If You Won A HUGE Sum Of Money...What Weird Thing Would You Do?

[Tanis]

For some reason I've been thinking about that 1.5 BILLION USD lottery and, yeah...

What if you won enough money to live well for the rest of your life, PLUS lots of 'i.do.what.ever.i.wan.na' cash to burn?

ME?
I'd never wear the same underwear twice.
I'd only wash them so I could drop them off at Goodwill every couple of months.
XD

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

Fund, produce and, if I have to, direct a movie adaptation of Gravity's Rainbow. I genuinely think that's my purpose in life.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Pile it up to see how high can I go to the sky so I can laugh at the aliens in space for being so fucking poor.

But seriously. I give 500 million for whatever disease research like Cancer and Parkinson's and keep 500 million to myself.

 

[Xprimentyl]

I?d solicit sex from sex slaves in a local spa where prices range from $59 for a half hour to $79 for a full hour? or at least that?s what the recent actions of someone worth nearly 7 billion dollars leads me to believe I could do. I did the math, that idiot Kraft is worth enough to solicit a $79 per hour prostitute, every hour, for the next 9,537 years. YEARS. If you?re going to be an unbelievably rich pervert, at least do it with some class and dignity; with that kinda cash, I?m certain you could find a free and willing woman to give it up to your wrinkly ass instead of skulking around in spas MY broke as could afford to frequent.

Anyway, I can?t think of anything really ?weird? I?d do after buying my pool table and grand piano. Probably just sit around like I do now, thinking about shit I wish I could do, but then I?d snap to when I remember, ?oh, shit! I CAN do that now!?

 

[JoJo]

Bribe a tiny Pacific island to give me a small portion of their territory, which I can then rule over as my personal fief. It can be called the Undemocratic Republic of the JoJo.

 

[twistedmic]

Buy the rights to the Muppets and Sesame Street and do my damnedest to get my favorite movies, like Django Unchained, Mad Max: Fury Road, Gangs of New York and (original)Robocop redone (shot for shot, word for word) with muppet and Sesame Street characters.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Try to buy the rights to Firefly and sell it to Nathan Fillion for a hug and a brown coat

 

[Drathnoxis]

Quit my job and play video games all day. Probably watch a bunch of anime too.

 

[Squilookle]

1) Pay off any debts immediately
2) Carefully invest several million
3) Form a games studio to make the games I want, sales be damned.
4) The same, for movies.
5) Aim to retire with exactly half of whatever I have at that point going to charity.
6) Form packages for my kids when they reach 21, but not telling them.
7) Die some day full of emotional fulfillment, actual net-worth be damned.

 

[EvilRoy]

I?d solicit sex from sex slaves in a local spa where prices range from $59 for a half hour to $79 for a full hour? or at least that?s what the recent actions of someone worth nearly 7 billion dollars leads me to believe I could do. I did the math, that idiot Kraft is worth enough to solicit a $79 per hour prostitute, every hour, for the next 9,537 years. YEARS. If you?re going to be an unbelievably rich pervert, at least do it with some class and dignity; with that kinda cash, I?m certain you could find a free and willing woman to give it up to your wrinkly ass instead of skulking around in spas MY broke as could afford to frequent.

Anyway, I can?t think of anything really ?weird? I?d do after buying my pool table and grand piano. Probably just sit around like I do now, thinking about shit I wish I could do, but then I?d snap to when I remember, ?oh, shit! I CAN do that now!?

If I lived a place where it only costs 80 buck an hour to hire a hooker I would probably die in a brothel with or without a pile of cash. Its like he went to the Wal-Mart of bordellos.

As for me, it would start with a fow to never wear pants again and end with mountains of absurdly gaudy pants. In between I would probably dump piles of money on things that I think are neat, like that ocean cleanup guy.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

After investing enough to set not only me but my family for life...

1) Create the world's largest and best laser tag arena with a choice of single or team battles. I can afford to keep ticket prices low and pay the staff well enough to run it at a loss.
2) Make my movie about a re-imagined origin of Santa Claus.
3) Make an anime based off Animorphs.
4) Revive the Wild Arms and Front Mission series'.

Everything left over after that goes to charity.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

1) Pay off any debts immediately
2) Carefully invest several million
3) Form a games studio to make the games I want, sales be damned.
4) The same, for movies.
5) Aim to retire with exactly half of whatever I have at that point going to charity.
6) Form packages for my kids when they reach 21, but not telling them.
7) Die some day full of emotional fulfillment, actual net-worth be damned.

