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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 00:40
What amazing events do you think will happen in 2004? Last year I predicted that a robot would ride a bike, I was close with that Sony dancing robot. Maybe it can ride a bike, I do not know.

Anyway for 2004 I predict....

A disaster in the Channel Tunnel!

Bigfoot is found!

Micheal Jackson commits suicide!

A new type of dinosaur is found frozen in ice!

Pincho.
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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 00:46 Edited at: 21st Dec 2003 00:48
In 2004 I may becaume sain again!
Im going to kill myself!
I will buy a Monkey!-close enough

I dont know how to spell
BatVink
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David Blaine will realise he was beaten by Saddam Hussein

George "W" Bush will welcome the UK as the 52nd state

Jacko X will become Chief Sitting Bull

I will cuss and swear at an embarrassing defeat in the Alienware compo

My wife will give birth in February and I will never sleep a full night again.

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Mattman
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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 01:01
hmm...

I will realise a (decent) full project

I will work for Braun Consulting

Buch will become a circus clown after losing the election

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 01:35
dunno what the future has in store; if i could see that i'd go pick out the lottery numbers

have a feeling it's going to be a good year though


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I will have finally finished a project, which, simulatiously, will leave me in total control of the whole world.... Bill Gates will be licking my boots.


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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 01:40
I predict Michelle the Pop Idol winner will eat another mince pie and explode

Boo!
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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 02:04
I predict DBPro's bugs will be fixed, and new ones will replace them, I will actually start a project instead of saying "I am going to make this...", I wont make any resolutuions as usual, man will step on the moon for the second (or first time) using an Athlon XP 2600, and Bil Gates will fall over and tear his pants, prompting him to make Windows pants.

ZEDWARE website coming soon... //END TRANSMISSION//
Preston C
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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 02:35
Quote: "Micheal Jackson commits suicide!"


I wouldnt be surprised if that did happen.

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My Personal Predictions (Hopefully a few wont come true):

Dark Basic Pro will have a patch that fixes many bugs to a point where the bug reports forum is nearly silent so the team can fix the final bugs before moving on to add features.

I'll get a girlfriend

An indirect terrorist attack on the United State by bombing the oil sites in the middle east (big world economy ruiner right there)

Saddam Hussein being locked up in the looney house due to an instable mind, released to Iraq later in the year after harsh emotional molding which practically makes him a slave to the US

Mnemonix will actually have another trivia game in IRC

Some form of Linux will pop up, free (or cheap), open source, which looks and feels just like Windows, even with a succesful emulator that can emulate all windows applications (R.I.P. Microsoft)

The Alienware Competition will be a total success, and all of the entries will bring great advertising to Dark Basic and Dark Basic Pro, flooding the forums with total n00bs, and possibly driving the community insane.

Geri will release something interesting, and actually wow the forums. After being respected a bit, he'll give up his spamming ways, learn proper English, and be normal like the rest of us.


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Mattman
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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 02:53
lol, that last one is insaaaaaaaane

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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 02:54 Edited at: 21st Dec 2003 02:55
My predictions:

* Rich will find us another video of someone inserting their head somewhere odd

* SCO will start some new humourous law suits for our amusement

* HamsterOS will get sued for including Hampton the Hamster's intellectual property (Hampton being represented by SCO's lawyers)

* I'll become Preston's IRC girlfriend

* Tumbleweed/Twilight/DarkBot (from #darkbasic) will become more popular than me, culminating in me getting kicked from the channel for disagreeing with him/her.

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Preston C
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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 03:19
Quote: "* I'll become Preston's IRC girlfriend"


That is just plain sick and wrong.


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Mattman
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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 03:31
but true

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Slayer
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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 03:47
another- someone wiil finely put a pic of there girlfrend on
the forms so all can lafh! LOL

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Dave J
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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 04:01
Quote: "Mnemonix will actually have another trivia game in IRC"


Chances are slim but we can all hope.


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Dr OcCuLt
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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 04:04 Edited at: 21st Dec 2003 04:05
i am Dr 0 and have the all seeing eye.


i see this all will happen in 2004

Half-Life 2 will be kicked back to 2005.

Microsoft will have a new dum idea about how to protect there copyright we will say it the end of computing but becos it M$ it will not even work.

