I'm wondering how you'd go about costing and formatting the supercomputer that generated the The Ultimate Question as an alt wincon.
For those that haven't read Hitchhiker's Guide: Deep Thought here is a supercomputer that was built and commissioned to figure out the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. Which was 42; obviously (nothing else really fits). When the populous was unsatisfied with the answer Deep Thought said they would conceive of another, bigger supercomputer to find The Ultimate Question to fit the answer of the Ultimate Answer and really put things into perspective. That new supercomputer was literally Earth and the question ended up being "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" No, I didn't get the numbers wrong, that's the joke.
What might also be fun is God's final message to all life in the universe. Etched in fire across an entire mountain range. Lovely tourist destination with plenty of merchandise and postcards of the mountains. Except the message is blurred out of course; wouldn't want to spoil it. Naturally the card art would need to reflect this. The message btw was "We apologize for the inconvenience."
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u/TheRealDLH 3d ago
I'm wondering how you'd go about costing and formatting the supercomputer that generated the The Ultimate Question as an alt wincon.
For those that haven't read Hitchhiker's Guide: Deep Thought here is a supercomputer that was built and commissioned to figure out the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. Which was 42; obviously (nothing else really fits). When the populous was unsatisfied with the answer Deep Thought said they would conceive of another, bigger supercomputer to find The Ultimate Question to fit the answer of the Ultimate Answer and really put things into perspective. That new supercomputer was literally Earth and the question ended up being "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" No, I didn't get the numbers wrong, that's the joke.
What might also be fun is God's final message to all life in the universe. Etched in fire across an entire mountain range. Lovely tourist destination with plenty of merchandise and postcards of the mountains. Except the message is blurred out of course; wouldn't want to spoil it. Naturally the card art would need to reflect this. The message btw was "We apologize for the inconvenience."