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2012/03/30 02:58:16
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Veteran ORC
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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
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I've never feared Death or Dying. I've only feared never Trying. |
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2012/03/30 03:00:43
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Infiltrating Hawwa'
Through the looking glass
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Lottery? Pfft.
Only way to win is to not play.
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“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
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2012/03/30 03:02:57
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Veteran ORC
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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.
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I've never feared Death or Dying. I've only feared never Trying. |
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2012/03/30 03:06:58
Subject: Re:What would you do with $539 Million?
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Battle-tested Knight Castellan Pilot
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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.
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2012/03/30 03:08:59
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Terrifying Treeman
The Fallen Realm of Umbar
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1. Buy rights to Firefly
2. Get cast & crew back together
3. ???
4. Profit
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2012/03/30 03:11:10
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Battle-tested Knight Castellan Pilot
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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]
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2012/03/30 03:13:02
Subject: Re:What would you do with $539 Million?
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Brutal Black Orc
The Empire State
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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
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2012/03/30 03:13:02
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Posts with Authority
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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.
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2012/03/30 03:14:23
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Mekboy on Kustom Deth Kopta
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hide money in off shore accounts
move to europe
buy a game store
just play the games I like there 
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2012/03/30 03:14:41
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Secret Force Behind the Rise of the Tau
USA
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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
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2012/03/30 03:17:27
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Veteran ORC
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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.
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2012/03/30 03:18:28
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Ollanius Pius - Savior of the Emperor
Gathering the Informations.
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I would start a genetics program to breed Tauntauns.
And then I'd use them to make a fashion line:
The Hoth Topic.
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2012/03/30 03:21:02
Subject: Re:What would you do with $539 Million?
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Savage Khorne Berserker Biker
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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. 
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2012/03/30 03:23:04
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Get hit by a bus on the way back from cashing it in.
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2012/03/30 03:33:42
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Highlord with a Blackstone Fortress
Adrift within the vortex of my imagination.
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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.
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2012/03/30 03:38:55
Subject: Re:What would you do with $539 Million?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Retire, buy an island, hire Alby and his crew, set up beach chair and have lots of umbrella drinks.
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"But i'm more than just a little curious, how you're planning to go about making your amends, to the dead?" -The Noose-APC
"Little angel go away
Come again some other day
The devil has my ear today
I'll never hear a word you say" Weak and Powerless - APC
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2012/03/30 04:01:06
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Solahma
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I think at least $10,000 in free prizes to be given away on Dakka would be part of my plan.
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2012/03/30 04:09:14
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Lady of the Lake
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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. 
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2012/03/30 04:45:46
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Revving Ravenwing Biker
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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.
Automatically Appended Next Post:
Oooo How did I forget.. Pet Cheetah.
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2012/03/30 05:15:50
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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[DCM]
Tilter at Windmills
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2012/03/30 05:17:00
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Fixture of Dakka
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You would never hear from me again.
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2012/03/30 05:31:48
Subject: Re:What would you do with $539 Million?
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Imperial Admiral
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Spend it. All of it. I'd want the last check I write to bounce.
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2012/03/30 05:44:50
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Member of the Ethereal Council
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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.
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2012/03/30 05:47:31
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Pyromaniac Hellhound Pilot
Australia
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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...
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2012/03/30 06:38:37
Subject: Re:What would you do with $539 Million?
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Nasty Nob on Warbike with Klaw
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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.
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2012/03/30 06:45:26
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Dwarf High King with New Book of Grudges
United States
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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.
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2012/03/30 07:02:03
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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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.
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2012/03/30 07:06:09
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
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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.
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2012/03/30 07:16:51
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Wraith
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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.
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2012/03/30 07:31:33
Subject: What would you do with $539 Million?
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Terrifying Doombull
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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
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5000pts 
6000pts