r/hypotheticalsituation

The amount of time you have to fight Conor McGregor is determined by how many people you've ever insulted on reddit (across all accounts).

Every insult leads to 1 second of added time. For example, if you've insulted 30 people on Reddit, then you will fight Conor for 30 seconds. If you've never insulted anybody, then you fight for 0 seconds.

Conor McGregor has been reduced in age to the year of his prime. He is going all out and is actively trying to KO you. You cannot reason with him, you cannot ask him to stop. His only mission in that moment is to take you down with all of his power (within the rules of the UFC).

If he knocks you out or makes you tap out before the time is over, then you lose. But if you manage to last the entire match time, you win $1,000,000.

Do you survive against Conor before time runs out?

What Mr Serial Killer considers to be “notable” isn’t exactly clear, but what do you have to lose? You’re the one captured and about to be executed.

If you do manage to convince him, he unties you, gives you $10, and lets you go saying you’ve restored his faith in humanity.

So what do you say?

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The Rules:

All past copies vanish from every library on Earth, all physical discs turn to dust, and servers permanently die.

No one can ever play any past entry again, and no sequels or prequels will ever be made.

The gaming industry is permanently barred from ever replicating their gameplay style, mechanics, or tone.

Which single franchise gets to survive?

1. God of War

2. Grand Theft Auto

3. Red Dead Redemption

4. Halo

5. The Last of Us

❗Remember, your choice will decide what franchises other people Remember, your choice will decide which franchise others too will forget ❗

There is a side door into the factory which opens onto a public pathway. "DO NOT ENTER" is chalked onto this door.

You find yourself increasingly curious about the factory, particularly as it seems to be left alone by teenagers, vagrants, and other types who usually frequent abandoned buildings. While a lot of information on the building is publicly available, no one seems to have any interest or curiosity about the building. Whenever you mention it to other people, even when walking past it, they appear to lose interest and focus, turning away from it or bringing up other topics.

Finally, you induce one of your friends to concentrate and hold their interest in the subject. You convince them to take on a quick exploration of the building. You both make your way to the side door. You place your hand on the door plate. and...

wake up the next morning in your own bed. You have no recollection whatsoever of the intervening period. You phone your friend, who professes to remember nothing at all about your suggestion, and appears to believe that you have been dreaming or hallucinating. None of the people you meet who should have seen you that day appears to think anything out of the ordinary happened, although they are unable to confirm anything you did personally after the time you set out for the building.

You head back to the factory. The chalked message on the side door has now changed: "IF YOU COME AGAIN, YOU WILL REMEMBER." You show this message to others, but they either ignore the message, or treat it as an innocuous message that does not have you in mind.

Do you attempt to enter through the side door again?

By service, I mean it could be health, food, streaming, whatever.

You are about to enter a mall that has many people in it.

Suddenly, God of Divine Revelations appears in front of you and shares a secret.

One of the people currently at the mall, he says, has socks that will bring luck and wealth if YOU get them. If you get their socks and keep them under your bed for 3 days, you will win $1 million in a lottery, have tremendous success in your industry, and have luck on your side for your entire life.

Guaranteed.

He can't tell you which person it is, though. You have to find out yourself. But this one person doesn't know their socks become magical if you get them.

–What do you do?

It’s extremely detailed (obviously) and about everything. Life, the universe, Heaven, Hell, etc.

God will take your feedback with extremely serious consideration.

Try to be constructive and not insulting though. Don’t overplay your hand. That tends not to work well with omnipotent deities.

You can also decline, in which case the survey goes to the person you most hate in the entire world.

What do you do?

Junior Genie has returned, but he's not advanced up the genie chain too much so he's still on small wishes.

He lets out a long sigh, and with a resigned tone says:

"You have a choice, you can either have all of the birthday presents you've ever received or all of the Christnas presents you've ever received, up to the most recent event. Oh, and if your birthday falls on Christmas day you get both automatically as that must suck"

With that last caveat you get the feeling that JG is rebelling a tiny amount.

you can recognize your mother, you can love your spouse and you can understand exactly what you're doing

you just can't stop yourself from wanting to eat them

now imagine scientists discover that the infection is curable but only if the infected person survives for 30 days without killing anyone, the problem is that the hunger becomes progressively stronger every day

so the question:

If you were infected, would you trust yourself to survive those 30 days or would you rather be killed while you're still completely yourself?

You choose any one specific crime (not categories, not severities, not technicalities), an illegal action, and humanity as a whole is unable to do that crime ever again (a mental block, an instinct, etc.) Making people physically and mentally unable to commit that crime, even to the point they cannot consciously make others do it (framing or coercion doesn’t work) and it is practically eliminated for the rest of history as no one has the will to commit such a crime.

But upon choosing said crime, you are accused, tried and found guilty of said crime, it doesn’t matter if you didn’t do it, no amount of people believing you didn’t do it, no amount of evidence, etc. will find you not guilty. You serve the maximum sentence for whatever crime that is. You are treated as if you actually did commit said crime.

So the idea is that you can never have a “true” accident. You have 10x the probability of having any accident, and exactly one hour after it happens you get sent back to before it happens with the certitude it won’t happen. If you or someone else is dead, injured, whatever, it won’t carry back. Would you take it?

How many times would you press it?

Would you rather live as:

A device placed in your head live streams your vision and what you're hearing 24/7 in times square.

