Wolverines

$4,000.00


You can spend as much of it or as little as you want or none at all.

Win on a scratchoff? Or bet on Saints with a 14 point spread?


I'd just bank it all. There's really nothing I want or need atm. Maybe a new comp, but other than that nothing really, so if that were the case then a new comp and bank the rest.

buy a laptop pay bills

No... you can't pay bills with it..... sorry.  This is fun money only.

I would invest it in an IRA.

And then I would call myself to invest it :)

New 1080p projector, Marantz amp, PRS hollowbody...that should do it.  

i would buy a new computer and a new quitar

New entertainment center with bigger TV. My current one got busted up by the German movers, and we bought only a 32" to fit perfectly in it, before finding out we can't put it all the way together.

I'd also get a new hard drive for my desktop and get myself a new laptop for travelling.

Actually i'd give it to my parents.

They're just barely making ends meet, and they've helped us before in tight spots, so they are overdue.

Partial down payment on a 2010 Ford Flex Ecoboost.

VEGAS

A car for muddin'!  YEEEEEHAW! 
Or a trip to Russia.
Or 4 "parties" at the Bunny Ranch.

I'd invest a large portion of it so I could live off of the interest, then buy a nice boat and just spend the next few years sailing around the world spending as much time as I wanted where ever I went. When I got tired of that I'd start a bar on the beach somewhere called the Flip Flop Shop.

I'd pay off some bills, maybe buy a new monitor and then bank the rest.

or

Invest in this bar called the Flip Flop Shop

$500 Give to MajorGrabass for OBX trip
$500 Mountain Bike
$1000 Napa / SF trip
$2000 bigger TV / bluray
 

lol? interest on 4k? boat with 4k? thing you misread the amount.

I would buy a new HDTV, and probably build a new PC for Win7 64bit with left over.

the dollar goes a lot further in Huntsville

Approx 1,200 to 1,500 - Towards a new HD TV, around 52 inches, with a great refresh rate for gaming

The next step depends upon long term investment.  ARe you willing to spend $$ on BluRay Disks or are you looking into the digital setup that Varg recently did.

about $150 for a BluRay or $300 for a PS3

How much are you into watching TV?  If you guys have a handful of shows that you watch I would highly recommend a Tivo HD which run about 500 I think, they6 are wonderful machines.  The only downside might be if you want HDTV from your cable company and if they can only route that through a cable box.

Other Stuff

$1000 Trip to either somewhere warm or to Colorado for skiing

I like Red's Mountainbike idea -> $500

So, you just going to let people jerk themselves off, or you are going to tell us whats going on with the 4k?

Change of heart: $4,000 worth of taffy.  mmmmmmmmmmm, taffy!

Sure.... I inherited about $4400 and change.  My wife INSISTS I spend it on myself.  I figured I would take a percentage of it and invest it/savings account it and then buy something for myself.  I just built a Core i7 64 bit machine back in September so I don't really need a new compy.  Here's what's on my hit list...

Xbox 360
Drobo storage unit
New bigscreen
New outdoor movie screen for the summer with perhaps a projector upgrade
After all this fucking snow maybe I'll buy a fucking snowblower with heated hand grips
A couple games I've been looking to get (COD:MW2, Bad Company when it hits the shelves)
Second monitor for the compy
Second video card for the compy
Thought about a notebook, but not sure what I'd really do with it. Maybe if I got a sub-$500 one I wouldn't think it was a waste of money


That's about it..... not sure what else might need to be on that list of considerations.

Well if you're really into investing, you can go with gold, and you will NEVER lose with that.


And if this "recession" truly hasn't hit the hardest yet as some are speculating, then 4400 in gold could come up real big.

Get the biggest 120hz 1080p LCD you are comfortable with, then bank the rest, sounds like the common vote in the thread. *NOTE PS3 is better then 360 and will last longer M$ will be releasing its next console in year or two  :P

*AHEM*

wow...some backup you got there Varg

Yeah, yeah I misread the amount. So effing what.

With only 4k it would be a new TV/sound system for it.

So really, no one else would go the legal hooker route?  Blah!

Hawkes if you can last another month without a snowblower I would.  Buying a slightly used one during the summer for next winter will be a whole crapload cheaper than a new one this year.  And almost any used one you could get in the middle of a snowstorm is going to have some major problems with it.

buy me and you a ticket to cbus.  I may buy a popup camper if i can t pay bills with it. 



and sry Tony,  I know you end up with the money

Arctic....my brother is trying to get me a job at the Gowen Field ANGB......we can cuddle and eat buffalo wings soon

Kas I didn't expect to buy one right now anyway.  I would be shocked if we got more snow quite honestly.  Ift would bein the offseason after I learn more about them and what I really want with it.

