Time Capsule #14 - 2023 Predictions

Happy New Years! It's time for another Time Capsule. How will 2023 go? What do you think is going to happen? To Marble Blast, your own life, or the world in general, we want to hear what you think is going to happen. Post your predictions below.

This year's Time Capsule will be buried on January 21st, 2023. Get your predictions in before then, or else you'll have to wait another year.

MB Predictions:
- Pack 8 will come out
- We will get some more official MP levels
- I will end up in the semifinals of the Summer Tourney
- I will release my mod of MB Fusion
- Third prediction's the charm: I will get all ATs
- We will get some more developers for PQ

Real-life Predictions:
- Third prediction's the charm lmfao: I will visit literally any new place whatsoever, be it a city, county or a country
- Would be cool if I could meet an MB Community member IRL
- I will get a better result at this year's Geography Olympiad
- The Ukraine-Russia war won't end

Yeah I think that's it

Well, 2022... happened. I went away from home to start life at college proper (no more online community college!) and while it's only 3 months so far I've had a really good time. Because of this though I couldn't play Marble Blast as much as I would have wanted, though I think that's probably for the best. I think my college life has benefitted from not obsessing over this game. All that being said I won't stop playing this game when I come home during breaks. And at this point I doubt I'll ever step down as moderator of this wonderful community. I hope we continue to grow as people and as a community, and that we find new ways to go faster in marble game. Now, let's get to some predictions.

Marble Blast
- I will play the game very little :( but I will set PBs on at least 5 different LB levels (excluding Pack 8 levels if that happens).
- Let's be ambitious. One of those 5 PBs will be a World Record.
- MBP WRR4 will release.
- Despair will remain unbeaten.
- Some level will get a brand new route, not a tweak, nor optimization, but unambiguously a brand new route.
- Pack 8 will release and will have some major bug or controversy (I don't want this to be right but I predict it will be).
- PQ will get an update that doesn't also have a game breaking bug fix patch immediately after (I believe in you dev team!)
- The community will have no major scandals or controversies (pretty please?)
- A new player will join and set a WR surprising everyone, and it won't become another cheating scandal.

Personal
Of the ones I feel comfortable sharing
- I will continue to do well in college, I will keep my GPA above 3.5.
- I will come home for the summer and burn out working full time at McDonald's.
- I will read more books than I did in 2022 (15).
- (Third time's the charm) I will get my driver's license.
- 2023 will be better than 2022

I look forward to what this new year has to bring.

Hey bitch. Did you read this top part? If you got sent here by the first prediction, you're a loser. A right poopyhead. Love you in a gay way :smooch:

Predictions for 2023:
Marble Blast
-You actually started at the start of this post and not here
-You remembered to name yourself "2023 crashed! (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻". We're on a losing streak of 2 here, come on. Fix this for us.
-Marble Blast will show up in some other weird ass place (aka another unaffiliated game)
-Pack 8 doesn't release lol
-Party Mode is back in the game please? Bonus points if it never actually leaves
-Release more than 2 custom levels this year (packs count for 1)
-Any progress on CGL 12 at all? This accepts negative values.
-Adding more shit to the game! Maybe more customization to multiplayer, or just more smaller ideas.
-On that note, additions of mine get pushed (could mention bugfixes i guess but this isn't counting that)
-Another marble game? Like MIU or GMA? If MIUM somehow releases then fuck it we count that
-The death prediction warded it off last year so uh hey no more of that. The second coming of Tsuf does not cancel this out.
-I will NOT have any specific predictions in mind coming back to this
Video Games
-the one who smeltarune deltarune
-idk if I can really make the Mario Kart prediction again this year. But they seem to be adding more and more other shit along with the tracks. New characters? maybe unlikely. A music room? More battle courses too? New item(s)?
-Mojang will never add movable tile entities to Java I give up. A new block that stores shit and can be moved doesn't count, I mean moving chests and furnaces and hoppers and dispensers and shit.
-I am once again predicting anything at all related to Banjo-Kazooie
-The Beast Handler will still not be not be released for BTD6. Maybe the Xmas update for half credit
-Modding support for bloons :pleading:
-New Mario baseball for Switch finally yesss! (it sucks on ice)
-and another new mario party too? Superstars 2?
Life
-someone dies
-Watch a new show?
-College gets easier (please)
-Work somewhere other than Domino's (back to burger king counts)
-Did ever actually wind up working at Domino's

ok bye happy new year

Here's my predictions for 2023:

MB stuff:
- Pack 8 will be released.
- I'll get a non-web port WR.
- I will be in a WR rampage that doesn't relate to the web port.
- I'll start making levels.
- I'll get a colored username.
- MBP WRR 4 will release.
- Someone will finally beat DKman00's Despair WR.
- CGL 12 will come out.

