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DoubleU12

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I am going to predict the future as if you look at history it's pretty obvious what's going to happen. PLUS as a special bonus will be predicting the future WHILE simultaneously offending everyone who reads this for reasons I can't understand myself since nothing I'm about to say is offensive but people get offended by it anyway, I know it's going to happen anyway so feel free to insult me after you've read as far down as your education level allows.

BTW. That wasn't the future prediction that I was talking about.

In the future. Words like LOL will be verbally spoken and be in every dictionary and as much as many people today hate this and discourage the youngsters, it will still happen.

I know this because OMG is already in the dictionary and has become an acceptable word in the English vocabulary. Another sad but true fact, back in the 30s teachers discouraged kids from using ( ' ) in words. Words like wouldn't were frowned upon. Also teachers felt handwriting lessons were ABSOLUTLY imperative and works with poor handwriting were immediately failed without considering. (Not just in schools but in business as well)

In the future. Facebook will have been forgotten for the next thing and people will be made fun of for still being on Facebook like how they are made fun of for still being on My Space which was what EVERYONE HAD TO HAVE not too long ago.

In the future, video game stores like "GameStop" and "EB Games" will not exist. They will be replaced by the internet much like how Blockbuster and any book store is now and they will vanish from existence much like Radio Shack. If this does not happen with the next generation of game consoles, it will for certain happen with the generation after that as it has already begun and not just because of Downloading games of PSN or whatever.

No, the newest PSP doesn't even take UMDs like the previous PSP does and I'm sure the next gen PSP that's coming out early next year wont either. That means that you will not be able to purchase ANY of the new PSP system's game in any store, EVER. Not in Gamestop, not in Wal-Mart. Not anywhere except on the PSN online or whatever. You will be able to buy credits at a Gamestop to redeem and purchase your games, or likely buy cards to redeem which will be as good as buying the game itself but that's it. You won?t see any of the actual games in the store.

This is just the tip of the iceberg however, and this iceberg and it is not going to be friendly to the common every man either. More and more the localized economy shall be blurred into obscurity and big industry will treat us like cattle, much more than we are now as more human ran business are replaced by a heartless internet that shall disregard anyone in the lower middle class or below who cannot afford monthly internet payments.

(BTW, to everyone who?s read this far, I propose you add " Well now? " to your response, just as a fun way to tell apart the flaming crybabies who skimmed apart from the people who have note worthy opinions ^_^ Don?t worry. I have no problem having egg on my face in the event that this becomes a buried thread that no one posts. ) That's what I foresee, and you may think this sounds alarmist but it really isn't. It?s no more alarmist than what teachers in the 30s who predicted our modern day society. It shall happen slowly and simply become another accepted norm by everyone and very few of us will notice it happen until we stop 1 day and ponder fondly of the times that have passed.

But fear not for it will not last long. Nope, it will only last for a few decades when their world changes into a distant future far too blurred to foresee today, or at most a century or 2 when finally giant jellyfish destroy the aquatic ecosystem to the point where the fishing industry collapses and creates a larger demand on meat and crops that surpasses supply and will create massive starvation for over 80% of the global population. (^_^ That is alarmist btw. F*** global warming, as if our current population and resource demands could possible sustain itself long enough to see anything like that.)

So there ya go. That's it, feel free to respond however you wish. I foresee most of you quoting and tearing down specific lines I wrote until you feel better about yourself while the rest of you make silly prediction responses.
 

Ranorak

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Where is the part about me being supreme overlord of what little is left of the human race.
You know, after that "incident".
 

Neverhoodian

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Well now, that's a somewhat depressing (but probably accurate) series of predictions. You're certainly right on the money when it comes to changing language use.

My elementary school days were at a private institution, where we learned to write in cursive back in the first grade. I became so used to it that it's still my preferred method of handwriting. This quickly became a huge advantage when I attended public school later on. You see, 95% of the students couldn't even read cursive, much less write it. Because of this, I didn't have to worry about my fellow students copying my answers in class.
 

Shoggoth2588

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Well now, I think many of these predictions do have merit. There will be a day when game distribution and, film distribution are almost completely digital. I say almost completely because somehow, music is still available on vinyl and compact discs. I'm not saying music will always be on a physical medium but if music has survived this long after the introduction of the MP3, than so too can games and films...for a while anyway.

I think you also forgot the part about handwriting becoming as obscure as calligraphy is now.
 

SPARTANXIII

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Well now.....that does look like the future. To be honest, as far as outlooks good, Zombies look like a step up from here. At least then those of us with some knowledge of them can be considered true role models of humanity rather then what we have today!
 

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DoubleU12 said:
I am say some stuff
Sorry Ed Gossler was the first.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4180/saturday-night-live-ed-glosser-trivial-psychic

I don't know how to embed hulu or I would.
 

RatRace123

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Well now, your points are valid, some of them, but goddamned depressing.

