Douglas Adams - Revision history

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‎List of Douglas Adams-inspired features in variants: Ford Perfect (sic)

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Quantum Immortal: Redirected page to People of secondary interest to Nethack#Douglas Adams

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Redirected page to People of secondary interest to Nethack

Fyr at 08:52, 3 January 2014

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 ** {{yellow|Z}} [[creeping 42]]
 ** {{white|@}} [[Arthur Dent]]
-** {{white|@}} [[Ford Prefect]]
+** {{white|@}} [[Ford Perfect]] (sic)
 ** {{white|@}} [[Mr. Prosser]]
 * [[Object]]s:

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 NetHack: The Next Generation also includes a special tribute level dedicated to Douglas Adams and ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' as a whole; Douglas Adams himself [[Douglas Adams (monster)|appears as a monster]] that can be encountered here, and the level is populated with various Adams-inspired monsters as well.
-[[SlashTHEM]], a more recent variant based on [[SLASH'EM]] and another SLASH'EM fork called [[Slash'EM Extended]], incorporates all of the aforementioned monsters, levels and features from NetHack: The Next Generation.
+[[SlashTHEM]], a variant based on [[SLASH'EM]] and another SLASH'EM fork called [[Slash'EM Extended]], incorporates all of the aforementioned monsters, levels and features from NetHack: The Next Generation.
 ==List of Douglas Adams-inspired features in variants==

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 '''Douglas Adams''' (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, screenwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. Adams is best known as the author of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', a work of science fiction comedy which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy and developed into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime and generated several adaptations. These stories chronicle the adventures of one Arthur Dent, thought to be the last survivor of the Earth's destruction by a Vogon constructor that was making way for a hyperspace bypass - he is rescued by Ford Prefect, a humanoid alien writer for the in-universe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the pair travel around the galaxy.
-In ''[[NetHack]]'', there are a few scattered references to ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', with the most primary one being the [[towel]], a multipurpose [[tool]]. While not as ridiculously useful as in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide'', it still has various relevant applications: among them are [[blind]]ing yourself, wiping glop or grease off your person, removing [[engraving]]s on the floor, and [[wet]]ting the towel to whip at monsters. The [[Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal]] and the [[microscopic space fleet]] are two [[hallucinatory monster]]s that originated in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide'' as well - additionally, Douglas Adams is the reason for [[throne]]s disappearing in a "puff of logic", with the phrase coming from an aside in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide'' where Oolon Colluphid uses the Babel Fish argument to convince God that He doesn't exist, and God "promptly vanishes in a puff of logic."
+In ''[[NetHack]]'', there are a few scattered references to ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', with the most primary one being the [[towel]], a multipurpose [[tool]]. While not as ridiculously useful as in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide'', it still has various relevant applications: among them are [[blind]]ing yourself, wiping glop or grease off your person, removing [[engraving]]s on the floor, and [[wet]]ting the towel to whip at monsters. The [[Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal]] and the [[microscopic space fleet]] are two [[hallucinatory monster]]s that originated in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide'' as well.
 ==Influence on variants==

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 {{wikipedia|Douglas Adams}}
-'''Douglas Adams''' (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, screenwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. Adams is best known as the author of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', a work of science fiction comedy which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy and developed into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime and generated several adaptations. These stories chronicle the adventures of one Arthur Dent, though to be the last survivor of the Earth's destruction by a Vogon constructor that was making way for a hyperspace bypass - he is rescued from Earth's destruction by Ford Prefect, a humanoid alien writer for the in-universe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the pair travel around the galaxy.
+'''Douglas Adams''' (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, screenwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. Adams is best known as the author of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', a work of science fiction comedy which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy and developed into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime and generated several adaptations. These stories chronicle the adventures of one Arthur Dent, thought to be the last survivor of the Earth's destruction by a Vogon constructor that was making way for a hyperspace bypass - he is rescued by Ford Prefect, a humanoid alien writer for the in-universe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the pair travel around the galaxy.
 In ''[[NetHack]]'', there are a few scattered references to ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', with the most primary one being the [[towel]], a multipurpose [[tool]]. While not as ridiculously useful as in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide'', it still has various relevant applications: among them are [[blind]]ing yourself, wiping glop or grease off your person, removing [[engraving]]s on the floor, and [[wet]]ting the towel to whip at monsters. The [[Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal]] and the [[microscopic space fleet]] are two [[hallucinatory monster]]s that originated in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide'' as well - additionally, Douglas Adams is the reason for [[throne]]s disappearing in a "puff of logic", with the phrase coming from an aside in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide'' where Oolon Colluphid uses the Babel Fish argument to convince God that He doesn't exist, and God "promptly vanishes in a puff of logic."
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 ** {{magenta|x}} [[Eddie]]
 ** {{magenta|A}} [[Douglas Adams (monster)|Douglas Adams]]
 ** {{brightcyan|X}} [[Marvin]]
 ** {{green|Y}} [[Zaphod Breeblebrox]]

