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04-21-2013 , 03:23 PM
We should turn this into a draft
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04-21-2013 , 03:26 PM
I figured it was a case of: going into the basement for 10 years is unavoidable, what do you do? I thought the 4L thread was sorely missing a poll asking if you'd do it in the first place if you had a choice.
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04-21-2013 , 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by filthyvermin
good point moocher. you could also get books published on other planets. those could potentially be very valuable and useful
aha you can read Martian?
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04-21-2013 , 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by filthyvermin
i thought the $0 option was because some people WOULD do it just for the pleasure of doing it
I can't see anyone voluntarily moving to a basement for 10 years with no big payoff awaiting them at the end. Might as well just off yourself imo. I guess there's a nonzero number of people who would do it for pleasure but they would likely be a tiny minority. (Obviously this does not include homeless people)
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04-21-2013 , 03:47 PM
for 40 points you can get twice the number of 18 year olds
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04-21-2013 , 03:51 PM
Actually the best option is probably the money upfront, ship it it my family and for the 23 points I take the chick and the drugs with obvious intentions
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04-21-2013 , 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by well named
for 40 points you can get twice the number of 18 year olds
and unlimited fast food.
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04-21-2013 , 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Monkey Banana
Duck, first man to land on Mars or write bestselling novel?

Ten million euros you can share as you like or a year in which you can have any amount of money you like but you may not spend a cent on another person or give away any of what you buy to anyone else.

Live a thousand years with one foot or ten years in perfect health, untiring, never needing sleep, strong as an ox? You die at end of whichever spell you choose.

Would you choose one true love, the woman of your dreams who you would never tire of, or a string of hotties you could discared and replace as you chose?

Five years as number 10 for Real Madrid or a Nobel Prize of your choosing? Say which one you'd choose if you go for the Nobel.
aaand we're off

Write a bestselling novel, since the idea of traveling x years with other astronauts through space locked in a space shuttle isn't really winning on me.

Ten million € which I could give to people. I would give a lot to my mom, who's had a hard time and some to other family/extended family. Having infinitive money and only using it on yourself is not me. I prefer to give gifts and is really bad at getting them ( I have a hard time saying thank you, since I want prove ti the world that I can take care of my self).

I think ten years with perfect health is me. Living a thousand years wont do me any good - you wouldn't be able to separate the memories.


One love

Nobel prize in literature (lolReal Madrid)!
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04-21-2013 , 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by well named
for 40 points you can get twice the number of 18 year olds
Or maybe just one 36 year old!
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04-21-2013 , 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by McAvoy
Do you regret saving my life?
No, you most def needed it - and POG wouldn't be the same without you.
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04-21-2013 , 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by SGT RJ
Kitchen, cat, books, TV, medical, gym.

You don't need the drugs if you have the medical, doctors can hand out some seriously high quality drugs. Opiates for pain + benzos for anxiety = good times.

Pet will help prevent serious mental issues by providing some form of companionship.

Kitchen is a no brainer, high quality meals will be a huge high point and I enjoy cooking. Books and TV for entertainment, a full cable package these days offers a ton of movies and TV shows. Gym to stay in shape, although I could see swapping this for the jacuzzi and the pool table.

I really wish one of these could get set up, or like that OOT thread about 10 years in prison for 100 million.

Although I think this is missing a basic - unlimited pen and paper. If a pool table is 1 point, that should be too. Even if it was two points, I'd swap the gym for jacuzzi/pen and paper or jacuzzi/pool table/pen and paper depending on the point price of the pen and paper.

I'd do this in a heart beat. I think I might be vaguely antisocial sometimes.
library w/ study implies pen/paper availability imo (and or scrapping books for paper / building pen with cooking ingredients)
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04-21-2013 , 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by SGT RJ
I love all the people looking for potential loopholes in stuff.

I can take all the drugs in the world then sell them!
Reminds me of someone's answer to this choice game.



