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Bad Idea #13: You Bet Your Balls
17 years ago
Bad Ideas explained: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/321008/ Includes index.
Do you have the balls to get the bucks? You might, but that could change.
This image would need some text in a speech balloon, so the announcer/host of a game show can tell the viewer, by telling the contestant, the setup for this round of the show. The setup is a bound male, his balls held in place and some sort of backing behind them. Ahead of them is a set of rails and a sort of cannon. One hand is by a button. There is a big display showing an amount of money... and a big pressure gauge type of display. This doesn't have to be the standard round dial gauge. It might be better as a big needle moving across a horizontal display, like on an old car radio. Along the display are markings and notes (mild, moderate, severe pain, 10%, 25&, 50& 75% 100% chance of permanent injury, other markings - some earlier, mixed in with the injury chances - for chances of popping/castration, maybe a picture of a chicken by the milder area). The host would explain, "...the button stops the money counter and fires the slug. The longer you wait, the more money you get... and the more risk to your balls. Here we go..."
That's just suggested text to get the idea across. Maybe it could be phrased better, either more simply or more showily. But there's the idea. Self-preservation against greed, and maybe not trying to appear too chicken.
Variation: "You Bet His Balls" - a couples game that moves the button from his hand to hers and leaves the target at the mercy of wife's or girlfriend's (or mistress'?) greed.
Do you have the balls to get the bucks? You might, but that could change.
This image would need some text in a speech balloon, so the announcer/host of a game show can tell the viewer, by telling the contestant, the setup for this round of the show. The setup is a bound male, his balls held in place and some sort of backing behind them. Ahead of them is a set of rails and a sort of cannon. One hand is by a button. There is a big display showing an amount of money... and a big pressure gauge type of display. This doesn't have to be the standard round dial gauge. It might be better as a big needle moving across a horizontal display, like on an old car radio. Along the display are markings and notes (mild, moderate, severe pain, 10%, 25&, 50& 75% 100% chance of permanent injury, other markings - some earlier, mixed in with the injury chances - for chances of popping/castration, maybe a picture of a chicken by the milder area). The host would explain, "...the button stops the money counter and fires the slug. The longer you wait, the more money you get... and the more risk to your balls. Here we go..."
That's just suggested text to get the idea across. Maybe it could be phrased better, either more simply or more showily. But there's the idea. Self-preservation against greed, and maybe not trying to appear too chicken.
Variation: "You Bet His Balls" - a couples game that moves the button from his hand to hers and leaves the target at the mercy of wife's or girlfriend's (or mistress'?) greed.
Not quite literally, but two gents were willing to put their balls on the line for their team at the big game, and one of them, predictably, lost. :D
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1739418/
Here, things are less civilized and nastier for the alleged entertainment value: does caution override greed or the other way around? How bad will he let himself be racked? And will he survive intact? In fact, will he survive at all if hit hard enough?
That just makes bad TV.
... uh, pardon the phrase. ^_^
For certain values of "fully analyzed" I can't help but fully analyze things like this as soon as I see them.
But out of curiosity, how would you arrange things to avoid the system being gamed by those simply willing to make the full trade?
One way I could see that would at least minimize that would be to change it from a sudden impact to slowly increasing pressure and, for once, respecting pleas to stop.