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I would stay living in the house I share with my room mates. Buy a tempurpedic mattress. Buy a neat scooter and a sweet Volvo wagon, around a 1995. Trick it out a bit. Finish school, stay working at my coffeehouse job. I would eventually buy a small house. But I would stay pretty normal. I would eat out a lot. And I would buy a new wardrobe. That is about it. I would be stupid generous with my money.

I'd only have more clothes a house of my own and more things laying around said house.

I only want to make sure I'll survive prospering is a bit too...Extravagant for my tastes.

I would invest my money and keep the life style I currently got and wait a few years to gain profits.

Then maybe open up business or company and devolope other peoples Ideas for a percentage.

I would buy a little shack on an island somewhere in the carribean, a small shop in charleston where I could set up an offhand glassblowing studio, and 38 foot cruising catamaran that I could sail between the two. And a boss 302 mustang, a pick up truck, and a maserati. And a new kayak.



Just the little things, y'know?

My life style would change a bit sure, whos wouldnt if they became rich. Would I personally change? Nope. Id buy a super nice car (Probably an Aston Martin of some kind *drools*) and then a new vehicle that I drive most the time, like a new truck or something. Id honestly give my house to a needy family after finishing the renovations on it, and buy a nice house. It wouldnt be gigantic or anything but itd be a decent sized one.
After that, Id just live my life as happy as I possibly could. Oh and platinum plated Orks for my army

I thought you'd have some sort of surgery to become an Ork

Avatar 720 wrote:I thought you'd have some sort of surgery to become an Ork

that sentence did not end how I expected it to

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:I thought you'd have some sort of surgery to become an Ork

that sentence did not end how I expected it to

Expected?

Or hoped?

Polonius wrote:Depends what you mean by rich. I mean, if I were to suddenly come into cash (after taxes, natch), I would do the following:

$100,000: pay off student loans, bank the (depressingly small) remainder while keeping my job

$1,000,000: pay off loans, buy a car and house, invest, keep job

$10,000,000: try to set up some sort of fund where I can live off interest, quit job, have fun

$100,000,000+: Live increasingly lavishly

I don't see my situation changing until I can quit my job. I might buy a little more house, or a nicer car, but I'd keep most of the same lifestyle.

$100,000. Hmm, buy a used car that is still in decent condition, Get a new PC. Drop as much as 5,000-10,000 into hobbies over a couple of years. Go back to school. Bank the rest. Keep working my job.

$1,000,000: Same as above, except I'd buy a small house. Look into starting up a small business of some sort. An airsoft field or a wargaming store since SA is in dire need of a decent one.

$10,000,000. Same as above.

$100,000,000. Try to start a video gaming company to make the games I'd want to play.

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:I believe I've already answered this question another thread. Something about an equal number of $1 hookers... Seriously though, I'd hire a financial adviser first thing. Next up would be cocaine for about a week solid, followed up by presecheduled rehab. After that, hopefully I'd have the drive to do something involving music and not stagnate. Even if I was lazy for a year or two I can't believe that I'd let myself sit around doing nothing, even if just for the OCD.

What a call that would be...

"Hi, I'm going to snort a kilo of cocaine off of various 1$ hookers everyday for a week... no I'm not joking... yes I'm planning on drinking Charlie Sheen under the table, except with coke... I want to book in advance you see... yes... something in the mountains... can I reserve the Lohan suite?... I see that room is only for close friends of hers... don't worry I'll invite her to the party and before the week is up we'll be best of pals... thank you goodbye."


You make me laugh.

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:I thought you'd have some sort of surgery to become an Ork

that sentence did not end how I expected it to

Surgery to become an Ork? Have you seen my Avatar? Thats real man. Even the paintshop eyes are real






Didnt expect it to end like that? Ohhhhhh my

I would definitely change if I became rich. It's ok though, I wouldn't be rich for long...

If we're talking crazy amounts of 'don't need to think about it' money, i'd finish my A2 exams before telling my friends. As they leave for university, i'd definitely offer to pay for their student loans.

For myself, I'd buy a reasonable sized house in the middle of nowhere with its own offroad track.

I'd buy a donkey too. Donkeys are awesome.

£100,000: pay off student loans, invest well (perhaps my dream of opening a 24hr coffee bar/cafe/gaming club in a busy student neighbourhood)

£1,000,000: pay off all debts, house, live off the interest

£10,000,000: similar to ^ but with more interest

£100,000,000+: Buy a private jet, invite all the world leaders to a party on the jet, get drunk, crash jet...

