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lemmy.ml

press button

Get million dollars

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

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

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

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lemm.ee

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

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

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lemmy.world

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

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trachesreply
sh.itjust.works

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

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sh.itjust.works

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.

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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.

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lemmy.world

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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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.

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lemmy.world

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

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essellreply
lemmy.world

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

Monkey paw strikes again.

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shani66reply
ani.social

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

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yiffit.net

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.

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lemmy.nz

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

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midwest.social

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

No.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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lemm.ee

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.

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A MILLION DOLLARS! Austin Powers scene.

No. But for 100 million 🤔

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Yes, It have 1% Chance to fix my all problems.

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Nah, I feel like whoever would make that offer would have something much shadier in mind

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