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If I had a trillion dollars... I'd buy [insert personal fantasy here].

Discussion in 'Flash and Spam Games' started by Inquisition, Aug 30, 2009.

  1. Inquisition

    Inquisition Canadian Ambassador to Japan DLP Supporter

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    Some fucker came out of my local bar, zooming down my street in a nice Aston Martin. The people that least deserve the money get the most of it.

    But a man can dream, can't he?

    So what would you do if you had all the money in the world?

    I'd live out the James Bond lifestyle. Nice cars, good clothes, expensive booze, travelling the world on but a whim. Penthouse suite in every decent country in the world. Take the yacht out for a spin. First class, bitches.
     
  2. J22

    J22 Seventh Year

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    I'd finance a Lex Luthor style research program to get me super powers. Or maybe just buy an island. And a helicopter.
     
  3. Xiph0

    Xiph0 Yoda Admin

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    Move to Buenos Aires and build myself the dream house - comfy and decked out with epic lighting and books and stuff. Make it real nice. Then find someone to hook me up with an FN-FAL. Live out my life digesting my library and city crawlin'

    Pretty much all I want. As an add-on, I'd probably buy out CNN and turn it into a severely biased, pro-gun liberal network, but make it subtle. Influence public opinion.

    Edit: The other options are to start my own 'group' or a political lobby... but meh.
     
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  4. Jon

    Jon The Demon Mayor Admin DLP Supporter

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    Hm.

    I'd probably buy out a small town, you know? Something on the coast, nice location. Build an epic house have epic everything. A trillion dollars, what wouldn't you do? The interest alone would keep you set for life.

    at 1% a year you'd get 10 billion. -swoons.-
     
  5. Gullible

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    Well the epic houses in far away countries is definately gonna be in there.

    On top of this, I'd build a huge stadium and pay bands to come play at the stadium and let people come see them free or at a really low price. Just becuase the atmosphere would be insane.

    Breaking Benjamin or The Killers playing in my stadium to hundreds of thousands of people.... I'll be in my bunk <_<.
     
  6. Dr. Strange Lulz

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    I would build something grand...

    Nobody builds anything grand anymore, no more pyramids, no more great walls, nothing that makes people stand back 1000 years from now and say "Well fuck me, that is amazing"

    As such... I would build Minas Tirith.

    And then take a crap off of the roof every day, gifts to my people.
     
  7. Sorrows

    Sorrows Queen of the Flamingos Moderator

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    Actually that's pretty much what I would do, something that would become synonymous with my country, like the Eiffel tower or the grate wall of China. Also, although its all green-peacey I would buy a rain-forest, and set up my amazon nation.
     
  8. Hashasheen

    Hashasheen Half-Blood Prince

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    Hm...

    I'd buy a private island for me to live on and do whatever I want. Maybe make my own nation.:awesome
    Pay for college, my parent's business if they want to keep it.
    Spread some money around the family.
    Put a lot in banks around the world.
    Pay off my country's debt (somewhere around 16 billion I think).
    ???

    PROFIT!!!!!!
     
  9. Random Shinobi

    Random Shinobi Unspeakable DLP Supporter

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    I think I would create a megacorporation, just for shit and giggles.
     
  10. Aekiel

    Aekiel Angle of Mispeling ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    Buy a small country, establish myself as dictator for life and act out whatever social experiments I can think of. One second of the country is run via a Big Brother-style government while another has Über-liberal, free market system. Test out the gun control debate over the course of a decade, and everything else sociologists have ever wanted to know.
     
  11. Hadoren

    Hadoren High Inquisitor

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    I'd pay off 9% of the national debt.
     
  12. Rehio

    Rehio Bad Dragon ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    I'd... Well, I'd probably put it all in a bank and live off the interest. Kinda boring, I guess.
     
  13. Zombie

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    I'd pretty much do like Xiph. Mixed with maybe Strange Lulz. I'd go down to Guatemala, and pretty much establish that as my base of operations. Take over the rain forest preserves, gather all the Natives and the Mayans that live in that area. Reestablish the Mayan culture by having those that still speak the language teach younger people, and then have them teach more people. Go back to the old cities, or atleast find out why we left them to begin with. Pretty much start a Mayan confederation in my own image. And then, anyone that tried to kill me in a coup, I'd have my own armed forces set up to protect from foreign intruders, along with any tribe that wanted to assimilate under one banner, I would welcome all them-- as well as give them parts of the forest I would buy so they can do their own thing.

    Then eventually, I think after time has went by, and a sufficient infrastructure has been built up, I would then start absorbing other South American countries, and have people focusing on schooling of the people, science, industry, commercialism and trade. They would call me Jefé, and they would love me.

    Might be too much to do with a trillion dollars, but I think I could get a good start on it.
     
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  14. JWH

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    Yeah, I read Hashasheen's post and thought it would be a good idea. So I went to wiki to check France's debt. It's over 1,400 billion euros, so even 2 trillion dollars would be a tight fit. A bit depressing, really.

    Guess I'd just pay off Paris's debt (around 20 billion dollars) and buy off half the city. Plus cool houses everywhere in the world.
     
  15. Blaise

    Blaise Golden Patronus

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    1. Do my damndest to make sure no one knew I had a trillion dollars. That way, there's less people trying to kill me.

    2. Hard campaign to make soccer and non-stock car auto racing more prominent. I want more cities in the US that look like Monaco (race tracks on Sunday, regular streets Monday - Saturday)
    3. Buy the Redskins; deport Dan Snyder.
    4. Fund the most epic and comprehensive education reform lobby.
    5. Start a biofuels company, with heavy R&D of algal jet fuels.
    6. Monopolize the market on geothermal energy.
    7. Chateau du Villette (aka nice house from The DaVini Code)
    8. Private Archipelago (Richard Branson did it).
     
  16. Clerith

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    First priority.

    Get a damn nice house. All the cleaning and such will be left to the maids. I'd probably end up spending all my time indoors, reading my epic library, playing epic games and doing general, epic weeaboo stuff.

    Oh, and probably something to prevent the destruction of the world during my lifetime. I wanna enjoy my luxury life as long as I stay alive.
     
  17. Skeletaure

    Skeletaure Magical Core Enthusiast ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    As well as all of the obvious comforts, I would buy a lot of land and build a huge modern castle/evil villain lair where I could retreat to and live comfortably for my entire life (along with select family and friends) independent of the outside world. For when the bombs fall.

    That would take maybe 100 to 200 million. With the remainder I would invest a third in medical research, a third in science/technology research, a third in anti-poverty charities.
     
  18. Krogan

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    Id buy up all the old missile silos the government is selling off and hire contractors to expand them as far as they possibly could to create enormous underground cities and then throw nonstop parties in them.
     
  19. Lion

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    I would create a mega corporation that would secretly rule the world. The company would invest in medical, military, and in making life easier also using biology to create super powers.
     
  20. Xanatos

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    1. Buy Heart of Midlothian Football Club, clear the debts, build the new main stand and give the Manager 100 million to not only buy decent players but invest in great youth players so the club has an awesome future.

    2. Buy a massive house in Scotland and cool properties all over the world, including New York and Tokyo Penthouse apartments.

    3. Build a load of modern boats that look like Pirate ships and sail the seas, docking in ports with our Skull and Crossbones flag waving free!

    4. Create my own music festival with bands I'd like to see.

    5. Give money to mates and family so they're all happy, and enjoy my libraries and games and movies for the rest of my life.