Would you press it?

  • @[email protected]
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    6 months ago

    press button

    Get million dollars

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

  • FQQD
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    906 months ago

    No, the chance of death isn’t high enough

    • First Majestic CometOP
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      196 months ago

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

  • SGG
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    686 months ago

    sets up auto clicker

    • @NorthWestWind
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      6 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      16 months ago

      Nobody can tell me that the Xcom probabilities aren’ riged. The amount of times I have died because someone messed up hitting something right infront of them is way to high

      • @AEsheron
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        26 months ago

        For the new game, on some difficulties it is rigged. But only ever in the player’s favor.

  • @SomeGuy69
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    496 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    326 months ago

    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]
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      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.

    • @Ultraviolet
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      76 months ago

      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.

      • @AEsheron
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        16 months ago

        Like being hit by a train.

      • First Majestic CometOP
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        16 months ago

        It’s also a gamble because you might get a painless one but also could get one that is insanely painful. Those odds aren’t clearly defined and quantified like the button’s odds.

  • @Makfreeman
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    316 months ago

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

    • @essell
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      326 months ago

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

      Monkey paw strikes again.

  • @[email protected]
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    246 months ago

    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.

    • @Korne127
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      226 months ago

      That‘s… not how any of this works

    • @[email protected]
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      106 months ago

      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…

        • First Majestic CometOP
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          46 months ago

          In this context gruesome death means something violent and painful, think back to Final Destination or a Saw movie for some examples.

  • Applesauce
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    226 months ago

    Swap those numbers and you got yourself a deal!

    • LeadersAtWork
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      36 months ago

      First time I experienced this exact sentiment was years ago playing Dynasty Tactics.

      99% chance to hit?

      Realize devs forgot to include the decimal. 90.1% chance of exploding.

    • @AngryCommieKender
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      26 months ago

      If you haven’t run across it, UFO:AI is an open source “re-release” of X-COM Apocalypse

    • Nom Nom
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      16 months ago

      I was about to comment about Fire Emblem but yes Xcom is the superior example.

  • @ZILtoid1991
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    196 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.

  • experbia
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    186 months ago

    sweet, a quantum immortality tester that prints money.

  • @AnUnusualRelic
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    156 months ago

    Stop, stop, the button only works once!

  • @Tehdastehdas
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    146 months ago

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