Make fictional characters real BUT your friends might DISINTEGRATE?(Push The Button)

This was broadcasted live on my Twitch channel on February 28th, 2021! Watch live next time: / northernlion
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Will You Press The Button is a variant on the classic format of "Would You Rather?" where you're presented with the opportunity for a reward but it also comes with a corresponding drawback. For example, what if you could grow 2 inches in height but you'd lose 2 years off your life. Would you push the button? Check it out!

[@misdemeanor7083]

"Do you know how pissed I'd be if my friend rolled a 20-sided dice on my existence so he could have sex with a cartoon?" made me cry laughing

[@togglebott7748]

That and the free 1 million dollars question were god tier

[@Tiger_Black]

same

[@vario6492]

I'd be indifferent bcoz my friend would reroll all the pickups in the room and nothing else.

[@mariondiabolito4054]

That is a memorable one. Plus the general comedic sociopathy of these buttons adds to the humour considerably.

[@robinvik1]

You get a biology degree, but now people will make fun of you for not knowing literally everything about any subject even tangently related to biology. Also, you're bald. Do you press the button?

[@TheHairyMess]

And AnnaBanana will bully you on a daily basis

[@mort4810]

no upside

[@coolfool183]

"don't care, didn't ask, plus you can't remember the steps of the Krebs Cycle and you're bald"

[@Jespin_]

No downside.

[@griever4363]

no because thats me except im not bald

[@christopherthomas484]

I wont lie, I wasn’t a believer in the quality of the return of Press the Button, but after the chicken strip basket zinger, I have become open to how blind I truly was.

[@rodlopes4327]

Yeah but it didn't say you'll die AFTER your wish, it said you'll die in 5 years. Definitely makes it a no for me.

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

You were blind, but now you see.

[@tomhall6410]

Did you travel in time thus losong your sense of sight?

[@mrbrazuca7571]

You will be the richest person alive but you can't eat french fries😱😱

[@stingersplash]

That's fine, I eat chips. Fries are rubbish in comparison.

[@notgoddhoward5972]

@@stingersplash It's ok they are belgian anyways.

[@Northernlion]

how can I decide???

[@TheHairyMess]

Just eat American fries ofc.

[@jondejoy5780]

I'll just eat freedom fries instead

[@brendanletourneau4652]

75% of this video is just NL making fun of children and it's some of my favorite content.

[@LoadPast]

Normalize dunking on thirteen year olds for being awful

[@HawkOfGP]

@@LoadPast I never knew that making fun of little kids was this much fun.

[@truffle_shuffler]

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[@truffle_shuffler]

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[@truffle_shuffler]

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[@jacobl2222]

"You know how pissed off I would be if my friend rolled a 20-sided die on my existence, so he could have sex with a cartoon? Assuming there is some kind of ghost realm, he would be haunted FOREVER." This killed me.

[@geckogeico2212]

"Mack on Misty"

[@legendarysideburns2213]

Egg Lord answering questions with heavy bonk energy? Poggy!

[@TheMrTangamandapio]

Alek Brimmer had me going with his comment, but the "and call it CANADA" was just too much for me, it sent me

[@kunai1362]

Same! It's gold

[@DavidKyokushin]

However, once your best friend is de-materialized, you get free anime characters for the rest of your life without any added risk.

[@FluffyDragon]

He always fails by his own logic is the problem. Like, that one is also similarly without any downside, just like the one before it. Wait til your friends have died, or are about to die, and summon some OP anime character and ask them to save them. So it's got a 5% chance of failure, better than 100%

[@sleep3417]

@@FluffyDragon If you kill your best friends(s) you can summon anime characters without disintegrating them.

[@jjmlgpro]

Plus what if u don't have friends

[@AdvancePlays]

@@FluffyDragon Or like only use it when there's a nuclear missile fired so you summon Goku to intercept it and throw it into the sun, even if he did disintegrate I'm sure your bud wouldn't be too pissed that his noble sacrifice averted nuclear holocaust lol

[@DarkSlimeGod]

"Hey, listen, we might die cause of this massive terrorist attack anyway, do you mind if I try to summon Goku to save us here?"

[@otto4005]

NL fails to realize that the people who push the button on the anime question dont have any best friends to dematerialize

[@MrPancaker57]

NL: i dont want the responsibility of being Batman Also NL from last episode: wants to be the ruler of the world

[@Monuver]

Dude's contradicting himself all over the place. "What sort of idiot would forgo a voluntary power because it has a side-effect?" "I don't want free shapeshifting powers if it's gonna hurt when I shapeshift!"