Non-MB stuff:
- Russia will stop invading Ukraine.
- I won't get COVID.
- I'll start making YouTube videos.

lol i noticed most of my predictions are the same as last year

- No major releases to PQ in the next year, apart from new level packs and bug fixes

- Still not playing PQ anymore

- One of RandomityGuy/Vanillaguy/???'s marble games actually picks up some steam. I bet it's OpenMBU

- For that matter, I bet I contribute at least once to OpenMBU over the next year

- Game night lineup still includes Dominion, Factorio, Minecraft. But I'll add 2 new games

- Mahjong ranked... E3. I don't expect to do that well lmao

- Still watching a lot of Twitch / YT every day to fill the time

- Same job, new apartment, but still in Florida

- Covid 2 electric boogaloo. I predict... August

- Get my health at least looked at

- DEFCON again, will be a mess

- Fly international at least once

- Get better at cooking

hey furblers

Marble Blast Predictions:
- I'll drop out of Top 15 but will reach 135 mil rating
- I'll release my final compilation, MBC 10
- MBP WRR4 happens, MBG WRR6 gets delayed because of it
- Host a wrr (thinking of doing like a mbg/mbp classics wrr of old customs)
- Despair has a new WR (I've said this for 3 years cmon)
- PQ any% becomes more popular
- 100 PQ at's
- Release a custom level
- Get a new wr (probs with a Pack 8 level)

IRL Predictions (keeping it simple here):
- New Job
- Relationship
- Full License
- Move out
- New friends, catch up with old ones
- Less fatigue, hopefully
- Get more into Photography, bought myself a Canon EOS 200d MII for my birthday but I wanna get around to taking photos of landscapes and different sceneries.

Misc Predictions:
- Pass 3 bil networth in Skyblock
- Participate in the osu! catch the beat world cup for NZ
- Meet another NZ catch the beat player irl
- Interact with more fur gamers
- Start streaming again and producing more content
- Play some other games
- Cobalt's MC channel reaches 100k subs

just hoping I have a better year compared to 2022

I don't normally post anything but I'll jump on the bandwagon. Here goes nothing!

Marble Blast:
- MBP WRR 4 and Pack 8 will both be released.
- MBG will be 100% improved but WRR 6 won't happen until 2024.
- I will achieve all PQ Awesome Times (I already have almost half of them).
- I will complete all official Custom levels (including Pack 8 if it comes out this year).
- I will achieve a WR in a Gem Hunt level.
- I will successfully complete a run in Despair using the "bullet" TL but it won't be WR.
- I will make at least one level (even if it's trash).
- Three people will earn colored usernames.
- Two people will achieve all PQ Awesome Times (excluding myself).
- One person will achieve their first WR.

Personal:
- Be less stupid.

I find it interesting how some of these list items are genuine predictions, and some are closer to being New Year's resolutions.

Marble Blast/Community

- Platinum WRR 4 releases, Gold WRR 6 is within three levels of completion.
- No release of #TheReturn2015.
- Summer tournament happens, I don't win.
- Top three on the leaderboards are, yet again, Xedron, Xelna, and Battlecube.
- Progress is made on MBGR Intermediate, but nothing released.
- CGL 12?
- I surpass 2,000 subscribers.
- Big drama. Don't know what, I just want something fun to happen.
- Community channel sees three or fewer uploads. A rampage counts as one.
- My interest in playing the game fades out (at least) almost completely. Maybe it's finally that time.

