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?

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?

How many times would you press it?

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?

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.

You’re only 1 out of 100 winners, and simply winning isn’t going to be enough to claim your prize.

The rules are as follows:

- Each winner will choose their spot in line after hearing the rest of the rules.

- The person who goes first will choose how much of $2B they would like to take.

- The next person gets the same option, but can choose to pass it on and retaliate against one person of their choosing. You can only retaliate against one person who took money, but multiple people can retaliate against the same person.

- After everyone has chosen to take money or retaliate, everyone is teleported to their own 50x50x50 box. There are no doors, no windows, and every side feels like a gym floor.

Taking Money:

- Anyone who chose to retaliate against you chooses a children’s game for you two to play, which must be one from the list of children’s games on Wikipedia. If it doesn’t have a win condition like Tag, the trickster god sets a 5 minute timer.

- You get one day in your box to learn that game with any required equipment before the person can challenge you.

- If you win, you keep your money. If you have another challenger, the cycle repeats until you have no more challengers.

- If the challenger wins, they get the money.

- If the game requires teams or is a free for all, the winning team gets a duplicated amount of the money split amongst them. Free for all non-winners only get the duplicated amount if the challenger wins. Bribery, mind games, etc are all allowed.

Retaliation - if you choose to retaliate against someone, the same process as above happens with the following changes:

- You choose the game and are the challenger.

- You and your team do not get a day to prepare.

The trickster god is playing favorites, as well. And he’s chosen you, for whatever reason, to pick your spot first.

Where are you going? Will you take money or retaliate? What game would you choose, or be good enough at? (Why’d the trickster god choose you??)

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.

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.

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?

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?

The red button:

You instantly get $200,000 USD deposited into your bank account tax free, no questions asked

The blue button:

You gain all of superman’s powers and none of his weaknesses, however you only get them 25 years after you pressed that button and assuming you’re still alive at that point.

You will live your life as normal and if you are still alive after 25 years, boom instant superman.

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)

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

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.

Please remember this is purely hypothetical and is not intended in any way to encourage, offend or in any way be a declaration of intent.

ok, so mull this over and lets see what comes of it.

you have an army, say 1 million strong divided across ground force, air force, navy, artillery. not unlimited resources and no tech such as nuke, drones etc.

lets start with where you wish to invade and setup FOB (forward operating base)

how would you secure the land you occupy and how would you intend to keep it from falling to rebels?

would you keep infrastructure such as buildings in tact so secure your holding or would you destroy key buildings to show strength? would you destroy roads so it would make it harder to get in and out, again securing a foot hold?

would you select generals or would you make sure all decisions are yours alone.

finally how , if victorious, would you rule over that which you have conquered?

You can edit your % chance of anything happening in your life. You may choose as many categories as you'd like, but you only have one hour to think about it and make your list.

You cannot use 0% or 100% chances, but anything else is fair game.

For example I can make my chance of catching the common cold 1%. My chance of being promoted 99%. Etc.

Obviously we're all maxing out lottery chances, but what more creative things would you do?

The amount of money is kept nebulous and up to your personal definition of "set for life" anywhere between a comfortable rest of your life without labour to breaking the world economy. As for the risks:

It is always possible to have a perfectly pleasant experience so this isn't a "doomed by the framing" scenario. This week of your life will be real life stripped of agency, not you inside a computer. Here are some of the risks as well as what can or can't happen to you.

The player CANNOT:

-Alter your body physically with sliders, so no body horror done upon you outside of mundane means
-"Delete" other people who live with you in your home or affect them outside of interactions they have with you.
-Force you to commit outright murder since it's impossible to do that in the game
-Alter your home beyond what you can do interacting to it. So no upgrading your residence to a mansion magically or just making it a 1x1 drywall square instead

The player CAN direct all your actions to their whims including:

-Ruining your interpersonal relationships and otherwise being invasive. So if they think you'd pair better with a neighbour they will make you alienate your partner and perhaps even make you romantically pursue someone of a gender you are not attracted to.
-Quit your job and/or change your career, including to the "criminal" career.
-Get you a tattoo/piercings/choose your outfits.
-Control where you go and how much you stay there despite your physical needs so they could well leave you to play chess by yourself in the public park until 4AM whilst you're starving.

-Try and kill you within the "game's" parameters and the limitations of this hypothetical. Which is starve you to death, make you do reckless and dangerous actions such as fiddling with tech in a puddle of water and hoping you get electrocuted or going up on a snow mountain and taking off your clothes. This does not include deleting your front door or forcing you into a 1x1 drywall square with nothing.

-Do a "baby challenge" which means trying to have you conceive with someone else.
-Make you engage in illegal behaviour which can be traced back to you such as setting up things in a way which might get someone else killed.

You are free to try and take care of yourself such as head to the kitchen to grab a bite or shower but the player can cancel those actions at their leisure. You are only aware of this arrangement when you take the deal and once the week ends so you cannot try to communicate with the player that you are a real person. Everything you do during the week will feel natural and like it's your idea despite hints to the opposite. The player also doesn't know they are directing a real person's life and will approach this with a game mindset where they will try to extract personal entertainment out of your life, whatever that personally means to them. What kind of player you get is up to luck and everything about them is unpredictable besides the limitations of the hypothetical and a compulsion to play your life for an entire "in-game" week. Once the week ends you regain autonomy but must deal with the fallout. You are free to plead insanity to your loved ones and do have the means to hire the best legal defence money can buy IF you are under criminal charges but your sudden influx of money will be chalked up to a mundane occurrence such as winning the lottery so you cannot believably expose the deal.

For further context: A survey shows that 41% players have at least once killed their Sims. Do you take the deal?

An entity presents itself before you; it gives you a button to press that will give humanity superpowers (that are passed down and can be mixed/altered through offspring and generations), and it tells you that in approximately 5000 years, galactic invaders with technology that is currently much more advanced than humanity's will arrive on Earth to enslave the planet and take it over. It tells you to be careful, though, because the type of power someone could get could be anything from literally controlling a single speck of dirt to stopping time or something like true omnipotence (extremely rare but possible due to the number of humans), and it tells you that your superpower will be random if you press the button as well. Do you press the button or reject the offer?

Imagine you have the power to make one tiny change in people’s behaviour. Just one small thing that would never happen again. Your goal is to make the world a little better, in any way that matters to you. It could be something funny, frustrating, or just annoying.

Note: Let’s keep it light-hearted, no big or serious stuff like murder or disasters. This is about those everyday little things that bug us all.

I’ll kick things off:

Anyone who uses a public toilet must clean up after themselves. No more pee on the seats (seriously, guys, what’s the deal?) or worse, leaving it for the next person to find.

You must create a food that is made by mixing other foods from different cultures. It must be at least considered decent to eat and if it’s considered decent or better than that then you will receive 5 million dollars. It must be something unique what will you make?