[@RubyYTer]

@@Monuver same

[@RubyYTer]

I would also not accept a power thar has the ability to hurt me

[@GPismymom]

42:15 - Well, that one is a reference to Cassandra of Troy, a woman with the power to see into the future but struck with the curse that everyone ignores her which drives her mad because she sees that Troy will fall by the hands of the Spartans but can't do anything about it. Btw, Apollo gave her the "gift of seeing" as a payment for raping her. After that she told him to go to hell (or hades :p) so he cursed her with the "noone will believe you" thing because for some reason Gods can't revert their own gifts, they can only alter the preexisting blessing into a better one or a curse.

[@eleventyseven1268]

Please do more of "will you push the button?" It is actually my favorite thing to watch out of everything that is able to be watched

[@rodion1056]

Forty Thousand people chose to have a 1 in 20 chance to erase from existence for their waifu. Two thousand people died for this question assuming they all stopped at one character, which you know they didn't

[@dragmire3D]

If every one of those forty thousand people have friends that would be true. I have my doubts.

[@Sonian018]

16:00 philosophers have been debating for millennia about if humanity is inherently good or evil but all they had to do was play will you press the button to find their answer

[@idfrigginkman]

17:30 This question right here, and NL's reaction, is a wonderful example of one of the main things I love about him and his content. Just the deadpan, dry humor delivery sent my sides into orbit and my brain into lul overdrive.

[@idfrigginkman]

22:11 is just the icing on the proverbial cake

[@Michael-kp4bd]

@@idfrigginkmananyone else up gettin sucked off in the Canada portal?

[@dukepotato244]

11:33 There is potentially some nuance to this question. Depending on what the latter part implies, you would theoretically be informed of when your life would end three years in advance (given that's when the money would be made spendable). I think some people for very good reason might not want to know when they would die (i.e. you're in your twenties and suddenly you can spend it - minkus). I still think it's worth pressing given you can then use the money how you see fit for those remaining three years, but I can definitely see a case for why some might not want to press it here. EDIT: Ah I noticed someone in chat brought it up, nevermind.

[@cahlenbrown6274]

"All cats are grey in the dark" Enelle 2021

[@grantcoultas5295]

"Most stellar black holes, however, lead isolated lives and are impossible to detect. Judging from the number of stars large enough to produce such black holes, however, scientists estimate that there are as many as ten million to a billion such black holes in the Milky Way alone." Should have taken the Portal Gun chief.

[@notrab13]

I love that every episode of this could just be summed up as “Boomer dunking on middle school-aged zoomers.”

[@SjorsHoukes]

He’s 32. Guess you’re in the zoomer category.

[@greasysteve3411]

@@SjorsHoukes 32 Year Old Boomer gets White-Knighted by German Man on 11 Month Old Video

[@SjorsHoukes]

@@greasysteve3411 I suggest you look up the meaning of the words boomer, white knighting and German, and report back.

[@greasysteve3411]

@@SjorsHoukes it’s not that serious. NL often refers to himself as 30 year old boomer, 31 year old boomer etc. it’s a joke ..

[@craiggambogi7452]

Northernlion making fun of 13 year olds is hilarious

[@JohnDoe-xx8yw]

Top tier content for sure. Hope to see more soon

[@MemeSnack]

The "play any song" question had me laughing for five minutes straight. Thanks mark, keep up the great content

[@pollyphemeus]

"about 55% of people can at least tie their shoes." Think that's still exaggerating, but sadly not by much...

[@Mossedey]

Me after first push the button video: "I don't get it, these questions are terrible." Me after second push the button video: "Oh I get it, these question are TERRIBLE."

[@shadethenovice]

27:08 The delivery of this one sent my sides to the moon. Thanks for the laughs egg dad.

[@AsterSea]

Ah yes, 48 minutes of NL dunking on children. This is why I subscribe, my dude.

[@michaelgibbons7014]

You should coin that 45/55 rule. The Letourneau Limit has a nice ring to it.

[@kenpatchiramasama1076]

7:35 "A soul for a soul" Well, remember NL, the famous quote by Dark Soul: "Every soul has its dark."

[@Joebob62911]

29:27 An interesting philosophical question indeed. I would argue that the "correct" answer depends on the definition of "wildest" and "dream". Do you get to know it what said dream is? Reading the statement as is, and given that most people barely remember a fraction of their dreams, the odds of something completely nonsensical - if not outright cataclysmic - happening would be, quite high in my opinion, making the upside a downside. However, assuming that the expression was used to designate a possible, but highly unlikely aspiration/desirable situation, it could be argued that wishing for an end to climate change, war, etc. would fall under this definition, at which point the downside becomes completely trivial. TL;DR The question is worded so vaguely that it could be interpreted as having no upside, no downside or anything in between.

