Because that's how big the Mega Million Jackpot is right now.

Personally, I would....

1) Buy a small bit of stock in either CB, GW, or PP.
2) Create my own little game design studio to make a game or two I want made, then let them turn themselves loose and make what they want.
3) Buy a house after I pay for college.
4) Live off the interest of the rest, but still go to work to stop being bored

Lottery? Pfft.

Only way to win is to not play.

Necroshea wrote:Lottery? Pfft.

Only way to win is to not play.

I'm going to laugh my way to the bank if I do win

Not that I'm going to, mind, but Hope is a powerful thing. Hopefully it isn't cloudy tomorrow, then I can wish upon a star.

Buy Dakka and put the mods on pay... then say they could never ban me...yeah not like it's going to happen but it's nice to dream.

Honestly, buy a house, bunch of new crap, give the rest to someone know knows how to make my money work for me( and them) and live off the interest, god its nice to dream.

1. Buy rights to Firefly
2. Get cast & crew back together
3. ???
4. Profit

Krellnus wrote:1. Buy rights to Firefly
2. Get cast & crew back together
3. ???
4. Profit

I bow to your superior intelligence my good sir. =o]

Build the largest wooden cabin known to man out in the middle of no where.

buy gold and silver bars.

start my own miniatures game company

Season tickets to the Denver Broncos

donate money to a couple of charities/research facilities (Cancer research, blindness, mentally challenged children, women's shelters)

buy a new bow and cross bow



/endfantasy

I would go straight off my rockers. Just build a giant evil wizard tower in the most straight laced suburb I could find. Get a luxury Zeppelin (I would pay the designer to change his last name, so it would be legit). Put some money into mech design. Have a majordomo. Create the most labyrinthine rules for anyone to inherit my money so no one would bother killing me (Like, you must spend 23% of received funds building statues of me or erecting eternal flames all over your yard), and maybe take up horse archery.

hide money in off shore accounts
move to europe
buy a game store
just play the games I like there

I'd build a fully functional replica of a Tiger tank. Then I'd build a bunch of replica Shermans and shoot at them for fun

Krellnus wrote:1. Buy rights to Firefly
2. Get cast & crew back together
3. ???
4. Profit

Please don't.

Instead, get some writers to come up with new people in the same universe. I hate to say it, but Nate Filion is a mite bit old to be running around as a space cowboy.

I would start a genetics program to breed Tauntauns.

And then I'd use them to make a fashion line:

The Hoth Topic.

1. Buy enough models to finish my current army (about 1000pts. worth)
2. Give the remaining 100 million to GW, for the purpose of a page 1 rewrite of the Grey Knight codex.

Get hit by a bus on the way back from cashing it in.

Necroshea wrote:Lottery? Pfft.

Only way to win is to not play.

Normally true. However with large rollovers the odds can get quite 'favourable'. Over a certain threshold, which is way below half a billion, if you bought every combination of ticket you would still make a profit. This is conditional on how many people you share your winnings with though.

I heard of plenty of people who only play on jackpot rollover days.

Retire, buy an island, hire Alby and his crew, set up beach chair and have lots of umbrella drinks.

I think at least $10,000 in free prizes to be given away on Dakka would be part of my plan.

About 50% to charities, then at least $1 mil each to all my friends.

Some will be put into stocks and buying a house, the rest will be to live off of. Sort of boring really.

Pay off all debts, mortgage, car, credit cards.

Renovate house.

Buy / have made new car, 1984 Dodge M4S Turbo Interceptor.

Buy more land, build other house.

Buy a warehouse, buy more cars, Ferrari, Bugatti, etc.

Buy a tank

Go on a much deserved vacation.

Live life all kinds of carefree.




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Oooo How did I forget.. Pet Cheetah.

http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/lucky/index.html#/documentaries/lucky/synopsis.html

You would never hear from me again.

Spend it. All of it. I'd want the last check I write to bounce.

Buy my way into office.
Ill play the everyman angle.
Then when im in office, Buy out all of congress, the surpreme court and the U.N
Then rule the world.
OR if that turns outs to be a dud just buy the white house demolish it and build a castle on the land.
It would be black and gold.

I love that multple fantasy's here involve getting a tank! Personally, I'd roll around in the APC from Aliens instead, but that's me...

