially rendering LEO and outward largely unavailable for a 'Long Time'.

@tezoatlipoca @petrillic