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		+	'''Douglas Adams''' (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, screenwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. Adams is best known as the author of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', a work of science fiction comedy which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy and developed into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime and generated several adaptations. These stories chronicle the adventures of one Arthur Dent, though to be the last survivor of the Earth's destruction by a Vogon constructor that was making way for a hyperspace bypass - he is rescued from Earth's destruction by Ford Prefect, a humanoid alien writer for the in-universe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the pair travel around the galaxy.
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		+	In ''[[NetHack]]'', there are a few scattered references to ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', with the most primary one being the [[towel]], a multipurpose [[tool]]. While not as ridiculously useful as in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide'', it still has various relevant applications: among them are [[blind]]ing yourself, wiping glop or grease off your person, removing [[engraving]]s on the floor, and [[wet]]ting the towel to whip at monsters. The [[Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal]] and the [[microscopic space fleet]] are two [[hallucinatory monster]]s that originated in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide'' as well - additionally, Douglas Adams is the reason for [[throne]]s disappearing in a "puff of logic", with the phrase coming from an aside in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide'' where Oolon Colluphid uses the Babel Fish argument to convince God that He doesn't exist, and God "promptly vanishes in a puff of logic."
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		+	==Influence on variants==
		+	In 1994, [[Sebastian Klein]] released [[NetHack: The Next Generation]], a [[variant]] of [[NetHack 3.1.3]] that draws much more heavily from the works of Douglas Adams and adapts them to the [[w:c:hitchhikers:Whole Sort of General Mish Mash\|Whole Sort of General Mish Mash]] that is the variant's geek culture influence. Various monsters derived from or inspired by his works are added to the game, with the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal and microscopic space fleet being "upgraded" to actual monsters in the process.
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		+	NetHack: The Next Generation also includes a special tribute level dedicated to Douglas Adams and ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' as a whole; Douglas Adams himself [[Douglas Adams (monster)\|appears as a monster]] that can be encountered here, and the level is populated with various Adams-inspired monsters as well.
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		+	[[SlashTHEM]], a more recent variant based on [[SLASH'EM]] and another SLASH'EM fork called [[Slash'EM Extended]], incorporates all of the aforementioned monsters, levels and features from NetHack: The Next Generation.
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		+	==List of Douglas Adams-inspired features in variants==
		+	The following is a non-exhaustive list of features in ''NetHack'' variants related to the works of Douglas Adams:
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		+	* [[Monster]]s:
		+	** {{yellow\|f}} [[algolian suntiger]]
		+	** {{white\|x}} [[Deep Thought]]
		+	** {{magenta\|x}} [[Eddie]]
		+	** {{magenta\|A}} [[Douglas Adams (monster)\|Douglas Adams]]
		+	** {{brightcyan\|X}} [[Marvin]]
		+	** {{green\|Y}} [[Zaphod Breeblebrox]]
		+	** {{yellow\|Z}} [[creeping 42]]
		+	** {{white\|@}} [[Arthur Dent]]
		+	** {{white\|@}} [[Ford Prefect]]
		+	** {{white\|@}} [[Mr. Prosser]]
		+	* [[Object]]s:
		+	** {{white\|)}} [[Tooth of an algolian suntiger]]
		+	** {{brightmagenta\|!}} [[Potion of Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster]]
		+	{{nethack-366}}
		+	[[Category:Notable people]]

