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[–]Janube 109 points110 points ago

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Why is "Super Smash Brothers" in the background...?

[–]RealG 37 points38 points ago

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The top result on GIS is watermarked with this because it was made for a SSBB countdown thread.

[–]SheaF91 28 points29 points ago

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Everybody just needs to start using this one.

[–]Flux85 1 point2 points ago

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Can somebody work their photoshoop magic and make a hi-res version of this?

[–]A-Type 1 point2 points ago

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At this point I am wondering why we need to 3x doctor up a sloppy image of white text on black.

Find the font, open up any editor and remake it in the resolution of your choice. Heck, you can even change the number of hours remaining to not look so hacked together (although I guess that's the joke?)

[–]NegimaSonic[S] 0 points1 point ago

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Yes, I should've but my base was from a DA version that had most of everything done for me. Wouldn't have taken that much longer, but I wasn't trying to be picky at 7 AM

[–]Janube 1 point2 points ago

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Ah HAH.

[–]Mackinstyle 0 points1 point ago

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Got my hopes up thinking you somehow meant Geographical Information Systems. =(

[–]kingsleyz 3 points4 points ago

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Every time someone posts this they have that same damn thing in the background

[–]saladtossing 4 points5 points ago

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Always is. OP is a hack

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[–]Janube -1 points0 points ago

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I don't remember that in Brawl's story. When did that happen?

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[–]Sharrakor 5 points6 points ago

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That doesn't happen at all.

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[–]tijoy 2 points3 points ago

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yeah you dont need SSB in the background to qualify for that rule

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[–]UEH 0 points1 point ago

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Majora's Mask.

[–]tijoy 0 points1 point ago

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in majora's mask this pops up when there is 24 in game hours before the moon crashes into the city.... this is an edited version

[–]Illinformedpseudoint 33 points34 points ago

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Here, now can we please leave off these posts until at least November?

[–]NegimaSonic[S] 4 points5 points ago

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but then it wouldn't be the dawn of the final year. We would be approaching the dawn of the final day. And that is what this post is for. http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/njxro/i_going_to_go_ahead_and_predict_that_exactly_one/

[–]Fletch71011 25 points26 points ago

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Stellar photoshopping skills.

[–]NegimaSonic[S] 19 points20 points ago

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MSPaint bro~

[–]CaptainObliviousIII 20 points21 points ago

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BEN DROWNED

[–]TacticalJabron 9 points10 points ago

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[–]GriffinFlash 13 points14 points ago

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[–]taoistextremist 13 points14 points ago

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This was probably the most creative creepypasta story I had ever seen. The writer really took dedication to supplying material.

[–]AquelecaraDEpoa 7 points8 points ago

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YOU'VE MET WITH A TERRIBLE FATE, HAVEN'T YOU?

[–]TI-994A 3 points4 points ago

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This ARG took up so much of my time trying to figure it out, then it went on hiatus and it hasn't been updated for a year. :(

AQOT XUDTHYSAI OEK QHU YD TQDWUH

[–]uncoveror 6 points7 points ago

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It's not the final year. It's the 100th pre-anniversary of 2112!

[–]Rockon66 5 points6 points ago

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We are the priests.... of the temples.... of Syrinx!!

[–]amazingmaximo 2 points3 points ago

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Our great computers! Fill the hallowed Halls!

[–]kds15 1 point2 points ago

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All the gifts of life! Are held within our walls!

[–]yourtehdiction 8 points9 points ago

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Someone hold me :(

[–]NegimaSonic[S] 13 points14 points ago

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[–]Tactful 0 points1 point ago

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HUG HIM!

[–]NegimaSonic[S] -1 points0 points ago

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I'll admit...the teeth scare me

[–]ManofToast 2 points3 points ago

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I don't get it.

[–]NegimaSonic[S] -5 points-4 points ago*

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Just a joke post, but Mayan's predicted long ago that the world would end this year. The date is December 21st or so.

Let's not forget the movie 2012. Which I didn't watch yet, was kind of saving it for this year lol

k. http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/nyk1v/dawn_of_the_final_year/c3d1gfz

[–]ManofToast 10 points11 points ago

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Ah, alright. I thought being that it was posted in r/gaming it had some kind of significance. Best part is, I read an article somewhere of someone who had an interview with one of the few remaining close Mayan ancestors, and this person said that the ending of the calender means just that, the end of the Mayan calender. That it represents a time of new beginning, starting over. That it's all a misunderstanding and has nothing to do with the world ending.

