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Re:Eve Online player uses obscure rule to pull off biggest h... by crooked-v on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @12:45AM (#35535117)
The aliens' plans were, if I remember right, posted for display in a nearby star system, with a similar 'it's your own fault if you didn't bother to go look' justification.

The indie book series Dungeon Crawler Carl, which is entirely unlike Adams' work in most ways but clearly takes some inspiration from the malevolent absurdity on display, uses a similar premise where the demolition-causing aliens let the pharaohs know 40,000 years ago and that serves as sufficient legal notice.

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Re:Eve Online player uses obscure rule to pull off biggest h... by xapata on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:48AM (#35535504)
... almost, but not quite, entirely unlike ...
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Re:Eve Online player uses obscure rule to pull off biggest h... by WithinReason on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:11AM (#35536023)
The best sentence in the entire book
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Re:Eve Online player uses obscure rule to pull off biggest h... by poizan42 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:30AM (#35537494)
I think it's tied with "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
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Re:Eve Online player uses obscure rule to pull off biggest h... by staunton on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @08:17AM (#35538437)
I think both of those lose out to the discussion of "grammar in the context of time travel".
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Re:Eve Online player uses obscure rule to pull off biggest h... by knodi123 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:51AM (#35540705)
this is the stupidest debate that I'd be willing to read an entire transcript of.
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Re:Eve Online player uses obscure rule to pull off biggest h... by adhesive_wombat on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @07:13PM (#35548382)
Further similar vibes: the DUST short film "Final Offer": https://youtube.com/watch?v=rv8kOzRZK8g
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