MBF Time Capsule 8 :: 2017 Predictions

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Don't tell the Swedes we got their Time Capsule

Looks like I didn't make any predictions last year, so here we go. These are all MB-related because I can't make any personal predictions without sounding cheesy.

• PQ actually releases in "early 2017"
• There will be at least one problem with the PQ launch and a hotfix will have to be pushed within a week of release
• Jeff starts another marble game project and cancels it
• I meet someone from the community IRL (not including Whirligig because he lives by me)
• If that person happens to be Jeff, we get drunk together
• I get off my ass, learn how to use Constructor, and actually release a custom level
• An MB speedrun will be featured at a major event (GDQ, ESA, etc.) and marbleblast.com will crash again
• People will still be spamming "u" and "joj" on the Discord in December

• Jeef will still be gay
• I will release at least 12 custom levels (more so setting a goal with this one)
• 1 of those levels will be half decent
• Jeef will still be gay

Most of these are PQ related because sure

PQ releases, later than originally intended, but still within our goal

HiGuy stays up until at least 5am pushing hotfixes the day it releases

Pablo will make a new level

marbleblast.com will have a minor popularity surge with PQ's release

I'll do a stream about neat leftovers from PQ

Tristan will get PQ and then (it doesn't work || he immediately asks for "PQ 2")

Fubar won't be finished until at least mid-summer

Matan's donger will remain on fire

- PQ doesn't release (most likely wrong but I will have eternal glory if this winds up being correct)

- I run the annual summer tourney again but don't win this time

- MBP WRR 3 happens and I participate with ring stunts, catwalks, space station and possibly triple decker

- MBU WRR gets released

- Someone beats eguy's battlements run in one sitting (hahahaha)

- If MBG WRR 5 happens, spaghetti has the most runs in it

- Someone posts a video of an Icy Tightrope Fold Maze speedrun

- Someone rages out of the upcoming Time Trial tourney

- Going out on a limb here... kalle and i both make the finals of the time trial tourney but neither of us win

- nobody continues bothering me all year to come discord brah (with occasional support from perks and possibly jack)

- I go on hiatus for at least three weeks at least once


Real life, just for fun

- Club team wins state

- Highschool team wins national homeschool tourney in fall

-I beat all of the ultimate Times in PQ

-I make (and release) a bunch of kickbutt levels if I'm not too busy

-I get a girlfriend

-I get my final diploma

-I get 40+ subscribers on my YouTube channel before July

-Snow will come in my city

-PSG wins against Barça

And that's pretty much all for now.

I will get top 5 in MBG and screenshot it so that when someone beats me I will still have the memory.
I will actually play things other than MBG and get all of the Ultimate Times for MBP and MBU.
At least ten departed community members will return because of PQ.
Kurt will still contribute to the community by being a beer loving Australian.
MBG WRR #5 will at least be payed attention to after the MBU WRR finishes.
Matan will still be fond of coming on voice chats and screaming loud vowel noises and disconnecting.
I will pass the AP US History exam in May with an 80%.
HPerks will meet with Lamp and it will go decently and they will meet again.
[strike]SIDE NOTE: This last one is BY FAR the least likely to come true but positive attitudes always help.[/strike] It went very well and my warmest congratulations go to them!
Also some more predictions:
I will at least have learned The Harmonious Blacksmith on the piano by this time next year, hopefully progressed to Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances.
I will care less about what people think of me and hopefully begin to realize that I dwell way too much on embarrassing things that have happened to me.
Nobody's life choices will get slightly better.
PQ will release at the end of March and HiGuy will be close to having a nervous breakdown.
I will move on from traplaunches but still enjoy them.
Sometime during the year (probably April 1) Webchat will be like it was in early 2015 and Matan and Kalle will be very immature and it will be the most wonderful thing to happen in Webchat all year.
Lamp will keep complaining about her life and hopefully continue to play Marble Blast.
Jeff will post on the forums only twice this whole year, but both times it will be because he is very annoyed about someone posting about PQ bugs for the seventeenth time.
Regislian will be given the suffix "the Sage" but will only use it for about two minutes.
Nobody will hopefully revert to saying "dooooooood" when he logs in to Webchat instead of "joj".
"u" will meet a long overdue death.

