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100 Men VS 1 Gorilla: Who Wins?

Who Wins?

  • 100 Men.

    Votes: 13 72.2%

  • 1 Gorilla.

    Votes: 5 27.8%
  • Total voters
    18
Juggs

Juggs

Lose without excuses
Lead Moderator
Depends on the criteria. If it’s just 100 men vs 1 Gorilla in a completely barren, open field, or an enclosed arena with no obstacles, AND there’s no setup, planning, or strategy allowed, it’d be pretty difficult for the 100 men to win. But if the 100 men aren’t severely nerfed like that and can use the only thing they have going for them in the matchup to their advantage (aka their intelligence), I think the 100 men could definitely win.

And I’m not even talking about using firearms or even swords or spears. But setting bobby traps, using the environment to their advantage, getting high ground, throwing rocks, etc etc. There’s a bunch of different ways you could strategize to beat the Gorilla without using traditional weapons.

But, again, if the question is just 100 men and 1 gorilla are dropped in an empty arena or something like that, AND no prior planning was allowed, it’s gonna be really difficult for the 100 men to win. That said, I guess it depends on what you mean by “winning”. If winning is killing the Gorilla, yeah, that’d be difficult without everything I mentioned. But if you just have to survive for a certain length of time, or idk something else, then maybe the 100 men in the arena with no planning scenario the men have a chance.

Anyway, this scenario has been really funny seeing all the memes, opinions, reactions, etc to it
 
Trickywizard

Trickywizard

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Lt. Boxy Angelman

Lt. Boxy Angelman

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M2Dave said:
100 men if zoning is allowed.
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I hate myself for how much I should have known that one was coming. 100/100.

I'm going by traditional Hand To Hand Combat Only rules, and will likely amend the OP tomorrow when I'm awake with whatever other nuances are agreed upon.

It feels like an MK9 fight, because it really all comes down to the stage you choose. Environment is everything.

Here's a question: if part of the 100 has to be made up of TYM members or NRS players, who do you send?
 
Trickywizard

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Eldriken

Eldriken

Life was wasted on you.
Say it was in an empty area the size of a basketball court. If all 100 men attacked at once, what would happen?

There's an utter and absolute disregard from the men towards the other men dying, being ripped apart, etc. They're not affected or fearful of what's happening around them and are purely out to survive.
 
PrinceGoro

PrinceGoro

Apprentice
Its an interesting scenario but the strength discrepancy is too high.

I think people dont even realize how much.

For example a lions paw swipe is generating an estimated around 2 tons of force(real number probably in between (1.5 - 2 tons)... it can literally insta kill large size animals like a tiger with one quick paw swipe and break its neck.

And gorillas punch/swipe even harder.

The only chance 100 men have is the gorilla gasing out and running out of energy, and thats their best bet as the gorilla is most likely not going to have the capacity to pace itself.

If the 100 men attack all at once they could potentially try to rush it and many die in the process as they injure/poke eyes, bite the body and injure bleed the gorilla out(this would also requier the aspect of fear/moral being excluded as the men would have to volontarily keep going at it even though they just saw another guys head explode from a gorilla swipe).

Even if 100 men go all at once, again most likely the best bet is gasing the gorilla out by running around stalling, faking attacks and minimizing casualties untill the gorilla is exhausted.
 
Juggs

Juggs

Lose without excuses
Lead Moderator
Idk why people are thinking it’d just be the strength of 100 unarmed men vs a Gorilla. The 100 unarmed men have intelligence and can strategize, set traps, etc. Even ChatGPT understands this as I asked it this question. They said of course if no pre planning was allowed and the environment was just an open arena/area, that the Gorilla would most likely win vs 100 unarmed men. But if the 100 unarmed men are allowed to plan and strategize, pick the environment, etc, that the 100 unarmed men would win fairly decisively, with only around 10% or so fatalities. It even drew me a diagram of a plan of action that’d work and gave detailed plans, it was pretty cool. Like the main strategy in one was to dig a deep pit with sharpened spikes (made out of trees or something) at the bottom. And basically you’d have different teams. A bait team to act as bait was one of them. I can’t remember the rest as I did it last night before going to sleep lol. Anyway, it was saying that even if the Gorilla didn’t die when it fell into the pit, you’d have a few alternating teams throwing rocks at it. And if that didn’t work, you could technically just keep it trapped in the pit until it died from thirst or starvation
 
