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thanks mate I figured it was an appropriate song for the night
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About Me
- About xaph
- Society
- Global Alliance
- Full ingame name
- Xaphod Xaph Beeblebrock
- Biography
- A mid life crisis alternative to a sports car
- Location
- Australia
- Interests
- overclocking lunacy and linux
- Occupation
- Mental Health Industry
- Real-world Gender
- Male
- Entropia Gender
- Male
- NotePad
- "If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected."
And Xaphod Beeblebrock, my Avatar name, is a derivitive of Zaphod Beeblebrox a character in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy published in 1979. The characters visit the legendary planet Magrathea, home to the now-collapsed planet building industry, and meet Slartibartfast, a planetary coastline designer who was responsible for the fjords of Norway. Through archival recordings, he relates the story of a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who built a computer named Deep Thought to calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. When the answer was revealed as 42, Deep Thought predicts that another computer, more powerful than itself would be made and designed by it to calculate the question for the answer. (Later on, referencing this, Adams would create a puzzle which could be approached in multiple ways, all yielding the answer 42.)
The computer, often mistaken for a planet (because of its size and use of biological components), was the Earth, and was destroyed by Vogons to make way for a hyperspatial express route, five minutes before the conclusion of its 10-million-year program. Two of a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who commissioned the Earth in the first place, disguise themselves as Trillian's mice, and want to dissect Arthur's brain to help reconstruct the question, since he was part of the earth's matrix moments before it was destroyed, and so he is likely to have part of the question buried in his brain. Trillian is also human but had left Earth six months previously with Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of the Galaxy. The protagonists escape, setting course for "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe". The mice, in Arthur's absence, create a phony question since it is too troublesome for them to wait 10 million years again just to cash in on a lucrative deal. Their new question was "How many roads must a man walk down?"
It is this quirky series that provides the basis for the Avatar Xaph. EU being almost a parallel Universe to real life holds a balance for me of the humorous, ridiculous to sublime and I see it as a great study in human nature online...funnyto sad with much irony at times and a great sense of community.
Good Luck to you all and remember this...
In the blind mans mind the one eyed man is King;)
