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You wake up in a dark room. There's two buttons; whichever you choose is going to be your life. Choose one.

be famous or go to the cabin

  • famous singer/songwriter

    Votes: 362 59.7%

  • i'll just go to Bolivia

    Votes: 244 40.3%
  • Total voters
    606
cursed knowledge

cursed knowledge

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Mar 15, 2019
2,943
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a sentient dog who looks suspiciously close to Fat4all explains to you that you have only two choices:

- you're now a worldwide famous singer-songwriter in the musical genre of your choice. even if you choose industrial noise techno, you're famous now. you have access to almost every famous person living, money isn't a problem (at least for now), drugs are free and the best ones, but your schedule is full all the time and if you take a shit there's someone trying to get a picture of you. also, yes, you're talented and good.

- you (and your family if you have one) are teleported to a nice, little and chill cabin in an unknown very small village in Bolivia. in this village, everyone plants their own food, trade some animals with the nearest village and gather around everyday to make the fucking best food you'll ever eat. you'll drink coca tea, make some interesting friends and sleep well every night. also, if you're single, you'll have sex with everyone that you want to (with consent, of course) and no one will give a shit about it

so what are you pressing and why
 
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Volimar

Volimar

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Oct 25, 2017
38,517
As much as I'd love an idyllic peaceful life, I think there's something to be said for making music that people enjoy. Even with the shit parts of it, that at least has to be personally rewarding.
 
Quinton

Quinton

Specialist at TheGamer / Reviewer at RPG Site
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Oct 25, 2017
17,283
Midgar, With Love
Even with the sex shtick notwithstanding, small village life has always held some real appeals to me. I'd prefer to live entirely isolated out in the mountains/forests/rivers somewhere. (Maybe not in a river.) But I'll take it.

However, I am Quinton and I break the machine.
 
BasilZero

BasilZero

Member
Oct 25, 2017
36,349
Omni
Songwriter.


I'll take the money - fame not required but no thanks to drugs yuck.


2nd option is a bit boring, sounds like a life with no tech which I cant do.
 

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if you are the musician you can be coked out of your mind enough to not even care about the guy taking a picture of you on the crapper, at all times

hell you could make it your identity, like David Lee Roth
 
LinkStrikesBack

LinkStrikesBack

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 27, 2017
16,364
Those both sound like.lives I wouldn't be happy living at all, I'm not pressing a button. I either get to be a scientist or I off myself before having to take one of those options (which would result in that in short order anyway)
 
Lumination

Lumination

Member
Oct 26, 2017
12,483
Personally, I would choose to live a quiet, peaceful life. But with money, I could do that and more. I never gave a shit about what other people say about me, so I the paparazzi is whatever. Obviously still underestimating it but still.
 
Chrno

Chrno

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,594
movement-electronic-music-festival.jpg


vs.

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mhm...
 
Cats

Cats

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Oct 27, 2017
2,929
I'd just choose the music man gig and then just immediately resign hording all the money, change my name, move countries, and live the life I want.
 
PersonAndStuff

PersonAndStuff

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
5,264
The first one. Because I have money and I can just stop making music. Which is good because I don't know how to do that. And eventually, My fame will fade and I'll still have money. I'll spend my life comfortable, writing bullshit on the internet under an alias.
 

Sylvestre

Banned
Mar 20, 2020
763
Second one, am I allowed to travel outside of the country say, once every two years ?
If so, that one easy. Stress free life would be priceless to me these days...
 
Pyccko

Pyccko

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,871
I'm gonna assume what's written is what you get, with no loopholes or wiggle room allowed, and for real both sound like a pain in the ass so my honest answer would be bite my tongue off, spit blood in the dog's face and die laughing in the dark
 
OP
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cursed knowledge

cursed knowledge

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Doc Laserstein said:
What's to stop me from taking my singing money and starting my own free love commune in Bolivia?
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the CIA will secretly kill you if you try to do this

Pyccko said:
can't I like be teleported somewhere not hot

like nunavut or something
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no

The Living Tribunal said:
Can i stay in the dark room with the dog?
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i mean, yeah, but why would you

Serpens007 said:
Question, is it Evo's Bolivia or the dictatorship Bolivia is under right now?
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evo is in power and he'll come to the village to hug you in person
 
Jimnymebob

Jimnymebob

Member
Oct 26, 2017
19,636
Can I not just ask a celebrity chef to make me food, or at the very least hire the best team to cook for me?
Also, can i not just retire early with option 1, and just live a relatively comfy lifestyle rather than trading donkeys and cattle with the locals?
 
Musubi

Musubi

Unshakable Resolve - Prophet of Truth
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Oct 25, 2017
23,611
I think I'd rather just chill away from the rest of humanity. And enjoy a peaceful life.
 
Chrome Hyena

Chrome Hyena

Member
Oct 30, 2017
8,769
Most famous black hip hop yodeler ever! selling out stadiums! Beyonce and Jay Z open for ME! yeah why not.
 
Wackamole

Wackamole

Member
Oct 27, 2017
16,936
Can you also simply just go home and not touch any button?
Anyway, as always in "what if" topics: Not happening people. Make your life more exciting.
 
Ryuhza

Ryuhza

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
11,440
San Diego County
Feign idiocy. I ask the dog for a button-pushing demonstration.

When my ploy fails, I pick the former, because I don't want to exist passively.
 
Speely

Speely

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
7,998
After living in the US and having a taste of what being in the music industry is like, Bolivia paradise for me. If that choice in the way you presented it was real... no contest. That sounds wonderful and healthy.
 

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Pyccko said:
I'm gonna assume what's written is what you get, with no loopholes or wiggle room allowed, and for real both sound like a pain in the ass so my honest answer would be bite my tongue off, spit blood in the dog's face and die laughing in the dark
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The dog now has a taste for human blood and eats your face off before you lose consciousness. Pretty good.
 
heathen earth

heathen earth

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Mar 21, 2020
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Neither of those are my idea of an ideal life, but if I had to make a choice, I'd take the quiet life in Bolivia. I really don't have it in me to be a celebrity.
 
Fulminator

Fulminator

Member
Oct 25, 2017
14,202
Bolivia please, fuck being rich and famous.

Growing my own food and living in a nice little community sounds amazing.
 
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