[–]Tactful 14 points15 points ago

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That's because people are stupid and the media are a bunch of idiot cunts.

[–]ManofToast 1 point2 points ago

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Cannot upvote that enough.

[–]Elklol 8 points9 points ago

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Actually the Mayans themselves do not believe in any sort of apocalypse, this entire conspiracy was started about 5 or 6 years ago by some lunatic and was then brought into the light of the media by the producers of the film 2012. Obviously causing massive hysteria throughout the world.

[–]BroadStreetElite 5 points6 points ago*

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They never predicted the world would end, it only marks the end of the 13th baktun or 'era' of their calendar I believe. There was not a 14th baktun so some believe it means the world will end, others just think its cyclical and so we revert back to the 1st baktun.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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And they believed it was the start of a new age.

[–]ValentinoZ 2 points3 points ago

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the easiest way to understand the mayan years is to look at our clocks. Our world doesn't end when it strikes 12 and goes to 1. They held a similar belief. It was just a new sequence of years.

[–]MikeTheSpike 4 points5 points ago

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The Mayans didn't predict shit; their calendar just runs out.

[–]-megusta- 2 points3 points ago

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Shit just got REAL!

[–]b-rad012 1 point2 points ago

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I should play Majora's Mask again before the world ends

[–]bassic_person 0 points1 point ago

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Hurry up! You only have 6.3 millions years!

[–]hec359720 1 point2 points ago

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Funny, I thought the same thing and same sound in my head right when 2012 started.

[–]MrExotto 1 point2 points ago

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Looks like "Family Guy-24".

[–]bassic_person 1 point2 points ago

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Don't worry guys, I've played the Inverted Song of Time.

[–]CobraKaun 1 point2 points ago

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Phew. That should be just enough to finish up all my side quests in Skyrim.

[–]Paratus126 1 point2 points ago

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Ohhhh, I get it! I get it!

[–]outofnameideas 1 point2 points ago

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Did you just take the post that was submitted a week ago and mspaint it so it says that? There's a super smash bros watermark in the background.

[–]NegimaSonic[S] -2 points-1 points ago

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[–]_jeth 1 point2 points ago

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I feel like this news should have been delivered by a man in a rabbit suit.

[–]Netstorm19 1 point2 points ago

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Upvotes to ALL THE DONNIE DARKO THINGS.

[–]HardlyWorkinDBA 1 point2 points ago

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On the bright side by the time December roles around we'll be so sick of this shit it will be a relief if the world does end.

[–]flowwolfx 1 point2 points ago

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This is a Majora's Mask joke. Why is Super Smash Brothers in the background? What does that have to do with anything?

[–]danlthemanl 1 point2 points ago

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[–]Spider_J 1 point2 points ago

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[–]NegimaSonic[S] 0 points1 point ago

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So someone did do something similar on here after all. People kept pointing fingers but they always pointed to one that said the final day. While I've been trying to point to where I got mine, no one really pays attention to that.

Still, upvote for you from me. On the original and that version.

P.S. Though I doubt I'll have need to do this again, what font did you use? I couldn't get mine to match the height of the picture I used so I ended up going with a resized calibri, which looks horrible.

[–]Spider_J 0 points1 point ago

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It's all good dude. I knew I wasn't going to be the only one to get this idea, and I know reddit well enough to know that the Knights of New are a strange and fickle group. Just thought it was kinda funny, and wanted to make an image for it.

Thanks for the upvote, at least it's one!

And if I remember correctly (and I might not be), the font was Ludica Sans Unicode, which was the first one I found that looked similar to the original.

[–]NegimaSonic[S] 1 point2 points ago

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more contenders showed up later lol. I still prefer yours since it was different for saying "eve"

[–]ih8karma 1 point2 points ago

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Why did I hear the intro sounds of "24" when I read that?

[–]NegimaSonic[S] 0 points1 point ago

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I miss 24

I'm still waiting for the movie.

[–]TierOne 0 points1 point ago

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8 765.81278 if you want to be specific.

[–]elchismoso 0 points1 point ago

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So are we making a countdown to 2013 then? I think you counted your hours wrong then..........

[–]NegimaSonic[S] 0 points1 point ago

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Not to 2013, but December 21, 2012.

[–]elchismoso 0 points1 point ago

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Is that your birthday?

[–]Mistermail 0 points1 point ago

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It's the day the world is supposed to end. I thought everyone knew about that.

