Grats, you won the lottery.

[pearcinator]

If I won that much I would...

1. Give my parents 10m each, my brothers 5m each and my grandparents/first-cousins 1m each. That adds up to about 40m

2. Put 50m in the bank to earn 6% interest per annum (lol...that's like 3m per year)

3. Get a mansion and sweet car with the other 10m or so. Do whatever the fuck I want. Learn new instruments, read new books, study new things etc.

 

[DOOM GUY]

Buy a nice house for my parents and give them some money, buy a nice house for myself, get a sweet car, and then investments.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

I am cautiously optimistic. So I don't mind ^_^

In that case, I must break you!

(but not really, because you seem a decent sort).

First time in a long while since someone's called me 'decent' ... hmmm, maybe I'm not a bastard-coated bastard with a bastard filling :/

 

[Saulkar]

Do a lot actually. First the expect handing out of some wealth to immediate relatives, hire a financial advisor so that I can invest, donate, and save effectively. I would then travel about and meet some new cultures, get cultured, and break some of the walls of my comfort zones. Lastly I would then build myself an all year motorcycle and see if there is a market for them before turning to media production, start up a small animation studio and see what happens from there.

Lastly I would build the most redonculous computer I possibly could for the lolz.

Four Opteron 16 cores for simulations
512GB of Ram
48TB of Storage
Quadro K6000
Three Titan Z for CUDA tasks

Plus a small renderfarm of course.

 

[courier006]

I suppose I'd probably pay off my parents and brother's mortgages. After that, as a fellow Escapist once said, "Cocaine, whores, repeat until death."

 

[Doom-Slayer]

-snip-

Yawn. 99m in a 5 year 4.75% interest per annum holding account, 1m in spending. Buy a house. Live off interest comfortably. In the 5 years, change degrees to economics and learn about investing. Invest money better once 5 years are up.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

100 mil?

Give 10 to my parents, 1 to my grandparents, some other amounts to other relatives, some to friends.

I'd probably also pass some along to an indie game studio (Nine Dots) that I really like, but are struggling a bit right now.

Then, look up some decent charities and send them regular donations.

Finally, get myself a nice small condo apartment and spend time working on my own little RPGmaker projects, maybe get into livestreaming, start learning more advanced game engines on my own, and eventually try to get my own "professional" game launched (maybe that RPG my friends and I were super serious about making all those years ago, but put on hold due to real life being a dick).

I would NOT start spending like a sailor, even though it's 100 mil. I don't need too much to be happy.

Honestly, even 5 mil would be enough to set me up for life. I'd find some part time work and just work on my own projects on my downtime, then retire early.

 

[PFCboom]

100 million... Right away, I would put away about $90M of that so it's not making my wallet go up in flames. Like, I would go up to my bank, and say "How can I get this as far away from me as possible? Do that."

Next, take my car, which I love very very very very very much, more than most people, and have it taken apart, repair and replace everything even remotely worn or damaged, put it back together, then proceed to have metaphorical sex with it by driving like a maniac.

Next, brand new crazy-awesome crazy-powerful gaming rig from Puget Systems. All evidence points to them being the absolute best place to go to get legendary build quality. I might even have them put everything in one of them super fancy mineral oil tank-cases. Because reasons.

Next, move. I live in Wisconsin, and while it's a really nice place to grow up and yada yada, I have to get the *&^% outta here. California, maybe. With a pool. A big house and I can bring in a few like-minded friends and we'll have a grand ol' time not giving a care about life's little annoyances.

Next, live comfortably, but not so grandly that the remaining some millions dries up inside of a year so I have to dip into my impossible-to-liquidate savings. I already spent a few thousand on Steam games, I think I'm set for the next decade.

Next... I'unno. Start using my cash to better the world how I see fit. Fund the right people and organizations, make a few dreams come wildly true on Kickstarter, that sorta thing.

And after all that... NOT A CLUE!!

 

[Mr Fixit]

First I'd pay off all my parents bills & make sure my sister has a nice place to live, then I'd have that bunker/house I've always wanted built inside a mountain. Oh & open my own bar so I no longer have to work for someone else.

 

[Brian Tams]

Get it converted to pennies and swim around in it scrooge mcduck style.

