If you had the money, what would be your big, dumb purchase?

A grand piano

Depending how rich we're talking here... I'd buy a football team. Football americano that is

I would buy the chicago bulls and maybe the white sox...

Weeb shit. Anime figures, manga, anime blurays, plenty of 'weeb bait' games (senran kagura, valkyrie drive, those kinda of things) that I haven't gotten already, etc..

I've got dumb covered already.

My dream dumb thing (because I don't do anything that would benefit from it) is to have a workshop separate from my house. I don't do anything that requires said workshop, but it'd be cool to have.

Currently shopping for a dumb car. Ya know, that car you want when you're younger and can't afford until you're 30 and/or further along in your career? That's where I'm at. 30 and looking for a dumb fucking car.

If you're talking about lottery the reason most people lose it is due to the taxes applied. People just think it's free money when it's lottery. Wrong. It's all taxed.

Also I would buy the White House. Not to sit in the office but just so I can say the president pays me rent. Evil plan

A VR headset.

...I'm poor, that's a lot for me :(

Giantbomb.com

(assuming CBSi would even sell it and the people at Gb would even want it to be sold).

HUGE FUCK OFF MODULAR SYNTH

A big breakfast from McDonalds.

Given there's enough money I'd buy a house followed by that.

Either way it would be some music gear. Maybe an electronic drum set, Alex's stream was pretty inspiring.

I bought a MvC2 cabinet a few years ago. It mostly sits around and looks nice. I don't regret it, as at the least, my on-the-way child will grow up with some understanding of how her father grew up playing games.

@fisk0:

I'm gonna use this opportunity to talk shit about eurorack modular:

I keep wanting to get into eurorack, telling myself "if I buy x module now, then y module later I can afford this!". Then I think about how many modules I'd have to buy just to get a synth as flexible as my little Odyssey reissue, before I even got into the stuff I actually want (AKA all the Make Noise stuff) it makes me a sad boy.

Then I look at my Minibrute (which is a ripper) and my Casio CZ100 (also a ripper) and I feel a little better. Then I think about the fact I'm lucky enough to own an Octatrack, a small Mackie desk and a bunch of other random old stuff I found cheap on eBay and I feel a lot better. And I realise I don't actually want a modular synth.

Then I look at the Make Noise Gold System and the cycle starts anew because I am weak and capitalism is the devil.

Then I look at a Buchla Music Easel.

This toilet. http://www.us.kohler.com/us/Numi-Intelligent-Comfort-Height-skirted-one-piece-elongated-dual-flush-toilet-(less-remote)/productDetail/toilets/949936.htm?skuId=949924&brandId=430036

Already got a house, cars, a wife and a son.

No real debt soooo

Depends on how much money?

I'm disappointed that I have seen a disturbing lack of water babies here.

If we are talking splurge purchase, probably a Hobie kayak. Large windfall on my non retirement investments? Probably a bass boat.

No limit stupid crazy? Two mother fu&$ing battleships. Yeah.. two. I'm sure you can figure out why.

CBSi

I'd ban one annoying Gamespot employee from using Twitter and add Mary Kish to the GiantBomb staff.

I would buy some crazy ass cars, a pc with like 18 1080tis, and like all the video games

I'd buy a full-equipped, trimmed-out NASCAR stock car (either a 2013-2016 Chevy SS or a 2013-2016 Toyota Camry) and take it out to various race tracks in my neck of the woods for some hot laps. Then I would load up the car onto a trailer, drive out to Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, and do some hot laps around the 2.66 mile oval with a restrictor plate engine. It would be a blast turning laps at 200 MPH in a relatively-safe race car around NASCAR's biggest racetrack.

Buy and pay off a house so I didn't have to worry about being homeless. I'm boring.

This too.

300 cans of soup.

Transferable machine guns and the land to build a private shooting range.

This might sound a bit dumb but I would buy a small automotive/electronic repair shop and restore car's and old electronics, Not like just Camaro's and Mustang's and new stuff but car's and things that no one care's much for yet. I have a deep fondness for ugly cars and strange gadgets and the 1980's was ripe with them. My current 3 project's are a 1968 Camaro a 1985 Toyota Tercel 4WD wagon and a 1976 Toshiba black stripe color television (the case is tangerine in color), If I could do nothing but play video games and fix old car's and electronics for the rest of my life I would be a happy happy guy.

If I was stupid rich and could afford anything: I'd buy a Mech.

If I had a decent chunk of change I would buy up a PMC, a dozen or so politicians, and invest a in tobacco companies. Tobacco is a huge market and with Cannabis being legalized in more places there is an opportunity.

I would probably by myself out from student debt thanks to a good amount of loans

My own skatepark for sure.