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−	{{delete\|While certainly a notable and justly celebrated individual, this person's connection to NetHack seems tenuous at best. Lewis Carroll, for example, inspired an equal number of [[hallucinatory monster]]s but does not have his own entry on this wiki. --[[~~User:Fyr\|Fyr]] ([[User talk:Fyr\|talk]]) 08:52, 3 January 2014 (UTC)}}~~
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−	~~'''Douglas Adams''' was the person who created ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' series~~ of fiction. Most people know these as novels, though they also came as radio shows and in other formats. These stories chronicle the adventures of one Arthur Dent, who hitchhikes off our Earth and travels around the galaxy. The stories are not serious at all, but are filled with jokes, to ~~the extent that the destruction of the Earth would not cause much concern. These jokes have become familiar to those people who know the importance of the number 42.~~
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−	[[NetHack]] has an ancient fantasy setting, but does contain a few references to the works of Douglas Adams. The primary reference is the [[towel]], a multipurpose generally useful item. The towel is not as useful in NetHack as the ''Hitchhiker's Guide'' would claim; the towel is actually the subject of a false [[rumor]].
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−	When your NetHack character is [[hallucination\|hallucinating]], you might meet the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal or a microscopic space fleet. If you meet one, then you could blind yourself with a towel, and let some other monster kill you.
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−	~~== NetHack: The Next Generation ==~~
−	If you took anything, more strange than a towel, from the [[w:c:hitchhikers:Whole Sort of General Mish Mash\|Whole Sort of General Mish Mash]], then one might claim that it would not fit in the setting of NetHack. One person thought otherwise.
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−	The year 1994, Sebastian Klein produced a [[variant]] of [[NetHack 3.1.3]] entitled [[NetHack: The Next Generation]]. Along with several other Geek-related additions, NetHack TNG includes several monsters and elements from the works of Douglas Adams. The documentation says of them:
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−	~~: ''"I strongly believe that those added things enhance the game a lot. It certainly does not become ridicolous [sic]."''~~
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−	~~[[Category:Community]]~~
−	~~[[Category:Notable people~~]]

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 {{wikipedia|Douglas Adams}}
-{{delete|While certainly a notable and justly celebrated individual, this person's connection to NetHack seems tenuous at best.  Lewis Carroll, for example, inspired an equal number of [[hallucinatory monsters]] but does not have his own entry on this wiki. --[[User:Fyr|Fyr]] ([[User talk:Fyr|talk]]) 08:52, 3 January 2014 (UTC)}}
+{{delete|While certainly a notable and justly celebrated individual, this person's connection to NetHack seems tenuous at best.  Lewis Carroll, for example, inspired an equal number of [[hallucinatory monster]]s but does not have his own entry on this wiki. --[[User:Fyr|Fyr]] ([[User talk:Fyr|talk]]) 08:52, 3 January 2014 (UTC)}}
 '''Douglas Adams''' was the person who created ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' series of fiction. Most people know these as novels, though they also came as radio shows and in other formats. These stories chronicle the adventures of one Arthur Dent, who hitchhikes off our Earth and travels around the galaxy. The stories are not serious at all, but are filled with jokes, to the extent that the destruction of the Earth would not cause much concern. These jokes have become familiar to those people who know the importance of the number 42.

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 {{wikipedia|Douglas Adams}}
 '''Douglas Adams''' was the person who created ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' series of fiction. Most people know these as novels, though they also came as radio shows and in other formats. These stories chronicle the adventures of one Arthur Dent, who hitchhikes off our Earth and travels around the galaxy. The stories are not serious at all, but are filled with jokes, to the extent that the destruction of the Earth would not cause much concern. These jokes have become familiar to those people who know the importance of the number 42.
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 : ''"I strongly believe that those added things enhance the game a lot. It certainly does not become ridicolous [sic]."''
 [[Category:Community]]
 [[Category:Notable people]]