If I had a good steady inflow of money.

First on the list is a nice manor house,with a high wall.
Also have two cars,one very fancy one for the looks.
And a not as fancy one for getting around.

But then just sit back and enjoy myself,and get a top class personal chief.

Ma55ter_fett wrote:

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:I believe I've already answered this question another thread. Something about an equal number of $1 hookers... Seriously though, I'd hire a financial adviser first thing. Next up would be cocaine for about a week solid, followed up by presecheduled rehab. After that, hopefully I'd have the drive to do something involving music and not stagnate. Even if I was lazy for a year or two I can't believe that I'd let myself sit around doing nothing, even if just for the OCD.

What a call that would be...

"Hi, I'm going to snort a kilo of cocaine off of various 1$ hookers everyday for a week... no I'm not joking... yes I'm planning on drinking Charlie Sheen under the table, except with coke... I want to book in advance you see... yes... something in the mountains... can I reserve the Lohan suite?... I see that room is only for close friends of hers... don't worry I'll invite her to the party and before the week is up we'll be best of pals... thank you goodbye."


You make me laugh.

Lol, I hadn't even thought of that. I would be instantly famous for absolutely nothing.

@KC: You could always become a female ork...

I would stop the slow death that is working in a corporation.

I would start a game company called "Games Workshop" with two flagship games called "Warhammer" and "Warhammer 40k".

When I was contacted by GW for copyright infringement, I'd hire the most expensive posse of legal representation on the planet, drag GW thru months and months of legal battle, and eventually win due to the craftyness of my super-expensive legal team, counter-suing THEM for infringement on MY IP!

(money makes right you see)

After they are no longer able to produce "warhammer" and are restricted to "lord of the rings" (not the new Hobbit movie....thats mine now) I would continue MY flagship games and correct all the SH!T that is wrong with them...making for us the Warhammer, and Warhammer40k that we all wish for.

I would do this thru actual playtesting with a real rules team and by paying attention to what my clientle want thru online avenues and a more customer friendly site.

Oh, and I'm rich already.....

Lets scale back prices 15 years.
Land Raiders are now $20 American.
Bits are back
FLGS are supported again
Go ahead and start up your online stores again.
Battlefleet Gothic and Bloodbowl are coming out next year.

People love marines, sorry, marine codexes will still come out like crazy, but hey, lets make every release a dual release. For every marine 'dex that comes out, it will be accompanied by a new 'other' race, necrons, tau, Orks, whatever.....

Any other requests?






....and I'd buy a new car.

Other manufacturer's models are allowed to be used at official events? Just use the "we'll make our money from concert tickets" approach.

Deadshane1 wrote:I would start a game company called "Games Workshop" with two flagship games called "Warhammer" and "Warhammer 40k".

When I was contacted by GW for copyright infringement, I'd hire the most expensive posse of legal representation on the planet, drag GW thru months and months of legal battle, and eventually win due to the craftyness of my super-expensive legal team, counter-suing THEM for infringement on MY IP!

(money makes right you see)

After they are no longer able to produce "warhammer" and are restricted to "lord of the rings" (not the new Hobbit movie....thats mine now) I would continue MY flagship games and correct all the SH!T that is wrong with them...making for us the Warhammer, and Warhammer40k that we all wish for.

I would do this thru actual playtesting with a real rules team and by paying attention to what my clientle want thru online avenues and a more customer friendly site.

Oh, and I'm rich already.....

Lets scale back prices 15 years.
Land Raiders are now $20 American.
Bits are back
FLGS are supported again
Go ahead and start up your online stores again.
Battlefleet Gothic and Bloodbowl are coming out next year.

People love marines, sorry, marine codexes will still come out like crazy, but hey, lets make every release a dual release. For every marine 'dex that comes out, it will be accompanied by a new 'other' race, necrons, tau, Orks, whatever.....

Any other requests?






....and I'd buy a new car.

GIVE ME BACK MAH BLOODAH CHAOS SPACE MARINES!

*sigh*

If we are talking smaller amounts of "rich", I don't think much would change; I like the people I work with, so I would still work, I would just let the money build in the Bank.

Now, if we are talking a much larger amount of "Rich", I would definately approach a couple of college kids who are going into game design with a deal: They make one or two Arcade-ish games of my design, to my standards, and then they are their own studio, complete design freedom. I would then leave my other ideas with them, just as suggestions that they don't have to do anything with if they don't want to, and then leave them alone for ever.

Quite possibly buy out Bungie, as well.

