Do you push the button?

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SethDavis

while my rational brain intended to choose the only option that got me out of the situation alive, my subconscious brain apparently could not suppress it's gibbering desire to push the button....

Fiendish_Warrior

I appreciate the Prisoner's Cookie Monster's Dilemma as much as anyone, but the one issue I have with the above formulation is that there's no reason given to push the button. In both scenarios where I push the button, the end result is the same: I'm cookified. The only time I'm not is when I don't push the button (provided that my fellow member does). This means, unless I have a fetish for being cookified and subsequently devoured, the only reasonable choice is refraining from pushing it while simultaneously attempting to persuade my cellmate to do the opposite (assuming no out-of-the-box choices are permissible). To be a true dilemma, there needs to be an incentive for each person to both push and not push, which seems to be missing here. For example, if neither of us push, we should simply remain imprisoned in deplorable conditions; if we both push, we both get cookified; and if one pushes while the other doesn't, one is freed and the other cookified.

Now, if you intended it to be as it is, then disregard my comment.

deltago

@Bengoshi has much loyalty to forum and would sacrifice himself regardless of what I would do.
I would not push the button so I could avenge his death.

Now if it was someone like @Anduin I was locked in the cage with, I wouldn't press the button either, knowing he would not press the button looking for a quick way out. Taking him down by sacrificing myself would be fulfilling.

meagloth

Do I push the button? Of course I push the button. There wouldn't be a button if it wasn't to be pushed.


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What where we talking about?

booinyoureyes

Honestly, being a cookie would probably suck, but it is impossible to see a single button all by itself and just not push it. Trust me, I worked at Staples in high school.

CoryNewb

I would take a one hour nap and not push the button. And probably get turned in to a cookie.

booinyoureyes

Fiendish_Warrior said:

I appreciate the Prisoner's Cookie Monster's Dilemma as much as anyone, but the one issue I have with the above formulation is that there's no reason given to push the button.

What if someone wants to be a cookie?

Now I'm just gonna press the button to prove you wrong >:S

Naten

I just can't stand the idea of disappointing the cookie monster... if someone must be the cookie i will be that person.

Fiendish_Warrior

booinyoureyes said:

What if someone wants to be a cookie?

Now I'm just gonna press the button to prove you wrong >:S

You didn't miss the part about cookification fetishism, did you? That was the best part!

Fiendish_Warrior

I have to admit, if the button is shiny, that changes everything.

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Kamigoroshi

I do NOT push the button and demand to be turned into the food of the gods instead: jelly!

Screw cookies... such disgusting food is only edible by Cookiecutter sharks anyway.

Fiendish_Warrior

Kamigoroshi said:

I do NOT push the button and demand to be turned into the food of the gods instead: jelly!

Screw cookies... such disgusting food is only edible by Cookiecutter sharks anyway.

We can never be friends. I just purchased 7 cookies today:

2 Blackberry Shortbread
1 Salted Caramel Turtle
1 Oatmeal Dark Chocolate Cranberry Raisin Walnut
1 Gingersnap
1 Peanut Butter
1 Snickerdoodle

Not all eaten in one sitting of course...

Fiendish_Warrior

Shandyr said:

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Feel free to post examples of buttons that you would or would not push (as long as they're PG 13).

It is my right and my duty!

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kcwise

I push the button, BUT I used the time I had to think about my "decision" to rewire the button assembly using a large collection of seemingly random, but incredibly useful for rewiring a button, items that were littering my cell for unknown reasons.

Queue MacGyver music as I and my favorite forumite (yes, it is you, you likeable person!) escape to take down the evil mage, after a brief chase sequence in which I discover a fully stocked armory and find the time to build a ninja robot assassin to tank for us.

On the way out we rescue Cookie Monster and introduce him to @Nimran

The whereabouts of the battered but still functional ninja robot assassin are unknown. I suspect @Anduin

Silverstar

I would smash the button and liberally rain beatings down on the wizard.

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Silverstar

Shandyr said:

Cookies! Raccoon-Cookies for everyone! Yummy!

The proper term is raccookies.

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God

I have 256% magic resistance, which means that the mage is turned into a cookie instead.

mlnevese

Is it a self-destruction button? I've always wanted to push a self-destruction button

Fiendish_Warrior

Shiny Button:

Psychological Dilemma Button:

Psychological Dilemma Button Reenactment:

Japanese Shenanigans Button:

Exit Button:

Windows Ruse Button:

All of the above are similarly psychologically problematic.

booinyoureyes

When I was 17 I worked in the Staples copy center, making business cards and signs and letterhead and the such.

At our work station we had one single button sitting on the counter all by its self. It is the "staple" of a Staples store, the "That was easy" button.

It is big, red, and has the word "easy" written on it... like "hey, push me, its reaaaalllly easy".

Needless to say I would abuse my easy-button privileges. The most memorable time was when my boss tried to put a big stack of papers on the top shelf. I asked if he needed help, and he said "no, it shouldn't be too difficult". He dropped one package of papers that fell open, dropping out several custom envelopes.

I pressed the button:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YmMNpbFjp0

He looks at me and says jokingly "You're fired" and hits the button

"That was easy"

I look at him and say "Why? Did I do something to upset you? Did I.... push your buttons?"

It was a good laugh.

elminster

I would not push the button and instead spend the hour writing about ...

what can change the nature of a cookie?

CoryNewb

Isn't there some new indie game called don't press the button or something? I read about it on PC gamer.

Silverstar

mlnevese said:

Is it a self-destruction button? I've always wanted to push a self-destruction button

I don't think anyone would make a button that self-destructs.

wubble

Fiendish_Warrior said:

Shiny Button:

Psychological Dilemma Button:

Psychological Dilemma Button Reenactment:

Japanese Shenanigans Button:

Exit Button:

Windows Ruse Button:

All of the above are similarly psychologically problematic.

*prods screen in attempt to interact with the pretty buttons*

iKrivetko

The question is, do I get to eat the cookie?

jjstraka34

These questions are so much easier to answer as a Bard or Kensai.