[@_Bread-_-]

me: tries to pay with my million dollar debit card "ah wait cant use this for another 30 years or so" transaction completes

[@ThomasNing]

It would be really fun and interesting to have a custom setlist of questions made by NL's community

[@RubyYTer]

It would just be "you are literally God BUT you are still bald

[@simonhoran9775]

That fictional character question completely falls apart once you realize you can just write your own fictional characters. Oh hey I wrote a fictional character who's exactly identical to my friend in real life, so I can just make my friend again if he gets disintegrated. Oh hey I wrote a fictional character who can bring my friends back if they get disintegrated. Oh hey I wrote a fictional character that can give me the power to not disintegrate my friends.

[@RazalasTrebla]

Your fictional friend clones eventually become your friends and now have a chance to disintegrate.

[@EviIPaladin]

But how well do you know your friends? Can you perfectly recreate them? It would seem unlikely.

[@sleep3417]

Is it moral to kill your friend and replace him with a simulacrum?

[@p_rry]

@@EviIPaladin make a fictional character who is able to both perfectly replicate your friends and then bring them back to life

[@weirdchamp4601]

35:20 imagine popping off so hard while watching the greatest conspiracies and events go down in real time

[@demstillersseven9294]

Bro do you know how large our galaxy is? The likelihood it would spawn in a dangerous proximity to us is probably less than .01% though i guess we dont know how large it would be, that could be kinda bad if its supermassive.

[@blahthebiste7924]

Alternatively: the ability to break the laws of thermodynamics and create matter from nothing (by spawning black holes) is a way to escape the heat death of the universe.

[@Simoran]

@@blahthebiste7924 Me and the bois counteracting entropy itself

[@indygon]

Yeah, the Milky Way already contains somewhere between 10 million and 1 billion black holes, what's one more? Our galaxy is ~100,000 light years in diameter, so the odds of the black hole spawning within 1 light year (which is still a non-issue?) are like 1 in 10 billion. That's ignoring the 3rd dimension since the Milky Way isn't a flat disk, so it's probably lower than 1 in 1 trillion. Of course, the jackpot in this scenario is the destruction of our Solar System, so maybe those odds are still too high. 0.000000001% chance everyone dies so you can portal around is probably worth more than a 5% chance your friend dies so you can bonk Orihime, though

[@Yuggy]

Honestly NL’s commentary over these is so good :)

[@vmrenadi]

You're choosing to forgo a lot of powers that would make you the best detective in the world man.

[@Alylion]

The second he revealed the Apollo question I died from laughing so hard. But the pog resurrected me so it’s okay.

[@EDoyl]

17:46 Black holes appear in our galaxy already. That's what black holes is.

[@mrmanwithchocolate]

15:00 doesn’t say you live 5 years after the wish; It says 5 years! That’s 5 years after the button press. Hell, even if it did work 5 years after the wish, in your scenario, You’d “survive” 5 years in a dying, comatose state only to perish at the end.

[@Firephantom414]

Only silently observing the past: Becomes the ultimate detective no one can understand

[@weirdchamp4601]

7:00 in your own words there’s no downside, you don’t HAVE to spawn the characters once you have the power to

[@stevenclark5173]

Our galaxy is freaking huge and has hundreds of thousands of black holes in it. A few thousand more created by the portal gun isn't likely to ever affect any sentient life.

[@SaintDorado]

I was watching this at work and the portal gun comment made me laugh uncontrollably for about a minute.

[@sleep3417]

For the infinite money question :"Well, i wouldn't BUY anything. I'd just trade some of my money to them for the object. Totally different"

[@notsogood6025]

The very last question threw me off my chair. I have that power already, no friends only thoughts of friends.

[@whatwecalllife7034]

As far as the "you have infinite money but if you buy something somebody dies and their family loses everything", I'd take it because it doesn't say you can't give someone money and then have them buy it

[@minmaxmarty]

This is one of the funniest videos I've seen this month

[@dino-joe]

You get a milkshake BUT it doesn’t have whipped cream

[@Chokestomp]

@7:47 egg contradicts his sole guiding principle and doesn't push the button for a power which has no downside.