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iPod with infinite battery.
throw into sea.
FBI will investigate source of massive EMP discharge.
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Originally Posted by Reddit Guy 2's Response to Reddit Guy 1
Actually, by short-circuiting an infinite energy source, he just destroyed the entire accessible universe creating a blast of utter annihilation traveling at the speed of light - a continuous EMP strong enough to tear apart protons.
The only upside of his cosmic error is that this would create not a void, but a minimal entropy extremely high density radiation-dominated space. Areas of the universe further away from the battery would expand quickly under the pressure of the created energy, quickly enough to form independent volumes. Lacking a source, the radiation would drive expansion but simultaneously lose energy. The inverse process of something that happened early in our universe - the collapse of inflation - would transmute some of this radiation into an excitation of the ground states of the quantum fields of the universe. In some cases, this would lead to a semi-stable false vacuum state, leading to a process known as eternal inflation; an infinite number of universes with any number of strange physics occupying its future. In other regions, it would lead to the collapse of our ground state into a negative density state, truly annihilating that portion of the universe. In others still, there would be no excitation. Our native physical constants would remain constant, and in time, after a googolfold expansion, the radiation would stretch into longer wavelengths. An unknown process in the early universe turned this radiation into matter as opposed to antimatter, and this same process would populate the newly formed spatial regions. If there was any variation of the production rate of the battery, this would show as massively stretched bands across their CMBR, a femtosecond flutter stretched to a scale spanning the observable universe of our day. Fourteen billion years after the end of the radiation era, googols of the googolplexians of universes thus formed would, by the sheer effect of limited combinations, contain a planet identical to ours. And on those planets, in some worlds this post would be made, and a person identical to shadofx would answer it. And though thoughts are not quantum objects, they are composed of them - so in some of these myriad worlds, by sheer accident, a thought would be derailed, resulting not in an aneurism, but in a realization of caution. And in some of those, shadowfx would heed that warning, and realize the danger of such an explosion, and he would pick a different object to bring with him.
So eventually he would get off that island, it would only take a few hundred billion years longer than expected.
Also the many uses of unlimited condoms.
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04-21-2013 , 04:55 PM
all of the nits itt need to go away
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04-21-2013 , 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Anarchist
all of the nits itt need to go away
Are they spoiling your dream scenario?
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04-21-2013 , 04:57 PM
yah
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04-21-2013 , 05:11 PM
Ugly chick (or dude if reversed), fishing equipment/knife, paper/stationary, shelter, treasure (assuming that can come with when I get off the island).

These games are easy.
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04-21-2013 , 05:17 PM
treasure is an absolute must at 4 points. lol at how cheap that is
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04-21-2013 , 05:21 PM
In the original one, the garden ldo doesn't have real sunlight, and anyone who doesn't take the sunlight is going to go insane so gl with that.

There are different options with the girl: you can have:

1. An 18yo you keep around for 10 years.
2. An 18yo who just pops in for sex every 10 years.
3. A succession of 18yos replaced once a year who stay around.
4. Same but they pop in for sex.

You can ldo have a guy if you prefer that.

"Unlimited" means as much as you need for personal use, not an unlimited amount you can then sell and make billions.

The library is not a physical space.

I think in the BBV4L thread, JMurder was too generous. He allowed the doctor to prescribe what you needed and you got those drugs free. Seems to me you get the doctor but he can't prescribe anything you didn't pay for.
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04-21-2013 , 05:42 PM
U shouldn't have to pay doctor but maybe he only gives you what u actually need?
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04-21-2013 , 05:54 PM
Maybe you should only be allowed what a doctor generally has on him?
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04-21-2013 , 07:10 PM
I am not convinced by the "Great New Career as a Blogger" route. As others have pointed out, plenty of people live in confined quarters with only access to a phone once a week and without access to an extensive library. I think you'd need a hook to get people really interested, and to do that you'd need to be doing stuff that people would want to watch, which eliminates surfing the web/zoning out in front of the TV/reading all day.

Also, that pretty much makes the hygiene kit and the workout room mandatory. If reality TV has taught us anything, it's that if we're just going to watch Average Joe being Average, he/she'd better be pretty.

Maybe if you publicized it in advance and had some Vegas bookmakers set up lines on your daily activities so the compulsive gamblers would all pay to access your stream.
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04-21-2013 , 07:17 PM
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I am not convinced by the "Great New Career as a Blogger" route. As others have pointed out, plenty of people live in confined quarters with only access to a phone once a week and without access to an extensive library. I think you'd need a hook to get people really interested, and to do that you'd need to be doing stuff that people would want to watch, which eliminates surfing the web/zoning out in front of the TV/reading all day.

Also, that pretty much makes the hygiene kit and the workout room mandatory. If reality TV has taught us anything, it's that if we're just going to watch Average Joe being Average, he/she'd better be pretty.

Maybe if you publicized it in advance and had some Vegas bookmakers set up lines on your daily activities so the compulsive gamblers would all pay to access your stream.
Barry Bonds would get them interested. I can already see the promos for the show.
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04-21-2013 , 07:17 PM
Also filthy, I lost the ability to read for months. What finally got me back into it was non-fiction.
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04-21-2013 , 07:21 PM
I've been living in a basement for almost 20 years

how do I get all the free stuff?
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04-21-2013 , 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by VoraciousReader
Also filthy, I lost the ability to read for months. What finally got me back into it was non-fiction.
yeah i had a similar experience, and LOVED a bunch of non-fiction, but it wore off after a few months
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