Seven different strangers will recognize me on the street due to an incidental meet-up we will have made elsewhere.
I will meet a stranger and visit his/her house. Then this person will cook for me an authentic Thai dinner.
I will be invited to the 2017 Inaugural Ball, but decline the invitation out of respect.
I will fake my death to appease my ex-lover.
My boss will quit and move to another store, leaving our store in the hands of someone else (probably me).
A traffic accident will occur that I will have inadvertently caused, despite being elsewhere at the time of the accident.
I will witness a traffic accident in real-time.
Last year, I crashed the wedding of a customer who had come in to our store that exact same morning. This year, I'll do the same, except this time I will pretend I am the photographer and then leave in the middle of the shoot.
A koala will meet me and we will share intimate eye contact.
I will make at least one friend, who will turn out to be one of three things: 1) a spy for the FBI or CIA, 2) a wanted criminal, or 3) a friend of my mom's.
A random wrong number will call me, and I'll pretend to be the person of whom they are trying to reach.
An elderly lady will request my assistance, and I'll respectfully decline by falling on my face.
I'll purposefully hurt myself at work and then file an incident report masking my injury as an accident caused by faulty equipment, such that I'll receive workers' comp and be able to take several weeks off.
Down the road from where I currently live, there is a sign that says "Beware: Otter crossing." This year, I will actually see otter cross.

On a more relevant note...

Jeff and I will not meet this year.

Marble Blast-related:

-I will reach at least the final 8 in the next Multiplayer Tournament
-I will have all the Ultimate Times in the Leaderboards
-I will get at least one MBP WR (edit: cubed maze 31.043)
-I will release 15 more levels before the end of this year (I'm counting on it this time, no bullshit like last year)
-PlatinumQuest will be released by April-May 2017
-At least 2 more well-known staff members will leave the community
-Kurt and Jojo will both be moderators (if not, maybe 2018 )
-I will get at least 10 WR's (got 11 last year..)
-I will collab with another level creator for a level (hmm... )
-Jeff will move to Canada
-I will get >330 on Sprawl
-Nobody will quit drugs
-Kurt will stop drinking beer

Personal Life:

-Start making music with FL Studio 12 and hopefully release some songs in the future
-(maybe?) get into coding
-I will get Honor Roll every time for the rest of the school year
-I will be more mature by the time I hit 15 next year.
-I will take drum lessons, and maybe other musical instruments as well.
-I will get a girlfriend

My predictions:
- I will make three more custom levels before the end of the year.
- PQ WHERe memes will be way too abundant.
- Random Kick Mode is abolished.

PQ will be out before The Lake Below. Which will hopefully be a good thing - there are some features I don't want to code duplicates of.

I will reach rank 8 on the multiplayer leaderboards. Currently I'm at a record of 10.

I will reach overall rank 50. Currently at 68.

I will reach 30 million overall rating. Currently 21 million.

Trump will be blamed for a bunch of crap Obama did to "prepare" things for the switch.

Fubar will be updated from build 50,000 after February. (By the way, you don't need to multiply the build count by 1000, Aayrl.)

My sister will get a speeding ticket . . . A second, that is.

Nobody will do a speedrun of at least five of my levels in one video.

My phone will survive another year.

I will look into Blender rigging and create a rig.

The exclamation point that appears in the webchat icon will still be bugging me and will still be buggy.

If my story idea really takes off, I will have made an offline MediaWiki for it.

I will have completed a total of at least three Warriors series. Currently at one.

The mobile version of the webchat will still have a buggy userlist.

Two more soon-to-be-dead mods will be announced.

Two more joke mods will be posted.

I will still not have a colored username.

Trump will not be impeached this year.

Alright, here are my predictions for 2017:

- Quaternion will be released at 11:59 PM on December 31st.
- same with PQ.
- MB1 might be finished...
- MB rights will be claimed by Nintendo for $12 and make Marble Blast Square.
- A fake PQ will be released on April 1st.
- MB STOP II will be delayed to 2018.
- 10 or more mods will be made, each with a 5% change of succeeding and a 95% change of dying.
- MB will become a game show on Nickelodeon with HiGuy being the host.
- it will be cancelled due to time constraints and $.
- 5 or more people will be banned for unknown reasons.
- we find the true meaning of the marble.
- nothing on this post will actually come true.

PacPlayer wrote: - nothing on this post will actually come true.

This is impossible, because it counters itself - maybe the time capsule will shatter

Every mod that is in the works right now (except PQ) will fail.

My birthday will be awesome.
(pssstt jan 6th)

My computer will be the best I have ever used.
(Getting that tomorrow woo!)

2017 will be the best year for school.

