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What To Get A Millionaire Gamer For Xmas?
Thanks to CNN Money for their article discussing gifts for the obscenely rich videogamer, as they buck the trend of budget-conscious holiday game shopping and try to pick "the nifty gifts the uber-wealthy will receive this holiday season from their uber-wealthy friends." Picks include Tsunami Visual's TsuMo Deluxe, a $20,000 arcade game which has an adapted version of Crimson Skies as a game option, and Hanaho Games' $5,000 ArcadePC Deluxe, an officially Capcom-licensed 50-game arcade machine which is apparently "extraordinarily popular among professional athletes." If money was genuinely no object, what gaming goodies would you buy for yourself and your friends this holiday season?
No questions about it. If money is no objection, I would get my game-geek friend a bit of 'outside time' and put them in a Russian MIG for a bit of reality...
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If I use it to take a picture of a video game, does this count?
I could always get one of those realistic flight sims the government uses to train fighter pilots.
"When God kisses Satan and the Incarnations applaud." "Death is dead. Long live Death!"
It would be cheaper to just get a pair of Cobalt Flux platforms, and hook that up to a PC with Stepmania, or even a PS2 with DDR MAX/DDR MAX 2.
Though a full-sized DDR machine would be cool as hell to have!
"You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do."
How about a live-action full-scale Quake arena?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
The way I see it, we should be encouraging people who can afford it not to play games, but to do the real-life thing! So, here's my cost lineup:
1 Full-auto paintball gun with outfit: ~$500
1 Over-under shotgun and hunting clothes: ~$3500
1 Hunting club membership: ~$2000
1 Set of golf clubs and membership: ~$15,000
1 2003 Ferrari Enzo: ~$645,000
1 Tank of 99 Octane gas: ~$75
1 Private jet lease to go drive on the autobahn:: ~$15,000
1 Slightly used MiG-29: ~$250,000
Watching the look on the guy's face as he gets nailed by customs trying to get all this shit into the country: Priceless.
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage
Well, there is one thing I would get.
A solid 24 karat gold Zelda 1 NES cartridge. If one doesn't exist I'll have it made.
Also, I would get the ultimate racing game. Or the other ultimate racing game.
Or the extremely rare Virtua Racing 2 machine. I know I played it at least once at Epcot Center.
OOh, Ooh, one of those ms. pac-man galaga machines. Those are hot!
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I'm not rich- but I'm not poor either.
I have some relatives who are in the very-rich category ($100 million plus)
I do not envy them at all. I'm not saying that I wouldn't like to be rich, but it is not the be-all and end-all. I am not suggesting that you feel you are better than the rest of us, or you feel that being rich is the most important thing- this just seemed like a good place to post this.
My rich relatives:
- Spend(and spent) most of their lives thinking about money. Thinking about how to make more- where I feel that even a tenth of what they have is 'enough'. This is one of the primary reasons they are rich, and I am not (luck and talent being others). Being rich is their primary desire. (Me? Good sex, comfortable shoes, and a warm place to go to the bathroom)
- Still get sick, have colds, and get constipated. Having really good doctors just gives them better access to pharmaceuticals. But when you are lying in bed feeling miserable, having a shit-load of money really doesn't help.
- They watch the same crappy TV shows, but on bigger screens.
- Read the same books, see the same movies, play the same video games. Once again, they may do it a few weeks sooner than me, and in nicer places, but in the end it is all the same.
- They see more live entertainment. Most of it, I hate, and the only thrill of going with them for the yearly 'Nutcracker Suite' performance is checking out the other people in the audience.
- They go on rocking vacations, and spend most of their time complaining about bad service, bad food, etc. I go on the same vacation (or on my own crappy vacations), and think everything is fantastic. I enjoy it much more. Their money just raises their expectations much higher.
- They are afraid to die. Hell, with all that money, dying would seem like a real waste. "But I haven't spent all of it yet!" I've never met people who feared death more than any very rich people. Why not just enjoy life now?
So- I don't hate rich people. I wouldn't mind being rich, but it isn't my dream. I'd love to be able to quit working, but then again, I get bored on a long 5-day weekend. So what the hell do I want...I guess it all comes back to the good sex, comfortable shoes thing...
These are just my own ramblings- I was not the intial person with the 'eat the rich' attitude.
No reason to lie.
logicool, the japanese arm of logitech just released the ultimate drive game setup for crazies. Look here. The setup features an actual Sparco seat from the Italian manufactuer with mounted petals and wheel setup from Logicool's new 900 degree GT Force Pro wheel. The whole setup costs a cool $850 US, if you throw in a Plasma and a dedicated PS2, you can have the ultimate driving simulator for under 5k. And by ultimate I mean that profressional driving schools use a similar setup to train for driving line, applied breaking techniques and 4wheel drift. Note the 30 so inch HDTVs here. The whole setup may 'only' be 5k but with games like GT4, R: Evolution the whole setup beats the pants of most arcade driving games (the only thing lacking is force feed back seats). Even millionares can't drive 500+ cars (not to mention the fantasy drift of the Ridge Racer games).
Why does someone who took a risk need to be rich? This country isn't perfect, but its pretty damn cool. Its cool because some people risked their lives to make it that way. They didn't turn around and declare themselves kings. They declared themselves equal. That deserves respect, not greedy people who only risked money.
The other thing I noticed is a cycle. Someone doesn't like their work situation and they start their own business to create an environment just like it. Exactly like the child abuse cycle (thats the part that makes me ill). Break the cycle, or at least quit gloating about how great you are.