DOOM 3 will get kicked back to 2005 so it can come out at the same time as Half-Life 2.

the US will put penguin on the axis of evil

black and white 2 will be kicked back to 2005 so it can come out the same time as Half-Life 2 and DOOM 3.

no new game will come out in 2004 becos there all waiting for Half-Life 2 to come out.

the winner of the Alienware Competition will be the best new game at E3 becos.

i now i can see it now

--Dr 0--

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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 04:36 Edited at: 21st Dec 2003 05:51
Hmmm! My predictions for 2004:

1) George W. Bush will surprise a lot of people by doing something right for once.
2) A future Mars mission will discover a sign saying: "Comming soon: Starbucks!"
3) While under the stress of his trial, Micheal Jackson's face will drop off.
4) Marlon Brando will explode with a force of about 12 megatons when he sits on a tack.
5) While under the stress of his trial, Micheal Jackson's other face will drop off.
6) It will be discovered that the Earth is flat after all.
7) Director Peter Jackson may announce he will consider making the prequel to Lord of the Rings, "The Hobbit." (well, you never know)
8) Elvis will be found alive and well as the official food taster for Burger King.
9) Richard Branson will be voted the world's most sexiest man of 2004.
10) Following with the succeses of "Toy Story" "Toy Story 2" and "Shrek", Pixar will release a new CGI movie called "Horny Lesbian Busty Lovers."
11) Someone will realize that bringing back "The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is a mistake.
12) Someone will realize that bringing back "He-Man" is a mistake.
13) Robin Williams will be voted the world's most hairiest man of 2004 (a gorilla will come second and a french prostitute third.)
14) UK lottery numbers for October 9th: 7 12 27 30 34 45
15) The world will end on October 8th.

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Mattman
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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 05:01
cool, my b-day first (october 5)

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TheAbomb12
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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 06:58
lmao easily confused

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 13:59
It will be discovered that smoking is good for you, but vegetables give you cancer. Smoking vegetables will cure cancer!

Pincho.
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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 15:06
1. I will get dumped a day before/after my birthday (for same bizarre resaon this always happens, it really puts a downer on things)
2. Santa will become invloved in some sort of drink flying scandal
3. GW Bush will discover the meaning of life and the way towards complete world peace. Then forget it when he sees a squirrel.
4. Everyone will finally relise that I am in fac the ruler of the entire universe.
5. France will destroy it's self in order to secure the future for the rest of the planet.

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1. Hussein will admit to having weapons, and be tried in an international court.

2. England will win euro 2004

3. Manchester United will win chapions league

4. Arsenal will come 3rd in premiership

5. 657 new programming "teams" will be created, all will be advertise for 2 programmers, a story writer, 3 artists, a modeller and one composer.

6. There will be another large scale flamewar somewhere.

7. Patch 6 will be out when it's ready. Naturally.

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Quote: "1. Hussein will admit to having weapons, and be tried in an international court."


However, it will be Nasser Hussein and with nuclear cricket balls.

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Quote: "1) George W. Bush will surprise a lot of people by doing something right for once.
2) A future Mars mission will discover a sign saying: "Comming soon: Starbucks!"
3) While under the stress of his trial, Micheal Jackson's face will drop off.
4) Marlon Brando will explode with a force of about 12 megatons when he sits on a tack.
5) While under the stress of his trial, Micheal Jackson's other face will drop off.
6) It will be discovered that the Earth is flat after all.
7) Director Peter Jackson may announce he will consider making the prequel to Lord of the Rings, "The Hobbit." (well, you never know)
8) Elvis will be found alive and well as the official food taster for Burger King.
9) Richard Branson will be voted the world's most sexiest man of 2004.
10) Following with the succeses of "Toy Story" "Toy Story 2" and "Shrek", Pixar will release a new CGI movie called "Horny Lesbian Busty Lovers."
11) Someone will realize that bringing back "The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is a mistake.
12) Someone will realize that bringing back "He-Man" is a mistake.
13) Robin Williams will be voted the world's most hairiest man of 2004 (a gorilla will come second and a french prostitute third.)
14) UK lottery numbers for October 9th: 7 12 27 30 34 45
15) The world will end on October 8th.

"


*ROLLING ON FLOOR LAUGHING MY ASS OFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!*

MY PREDICTIONS:

1) TGC will relocate to Canada and I shall replace rich. Mwahahha.

2) Some one will start another DB convention in Jamaica

3) Geri will return in a big mechwarrior battle robot. We are all doomed. DOOMED I SAY.

4) *Preston runs from Elleomea*

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Quote: "3) Geri will return in a big mechwarrior battle robot. We are all doomed. DOOMED I SAY."


I'm sure we have some experience Mech Warriors here (including me).

/me readies his custom Vulture

Quote: "4) *Preston runs from Elleomea*"


Why run when I have the usual shotgun and a big ol Looney Toons hammer. I'll beat the poo outta Elleomea, MWUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!


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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 16:54

uh...
right...
get a life...or atleast improve your digital one.

Ian T
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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 19:58 Edited at: 21st Dec 2003 19:58
'A disaster in the Channel Tunnel!

Bigfoot is found!

