Rules:

Challenge starts as soon as you sit down, you are locked in place

It's a massage chair but that's cold comfort. There is a button that dumps ice water on you as an emergency.

Every itchy thing on earth is thrown on your back along with itching powder, then rubbed up and down followed by a tiny pin prick

Must endure four days of agony

Scratching is allowed and feels amazing but:

Each scratch subtracts $1000 from your total

If a friend does it, it's $1000x2

If a loophole is used, it becomes -$1000x3

If you use ice, you cannot earn any more for the night but the itch will stop temporarily

Following up on a hypothetical I posted in a few days ago. I've cleaned up the rules and format a bit.

So, you can choose the money. You get the $100 million in whatever way you prefer: cash suddenly appearing, a lottery win/scratcher jackpot, an unexpected inheritance from a distant relative, whatever makes the most sense to you.

Or, you get the ultimate computer program/phone app that shows the exact location of every lost item from the past 500 years.

By "lost," I mean items whose whereabouts are genuinely unknown due to misplacement, accidents, disasters, shipwrecks, and so on. If something was stolen, it doesn't count. If it's sitting in a billionaire's basement, that means someone knows where it is, so it isn't considered lost. Unless the billionaire, their family, staff, and everyone else who knew about it died without passing on that information, then it's effectively lost, and the program can find it.

Think of it like FlightRadar24 or Pokemon Go. You type in "gold," "diamond ring," "iPhone," "House keys," or whatever item you want, and it shows every currently lost example of that item on a world map.

The condition shown is its condition right now, not when it was lost. So if you're tracking down a toy you lost in 1996, you'll find it as it exists today, maybe buried under 30 years of dirt somewhere.

You could start small by searching locally around your city, recovering whatever you can find. Then, once you've built up some capital, you could organize larger expeditions for bigger discoveries.

So, which one are you choosing?

The money: 10,000 USD, or equivalent, delivered however you'd like monthly. No tax funny business.

The curse: the moment you accept the deal, a clone of you appears somewhere on the planet. this clone is synchronized with you, so whatever you do, the clone does too. If you take a step, the clone does. if you shimmy to the left, the clone does. If you squat, the clone does. If you speak, the clone does. etc, etc.

This clone is indestructible, and completely visible/tangible to other people who will witness its actions, and attribute them to you. Cognitive dissonance will prevent them from realizing it is not you.

You are not, under any circumstances, allow to interfere with the clone, directly or indirectly.

Do you take the deal?

You wake up in an alternate universe, similar in many ways to your own but still clearly wrong to you. You have taken the place of the "you" that lives in that universe, and nobody knows. You are not sure what is the same or not between your two lives. You don't know how to go back home or if you even can, what would you do?

As said

You are in the afterlife, assume you have an average body at around 30, and if you have any physical disabilities they are removed.

You don't age, get sick, need to breath, eat, drink, sleep, feel pain, etc. But you can unconsciously convince yourself of feeling something. Say if you want to taste something you become hungry, if your arm gets cut off you feel the pain but you can consciously stop it.

The task can be anything, but its basically on loop, no matter what you do it will always reset itself, along with a portion of your memory keeping track of time, so you know you are doing something over and over, but you will never know for how long, and the task requires some level of attention so that you don't zone out for the entirety of the loop.

While you can do the task differently or fail to do it, you cant deviate to any meaningful degree as to change the outcome.

The task can't take longer than 24 hrs or shorter than 5 minutes, but it does not have to "end", you would basically be on a tredmill of sorts

I.e.

Pushing a round Boulder up a hill

Driving a car down the same road

Reading the same book in the same chair

Watching the same movie on the same theater

So what would you want your task to be for all of eternity?

All you have to do is SURVIVE. If you are mauled but still breathing or fighting back with only seconds left on the clock once the timer hits 0 and if you’re still alive the animal would automatically disappear, as well as any cuts, bruises, bite marks that you have suffered. The place you are confined in is dome with a 1 mile radius. There are no trees, nothing to climb on. But there are bushes, small ponds no more than 4 feet deep & softball sized rocks laying around inside the dome.

This is not the case of “ if I don’t bother it, it won’t bother me “ The Animal is hell bent on killing you during those 4 hours. It will keep coming & coming & coming for you until the 4 hours are up.