[–]XenoKai 0 points1 point ago

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i used to worry about all the 2012 stuff until Neil Degrasse Tyson said it was bullshit and i trust his knowledge of the cosmos over ancient aliens dude anyday

[–]Chrischn89 0 points1 point ago

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[–]SoberPandaren 0 points1 point ago

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I know who I'm voting for this year.

[–]FFandMMfan 0 points1 point ago

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You shouldn't have done that.

[–]TheLameCat 0 points1 point ago

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Posted this 22 hours ago, you sir owe me some karma! : ) http://redd.it/ny6ic

[–]JonnyTrump 0 points1 point ago

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[–]TheLameCat 0 points1 point ago

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darn

[–]JonnyTrump 0 points1 point ago

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XD I had been waiting for it since August when I thought of it. I only uploaded it to r/zelda and in a text submission to r/gaming. Thinking about it, I should have posted it as a pic... but I didn't want to appear a karma whore. T-T

[–]NegimaSonic[S] 0 points1 point ago

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I think thelamecat wins http://i.imgur.com/23FHD.png

though you likely win for first on /r/gaming.

[–]JonnyTrump 0 points1 point ago

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Odd... when I checked yesterday, it said like "20 hours ago" with mine saying "1 day ago"... Darn reddit clocks... >_> Still, mine doesn't have the ugly watermark. XD

[–]NegimaSonic[S] 0 points1 point ago

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:P

still kind of odd with that mini time warp there, but hey either way, I'm not #1 (even if mine is different)

oh yeah I forgot to upvote yours as well before sleep

[–]NegimaSonic[S] 0 points1 point ago

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The lame cat I have a feeling your picture didn't belong in pics. I've never been over there except to skim once or twice in the month I've been here. But eyeing their rule #1 it would appear that you posted a screenshot with superimposed text.

Rules here are shady but given that last month it was acceptable to post the standard dawn of the last day in preparation from one year of that date. I feel your post would've been better here.

Though as always, I only really consider Spider_J's submission since he posted his here first despite in time order being posted after yours. An idea similar to yours but different as he chose "eve" instead of dawn. You both chose days instead of hours. Not sure if that had an effect on this.

In either case I wasn't here for any of this but none of that actually matters as no one would find that alone convincing enough. At least I supplied details above about exactly how I came about mine, late or not.

I, however, will be your 6th upvote now.

[–]TheLameCat 0 points1 point ago

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Fucking awesome, thanks for your time and upvote

[–]NegimaSonic[S] 0 points1 point ago

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not a problem

[–]JonnyTrump 0 points1 point ago

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[–]LongRedCoats 0 points1 point ago

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How come there's a Super Smash Bros. logo hidden in the background?

[–]Aruvax 0 points1 point ago

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We need a talented musician to play the song of time.

here are the notes:

Right, A, down, right, A and down.

[–]jklantern 0 points1 point ago

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This is deliciously morbid. I wish I had a copy of Majora's Mask to play now.

[–]JackKukla 0 points1 point ago

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I don't know why, but this seems like one of the title images from a Neon Genesis Evangelion episode.

[–]Mafia200100 0 points1 point ago

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Funny, exactly this came into my head as we counted down to the new year...

[–]pm27 0 points1 point ago

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Is there a Dawn of the second day?

[–]SoulWeaver 0 points1 point ago

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2012 cannot be the final year because in back to the future marty mcfly traveled to 2015

[–]NegimaSonic[S] 0 points1 point ago

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La dee dum, no one cares but I'll rewrite it again. This post has do do with gaming for the Obvious reference to The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask. This is similar to the screenshot you would see in the background of the real game. You can argue that this is not much better than the Fry ones I suppose, but as far as I know this is allowed based off of the voting from awhile back that would've still allowed the fallout guy meme.

The "point" is to make fun of the idea that the world will end this year. "My bad" on saying the Mayan's predicted it, I forgot the detail about it was just because that's when their calendar ended. But you know, it's about getting the reference or not.

This post can't be made every month. Because it is dawn of the final year. There's no way to repeat that every month unless you are going to say that the world is going to end 12 months from whatever date posted. new ones could pop up like dawn of the final week, or month, or final 11 months if someone wants to do that. But not this one specifically.

I'd like to draw attention to this. As that's what really should be a top image on the day one year from the posted date one that. Mine just takes the technicality of being the dawn of the final year of 2012, not exactly one year until Dec.21. Also that comment about Smash Bros and it being the #1 comment sure looks familiar.

