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3872184 No.3872184 [Reply] [Original]

Where do you guys see yourselves in 20 years? I'm having problems with this myself.

>> No.3872186

Probably dead.

>> No.3872194

In Beatrice's golden land.

>> No.3872195

Most likely inherited my dad's carpentry business, living on this same huge house. Things are looking pretty well for me on that part.
I dunno, I'm generally bad with people, so I may be with or without a life partner.

>> No.3872199

Fuck that. Thinking that far ahead is depressing and pointless.

>> No.3872204

I'm 20 year old. Still same as i was at 14, well maybe my interests changed a little.

>> No.3872205

>>3872186
most likely answer

>> No.3872208

Half machine and engaged with a feminine human-level AI that inhabits a nanobot cluster capable of rearranging itself into any desired form.

>> No.3872209

I hope that I'm DEEEEEAADDD

>> No.3872211

Well, I was asked that back in high school. I said I'd probably be dead. Just 15 years to go...

>> No.3872231

>>3872208
how will you afford it?

>> No.3872247

>>3872231

The price-performance of technology always increases. Being a cyborg will, at first, be expensive and the technology will be prone to bugs and other issues. Over time, new versions improve on the old and reduce cost. Eventually, you end up with extremely reliable technology at negligible cost.

Of course, that's assuming the market demands the technology. That's a given. Everyone loves robotic hands and shit.

>> No.3872261

Old and ugly

>> No.3872270

>>3872247
I cannot wait until I can have a robotic hand.

That way, when I fap, I can make it not feel like my hand.

>> No.3872279

Will the internet still be around in 20 years?

>> No.3872289

>>3872279

Yes. It will be conscious by then. Each user will be the singular computation node akin to a neuron. The whole mass of users produces an emergence of consciousness.

>> No.3872293

>>3872289
you're getting to far ahead of yourself, it's been 30 years and we still don't have flying cars

>> No.3872302

1999 was 10 years ago

>> No.3872307

>>3872293

Infrastructure doesn't support it. They're pointless, especially when people can't avoid dying in 2 dimensional movement. Cars would have to use autopilot to protect their fleshy passengers with slow reaction times, but the AI needed for that is still on the expensive side (plus the infrastructural changes would be too expensive for flying cars to ever be viable for the public).

>> No.3872309

In 20 years, I will become a space marine and teach alien scum the meaning of pain

>> No.3872366

Dying in a shootout when the gubmint tries to take my guns.

>> No.3872373

>>3872270
sit on your hand until it falls asleep.
you're welcome

>> No.3872387

>>3872373
I'm not than thanking you for shit.

It's horribly ineffective.

I'd rather just have a robot hand.

>> No.3872398

Nowhere because I'm going to release Azathoth and undo the universe.

>> No.3872399
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3872399

Either this

>> No.3872404
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3872404

... or this will happen to you in less than 20 years.

>> No.3872405

Soul crushing 9-5 living alone.

>> No.3872418

>>3872404
>>3872399

Things like this really annoy me.
It's the same as saying "I've grown out of things that are entertaining"

>> No.3872433

money money mooooneeeeey

>> No.3872434

I see myself graduating and getting a job doing something i enjoy, and have always wanted to do since I was young.
you people without goals are weird.

>> No.3872435

>>3872309
i'd rather be teaching alien babes how to love

>> No.3872437

>>3872418

It makes more sense to think of maturity as a scale of how much you can actually enjoy your life.

"Growing out of videogames" simply means that he no longer has the time to devote video games. In this case, he's too busy with a job, tending to his child, and his nagging wife.

Never grow up, Anonymous.

>> No.3872438

>>3872434
>getting a job i enjoy
what would that be?

>> No.3872450

>>3872438
Nothing legal.

>> No.3872455

>>3872450
should just skip the college foreplay then.

>> No.3872461

>>3872455

It's impossible to get any job without a degree in this economy. He's obviously majoring in communications for his future cp ring.

>> No.3872467

>>3872437

"Too busy with a job, etc." usually means that their main source of entertainment has become television, because that's the most socially acceptable, low-intensity form of entertainment. They've stopped with their old hobbies, lest they make them look "eccentric."

>> No.3872473

>>3872437
too bad there's no good video games. and pixels are pixels are pixels... ;_;

>> No.3872476

Just got home from work. I call my wife, she's picking our son from daycare. I make a cup of coffee for myself, and sit down to sofa. Then something comes up to my mind. I rise from the sofa, leave the coffee on the table and head upstairs.

