Now that Powerball is back at $1B ($516.8M cash payout), time to ask: if you won, what is the most ridiculous thing you would do with that money? (Yes, we would all pay off our debts and donate to charity. I want to know the silly self-indulgent things you'd do.)
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My own commissioned animated show.
Bring back Battleborn AND City of Heroes.
Fund an open source Windows Suite replacement.
go to commishes.ych and buy one of everything
build a series of mallpartment complexes and charge $100/month per 1000 square feet
start a company that just translates books into Interlingua for me
buy the C= brand, hire engineers and designers to make cute soft brown tech again
Make a "primitive tech build" youtube but instead of primitive it's "post-apocalyptic" and me and other "survivors" (people who know better) make videos set in ruined properties and show the process from 'broken hand tools' to 'working cars and planes and windmills and solar panels'
at-cost paypay replacement co-op
Someone realized "wait, how did reviewers play the demo before the servers went live" and got one of the review CDs sent out to magazines and lo and behold they had sent a debug copy of the server software to run the press demos. A digital preservation coup if ever there was one.
Keep paying everyone who’s still there until the money ran out. Help em all find their next job. But I’d definitely just stick a fork in it. It’s time.
(though I'd probably blow it on making terrible documentaries and drinking European cocktails on sidewalk cafes)
if i won however, we would have to split the money- 100m to my mom, my dad and my brother each. leaves 200m for my husband and i.
For $500M, you can be a bogeyman for a lot of bad people.
Oh and buy a Mark Twain autograph and some crazy ass comic art.
You should really use the two trains for algebra word problems. ("Train A left at 11:59 traveling east at 48 mph...")
body contouring
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Honestly, that.
Then, I'd probably start my own video game dev studio with most of the rest of the money.
https://untappedcities.com/2020/02/19/inside-the-exclusive-former-cloud-club-atop-the-chrysler-building/
Why yes, I do live in Los Angeles.
-A spacious apartment on the Upper West Side
-A house in southern California (I hate winter and I'm too trans for Florida)
-A vacation home in the south of France
-One of those absurd diamond necklaces you see in the windows at Harry Winston
https://bsky.app/profile/acab4cutie.bsky.social/post/3k2vgpyr5j52z
One room will be a library with floor to ceiling bookcases, window seats to read on+fireplace etc.
Another: dedicated TTRPG game room + comic space
With a final large room strictly for visual and audio media (tv,movies,cd,albums etc) but the audio could run to the others so you could hear whatever you selected anywhere else in the house to set mood
Then I'd get a permanent indoor space for my historical fencing group
Brett and Amy. They will
Vote as I say and squeeze my orange juice every morning.
Oh and clean bird and bunny cages.
Ideally one of them looking like the library from beauty and the beast
I think I'd like several hundred acres somewhere to rewild. And/or turn my folks' farm into a research center.
See also orchid house. Big one. Same size as my current main floor.