Predictions for 2009...

[TheCotMan]

What are your predictions for 2009?

I predict Defcon will be canceled for the 16th year in a row. (Assuming the first one really happened. Seriously. Were you there? I wasn't. How do you know it even happened? Pictures?! PhotoShop!)
The world ends on April 1, 2009 and then people realize they still have to pay taxes, so they go back to work.

On a less silly note:
Tax cuts and increased spending in the US will fuel real inflation while discrepancies between real inflation and manufactured inflation suggest the US economy is doing better than it really is.
A depressed economy will mean deals in Las Vegas for this Defcon will be easier to find, as casinos fight over a shrinking number of customers.
Employees will realize that they are expendable, and not having a strong work ethic or motivation to deliver no-matter-what-it-takes, puts them on the short list of first-to-cut.

What are your predictions for 2009?

[boredsilly]

Re: Predictions for 2009...

1) Deficiency lawsuits will spread from defaulted car loans to defaulted home loans further screwing with the economy. http://www2.mooresvilletribune.com/c...s-lenders-sue/

2) Iran will finish their nuclear program. In response, the U.N. will hold meetings to prepare for meetings about meetings until the Mayan calendar ends forcing the world to start spinning in the opposite direction.

3) Most importantly, Diablo III will be released and I will game under the influence of sleep deprivation until comatose.

[theprez98]

Re: Predictions for 2009...

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Oh wait. Darn.

[xor]

Re: Predictions for 2009...

Self:

Will pay off credit cards and other forms of revolving credit: yea!!!!!! :-) (barring any feline hospital bills)

World:

Never ending change will continue. The bad news is nothing good will ever last. The good news neither will anything bad.

The world will stop going to hell in a hand basket. Instead with the hand basket over flowing we will will start using a 55 gallon drum.

We will lose 1 American car company even after bailing them out. We will lose several lines of American cars.

Canada will elect Renderman for Cyber Czar.

xor

[renderman]

Re: Predictions for 2009...

Canada will elect Renderman for Cyber Czar.

Only if they use Diebold voting machines

[code08]

Re: Predictions for 2009...

3) Most importantly, Diablo III will be released and I will game under the influence of sleep deprivation until comatose.

What about StarCraft II I think that's way more exciting.

[boredsilly]

Re: Predictions for 2009...

What about StarCraft II I think that's way more exciting.

Not to change the topic of the thread but in response to code08, I'm sure SCII will be great but since they are two different types of games (strategy vs. adventure), I think it's more a matter of preference . Strategy games tend to get me worked up because I feel like I'm juggling tasks causing me to make too many freakin decisions to stay two steps ahead of the opposition. Conversely, I can drink beer while Adventure gaming and still play on par while I mindlessly wander/kill/loot/level/rinse/repeat.