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Re:Player of Games by marvin on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @05:54AM (#29483289)
I'll make a minor contribution to the discussion by mentioning the Culture ship normally referred to as the Mistake Not..., which is shorthand for

"Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath".

Unsure if this name is also a sarcastic stab that the lack of gravitas in ships' names, but regardless it's very sad that Banks died young :(

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Re:Player of Games by hesperiidae on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @12:57PM (#29488059)
Yeah, it's making fun of the human desire for gravitas when it comes to ship names, since it's just exponentially more and more over the top.
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