Personal/Miscellaneous

- I go the whole year without having any alcohol. Line is drawn at having anything more than maybe half a shot on rare occasion. You get the idea.
- Still on track to graduate June of 2024. Will have two more terms to go when the Time Capsule is unburied again.
- Straight A's in one term, bonus points if more than one term.
- I buy another instrument.
- More confidence in guitar and bass playing.
- Getting more into country music. Help.
- Solid attempt at learning how to be a better producer.
- No music released, but a lot of songwriting done, and maybe a good bit of recording.
- Write an orchestra piece, and finish two electronic pieces (that don't actually go public since they're part of a bigger project).
- Make some kind of money through music. Likeliest case is playing live. Doesn't have to be consistent income.
- I find an opportunity to put myself out there and significantly further my career. Not sure what that will look like, but it will be obvious if it happens.
- Half-hearted attempt at a consistent Duolingo routine, doesn't work out for more than 50 days.
- I start running consistently, and end up feeling like I'm in much better shape by the end of the year.
- On the flipside, my eating habits don't improve much.
- End the year feeling like I'm in a really good place emotionally and mentally. Continue to have a lot of support around me, still finding ways to improve how I handle my thoughts and reactions, and be able to look forward to 2024 with the same optimism.

Here's to hoping 2023 will do me good :dorime:

Balls
1. Reach 115 million rating
- Surely I can reach this right?

2. 50 Total WRs by the end of the year
- Should be doable

3. I take back rank 1 from Xedron in PQ and keep it by the end of the year
- More than doable if I just play more normal PQ levels, I'm less than 200k away from him at the moment

4. Finish off all my main singleplayer hunt goals
- Only 3 remain, but they might be the toughest, not sure yet. Even then I may still want more hunt WRs after that

5. Make more progress on improving my PQ times
- Now that I'm almost done with my hunt goals I think I can put more effort into normal levels

6. Have 5 or less WRs for MBP WRR 4
- I don't see myself putting too much effort for this one, could be wrong though

7. Have at least 1 WR for the 2nd MIU Classic WRR
- Deadline is right at the end of February and I have a few ideas, but if they don't pan out, not really the end of the world

8. Have a total of 8 MBG WRs by the end of the year
- Praying that some records don't take as much time as others

9. I get sub 18 Three Fold Maze in MBG
- Would be hype as fuck and I will not stop until it happens

10. Snwboardr tries to get me to play another marble game
- "yo play this new game and kill the leaderboards with me" or something before he proceeds to send another dirt bike video

Not Balls
1. I start playing Celeste or Hollow Knight
- I have these games saved for later, could play them when I get the chance

2. Getting out of my comfort zone more
- I guess saying this here is a start, even if this was put in as an edit

I'll think of more as time goes on but this should be fine for now

marble blast:

- be less garbage
- join in with any multiplayer games (if im awake at 3:00 in the morning when people want to play or something)
- maybe make a marble blast gold mod (with ACTUAL levels from kula world)

personal:

- be less socialy anxious, wether or not its on discord
- maybe start scam baiting as a hobby
- stop having different intrests so frequently

xbox:

- create a mod menu for orange box
- create a custom level for arcade version of mbu
- look at the fasinating world of indie games for xbox

– I will still be playing Marble Blast Gold.
– I will not release a big video of all my personal best times in Marble Blast Gold, due to not being satisfied with at least three of the following levels: Siege, Skyscraper, Tri Twist, Upward Spiral, Monster Speedway, Great Divide, Pathways, Escher's Race, Airwalk.
– I will have less than 10 world records by the end of the year (Marble Materials Lab counts).
– I will think about making a level, but won't actually do it.
– I will still be in the Discord server, but still won't enjoy it.
– I will release at least one big video this year.

– I will read at least three new books.
– I will still be living in my parents' house for the entire year.
– I will not get a nosebleed in 2023.
– I will have a "real job" that I'm satisfied with? Please?
– I will go to counseling.

– People will continue to not go by the title and predict that things will happen beyond 2023.
– There will be at least four posts in this topic that say something like "I'll add more predictions later" at the beginning or end, but they either won't add more predictions or will forget to take that text out before the topic is locked.