It'd be hard to do it for movies. Games, generally, have a small budget. $20 million vs say $200million. At least they're supposed to. EA really fucked that up, but I digress

 

[Chessrook44]

Burn it.

Not even redeem the ticket, and burn it, posting the video on YouTube to make a statement.

Because frankly, Money ain't the most important thing in life.

 

[Squilookle]

1) Pay off any debts immediately
2) Carefully invest several million
3) Form a games studio to make the games I want, sales be damned.
4) The same, for movies.
5) Aim to retire with exactly half of whatever I have at that point going to charity.
6) Form packages for my kids when they reach 21, but not telling them.
7) Die some day full of emotional fulfillment, actual net-worth be damned.

It'd be hard to do it for movies. Games, generally, have a small budget. $20 million vs say $200million. At least they're supposed to. EA really fucked that up, but I digress

Games and movies can both be made on a shoestring budget all the way up to hundreds of millions. Besides, part of the reasons for investing is to bolster the revenue streams to keep potential project budgets high. Doubt I'd try making a $200,000,000 movie in the first place anyway.

 

[Marik2]

Buy a good computer

Travel the world

Invest

Buy a good car

Make sure my family is well off and educate them on money

Buy all the consoles and games I always wanted to play.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

1) Pay off any debts immediately
2) Carefully invest several million
3) Form a games studio to make the games I want, sales be damned.
4) The same, for movies.
5) Aim to retire with exactly half of whatever I have at that point going to charity.
6) Form packages for my kids when they reach 21, but not telling them.
7) Die some day full of emotional fulfillment, actual net-worth be damned.

It'd be hard to do it for movies. Games, generally, have a small budget. $20 million vs say $200million. At least they're supposed to. EA really fucked that up, but I digress

Games and movies can both be made on a shoestring budget all the way up to hundreds of millions. Besides, part of the reasons for investing is to bolster the revenue streams to keep potential project budgets high. Doubt I'd try making a $200,000,000 movie in the first place anyway.

Its funny, over Xmas my cousin who's an indie film maker asked me if I had an unlimited budget, but had to pick him as a director, what would I pick as a movie. I chose a black and white, western, stop-motion Kaiju movie. Cowboys and Indians vs a Ray Harryhausen giant scorpion.

 

[Squilookle]

1) Pay off any debts immediately
2) Carefully invest several million
3) Form a games studio to make the games I want, sales be damned.
4) The same, for movies.
5) Aim to retire with exactly half of whatever I have at that point going to charity.
6) Form packages for my kids when they reach 21, but not telling them.
7) Die some day full of emotional fulfillment, actual net-worth be damned.

It'd be hard to do it for movies. Games, generally, have a small budget. $20 million vs say $200million. At least they're supposed to. EA really fucked that up, but I digress

Games and movies can both be made on a shoestring budget all the way up to hundreds of millions. Besides, part of the reasons for investing is to bolster the revenue streams to keep potential project budgets high. Doubt I'd try making a $200,000,000 movie in the first place anyway.

Its funny, over Xmas my cousin who's an indie film maker asked me if I had an unlimited budget, but had to pick him as a director, what would I pick as a movie. I chose a black and white, western, stop-motion Kaiju movie. Cowboys and Indians vs a Ray Harryhausen giant scorpion.

Well hey, I'd watch that.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

I'd still get a job.

Faffing about day in day out all year long would get tiresome eventually, so I'd still want something to make me feel productive. The big difference is that with that kind of financial security, I can try whatever work I want regardless of the paycheck. And if things don't work out, I'll just quit and go do something else.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

3) Make an anime based off Animorphs.

Yes. Fucking. Please.


Anyway, after doing the usual items (house, car, investments for life etc) my first order of business would be to commission a pair of Netflix series, done in very high quality CGI, of Warcraft. First one is four seasons adapting Warcraft through to Warcraft III: Frozen Throne. That's for all the fans disappointed by the Warcraft movie; I loved it but they deserve something awesome too.

The second series is based after WoW's Cataclysm xpac and details the adventures of a mercenary company taking random jobs. A nice sweeping romance, plenty of action, a bit of slice of life comedy. Just nothing Azeroth shattering.

And I'd commission shit loads of artwork and Patreon stuff for some of my favourite YouTube creators.

 

[JoJo]

Oh, the other thing I've wanted to do since I was a kid was to have a whole house made of cheese. Then hold a party where we eat the cheese.