The Countdown Game

[Mr Saturn64 742]

95

I don't get the post above me,

[GeometryMath Algebra 614]

94

 

Kurt Cobain died and Justin Bieber was born on that year. 

[astronelson 339]

93.

 

Hey guys, what's going on in this thread?

[MandelSoft 2,769]

92, the year I was born 

 

Hamish, that was just evil!

[Mr Saturn64 742]

91

This already happened in 10,000 posts.

[Huston 5,798]

90

WAT. Ō_ō

[Duke87 1,070]

(89)

 

I'm going to posit that waiting until the last minute starts to lose its effect if every target does it.

[Mr Saturn64 742]

88

Happy Halloween!

[Mr. Nestlé 19]

Edit: 87. Oh, someone posted before I did. And I thought that I would get notified in that case... Well, as I don't want to think of anything else right now, I'm just going to leave everything as it is. Happy Halloween to you, too.

 

I think that for the target, there still is the fun of taking the risk of not making it in time, especially if the target chooses to only post at 0. And if the thread gets enough attention, it will eventually get very hard, as foreshadowed on that last one (posting while the target is offline and such). So actually, I feel that there is some effect to it. Though you could argue that the 'endgame' will be the same every time and might get boring while still being challenging. That could be right.

 

As to 88, well, the first thing that comes to my mind right now is the use it seems to have gained in the modern Nazi community. That is pretty sad, especially as while checking Wikipedia, I see it being also the time travel velocity in the Back to the Future movies. I feel that that's more like something you should know about a number...

Anyways, Wikipedia told me that 88 also is a so-called 'untouchable number', not being the sum of any number's divisors. It is the atomic number of radium.

[Duke87 1,070]

(86)

 

The number 88 also has the significance of using every element on the display for both digits. So sometimes it's what shows up on signs measuring speed if there's an error!

[Lot Creator 304]

85

 

45+40 = 85

 

sum = 85 % 5 

print = %{sum}

 

Ruby for the lols.

[Mr. Nestlé 19]

84

 

Well, I have no idea what that would output. Probably because I don't know Ruby.

What else can I say? Ah yes, the second digit of my number is the half of the first.

[Mr Saturn64 742]

83

 

^ 42
Also works for 63, 21.

My number is 64.

[Duke87 1,070]

(82)

 

Saturn, stop confusing people with numbers out of sequence.

[Lot Creator 304]

81  or 9^2

 

Now its a algebra forum!

[fefenc 77]

80 or 91 /\

[Duke87 1,070]

(79)

 

Carets for exponents are inferior to ^superscript.

 

(that is to say, Lot Creator was going for 9², not 92)

[Jeffmaster223 24]

78

 

Well, i dont have anything interesting to say, so here's

something i'll bet you didn't know: 78² is 6084.

did... did i do it right?

[RipRap 4,400]

77

Can be divided by either 7 or 11. 7/11 is a common convenience store.

[Duke87 1,070]

(76)

 

A basketball team in Philadelphia.

[Mr Saturn64 742]

75

Yup. 1983 NBA Champions.

Speaking of, the Eagles stink but they're in first...

[GeometryMath Algebra 614]

74

 

Okay, this thread loves to sleep... I am the official bumper of the forum games section.

[RipRap 4,400]

73

People generally lose interest, only to have the topic unbelievably resurrected

[Hamish 1,369]

72.

 

I'll post to try keep it alive

[Duke87 1,070]

(71)

 

We're keeping things alive, are we?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbhExY

[RipRap 4,400]

70

 

We're all jamming to that disco music

[Mr Saturn64 742]

69

A lot more threads get bumped like this. Heck, who's going to post to end this?

[Duke87 1,070]

(68)

 

We're waiting for CaptCity.

[GeometryMath Algebra 614]

67

 

For sure, he'll jump at the last countdown, just like what Hamish and Cockatoo had done to us...

[MandelSoft 2,769]

66

My mom's birth year

We only have to wait...