First year making predictions, lets give it a shot!

marble blarble:

• I don't think I'll end up getting all ATs in PQ, but I'm gonna try
• I also find it likely that I still will not get any WRs
• Hopefully, I will make it past the play-in rounds and into the bracket of the multiplayer tournament
• I'll finally play through all of the LB custom levels
• Who knows, wildin, maybe I'll make some customs of my own ????
• Semi-related to the above and to marble blarble, I wonder how much progress I'll made on my Godot Engine marble game . For my prediction, I add in a few beginner levels AND networking support AND release some kinda WIP.

non marble blarble:

• I'll reclaim the FEZ Any% world record by learning more tricks
• I won't do any speedruns of Superliminal lol, if I end up coming back then negative bonus points if I get sub 22
• I'll still be in the same apartment, but I'll have a real couch lol
• I'll probably still be too lazy to learn music production software (Audour or LMMS or somethin)
• I expand my web development knowledge and add some kind of functional multiplayer game to my website

Well, time goes by faster than I think so we'll see how much of this ends up being true in 2024!

Let's see if we can actually score some points this time...

A friend of a friend will butt-dial me while under the influence, thinking that I am his/her lover, and I'll happily respond as such to get their Netflix password information.
While dancing somewhere underground, someone will start firing... Nerf bullets, and I'll play along until someone realizes that I am not a minor.
I will find someone in Alaska who used to live in Florida.
Three German Shepherds will chase me through a corn field, all at the same time.
I'll end up somewhere in the middle of the Sahara Desert, say f*ck it, and sleep in the sand.
Although I won't intend for this, I will happen to be present at the exact moment a bar fight breaks out between two strangers with whom I will have coincidentally had sexual history.
On two different accounts, I will awkwardly recognize a telemarketer to be a former friend of mine.
While previous attempts to get me sucked into MLMs have been unsuccessful, this time it will be me trying to persuade a film producer to join an MLM just for shits and giggles.
Speaking of S&G, I'll mail a package full of chocolate chip cookies to a tech store, asking if they can help me "clear my cookies."
I will visit a random mansion in Beverly Hills as a delivery driver, only to reveal that I am, in fact, the package being delivered.
Of the five naturists I will meet, one of them will end up being my boss at a later date.
I will successfully get a lead role in a film via blackmail.
Six roses will show up at my doorstep, but they will be dead.
Two drunk bandits will try to f*ck me up in an alley.
I'll watch the sunset twice in one day.
Jeff and I will not meet this year.
I'll play Bananagrams.

Sadly, I predict that my tummy will continue to hurt.
I will try a new fruit I didn't know existed.
I will brew 48 cups of white tea.
My swag/gamer metric will increase.

Here are my 2023 Predictions!

Marble Blast Predictions:
-I will finally play PlatinumQuest Multiplayer
-Finish my big custom level I'm working (Doubt it. It's big and has a lot of decorating to do)

Video Game/Other Predictions:
-I start playing Marble It Up!: Mayhem
-I will get a new pc for playing games and possibly for live streaming
-I'll find my DS copy of Bejeweled Twist that I lost 3 years ago
-My Anti-Fear Music Album will get released (It's still an estimation at this point)
-I will upload actual content to GamersUnited

In these times of uncertainty, I'll keep it somewhat quick this year.

• The Buffalo Bills will defeat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVII.
• The Houston Astros will not repeat as World Series champions.
• The Seattle Kraken will make the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
• Russia's invasion of Ukraine will end.
• 4 Truck Simulator expansions will release this year.
• I will upgrade my gaming PC at long last.
• I will finally have a new job for longer than 6 months.
• Whirligig will announce the release date for Filtration.

Marble Blast Predictions:
• I will FINALLY achieve 100% of all the Ultimate Times in Marble Blast Platinum this time, especially when I'm down to the hardest ones to beat the Ultimate Time on. Only at 112/120 (93%)
• Pack 8 will be launched on the PQ leaderboards, and I will be one of the first players to get all the Eggs there.
• I will beat at least four Awesome Times/Scores in PlatinumQuest.
• I will finally beat the last Gold Time (Trap Door Master Edition’s) in Level Packs 10-19.
• I will finally beat the last two levels in Level Packs 20-29 (Fast Trak/Arrival to Marbleland).
• I will improve my overall rating from 93 million points to 100 million points and will maintain my rank above 50.
• MBP WRR #4 & MBG WRR #5 will happen within this year.
• I will release at least 10 additional compilations for my “Marble Blast Levels” series.
• I may resume my egg runs videos this year.
• I will participate in the Summer tournament, only to not win any of the matches.
• I will beat at least 10 Ultimate Times on the existing LB levels (not including the future Pack
• We'll see at least three uploads on the community YouTube channel (WRR counts as one).