Lt. Boxy Angelman

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Juggs said:
Idk why people are thinking it’d just be the strength of 100 unarmed men vs a Gorilla. The 100 unarmed men have intelligence and can strategize, set traps, etc. Even ChatGPT understands this as I asked it this question. They said of course if no pre planning was allowed and the environment was just an open arena/area, that the Gorilla would most likely win vs 100 unarmed men. But if the 100 unarmed men are allowed to plan and strategize, pick the environment, etc, that the 100 unarmed men would win fairly decisively, with only around 10% or so fatalities. It even drew me a diagram of a plan of action that’d work and gave detailed plans, it was pretty cool. Like the main strategy in one was to dig a deep pit with sharpened spikes (made out of trees or something) at the bottom. And basically you’d have different teams. A bait team to act as bait was one of them. I can’t remember the rest as I did it last night before going to sleep lol. Anyway, it was saying that even if the Gorilla didn’t die when it fell into the pit, you’d have a few alternating teams throwing rocks at it. And if that didn’t work, you could technically just keep it trapped in the pit until it died from thirst or starvation
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All of this.

It's always melee and combat, breaking the gorilla's leg, using Sumo wrestlers as a human shield, getting a bunch of tiny fighters like that one dude from The Rundown that fought The Rock, what weapons are legal, how many people can the gorilla disembowel at one time...but you can't just make the flat out case of "There are 100 of you, one of the gorilla , and you have an entire The Earth to work with, figure it out."
 
PrinceGoro

PrinceGoro

Apprentice
Juggs said:
Idk why people are thinking it’d just be the strength of 100 unarmed men vs a Gorilla. The 100 unarmed men have intelligence and can strategize, set traps, etc. Even ChatGPT understands this as I asked it this question. They said of course if no pre planning was allowed and the environment was just an open arena/area, that the Gorilla would most likely win vs 100 unarmed men. But if the 100 unarmed men are allowed to plan and strategize, pick the environment, etc, that the 100 unarmed men would win fairly decisively, with only around 10% or so fatalities. It even drew me a diagram of a plan of action that’d work and gave detailed plans, it was pretty cool. Like the main strategy in one was to dig a deep pit with sharpened spikes (made out of trees or something) at the bottom. And basically you’d have different teams. A bait team to act as bait was one of them. I can’t remember the rest as I did it last night before going to sleep lol. Anyway, it was saying that even if the Gorilla didn’t die when it fell into the pit, you’d have a few alternating teams throwing rocks at it. And if that didn’t work, you could technically just keep it trapped in the pit until it died from thirst or starvation
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I think the premis was always understood as unarmed combat with no tools and weapons.

Digging a hole, making spikes(even though you dont need spikes if the whole is big enough to trap the gorilla) takes time and tools, you cant do it on the fly when the gorilla is there( or maybe you can while he is fighting others, if the enviorment is such that allows it) and its also exponentially more difficult with only bare hands, you have to have an already set up, decked out enviorment with all these traps. It completely defeats the purpose of the propsed scenario.

Human tribes used weapons and tools and traps to hunt and kill large animals in the past we already know its possible/effective and you dont need a 100 men for it either.

The question was never can a 100 men dig a big ass hole with spikes and lure a gorilla in it.
 
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Juggs

Juggs

Lose without excuses
Lead Moderator
PrinceGoro said:
I think the premis was always understood as unarmed combat with no tools and weapons.

Digging a hole, making spikes(even though you dont need spikes if the whole is big enough to trap the gorilla) takes time and tools, you cant do it on the fly when the gorilla is there( or maybe you can while he is fighting others, if the enviorment is such that allows it) and its also exponentially more difficult with only bare hands, you have to have an already set up, decked out enviorment with all these traps. It completely defeats the purpose of the propsed scenario.

Human tribes used weapons and tools and traps to hunt and kill large animals in the past we already know its possible/effective and you dont need a 100 men for it either.

