The Endless Work of Trying to Win Yourself a New Life
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi
The entire thing was livestreamed 24/7, including having an editor digitally add an eggplant emoji over his privates. It was such a hit that they made him do it again, but in Korea, a language he didn't speak.
I hope he's rich somehow given what the studio put him through. Seems heart breaking.
> In April 2020, Nasuga tried to persuade people to cooperate with the self-disciplined stay home during the COVID-19 by citing his own experience.
This makes me believe he's a really good guy and that there is still hope for humanity.
You can find the show online. It's an incredible watch and so so sad.
According to what I've read it was not livestreamed to an audience, with the exception of some brief experiment with 24/7 internet livestreaming. So pretty easy to fake.
I was dubious about that part at first, and then they said he did it in Korea in a language he didn't speak, and now I'm pretty sure it had a lot of tomfoolery to make it work.
It's still interesting, and I'd watch it... But I don't believe it was fully legit.
Get the vibe this stuff is in the perennial "Weird Japan" myth category.
>>Nasubi reports that he is grateful for his experience and that the producer apologized to him. The producer, Toshio Tsuchiya, says he has no regrets and confirms that he did apologize, and states that his goal is to produce miracles on film, and with Nasubi, that is what happened.
The last time I did this was with McDonalds, where I spent $80 on stamps to win about $40 in gift cards and a few muffins/fries.
I opened all the envelopes from McDonald's and brought the scratch offs back to him when school started in the fall. He got a few thousand dollars worth of stuff and I got a really nice new stereo out of it just for opening some envelopes.
Increasingly, that includes the fact that full-time jobs are in short supply. Gig work is becoming more common because employers don't want to pay benefits.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing per se but in the US we tend to tie essentials like health care to your job and that ends up being a thorny issue for many people.
Being disabled sucks for so many reasons and rules that actively make it unnecessarily hard to make your life suck less is one of the suckiest things about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi#Denpa_Sh%C5%8Dnen_teki_...
Wow, that sounds extreme.
But then again I remember there was a contest in San Diego where the participants had to stay 15 hours a day on a roller-coaster and many suffered lasting bodily injuries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Dipper_(Belmont_Park)#Ev...
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/jury-rules-radio-station-jennifer...
Of course, this scales badly. The more people who take your service the less valuable it will be as the odds of winning will decrease. Perhaps the natural balancing point would be somewhere where you could still profit. Might be best to charge nothing but take a cut of the winnings. That way people wouldn't be discouraged from joining by the diminishing likelihood of winning, and the chances that someone from your pool would win would only increase over time.
Like with plenty of such ideas, the answer is to do it anyway - scale it until it breaks, making sure you're always making profit yourself, and then call it a day. Enjoy your money and do something else. A while later people will forget, and someone else will do the same thing.
(The real answer is, of course, to not do this at all, because it's unethical. But that consideration doesn't stop everyone, unfortunately.)
Twitter bot to retweet and follow evetything that mentioned a contest... won a thousand contests.
Not only naked man starts profiting at 0 day meanwhile skilled engineer needs to develop his tools
but then also automation just makes things faster, so what if quantity of "tasks" is limited?
But the time invested is not small. One of the regular customers did the stuff until she had a child: A baby takes up a lot of the time and mental energy that she previously used for coupons. I think she had months of supplies stocked up before giving birth, though.
Her garage is stocked with such things as laundry detergent, deodorant, various cleaners etc which she sells on Facebook and Craigslist. It does involve a decent amount of time, but she has it organized with folders and does the couponing purchases while shopping normally.
The article at least suggests that some of them do; would be interesting to see what information they can glean from their side, yeah
I've won drawings for dozens of random things since I was 5, not because I sought them out, but because a disproportionate number of the times I've thrown my name in a hat just for fun, my name's been picked!
The first thing I ever won was a Frisbee at the California state fair after a pig race, but by the time I finished school, it included a TV, coveted tickets to my school's away game at our rivals, and even my undergrad and grad school tuition!
I've always figured, in a random universe, there are bound to be outliers who win things a disproportionate amount of the time, and I just happened to be one of them, but now I'm curious what would happen if I put that luck to the test!
Do try it out and see if your luck replicates to other things, worst case scenario you tried and got experience :)
Won over 1000 contests from 165 000 tries.
Btw. I think this is very sad - legit 1000 people could not have fun winning some stuff that actually interets them (e.g. some niche fanbase).