BUT Xbox360 has better games and more wolvies have it, plus the controllers weren't made for people with midget sized hands.  Just Sayin'


:P

OH SNAP!

or what you MEANT to say was "little jap hands"

i'm thinking about getting a ps3 but none of the games for it really have me sold.

yeah and when people say they got it for bluray are turds.....there are a million bluray players out just as good.

I'm thinking about getting a PS3 just for Heavy Rain, that game looks good.

ROFL perhaps =)


I dunno, it is one of those things where its like, if I did want to get a bluray player why not get one that also plays games that I can't get elsewhere.  

But the problem is you can get a comporable BluRay player for so much cheaper, and all of the other game systems for the most part cost less as well.  I am not even sure I am going to invest in a BluRay player because I love how good stuff looks when played off of the HDMI port on the 360.  If I absolutely want something in HD I can get it digitally (or, ahem, *aquire it*).  

But then again there are people who swear by the BluRayness and how great it is.  I wish I could test it on my TV first before I get one =)

taffy is the name of my mistress.

looking forward to cuddling with ya red

Taffy is a good name..... a solid name.  Sounds like a solid gal is what I'm sayin'.

And what you want with a snowblower Hawkes is to not have to shovel ever again.  My girlfriend has like a 16 car driveway and I have the choice of shoveling for 4 hours straight or snowblowing for 1.   Though if you live in a place that sees only 1-2 snowstorms a year then it just wouldn't be worth the money.

Yes more Wolvs have 360s. The 360 has better games, I can honestly say that the PS3 is stepping up its game this year, God of War III will be amazing, Heavy Rain (played demo) is a very unique game and pretty impressive. If you take the game Uncharted 2 which is considered the "Action movie experience", then Heavy rain is the "drama movie experience". You control the dialogue by asking and doing what you pick. That said, it isn't the most exciting game, people are comparing it with reading a good book that keeps you hooked, not a "have a ton of fun blowing someones head off with an RPG game"

About the bluray, the cheapest quality player with wifi or bonus features like netflix, will run 200, so you save yourself 100 dollars to lose the gaming, so it isn't the worst decision if you plan on maybe gaming. I promise no more console talk, I use both everyday and wish someone would combine a gaming console with a DVR. Wait, let me patent that first. brb

...or if you really need BR, buy a $100 drive and drop it in your HTPC. 

well $4000 US would be awesome for my trip, save me having to get a loan!

Man we are just getting flooded with Wasted Epics people :/

True, both have +'s and -'s.  =)


Still debating if I am going to make one or not.  

$4k to come to the US?  Ouch!
Wait $4000 American is like... $200 Aus.

Let it go, or go join chow

or we turn off signatures.....I always found those things are lame

They're actually Wolverines that, in the absence of the guild, decided to continue the game they like to play, however they could.

This.

Kill the Wasted Epics sigs, its an insult


And yet The Wolverines guild is still there, often with 3-5 people on, so therefore there was no absence, and therefore they aren't The Wolverines in WE, they are The Wasted Epics


I find chow's stance quite curious, but the more I see WE character signatures, the more I begin to understand his point.

It would be one thing if the Wolv guild had disbanded, and players went to another server. Its something else entirely when the Wolv guild is still active, and the players have gone to a guild which is on the same server, and to which has had a negative history with Wolv. inc.

And Stu you of all people should know better.

How long did me, you, Chow, and Nick play without capitulating to another guild in the beginning?

6 months? 8 months? And this was long before and cross server shit, like the WoW players of today have access to. Now they can just queue up with groups from across other zones to do pvp and big instances

We had to bow and scrap to other guilds in order to try and get instance runs ins, and hardly ever could we negotiate for all of us to get in. And sit in pvp battlegrounds to try and derive some pleasure from getting farmed 10 on 6, or have to play politics in order to get into a group to pvp.

And there was opportunity for all of us to join other guilds that were able to run the bigger instances, yet we refused, because we figured some day we would be capable enough to do it on our own. And that day came.

And how many jackasses had we supported with gold, items, quest run throughs only to have them leave us to another guild, in the process of trying to recruit?

I get Chow's frustration, because all that effort put into working to build The Wolverines, not just for new people brought in, but even for core people like a Mev, or Alchanor, or Sultress in the end meant fucking nothing when they defected to a guild we despised, and at a time when the Wolv. guild was not dead, nor is it now.


No, WE is the enemy, and those that play with them have elected to not play with the Wolv guild, which has not died.


Otherwise whats the point of this organization in general? Maybe when the few of us move on to another game which WE has happened to move on to, maybe we can be honored to provide some more players for them.

So I ask then is this site just a chat hub for Wasted Epics? OR ARE YOU FUCKING WOLVERINES!

ABSORB. DO NOT BE ABSORBED. OTHERWISE GET THE FUCK OUT!!


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But...most of the wolverines left.  The people that are still playing, members here, had to do what they had to do to keep playing the game that they like.  Personally there is no fucking way I would play in some silly militaristic raiding hardcore guild.  But to each his or her own.