There's a door. A door thats been left shut for years. I open the door, and cloud of dust make me take few steps backward. The room is dark, I try to put on the lights but it seems the lightbulb's given up some time ago, so I head into the room, and open the curtains. Light fill the room, dust dancing in the rays, and my eyes fix into something in the corner. Black box and small TV, thats what I tought first, but after getting closer I realise what it is. My old computer. Memories fill my mind, memories of fun times, the sad times and the times I was happy. So long ago. Without even noticing my finger works it way to Start button, I slowly start pushing it.

"Honey, we're home!" "Daddy!"

I pull my finger back. "Good times, pal. I havent forgotten."

The words linger in the air as I close the curtains and I head for the door. "I havent forgotten." And the door closes.

>> No.3872480

>>3872467

I don't know if that would be a fair generalization to make.

Assuming one works from nine to five six days a week, that leaves about a mere five hours a day. I would assume that they instead are left with no time, with a child and wife. Assuming one lives an idealistic life and goes out on Sundays, of course.

>> No.3872481
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3872481

booya

>> No.3872490

>>3872476
;_;

>> No.3872491

>>3872208
very yes. i too long for non-human interpersonal relationships. in 20 years, no problem for sure.

>> No.3872495

>>3872481

You'll never hold a slut in your arms.

>> No.3872503

Ideal jobs anyone? I want to start a net/manga cafe -- but I doubt I would be able to do it successfully.

>> No.3872505

>>3872495
held your mom just last night

>> No.3872507

I'd like to set goals for myself that far, but I become afraid of how I feel after working so hard towards something I may ultimately fail to meet. So for now, all I can say is that in 20 years I hope I'm not dead.

>> No.3872508

>>3872480
Only Japs and Koreans work six days a week. And five hours? Move closer to where you work, goddamn.

>> No.3872514

>>3872473
nah, you're just "growing up".
I'm 23 and games/anime for me are just as fun as they were back when i was 12.

>> No.3872517

>>3872503
I would start one, but i haven't the cash for it.

>> No.3872533

>>3872517
if the economy was good, bank loan plausible? can it even generate a good profit? someone on /jp/ has to work for / own one.

>> No.3872551

>>3872503

Machine-brain interface research. I doubt a degree in molecular biosciences is going to help me with that ffff. Need connections. Too much genetics bullshit.

>> No.3872555

>>3872476
YOU'VE ALREADY FORGOTTEN WHEN YOU SHUT THAT GODDAMN DOOR, YOU GODDAM SON OF A BITCH SLUT!!!!!

>> No.3873025

>>3872186
this

>> No.3873037

>>3872184
Still sitting around on the computer, though hopefully with more money to spend on things I enjoy than I have now.

>> No.3873043

Having a real job is going to suck =|

I'm going to be spending the rest of my life doing shit I hate.

>> No.3873065

>>3873043
that's what you get for not having an education

>> No.3873168

>>3873037
This, sitting infront of some super high tech PC or playing some awesome console game system.

Man I cant wait to get my hand on that PS3 motion controller when it comes out.

>> No.3873180

Honestly?
Hopefully doing something that lets me enjoy my free time and I don't have to deal with other people.
>>3873168
I like the way you think.

>> No.3873191 [DELETED] 

>>3872180
stop spamming ur shitty board on Ａ ｎ o ｎ t ａ ｌ ｋ . com

>> No.3873213

In the Canadian gulags, busted by thought police.

>> No.3873221

The only thing on my wishlist is getting laid with a woman I love. Aside from that i'm already living the NEET dream.
Seeing as I am 22 and would be 42 in 20 years... I... don't know...
Fuck that, i'll be a 42 old neet with a huge collection of gunpla and figures. probably

>> No.3873230 [DELETED] 

>>3872181
stop spamming ur shitty board on Ａ ｎ o ｎ t ａ ｌ ｋ . com

>> No.3873234
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>>3873168
This, but I'd like to add a robot maid.

>> No.3873243 [DELETED] 

>>3872182
stop spamming ur shitty board on Ａ ｎ o ｎ t ａ ｌ ｋ . com

>> No.3873251

>>3872551
Yeah, I hear you man.
Only, I'm doing chemistry and nanotech.

>> No.3873263

>>3873234
Virtual-ON?