Even if it does become "correct" I will still not say "LOL" in conversation. More to the point I will punch whoever I hear say that in the face, or whenever someone says "LOL" I'll actually "Laugh Out Loud" in an extremely obnoxious way, to show people that Laughing Out Loud" is actually not an appropriate reaction for most things.

With facebook, yeah I can see that happening. Probably soon too.

I really really hope that game stores still continue to exist, I know that the "cloud" future is coming but I don't want it to. I'm still extremely wary of trusting an online service to distribute and handle my games, especially if DRM becomes even more of a problem than it is now. Not to mention that a constant online connection would be required which is annoying if you have an online connection and just impossible if you don't. Plus a bored hacker could take down an entire digital market if they really had a mind to.
A digital future is most assuredly coming and soon, but I don't think we're anywhere near ready for it.

On the next PSP, yeah probably. And I'll have the same problem with that as I did with the above mentioned thing.

With the thing about the economy... well, they pretty much do that now don't they?

And as for the giant jellyfish thing... I never trusted those bastards. I keep lobbying for an organized hunt to kill all those stinging snot bubbles, but no one listens to me!
 

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Batou667 said:
Did you predict posting this in the wrong sub-forum?
I saw the wall of text and scrolled down and saw this comment and laughed so hard my stomach started aching :,)
 

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I'm just glad that I didn't buy any of the knew releases this fall. I was very tempted to getting skyrim but I knew that it was worth it. I try not to follow all the trends of gaming. I don't want to be a sheep(or treated like cattle as what you referred us to in the post). I'd rather wait around for a game that I would really want. I dropped my interest for all the big games and I will be waiting for the release of GTA V. For now I will be playing games on my ps2.
 

ShindoL Shill

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Ranorak said:
Where is the part about me being supreme overlord of what little is left of the human race.
You know, after that "incident".
i conned you out of it during sexytime.

Well Now: i doubt game shops will vanish. what about pre-owned discounts, or lowering the prices to compete with the other shops? or reward cards? or old console games?
what you said about language makes sense.
 

NLS

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True, true. Words like LOL is an important part of my day-to-day offline conversations. It's almost scary.
 

SeanSeanston

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Well now... the PS Vita's game are going to come on cards. Assuming you meant the Vita when you said the new PSP.
 

Flames66

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Well now, this looks like a good setting for a dystopia style book later to be adapted to a largely different film, derided by critics at the time but later heralded as a masterpiece.
 

DoubleU12

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That video is hilarious! XD
mcnally86 said:
DoubleU12 said:
I am say some stuff
Sorry Ed Gossler was the first.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/4180/saturday-night-live-ed-glosser-trivial-psychic

I don't know how to embed hulu or I would.
Well now! XD That video is ausm
 

DoubleU12

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RatRace123 said:
Well now, your points are valid, some of them, but goddamned depressing.

Even if it does become "correct" I will still not say "LOL" in conversation. More to the point I will punch whoever I hear say that in the face, or whenever someone says "LOL" I'll actually "Laugh Out Loud" in an extremely obnoxious way, to show people that Laughing Out Loud" is actually not an appropriate reaction for most things.

With facebook, yeah I can see that happening. Probably soon too.

I really really hope that game stores still continue to exist, I know that the "cloud" future is coming but I don't want it to. I'm still extremely wary of trusting an online service to distribute and handle my games, especially if DRM becomes even more of a problem than it is now. Not to mention that a constant online connection would be required which is annoying if you have an online connection and just impossible if you don't. Plus a bored hacker could take down an entire digital market if they really had a mind to.
A digital future is most assuredly coming and soon, but I don't think we're anywhere near ready for it.

On the next PSP, yeah probably. And I'll have the same problem with that as I did with the above mentioned thing.

With the thing about the economy... well, they pretty much do that now don't they?

And as for the giant jellyfish thing... I never trusted those bastards. I keep lobbying for an organized hunt to kill all those stinging snot bubbles, but no one listens to me!
Well now, you wouldn't want to kill the jellyfish!!!

Right now in Japan there is a huge population exlosion of these jelly fish that is killign their fishing market! They capture these jellyfish in their nets by the hundreds and they slaughter them, but only recently they found out when you chop these Jellyfish up, they release whatever it is jellyfish release and when it setteles on the ocean floor this is how they repopulate. They do naturally reproduce as well but when they die they release the reproductive liquid automatically.
 

DoubleU12

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SeanSeanston said:
Well now... the PS Vita's game are going to come on cards. Assuming you meant the Vita when you said the new PSP.
Well now I did indeed. I know a next gen sony hand held is comming out like in March or whatever. I just called it the new PSP as I don't know anything else about it. ^_^
 

Ekit

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The Facebook part is maybe going to happen. But Facebook is very good at changing itself into whatever is currently relevant so it might survive along time.