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[RustedRegime]

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[Zogtar]

It's a reference to the not so distant future.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20the%20not%20too%20distant%20future#:~:text=%3A%20at%20a%20time%20that%20is,the%20not%20too%20distant%20future.

[Matuse]

Originally posted by Real Human:

It's a reference to the not so distant future.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20the%20not%20too%20distant%20future#:~:text=%3A%20at%20a%20time%20that%20is,the%20not%20too%20distant%20future.

No, it references the opening line of the theme song to Mystery Science Theater 3000. And by reference, I mean QUOTES.

[ZylonBane]

While MST3K certainly had a hand in popularizing it, the expression is over a century old.
http://books.google.com/books?id=raOjT40seHsC&pg=PA327&dq=%22not-too-distant+future%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1700&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1900&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=%22not-too-distant%20future%22&f=false

[Seamus]

Originally posted by ZylonBane:

While MST3K certainly had a hand in popularizing it, the expression is over a century old.
http://books.google.com/books?id=raOjT40seHsC&pg=PA327&dq=%22not-too-distant+future%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1700&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1900&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=%22not-too-distant%20future%22&f=false

Except, it's literally a reference to MST3k. That's the ENTIRE point of the line.

Thus that is what it's referencing. It has absolutely nothing to do with a random line from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.

[Seamus]

OP, because you got two people who provided massively unhelpful replies that give no actual insight with your question:

It's the opening line to the MST3k theme song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWAz-Ohg13U

For further proof of that, the achievement icon is one of the puppets from the show.

That's it. Any answer other than that is 100% wrong in context.

[stuntrock]

What does any of this have to do with System Shock?

[Seamus]

Originally posted by stuntrock:

What does any of this have to do with System Shock?

Check the achievement list.

[stuntrock]

Originally posted by Seamus:

Originally posted by stuntrock:

What does any of this have to do with System Shock?

Check the achievement list.

Ohhh. Thanks.

[Depili]

And once one gets the achievement the reference is even more clear.

[Poisoned Al]

Originally posted by stuntrock:

What does any of this have to do with System Shock? :lunar2020thinkingtiger:

Um, MST3K is about a guy trapped on a space station by a megalomaniac. Sound familiar?