 

[Lilikins]

Get it converted to pennies and swim around in it scrooge mcduck style.

that would net you 10 billion pennies, Id advise getting a lifeguard then aswell if I were you haha. Seeing as there are roughly 59,993,461,200 drops of water in an olympic sized swimming pool (atleast thats what google is telling me..) you could probably 'easily' fill them in there. I spent way too much time looking into that...I shall go now.

 

[Product Placement]

This is actually just a completely hypothetical question, out of interest

Aww,

Anyways, I would probably split it into some safe investments, like a boring person. Hell, I'd be able to live a life of luxury for the rest of my life out of the investments alone, even when factoring inflation.

 

[sanquin]

Heh, thought about this a few times myself.

1: Arrange payments of 2000 a month to both my brother and mother. (which is about a middle-class income over here.) Then pay off the mortgage on my mother's house.
2: Tell my closest friends that if they need anything (need, not want) all they have to do is ask because I have more money than I can spend now. Plus I would hand them all 2000 in cash as a gift.
3: Fund my own private charity, so I know -exactly- what the money will be spent on.
4: Buy a castle with a few hundred square meters of land, and turn it into a LARP/medieval event location.
5: Build a LAN party room capable of holding 6 people.
6: Buy myself a Harley Davidson Heritage Softtail Classic or something similar, a Mini Cooper for fun (For some reason I love those), and a good family car that can take a lot of luggage. (Though I would keep my current Honda Shadow VT1100 and have anything worn or damaged replaced. I've become quite attached to it.)
7: Travel to another country every now and then. I'm a firm believer in seeking out new experiences when capable.
8: Get a one-time flight in a fighter jet taking off from an aircraft carrier. I don't care if I pass out from that. The one thing that makes me feel truly alive is speed. The faster, the better. And I can't think of something much faster than taking off in a fighter jet. Well, apart from travelling to space with a rocket or something...
9: Meet with the band that got me into metal; Nightwish. Not some standard meet and greet. I want to ask them to join me in one day of LARP, and have a bar night after that. No singing needed, just a fun bar night. And if they're not up for that, just the bar night would do!
10: Fund a good indie developer I want to support to make a single player rpg with co-op for me. Just because I've always wanted to do that. Nothing too costly, but I'd be willing to put a few million into it. Afterwards I'd probably put it on steam for something really cheap share the profits between the developer and a good cause. (Can't say a price because that would depend on the end results.) Not like I'd need that extra money any time soon.
11: Probably try to find a good investment or two, and bank the rest to live off of the interest.

I've grown up in a lower-middle class family and once I moved out I have just enough to not get any debts as long as I save up for more expensive things like a TV or a washing machine breaking down. And I'm happy as is. I wouldn't mind more money, but I don't need it. Let's say I managed to spend 80,000,000 in the first year. 20,000,000 in savings would give me about 19,000 a month in interest alone if I put it in my current savings account, family payments included. So I don't think I would ever be able to spend all of that money on myself. ^^;;

 

[Elfgore]

Three things I'd do first. My Mom's house will be paid off, my Grandparents will be put in a nursing home, and my student loans will be gone. After that, I'll buy the best gaming PC I can find, buy a decent amount of games I want, clear some of my amazon list, and throw the rest into a bank account. I may or may not keep working. I like my job, so maybe I might stay.

 

[Lilikins]

Id personally still work aswell, I always said I would. I donno how long though because Ive always said that Id work until the first thing really ticks me off. Then I could table flip, say f u, and take my leave. Ah yes..dreams are lovely.

Captcha: Believe me, yep, honest to gods truth.

 

[lowtech redneck]

1.) Divide it equally between myself, my sisters, and my parents.

2.) Set aside about 3 million for extreme nightmare scenarios (self-induced or otherwise, we've all heard about idiots losing their millions almost immediately), hoping never to touch it again-will to charities or loves ones upon my death.

3.) Never work again.

If I somehow still at least $50 million after that (an initial %400 million lottery, perhaps), I'd have my own eccentric mansion built, probably someplace on the Western side of the Cascade Mountains. Otherwise, I would carefully set aside a certain amount each year for personal use, for charity, and to gamble on the stock market for fun and curiosity.