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The Golden Raspberry awards honor the worst movies released each year. A genie gives you your own private theater, but the only movies showing are the last 5 Golden Raspberry Worst Picture Award winners. In order from most recent, they are:

1. War of the Worlds (2025)
2. Madame Web
3. Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
4. Blonde
5. Diana

For 5 million dollars, one million for each movie, you must sit through a marathon of these terrible films. You can bring up to 5 friends with you to this marathon, and you each will receive 5 million. If you take a bathroom or snack break, the movie will pause; likewise, if one of you falls asleep, uses your phones, or talks louder than 30 decibels. You must get through each movie together. If one of you leaves, the challenge is over, and you all get nothing. Any snacks or beverages will have to be brought by you and your friends before you take this offer. Would you sit through this terrible movie marathon?

Rules:

• You are tagged with an ankle monitor. Nothing you do will remove it, not even amputating your own leg. If you do that, it'll just appear on your other leg. And if you cut off your other leg, it'll appear on your arm. Basically, like that one scene from Click
• Your barrier is a 20-yard radius around your chosen building. You cannot leave this area at all during your one month. The moment you move past the barrier, you forfeit the challenge.
  • It also does not matter if you move outside without the body part your ankle monitor is attached to. If you even move 1 finger past the barrier, you forfeit
• If you're not currently in a building, the next building you're in will be where the challenge takes place
• Any of your necessities, i.e., food delivery, water treatment, or medicine, will come out of your own expenses
• People can still visit you
• If you're in a public building, you can still be kicked out.

Would you take this offer?

You wake up one morning and look in the mirror. Your face is completely invisible. You only see your neck, ears, and hair. You still feel it, it's there, but your eyes can no longer perceive it. Everyone else in the world can still see your face, and they can see what you cannot. Have a pimple? Is your eye red and infected? Do you have a scraggly beard or mustache? You can no longer tell, and since you cannot see it anymore, the only way you can clean yourself up is through touch and muscle memory. How would you live the rest of your life like this? Would you consider this a curse, or maybe a blessing? Would you end it?

Only saw the movie, plan on reading the book later. Given the rising gas prices IRL, a thought just crossed my mind, why couldn't humans just use astrophage as a clean energy source to replace oil? Both the Hail Mary and Blip A used astrophage to travel lightyears, so basic day to day travel shouldn't cost too much. They could send several ships and containers up to the Petrova line every now and then to collect as much astrophage as possible before bringing them back, or create Astrophage farms on Earth. Was there a specific detail in the movie I missed, or one that only appears in the book?

You are given 1 billion dollars. However, once you accept the money, you will be allowed to live and move only within a 20-mile radius of your current location. That's roughly the size of New York City. An invisible barrier will surround this area. If you touch this barrier, you immediately die. You can still go shopping for necessities such as food and clean water, as long as you don't cross the barrier. TV and the Internet will still work, and people can still visit you. Would you lose your freedom of movement over 1 billion dollars?

Not necessarily an aging parent post, but a bit of a rant from my job at a retirement home. A few months ago, I had a confused resident come up to me extremely anxious and told me she needed to go back to her old house cause she thinks someone broke in and stole her son's money he left with her. She starts handing me an old phone and asks me to call her friend to pick her up. I then asked if I could just call her son instead, and she replied with "no, I don't have a son or any children". That statement had just completely made her panic attack illogical. Before I could point that out, one of the nurses came and took her back to her room. What could I have done? Should I have just reminded her she didn't have a son? Would that have just made her even more delusional?

For 1 billion dollars, you will be temporarily reincarnated in one of these historical countries for 1 year. After the year, you will return to your normal life. Nothing you do while living in these time periods will be remembered, and it will be like you never existed. You will, however, remember everything you've experienced. If you die while living the scenario or attempt to leave the country, you will get nothing.

Your reincarnation will have the same age, ethnic, and racial background as your real identity, but you will have a different name. Economically, you will start out effectively poor and homeless with no stable housing or identification. Based on the country you pick, you will immediately become fluent in the national language to help you communicate.

The options are:

• Ukraine during the Holodomor
• Ireland during the potato famine
• France during the reign of terror
• Spain during the Spanish Inquisition
• The Confederate States of America

Which of these options would you pick? You can also pick another option for more money

For 1 billion dollars, you will be temporarily reincarnated in one of these historical countries for 1 year. After the year, you will return to your normal life. Nothing you do while living in these time periods will be remembered, and it will be like you never existed. You will, however, remember everything you've experienced. If you die while living the scenario, you will get nothing.