Other than that, build a big Chaos Space Marine army, buy my family our 90,000 pt Imperial Guard Appoc army, and then settle down to buy some Orks, me thinks.

Other than that, I would keep my wealth an absolute secret, so as not to attract undesirables.






OH! And I would buy Tim Schaffer, and have him make a sequel to Brutal Legend. Anyone have any other requests for him, in case I do get rich?

EDIT: hmmm wait a minnit.. i think I might be playing this game wrong...

Depending on How rich I was?

Let's say I won your average $24M jackpot

Well, the first thing I'd do is build myself a nice house on a big plot of land. nothing huge, maybe 5 or 6 bedrooms, a nice kitchen, a man-cave/private sports bar for the boys and I, a walk-in closet and at least one bathroom with a jacuzzi tub for the missus (and one bathroom for every 2 bedrooms, plus an ensuite for the Master Bedroom), 2 car garage (No point paying insurance on more cars than I plan on driving), and definately a finished basement with a small theatre. My aunt and uncle have one and I absolutely love it. I'd probably skip the cookie-cutter 'new car' purchase and opt to pamper the crap out of my 2000 Grand Prix GT Turbo, as I love that fiesty thing to death.

With the remainder, I'd pay off my parents' mortgage, donate about $2M to the local Army Reserve regiment for renovations to their armoury (Or towards a new one, either way the building is freakin' old), petition the Provincial Government to match me on what I put forward to help build a rehab, care, and education centre for addicts, the homeless, and anyone living below the poverty line that can't afford to get into a conventional college or university. The centre would offer basic secondary education (grades 8-12) and basic post-secondary courses (probably trades and business). It would be as digitalized as possible, as money saved from not buying paper means costs can stay vastly lower than any competition.

With the rest, I'd go on a tropical or European vacation, and then stuff the rest away in a high-interest savings account for my retirement (I'd probably keep working part-time, being idle too long bores me).

I'd probably have a variety of simcards at my disposal; getting calls/texts off randomers asking for money (people will find your number and sell it) would get annoying.

Avatar 720 wrote:I'd probably have a variety of simcards at my disposal; getting calls/texts off randomers asking for money (people will find your number and sell it) would get annoying.

Screw that, sell your own numbers.

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:I'd probably have a variety of simcards at my disposal; getting calls/texts off randomers asking for money (people will find your number and sell it) would get annoying.

Screw that, sell your own numbers.

Mans got a point.

Oh, and if I was rich, I would buy a whole heck of a lot of Flour, with which I would bake alot of cookies, with which I would woo wimminz to me.

My cookies. They go places.

Off Topic; but has anyone tried a "Maple Nut" cookie, with maple syrup and.... I'm thinking almonds baked into them? I'm getting a taste for it, might have to make some.

My life wouldn't change at all really...

I'd reserve what I'd need for college, and then just donate between those "Feed the African Children" charities.

If I was rich, I'd buy more GW.

I'd save most of it for college and med school (hopefully I'll get in), but if we're talking boatloads of cash, there are 3 things I'd get:
1) A Massive library in my home, with dark wood paneling, nice old-style large upright fluffy chairs, and a nice fireplace.
2) A small cabin in the northwoods of either Minnesota or Canada, preferrably close to the BWCA (Boundary Waters, a massive nature reserve of hundreds, maybe thousands of lakes, for canoers and campers).
3)An airplane. Probably a small single-prop civillian model, but if we're talking non-stop rich here, I'd buy an old navy or airforce plane off of a boneyard and do any necessary repairs.


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@ Slarg: try pecans. They usually go well with maple and are much milder. Too bad they cost a lot.

You know, I find this odd, but I have been dreaming/thinking about what I would do if I ever won the lottery. I mean like, the big lottery, not some 250 grand. The big 36 Mil or whatever that happens.

First, I would probably quit whatever job I had and go to school full time. Indulge more in hobbies and such, new car, get my own place. Probably see about investing.

Second, I would help some of my friends and family that are currently having issues, give them money for school and such to help them do what they want.

Pretty easy plan I suppose.

I'd be a rich douchebag. Money would corrupt me.

If I had serious FETH YOU money, I'd buy an area around where I live currently that is going to be turned into another housing subdivision.

I would then build exactly ONE ridiculous house on it. With a moat. And stone bastions around it. With secret passages inside. And an unusually long and winding driveway.

Then I would find some solid land nearby to set up a paintball field and a paintball store. And drive to work in a Maserati or something similarly outlandish.

I would keep a supply of cash on me simply to pay people to shut up in my presence.

And damn would I be divorced fast.