I would pay to resettle everyone currently living in my neighborhood in really nice houses and then build a massive gothic fortress, and surround it with tall, twisted trees, and the only road in would be extremely twisty. I would hire The Great Kali to be my butler and I would stock the woods with spiky vines. The tallest tower of the fortress would have a massive telescope and the other towers would have giant lightning rods. There would be a ten story dungeon and a private tunnel system that leads to a few houses I would own in different parts of the city, and I would go slowly insane, but love every minute of it.

Travel more, and stop working.

Buy a platypus, and maybe a Bugatti Veryon.

Hunt the most dangerous game.

Maybe live like Alan Quatermain for a week or so.

Actually, scratch that, I'll just do most of what Anthony Bourdain does.

With my 337.381072 million pounds I'd give £100 to each member of dakka, buy a large house in the states and proceed to live there in luxury.

A Panzer II tank for starters. Then I would use it to drive to school and back!
Probably split it amongst my parents, store a good portion of my share into savings, maybe go to Gettysburg to continue my studies, buy a huge share of GW stock, so as to help influence their direction with 40K products and whatnot, and whatever's left to various charities.
The tank is a must-have, though.

Buy a nice house in Southern California and hire a maid, groundskeeper, and chauffeur.

Donate a buttload to charity.

Give substantial amounts to family and friends. Give a bunch to Crocodile Games so they can continue to produce awesome games and miniatures.

Buy Black Orc games to devote time and effort to their miniatures games instead of the slowed gak they're doing.

Buy FA of every single unit, jack, solo, etc, in Warmachine/Hordes.

Get a sweet-ass gaming and media room.

Devote substantial amounts of time to learning piano and guitar.

Travel.

Buy all the drugs, then spend a month being high as a kite, then I would return to the world. And never work a abother day, oh and I would go to Cannada

corpsesarefun wrote:With my 337.381072 million pounds I'd give £100 to each member of dakka, buy a large house in the states and proceed to live there in luxury.

feth the states. Hit up Sydney.

Nude beeches, and surfer girls are hard to refuse. Nothing tones the hindquarters like balancing on piece of buoyant foam while being pushed by a wave.

LordofHats wrote:I'd build a fully functional replica of a Tiger tank. Then I'd build a bunch of replica Shermans and shoot at them for fun

Awesome!

"Hey you, wandering drifters that no-one will miss, how would you like to have a fun day driving some Sherman tanks around? No cost, just drive it around my extensive estate miles from the eyes of the public. It'll be a blast!"

Have a heart attack and die.

Take XXXTreme Couponing to the next level!

i would build a 2,000 point death krops of kerig army.... ok, only most of a 2,000 point army, not sure that would cover a full 2,000 points.

If I am being honest with myself I would probably buy a house and invite my best friends to live there, I would also make sure that my great grandparents and grandparents' bills and stuff were all paid so they could buy things they liked, probably do this for most of my family actually... then I would buy the materials needed to build my own WWII U-boat.Then I would probably save the rest for living an eccentric life as the man who lives in a U-boat for a few months with my friends as crew.

Plans.. Ohh I have PLAN'S if I win....... But you have to take a couple of things into consideration... First, do you take the cash option or the yearly payout option? I would take the cash. So that 540 mill imediatly drops to 270 mill, since they take a 50% penalty for the cash option. Then you have to pay your Taxes on this new found wealth. Lottery winning count as gambeling winnings to the IRS so now you have to subtract almost 40% (in reality I thik its 37.6 % but 40% is a good round number to work from). So now you are left with 162 mil. Some states also have income tax so you will get hit agin. Now we are down to around 97 mill. Thats still a butload of cash though. The first thing I would do is divide that in half so now I have 2 chunks of 48.5 mill. One half goes into the bank to to grow/work, to take care of me and my family. The other 48.5 mill.. well I have a peice of property already, but I would add to it. I have a decent house but I would do some renovations. The I would build a castle.... A pretty big castle... Here let me show you....
www.castlemagic.com
Go look at the Jousting Castle...That would be the base building.. I would add to it... From my calculations I could build almost exactly what I want for about 25-30 Mill. Leaving me with around 20 mill to play with. I have some charitys I would give to. some people I would make sure get a boost. Then I would sit back and just enjoy...

Ohh and start saving all my fingernail clippings and never shave or get a haircut agin.... ever......

-Give 50% to charity. I have a list.
-Find a crappy elementary. Promise all the kids college education if they can make it, when they reach 18. Victory!
-Wiener dog bling! TBone will look right gangster with titanium and diamond replacement teeth. I could use some myself too.
-Block party followed by fireworks show for the city.
-A full auto Tommy gun.
-Take the wife on our fabled trip to Italy, then start our USA victory tour on bikes and side cars a few years earlier than planned.