I'll excel at everything in school.
(I'm being stereotypical here)

I'll be rich.

I'll release some levels.
(Maybe a level pack, with a theme)


18+



Jeff gets laid.
(Oopsies suprise buttsex)
(dont ban me jeff)
(its a joke)
()

I might stop in to still bug people. Hopefully it'll be a good year for Marble Blast fans

- i'll probably actually get to work on levelmaking by the time PQ comes out.
- PQ hits in march.
- new forum bugs get ironed out (hopefully)
- i get slightly better at this game
- i'll get a non-event flair. maybe someday...
- new gaming pc, although it's highly unlikely
- more people join the MB community as PQ releases.
- pee pee butt spray on your pet jeef

that's all i have for now. keep in mind i've been sitting on this for a while now so /shrug

Okay, here goes:

Marble Blast

• I will make time to get Fubar released before it's 10th year of development (That's October for those of you counting.)
• Fubar will most likely live up to most of its expectations, but undoubtedly fall short of several critical member's anticipation due to the limited amount of resources that went into it (namely just me for the last 8 years.)
• There will be more in-game events?
• We will upgrade the look and feel of the website.
• A game-changing feature will be revealed that changes the way the community interacts with one another.
• PQ will release. The majority of the players will tackle a handful of single player levels, but the majority of the success of the mod will be aimed at multiplayer and re-invigorate the multiplayer aspect of the community.
• My Marble Blast commitments will be cut even further short due to personal reasons, but I will continue to visit on a weekly basis.
• I will figure out what Discord is and surprise some community members.

Life

• Door #1 will require me to purchase a new car![/li[
  
• Door #2 will initiate the second steps towards home ownership!
• Door #3 will send me to travel across the pond to the homeland of some of our European members?

Cheers to 2017!

~Aayrl

I'm a bit late to the party because I've [strike]had classes start[/strike] been lazy. So here's my prediction list:

PQ-Related:
- If PQ isn't out by this time next year I will be very disappointed in myself.
- In that time, we'll probably hit 500 issues on the tracker list
- The testers will submit max 10 of those issues
- Launch night will of course be the most inconvenient day for me

MB-Related:
- Another new marble game? Seems very unlikely especially releasing within a year. Maybe some more prototypes
- [strike]Noby will actually care about the quality of chat on the discord server why should I even think this for a second[/strike]
- Will probably be less active on the site except providing PQ updates occasionally
- Might get that CLAList thing done eventually??
- Site will probably get ~50 new people who decide to stay around. Good luck remembering them though

Random non-PQ stuff:
- My #1 asot tune of the year still won't be #1
- No way in hell I'm going to maintain this GPA... but hopefully I can do really well
- I'll remember almost nothing from FOCS
- Probably going to gain some more weight... I don't really mind
- Hopefully some of that will be muscles from going to the gym... which I have totally been remembering to do

MB-related
- I will go up 10 spots in general rank
- PQ will be out
- fubar will be out
- probably another MP tournament

Personal stuff
- I will go back to uni and take courses I actually enjoy
- I will do progress in my language studies
- I will have had a real job for at least a while
- pizza

Marble land:
-1 Level for PQ.
-Finish all shapes on the list and Matan will still have more ideas week before release from which some will somehow get in.
-Will do 2 new levels for community and release 3 unreleased ones.
-PQ released obv.
-Community will gain least 10 new folks that I will notice only 2 months later.
-Overall quality and quantity of levels released on community will increase twice (they currently are getting better and better, PQ should be boost).
-Joof will stick with one engine, finally, and something will happen.
-Will meet 1 person from forums.
-Lome will regain his health.
-Something crazy will happen on forums.

IRL:
-Will go to Nürburgring with my Audi coupe quattro built, done and ready for it, however cornering will still be suckish as every stock audi 80 has.
-I will spend more money that I expected on my new car.
-My current car will reveal another retarded thing that previous owner haven't properly fixed.
-My current friendship with TK will take sharp turn in ether direction.
-Will leave dorm and live in apartment or different accommodation.
-Will finish 2nd year of uni.
-Will have some sortof odd partime job.


Nifties:
-Will finally have some progress on that rail system in SP MC
-No new GF but will get someone I get along with really well.
-Spend 2x more time outside and mostly abandon usual things I procrastinate on.

-No HL3 but there will be some huge announcement from Valve


Ready, set, GO 2017!

Of course I would do this right before the deadline, how else?

MB:

-I will begin a marble blast custom levels series on YouTube.