Now I had this idea in my head since last night, pretty sure others did as well. I didn't see it before the time I posted, roughly 7 AM my time. I didn't do an exhaustive search since I didn't care. As this was in US Central time, actually half of the world was already well past dawn. Kind of wouldn't have figured it would make it this far.

My base comes from this. The time calculated is based off of what I got from timeanddate.com and here's what I used until December 21,2012. Right or wrong, I wasn't going to bother checking for that. Other than that, this was just a simple MSPaint job. I couldn't even figure out how to make the fonts match exactly. Calibri kind of looked like it but it wasn't tall enough, resizing just messed it up more. I probably should've just blacked out the entire bottom but I wanted to leave it mostly intact. That includes the Super Smash Bros bit even though that has little to do with MM. This version was pretty much tailored to my needs already so I went with it.

One guy has shown that he at least made a very similar one concerning the year before me. Now I wasn't on last night, but it's not as if there's any proof I wasn't. Still, here's his picture and link should you wanna up it instead. Or maybe as he joked, the difference was that he should've used hours instead of days.

Anyway, this was only for if you understood the references, not a doom-and-gloom post. I don't really think the world will end on that day and I'm going to enjoy this year with its good and bad parts like any other. But if it surprised us all and it did...well this picture won't matter much now will it?

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BEN is 2012.

[–]Rockon66 0 points1 point ago*

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I belive your math may be off by a bit:

8520 hours ÷ 24 hours/day = 355 days

This would imply that the world will end on new years next year. If I am correct in assuming you are referencing the Myan calender for the end of the world, this is false. That particular date would be the 21st of December. This day is actually 346 days from now, as this year is also a leap year.

346 days * 24 hours/day = 8304 hours

Therefore, 8304 hours remain.

Because I derp.

[–]fuzzyhunter0608 2 points3 points ago

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Initial math was more correct - while it is a leap year, there are 365 days in a normal year, not 355. If 2012 was not a leap year, 355 days would be December 21st, which would be correct. However, it is a leap year, so there are 356 days until 12/21, so there are(/were since it was a while ago now) 8544 hours left

[–]NegimaSonic[S] 0 points1 point ago

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I just used this and kept it simple. http://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=01&d1=01&y1=2012&h1=07&i1=00&s1=00&m2=12&d2=21&y2=2012&h2=07&i2=00&s2=00

I put no intelligent thought into it. Though they do note that they do not take "leap seconds" into account. I assume they did pay attention to the days but perhaps not.

[–]Rockon66 0 points1 point ago

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Shit, im retarded. Nevermind, I stand corrected.

[–]jmad202 -2 points-1 points ago

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Am I the only one actively rooting for it all to end?

[–]Smills29 1 point2 points ago

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Why would you want that?

[–]ChurKirby 0 points1 point ago

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That's a pretty shitty thing to wish upon everyone

[–]jmad202 -1 points0 points ago

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You assume it would be painful. I guess I'm not making that assumption. I am thinking of the peace and tranquility afterward.

[–]NegimaSonic[S] -1 points0 points ago

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nope. 9 hours ago from a random FB friend. "Anticipating the end of the world, please come soon."

[–]arcangelmic -1 points0 points ago

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Dexter?

[–]dashrush -1 points0 points ago

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Darn it! You beat me to this!

[–]ThatAustrian -1 points0 points ago

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Funny, I'm watching 28 Days later at the moment ...

[–]hypno_chode -3 points-2 points ago

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Fuck you! You aren't funny! Jesus!

[–]hypno_chode -4 points-3 points ago

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Dumbass.

[–]999realthings -1 points0 points ago

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I remember a post predict this would happen on 21st of December, seems he's wrong. Probably will happen every month.

[–]TheWac0Kid -1 points0 points ago

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According to Nero you're a ways off.

[–]DrunkInPublic69 -1 points0 points ago

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There is so much wrong with this photo...

[–]Secrete_Persona -1 points0 points ago

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[–]preske -1 points0 points ago

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it's a leap year

[–]Eathbound -1 points0 points ago

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I said it first. unorigonal.

[–]gamergirl190 -3 points-2 points ago

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How the fuck is this gaming related. Reported and downvoted.

[–]paulrules4 2 points3 points ago

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it's from majoras mask.. u know that game from the n64?

[–]Geno098 2 points3 points ago

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Majora's Mask is a game.