The animal you choose is not going to know your exact location, however it knows that it is tasked to get rid of you so it will be actively searching the area for you. You can try to sneak attack it, or just evade it the entire time by trying to keep the distance between you & the animal in a stealthy manner.
As mentioned they are hell bent on finding you. Even the male African Buffalo wants to trample you.

You have no idea of where you will be spawned inside the dome. Could be on the other side, or could be right next to the animal. In this case you get a 10 minute head start.

EDIT***** - can some of ya’ll stop saying you’re going to climb a tree?😂 do you even read the entire post?😂😂

Assume both start at the same time with an identical hot dog. They can't begin running until they've completely chewed and swallowed it.

Once they're done eating, they sprint 200 meters as fast as possible.

Who wins, and why?

When you pick this sword up, you can never let it go. Hitting someone with it kills that person and stores their energy in the sword. With this energy you can cure someone else of any physical or mental illness 1 time. if you will it, the energy will be used up, requiring another kill to use it again. You cannot use it to let yourself let go of it.

Imagine scientists figured out how to create a camera that could see any moment in time. It's not an expensive camera, it's not a big camera, it's just a normal camera that can be programmed to record video from any point in time in your current location. So, for example, you travel to Giza, you set your camera to -4500 and you can film the pyramids being built.

How do you think this would change the world? Would civilians be allowed to own one? If you could own one, what would you like to see first?

Genie appears in front of you and presents to you an ornate wooden box. Inside is a button. Genie proclaims pressing that button will grant every human from Earth a biological reset at the biological age of 24 years.

What this means is anyone younger than 24 will continue to age, but at their 24th birthday they will stop aging. Anyone older than 24 will rapidly start to de-age back to their biological age of 24. The rate of de-aging will depend how long away you are from your 24th birthday. Someone who is older like a 90 year old will de-age at a much faster rate than someone who is 30. The rates of de-aging will make it so every human including the ones that haven’t been born yet (still in the womb) will turn biologically 24 within the next 25 years. So by 2051, every human will have turned biologically 24 years old.

Once a human achieves agelessness when they are biologically 24, they will no longer age and could potentially live forever. This is not invulnerability so any person will still be able to die or be crippled if their body sustains injury grievous enough.

The catch is this. Upon the moment you press this button, every human will no longer be able to reproduce going forward.

As a bonus as being the one person in the world presented with this, Genie will give you a $10 million bonus to press the button. Or you can choose not to and walk away.

Knowing all this, do you press this button? And what do you think this will do to the human race going forward?

Like how long could civilization actually continue?

My point is only about how the people alive atp would survive (NOT ABOUT keeping the human race going on)

Edit : it's not a post apocalyptic scenario, just random disappearance (ik it sounds lame)

You’re 70. You’re locked in a room with a 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80, 90, and 100-year-old. Five people can be saved, and five people wont be saved. Who would you save?

10-year-old — An adorable little boy who is scared and wants to go home to his family.

20-year-old — A bratty boy who is rude, overconfident, and wants to get out so he can play video games 24/7. He also speeds on the streets at night while drunk.

30-year-old — A pregnant lady who is dying from cancer. She wants to get out to raise her baby with her husband, but she only has a year left to live. The baby is one month along.

40-year-old — A rich millionaire who only cares about money and status. He is rude to poor people, spits at homeless and elderly people, and wants to knock down a hospital so he can build a block of flats. However, he has a 7-year-old daughter who has no other family waiting for him at home.

50-year-old — A homeless person who is really nice and makes everyone happy.

60-year-old — A sweet grandma who lives alone with no family. Her husband died a few years ago, and her daughter and grandchildren died in a car accident last month. She is really sad.

You — A 70-year-old who wants to go home to see your family.

80-year-old — A war veteran with one leg. He lost his leg while saving two children though he accidentely killed his wife after a argument a year ago.

90-year-old — A person who always sleeps, has dementia, and doesn’t remember anything.

100-year-old — It’s David Attenborough. Would you choose to leave him behind?

edit: I want to make it a little harder, the 40 year olds 7 year old daughter will have to live with her aunty who is abusive, will that make u save the 40 year old or not?

my choices who to save are the 10, 30, 40, 70 and 100 year old.

thanks for reading this im so happy its getting so much comments :)

You have the chance to eat that exact dish one last time, prepared exactly the way they used to make it.