-See Derpking prediction #6.

-I will meet a marble blast community member IRL.

-There will be another summer tournament and I will finally break through to the semis. (Going out on a limb here!)

-I'll have at least one run or more featured in the upcoming rampages, and MBG WRR #5 will be released in December.

-I will FINALLY get a colored username.

-PQ will be released, at the beginning of October.

-Two of MBK, EdwardMC, Dushine, Imperial, TPorter and RC will rejoin the community.

Real life:

-I'll have started learning Haydn's Emporor Quartet in C major by the end of next fall.

-I will complete my percussion quartet soon (TM) and the performace in March will be a success.

-I will not get a girlfriend but may quietly have a crush on someone (this prediction is mostly for fun, lol.)

-I'll be out of the country for at least two weeks (this one is almost a guarantee actually)

-I will not have finished my plans to complete my first orchestra piece (hopefully i'll prove myself wrong!)

-The Oakland A's will win at least 80 games. (cmon cmon)

The Cubs will not win the world series. (Sorry whirli)

-Donald Trump will be impeached (to quote the words of Frosty - "most likely wrong but i will have eternal glory if this is correct.")

There ya are.

REAL LIFE PREDICTIONS

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1. Trump will be impeached this year.
2. I will graduate High School this year.
3. I will begin working again at an organic supermarket.
4. I will catch all the Kanto Pokemon this year in Pokémon GO.
5. My brother moved to my city. He will move out again this year in December.
6. A moderate to intense earthquake will happen this year in my state.
7. I will visit France >> OR << Australia this year.
8. I will enroll in a two year college to start my journey for a CS Degree or similar.

MarbleBlast PREDICTIONS

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- I will finish Marble Blast STOP II this year.
- PQ will release this year in Summer 2017. (Specific Month: July)
- I will meet one person from the Marble Blast Forums, other than Rozi this year.
- Rozi will be in the top 5 globally for best Marble Blast Players.
- Alexnico's new released mod will be garbage. (in all honesty) (no offense i love chu .3.)
- I will reach 500 posts this year or more.

MISC. PREDICTIONS

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A. Pokémon GO will release the Gen II Pokémon and the Legendaries.
B. Half of the Team Instinct Players in Pokémon GO will be terminated.
C. ROBLOX will start the toy business.
D. IsraeliRD (Matan) will fall for a RickRoll.
E. I will complete an 100% File of Super Mario Sunshine.
F. Added to that, Nintendo releases Super Mario Sunshine II this year. (pls nintendo and don't be bad)
G. The letter G will be the letter of 2017. (Letter of the Year)
H. Just like 2016, we'll have another record-breaking year of heat globally.
I. 2017's word of the year will be "depressing/depression/depress". (/ means or)
G. Someone will mention that I used the letter G for labeling twice on this post AND complain about it.
U. David Baszucki, CEO/Founder of ROBLOX will retire this year.
Y. Higuy will notice the odd order of letters I posted on the MISC. Predictions and will know what it means... AND post about it.

Bold predictions for 2017:

Marble Blast:
I will beat MBP with under 52 minutes total time.
I will beat all the ultimate times in PQ in less than 1 week after its release.
I will release at least 25 new videos.
I will actually get decent leaderboard rankings on levels that involve traplaunching.
I will get 2nd place and/or 95 million points (or more if new custom level packs are added).
I will design a custom level and release it.

Real Life:
I will memorize 3,000 digits of pi.
I will get an internship over the summer.
I will declare a major in either Math, CS, or both.
I will get back to my playthrough of Super Mario 64 and finish it.
I will use the Project64 emulator to play more Nintendo 64 games (thinking MK64 right now)

Oh shit I better do this before it goes away.

• PQ will release Q1 2017
• I will begin a new marble game project and it will NOT FAIL (hopefully)
• Trump is going to make america great again (hopefully it will be only good things he does)
• Trump will not jail Hillary
• We will still be alive and nuclear war didn't happen between the USA and Russia.
• HiGuy will get a new computer that isn't an Apple product, finally having OpenGL 4.5!
• Apple will still not update their OpenGL stack, and still not support Vulkan, and continue to PISS ME OFF
• I will make a deferred renderer in OpenGL 3.x/4.x (Modern OpenGL)
• I graduate college.
• I will be offered a full time job before next year.
• I get wasted off of my wine at least once.

