Sunday, February 17, 2008

2.03: The Box....Says No

And you guys continue to entertain me by taking my question in way different directions than I originally intended. My original intent was just to pose the question "Would you forsake personal pleasure for the sake of an unknown stranger?" However, your answers were awesome, so I'll deal with them:


Well gosh Ben, I have my wildest sexual fantasies fulfilled every day, so I suppose I'd be fairly selfish to not push the other button, wouldn't I?
Touche, Andrew. Touche. Nate posed a number of question, which I hadn't really thought of the answers to. His questions are in blue, my answers are in black:


1. Can anyone else push the button? If so, does the button pusher get the reward? No, the button is just for you.

2. How does the sexual fantasy specifically work? Does time stop as you are transported/participating in the fantasy? Like If I pressed the button am I magically transported to a Caribbean island with fantasy females, then magically transported back without time passing? or through magical coincidences does the fantasy evolve throughout the day..Like on my way to work in the rain does the Victoria Secrets Angels buss stop to give me a lift to work? The second one - in the course of the day, coincidences evolve throughout the day. It's like a sexy version of those movies where people that cheat death die in rediculous Rube-Goldberg-esque contraptions of everyday materials. I've forgotten the name, but it's Final something or other.


3. Do fantasy partners remember said fantasy after the fact? Am I the only one aware of the fantasy occurring? That's part of the fantasy - if it's your fantasy to have sex with 10 supermodels during halftime of the Super Bowl with everyone watching so you can brag about it later, then people know. If your fantasy is to have anonymous sex in a janitor's closet, then no, no one knows about it.


4. Can diseases be transmitted during a fantasy? See above - if your fantasy is getting AIDS, then yes. If not, then no.


5. Can children be conceived during a fantasy? See above.


6. If said fantasy involves a marathon session, is the participant tired, hungery and unproductive once back in reality? IT'S A FANTASY GODDAMIT


7. Can I push the fantasy button without bad consequences occurring?I'm not sure I understand the question.

8. Can the genie please not be Tom Cruise? The girl from I Dream of Genie would be much appreciated. To be fair, the Genie was never Tom Cruise, it was just Tom Cruise as a channel for the spirt of L. Ron Hubbard. Your going to have to push the button to get the girl from I Dream of Genie. Greg came up with a clever, but ultimately doomed plan:


Then, I would bridge the two connections together, so no matter which button I pushed, they would simultaneously be activated. Problem solved, everyone wins. If this proved to fail, I would probably be more inclined to save people more than push the fantasy button...It's easier to get laid than cure AIDS/cancer/herpes/scientology, etc.

The first button has an action "Fulfill sexual fantasy" and a subject "You" associated with it. The second button has an action "Change disease state" and a subject "Some random guy". By scrambling the circuits, you get two new possible results: "Change disease state" and "You" OR "Fulfill sexual fantasy" and "some random guy".


Basically, either you get infected with whatever disease some random person has, or some random guy with a disease gets to live out your sexual fantasy. Not a recommended course of action. Of course, it’s possible that the button could REALLY scramble the circuits, and YOU end up having sex with some random guy with a disease. Bummer.

Steve's answer was good, but had some ambiguity that's important to resolve:

Alternate daily...maybe.

In which direction does that "maybe" run?

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