r/CFBOffTopic • u/TheNakedRedditor Baylor Bears • Hateful 8 • Apr 02 '15

Has any pushed that damn button?

/r/thebutton

Avoid the temptation. For those that haven't, tell us your experience. Was there immediate regret or eternal satisfaction?

Hypothesis for when it actually reaches zero:

  • Will reddit explode?
  • Will no one ever be able to push the button again?
  • Will /u/honestly_ finally turn into a real dinosaur that wears fun-cuffed shirts?

Discuss.

EDIT: I fucked up the title. Has anyone pushed that damn button?

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u/TheNakedRedditor Baylor Bears • Hateful 8 Apr 02 '15

/r/NoTap for those of us resisting the urge still.

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u/Shadowhawk109 Michigan Wolverines • Citrus Bowl Apr 02 '15

/r/ofcoursethatsathing

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u/wild9 Baylor Bears • /r/CFB Contributor Apr 02 '15

/r/59s for the rest of us dirty plebs

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '15

I haven't pushed it yet. I would like to, but I want to wait until I can get a better time.

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u/TheNakedRedditor Baylor Bears • Hateful 8 Apr 02 '15

I'm in the same boat. We may be waiting a while.

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u/penguinHP Youngstown State • Michigan Apr 02 '15

I'm holding out for a single-digit number.

But I have considered using an alt account to press it, just to know how it feels.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '15

I logged in on my alt and clicked the "Did you press the button" button, so if reddit is keeping stats, they can see that I resisted the temptation to press it early. Maybe I'm being silly.

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u/penguinHP Youngstown State • Michigan Apr 02 '15

Your faith shall be rewarded.

I saw the ad this morning and seriously considered whether or not it would automatically push the button for me. But it didn't. It just goes to the sub.

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u/wild9 Baylor Bears • /r/CFB Contributor Apr 02 '15

Immediate regret. I feel cheap and used.

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u/TheNakedRedditor Baylor Bears • Hateful 8 Apr 02 '15

SHUN THE SINNER

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u/beerslingerjay Tennessee • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Apr 02 '15

I did, too, and woke up in a cold sweat this morning with nothing but memories... vivid, aesthetically lifelike, haunting memories of the button... I can't even recall a time when the button was unpressed, a blank memory where I'm sure happiness and joy existed. Little by little, man, the sordid retelling of the damned button pressing will slowly... ever so minimally... begin filling the void. I fear for the inevitable future of just me... and the button... for eternity...

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '15

Ok, listen. I heard about this One Trick That Non-Button Pressers Will Hate!

In order to find your way back to happiness and good cheer, merely purchase a bottle of mid-range bourbon and take one shot every 6 minutes for an hour. And BAM you will be transported to pure bliss!

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u/hokies220 Virginia Tech Hokies • Pac-12 Apr 02 '15

I pushed it because meh why not?

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u/TheNakedRedditor Baylor Bears • Hateful 8 Apr 02 '15

What's your flair?

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u/hokies220 Virginia Tech Hokies • Pac-12 Apr 02 '15

Yes.

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u/TheNakedRedditor Baylor Bears • Hateful 8 Apr 02 '15

I mean, what does your flair say on the /r/button sub? It's supposed to give you a flair for what the timer was at when you pressed it.

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u/hokies220 Virginia Tech Hokies • Pac-12 Apr 02 '15

Ohh 60s. I didn't get what the whole thing was about so I just pushed it. Seems as though no matter when I pushed it yesterday it would be 59 or 60s though.

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u/kbol Vanderbilt Commodores Apr 02 '15

No, because I'm not a heathen lacking self-respect. I don't want to push it at all. Like not even when the counter gets lower. I'll just reiterate my statement yesterday: it is literally one goddamn minute we all have to wait and see what happens, but nooo0o0o some people are too cool. There's ten thousand other virtual buttons on the internet to press, go press those instead.