"I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man."

Gitkikka wrote:"I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man."

Office Space for the win!

Quit workin.

Genetically enhanced super hamsters

http://www.firebox.com/product/4893/Project-Utopia

http://www.missilebases.com/properties

That is my first stop.
Then I'd open a nightclub or something. And I'd try to nail as many hot, hard-bodied young women as I could.

malfred wrote:Quit workin.

Aw, really? ):


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Lint wrote:http://www.missilebases.com/properties

Wow, thanks for sharing that! Very cool. I'd have prints from FallOut made to hang all over the place in a house like that.

Buy myself a good sandwich?


Seriously though, a lot of my focus would be in setting up trusts, etc and ensuring my family is taken care of for generations. My wife and I are fiscally conservative people...while we'd certainly spend money, we wouldn't do stupid stuff like buying yachts, jet planes, or houses all over the world. Maybe we'd splurge on a beach house in Delaware with a slip for a boat that the family could enjoy. But wealth preservation (and keeping *some* level of normalcy for our kids) would be the name of the game. Certain charities would get a check, and we might make some gifts to our alma maters. Boring stuff.

I would, however, be tempted to use a half mil to hire a bunch of the best mini sculptors as freelancers to work up new 28mm miniature lines, including Space Slann and Genestealer Cults. All just for me.

I would buy a downtown parking lot in a major metropolitan area.

Then I would build a gas station right across from the parking lot. I would have the lowest gas prices in town; my gas station would operate at break-even, undercutting all of my competition.

THEN I would buy enough fully pimped out Escalades to fill the parking lot (~50), with a 20 foot high razorwire chain link fence and 24/7 on-site security. The escalades would be mounted on rollers so that each one could be run non-stop at roughly 60 mph.

Then I would not even live in that city.

It would be the ultimate expression of nihilistic disdain; every time someone stopped at my gas station to buy gas they would have to look at my fleet of gas guzzling escalades, each burning through 3 gallons of fuel per hour 24/7. And yet, they would! They would do so because I have the cheapest gas in town! Ah-haHAHAHAHA

Buy a working copy of Liberty Prime and a suit of Brotherhood of Steel T-51b power armour.

Lots of drugs.
After that, who cares.

sourclams wrote:I would buy a downtown parking lot in a major metropolitan area.

Then I would build a gas station right across from the parking lot. I would have the lowest gas prices in town; my gas station would operate at break-even, undercutting all of my competition.

THEN I would buy enough fully pimped out Escalades to fill the parking lot (~50), with a 20 foot high razorwire chain link fence and 24/7 on-site security. The escalades would be mounted on rollers so that each one could be run non-stop at roughly 60 mph.

Then I would not even live in that city.

It would be the ultimate expression of nihilistic disdain; every time someone stopped at my gas station to buy gas they would have to look at my fleet of gas guzzling escalades, each burning through 3 gallons of fuel per hour 24/7. And yet, they would! They would do so because I have the cheapest gas in town! Ah-haHAHAHAHA

I take my hat off to you sir.

That is positively Bondian levels of villainy.

I would do a bunch of responsible stuff, like hire a lawyer, set-up some trusts, put stuff in investments, etc. Basically make sure I could lve comfortably off the interst forever, and never touch the principle.

If I had enough left over, I would consider starting a ThinkTank like the RAND Corporation.

I think I'd take a nap. On my huge pile of money. Like a dragon.

$539M


Set myself and my family up for life with the 'spare change': $9M
Set up long term business investments for myself and family: $30M

Start a manned space program, separating all assets for legal reasons: $500M
- Set up escrow for salaries and pensions. $250M
- Set up fund for materials. $50M
- Set up fund for tooling. $100M
- Set up fund for operations. $100M

Recruiting is key. Get the right people and this could go far. Get the wrong people and it goes nowhere.

Batmobile.

kronk wrote: every Batmobile.

fixed that for ya

1. donate millions to selected charities
2. Buy houses in Colorado, Miami and an apartment in NYC
3. Buy Lambroghini, and new f-250
4. Setup buisnesses
5. make MOAR money

Open the cafe I've been wanting to, buy a new motorcycle and begin a carer producing adult entertainment videos.

Buy a ton of land, build homes for myself and close relatives. Pay off debts, give my current home to a family in need and pay off the taxes on it for 10 years. Buy a few of the firearms that Ive drooled over for years. Buy a practical vehicle, buy a crazy rich guy vehicle. Donate to charities, invest. Done.


