Button Rule

press button

Get million dollars

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

Money can be exchanged for many hormones

No, the chance of death isn't high enough

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

sets up auto clicker

cuz you can only die once anyway, so you will end up with a chance approaching 100% of getting the money
If it continues clicking after your death its infinite money. Not for you, but fir someone..

Meanwhile, people who play Xcom refuse to press the button.

Can I throw a grenade at the button?
I don't even walk out my front door unless I see full cover nearby
I know it says 100% chance to die.

I'm still pushin it.
I'm read like a book
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
- For the new game, on some difficulties it is rigged. But only ever in the player's favor.

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

If you roll a 1% chance of dying every day, you don’t make it to your first birthday
- I'm just incredible lucky
Damn, what is it like to be you?
- My name is Bond, James Bond.

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.

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.
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.
- 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.
- Like being hit by a train.
At 30 pushes you still have a chance of 73,97% to live. Thats not thaat bad for 30million

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

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

Monkey paw strikes again.
- Man you got a shitty family if they'll give up your hard earned drug money

Only 1% chance of winning? Fuck no.

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.

That‘s… not how any of this works
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...
- Death is gruesome. Even dying in your sleep is still gruesome.

Swap those numbers and you got yourself a deal!

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

No.

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.
If you haven't run across it, UFO:AI is an open source "re-release" of X-COM Apocalypse
I was about to comment about Fire Emblem but yes Xcom is the superior example.

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.

sweet, a quantum immortality tester that prints money.

Stop, stop, the button only works once!

Your odds of dying are worse if you earn the million through work.

What happens if I slap the button with my cock?

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.
- But they get style points and thats all that matters

Either way I deal with my dysphoria :3

99 times

About 37% of getting 99 million dollars And 63% of dying

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.

I'm pressing it multiple times until I get my gruesome death of being buried under a mountain of money.

A MILLION DOLLARS! Austin Powers scene.

No. But for 100 million 🤔

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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!

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.

Win-Win

You can press it 69 times and still have a 50% chance of living

How does that work mathematically?
- 0.99**69 = 0.4998

Thats a win-win Situation, why wouldn't I push it?

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

Real question is how often are you willing to press the button

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.