In your reincarnation, nothing about your ethnic or racial background will be different from your real identity. Still, based on the country you pick, you will immediately become fluent in the national language to help you communicate.

The options are:

• Nazi Germany
• The Soviet Union during Stalin
• Imperial Japan
• Democratic Kampuchea
• North Vietnam during the Vietnam War

Which of these options would you pick? You can also pick another option for more money.

100 million, but you must survive 1 minute in any of these locations below. After a minute, you are teleported back. You're not allowed to bring any special equipment, such as protective clothing or weapons. Any damage you may receive will not be immediately healed upon your return, and you will have to treat it yourself

• Yakutsk, Russia. During a winter night
• The summit of Mount Everest
• Danakil Desert, Ethiopia
• Gaza during an airstrike

Which of these would you pick? You can also pick another for more money

Rewatching the movie, I realized a bit of a plot hole. Rocky's ship got stranded because the taumoeba he had escaped and ate all his fuel, so Grace came back to save him, and they went to Erid on the Hail Mary. But that still begs the question of how they managed to get Rocky's taumoeba back to Erid with them. Grace sent his taumoeba back to Earth, and Rocky's Taumoeba was essentially loose on his ship. Did they drag Rocky's ship with them back to Erid, or did Grace keep some Taumoeba to breed? Any ideas?

For 100 million dollars, you will be teleported to one of these fictional events for one minute. After the minute, you are teleported back. No you cannot bring any special equipment

• Thanos Snap
• Order 66 as a Jedi
• The Hour of Joy
• The second Rage Virus outbreak in 28 weeks later
• The Rumbling
• The Scourge Virus as a viltrumite
• Outbreak Day in The Last of Us
• Minus One Godzilla's attack on Ginza City

Which would you pick?

For 100 million dollars, you must pick one of these options below to be teleported to for one minute. After the minute, you are teleported back. No, you cannot bring any special equipment

• The Elephant's Foot, Chernobyl
• North Sentinel Island
• Snake Island, Brazil
• The North Korean side of the DMZ

Which would you pick?

For the cost of one traditional sense: sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing, you get 100 million. You can also give up another sense for more money. After you give up the sense, they are gone for good. No amount of medical treatment can restore them. Would you take the deal? What sense are you getting rid of?

You are given 1 billion dollars, but the moment you take the money, you immediately lose your citizenship

• Any of your legal documents (Passports, Birth Certificates, Driver's Licenses) immediately become invalid with no way of getting them back. And you cannot get citizenship from any other country
  • Your 1 billion dollars is put into a magic bank which you can access via a special debit card. However, purchases that require identification, i.e., purchasing a house, cars, alcohol, are inaccessible
  • Your debit card can still be stolen

Would you permanently become stateless for 1 billion dollars?

You are given 1 billion dollars. Most people would want to spend it on travel. However, the next time you visit a country and leave, you are put on a permanent ban list and can never return

• This includes the country you're currently living in. If you leave for another country, you are banned from returning. Your house and the rest of your properties will be confiscated and auctioned off
• If you try to return to a country, you will be immediately detained at customs and put on death row
  • You can try to sneak into a country illegally, but if you do, you will immediately become the most wanted person in the country. Every police station and government agency will have your name plastered all over the media, and bounty hunters will be after you.
• Entering a country does not include layovers unless you go through customs and leave the airport.
  • It also does not include EEZs if you were to go on a cruise.
• In places with open borders, such as the EU, you are only placed on the ban list if you return to a country you've already set foot in.
• This rule also applies to partially recognized countries, i.e., Palestine, Taiwan, Abkhazia & South Ossetia.
  • However, if the country you're currently in is suddenly conquered and occupied by another country you've already been to, the ban will immediately apply.
• If one country you're banned from suddenly dissolves and splits into new countries, the ban is lifted and you may visit these places again.
  • Likewise, if the region of the country you're in suddenly separates and becomes its own country, then the ban will not apply to the country it was previously part of, but will apply to the new country. I.e., if you're visiting Greenland and it separates from Denmark, you won't be banned from Denmark but will be banned from Greenland.
• Any countries you've been to prior to accepting the offer will immediately have the ban
• Immigration laws are still in effect
  • You still retain your citizenship even after you are banned from your home country. Depending on your citizenship, you may not even be able to enter certain countries
  • You can still be deported from a specific country if you overstay your visa, commit a crime, etc.
    • If you are deported, it is always to your country of citizenship. Aka you are basically being sent back to die
    • UNLESS you decide to leave on your own terms to a different country

Would you take the offer? How would you handle this situation?