Poll: Would accept to live in this village/reality show for a year for 10 million $
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This. Humans naturally strive to show their best side to anyone who happens to be around. If you're being watched for a year, non-stop, then the opportunity for self-improvement is fantastic.thylasos said:
That said, barring lady-company (I wouldn't be able to help showing off) I don't think my soldier would be getting much relief. I'd feel weird about doing that on camera...
A lot of people seem to like this idea, but almost everyone says that they would just keep to themselves and try to be as boring as possible. At first I thought I would try that too. Then I tried looking at it from the producers' perpective. If you put a bunch of people together like this will they do anything interesting? So here are some things I would do if I were incharge to drive people crazy, increase viewership,and save myself 10's of millions of dollars.
First, I would spin it just like the OP. Perfect suburb where you can get anything you want, but in reality I would use resources as a source of confrontation. I would have it set up so that at any time I could shut off the power/water to any number of houses I want. I would hire some actors to be "repairmen" who would dig around in your yard for a few hours and look useful and make it seem like the power/water failures are just a result of bad construction. This way if someone wants to be an introvert I could shut off their water for a day or two. Then they would have to go out and talk to people! I would also manufacter fake distasters that affect the whole village.
Second,I would make the the village's outlet a progressively worse store. As time goes on orders for games/DVDs would be screwed up or forgotten. Then orders for food will be screwed up/forgotten I wouldn't actually starve anyone, but I could sure make a few people nervous.
Third, I would make the population 80% normal, 10% crazy, and 10% actors. The interactions between the normal/crazy people ought to be enough to cause some good drama, but if not I would have actors on hand to press people's buttons and make life miserable in a precise calculated way.
Finally, I might let the audience in on the joke. I could make a facebook contest, "What should we do to Participant X next week?" and let the veiwers torture these poor people. Towards the end I would blow things out of purportion with week long outages and actors inciting crime and riots. Again I would have to be careful, I don't want anyone to die, but I don't think there would be many winners in my show.
First, I would spin it just like the OP. Perfect suburb where you can get anything you want, but in reality I would use resources as a source of confrontation. I would have it set up so that at any time I could shut off the power/water to any number of houses I want. I would hire some actors to be "repairmen" who would dig around in your yard for a few hours and look useful and make it seem like the power/water failures are just a result of bad construction. This way if someone wants to be an introvert I could shut off their water for a day or two. Then they would have to go out and talk to people! I would also manufacter fake distasters that affect the whole village.
Second,I would make the the village's outlet a progressively worse store. As time goes on orders for games/DVDs would be screwed up or forgotten. Then orders for food will be screwed up/forgotten I wouldn't actually starve anyone, but I could sure make a few people nervous.
Third, I would make the population 80% normal, 10% crazy, and 10% actors. The interactions between the normal/crazy people ought to be enough to cause some good drama, but if not I would have actors on hand to press people's buttons and make life miserable in a precise calculated way.
Finally, I might let the audience in on the joke. I could make a facebook contest, "What should we do to Participant X next week?" and let the veiwers torture these poor people. Towards the end I would blow things out of purportion with week long outages and actors inciting crime and riots. Again I would have to be careful, I don't want anyone to die, but I don't think there would be many winners in my show.
I don't think i would have any problem with half of those thing's.FrankWilliams said:
Since i figure going into it thing's like DvD's and Video games would be barred anyway, because they promote being an introvert. Logic dictates that theres no internet/no phone for outside calls. So the phone line being gone wouldn't be an issue.
Cutting off water for extended periods of time would be the only issue(unless aircon/heating was necessary for parts of the year)
And i'm not sure how it promotes socialising, seeing as im stinky cos i've had no water for 2 days how are you doesn't really work.
infact anyone who doesn't live at a computer/TV should have no real problem with most of your messing up.
And inciting riots would be a bad thing to try, because i know that if id been there for 12 months i'd join in. It'd be something fun and your in a fake town anyway's.
See if i know that no matter what i get to the end, i get to 10 million dollars theres not much you could do to me. Unless you started doing stupid things like solitary confinement which make no sense.
Because no matter what there are rules, theirs a line that you simply can't cross and if you do i could probably sue for more than 10million dollars anyway.
You can't deprive food and water past an extent that it becomes medically unsafe. and the like.
You'd be able to get through most thing's with the knowledge that they can't physically harm you. And that they can't actually starve you out, you could probably withold food for a couple of days. but at the end of it you would have to feed me.
I think you'd find most people would be willing to do just about anything that doesn't involve disfiguring themselves for 10million dollars.
because whats the other option go to work for the rest of your life and never have enough money to actually do what you want in life.
I would shit all over the street, and they would be so grossed out they wouldn't even want to spy on me.balanovich said:
Reality show....-ception.serata said:Haha I love the idea of nested reality shows. The viewer watches you watching someone else who's getting into drama (probably over the fact that you're watching them in the first placeBloodstain said:)
yea i would. i dont really do much in the quiet do nothing suburb i already live in with my family when im not in college. also you said we can contact the outside world but we have no phones are internet to speak of. i know there is snail mail but that seems kind of pointless in this day and age. Seeing as how i ahte reality shows with a burning passion i would do it and then do NOTHING AT ALL! yes they can change the channel to watch another person or persons but still i get to sit around and do nothing of interest to anyone. i would just sit around and play video games, wasting precious time and money while still earning it cause some douche bag whos life is so boring that they would watch someone else living through their own mundane existance would make me feel all warm and fuzzy.
the only down side is that i would lose out on fapping time then again i think they would still censor it or just take you off the air. then again for a year to earn 10 million dollars...i could use some off time. lol
the only down side is that i would lose out on fapping time then again i think they would still censor it or just take you off the air. then again for a year to earn 10 million dollars...i could use some off time. lol
Musician, writer, actor and movie maker, this sounds like my bread and butter. No internet might be a problem though, but just give me a piano, a computer and a method of composing music, and the rest of the world can go **** itself.