>> No.3873268

>>3873234
Virtual-ON thread

>> No.3873271

>>3872399
>>3872404
I'm 29 and this has already happened to me. People I know from highschool have already been married, had kids, and gotten divorced. I don't like to think about it.

>> No.3873292

>>3873271
getting married, having 2.7 kids, divorcing, remarrying, having another 2.7 kids, buying a house, talking to waifu about mundane shit, no entertainment.

Isn't normal life great?

>> No.3873310

>>3873292
>having 2.7 kids
I.... don't see what you did there.

>> No.3873324
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3873324

Probably still attempting to complete the plan I've had since turning 13.

Pic. Related

>> No.3873330

>>3873324
why that is an easy goal. just get a prostitute.

>> No.3873336

I have no idea.

And I'd probably like to keep it that way.

>> No.3873365

Rotting in the ground

>> No.3873372

>>3873292
I hear you man
Something i've done my whole life to avoid, been pretty fucking succesful so far.

>> No.3873398

>>3873292
At this point I wouldn't mind a half decent job I don't hate just so I had money to actually do something.

>> No.3873435

Six feet deep in the ground

>> No.3873440

Isn't it sad that with our incredibly unhealthy lifestyle most of us expect to be dead in 20 years?

>> No.3873445

>>3873440
It's more of a wish than expectation

>> No.3873453

I dunno man, I guess it depends on weather or not I drop out of uni.

>> No.3873474

>>3873440
What? Unhealthy? Nobody forces you to not take care of yourself, mostly nutrition and work-out. I believe that neets and hikis have the best preposition to achieve that than normalfags with their stress levels, chemical poisoned food and drinks and so on.
I know most of you care only about corporate food, so do not take it out on me. Have fun waiting for your cancer diseases and stuff

>> No.3873486
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3873486

In twenty years...
>ZUN probably stopped making games
>Shiwasu no Okina probably stopped drawing porn

I don't wanna live in this world!

>> No.3873492

I will either be a consultant physician, or dead.

>> No.3873532

ON AN AWESOME ADVENTURE!

>> No.3873535

>>3873292

just find some ronery girl on deviantart, at least she'll "allegedly" share the same interests

of course i'm lucky; my future waifu is a hardcore weeaboo who browses /jp/ more than i do

>> No.3873543

>>3873535
Does she actually exist outside of your mind? If so I don't believe you.

>> No.3873571

MIMA WILL BE BACK I FEEL IT IN MY BONES

>> No.3873594

>>3873571
Your bones must hurt by now.

>> No.3873609

In 20 years, all I want to be is independent. I don't want a wife, or a girlfriend for very long for that matter. I have little interest in human interaction outside of the internet. I just want to keep doing what I like to do for the rest of my life with as few expenses as possible.

>> No.3873646

>>3873535
>just find some ronery girl on deviantart
Tough competition bro. And you usually have to man it up, be normalfag enough financially and have enough maturity level. Unless if they're desperate enough.

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>>3873571

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>>3873609
this

the problem is... money fucking where :/

well, i think I'd just an hero

>> No.3873734
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3873734

In one of three scenarios:
1. Happily married to my waifu (see pic).
2. Single, working a dead-end job and waiting for death.
3. Fighting for resources in an awesome dystopian future.

Twenty years is a lot of time though, I might have time to cross all three off that list.

>> No.3874151

Qualified and practicing as a paediatric gynecologist.

>> No.3874161

Dead, unless there is some magical medical breakthrough that can make me young again/let me transfer my mind into a robot.

I figure I may not have enough will to kill myself now, but at the age of 40 I should be in enough despair to pull the trigger/make the plunge.

>> No.3874171

>>3873734
Idolfags? You're not allowed to spew shit here.
Back to your threads.

>> No.3874181

I'm doing OK now. In 20 years I'll probably have enough money for an early retirement.

>> No.3874193

Retired at 40 due to having a high paying job and no waifu/children to support. ;_; Playing the vidya all day and posting on the futurewebs.

So like I am now, just with money.

>> No.3874201

I'm really glad most of you have the same dream as I.
Enjoying ourselves like now only with money.

>> No.3874207

>>3872184
You're so lucky I cant report this offtopic thread.

>> No.3874211

I don't know about you guys and your robot arms/nano brains. I mean, is daily life now really that different from twenty years ago? Sure the divorce rate is higher and we have cellphones that fit in our pocket but aside from the internet it's been a pretty mediocre twenty years.

