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The Lounge at the End of the Universe => Gallimaufry => Topic started by: Raving_Lunatic on December 05, 2008, 08:32:12 PM

Title: TEOTWAWKI POLL
Post by: Raving_Lunatic on December 05, 2008, 08:32:12 PM
Any three you like. The seven with the most votes will be in the End Game.
See the TEOTWAWKI thread in this forum. Or just read this:

The End Of The World As We Know It

Those of you with long memories will recall my lovely and overly popular Best SF book of all time thread. Harmless fun, you may say.

Well I've improved on the concept, and if anyone's game, I still am.

For those that didn't read the SF book thread, this is a game that works like this.
A list of items:

Item 1 (3)
Item 2 (3)
The numbers in the brackets represent points. Each turn you can take one point from one item and add one point to another. once an item reaches zero points, it is eliminated and cannot be resurrected. You can't post twice consecutively and you can't take more than one point at a time, nor add more than one point.

Example:

Global Warming (3)
Grey Goo (3)

Person A

Global Warming (2) -1
Grey Goo (4) +1

Person B

Global Warming (1) -1
Grey Goo (5) +1



Remember to copy the whole list each time, and you can add new entries if you like (with 3 points each) .

Last time it was SF books. This time it is likely candidates for the end of humanity/the world.

Let's see what you think.

Grey Goo (Nanotech) (3)
Global Warming (3)
Alien Invasion (3)
Nuclear weapons/war to end all wars (3)
Natural Diasasters (3)
Superplague (3)
Meteorite (3)
God/Jesus style end (3)
Death by Zombies (3)
Robots Attack (3)
Sun asplodes (3)
Ice Age Coming (3)



But yeah. We need to pick some.
Title: Re: TEOTWAWKI POLL
Post by: Thaurismunths on December 05, 2008, 09:16:38 PM
Um... I can only vote for Death by Zombies once.
Title: Re: TEOTWAWKI POLL
Post by: Russell Nash on December 05, 2008, 09:18:16 PM
Go Superplague!!!
Title: Re: TEOTWAWKI POLL
Post by: Sandikal on December 06, 2008, 12:50:56 AM
I guess I'm the only one who went for the Jesus/God thing (along with aliens and superplague).  I just think that the Jesus/God TEOTWAWKI will be completely different than popular opinion.
Title: Re: TEOTWAWKI POLL
Post by: CammoBlammo on December 06, 2008, 03:22:37 AM
I guess I'm the only one who went for the Jesus/God thing (along with aliens and superplague).  I just think that the Jesus/God TEOTWAWKI will be completely different than popular opinion.

You mean, it will happen>
Title: Re: TEOTWAWKI POLL
Post by: Bdoomed on December 06, 2008, 08:36:01 AM
what about the disappearance of honey bees leading to the extinction of crops and the malnutrition of humans...
or does that fall under natural disasters?
Title: Re: TEOTWAWKI POLL
Post by: deflective on December 06, 2008, 10:29:00 AM
do the great old ones count as an alien invasion? hardly seems fair, they were here first
gonna check the Jesus option but i'm really thinking of ragnarök (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar%C3%B6k)
waking up in a btl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Than_Life) would be a cool option as well
Title: Re: TEOTWAWKI POLL
Post by: Raving_Lunatic on December 06, 2008, 01:03:38 PM
Added a new option, gonna keep the poll open until Monday morning, then the games can begin!
Title: Re: TEOTWAWKI POLL
Post by: Russell Nash on December 06, 2008, 04:30:30 PM
Added a new option, gonna keep the poll open until Monday morning, then the games can begin!

You edited the options on he poll without it wiping out the votes??  That's new.  It must have come with the upgrade Steve did a while back.
Title: Re: TEOTWAWKI POLL
Post by: Raving_Lunatic on December 06, 2008, 09:04:18 PM
So N-sh, not as omniscient as we all thought...
Title: Re: TEOTWAWKI POLL
Post by: Bdoomed on December 07, 2008, 09:36:17 PM
oh He knew, He just works in mysterious ways.
Title: Re: TEOTWAWKI POLL
Post by: Raving_Lunatic on December 08, 2008, 09:09:13 PM
Poll Closes Now.
Title: Re: TEOTWAWKI POLL
Post by: MacArthurBug on December 09, 2008, 02:00:49 PM
Poo, missed it, would have gone with superplague. 
Title: Re: TEOTWAWKI POLL
Post by: Zathras on December 09, 2008, 02:21:45 PM
Poo, missed it, would have gone with superplague. 

Nope, you missed phase 1.  Phase 2 is where we get all silly and the fastest posters win.
Title: Re: TEOTWAWKI POLL
Post by: Raving_Lunatic on December 09, 2008, 04:42:35 PM
Or the people who are online at the same time as me  ;).

It's not really definitive, but again it's not meant to be, just a bit of fun.