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FITZZ wrote: Open the cafe I've been wanting to, buy a new motorcycle and begin a carer producing adult entertainment videos.

Some might think that crazy/perverted. I say, its as close to a sure cash cow as anything could be

KingCracker wrote:Buy a ton of land, build homes for myself and close relatives. Pay off debts, give my current home to a family in need and pay off the taxes on it for 10 years. Buy a few of the firearms that Ive drooled over for years. Buy a practical vehicle, buy a crazy rich guy vehicle. Donate to charities, invest. Done.


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FITZZ wrote: Open the cafe I've been wanting to, buy a new motorcycle and begin a carer producing adult entertainment videos.

Some might think that crazy/perverted. I say, its as close to a sure cash cow as anything could be

Exactly my reasons behind using some of those windfalls to go into both the Cafe and " film" industries...both cater to basic human "needs"

KingCracker wrote:Buy a ton of land, build homes for myself and close relatives. Pay off debts, give my current home to a family in need and pay off the taxes on it for 10 years.

I think you'd have to let them pay the taxes so they'd have some skin in the game.

If no one wins it, it's supposed to be up to $700M TONIGHT.

Holy crap.

Oh here is another one. Buyout GW. Become CEO.
Change nothing.

I would buy you*.

*This could be you.

I forgot an important one:

Open a rooftop club in Manhattan, then hire Rosario Dawson as a lounge singer. /Pluto Nash

I also forgot I'd finally be able to become a DCM!

That way I can see the Roman orgy for myself. Well, at least
KC made it seem that way.

sebster wrote:

LordofHats wrote:I'd build a fully functional replica of a Tiger tank. Then I'd build a bunch of replica Shermans and shoot at them for fun

Awesome!

"Hey you, wandering drifters that no-one will miss, how would you like to have a fun day driving some Sherman tanks around? No cost, just drive it around my extensive estate miles from the eyes of the public. It'll be a blast!"

I've been discovered! Quickly Hulio load the cannon!

I would buy stock in CB and try to convince (Not force, only convince) them to make a Bike unit for PanOceana

Kanluwen wrote:I would start a genetics program to breed Tauntauns.

And then I'd use them to make a fashion line:

The Hoth Topic.

Kan, I've never loved you as much as I do in this exact moment.


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BTW, it's up to $640,000,000 now. I've got my 20 tickets!

First: buy houses on the beach for me and my friends and dad.
Second: buy the few nice cars that I've always wanted(Lotus Elise being the first)
Third: buy controlling share of GW
Fourth: Fire Matt Ward, delete the LotR game
Lastly: Live off the interest and buy up random companies as I see fit.

We might have to fight it out here Aerethan, because firing Matt Ward is a Bad Idea for the rules balance.

I'd vote for firing Matt Ward from writing fluff, fold Black Library's "Top Tier" authors into doing it instead.

Well, then I'd do the following:

have a team of writers who only write rules, and every book HAS to be written by the entire team, not one person.

Then have a single writer for each armies fluff, I agree that BL writers would do well there.

Also, I'd do a lot of things to the company out of principle. A 20% across the board price decrease, the option for PDF's with a usb lock at a discounted price(Pro Tools and other software use usb locks so that only registered users can access the software, I'd do the same thing to prevent piracy).

I would also get rid of finecast altogether and go back to metals with an eye at shifting the entire range to plastics.

I would also license out to third parties reasonably as it only benefits the community, yet maintain veto rights if a licensed item doesn't meet my QA standards.

I would also make Dakka the official forum for GW and would have an online team dedicated to user feedback.

So many ideas for how I would change the company. And if I had that much money I wouldn't really worry about turning mad profits, as long as the company breaks even.

I'm not much of a car guy, but if I won that much money I would buy a car or 2 from the 20s

alarmingrick wrote:I also forgot I'd finally be able to become a DCM!

That way I can see the Roman orgy for myself. Well, at least
KC made it seem that way.

Youll enjoy being a DCM, hell the Icecream alone is worth it. But I hope I dont get your hopes up TOO much man, I kindda make EVERYTHING sound like a roman orgy. Even getting the mail.

KingCracker wrote:[ I kindda make EVERYTHING sound like a roman orgy. Even getting the mail.

You mean it's not? That might explain all the Lawsuits I have against me.