I wish I could live to explore deep space, the final frontier, but knowing that I never will be able to experience that joy makes me want to die.

>> No.3874221

Oh, the possibilities...

Serving as a first term U.S. Congressman. YEAH. I know, it's a ridiculous dream, but it's better than not having a dream at all. This is what I seriously, honestly want to do.

Married to my current girlfriend, a few kids. Life is good as I prepare to run for a second term at the age of thirty-eight.

>> No.3874222

Dead, because I have no intention of living pass 40. I plan on blowing my brains on my 40th birthday while listening to Comfortably Numb. Only 15 more years to go.

>> No.3874232

>>3874222
Hi, >>3874161 here.

We should meet up.

>> No.3874262

In one of four scenarios, ordered from most probable to least probable:

1. Dead
2. NEET - #1 without the courage to end it
3. Working a 9-5, making enough money to get by but in despair
4. Found love, lived happily ever after

>> No.3874266

>>3874221
gtfo normalfag

>> No.3874292

>>3874221
That's interesting. My dream is to burn Congress down.

>> No.3874337

>>3873324
fuck you now im reading that. ill cry myself to sleep tonight thanks to you.

>> No.3874373
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3874373

Superhero.

>> No.3874400

If only I was just born. I don't believe we will have any decent nanotechnology and fuckrobots in 20 years. In 40, perhaps. But I'm not sure that I will live up to 60 with my current lifestyle.

>> No.3874412
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3874412

Fuck you guys, I'm gonna be on the MOON! Sailing the sea of tranquility, that's gonna be MY midlife crisis.

>> No.3874413
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>>3874373

What a coincidence, that's where I see myself too.

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>>3874412
And I will be dropping the asteroid on the Earth.

>> No.3874474

>>3874448
Can I follow you until I get a grunt death?

>> No.3874506

Hopefully dead within 5 years, I don't want to live to 30 and still be miserable.

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>>3874448
>>3874474

I now know what I must do.

>> No.3874546

>>3872503
My dream is to run an antique store. I know it's a really bad idea; I find the ones I visit going out of business all the time. It's something I could actually find myself enjoying, though.

Too bad it will never happen.

>> No.3874989

>>3873324
Volume 4 fucking where

>> No.3875004
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3875004

>>3874515

>> No.3875008

Six feet under

>> No.3875017

In the mirror.

>> No.3875023

>>3875017
Neo-mirror.
Keep in mind that it's 20 years in the future.

>> No.3875024

>>3872503
I want to be some sort of professional translator that actually makes money. Not sure if it's very possible with Japanese in this country, but with English, perhaps. I'm gonna start studying right after I finish my first useless high education.
There is a chance that I will have two useless high educations, but I could at least try. This is the only thing I'm any good at, anyway.

>> No.3875028

I don't think it's possible to see yourself in 20 years unless you have a definite career plan that is set in stone (like, say, suicide).

>> No.3875051

>>3875028
Judging by the posts that represents about half of /jp/.

>> No.3875053

Translating legal documents while ocassionally playing videogames.

>> No.3875089

An unbearable drunkard just managing to scrape by, just like my cousin

He's married so he has one-up on future Harblong ;_;

>> No.3875093

Having sex with a catgirl.

>> No.3875111

Hopefully I die in a manly way by then. Maybe trying to save a dog or something.

>> No.3875119
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3875119

Living alone in a mansion while sleeping on a giant bed made out of money.

Robotic waifus better be available in 20 years though.

>> No.3875124

Old, alone and frustrated. Possibly mad too.

>> No.3875130

>>3875024
You should probably learn Mandarin Chinese.

Anyway, I think I'm going to try to join the military, and will probably end up blowing my brains out in misery. It's good to have goals, right? ;_;

>> No.3875134

>>3875124
>frustrated
Not pleased with them robot waifus, are you?

>> No.3875146

I can barely see 1 year ahead of me, let alone 20. I hope it'll be exactly what I'm doing right now though. Working a little more than part time, all the rest of my day is devoted to video games / anime / internet.

Maybe I'll start looking into playing the stock market, then instead of working part time I could do everything at home.

>> No.3875151

Living in my beloved wife in a tropical island with all the happyness we could handle.

