So here I am at the 50,000th post mark and try as I might, I couldn't come up with anything in advance. So, I'm going to have to improvise.
I know I do it at every milestone thread and given how many I've hit it's perhaps becoming redundant, but I do want to thank everyone as always for their support of the NLSC and of course everyone on the NLSC Team for making things so much easier for me. Without the efforts of the team and the support of the community, we would've ceased to be years ago. Thanks for sticking by us through the good times and the bad, I hope there are many more good times ahead of us. Please remember that the community, especially the Forum, is what you make it. The more people who make positive contributions, the more we'll get out of it.
I still think we have a pretty good thing going here, looking around the web the atmosphere on some forums is quite poisonous. I'd like to think that here we're a little more open to dissenting opinions and new members who are here to make the most out of the site. Let's enjoy ourselves, and most sincerely, thank you all again. I wouldn't be doing this after eight years and 50,000 posts if I didn't feel it was a worthwhile and enjoyable cause, but here I am, and I expect to be here for a while yet. So again, thank you. Thank you to my fellow NLSC Team Members, thank you to the regulars, thank you for sticking it out through all our technical woes from a couple of years back, thank you to the patchers, thank you to everyone who supports the patchmaking community, thank you to everyone whose enthusiasm for NBA video games (whichever one you play) and basketball help make this an enjoyable pastime for me. Thank you.
So...50,000. Let's try and put that into perspective.
Wikipedia wrote:50,000 (fifty thousand) is the number that comes after 49,999 and before 50,001.
Alright, that's a given. But aside from that, Elvin Hayes played exactly 50,000 minutes in the NBA. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Karl Malone are the only other two players to play more than 50,000 minutes in their careers. The Mousterian Pluvial in Africa began around 50,000 BC. In Captain Comic, an extra life is earned every 50,000 points...apparently. I've never played it. A lawsuit over a Tweet sought $50,000 in damages. 50000 Quaoar is a dwarf planet candidate orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune. And Vodafone sold 50,000 iPhones in 24 hours.
And now we come to the interactive part of the milestone thread: What would you do with $50,000?
I'd probably hold back about $10,000 of it for my savings account and with the remaining $40,000: buy a new (well, new for me, probably used) car, nothing too fancy, probably in the realm of $10,000-$20,000...probably a Holden. I'd get a PS3, simply so I could import games I can't play on the 360 (or are PS3 exclusives) and watch Blu-Ray DVDs. I'd pick up a Derrick Rose authentic jersey, import a basketball system like this, book a vacation to the US where I'd take in an NBA game and visit the Basketball Hall of Fame, buy a new laptop, a handful of DVDs (nothing specific comes to mind at this time though) and the rest...you know, I can't think of anything else off the top of my head, so I'd probably put it into savings with the first 10 grand. How about you?
And now, a few random videos I enjoy to go out on.
(Simply for the Jordan/Nique duel , the music just fits the showdown)
So there you have it, my 50,000th post. Here's hoping I'm a little more prepared for 60,000...or 57446 if I want to post a milestone thread for Kareem's career minutes. I hope you enjoyed it anyway, and thank you once again.
We could have a couple more people surpassing 10,000 by the end of the year and I believe a few capable of reaching the 5000 post plateau as well.
As expected, you reached 50k faster than we expected. 
