If you had nearly an unlimited supply of money...

[Drudgelmir]

I would use 100 million to buy guitars, video games, a cure for cancer and a private island. Then I would have the rest of the money destroyed so that the economy remains stable.

 

[ElPatron]

I'd steal myself.

I'd design a really complex security system and pay someone to pretend he is the owner of the money to store it physically in a vault protected by the said system. Then I would use my knowledge of the system to develop a genius way to walk out with a load of monheys and be known as the world's greatest thief. Run to a private island and repeat.

I get tired, plot the world's greatest heist before retiring just like in the movies to fund my own security company.

 

[kinglovejoy]

I'd buy an island, spend years developing it to be the ultimate adventure game, and tempt people with a ten million pound prize if they beat it. Naturally it would be filled with lush forests, some "ancient" ruins, suspicious locals etcetera. I figure if I turn it into a half country, half adventure island and throw in an entry fee I'd turn a profit somehow. Naturally it would be non lethal so I wouldn't get sued (and they'd have to sign a contract saying if they hurt themselves its their own fault), but to make sure its a challenge I'd give everyone one life and a limit of five people per party, one party active only. Maybe two. I dunno. Throw in some clever riddles, mix up when and where they're supposed to go and move the prize around so Gamefaqs doesn't screw me over and put cameras everywhere and I think it'd be a hit.

Of course, if they do manage to beat it and there's more than one winner...make 'em fight for it! Yeah, Double Dragon ending. Classic.

 

[LiraelG]

I'd continue to work because a life without work is depressing... I'd try and help the world's issues with eating, supporting those with obesity, an eating disorder, and those who are starving all across the world. I'd send my parents and extended family on a variety of holidays, and buy my grandparents and my aunt and uncle gorgeous homes. I'd take my boyfriend skiing! Several times. I'd buy myself a nice house with a large garden and hire a gardner to keep it tidy. I'd get three or four cats. I'd treat my boyfriend more often. I'd try to stop cruelty against people and animals. I'd send my cousin to University (which she won't be able to afford ). I'd get a new T.V. because mine is smaller than the average computer moniter - I love it to bits but it's getting impractical! I'd fly to America and go on a road trip. I would travel the world and take my boyfriend with me (there are so many places he wants to see).

 

[Gaiseric]

Underground Super Fortress.

 

[Verlander]

Inadvertently destroy the economy, thus wiping mankind as we know it off the face of the earth.

And create a bumble bee sanctuary

 

[LuckyClover95]

As you said, most to charity.Then a little spending money for some shopping. Genuinely nothing else, I'd quite like to earn my money.

 

[JamesStone]

Buy the American government. After that, CHANGE SHIT DRAMATICALLY. America is now a dictatorship with me at the helm, muhahahahahaha! 1.Kill everyone I deem unsuitable for life. 2.Build oil refineries EVERYWHERE then not use them because I turned Nebraska into Solar Panel City. After having America completely independent from foreign ANYONE I would start a series of wars, taking over every country in my path, destroying any people with genetic defects to ensure the survival of humanity. After controlling the earth, I would coerce the world into harmony, and work on science and technology as my highest priority. By this point I would be 50 to 70 years old. I would order the excavation of all of Earth's materials, and a construction of a hole which could safely store all of those materials in case greedy alien civilizations tried to steal them. As this project is in motion, I would order all scientific teams to focus on space. From there terraform all the planets we can and send around a billion people to Alpha Centuari with a huge amount of the stockpiled resources I ordered dug up.

I would probably be dead after all these declarations, but I don't know, the science teams could have made a breakthrough in aging. If so, then I would start cataloging my knowledge of our race and frantically try to achieve immortality. After I'm around 200 years old, and the seeds I've spread of humanity come to bear fruit, I'm sure an alien civilization will come to have recognized us. If so, then try to peacefully co-exist with them. When that fails, conquer them. If that fails, break out the planet crackers and enslave the smartest of them. After breeding them for several generations, I'm sure I could establish a different, more peaceful mindset within them. Then they could be used as workhorses if their species is suitable for such, or research is the opposite is true.

If no aliens, then just continue spreading throughout the stars to ensure humanity survives until God-Status is achieved. Once that happens, (if I'm still alive, which I doubt) then I'll teach humanity that apathy will get you killed after achieving god-status, hopefully giving humanity a purpose in teaching other civ's to be less destructive.


That is what I would do with an unlimited supply of money.

But that´s not a live, that´s Spore!

Anyawy:
1st - Make a free-energy vompany only using renewable ones
2nd - Buy every single oil refinery and they desmantle them
3rd - Hire a personal team of top scientists to discover how to expand human life cicles
4th - Start a big and non-profitable humanitary aid company
5th - Buy major companies to ensure profits. And lower the prices to 1% more than the production prices
6th - Donate a shitload of money to the police all over the world to avoid massive shit to happend with my next step
7th - When the companies are bought, tell America that they must tell the truth about Area 51 and Every Single LIE that they have been told over the years, or I will stop buying and selling things to them.
8th - Demand that the space program be brought back on-line.
9th - Do step 7 to every single big country in the world.
10th - Give lots of money to environment agencies
11th - Talk to my personal team of scientists and become immortal
12th - Buy every good videogame in history and finance the industry, not just games but movies and books, to make really good artistic values
TA-DÃ!!!!

