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10 years

IDidNotStealUrToast 52

Joined Dec 2024

Posted 1 month ago

Originally posted by nickels 32 1 month ago

10 years in the future, the Bopimo launcher rots in your computer, waiting to be clicked, depraved of attention from its owner. You see a weird monochrome “B”. It looks awfully alike to the old, purple “b!”. Staring at this weird symbol, you are reminded of the nostalgic old times and glory days of Bopimo.

You click on the monochrome logo labeled “Bopimo App” You wait 2 minutes for the launcher to compile, another 1 minute to update, and another 5 minutes to launch. The app errors out, so you have to use the website, which has been deprecated for 2 years now.

You search up the website, scroll through 23 google sponsored sites, and click bopimo.com. You click it, and click more to press x on the remaining popup ads blocking your screen, because U-Block Origin was banned due to being deemed a concern to the starving tech companies.

Before checking the Play section, you want to read the forums. You see the four different subforums: Central, Off-Topic, Help, and the Lounge (reserved only for Bopimo Premium+ members). You click Central. The forums now became place where 10 year old kids whose mothers took too much Tylenol roam, whining why Bopimo is not a Roblox clone, and chortling at whatever AI generated inside jokes they made, aside from the obvious AI and troll raiding every few hours. Seven warehouse shelves full of racial epithets. You will not find any form of critical thinking in these parts. Neurons will only spark at the sight of AI generated humor. The old soul of the community was lost.

You want to play a level. Clicking on the Play tab, you decide to play the first level you see that interests you. You obviously look at the featured section. Your eyes counted around five levels sponsored and built by three fast food chains. Not only are there ads on the site, but the levels, themselves, are now shilled by big corporations, and they bribe the new dev team (they replaced the obsolete, original team years ago, by firing squad) to artificially rise to the top. Playing these levels were a hassle, as the servers were no better than the old days. You check some more levels out, and if there weren’t any advertisements, they were completely AI-churned, Little Timmy, redundant spamslop.

“What about the shop?” You ask. You check the tab named, “Item Shop”. You’re supposed to wait a 24:00:00 timer for the item shop to reset. Everything costs 2,000 coins or 400 “bollars”. The comment sections were no better than the forums.

You check your profile, and remember when levels were made out of effort, and when the internet wasn’t full of AI raids along with advertising shoved down your esophagus. Your cursor is attracted to the x button on the tab next to bopimo.com. It does a little mating dance around it. The cursor and the x button marry and have two kids.

You click. Bopimo is now behind you. As all corporate things, a shell of its past. The team behind the game was well-fed, but salivating for more. It was immortal by funding, but stopped thinking.

tldr; possible path if bopimo turns out to get popular and corporate

Curiosity gets the better of you, and you open your history and select "bopimo.com"

After all of this turmoil and pain with the main website, you decide the best way to gain more information about what's going on in the Bopimoverse is to go to the official Bopimo YouTube channel. Using revolutionary yet concerning advancements in technology, a large majority of the posts uploaded are now AI generated gameplay videos. Effective in making sure that knowledge of weekly challenges are still spread, but not charming enough to actually watch outside of the novelty.

Out of sheer boredom, you decide to make a level. Clicking on the "Make Level" button in the Play Page, you type in a simple description and name for your level. The new level editor is... fine, you suppose. Black bars with tabs for geometry, action, and decorative blocks rest at the top of the screen. clicking on them, you make a simple world with trees, grass, and dangerous roses. It brings you back to a simpler time, when events were something to get hyped for, and not just a couple shirts made by some underpaid chain establishment worker in 20 seconds.

As you think about the new events, you begin to wonder what they are even like. You played them passingly, but the server quality was so low you could barely get anything done. You enter one of the levels, (Sorry, I mean "Interactive Universes") and beat a simple obstacle course. You're so prepared to crush this obstacle course, when you notice a Completion Star. That was it? Really? It seems the events are getting trivial so that no one feels left out. Whatever, you grab the prizes and the Completion Star and leave.

You enter one of your old levels, and just sit there, listening to the simple, carefree, yet wonderful soundtrack. (Thankfully the developers were kind enough to support the old music system, even if they replaced it for a new custom music system.) The soundtrack lulls you to relaxation, despite what Bopimo has become. You begin to drift into a Peaceful (Heh, get it because one of the songs is called Peaceful?) sleep. Your Laptop is probably going to be dead when you wake up, but that's ok, because this moment is worth it.

tldr; got inspired by another post, so I made a follow up to it.

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