;_;

>> No.3875175

>>3875151
I believe in you, BOOF. You are awesome enough to do that

>> No.3875186

FUCK THERE WILL BE NO ROBOT WAIFUS IN TWENTY YEARS

MAYBE FIFTY, OR ONE HUNDRED

BY THE TIME THEY EXIST YOU WILL BE SO OLD AND DISGUSTING THE ROBOT WAIFUS WILL BE DISGUSTED TO BE ANYWHERE NEAR YOU, EVEN IF YOU DID BUY THEM, AND YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO GET AN ERECTION

>> No.3875188

>>3875186
Life is so sad

>> No.3875202

>>3875151
>Living in my beloved wife

wat

>> No.3875220

>>3875186
You think they will be able to produce robot waifus but not Viagra?

>> No.3875222

>>3875186
Replace your old body with a new, younger one then you silly goose. Problem solved.

Or go with the half human, half robot skill tree.

>> No.3875229

>>3875151
wat?

>> No.3875231

>>3875222
This wont' be available in one hundred years...no matter how much we all want it...it's so sad...

If only I was born 1,000 years in the future, life would be so awesome. But look back on how advanced we are compared to those 1,000 previously. I guess in a way we are lucky to be alive now.

>> No.3875233

>half human, half robot skill tree.
You mean equip yourself with robobody.

>> No.3875245

>>3875220
Even if they were, I'd feel too bad raping the young, delicious young robot body with my old, disgusting, mole infested, saggy flesh. Even if she had no human will or emotions.

>> No.3875254

20 years from now I'll be 50. Either I'll still be a programmer/network-/system-admin/swiss army knife/nerd or I'll have somehow found my way into the boring world of management. I see myself still being single, as I don't really prefer the alternative. Oh, it's not like I don't like women, it's just that they're too much of a timesink and pain to bother getting into something long term.

So, I'll be about as bitter and cynical as I am today, or perhaps even moreso, and by this time be counting down the days until retirement (15 more years, hurray ;_; ). I'll be looking at the younger generation and see them rise up on the corporate ladder faster than I ever will (or want to), make more money than me and push all of their shitty jobs into my hands as the clock hits 5PM when they leave to have dinner with their lovely wife and kids and pet.

I'll come home to a cold empty house every evening, turn on the computer, and if there still is such a thing as the Internet by then I will be downloading some TV shows to keep escape reality. I'll go to sleep each day way too late, wake up in the morning feeling tired only to repeat this scenario for another 15 fucking years.

15 more fucking years...

>> No.3875256 [DELETED] 

>>3872181
pls stop spamming ur shitty board on ａ ｎ o ｎ t ａ ｌ ｋ . com

>> No.3875267 [DELETED] 

>>3872181
pls stop spamming ur shitty board on ａ ｎ o ｎ t ａ ｌ ｋ . com

>> No.3875304

>>3873324
Link. /rs/ is down.

>> No.3875332

>>3875254
Don't worry CS aniki, in 20+ years there won't be any ladders to climb left but serfdome for the citizen in the neo-feudal-socialist-eugenic system

>> No.3875340

>>3875304
Get the onemanga greasemonkey script and cry away.

>> No.3875348 [DELETED] 

>>3872182
pls stop spamming ur shitty board on ａ ｎ o ｎ t ａ ｌ ｋ . com

>> No.3875417

>>3875340
Onemanga, bah. Resized and compressed to shit quality.

Get direct downloads straight from the scanlators:

http://kotonoha.monkey-pirate.com/ongoing-series/ressentiment/

>> No.3875436

>>3875417
Do ｎｏｔｅ that volume 4 isn't translated. Spent about 30 minutes searching for it with no luck.

>> No.3875458 [DELETED] 

>>3872183
pls stop spamming ur shitty board on ａ ｎ o ｎ t ａ ｌ ｋ . com

>> No.3875508

I'll probably be where I'm now. Working occasionally and when I get laid off or quit I'll stay at home unemployed for a year having fun. Except 20 years from now my mortgage should be gone so I can probably stay unemployed 2 years at a time.

