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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?
I dont know about you guys, but this problem comes up time and time again and just haunts me! What to do, ohhh, what to do?!?!
Phredd - "I have found people tend to take you far less seriously once you start waving your genitals at them..."
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...
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
I'd hire a ground team to dig up all those lonely E.T carts.
that $20 mil space ticket sounds too good to be true, for example...
I'd buy myself a DDR 8th Mix machine, then make my friends pay to play.
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!"
Two chicks at the same time.
Why am I, the non-millionaire, getting gifts for the millionaire gamer?
Can someone forward this list to a couple of millionaires and let them know I'd like these things? Hell, I'll be happy with just a Gamecube and a copy of Double Dash.
"What to get the man who has everything?" A Post-It note saying "Give away some of your stuff you greedy buffoon."
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
How about a life ?
...was no object? The same thing I'd get any gamer if money was no object;
A box of N-Gages, and a sledgehammer.
All generalizations are inaccurate...except that one about gen....fsck it.
A Cave, with all the graphics systems (Linux available from SGI), will set you back a few units of currency more than 20K. I have seen a demo of Quake on this thing, so there is at least one game you can play on it.
I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
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
You could buy them 235,000 offshore programmers...
Make them into a sculpture of the Goatse.cx guy and leave it on Spielberg's driveway with a big bow around it?
--Jimmy has fancy plans; and pants to match.
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).