RT Shorts - The Button 

+theeshyguy1 Actually did the math to test that. Its true :D 0.003725 Dollars

+mc94mc94 The man with the button never decreased the amount of money gained or friends lost so Joel was still gaining half a million dollars by the time Jack came.

Zion Laguna I think it's safe to assume by how the button works that the price splits in half and twice the people die each time.

I agree with theshyguy1 here. Its obviously an exponential function. Everything else would be nonsense.

Besides Joel explains: Its like i get half the money but like twice the people die ? And the guy doesnt object but simply states: "Thus increasing the chance of you killing someone you love" ... So it IS an exponential function.

+AMGwtfBBQsauce This is where it all began.

***** butt-ton of money

GODAMMIT BARB

***** barbdammit barb

AMGwtfBBQsauce GOD DAMMIT BARB

More like a depressing fact.

@@teamredshirt no

@@cagethelonewolf yes?

@@teamredshirt reported

i think it sticks at 2 people and 500k

AlphaHunter That is wrong, because if you were to convert that to binary, you end up with 5 zeroes. Also, too small

No, because of the first person that died. Ultimately the answer will be X = 2^Y - 1 Where X = Dead people and Y = Number of button pushes + 1. For example, X = 2^7 - 1 That 7 means that the button was pushed 6 times. 7 gives us 64. X = 64 - 1 X = 63. Now let's confirm, if the button was pushed 6 times, do 63 people die? 1+2+4+8+16+32 = 3+12+16+32 = 15+16+32 = 31+32 = 63. Done.

So, Joel had the capacity to make the human race extinct and end all life in the universe as my math shows he would have killed ~1.17967x10^5457 life forms over the course of 5 hours (at 1 button push per second) For reference, the amount of atoms in the observable universe is estimated to be ~1x10^82. Now, granted, I failed calculus like 3 times in college so my math might be off, but the calculator doesnt lie...and he gets 2 million dollars for it :)

JKSSubstandard Technically less than 2 mil, unless he kept doing it for infinity, he could never truly get 2mil.

I rounded up by ~.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001...sue me

Oh Gosh! your right! XD

Nice pfp

More like Simmons and grif

Ah. Chairman of the Oversight Committee Malcolm Hargrove and Private Michael J. Caboose.

Kartik Saraf rvb season 15 based on a button and caboose

@@HaloFTW55 I imagine The Chairman doing something like that, I mean why wouldn’t he, he let 2 goons keep their jobs after they failed by bragging about their plans

+ttrop I was literally just reading this story in English class, and this video made me die of laughter!

+ttrop Well, Joel should be fine. I mean by the end of the video, he probably killed off the planet's entire population, so no harm done there.

***** its a stupid old folk tail, like the boy who cried wolf

+ttrop That is really, really wrong. You are giving the 80's "Twilight Zone" version (also similar to the version used in the film "The Box"), which really strayed from the original. The original "Button, Button" was written by Richard Matheson in the 70's, and based his story around a "moral dilemma question" asked in passage 1.6.2 of The Genius of Christianity, which was written in 1802, by Rene Chateaubriand, in which the authors asks the reader what he would do if he could get rich by killing a mandarin in China solely by force of will In his story, the original story, the twist ending is different. Norma presses the button, and receives the money after her husband dies in a train incident where Arthur is pushed onto the tracks (the money was the no-fault insurance settlement, which is $50,000 instead of the $200,000 in the Twilight Zone episode, and the million dollars offered in the movie). Norma, now in despair, asks the stranger why her husband was the one who was killed. The stranger replies, "Did you really think you knew your husband?" Matheson was actually extremely upset at the change from his original story, because the impact of the immorality shown was not immediate, and the person did not have to live with knowing that they killed their loved one, because they truly did not know them as well as they thought they did. It was also adapted for a radio play in 1974, back when things weren't very PC, and titled "The Chinaman Button", giving a nod to the 1802 inspiration, but in this version the person would become unimaginably wealthy by anonymously assassinating a stranger. While none of the versions were as good as the original story, they still had good moral dilemma questions in them, however, I feel that the original had the best twist ending. The moral wasn't really about getting the money, but about how well you know the people in your life.