>> No.3875555

I want to be an astronomer or some other brilliant man who, with all my colleagues, propels the human race through the stars and secures a future for our species. My idol, Carl Sagan, would have done this but he was born before we were capable of radio-astronomy and sadly passed away before he could have a hand in our first colonization missions. But I intend to be the advisor, or the technician, who has a hand in our first real jump off planet earth. Simultaneously, I'll apply my latent talents of english and write many books, some about space or some about japan but mostly cool fiction books, essentially light novels..I could also do part time work as a scripter and run that sort of business, or an otaku exporting business in japan...All this at once, all my hobbies earning me money. :)

At least, that's what I'd like. But sometimes after I turn off my monitor and curl up in bed I realize I will never have anyone to curl up with, and sometimes when I get pissed at the world I can feel the vessel of blood lurking at the corners of my mind, all the mental diseases my entire life is a war to stem.

"Among all the hearts he broke
and the lives he ended far too young
were his own heart
and his own life"

>> No.3876514

In 20 years?

Teaching seminars on writing fiction and the road to success just as I'm signing off on the screen play for the 5th installment in my blockbuster franchise for Warner Bros. and still maintaining and actively nerdy high life like I envision Joss Whedon or the Penny Arcade gents enjoy today.

People you are exposed to some of the most big concept out there stuff imaginable, and your main contenders are fat white old idiots born during the era of retarded comic book ideas like Batman and his Rainbow Colored Wardrobe!

Seriously, take some examples of the best role-model moments from the source material you watch and then live by that example every day and in just one year from now (I fucking promise) you will not realize just how far up you have come from the imaginary abyss you think you're in right now.

Just think back to the first time you tried to jump off the high dive at the pool? Were you terrified? After you did it the first time, did you then go on to think it was the greatest thrill man has ever invented? It's the same idea with your lives. New things are scary, but once you take that first of a thousand steps, the hardest part of your journey is over.

Step one. Close your browser.

>> No.3876530

>>3875555
>astronomer
>doing something other than teaching an astronomy class

>> No.3876542

>>3875555

> My idol, Carl Sagan

Protip: Carl Sagan advocated the use of Marijuana and smoked it.

We're gonna miss you, Carl.

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>>3876514
Your faggotry has been noted

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>>3876514
THE KEEPER HAS SEEN THE ENEMY.

>> No.3876584

>>3872184
20 years? I will be permanently hooked up to a VR machine. If that is impossible, then I will be working a dead end job in order to afford to save up enough to afford being permanently hooked up to a VR machine.

>> No.3876608

>>3875202
>>3875229
you heard me

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>>3876542

There are many people with their heads out in space. But unlike the rest, he knew to keep his feet on the ground.

His passing is mourned to this day.

>> No.3876664

Sitting on an expensive chair on the last floor of a high building, contemplating the city while smoking a cig.
That, or becoming a terrorist/resistance fighter after my country gets invaded AGAIN, forcing me to go back there.

>> No.3876707

Retired hedge fund manager. Cute Asian wife who I love and occasionally work on theoretical math/physics problems. Still like playing games and the internet. This is pretty realistic, also robotic waifus aren't going to be available in 20 years. 100% sure of this.

>> No.3876720

>>3876621
Why does everyone like Carl Sagan so much and idolize him? I understand you all love anime and live in a pseudofantasy world, so does everyone to an extent. Why does that make you love some mostly misguided physicist who was basically just a big science fiction fan and wanted it to become a reality instead of actually you know, PROGRESSING PHYSICS AND MAKING SHIT HAPPEN. Also space exploration is about 0% helpful at all in terms of science.

>> No.3876735

>>3876720
Your bullshit opinions are invalidated by this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc

>> No.3876740

>>3876720

>Why does everyone like Carl Sagan so much and idolize him?

Well...

>I understand you all love anime and live in a pseudofantasy world, so does everyone to an extent.

+

>mostly misguided physicist who was basically just a big science fiction fan and wanted it to become a reality

=

LOVE!

>> No.3876749

>>3876720
>Also space exploration is about 0% helpful at all in terms of science.
Your kind is the reason we're going to being tied to this ball of mud for another 1000 years.

>> No.3876755

>>3876720
you are an idiot if you never watched "that pale blue dot" and appreciated it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M&feature=fvw

>> No.3876757

I'd be over 40 in 20 years, so probably dead. If I'm not dead before 40 I'll kill myself on my 40th birthday as a birthday present to myself.

>> No.3876760

>>3876735
>>3876740
>>3876749
>>3876755

oh wow guys, take it easy

>> No.3876777

>>3876720
Just a couple nukes and the entire globe could become uninhabitable. The entire human race could easily die out if we don't expand to other worlds.

