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I was pretty sure after a few paragraphs he was getting his style inspiration from Douglas Adams, but when I got to his line saying “this is widely regarded as a bad move” I became certain.

It is an excellent stylistic choice for documenting interactions with commonwealth bureaucracy, of course.

Something Adams incorporated a lot into his stories:

"But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?" "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."

I did chuckle out loud when I read "For security reasons, we try to change our Prime Minister every six months".

Ah, he was the guy who wrote the facebook sleep time stalker script! It hits the same style of prose very closely.

Figured the least I could do after reading the article was crack the puzzle, and felt good that I did since I usually fail at these kinds of things.

Oh, that was indeed fun.

"Uhh... how many layers deep is this going to g-- oh, ok. Nice :D"

Hard mode is an absolute delight