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[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 132 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

If it were any two of us on day 100 we would be so deep in some obscure struggle session we'd be like "go away we're not done arguing".

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 148 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Two comrades enter, three parties leave!

[–] forcequit@hexbear.net 64 points 2 years ago (2 children)

indoor cars struggle session let's go

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 69 points 2 years ago (2 children)

cars shouldn't be outdoors, therefore the only logical place for them is indoors

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 70 points 2 years ago (4 children)

All beds will be those sick racecar beds under socialism.

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The left wants to take away your big beds with your beautiful wives smh

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[–] forcequit@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

it's for their own safety, and ours. Any cars found outdoors should be captured, spayed, and impounded.

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[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 106 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I would not trust the dude to not put me in the cube with a plant who walks out on day 99 just to watch me break down for the views

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago

10000% there is a catch

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[–] GorbinOutOverHere@hexbear.net 74 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Is this even a question? Mr beast knows a lot of people have roommates, right? Who have to live with each other much longer than 3 months??

I would do this shit in a heartbeat like god damn. Fuck rich people for making a game out of my life but I'll take literally 25 years of income in exchange for 100 slightly awkward days

[–] GorbinOutOverHere@hexbear.net 73 points 2 years ago

Oh the "if one of you leaves you both lose" is how he'd fuck me

[–] people_are_cute 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

You don't live 2400 hours at a stretch with your roommate with zero breaks or outtimes, bro. I doubt you can even live with your SO that long without going out once. Even those in jail get to go out of the room every day.

IIRC there is a popular folk tale about this. A king was exasperated with his princess who got down bad for some peasant, so he locked both of them together in a room for a month and when they came out both of them had nothing but abject hatred towards each other.

[–] GorbinOutOverHere@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would have 0 problem with living like this, it's called "ignore each other" lol

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

I will get so much fucking sleep back.

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[–] TheObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It seems easy but for the clickbait views mr beast always does some dumb shit to annoy the contestant or make it 10x harder than it needs to be. I'd imagine they will make it hard to sleep/concentrate or some other dumb method to speed the process up.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

100 days doing nothing for a guaranteed $250k seems kinda easy tbh, biggest concern I'd have is whether the second person is a fool or not because like 14 weeks is fucking nothing.

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (7 children)

You sure? I feel like this is really difficult unless somebody already like literally never goes outside and never opens their curtains for weeks at a time

[–] charly4994@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

I've gone like actual months without leaving the house and even this I couldn't handle. No privacy, obnoxious lighting that'll trigger a migraine in a heartbeat, no entertainment. Just sitting day after day staring at the wall because the stranger and you had a falling out on day 2.

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[–] llama@midwest.social 55 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What if we get Mr beast to lock himself in a room with Jake Paul and say whoever makes it from now on will be the only content creator on YouTube. Then we just never let them out and turn off the Livestream.

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[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 55 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Would you shoot mr beast for fifty bucks?!?

no i'm genuinely asking, would you? hmu

[–] roux@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 2 years ago

Fifty bucks is fifty bucks.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

I would pay way more than fifty bucks

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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 55 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i hate this, and i also hate that my answer is "yes"

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago

i'm going to choose not to hate that my answer is yes, capitalism has my sorry ass trained for nothing less than feel miserable all the time, might as well get a house out of the deal y'know

[–] JeffBozo@hexbear.net 53 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If your source of entertainment is putting people through misery to test how desperate they are for money then I don't give a fuck about whatever good PR he may have, he's a ghoul.

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[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So it's just a soft prison and you come out richer? I could afford the therapy I need after something like this, as well as the therapy I likely need already.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

i just want to know if there's anything to do

[–] GorbinOutOverHere@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

Not even prison this shit is jail

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago

The $500k is a lie

[–] Cummunism@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

that immediately tells you how much he would make from it. Probably 5 times that amount. Plus he would probably find some real abhorrent people to do it, like people who don't shower or something.

gulag the youtubers.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

nah, id have to interact with mrbeast and id rather die than do that.

[–] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 2 years ago

He sucks so much lol

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

mr-beast I TRAPPED MY SUBSCRIBERS IN A ROOM, AND THE ONLY WAY TO GET OUT IS TO GET THE KEY SURGICALLY IMPLANTED INTO THEIR LEGS!

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[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

Yeah, actually this seems like a dream for me, would be a super easy win as long as the other person doesn't get tired of me. Can I actually just move in, without the cameras?

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm gonna do this because if you lock me in a room for 100 days with someone either we fuck endlessly or kill each other. Either way it will be unmonetisable

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[–] sloth@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago

Japan has been doing these type of 'game shows' for decades.

The west is just now catching up , see The Eggplant show.

[–] wrecker_vs_dracula@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

No Exit by Sartre.

That’s the comment.

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Depends, what months will this take place? If it's November and December then count me in, this sounds way better than spending the holidays with my family

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[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Every once in a while I see a pretty large amount of money and it causes me to have an existential crisis. This is life changing money for most of the world, but also there's places that it doesn't even buy one of the cheaper houses. Where it really messes me up, though, is remembering that even those places have retail workers and food workers and day laborers and... how? How has the whole house of cards not collapsed?

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