[@lunaticoccultist]

Make more of these please and thank you

[@Jenny-jy8zb]

12:25 ok but then i'd KNOW it was my last 3 years, to the dot. the moment i get that million, the clocks ticking, and idk thats a lot to handle. i mean i guess if youre that old you have a bit of prep that youre gonna die anyways but..man

[@madsnorlax223]

hearing NL basically say that he has the dream partner, life, job, etc is so wholesome. truly warms my heart

[@SoraSeiichiVT]

For the infinite money question. Never buy anything, have your significant other buy everything for you

[@cany0udance]

This series is highly pog.

[@hajile5708]

there is no downside to reading minds but deaf because you can read what they are thinking because you think as you say

[@maxgeopiano]

"as long as we still have swords" should be top comment to all of these actually

[@hevoo]

I think NL pressed a button at some point to start making this much pog material. But I can't figure out what the ups and downs were.

[@spiritcrushr521]

You and your wife agree to have a child granting you heavy dad energy BUT you must give up any hope of controlling chat

[@SamuraiPipotchi]

18:49 Sounds like this guy just wants a free trip to Canada.

[@Johnny_Shikari]

I refuse to believe our dear Egg Lord aka Scumlord aka Ryab aka Baldie aka Shiny Exeggcute aka TheDurstOfTime aka LimpBizkitLvr69 would ever get an annoying nickname. That's just inconceivable.

[@anonymousmokona8541]

After so much time dunking on some sad kid's questions I need to see the egg lord come up with a couple of his own to add them to the machine :D

[@james1187]

2 uploads at once, Pogged out of my gourd!

[@TritonBrunt]

"You save the world but disappear from everyone's memory" :o

[@mkay7379]

You get 20 million dollars BUT the person you take to prom says they think you're weird and NOT cute.

[@dracos24]

It might be a 5% chance of dematerializing your best friend.... but its a 100% chance of making that best friend obsolete.

[@geashd777]

Dairy queen chicken strip basket bit brings me to tears everytime lmfao

[@weirdchamp4601]

The way that NL talks about anime is funny as hell lol

[@ogscale9756]

this is my favorite bit by far

[@looper7159]

11:33 in defense of not pressing the button here I would not press the button because 1 million dollars is absolutely not worth the existential dread I would experience upon my learning that I will die in exactly 3 years. I couldn’t live that way

[@brandonr2906]

These videos give me life.

[@Simoran]

Personally I think the portal gun question has infinitesimal downside. I can only assume the chances of a black hole, with a range of the ENTIRE GALAXY, spawns close enough to the solar system to where it destroys humanity is so slim it doesn't even matter.

[@stevestevestown1460]

In defense of the million dollars 3 years before you die. The downside of free money is that once you are able to spend it, you will know you only have 3 years left to live. So some who choose not to push the button might just don't like knowing death is around the corner and the dread that it would bring.

[@Procrastinater]

Being able to travel back in time with no risk of time shenanigans is the preferred power. You can go back in time and observe, film, document anything. It does not say you cannot being with you any equipment to do so. Market your power, get paid good money to travel back in time and record history. Claim you can only use your power once a week, charge a billion dollars for it and be rich forever for no work at all.

[@tybahza5643]

This guy has no business being so funny, big dad energy

[@nathanpredmore7577]

If I could time travel to the past I would procrastinate infinitely

[@zandeis]

Dad left to become a powerful legendary dragon

[@MedievalSolutions]

15:29 easiest click of my life... Fuck, I'd click even if the downside was "you die in a month". I'd say my goodbyes, make the cure public domain, speedrun my bucket list.

[@reubencottam3248]

Hey NL just wanna say thank you for all the streams and vids to keep me occupied in this pandemic. You're so entertaining and keep up the good work.

[@TheHairyMess]

Hey, if I had to choose between you or Jessica rabbit. I know who im picking...

[@Jespin_]

Obviously egg father

[@the_ryfryguy]

what human kind is known for, art, music, and anime

[@replaceforwork]

Northernlion my man about the black hole question there are already many many many black holes in the Milky way and the probability that one more will cause problems is so incredibly remote. To get an idea of the size of the galaxy, and the amount of empty space, when the billions of stars in the milky way collide with the billions of stars in Andromeda, it is unlikely any of the individual stars would actually hit each other. Also, a black hole would have to pretty much be in the solar system to cause serious problems. Also you seemed very dismissive of the portal gun. Instant transportation? We could have colonies on Mars and the Moon today, and way cooler ones than we could have if we needed to fly everything there. Anyways, please reconsider your answer. Best Wishes, MinecraftQuickscoper2007

[@twistedwhimsy7993]

I don't think I'd take the free 1 million dollars as it would let me know that I was exactly 3 years away from death upon receiving the ability to spend it...

