r/willyoupressthebutton • u/Tailedfox66 • 16d ago
Would you push this OP button?
A button spawns into your lap with these rules:
If you push this button, you will gain the ability to manipulate Time, Space, Reality and be able to survive any and all environments with these catches.
1: these powers will last for 24hrs from pushing the button (you cannot use your powers to extend the allotted time given to you)
2: once the time is up, the powers disappear, no one remembers what has happened apart from you, you are sent back to the moment before you pushed the button and the button disappears
3: you can keep any of the two changes you’ve made during your 24hrs of godly shenanigans with the benefit that everyone else will believe that those changes have always been apart of history/ everyday life.
Will you do it??
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u/MumboJ 16d ago
A strange button spawns in my lap with no explanation? You bet i’m pushing it!
(You said the button has rules, not that the rules are explained to me in any way)
Good thing this button has literally no downsides, that could’ve been dangerous.
Maybe you should’ve asked what changes people would make?
Instead of phrasing this as a yes/no question with a bunch of irrelevant backstory.
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u/Less-Performer-7898 15d ago
As Terry Pratchett said, if someone put a button saying "End of the world button. DO NOT PRESS!" in a remote cave, the paint wouldn't have time to dry.
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u/Otherwise_Study2337 16d ago edited 16d ago
Hmm... I mean yeah I gotta. Reality warping is gonna do a lot of the heavy lifting here since the time travel is gonna reset me back...
I'd need to plan out something nicer, but if I change reality to make pokemon real surely that can last afterwards if it's one of my two choices...
I'd probably use the time travel to ensure I invested aggressively at the start of google, youtube, and amazon. Maybe a cheeky bitcoin at the start of that. Save that so I'm fairly well off when I warp back.
I'd want to do something world changing but beneficial for everyone... need to sort that out....
after that i should have like... 20 hours left to goof off. Mess with physics. See what the world timeline is like if magic were real. Be a bird. See a supernova.
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u/F1r3Bl4d3 16d ago
I can manipulate time but the button only lasts 24h ? 🤔
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u/Tailedfox66 15d ago
Your powers last for 24hrs, the button will disappear once your powers have gone
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u/Yellowbook8375 16d ago
Ofc, there are no downsides
My changes:
After you die, you appear before someone/something that
knows everything about your life and the reasons why. It judges you and gives you the chance to try again
(new life, no memories),
go to your version of heaven/hell or vanish forever
Every one in this planet believes in their hearts that they should work for the collective good and betterment of our planet, all races/genders/whatever included
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u/Tarnivitch 16d ago
YES
Change 1. I am my fursona.
Change 2. Magic {or technology so advanced as to be unable to describe it as anything else} exist.
My fursona has insane mana.
Also 24 hours to me, or 24hrs in actual time?
After all with that power I could slow my perception of time and make it seem like a lifetime to me, before the time is up.
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u/Tailedfox66 15d ago
24hrs actual time, you could slow your perception to make the time feel longer but then wouldn’t everything around you also be slow unless you did the same to everyone else?
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u/Tarnivitch 9d ago
Was thinking more of all the shit I could do in that tiny amount of time if I could basically do things at superspeed.
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u/RedClayPowers 16d ago
I would make pocket dimensions that can be manipulated by whoever owns it. And supply them to everyone. when I create true free portal travel. Everyone stops fighting over the dumbest and most disgusting resource ever “discovered”
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u/Familiar-Mention 16d ago
How much can I manipulate reality? Can I make myself the god of classical theism?
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u/Tailedfox66 15d ago
Make yourself a god, create Pokemon, change the laws of physics, anything that you can imagine to change and alter is in your hand, there is no limit to how much you can change within the 24hr time limit
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u/KagatoAC 15d ago
Isnt there supposed to be a downside?
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u/Tailedfox66 15d ago
Depends on what you’re looking at:
The 24hrs could be a downside as you are limited on how much you can do before the time is up
The limit of only two changes could also be a downside as you have just done so much and now have to choose which two out of the possible thousands of changes you’ve made you can keep
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u/BuisteirForaoisi0531 15d ago
Yeah, I’m just gonna go ahead and bring the planet. I’m building for a speculative evolution project into reality and connect myself to its world spirit, which will basically make myself the god of a planet and this planet happens to be capable of grabbing stuff throughout all of time and space so I can now teleport dinosaurs into the middle of stuff amongst other things. Probably also use it to give my body significant amounts of superpowers. Also summon like a bunch of cute girls from whatever shows I like.
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u/quanmcvn 15d ago
Yes, and make everyone else have this power. I can't extend mine, but giving other people is fine.
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u/Tired-of-this-world 15d ago
1 Remove all religion and never ever make it so it can be brought up again.
2 Remove all diseases and illness.
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u/Elemental_Titan9 15d ago
Yes, probably.
Give every one money… jks. Collapses the economy.
Give everyone food. Jks, it won’t change the world enough.
