Out of yours, the following can be done for free:SanteriEdelweiss wrote:If I had billions of dollars..
- I would fly gliders around the world
- I would show others what I love
- Make a Razoff dedicated game similar to Rayman Origins...
- Write fantasy
- make trance music for free
- photograph all kinds of stuff
- Play R3 & The Sims all day
- teach others how to fly (this is my choice of charity)
- fly some more!
Is it a cartoon remake of The Crying Game?RayFan9876 wrote:Use some surplus to pay animators for a controversial film concept I've had planned for a long time.
Personal wealth is practically irrelevant to the concept of a rejuvenation treatment: the real obstacle is the time and money required by the research itself. Only the rich will be able to afford it in the first few years after it hits the market, but like personal computers and mobile phones, it’s only a matter of time until the treatment and its underlying technology grow so efficient and cost-effective as to become a realistic prospect for normal citizens. The demand for it would be off the charts, and there’s no way the manufacturers would shut out billions of guaranteed customers.RayFan9876 wrote:Receive a treatment that can halt or even reverse the aging process permanently (which I hope to live long enough to see through).
That would suggest money is, to an extent, still an issue in your lifeTobbe wrote:Anyway, the first thing I would do would be to put every cent in a high interest bank account and live off the interest (app. 35 million dollars a year, calculated at 3.5% interest).
No, so I can write without any ego... Ego can really kill my creativity you know...spiraldoor wrote:You need billions of dollars to write fantasy? Are you saving up for a really superb typewriter or something?
Aha, no, but I see where you got that from. What it does include is a teenager strangling a child to death and enduring the events that follow through his life (prison, protests, ridicule, etc). It takes place slightly in the future where the death penalty has been abolished, but one of the main plot elements are the pensions people are trying to sign to bring it back to have vengeance on people who do this kind of thing. Who the protagonist/antagonist is is almost purely dependent on your views. If you side with the harsh capital punishment, then the teen will probably be the antagonist; if you side with the chance to redeem oneself, then the teen will most definitely be the protagonist.spiraldoor wrote:Is it a cartoon remake of The Crying Game?
That's a good note. If that is the case, then I hope it doesn't cause religious rioting. Nonetheless, I see it as a possibility that this will play out within our generation.spiraldoor wrote:Personal wealth is practically irrelevant to the concept of a rejuvenation treatment: the real obstacle is the time and money required by the research itself. Only the rich will be able to afford it in the first few years after it hits the market, but like personal computers and mobile phones, it’s only a matter of time until the treatment and its underlying technology grow so efficient and cost-effective as to become a realistic prospect for normal citizens. The demand for it would be off the charts, and there’s no way the manufacturers would shut out billions of guaranteed customers.
So... writing when you are poor somehow grants you a huge ego, whereas writing when you have lots of money somehow dismisses it?SanteriEdelweiss wrote:No, so I can write without any ego... Ego can really kill my creativity you know...spiraldoor wrote:You need billions of dollars to write fantasy? Are you saving up for a really superb typewriter or something?
I do not think the word ‘pension’ means what you think it means.RayFan9876 wrote:It takes place slightly in the future where the death penalty has been abolished, but one of the main plot elements are the pensions people are trying to sign to bring it back to have vengeance on people who do this kind of thing.
It sounds like an exceedingly biased film which makes a few concessions for the other side in an attempt to provoke discussion. Would I be correct in predicting that the film ends with the teenager’s redemption, or a scene hinting directly at one? (By the way, your character is a simple antihero; an antagonist cannot be the main character under any circumstances. Protagonist/antagonist is not a moral dichotomy but a narrative one.)RayFan9876 wrote:Who the protagonist/antagonist is is almost purely dependent on your views. If you side with the harsh capital punishment, then the teen will probably be the antagonist; if you side with the chance to redeem oneself, then the teen will most definitely be the protagonist.
The demand for this treatment will be too great for any social or political force to stop it. Most of those who stand in its way will lose their resolve when they come to understand the reality of life extension and see their friends and families (not to mention enemies) taking advantage of it. Within a few decades, the minority who remain resolute in their opposition will be taken care of by their own biology.RayFan9876 wrote:That's a good note. If that is the case, then I hope it doesn't cause religious rioting. Nonetheless, I see it as a possibility that this will play out within our generation.
Fuck, k, replace that with "thing."spiraldoor wrote:I do not think the word ‘pension’ means what you think it means.
Why do I never look up what I say?Nope, it doesn't give radical bias towards the teenager, and it doesn't end with any kind of redemption, because he kills himself near the end. He's trying to get a point across by doing this, but it isn't thought out and it isn't rational. If you take a look at many YouTube comments on this sort of thing, 90% of them are actually siding in favour of the penalty, even against a teenager (I'm basing this concept loosely off of the news story in that video). It does lean very slightly towards the teen however, about 55:45, but that's small enough so that it's less of a conscious thing (I don't see why it can't have a drop of my own opinion in there; you yourself said that persuasion is the only way to lead people in the right direction). It's a little hard to describe though, since I don't want to get into too much detail.spiraldoor wrote:It sounds like an exceedingly biased film which makes a few concessions for the other side in an attempt to provoke discussion. Would I be correct in predicting that the film ends with the teenager’s redemption, or a scene hinting directly at one? (By the way, your character is a simple antihero; an antagonist cannot be the main character under any circumstances. Protagonist/antagonist is not a moral dichotomy but a narrative one.)
Don't things just fall into place so beautifully?spiraldoor wrote:The demand for this treatment will be too great for any social or political force to stop it. Most of those who stand in its way will lose their resolve when they come to understand the reality of life extension and see their friends and families (not to mention enemies) taking advantage of it. Within a few decades, the minority who remain resolute in their opposition will be taken care of by their own biology.
