If you were an eccentric multibillionare, what would be your project?

Me? I'd go in search of R'lyeh.

I would find a way to cure cancer or something like that.

I would adopt EVERY CAT. (Nah, but I'd definitely do a lot to help kitties in need.)

Oz: An admirable goal. Kitties are always worth spending money on.

Bacon: also good.

Also, aside from the R'lyeh search, I'd build a super-virus lab and try to cure as many as I could, using captured ISIS/Boko Haram/Al Queda people as lab rats.

What I'd probably do for the kitties would be something like... build a HUGE kitty sanctuary and rescue a bunch of cats from high kill shelters, make sure they're all healthy and get them spayed/neutered when they're old enough, and let them live in the kitty sanctuary. Of course they'd be available for adoption too, but they'd have so much more freedom at the sanctuary than at even a good humane shelter.

A full-size, working Tachikoma.

Building a large, artificial land and developing a nation-state for refugees and migrants from all over the world.

Oz: I'd probably live in that kitty sanctuary too. Think about it, surrounded by kitties all day! That's awesome.

All the kitties. And starting my evil empire.

And fund a lot of cool science stuff to advance humanity.

I'd buy one of the nuclear bunkers or whatever it was they were selling a few years ago.

Lobby to have the 25-year import ban on cars in the US repealed, in addition to lobbying for a reduction in car import taxes and the abolishment of the Approved Permit system of importation here as well.

Oh, and I'd buy a warehouse with excellent quality living quarters so that I'll never be too far away from my beloved cars.

I would buy out Games Workshop and have them enact sensible policies.

I would make a comedy-horror feature-length film on the Merryville Brothers, a classic Saturday Night Live sketch.

EDIT: I actually do have a plot idea for it.

edited 12th Jul '15 12:25:24 PM by MiscellaneousSoup

Giant Robot with Death Ray!!....ehh..I mean cure for cancer and world peace....yes....world peace

edited 14th Jul '15 6:53:42 AM by nightwyrm_zero

I'd probably adopt a lot of kittens. Build a really nice public library? pay off people student loans in exchange for fanfiction.

see if I could bribe tvshows into treating my favorite characters better.... fund a tvshow for the Tamora Pierce books.

Persuade the United Nations to pass a law that says all seven billion+ human beings on planet Earth must absolutely, completely, and permanently like fedoras. Always and forever. No option. No exceptions.

I'd build a Deathstar,

The responsible option would be to help distributing food and vaccines across the world, promoting political stability and saving the environment; but that doesn't really count as eccentric so it's pretty much out of the question as far as this thread is concerned.
My go-to eccentric option would be to create a continent-spanning cable transport system hundreds of meter in the air, because I'm a sucker for great views.

edited 14th Jul '15 9:41:49 AM by Druplesnubb

Build museums all over the world and improve the school system in my country and all over the world. Fund movies, books and culture projects in Brazil.

In my leisure time, practice all manner of martial combat and sword wielding art known to man (as well as own every type of blade) and become an Adventurer Archeologist of sorts by going on trips to the Bermuda Triangle, the Cape of Good Hope, and hunting supernatural phenomena.

Organising a massive LARP.

A private army that I'd use to stomp bad guys or rescue people and artefacts from bad guys too numerous to stomp.

Realistic Project: Clean water provision for places that lack reliable drinking water, washing water, etc. I've had breaks in water lines before that drove home how important water is. Also, I grew up in a desert. I know that there are already projects like these going on - safe, parasite-free water for places around the world. But, yeah, I could see Rich!Me getting really into clean water projects.

Not so realistic but socially conscious goal: (sort of pinched from one of the Mythbusters). Relocate all current politicians to employment on pig farms. Overhaul the system so that honest people who don't make tons of money can realistically run for office. Rinse and repeat as necessary.

Stupid, but attainable project: Create for myself a room / house / subdivision of a house that's a video game lair in the style of what the Angry Video Game Nerd has. Every console and every game ever made, good, bad and ugly with every kind of power attachment needed.

A thousand times yes on that political system project!

As for me, I have so many ideas for projects that I doubt I could decide on just one.

A German-American English bilingual community as mentioned in this journal entry.

My primary goal would be funding research into indefinitely increasing my lifespan. After that I would like to construct myself a home far away from any strangers. Preferably this would be some sort of flying structure but if not a castle in a very perilous to reach location and with many large walls would do. I would also like to acquire mechanical assistants to help me with my gardening and various tasks. After that I would start collecting the emeralds of the world~ I would also like to create a giant maze. ^_^

edited 21st Nov '15 2:59:59 PM by Laithelryn