[@Corrupted]

The 45% of people not accepting the 1mil are either depressingly stupid, or deep thinkers - the demographic of the site makes me lean towards idiots, but there's an interesting dilemma here: is the money worth possibly panicking at the end of the three years or would you be content with knowing the exact date?

[@Ladyofdeath777Weaversoftheweb]

My life would be so much easier if I could ensure that I would retire peacefully...I could literally do anything I wanted with my life... be an artist etc.. knowing I could live the last three years of my life in comfort! This is in regards to the million 3 years before you die question.

[@redzeppelin6]

I rather not know when I die, thank you.

[@andscifi]

Evidentially that makes you incapable of critical thought to even the slightest degree for wanting to be able to enjoy the last three years of your life instead of knowing you're going to die.

[@ba-loo-loo7676]

@@andscifi ignorance is bliss

[@redzeppelin6]

@@andscifi if I knew it would be on my mind all the time.

[@whatwecalllife7034]

I'd love it. I could plan out the rest of my life and enjoy it, while also giving to charity, knowing exactly when I'd die. Existential dread is not a concern of mine.

[@sfglim5341]

11:42 Honestly I would not because the thought of me knowing exactly what time I die will haunt me for the rest of those 3 years

[@ethanlocke3604]

Bro the galaxy is so big you could make millions of black holes and I’d bet a lot that none of them are within 100 light years of earth

[@Crunchles]

The UNIVERSE is huge. Our galaxy (the milky way) isn't so big in comparison. Is that really a risk you'd be willing to take?

[@CitadelCTDL]

@@Crunchles bro the galaxy is fuckin huge

[@insanecamo]

Wouldn't that still fuck up everything and end us after some time?

[@CitadelCTDL]

@@insanecamo i just did a little research i think might help. The black hole in the center of the milky way is 4 million times the mass of the Sun. It will take quadrillions of years for it to suck up the entire galaxy (if its even possible). Its called a supermassive black hole. They are at the center of most galaxies. Our own sun will destroy us in a few billion years. Much quicker than the supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy. Estimates suggest there are already 10 million to 1 billion "stellar" black holes already wandering through the milky way. These stellar black holes are about 10 to 100 times the mass of the sun and are the remains of dead giant stars. We will never interact with one of these because the chances are so low. Our sun will eat us before it happens. Overall adding a few black holes wont change anything. Unless we get INFINITELY unlucky and spawn one right on top of us.

[@umbaupause]

Hello Northernlion. Your Push The Button videos will cause everyone to pog out of your gourd forever. BUT You have to make a tier list of every video's questions. Will you do it? Yes, in true PTB fashion, this one is also just a downside.

[@DocDoesGamingYT]

Talking to animals must be just like scrolling through my Twitter timeline

[@currentquiet9591]

"Smoke weed everyday while 420 360 no-scoping b******"- Northernlion 2021

[@luma345]

14:34 I don't understand why this got me so good, but it did lmao

[@Procrastinater]

If your "mind is erased" you're essentially dying. Maybe it would not feel like such if it were to happen to you, as you experience it, but going into it that's whats happening.

[@citrusmillie296]

I live for the comments on these questions

[@kylestyyle987]

“You could go back to when Bernie won the Nevada primaries” Oof.. NL hitting us where it hurts

[@CityXV]

"Go to all of your favorite artist/band concerts" probably translates to "Your mom allows you to go to your favorite artist/band concerts"

[@JangaLangaBanga]

"'Aw man, I was hopin' to get smell."

[@sonyabladesbooty3890]

12:33 that's just called retirement

[@joewilson3393]

Having seen about 15 years of internet comments, I would be terrified of what people left unsaid when I try to read their mind.

[@matthewknight388]

With the portal gun you could fire only twice (once on a ceiling and once at the ground below), thereby not risking too much, and create a perpetual motion device powered by gravity by dropping something in to fall infinitely. This would generate infinite energy and open up a world of possibilities that otherwise are impossible or, given some development of the concept power a whole heck of a lot of stuff completely renewably. Or you force someone's head into the path of the dropped object and absolutely destroy them. Both are amazing options. I push the button.

[@nobalt]

And given there are an estimated "10 million to 1 billion black holes" in our galaxy already, the risk seems pretty minimal.

[@kingster14444]

The second coming of the Button has come onto us ladies and gentlemen

[@Checkmarkz]

Everything you eat tastes delicious, but you can only consume refuse in public.