Preferred Apocalypse?

"I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather... not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car."

I'd prefer Ragnarok [wikipedia.org]. It has this huge climactic battle and everyone can join! :D

Also, unlike most abrahamic religions you will not go to hell and burn for eternity if you happened to not choose the correct religion/denomination (regardless of how you led your life).

And it gets better: after the huge battle the gods will create the universe and humans anew! So it's kind of like the Big Bounce Theory [wikipedia.org].

(I mean lets face it, who wants to fry in hell or sit around some boring people in heaven for eternity..)

"Hey all y'all, watch this!... Err... I swear, Billy Joe Bob, it didn't do that last time."

Kind of a scary apocalypse.

Or I guess this MMO we call Earth could be bought by the divine equivalent of Sony, who'll run it through a NGE, roll-back a paid-for expansion pack (oops, there goes America and Australia;), and several clueless flip-flops between diametrally-opposite design extremes.

This month's special: let's make all trades unprofitable except spaceship engine manufacturing. (In retrospect, that would explain the Great Depression.) The USA gets bought by Lockheed Martin, except for California which is secured by Raytheon. Nobody gives a damn, since everyone quit their jobs and is outside killing an endless supply of rabbits and badgers until they drop the items they want. Large-screen plasma TVs and sports cars count as epic loot, though, so you have to kill elite bears for those.

Next month: cats and dogs are unbalanced, all pets get removed from the game. People demonstrate all over the globe to get their Fluffy or Fido back, only to be teleported into deep space by the hard-liner customer support or have their accounts suspended.

One more month later: let's make everyone an animal handler, but only with genetically-engineered attack pets. Even the lap dancers in strip clubs get to be accompanied by a grizzly bear or a lion. Lockheed Martin goes bankrupt, sells the USA to Monsanto.

Repeat ad nauseam.

Then a year later everyone has left, except for a few tiny groups of humans huddled together in the ruins of New York, London and Peking, who still think that if they ask once more on the boards Sony will roll back the changes that noone wants. The publisher will still claim that it's the third most successful universe, based mostly on counting the people who technically _could_ play it because they bought a station pass, even though they never actually installed the program or created a character.

Well, it's a possibility ;)