What would you have if you could have anything?

Well, as you can most likely tell, I am an utterly new member of this great collective, and I have decided that I shall start my adventures in the forums here. And since my birthday is approaching with all the grace and subtlety of that Eurofighter that flew over me yesterday (walks in the Peak District are weird), I thought the best way to get things started is with a greed fest of epic proportions; What would you have if you could have any object in the world?

To keep this from getting stale and old for 20 more seconds,I would like things to be A) restricted to objects that one could conceivably find, I.e that already exist, and B) for a reason, however contrived, that you would want such a thing. I'm not looking for suggestions; I just want to see exactly what kind of cult I signed up for.

For the record, at the moment my two most wanted objects are a turntable like my grandfather's, and/or a Minimoog synthesizer. I like old things, and have a top of the range amp for an entry level turntable, and the Minimoog just fascinates me.

Let the petty, shallow greed and/or deletion and banning commence!

Thank you.

The Foreigner Belt, from ATHF. Then I would have all the rock and roll powers of 70's supergroup Foreigner.

Hmm... You say "objects"—does that exclude digital products, like games? If so, is it restricted to single objects? Can I ask for money? If not to the latter, can I ask for something valuable and then sell it?

Presuming single objects only, no money, and no resale of objects (which seems to me to be in the spirit of the thread), I suppose that I'd likely want a new, more powerful computer than my current one. A fairly recent gaming-level computer, simply put.

I think we should assume that everyone has been issued with unlimited money, and so doesn't need any more; this means that selling anything or asking for more money isn't really necessary, but entirely possible. Anything that currently exists is reasonable to ask for, so digital games are perfectly fine; things from media such as TV shows are also fine, as long as it could conceivably exist on present day Earth. For instance, a magic wand from Harry Potter is fine, as the forces that drive them are quite clearly shown to work in the present day; a plate of Soylent Green would not be fine, as we don't have the technology yet. Also, no time machines; I don't like things that can violate my rules so easily.

edited 28th Jun '14 10:34:58 AM by Mr.Kingdom

Money, humongous amounts of money, obscene amounts of money, Money, Dear Boy...

And power, true, unlimited POWAH

(BTW, I'm True Neutral so I'd make for a very morally ambiguous villain, if you were wonderinh)

I would have Shakira. And I'd have a relationship. And tickets to places. And a mind that is so smart that I can speak many tongues.

edited 28th Jun '14 10:42:49 AM by DaftPunch

Well, if we have unlimited money then it's either a matter of what we'd buy first (in which case I probably stick with the gaming computer, and follow it with games) or things that money doesn't buy.

There is nothing that enough money can't buy. Nothing. (Polite Laughter)

It can buy a simulacrum of some things, I'll grant you, but not necessarily the real thing. :P

I would want a holodeck.

A complete reform of my country's educational and environmental policies.

...What? If you put it on paper then it's a thing. >_>

Okay, a Gibson Firebird. It looks pretty cool and I'd like to get my fingers on something that isn't a rusty-looking and -sounding Caraya for once, thank you very much.

edited 30th Jun '14 5:02:53 AM by eagleoftheninth

A Girlfriend.

Oh, wait, objects.

Um...... A Dreamcast would be nice. And a pizza.

An Aston Martin V12 Vantage.

No, I don't have a license.

A fantastic gaming PC with at least 12 TB of internal storage.

Plans to the cures to autoimmune diseases and easier cancer cures.

Autoimmune are some of the hardest to care for and are some of the most deadly out there - I'd do more benefit with that than I would with anything else.

The second should be obvious.

And with both, I'd likely be made for life.

Well, you could ask for a sexist arsehole to ask for a girlfriend for you. If he thinks of her as an object, doesn't mean that you have to. (Yes, there was a problem with my old account, so I have another now.) The cures one is my favorite out of all of these, by the way. YAY FAVOURITISM.

edited 30th Jun '14 8:17:40 AM by MisterKingdom

That's actually a really good idea, both in terms of what you're asking for plans of, and the idea itself of asking for plans to an undiscovered technology!

edited 30th Jun '14 8:15:51 AM by ArsThaumaturgis

I would like to have an icecream pallor with icecream sundaes, a pet dog and a library. And me and my family would live in a mansion.

Deep dish pizza, been ages since eating one in Chicago.

A Spitfire.

I'd also like a flying boat of some sort, probably a Grumman Goose or even a Shorts Sunderland. That way The Wife and Tiny Sprog could come along on my weird adventures. And man the guns.

Oh, and a nice house in the countryside with a library and coughcoughwizardstowercoughcough.

edited 8th Jul '14 3:56:38 AM by InverurieJones

No, you want a Corellian Engineering Corporation YT-1300.

Actually...yes. Yes, I do.

Is it bad that I didn't need to look that up to know what it was?

edited 8th Jul '14 4:50:07 AM by InverurieJones

The plans to a tokomak-type fusion reactor.

I just want to see what the thing is supposed to look like by the end.

A wipeout-like obstacle course and a portal gun. Oh and something that would play Move Bitch by Ludacris when someone blocks my path.

edited 22nd Jul '14 10:55:17 PM by Naspah

Since my birthday started the whole thing, I'll say two things; It was today, and I got my turntable. Still owe forty quid on it though.