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 π
One of my abiding memories of it was:
βArthur 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.β
In the game, if you then hit the button a second time, you died immediately.
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!_