You Spy On Me i original heard the button story when i was in grade school in korea like 20 years ago, different cultures come up with very similar stories just because you found a story differently doesn't mean the way i heard it is wrong

Damn right.

The Twilight Zone

RED MEDINA it's a million dollars but because everyone died before saying a million dollars button

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it's a parody of a movie The Box

this includes acquaintances also so yeah people know alot of people just saying :P

Does it include people you only said hi/good morning and walked off lol

Gavin and Gus clones

That or it still gives out the tiny amount of money even after you run out of people who you know.

Ikr LOL

I agree

No, he got close to 3,000,000 cause he won the bet.

Wow! That actually worked great! Thanks!

Ctrl-F-U

computernerd1101 Tucker did it.

Dear Caboose, I regret to inform you that your abuse of the assets we provided you will become the subject of criminal investigation, and I have been issued an arrest warrant for you by the UNSC. When they write the new morality protocols regarding killer buttons, I'm sure they will name entire sections of the doctrine after you. Congratulations are in order, I suppose. You may earn your place in history after all. Sincerely yours, Malcolm Hargrove P.S. Hrrg...bleh...

computernerd1101 Big words make my head hurt.

Well they did sorta base him on the actor in S12, but come on. Anyone who ever saw his face imagined him as Hargrove. Especially with the bald head we saw in 7.

I ain't surprised if that's actually Hargrove

GENIUS

Additionally, by the time he kills Brandon, he's killed the entire population of Earth a few hundred thousand times over.

ExpressionOfShock no, Joel doesn't know all of the people in the world

ExpressionOfShock also the only things that are constant is that the money keeps getting divided in half but two people die, the cloak guy never actually said that the amount of people double up each time

brooksnake Joel did, and the man concurred. He said "But twice the people die".

I would +1 ... But im on mobile

Aidan Harris You can +1 now.

OH MY GOD! THAT'S PERFECT XD

Lol

Ctrl F U

Cameron Ireson no

I felt so smart after realizing that lol

I forgot how great they were.

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Flame Cat Hmmm... *checks bank account* ...MMMMMM!

+RealityBoy101 I never knew you could! Could I see your....(collapses)

How much did it cost?

Eddie Hardt I'll tell you if you be my friend!

Yeah, I’m a new casual viewer to them and I wish they were more like the people I see in RT LIFE

i used to love rt and achievment hunter and even funhaus…after 2016/2017 it started to go way downhill. ray leaving felt like the catalyst imo

Yep....

Or am I dead 😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😵😇

Baconater0977 I never met him so I'm alive himself haha

It only kills people he knows so it would have ran out of people to kill

Sam McGrath then how did it last five hours before killing the button guy? Remember, they only have to be acquaintances.

Forgot Other Password They were complete strangers so it wouldn't have effected him until Joel considered them more than strangers

Sam McGrath By definition, an acquaintance is someone who you know slightly. As Joel has technically met the guy at the start of the video, from the point he introduced himself, however remotely they instantly became acquaintances. Thus it could have killed him at any time. It was stated in the video that Joel didn't have to know the person well to be affected by the button.

Forgot Other Password They were complete strangers though, they knew nothing about each other. Well maybe the button guy knew about Joel, but doesn't affect the game. Joel didn't even know his name or favourite colour or literally anything about him, I think that makes them strangers. Lets say I bump into a stranger and we both say sorry then go our separate ways never to see or speak to each other again, we would still be strangers right?

3 million since he won the bet for a million dollars

but an infinite amount of people will die meaning he will have all the world's money!!!!!

I mean technically speaking if the amount halves every time he presses it he won’t ever reach 2 million, he could come within millions of a percent from it but never exactly 2 million

@@Shank5ter did you consider the amount of money he may have had before which when added might Push him past the 2 mill mark

Nice pfp

Haha... :D

+Carlos David You do realise he probably didn't even get more than $3 million.....

bgw316 Yeah exactly

i'd push it 10 times, with my dick, yelling "fuck you guys, i have money!!!!"

No. The Twilight Zone

Noah Fulkerson wasnt the snail question before that?

Trinexx360 he said it will only kill someone he knows, not himself

Youssef Akli I ment by the fact that he apparently doesn't age.

But he knows himself better than anyone else therefore he kills himself since himself is someone he knows.

Do people normally age over the course of five hours? :3