Marble Blast
I will release 5 Marble Blast compilations this year (4 of them will be for PlatinumQuest).
PQ will be released on May; I will play more of Marble Blast as soon as it will be released.
I will complete all the levels for one mod other than PQ.
I will still be less active in the forums and in playing MB until PQ.

Apple
Updated iMacs and Mac minis in March; lower prices across the MacBook lineup.
Apple Watch Series 2/Series 1 will get lower starting prices of $349/$249 respectively.
New colors for Apple Watch bands and iPhone/iPad cases in March.
Updated MacBook in April 2017 with Kaby Lake Processors and Thunderbolt 3.
macOS 10.13, iOS 11, watchOS 4, and tvOS announced in June; all these platforms released in September.
Updated iPad Pros in 9.7-inch, 10.5-inch, and 12.9-inch sizes announced in September; released in October.
iPhone 7s, iPhone 7s Plus, and iPhone X released in September.
Apple Watch Series 3 released in September; lower prices for Apple Watch Series 2
Updated Apple TV with A10 Fusion announced in September; released in October.
Updated MacBook Pro with Kaby Lake Processors and huge price drops across the MacBook Pros with Touch Bar in October.

Personal
I will be happy that I'm still single by the end of this year.
I will complete watching more YouTube Red series/movies by the end of April.
I will gain more experience on coding in more programming languages.
I will have a meaningful summer.
I will make one new friend.

Real Life:
- I'll get "Full" employee status at work
- In the internal war at between the MLT and Sterility teams, MLT will succeed in stopping my transfer to Sterility and thus I won't do a qualification to it.
- Tsuf will continue his unending earth-shattering screams as he pisses my parents and I. He's doing it at this point in writing too.
- I will probably go to Italy.
- The USA... not seeing it happening... unless...
- Aayrl gets married. If I'm given an invitation I'll seriously consider attending assuming it's not in July/August.
- I'll lose 3kgs
- I will continue my Theme Park Inc speedrun
- I will do a TAS of Hocus Pocus. A full chapter, doesn't matter any% or 100%. Even a redo of chapter 1.
- I will actually beat Super Meat Boy (currently World 5 - nearly there)
- I will beat Borderlands 1 or 2.
- Maybe will start and complete another game...
- I will be less demotivated than my usual self.

Forums/Site/Marble Blast:
- PlatinumQuest releases in either March or April, and worst case May. Much to HiGuy's disMAY. Also mine.
- HiGuy will continue his unending puntastic streak.
- PlatinumQuest will challenge players, new and old alike.
- PlatinumQuest will continue its crash-party, pissing HiGuy off.
- PlatinumQuest will be well liked, generally.
- To piss the right out of Threefolder, I will somehow make and release two additional levels for Bonus in addition to the three I have lined up.
- ...And someone else will also make a level or two just for good measure.
- Fubar will continue its weird releases
- Kalle will start lowering his Pizza intake in favor of healthier food.
- Stuff about more forum posts, more thank yous, etc.
- I won't forget about the next Time Capsule.. Who am I kidding. HiGuy pls set a reminder for 29th/30th December.
- Someone will make an actual artwork for us for the Time Capsule so that I won't have to dig through shitass images on Google.
- This Time Capsule will be buried on TIME FOR A CHANGE (come on freebie!!)
- Jeff will get some of his predictions correct, regardless of internal info or not.
- Jeff will get laid.
- Oh right, and some marble blast mods will happen and die.
EDIT: - Dank memes will continue to spice our lives.

SDA:
- The queue will get processed faster than it is right now. I mean seriously I was 7 months behind.
- Something good will happen to it this year. Dunno what.

Marble Blast (misc):
- MBU WRR will be released
- MBG WRR #5 will happen, as well as MBP WRR #3 and... PQ WRR?
- People will continue their fantastic level compilations. Hoping for more customs though, always pleased with those more.
- This still isn't cannon.cs

higuy you *** i told you at 11pm your time just before im leaving to work to bury the capsule so we have it buried on the 22nd as promised and not the 23rd and you couldn't even do it......

[5:59:20 AM] Matan: sir
[5:59:23 AM] Matan: in less than an hour
[5:59:32 AM] Matan: please bury the capsule
[5:59:33 AM] Matan: cheers
[5:59:37 AM] glcoulee: wow
[5:59:43 AM] glcoulee: making me do it...
[5:59:46 AM] glcoulee: nah jk i'll get it
[5:59:49 AM] Matan: lmao

when this unburies and you probably complained/reminded me about burying this, this post will serve a reminder you couldn't remember to do even this thing rofl