Video games are evil

Again the number 42 has cropped up in No Man's Sky on the side of a space outpost thingy.

Now either I was right and all video game programmers are nerds and they just keep slipping this number in (as with Star Citizen and that Lego Mars Mission thing) or maybe the number has real meaning as it keeps popping up in a game that is "procedurally generated" (which can only mean that the computers are in on it too).

Lego Online games

This was found in an old Lego flash game. I only took the picture for the 4T2 thing and I didn't even notice the percentage was there until later.

Lord of the Rings

In the film The Two Towers the movie climaxes with the battle at Helm's Deep.

During this battle Legolas and Gimli keep count of how many Orcs they have killed and see who has killed the most at the end. But it's just a harmless game, what could it have to do with the answer to life the universe and everything? I hear you say, well explain why Legolas is so eager to change his final score???

Is Legolas afraid of the power of the number 42? Or is he just a sore loser?

Stay posted as I scour the internet for more signs of the answer to life, the universe and everything.

The Fugitive

Ever seen that Harrison Ford movie where he's a fugitive on the run for a crime he didn't commit? Remember the scene where the bus crashes? What did it say on the front again?
Need I say more?
Note: It says 42 on the front.

More Star Citizen!

Hangar 42? I'm not even sure this has anything to do with Squadron 42! Are space video games obsessed with this number or is it just my imagination?

Dawn of the Rise of the Beginning of the Start of the Prequel of the Planet of the Apes

Take note of the battery time on the camera.
Is that a bit too far? Maybe.

Star Citizen

Another space game that my friend has been interested in recently is Star Citizen. So I had a look at the trailer, then I discovered that there was a side campaign...

These computer game makers need to come up with more numbers to use (but if they did I would be out of the job).

Star Wars

Tk421, why aren't you at your post?

A bit of a stretch but hey, it's May the 4th.

No Man's Sky

A friend of mine has been going on about this video game called No Man's Sky for a while now. He hasn't played it but he predicts that it will be awesome. To find out what he was talking about I watched a gameplay trailer and guess what was on the side of an outpost on a distant planet. Obviously it was the same animators from Marvel Studios who made this game.

Agent's of S.H.I.E.L.D

Thought only big screen Marvel movies sneak the number 42 into scenes? Apparently they do that on TV to.

Another Quinjet with 42 on the side? Maybe it's just the same one boarding Coulson's plane. But on close inspection all these jets are revealed to have 42 stamped on their side.

Not Marvel Comic's

So far all these examples have been from after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was written. But then I found one in a comic. And on top of that not even a Marvel comic.

Just a Superman comic? Look at that Submarine.

The Winter Soldier

When the trailer for the new Captain America movie came out there was a big difference between the film and the trailer. In the movie the new helicarriers are boringly numbered one to three. But in the trailer...

Are the animators at Marvel Studio's just a bunch of nerds who sit around all day seeing how many times they can slip the number "42" into a movie? Because if so I want their job.

Dymocks Booksellers Top 101

For those who think that this phenomenon is merely bound to the internet you thought wrong. Look at this selection from a bookshop called Dymocks's top 101 books.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is on that list. So what? It's a good book. Note it's number on the list.

Now how could that happen if this was apparently "as voted by Dymocks book lovers"?

Google

The internet search engine Google is known for it's several Easter eggs and hidden features. Like when you type "do a barrel role" in and the whole page rotates. Or when searching up "Zerg Rush" will unleash hundreds of tiny little "o"s who will devour the screen. One such feature is when you type in "the answer to life the universe and everything" and Google doesn't disappoint

Marvel Studios

I was watching the Avengers when I noticed something on the side of a Quinjet

42. What a coincidence that three Avengers had to turn up in this specific jet. Of course it could just be because I'm only trying to find the number 42 and not 5 or 17 for example.

Or so I thought. Because then the new Iron Man movie came out and Tony Stark had just made some new armour.

XLII (If I remember my Roman numerals correctly. X=10 and L= 50 so ten before fifty is forty. I=1 so two "i"s must equal two. And 40+2= 42). Yes the number returns. But maybe it's just Marvel Studios.

The answer to life the universe and everything

In the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams there is a point at which the super computer Deep Thought deduces that the answer to life the universe and everything is the number 42.

Of course this couldn't possibly be true. Or could it? Recently this number has been cropping up a lot more than usual and I have dedicated this blog to finding any instances of this across the media.