You are sent to an isolated island, nobody will ever contact you. You get 3 hours of internet each day, but you cannot interact there, only browsing is possible. You cannot access the phone offline. Unlimited food( the food will be boring)

All of these punishments only last 1 year

You are given the opportunity to win $100 million USD for completely free but you must pick one of these 3 punishments.

The money will be instantly deposited into your accounts once you complete the challenge

Punishment 1:

Twice a month every month for 1 years, you must remove all the chewed up gum from underneath all the school desks from a random school using only your teeth.

How old each piece of used gum is varies randomly, it could be an old, hard and crumbly piece or a fresh wet piece.

You will NOT be magically healed after each time and any illness’ contracted must be treated yourself.

You can choose when to do them but you must do it at least twice a month

Punishment 2:

Every time you start a conversation with anyone, the first thing you must say is “Don’t worry I’m not a creep, I’m one of the good ones”. Whilst giving a creepy smile.

You cannot give any context or explain at all and you must continue with your day to day life.

Punishment 3:

Each time you leave the house, there’s a 20% chance an angry, Prime Jon Jones appears in front of you. You must fight him for 5 minutes.

Once the 5 minutes are up he disappears and all your physical injuries disappear.

However the pain from your injuries will remain. For example, if he breaks your arm, it will feel like he broke it but it’s actually perfectly fine.

The pain will last for half the time it takes for your injury to heal naturally.

The pain will not be enough to send you to the hospital or make you miss work but it’ll hurt enough that regular painkillers won’t be enough

Are you taking the deal and if so which punishment are you taking.

It must be a legitimate confrontation where both parties are on equal footing save for personal skill, so no "who's the best at being me" or "what number am I thinking of?"

The Grim Reaper can absolutely trounce the average practitioner of whatever you pick and wipe the floor with a first-timer so if you think yourself better than 50% of the population at whatever you choose, you have a chance.

If you currently have an injury/condition or any other impediment you are temporarily rid of it but you must participate with your current level of physical fitness/preparedness or the level of those qualities you had on an average day when you were practising it.

The memories will be as if you experienced them. You will not inherit any of the coping strategies or emotional healing they have experienced.

The memories could come from anyone in your circle of friends, acquaintances, and work connections. You don’t get to choose, it’s entirely random.

You get $100 if you walk a mile. Every mile afterwards doubles your gains. Mile two is $200, mile three is $400, etc.

For the sake of the question let's say conditions are more or less optimal: The walk starts after you wake up and get ready, you can bring a backpack of supplies, the day is pleasant temp. and/or overcast if you don't want the sun bearing down on you, it's on a free day and all your dependants at home (children, pets, elders etc.) are taken care of. Your distance gets counted regardless of how far you get from the starting point so if you want to make a rectangle around your block repeatedly it counts and once you stop you are given a ride home so you don't have to make the whole walk in reverse if you do just get comically far out from your house. You may also take breaks to catch your breath/adjust yourself and eat or drink but you can't go take a nap or stop for something like a full hour and call that a break.

The limitations are: no actively looking at a screen but you can bring your headphones and music/podcasts/noise cancelling, etc. The walk must also be outdoors and not on a treadmill/other walking in place implements and sprinting doesn't get added to your distance so the maximum amount of moneymaxxing you can do is powerwalking.

For reference: Millionaire mark is at the fourteenth mile with a payout of $1.638.400 and the billionaire mark is at twenty-fourth mile with a payout of $1.677.721.600. Thirty-three is the Musk mile where you'd sit at $858B about thirty something million short of Elon Musk's net worth with the thirty-fourth mile at $1.7T where you'd be at almost double it.

Good news! Santa Claus is real...and he's looking for additional help. In fact, you have a variety of options to choose from. All of them are also year round, since there's a lot going on. You may pick the hours you do each day as well.

>Gift making. Self explanatory. You will be given huge textbooks, from everything to make a toy train to how to build a gaming PC from scratch. You may not take any toys or names for yourself. - 30 dollars an hour

>Nice-ness checker. You will be given a list of nice things and not-so-nice thing every kid did on the planet. You will be tasked with stamping naughty or nice for each one. You are required not to pick any favorites or take note of any of the information. Despite what many say, Santa does not appreciate stalking - 12 dollars an hour

>Animal handling. The reindeer of course. You have to keep them clean, feed them, handle them. You will be given help, as well as some guides on how to take care of them. You may also have to handle the odd polar bear, but you will be provided means of self defense here. Santa packs heat - 50 dollars an hour

>Housekeeping. This one's way less 'Christmassy' but its still important. Vacuum the rug, keep the fireplace going, help Mrs. Claus in the kitchen, that sorta thing - 15 dollars an hour

You may also pull double duty on two or more of these, if you're okay putting in a little overtime

Some other notes

>No need to worry about transport. Santa picks you up and drops you off himself every day. He can handle going around the planet in 12 hours, he can handle a carpool.

>You will be working with elves. They will be exceptionally friendly, especially if you're kind to them back, but note that some accommodations might be small for you. You ever see Elf with Will Ferrel? It'll be kinda like that

>You will, in fact, be working in the North Pole, so it will be cold. However, you will be provided with appropriate winter gear. Heavy duty coats, sturdy boots, gloves, earmuffs and unlimited free hot chocolate during each and every shift

>Some of the retail workers here might find this one a turnoff but...there will, in fact, be Christmas music playing all year round. Not just radio toppers from right now, though. Santa has been around a long time, so you will be listening to Christmas music from all genres. From Mariah Carrie, to O Tannenbaum, to Old Roman songs in a language not spoken anymore, but is, according to Santa, at least, very Christmassy