>> No.3876787

>>3876755
it makes me feel miserable ;_;

>> No.3876789

>>3876760
Drop dead easy, troll-kun.

>> No.3876795

>>3876777
It would take more than just a couple; mind you, a few bombs as powerful as Tsar Bomba dropped on someplace extremely flammable like a rainforest or a 3rd world shithole metropolis would really do a number on the global climate for the next ten or twenty years, but life will find a way.

>> No.3877445

>>3872184

Dead long before then I'm afraid. Pesky terminal illness.

>> No.3877591

Finally owning my own Bar.

>> No.3877603

>>3877445
Shiiiiiit.

What do you have?

What do you feel about your life so far? What do you aim to do, ect ect.

>> No.3877644

in 20 years, I'll probably just getting out of the navy with a monthly pension, once again wondering what the fuck I should do with my life. Already put 5 years in the military, now taking a break to go to college. It's not quite the vacation I envisioned.

probably move back home again and take care of my parents until they die

after that herp derp

>> No.3877648

my only hope is that the big lebowski kills me before the germans chop my dick off

>> No.3877759

>>3874211

You say this because you become accustomed to new technologies. Ask someone in the early 90s if they thought that cell phones would be owned by nearly 4 billion people before 2010. Show someone from the 70s a modern personal computer. Then show them a supercomputer.

Technology is constantly changing us. AI has been managing the logistics of developed civilization for years, biotechnology has exploded in growth and we're well into the age of genetic engineering, modern telescopes allow astronomers to find Earth-sized planets around other stars, we have artificially intelligent robots running around on another planet, machine-brain interfaces allow people to control cursors or robotic arms with thought alone, our food is genetically optimized, our lifespans are constantly on the rise, the genes and augmentative techniques necessary for longer lifespans are being identified/implemented, etc. I can go on, but you can take a look at the state of technology for yourself: http://www.physorg.com/

Technological progress is exponential and projected to peak in the middle of the 21st century by a myriad of sources. Keep that in mind as you make your plans. In the 21st century, the equivalent of 20,000 years of linear progress can be made if the exponential trend continues at a conservative pace.

If you wanted to travel into space, it now costs $200,000 per trip, down from several million just a few years ago. If you want a robot waifu, keep track of the progress in reverse-engineering the human brain. Sheer capacity and computational speed has long been exceeded. Mimicking the parallelism will be the next step, and IBM has recently created a computer with the parallel computational capacity of a cat-sized brain (it took evolution billions of years to make something as smart as a cat and less than 200 for us since the start of "technological" civilization).

>> No.3877776

>>3877591
>Finally owning my own Bar.

More like finally owning my own bear. It would be awesome. Who cares if I'm a miserable loser? I have a bear. Fuck you.

>> No.3877795

>>3877759
This is fantastic.
This page is my new start page.

>> No.3877810

I have way too much debt so I'll probably kill myself before the year is out. I need serious professional mental help but I'm too scared to get it. My dad will just call me lazy anyway.

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>>3877759

>> No.3877855

>>3872184

Well on my way to turning myself into a robot.

>> No.3877898

hopefully, dead

>> No.3877935

Alone with no friends and no significant other.

>> No.3877943

>>3877810
This.

How does one kill himself easy?

>> No.3877950

>>3877943

Break microwave glass, put head in.

>> No.3877965

Huh, teaching a bunch of nosy ass kids.

>> No.3877984

>>3877943

I was planning on swiping my mom's prescription sleep aids and overdosing on those. Kind of sucks knowing that I'll be letting down everyone that believed in me during high school and all that crap but they should've seen this coming anyway. I have a month before the bills are due so I figure I'll buy myself a game for christmas and just play the vidya until the new year, then off myself. Maybe I'll remove the passwords and unencrypt everything on my computer just so everyone can see just how fucked up I was.

>> No.3878060

>>3877984
>Kind of sucks knowing that I'll be letting down everyone that believed in me

This pretty much keeps me from doing it actually.

>Maybe I'll remove the passwords and unencrypt everything on my computer just so everyone can see just how fucked up I was

I don't know about that. First of all, I think the police could easily decrypt that shit. And just showing everyone how fucked up I was, I don't think it will help.


Also, I don't know how reliable sleeping pills are.

>> No.3878261

>>3872387
get a tenga fliphole

>> No.3878275

Either dead or in a dead-end teaching job with no possibility for promotion.

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Alone buried in some Forest Lawn.

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