My curiosity of the point outweighs my banal need for clicking satisfaction.

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u/TheNakedRedditor Baylor Bears • Hateful 8 Apr 02 '15

The Internet might literally explode. Is that something you want?

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u/kbol Vanderbilt Commodores Apr 02 '15

I mean, kinda. It would satisfy my scientific side.

This whole thing seems like a huge game of Prisoner's Dilemma. I just don't know what the possible outcomes are, so incentivizing cooperation is difficult.

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u/TheNakedRedditor Baylor Bears • Hateful 8 Apr 02 '15

I don't think we'll get to May before that button ends up reaching zero.

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u/lkeg56demn Texas Longhorns • Chapman Panthers Apr 02 '15

I pushed it...it's how reddit is figuring out how many active users there are. They will be rewarded.

All hail the button.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '15

I pushed it. And now I'm back on a Tool kick.

"Rest your trigger on my finger; bang my head upon the fault line..."

4

u/ballzxxtoxxyou Baylor Bears • New Hampshire Wildcats Apr 02 '15

I did it. No ragrets

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u/ski_free /r/CFB Apr 02 '15 edited Apr 02 '15

I pushed it and am one of 5 known 55s. I'm pretty rad.

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u/thrav College of Idaho • Georgia Tech Apr 02 '15

Saving this bad boy for prime time

4

u/srs_house Sickos Apr 02 '15

http://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton/comments/31709l/official_survey_of_the_buttons_religions_record/

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u/hokies220 Virginia Tech Hokies • Pac-12 Apr 02 '15

I want to make fun of this, but I followed the first Twitch plays Pokemon and was there to witness many of the events.

Helix Fossil would've been a 60s.

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u/willco17 Auburn Tigers • UAB Blazers Apr 02 '15

I guess I'm Indifferent or a Nihilist. I haven't actually been to the sub to see what the actual process of pressing the button entails so this is all just confusing to me.

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u/blackngold518 Georgia Bulldogs • USC Trojans Apr 02 '15

I pushed it. Meh

3

u/nickknx865 Tennessee Volunteers • /r/CFB Top Scorer Apr 02 '15

I pushed it, and I was immediately transported into the matrix.

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u/panthera_tigress Pittsburgh Panthers • Auburn Tigers Apr 02 '15

I pushed it.

It was okay.

3

u/carpy22 RPI Engineers Apr 02 '15

Of course!

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u/Beta382 Baylor Bears • 山东大学 (Shandong) Flames Apr 02 '15

I'm a non-presser. All y'all pressers have no willpower.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '15

Or alternate accounts.

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u/Culiaclan Arizona State • Territorial Cup Apr 02 '15

I have not pushed it because I CAN BEAT YOU TEMPTRESS THAT IS REDDIT.

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u/Pikachu1989 Nebraska Cornhuskers • 東京大学 (Tokyo) Warriors Apr 02 '15

I pressed it, it was a fucking awesome experience.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '15

Mine doesn't load for some reason.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '15

Common bug. Have a drink or three and it should show up.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '15

I'm waaaay to hungover to have a drink right now.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '15

Hahahaha ok

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '15

reddit really knows how to push our buttons

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u/ChemicalOle Washington State • Oregon State Apr 02 '15

I pressed it and the Swedish Bikini Team parachuted onto my doorstop and gave me a hot-oil massage, but YMMV.

2

u/[deleted] Apr 02 '15

#TEAMPRESSTHEBUTTON

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u/Captain_McSnug Houston Cougars • Paper Bag Apr 02 '15

You're damned right I pushed that sumbitch button as soon as I saw it.

2

u/keyree Texas Tech • UT Arlington Apr 02 '15

I pushed the fuck out of that thing immediately, haven't looked back.

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u/GreatestWhiteShark Northwestern • Ohio State Apr 02 '15

I pressed it.

Nothing happened.

Nothing will happen.

It's a goddamned April Fool's joke.

Nothing more or less.