 

[Nemesis729]

Buy the best gaming computer money can buy, and continue upgrading it whenever I can, Buy a bunch of new clothes, and probably stick the rest in the bank, There's nothing else I really want right now

 

[Fenra]

Aside from all the obvious answers, house, material possessions etc.

Well, I'd conduct a human behaviour expirment of sorts. Withdraw a million from the bank in £10 notes, hire a giant fan/wind machine, go to picadilly circus in london, go to the top of a building, activate fan, watch as all the money disperses over that area of london and observe the results with amused interest.

 

[Brandon237]

Own mansion...
And scientific progress people! So much money into that. And my own quantum computer... network and I'll pay a software company to make me the perfect OS for me. As much money as they need for it. For the Quantum computer of course. And maybe an island and a lot of conservation area...

Now if you mean unlimited as in I could buy everything twice unlimited and not just "many billions" then I would Attempt to start a project to turn the desertified regions into tropical and semi-tropical forest and mangroves and nice, green places. It would cost absolute shit-tons, so only if my money was actually not going to run out. The jobs it would create, the prospect of re-fertilising the Sahara and maybe even massive moisture collectors (think massive-scale tatooine ones) acting as springs to supply water...

 

[Godhead]

Pay off my family's debts, then buy Wizards of The Coast and have all the Magic: The Gathering cards I could ever want!! And then after I'm done going crazy with Magic, I reprint all the 3.5 D&D Books. Then maybe buy some Warhammer shit.

 

[Krinku]

Start a recording company and sponsor those bands that are frikkin' awesome.

 

[General BrEeZy]

two words:

WEAPONS
DEVELOPMENT

also space travel.

and gaming.

 

[mrdude2010]

finish school, get a nice house in the country, buy an absurdly overpowered and completely illogical gaming machine, and blow things up

also: properly fund the education department, and use my connections formed by being undoubtedly the richest man in the world to influence policy to help out the little guy more effectively, and stop this absurd favoritism towards the mega wealthy

 

[aei_haruko]

...what would you do with it (for yourself, lets assume you already donated a shit-ton of it, oh and given the value of whatever currency your using isn't affected)

I'm thinking, Ultimate Anime Mansion!

Spoiler

-solid-gold statue of Haruhi Suzumiya
-14x7 ft. painting of Kamina (like the ones you see of people wearing suits and leaning on fireplaces)
-garden where the bushes are cut in the shape of Touhou characters
-frickin massive pool with Ika Musume themed trim and tile
-huge refrigerator with a picture of Cirno on the front
-life-size pvc Black Rock Shooter and DeadMaster figures, one on each side of a huge flat-screen tv
-a marble bust of Konata
-K-On! and Miku themed music room
-big-ass ToraDora tapestries
-huge couch with various anime-themed pillows
-room filled with anime props (e.g. Excalibolg, Gene's Caster pistol, Hei's mask, etc.)
-Vault filled with nearly every anime, manga, soundtrack and light-novel in existence
-Miku statue with sapphire hair and a pearl/emerald leak
-a room filled with anime plushies with a diving board so I can dive into them
-a shit-ton of more Hatsune Miku stuff
-a persocom maid that looks like Sakuya Izayoi

Note: this is only the beginning to all the anime stuff I would get

all in a big contemporary styled mansion

ooooo, nice one. I'd probably try to get all my friends and their families to live in a nice area where we could all hang out, maybe pay off ther families debt, make a nice laboratory for myself to do chemical experaments in, maybe try to do some cool projects, then I'd ride my bike a lot in the open countryside, maybe open a fireworks place out there too, do a lot of cooking, tutor myself in mandarin, and also try to work on geting a doctorate in chemistry. I love this thread, and I love the miku hatsune, perhaps you could have a HOTD video game made...? ( high school of the deat, watch it fellow otaku^^)

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Aside from obvious personal stuff (house, car, college, debts, entertainment, etc.), I would keep 50 million in the bank for me. I would withdraw the rest into bills and then burn it.

Captcha is telling me to buy "the full monty"

Okay, where do I get it?

 

[RanD00M]

I would buy some piece of land and do a social experiment by building a small town that would hold like 50 people and see how well they could work together. I would maybe take 20 groups to do this test, all people that don't know each other, and mix and max the ethnicity, religion and sex of these people. Then after all the experimentation I would write a thesis on it and become known among the people that are interested in this kind of shit, just for shits and giggles.

 

[TheAceTheOne]

I would immediately buy a house in Texas close to my girlfriend.

Proceed to bribe her parents (if possibe) to let her come live with me.

Work the rest out from there.

 

[Jedoro]

Open up a shooting range where I had every weapon made in the world for people to shoot. Hell, with some licenses and enough land, I'd set up grenade launchers, rocket launchers, and artillery in the back.