Micheal Jackson commits suicide!

A new type of dinosaur is found frozen in ice!'

Well those are all happy predictions. Glad you've got a positive outlook .


Some of my predictions:

-Bush looses the election, we get an asinine democrat similar to Clinton who screws the country over and is impeached in '05
-Ancient prophecies are unearthed in April that declare the coming of an alien race in five months
-Three months later they're proven to be fakes made by a bunch of college dropouts who wanted fame
-The aliens drop by anyways

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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 20:18
Geri will come in Megaman's mech though

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Posted: 21st Dec 2003 20:31
Mattman will finaly learn changing your name all the time is neither funny or clever

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Dsarchy
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1) Hussian Killed.

2) Lesbian Queen of the Amazon will take my hand in marriage along with 12 of her most horniest sisters and we will take over the world together and my new name will be Sir Shagsalot.

3) My IQ will go up by 100 (making it 100 )

4) My PC will be infected with a virus and I will get so fed up with it I will just format the whole thing.

Its going to be a fun year

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Raven will actually release ... nah - on second thoughts thats being a bit optimistic


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Raven will stop lieing abo-

No, wait.

Pincho Paxton
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Raven........Rav......Ra......RRRRRRRRRRRR!

His name will shrink until it becomes dark matter, thus making the universe, thus making Raven God!

pincho.
Chris K
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There's blasphemy, there's bad blasphemy and then there's proclaiming Raven to be God.

Shame on you, sinner.

Ian T
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Christopher Lee will have a dramatic axe fight with Peter Jackson on top of some skyscraper in New York, seeking vengance for being brutally cut out of Return of the King. Jackson disarms Lee but gets knocked off the skyscraper at the last minute, falling to the pavement. Before he hits, a random quantom fluctuation transforms him into an ethereal pseudo-shade, which hunts down Blitz Basic users and damns them to the 67th purgatory.

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Why Mexico ? Lichtenstein would be much better for Aliens.

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The end of the world.

Pincho Paxton
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Yeah I've put a £100000 bet on the world ending in 2004! I can't wait to collect my cash! ........

Oh wait...???

DOH!

Pincho.
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Quote: "Mattman will finaly learn changing your name all the time is neither funny or clever "


no kidding, I think he accidently mixed up the DBP forums for MSN.

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Easily Confused,
If they made a movie of The Hobbit then it really would be a great year .

My only prediction is the same as the last prediction I made for 2004, and that's a black English man winning Big Brother 2004.


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Can you tell i get bored late at night?

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Here's a crazy idea that you could try:

Make a game with DarkBASIC. You might like it.

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Mine: -

1. "The Hobbit" will really get made, with or without Peter Jackson. Only a foolish man stands between Hollywood accountants and a potentially huge amount of cash....whether its any good or not remains to be seen.
2. Michael Jackson may well commit suicide.
3. The DB and Blitz community will realise that language wars are utterly pathetic and everyone will hug and go back to making games.
4. The new PSX sinks without a trace. Nobody notices.
5. Nokia admits defeat and goes back to making phones.
6. U6 fixes most of DBPro's bugs. Whiners are finally silenced.
7. Docwiz is executed at dawn for driving the entire LLRGT forums bananas.
8. Terrorists detonate a radioactive device somewhere in the continental United States.
9. George W Bush refuses to learn from experience and promptly invades another middle eastern country without UN approval. See above.
10. Video games publishing industry finally collapses under its own weight of bullsh*t. Games developers rejoice.
11. Doom 3 is released. It sucks. However, because the engine is so brilliant, ID Software still manage to make more money than God by licensing it to everybody in the world.

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Quote: "no kidding, I think he accidently mixed up the DBP forums for MSN."


lol

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Quote: "11. Doom 3 is released. It sucks."


Same for halo 2, but all magazines give it 10/10 anyway

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i dont think Halo 2 will get really good ratings. HALO wont be orriginal, and its going to be way differnt from HALO, so everyone will be comparing it to HALO, and .... you get my point

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My prediction : We will have a new Forum

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Quote: "My prediction : We will have a new Forum
"


*some great movie trailer you always see before a movie, which eventually fades away into...*

Apollo 2004


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Quote: "If they made a movie of The Hobbit then it really would be a great year"

Well, we can only hope, realistically in a few years we may hear some announcement about it, by then a CGI Smaug (the dragon) should look pretty damn good

I forgot to add one to my list:

Guy Savoie will return with a brand new IDE for DBPro IF, and only IF these 3 things are achived, 1) World Peace 2) Complete and total nuclear disarmament and 3) William shatner wins an Oscar for best actor.

As I continue to gaze into my crystal ball, I say to myself: "I must see a doctor about that."

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