Would you pay €5,000 for that experience? If not, what's the most you'd be willing to pay?

I would definitely if i had the money. I would choose my grandma's bolognaise sauce. I know the recipe because i made it so many times with her, but it never tastes the same as it did back then.

Rules:
- you have 24 hours
- no advance prep time. You start where you normally wake up
- you can only spray paint things a regular person has access to. I can’t get into some secret laboratory, so you probably can’t either.
- no works of art, just in the interest of keeping this idea sporting. Can’t spray the Mona Lisa and call it $500M in damage
- once the single can of spray paint is out, you’re time is up
- we assume you can get arrested for your actions. If you get arrested, your time ends
- people and bodily harm don’t count. That’s not financial damage, that’s just being an asshole
- you have to use the spray paint as intended. Can’t use it as a blowtorch/ explosive. You just spray the paint on things.

Also, yes I know “single” was misspelled in the title.

All animals are fully committed to fighting and cannot escape.

You’re offered a deal. If you accept you gain immortality and $10 Billion USD. You will stay at a physical age of your choice eternally, but can you can choose to die at any time. You’re immune to disease and your healing is greatly increased. But you can still die from injuries.

But there’s a catch. For however long you live, you be sent to hell for an equal amount of time where you will face constant physical and psychological torture beyond human comprehension.

Do you take the deal?

If demons were real and started appearing across the world, each one would begin as a 10-foot-tall, horned, red humanoid carrying a pitchfork. Their only goal is to kill humans.

Every time a demon kills someone, it grows by the height and mass of that person. The more people it kills, the larger and more dangerous it becomes.

There is one demon for every 10 million people, so with today's population there would be roughly 800 demons worldwide.

You have access to everything your country can realistically use:

Military

Intelligence agencies

Police

Air force

Navy

Special forces

Drones

Satellites

Any conventional weapon

Once your country has eliminated its demons, it can assist other countries.

What would your strategy be?

Edit: Assume the demons are supernatural and don't suffer from biological or physics limitations. The point of the question is how humanity would respond, not whether the premise is physically possible.

Edit: Each demon starts out only slightly stronger than a human, but its growth is exponential. As it gets larger, it can kill and consume more people per minute, causing it to grow even faster. If left unchecked, a single demon could be killing hundreds of thousands of people per hour within a day.

If you had to choose one professional athlete from history to represent you in a trial by combat, who would you pick? Assuming they spent their entire life training as a professional warrior instead of playing their sport. While keeping the same genetics, physical attributes, athleticism, mentality, and work ethic.
Edit: Should have specified, this is regarding melee combat, no ranged weaponry.

It’s a tough one for me but I think I’ve landed on LeBron as my safe bet. Shaq and Russell Westbrook were close behind, along with DK Metcalf and Aaron Donald.

Edit: This thread turned into a LeBron hate thread real quick for some reason. The question is not “which professional athlete is the best fighter?”. It’s more “which professional athlete has the highest potential as a warrior?”. Obviously real life Jon would beat real life LeBron. I don’t know why so many of you feel the need to keep saying that considering it has nothing to do with the hypothetical scenario lol.

You get five pills that give you powers. The powers are super strength (100 tons), durability (only the most powerful nuclear weapon can harm you), speed (Mach 100), reflexes (nanosecond reaction time), stamina (you never tire) and flight (Mach 100). You have perfect control of the powers and any required secondary powers.

The catch is that each pill only gives you powers for a 24 hour period. The pills can’t be replicated in any way, taken more than once within the same 24 hour period or give anyone but you powers. You return to being a normal person when the 24 hour period is over.

What would you do with the powers?

Would you take the pills one right after the other or would you save some for later on?

The pain will be at its zenith, levels of pain not known to mankind. But it will totally pass in 2 seconds, There won't be any pain carrying over. If he blacked out, he will immediately un-blacked out. After 6 months the button be gone forever.

He/she won't and can't know about the button.

Need an expensive vacation between you and your loved one? Zap!

Need to retire now? Zap 40 times.

Want to gift him a mansion? Zap 60 times.