Time Capsule #17 - 2026 Predictions

Once a year we get to gather together and celebrate another year having come and gone. In the Marble Blast community we take this time at the start of the year to make predictions about how things will play out in our lives and in the wider world around us. A new year is upon us, let the predictions begin!

Reply to this thread with your predictions for the upcoming year. Will you set a bunch of new Personal Bests in PQ? Will you maybe even set a World Record or two? Will you improve as a gem hunter, as a pathfinder, as a player, as a person? What about your real life? Do you think you will set out to do anything special this year? What do you think will happen to you? What will the rest of the world get up to? Make your predictions, however far-fetched you think they might be! 

And for everyone who participated in last year's Time Capsule, take a look at your predictions from  last year and make a post in this years thread of looking backwards and seeing how well you did. 

I look forward to seeing everyone's guesses for how this year will go. 

Marble Blast
- Pack 9 releases and one of my levels is included.
- The game gets a native Linux port.
- I start working on my custom level series more.
- I release at least 15 custom levels this year.
- I do another collab level
- Not really about MB, but close enough: I'll get WR on Tossed About from Marble It Up! Ultra

Other Video Games
- On my 19th birthday, I get a Nintendo Switch 2. Mario Kart World then becomes the game that takes up all my free time.
- I will add at least 10 more games to my game collection. It currently includes: Mario Kart Double Dash!!, Pocketbike Racer, Sneak King, Xbox Live Arcade Compilation Disc, Xbox Live Arcade Unplugged, Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort.
- I play a ton of Mario Kart Wii custom tracks/online.
- I get back to playing Minecraft.

Personal Life/Pohleeticks™
- I actually get my driver's license.
- I'll get an actual real domain for my website now that the freedns domain I used died.
- After his party lost in the April election, Pierre Poilievre faces and fails a leadership review and someone else replaces him.
- Approval of Trump gets worse and worse, and Democrats take the House in the midterms. Maybe even the Senate if things get really bad.

Second time doing this!! (god it's been so long)

Marble Blast predictions:
- I will release a demo of Marble Blast Wildron.
- I will get 80 million overall ranking.
- I will get 35 Awesome Times in PQ.
- I will get over 95% of the ultimate times in PQ.
- I will have atleast 1 level made by me in Pack 9 (again, pack 9 hasn't been released)
- I will make 25 levels.
- I will make atleast 1 collab level.
- I think I'll get all PQ nest eggs.
- Another Vietnamese will join the community.

Not Marble Blast predictions:
- I will get a 7 in Literature on the 2nd end-term exam.
- I will play Geometry Dash and Minecraft more.

Well seeing as my 2025 predictions were 4/10, so heck let's just go off the walls with crazy predictions this year! Among the other more ordinary predictions as well. 

Marble Blast:
- Despair will remain unbeaten (ez w)
- 3 people will achieve 100% Awesome
- Someone will set a very unexpected WR
- Exactly 38 PQ World Records will be set
- Level of the Year 2026 will win in a landslide victory
- One or two major controversies will rattle the community but ultimately help bring us together
- A new person will join the community this year and become a prominent and trustworthy player rather quickly

Personal Life
- Wouldn't be a Time Capsule without Doomblah's driver's license prediction would it? I will get it this year! This is the year, I know it!
- I will read at least 16 books this year (bonus for 24+)
- I will buy/receive significantly fewer than the 112 books I got last year (under 30)
- I will start dating someone

Wider World
- A major social media company will shut down. 
- The number 61 will feature prominently in a major political scandal
- A complete brain-rot meme will take over public consciousness for a week and then be just as quickly forgotten

Third time let's do this. 

Marble Blast: 

-Platform Party MBG and Despair will remain unbeaten
-Pack 9 will be released, and I will go for 200M rating if it's released 
-One or two people will get their first World Record in the Leaderboards
-I will set at least 5 PBs in MBG levels
-I will get WRs in 35 or more different levels available in Leaderboards (including customs) 
-Someone from the Philippines will join the community
-I will make at least one level

Discord

-I will get a Discord Nitro this year 
-I will try not to say pornographic words after beating a WRR5/WRR6 time in Marble Blast Gold levels 
-I will post in "Other Discussion channels" ex. #aww (about pets)

IRL

-My auntie Marina will go home again this year, and host another outing
-I might study in college (My aunt Marina and my cousin Pristine from Canada wanted me to do this)
-Buy at least two Speed Stacks sets
-I will go to a mall that I haven't visited yet
-I will go to my aunt in law's condo once or more in a year
-I will have a buffet on Vikings at SM Megamall on my 27th birthday
- I won't go to an outing with my cousin Rowena from USA

Others

-APT will win any category at 68th Grammys
-The flood control project scandal will never end
-Rodrigo Duterte will still be in Netherlands by the end of the year 
-AM6 and DDR6 CPUs, RAM, and Motherboards will be released this year. 

K then lets do this again. Here's to a great year.

MBG stuff:

-Pathways 15.8 cycle is performed. (By anyone including me)

-Platform Party is beaten this year.

-I finally get WR on Spork in the Road

-Will o Wisp 9.5 or lower with the catch

- I get Tube Treasure sub-20

- #1 rank in MBG overall.

- Monster Speedway 3.8

IRL Stuff:

- Possibly find a better paying job

- Continue making more of an effort and posting on my main HappyTreeX1 YT channel.

- Continue my sobriety from alcohol.

- Possibly get a tattoo?

- Be more vulnerable. Open up a bit more about things.

Hopefully things go as good if not better than last year. See you guys in 1 year.