On Topic: Build a big house with the best security system(maybe 100M. Maybe). give all of my immediate family 10M(30M). Finish my 40k armies(200 bucks). Stop working (or At least work hard at not doing much at work.) Learn how to drive (or hire someone to drive me places)[maybe 100k a year if I get a driver]. finally convince a female friend of mine to start dating ( or at least get a friends with benefits thing started)[Everyone loves a man with money] And the last thing I would do before I live off the rest of the interest:At one of my jobs, they have a donation jar. The Owner says she will double any donation put in that jar. Let's see her match one million dollars.

Iur_tae_mont wrote:Finish my 40k armies(200 bucks)

This is even more unbelievable than winning the lottery.

I would get one of those tickets to outerspace first. Then I would buy a submarine and throw parties on it. I would also get a one person submarine just for me. I would then buy a hot pink flying wingsuit and learn how to do that. Then I would buy a surfboard shop and a boat with a shark cage and go swimming with sharks. I would also buy a strip club. Then I would cash out the rest and put it in a giant concrete vault with a diving board on the top and I would swim in it.

Ahtman wrote:

Iur_tae_mont wrote:Finish my 40k armies(200 bucks)

This is even more unbelievable than winning the lottery.

I only need one more squad.

Holy gak, how many 40k models could we get with $539 million?

We're gonna need a warehouse, some cheap illegal immigrants to do all the labor at below minimum wage, and gak ton of glue and paint

LordofHats wrote:
I've been discovered! Quickly Hulio load the cannon!

Who spells "Julio" with an "h"?

Iur_tae_mont wrote:Finish my 40k armies(200 bucks)



This is even more unbelievable than winning the lottery.

Haha!

Truth > $

dogma wrote:

LordofHats wrote:
I've been discovered! Quickly Hulio load the cannon!

Who spells "Julio" with an "h"?

Someone who's never had to spell Julio before obviously

And maybe his parents wanted the be "different."

All I know is he makes a mean taco.

LordofHats wrote:
Someone who's never had to spell Julio before obviously

And maybe his parents wanted the be "different."

All I know is he makes a mean taco.

You were one of those heathen bastards that took French in high school, weren't you?

LordofHats wrote:

dogma wrote:

LordofHats wrote:
I've been discovered! Quickly Hulio load the cannon!

Who spells "Julio" with an "h"?

Someone who's never had to spell Julio before obviously

And maybe his parents wanted the be "different."

All I know is he makes a mean taco.

You mean tahko.

dogma wrote:You were one of those heathen bastards that took French in high school, weren't you?

Oddly I did take french! But my school actually didn't offer Spanish as a class so my choice was between French and Latin and I took the one with the teacher who gave you B's even when you didn't do any of the work.

The school actually hired my mom two years in to start teaching Spanish, but my college had an exception for the foreign language requirement for anyone who took 3 years in high school so I just stayed with French and learned nothing

dogma wrote:

LordofHats wrote:
I've been discovered! Quickly Hulio load the cannon!

Who spells "Julio" with an "h"?

How about Iulio?

Wholio?

malfred wrote:Wholio?

Coolio.

Ahtman wrote:
How about Iulio?

In the Latin alphabet, Julio begins with an I.

I'd invest the majority of my winnings so that I can live large off the interest, give a fat stack of cash to St. Jude's Children's hospital, give my friends that deserve it (that includes dogma, natch) a million bucks and furthermore I'd make sure no one that I like ever has to worry about paying a mortgage or car payment for a while.

I'd probably take about $5 Million or so and take my closest peeps on a bender of epic proportions.

539 million?

Ummm... Whatever the hell I want, I GOT 539 million DOLLARS

dogma wrote:

LordofHats wrote:
Someone who's never had to spell Julio before obviously

And maybe his parents wanted the be "different."

All I know is he makes a mean taco.

You were one of those heathen bastards that took French in high school, weren't you?

You could have a maid, or you could have a French Maid.

You could have Toast, or you could have French Toast.

Some things are just better French.

Apparently 3 people won the jackpot of $640,000,000.

/sadface

So, what would you do with $213333333.33

I think I'll keep plan A. Maybe even spoil myself with a fully functional StuG

I would buy one of those large indoor soccer buildings.....


then fill it with legos.

I would Buy all the foot ball teams. Then make all their jerseys pink and numbers be math problems.

Move me, my family, and friends to our own private island.

Do a Charlie Sheen til i die and then with the rest over money goes to my family and a number of charities.

Take one million for immediate spending (debts, financing education, etc) and then use the rest to set up an investment whose interest would become my income.

edit: Hm, I need to rework my new avaar, it used to be transparent.