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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Would you press it?

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

press button

Get million dollars

Wtf I thought this was the button that turns you into a girl

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago

Money can be exchanged for many hormones

[–] [email protected] 90 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, the chance of death isn't high enough

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

Can always keep pressing until you get it, or just keep pressing to increase odds, these buttons usually allow multiple pushes.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

cuz you can only die once anyway, so you will end up with a chance approaching 100% of getting the money

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Meanwhile, people who play Xcom refuse to press the button.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

Can I throw a grenade at the button?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I don't even walk out my front door unless I see full cover nearby

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I know it says 100% chance to die.

I'm still pushin it.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago (3 children)

So like every regular day waking up, but this time with the million dollar chance.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you roll a 1% chance of dying every day, you don’t make it to your first birthday

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I'm just incredible lucky

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The big question is how many times to press it. Once at least is a given. It does specify the death as gruesome, so I don't really want the death, but I'd also like enough money to not have to worry again until a non gruesome death.

Like, if it was painless death, I'd probably say something like 20 or 30 times, but with a gruesome one...maybe 5 max, or perhaps even less. Still, one or two pushes is a given.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

5 presses would be enough to pay yourself 100k a year for 50 years + interest gained with a 95% chance of success. That's what I'd go with.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It can be both gruesome and painless. Something where you wouldn't even know what happened, but the person unlucky enough to clean up would be scarred for life.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As many times as I can before dying. The family gets the money, I'm gone. Win win.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh no! Family thinks it's drugs money and gives it to the police!

Monkey paw strikes again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Man you got a shitty family if they'll give up your hard earned drug money

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago

Only 1% chance of winning? Fuck no.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'd absolutely press it once, because if I'm unlucky enough to hit a 1% on the first press, I think I'd rather just be dead anyway. That kinda bad luck will kill you in some other way.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

That‘s… not how any of this works

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If it was "die instantly," then I would definitely press it. However, it says "die a gruesome death," which kinda scares me, so I'm not sure if I would...

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Long time Xcom player here, back to the original series.

No.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

Swap those numbers and you got yourself a deal!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Considering real life, it's a pretty good deal. Real jobs have a way-higher guresome death chance to 1 million dollar ratio, and most of the time you just end up in a dead-end job.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

sweet, a quantum immortality tester that prints money.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Stop, stop, the button only works once!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Either way I deal with my dysphoria :3

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Your odds of dying are worse if you earn the million through work.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What happens if I slap the button with my cock?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You either have a 99% chance of cashing out big but a 1% chance of dying horribly. What body part you press it with doesn't make a difference.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

But they get style points and thats all that matters

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm pressing it multiple times until I get my gruesome death of being buried under a mountain of money.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Hmm, I'm a little surprised at how consistent the responses are, but I guess I shouldn't be. I just know that if I did that spam until death and pass it all on to family thing that others here are about, well I wouldn't trust my family to adequately handle big money after my death; they'd fuck it up, the greedy shitty ones would try and steal the will, keep some other family members from getting any; just anything to not just do what I wanted, and I wouldn't be there to deal with it.

But regardless, since I found out I was trans, 1% death chance is too big for me. I want to live and experience my life approximately closer to how it always should have been, even though I lost a couple decades getting there. Hell, just the million dollars, even if we say it's somehow still taxed and the fed takes a bunch, could resolve all my debts, pay for all my trans surgeries, and I'd still have more to help my family without them just fucking it all up. But I still wouldn't want to risk the death for that.

[–] prex 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Those are some absolutely beautiful odds if it's a one off 1% chance of death by pressing the button! Sign me up, Scotty!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

A MILLION DOLLARS! Austin Powers scene.

No. But for 100 million 🤔

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You could apply that 1% chance of a gruesome death to every single day the rest of forever(my life, anyways); I'm still pushing the button.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You can press it 69 times and still have a 50% chance of living

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Considering the extreme risk involved despite the low odds, I would not.
It is tempting and the odds of hitting that 1% on the first press are low, so the chance of a payoff is very good, but on the other hand, you won't get any money if you hit that 1% first try, so even leaving money for loved ones is out of the question there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Already dying a gruesome death tho, ain't I. Million bucks sounds handy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Thats a win-win Situation, why wouldn't I push it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Either way my problems will go away so why not.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Real question is how often are you willing to press the button

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Press once, if I live get my will in order for the situation, then press until I die.

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