On course, bearing down at warp speed! Less than a year to hit 5000 replies!
Where's nojo to marvel in this spectacle!

My my what a spectacle
Congrats everyone
Nojo come look, you can see 500 from here!

It's funny (and kinda sad) that this thread keeps the forums alive. Thanks math

Did I win this game yet Math?

Are we there yet blob?

We're getting closer. I would bet if the app stopped working this thread would keep going, as we grew older we'd pass it on to our children, and children's children. Soon the world would grow and shift around it, but the continued presence of TBPM would stand as a solid historical rock. It might even gain a little press coverage when it breaks 1,000,000 pages, or when some skilled guesses gets 10,000 points. Language would begin to shift as humanity would reach forth to the stars, previous pages would read like old English does today. It would become a treasure trove of pop culture history, a delight to future anthropologists. Light speed delay would cause enourmous shifts in posting times, as humans spread to dust and systems and galaxy's, but of course by then the many decendents of Nojo and Math and Niv and Aclo and all the rest would be so numerous that almost nobody ever got a point anyway. Entire planets would be filled with servers just to store the pages and pages of guessing, filling up ever faster and faster. Soon the entropic nature of the universe would swallow the empire of man, dividing and destroying the alternate threads through supernovae. Somewhere out, quadrillions of years future, the last cold planet, harboring the shambling remains of humanity, orbiting the final black dwarf star would eventually be consumed by a black hole and evaporated as the remanants of TBPM, humanity's final and largest achievement would ultimately leave the universe as tiny blips of cold electrons, assigned to their places so long before to communicate a name.

But, just before that final world was destroyed, just before Homo Sapiens was finally eradicated from existence, maybe, just maybe, the next update would finally come.

Think so, Math?

What wonder and beauty
It may come that soon in the future, there will be a great leap in the technology of TPBM, with servers dedicated to counting the points. There would be prizes for generations, each with a goal for the number of correct guesses. As generations went forth, the challenge became harder. There would emerge a superspeices of Homo sapiens, trained and evolved in the guessing of the next poster, and the automated leaderboards would be filled with millions - no, billions - of users. The statistics would be vast. It becomes the official universal sport, with fanbases around different superspecies. Then humanity revolves around the forum. Wars begin over it. Death. Destruction. Disasters.
TPBM begins to have impacts and influence over nature itself, changing the very makeup of the physical universe. Humanity withers into self-destruction, malnourished and societally broken from the focus on The Person Below Me.
We begin to contort space and time.
You ask for a hamburger.
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Well. Until we get those automated leaderboards to update, Math can do it, right?

As the technology progresses, we are able to send spaceships further and further, until we finally reach not only our own star, but also of those billions of light years away. We develop the means to move these stars, shift them to our satisfaction. The only reason they are still around is sentimental value, and the fact that they do not contain the precious minerals of the asteroids that have been long since wiped out. Although the stars can be changed on a whim, they never are. The only ones we can still see are a few lonely ones, which when if you squint hard enough, you can make out a word.

MathWhiz.

The man. The myth. The legend. He never updated the points. Therefore, ColtsPaseano was never winning The Person Below Me.

Your mom! Savage! Nojo!

mathwhiz9 wrote:The man. The myth. The legend. He never updated the points. Therefore, ColtsPaseano was never winning The Person Below Me.

Well that's alright, I'm miles behind you, who happens to be in first. So long as you don't update the list, it is uncertain as to whether or not you remain on top, and thus all points are null. And no one wins. As you are in first, you lose the most.
At the same time as saying this, I'm thinking
Nojooooo tell Math to update the liiiiiiiiiisssssttttttt I want it updateddddd