I joined like a month ago, surely would be a good time to post predictions right?

- MB predictions -

- I won't forget / get bored of the game. (hopefully)
- I will reach 80 million rating, but won't reach 9 digits.
- I will get top 5 in any level. (very unlikely to happen)
- I beat all four main games, bonus point if I actually beat all of Custom.
- I'll join the discord server and won't enjoy it.
- I will play multiplayer, and never win (even if it's 1 match it counts).
- I don't participate in any community events.
- I will get at least 10 ATs in PQ.
- I will release at least 1 custom level, and people will call it garbage.
- Pack 8 will be released, and I won't touch it.

Won't make predictions for other games because nobody will ever know what I'm talking about

- Real life -

- I will get an average of 100 at an exam, bonus point if more than 1.
- Straight A's for 1 term. It has to happen.
- I get more into electronic music.
- I'll not be as unfriendly as 2022.
- COVID won't end.
- Russian - Ukrainian war (sadly) won't end, but will be really close to end.
- I start a YouTube channel, but don't upload a video to it.

- Misc -

- This is the last post uploaded on this year's predictions.
- Somebody figures out the meaning of my username.

And I think that's all I have
Let's see how well I do.
Hopefully I can get more than half right?

personal MB predictions:
•I will still be 4th place in overall rating at the end of the year.
•I will have at least 172 million overall rating at the end of the year. (This depends heavily on how much rating is in Pack 8.)
•I will achieve at least one world record (not counting WRs on Pack 8 levels within the first month of the pack’s release). Bonus point if it’s on an official level.
•I will post at least 5 videos on my YouTube channel.
•I will beat all my pre-2020 PBs on the Leaderboards and all my pre-2021 PBs in MBP. (I’ve been putting this off for a while, but as of right now I only have 4 pre-2020 PBs and 6 pre-2021 MBP PBs left.)
•My total time online will be 3250±100 hours. (In general, I predict that I’ll be less active in MB by the end of the year, to focus on other things in my life.)

MB community predictions:
•Two people will achieve 100% Awesomeness in PQ.
•One person will achieve their first world record.
•The MBG Web Port WRR 2 will be released. Exactly one additional rampage (official or unofficial) will be released.
•When Pack 8 is released, at least one level will need its challenge times changed or its rating curve recalculated.
•Someone will achieve a new WR on Despair.
•Someone will beat my WR in PQ any%.

non-MB predictions:
•I will get a good job (which pays reasonably well and about which I’m passionate).
•I will visit one state in the USA that I haven’t visited before.
•I will bike 100 miles in a day.

The capsule's gonna get buried soon imma rush this

MB:
-Pack 8
-PQ v2.9.0 at least
-I will finally finally start playing the game again
-I will get an AT in PQ
-a wr that no one will see coming
-someone new to making custom levels will make inexplicably good custom levels

other stuff:
-I'll start playing Hollow Knight and quit halfway through
-I'll get all 175 red berries in Celeste and at least 10 golden berries
-Covid-19 will finally end (or at least be so close to ending that we don't need to worry about it as much)
-even more steam games ig (I'll be aiming for 400 games owned)
-I'll actually 100% a game
-(insert more stuff here) (I'll just write some of my notable accomplishments in the right or wrong post for this year next year)

marble:

* #1 oceania or bust
* quit the game if i'm no longer having fun
* make a shit level
* make a good level
* contribute to pq (impossible)
* make at least one marble website with hosting still active in 2024
* still don't have any wrs

other:

* release at least 3 celeste maps
* play games less bc uni
* (fucking please be this year)
* i am rushing this in 5 minutes help (+1 if i write all my responses in 5 minutes)
* do better predicting than last year (low bar)