Author Topic: if everyone in the world vanished except for blockland forumers  (Read 10896 times)

no that would suck cus like half the people I like in this godforsaken world would disappear
alright have fun with okiver and storm surge

alright have fun with okiver and storm surge
dude, I don't care, I have probably seen 100s of people like that in person by now, and I am fine. but I would be very unhappy without those aforementioned people

I would rule Australia and its total population of like 6 people.

arizona = most populated place

I would rule Australia and its total population of like 6 people.

mcjob already claimed ruler of australia

we have to settle this the australian way

down a beer each and drunken fistfight, the winner is ruler of australia

we'd exile the furries to australia
mcjob will kill them with his didgeridoo

we have to settle this the australian way

down a beer each and drunken fistfight, the winner is ruler of australia
I'll one-hit punch the forgeter 3 seconds in. Clone'll be as useful as a rooster in a nun's hut.

None of you would find me.


the clique will form a mega alliance and rally eveyone together to form a giant advanced labratoric facility under the ground to stay as hidden ad possible as we develop new technologies and ways to keep food and water to the maximum.

I'd probably snag all of my neighbors' generators, maintain my dad's house and live happily by myself. He has a farm, so I'd be using it to survive.
I also most likely wouldn't guess that blockland forumers would be the ones to have survived, so I'd never really go looking.
Before the internet starts to become dysfunctional (which would likely happen pretty quickly) I'd save hard copies of as much important scientific and mathematical information as I could. I would pirate all the music, maybe tracking down Spotify or Apple's servers.
I'd also locate the houses of some of my favorite musicians, and take their instruments and recordings.
I'd take medicine from the nearest RiteAid.
I'd probably also take my neighbors' guns and learn to use them, but I might just end up using a bow and arrow since finding ammunition would likely be a chore and I have more experience with a bow.
After all this, I might start moving around somewhat regularly. I'd use a bicycle, since gasoline wouldn't be a hugely accessible resource. I'd raid the solar electric shop in the nearest city, and see if I could install solar panels on my roof. I'd figure out how to broadcast radio and perhaps go to NYC or Boston to see if anyone was there. I can handle being alone, but I don't think I'd want to be alone forever.
I'd mostly be doing it to make sure that people don't starve. They could work at my farm and things would be generally okay.

When I did start finding people, we'd eventually figure out that blockland was the common thread between us, and then we'd probably try to access the blockland forums to check the topics where forumers have given their location. However, at that point, it most likely would already be down. At this point, the only way of finding out would be to somehow track down the location of cloudflare's servers, since blf use cloudflare. There is a list of locations available on their website, but I don't think it would be up either.

While the ISS might still be streaming video of Earth to Earth, I doubt that it would be particularly useful. Unless somebody thought it was important to use a whole lot of light, it wouldn't be all that useful to make the trip to Washington DC to visit NASA's headquarters and see if I could possibly access that data. Still, I'd probably try it a few years in.

For heat, I'm lucky that my dad installed a radiant heating system in our floors, and a wood burning furnace to heat the water for it. I could probably gather enough wood to feed it through a winter and keep myself pretty decently warm.
We have a well on our property, so I wouldn't run out of water, it's just the aforementioned electricity that would be an issue.

Once I'd found other people, I'd actually be pretty well situated to accommodate them with my dad's house. We have 10 beds in all, and we could still easily house about twice that many people with a minimum of discomfort. The issue would be feeding everyone, and that could be accomplished by having everyone help out with the farm, and perhaps hunting as well.
The main issue would probably be electricity, but there are still plenty of generators around in my neighborhood, and while they might be ones that use gasoline, if we put our heads together we might be able to take one apart and put it back together in such a way as to be able to generate power using fire.

After all this, there really wouldn't be that much left to do other than live in relative comfort. If people wanted to build or use other houses, they could move out, but I would happily house whoever remained. Humanity wouldn't likely survive, but it's technically possible. It might depend on whether lurkers and inactive/banned members are included.

Technology generally wouldn't regress entirely, but medicine would be sorely set back. The life expectancy among the survivors would likely be something like 35 or 40. A large amount of the reason why people died so much younger was simply poor hygiene, and while forumers are probably not the most hygienic bunch, we're still a lot better off than people used to be.

The remaining population would be pretty young. A bunch of the super young forumers would likely just die out, but the average age would likely be somewhere around 16. Authority figures would most likely just be the most charismatic or well-situated people.

Since forumers are mostly situated in the US and a bunch in Europe, those who remained in other continents would have a worse chance of survival and the remaining people would still certainly all be English-speaking. If the human race survived, it would be everyone's first language, and since communication would still often be internet-based after the internet eventually went back up, there would be no reason for the development of new languages. However, there still could be separate cultures.

For the first time in a long time, the human race would be once again subject in a major way to natural selection. While there would be a small gene pool, it would likely be that of the strongest and most social of us. Inbreeding might end up as an important concern. There would certainly be enough males, but there would not be a lot of females.

Survivors would end up in villages. While many of you say that you would live alone forever, you most likely wouldn't. In all likelihood you would either find others or you would die.

People crossing the Atlantic or the Pacific are both pretty unlikely.
Those who remain in South America might make their way up, but it could be pretty tough.
People living in the city would likely end up having to move outward to find or grow food after several years of surviving on the remaining good food raided from supermarket refrigerators.
The barter system would probably be the norm again, since currency wouldn't really have any meaning and people could easily get wildly different amounts of money. Eventually one would probably emerge, though.

I don't think anyone lives in Michigan, so I guess I would be forgeted honestly, I would probably just head out with supplies on my bike, and always travel until I find someone or a place I'd like to live at.
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I wouldn't be worried about running into any of you. I'd be worried about starving to death or breaking my leg and dying of an excruciating infection. Y'all can be kinda weird but that's mainly just because we're a community of socially awkward introverts and that usually doesn't translate to "confrontational and aggressive"

Hopefully I'd be somewhere in the US when this happened, because trying to cross the ocean would result in certain death. Realistically if EVERYONE except Blocklanders have just vanished, I wouldn't have to worry about looters, so it would be open season on any store I find, so I'd stock up on tools / supplies / dried food. I'd raid the nearest hospital for anti-biotics and supplies, beacuse getting hurt when you're alone in the wilderness is usually very bad news. I guess at that point if I still had the ability to communicate with other Blocklanders, there's one or two of you I'd try and meet up with. Mainly just so I don't go loving nuts or in-case I badly hurt myself
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the british forumers would single handedly keep the UK running and maintain its greatness

the british forumers would single handedly keep the UK running and maintain its greatness
I think we'd actually be forgeted, in the long run.

There are several UK forumers, yes. We're probably the most populated european nation in terms of forumers.
But I don't know of a single UK female forumer. And I'm afraid Maxwell just doesn't count.


In fact, I don't really know of any European female users either.
We'd have to become vikings and cross the Atlantic to steal US women.
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