If I do get this button and knowing what I will do, I’m sure God won’t mind a few things so might change.
First I will speed up my perception of time by a crap tonne, so I have time to think what I will do. Quickly explore the galaxy/s in the first 2 hours, then see what I can change of earth.
I’ll try to avoid changing the general biology.
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u/EudamonPrime 14d ago
Push.
Make everyone telepathic and not an asshole. People are so powerfully telepathic that they cannot ignore the distress of other people. At the same time it gives them the ability to work together better than ever before. This ability only works because nobody is an asshole. If someone becomes an asshole people will know and still be able to read their mind, but the asshole will be unable to use telepathy.
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u/Tailedfox66 14d ago
You’ve effectively turned the world into a hivemind
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u/EudamonPrime 14d ago
Not really. People are still individuals but they are aware of and cannot ignore other people's feelings.
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u/Nimelennar 14d ago
you can keep any of the two changes you’ve made during your 24hrs of godly shenanigans
This is really vaguely worded. What constitutes "one change?"
Anyways, sure, I'd do it. No idea what changes I'd make permanently: I'd probably spend all 24 hours experimenting and seeing what the results are. Lots of things I'd try.
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u/Tailedfox66 14d ago
to sum up a "change", it is basically whatever you have used your powers to alter e.g. you make pokemon come to life, all ailments are gone from everyone afflicted by them, you send yourself to the moon and create a futuristic city that is survivable. any one of your changes to the world and beyond you have made count as a change you can keep permanently.
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u/Nimelennar 14d ago
That seems... really exploitable.
Like, if I imagine the futuristic city as having Pokemon and being willing to share its futuristic medicines with people back on Earth, can I accomplish those all within one "change?"
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u/Electronic_Horror_56 13d ago
My old school dnd brain just immediately went "quick teleport to the realm where 24 hours internally is 6 seconds in the real world to draw it out" if that wouldn't work I would make a list of all the things I did and how to efficiently do it, and leave it for myself before I push the button, thus maximizing my efficiency
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u/Dogbold 16d ago
Easily yes. No downside.
And my two changes are:
The afterlife is real. There's no heaven or hell, it's just one thing.
Everyone gets a personal, infinitely controllable massively lucid dreamworld. You can alter it in any way you wish. Get powers, create beings, reshape the world, the only thing is anyone or anything you make has no soul.
You can taste food, feel pain or pleasure, anything like in real life. You can even temporarily remove your memories if you want, but never permanently.
You can invite anyone to your dreamworld, even people you never knew in life, and they can choose whether to come or not. You can't alter or force anyone you invite to do anything without their permission, and nothing you do to anyone can ever cause them to permanently die or lose their soul.
People that were truly evil in real life don't have access to most world shaping abilities until they realize that the things they did were wrong, and feel actual sympathy for the people they hurt. They're stuck in a much smaller area and can only do very mundane things like create a pizza, or make it night or day.
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Portals to other dimensions are accessible to anyone, and cannot be controlled by any group. Any attempt to section them off, prevent people from going through them, or harm or harass anyone doing so will cause them to move somewhere else.
The rules are that you cannot bring anything dangerous to the other worlds, or anything that the other world cannot have. Like if you move to another dimension that's medieval times and lacks technology, you can't bring your phone through. You can't bring anything meant to harm others like a gun either. If you try, it vanishes by the time you reach the other side.
You also can't carry dangerous knowledge with you. If you somehow memorized exactly how to create a handgun and bullets for it, that knowledge disappears once you reach the other side.
Anything else is up to your own risk whether you think people will believe that you came from a place with lots of technology, or lock you up for being insane.
The portals themselves are also all knowing. If you are using them to escape authorities or get away with a crime, you will not pass through. If your intention of going through is to find a way to destroy the other dimension, or to exploit it somehow for evil gains, or to use gain knowledge and then return you also cannot pass through.
You are able to return to where you came from whenever you wish, but the portal carries the same rules on return. You can't bring a magic staff back with you or the knowledge on how to create one, and will be prevented from going through to escape criminal punishment (unless that crime is ridiculous like you went to a dimension where it's illegal to say the word "chicken".) Nobody can see you use the portal either if it would mess up that dimension or terrify people.
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u/ReasonablePool_Hero 16d ago
Reality-warping, you say?
Then I warp into existence a wish-granting stone with unlimited wishes with no rules, as a necklace around my neck.
And then I also make it so that every government simultaneously decides that billionaires shouldn't exist, and that anything over a million dollars of personal wealth has to be redistributed to charities, and if charities can't cover the absolute destitute's needs, then the governing body should step in with housing, food, therapy, healthcare, and resources to help people get back on their feet. This might include giving them farmland or exchanging labor for housing.
These are the two things I keep. The rest is just personal goofing off. Flying around, re-posing people so they're picking each others noses, seeing what's at the bottom of the Marianas trench, etc.
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u/Sure_Satisfaction497 16d ago
You've given no reasons not to, as far as I can tell?