The question was never can a 100 men dig a big ass hole with spikes and lure a gorilla in it.
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That’s what I’m saying, the premise was just 100 unarmed men vs 1 Gorilla. It doesn’t say anything about being able to plan, the environment, etc etc. So a lot of the outcome depends on these factors.
 
wsj515

wsj515

This is my billionth life cycle.
The memes being fun and all that aside, its a really stupid question, and IMO anyone seriously saying the gorilla even has a shot is crazy.

People always talk about how open-ended the prompt is, and argue that one side will win vs. the other under different contexts. I think there's one assumption we can absolutely make no matter what, and after that nothing else matters at all.

For this scenario to even exist, we have to assume that both sides want to "win" at all costs, will sacrifice whatever it takes - otherwise, there's just no way the gorilla fights this fight, it would immediately run away. If that's the case, then we have to grant that the men will approach the situation with zero regard for their own lives/safety as well.

With that in mind, there's only one way this goes, no prep time, weapons, anything else necessary. The men will surround and overwhelm the gorilla, pretty much immediately. A bunch will die - some from the gorilla, honestly more likely from being trampled / crushed / suffocated by the other men, but the gorilla will go down no question. 100 is just way too much, as boring and simple as it is.
 
PrinceGoro

PrinceGoro

Apprentice
wsj515 said:
The memes being fun and all that aside, its a really stupid question, and IMO anyone seriously saying the gorilla even has a shot is crazy.

People always talk about how open-ended the prompt is, and argue that one side will win vs. the other under different contexts. I think there's one assumption we can absolutely make no matter what, and after that nothing else matters at all.

For this scenario to even exist, we have to assume that both sides want to "win" at all costs, will sacrifice whatever it takes - otherwise, there's just no way the gorilla fights this fight, it would immediately run away. If that's the case, then we have to grant that the men will approach the situation with zero regard for their own lives/safety as well.

With that in mind, there's only one way this goes, no prep time, weapons, anything else necessary. The men will surround and overwhelm the gorilla, pretty much immediately. A bunch will die - some from the gorilla, honestly more likely from being trampled / crushed / suffocated by the other men, but the gorilla will go down no question. 100 is just way too much, as boring and simple as it is.
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But logistically speaking even if you have 100, 100% fearless men, with zero decline in moral, the reality is that all those 100 men cant attack the gorilla at once, youll have a horde of dudes standing in the back bunched up like tuna in a can. A gorilla can lift 1800 kilograms in a bench press, let me repeat that, a gorilla can lift 1800 kilograms in a bench press...

Do yo understand what type of strength that is, the gorilla can just trample through the men and incapacitate or kill dozens of them in that charge, if a human manages to jump on its back the gorilla can litetally rip your arm of like its tearing a piece of paper.

The only way 100 men Win is by the gorilla gasing out and becoming exhausted.
 
wsj515

wsj515

This is my billionth life cycle.
PrinceGoro said:
But logistically speaking even if you have 100, 100% fearless men, with zero decline in moral, the reality is that all those 100 men cant attack the gorilla at once, youll have a horde of dudes standing in the back bunched up like tuna in a can. A gorilla can lift 1800 kilograms in a bench press, let me repeat that, a gorilla can lift 1800 kilograms in a bench press...

Do yo understand what type of strength that is, the gorilla can just trample through the men and incapacitate or kill dozens of them in that charge, if a human manages to jump on its back the gorilla can litetally rip your arm of like its tearing a piece of paper.

The only way 100 men Win is by the gorilla gasing out and becoming exhausted.
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It still doesn't matter. The gorilla takes one swing, grapples with one guy, and then they no longer have the leverage necessary to actually capitalize on their strength. it rips one guys arm out, that arm gets grappled by 3 other guys, someone is crawling on the ground getting half crushed but tangling up the gorillas legs, the gorilla pulls its arm away but now those guys are on top of it, further limiting mobility and range of motion, etc. etc. etc. - this goes on and on, the gorilla just gets consumed.

A gorilla might be able to bench 1800 kilograms, but they're not lifting 1800 kilograms that are distributed in very unbalanced ways, all over its body, constantly moving - it will take much much less weight then that, they just won't have biomechanics on their side.

The guys in the back aren't just going to stand there - they will be crawling on top of each other, trampling each other, in order to get at the gorilla.
 
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