When we played for a long time it was because it was new, we were leveling up, learning and hadn't gotten to the end content.  All of us that left, left because we realized the game is bullshit and same old same old.  I think the hardcore hatred stance against people who joined the guild while we were all there raiding and teaming, and then we left forcing them to either pug every instance and raid or join another guild, is silly.  Especially when alot of them weren't even in the guild when it all went down.  90% of the people who post here don't even play wow, especially hardcore anymore, if even on Malygos.

Mev Alch and Sultress don't even come here anymore as far as I know, and the people that still do, well good.  I'd like to think that friendships were forged that transcend a game and that maybe one day we'll all do it again in something new.

As far as Ch0w holding a grudge about it.  Come on man, its been years.  The people that actually stuck it in our ass when that happened are long gone.  What I don't get is Ch0w being all dramatic about it .....again, deleting his account etc etc etc.  Guess I just can't understand why he does that.  I mean, c'mon dude....  there's still a bunch of us here from planetside, wouldn't the friendships he's had since what...'02, 03, or whenever it happened, mean more to him than getting screwed by some jackoffs a few years ago that ultimately made little difference in the game? 

My big Question to night and Ch0w

Do you think the people from WE that left the Wolves sit around taking about how great it was when the left us or do you think they have a life and have moved past it like you should........ Get a theapist.

As far as I understand it, the guild was in position to stand on it's own merits, right before it got absorbed by WE.  Sultress had aquired a few minor guilds, so it's not like they were lacking the people, even at least for a 10 man.

On top of that they were raiding with WE, so they had access to get the content as The Wolverines, and there was no need to get absorbed if thats the case. And as its told to me it was mutual, so WE weren't getting the raids done without Wolverines to fill out. That would leave the door open to recruit some of them, rather than capitulate the guild.

And as to the point I previously made earlier about just 4 of us playing, we had been 60 for a long while, and we were missing out on end game content for a long time before things started getting better.

You mean to say that we were the only 4 people that could stick it out in tough times and be bothered to try and build onto what we had? There was easily much more than that just before the mass exodus to WE.



They are long gone up until they log in here to chat it up flying some WE banners.


Dude I ain't even going to try and respond to that. You need to drop some Mavis Beacon on that shit.

Also if you hadn't noticed, Chow can't answer your question jackass.

Lol Wow drama, you woulda thought it would die when the game did. /sigh

You still sore about your characters getting whooped up on in DDO eh?

I'm telling you Night, the people that caused the drama, no longer come here.  You weren't even playing when it happened, how can you make comments like that?  Matter of fact, I think this conversation is over from my side.  There was 2 people that were really pissed and hurt when it happend.  Ch0wdah and me...we held the grudge the longest.  But as I said, its just a stupid game, that I'm not even interested in playing any more. 

Not worth any more thought from me at least.

Alrighty-roo

But I reserve the right to be disgusted by former members flying banners here from a guild that has only done harm to Wolv. inc.

And how can I make comments like that?  I can say that and be that way because i've put my time and effort in to be able to do so, and anyone that thinks contrary to that can suck my fucking cock.

And actually come to think of it, I was there for the tail end of it. When Alch, Mev, and Ella left. I talked to Mev and Alch about it, and I tried to preserve the interests of the Wolverines by weening them off WoW and getting them to play DDO with me, and with the others that started playing there, Dan etc.. If you get a chance to talk to those former members, then you can ask them yourself. BTW props to Dan for trying to reestablish wolv interests elsewhere.

So thats how I can fucking make comments like that Stu.


But I digress. If thats how you and some members feel thats on you I respect that. But you also need to respect the fact that myself and a few other members might take the effort they put in a little more seriously, and get offended by people that gave up.


Like I said, I really wasn't phased about it, nor did I really get chow's perspective until the spam of WE character banners of recent. At the very least they need to get a clue to turn them off here.

Wow.... talk about derailing my thread.

Listen, some people moved on because they are tired of hearing all this and others just because they're done with gaming.  Honestly, the Wolverine organization was set up to be casual and this is one of the things that will happen as a result.  So what do we do about it?  Well, let's see..... kick everyone that isn't a true Wolverine and close our doors to those that have been with us since PS?  No, I don't think so.  Uhm.... try to re-organize the Wolverines under a charter and make the organization adhere to the charter and become more "professional" or "hardcore"?  No, I think I tried to steer things that way and was shot down from all directions because we are a casual group.  What else?  Call it what it is.... an absolute cluster fuck that has changed the face of the Wolverines and turned what used to be the absolute best place to game and hang out into a site where people who have become connected via one game or another can continue to keep in touch.

A kramer bass, aluminum neck from the late 70s ~ 1000
pay off some debt with the rest and maybe grab some odds and ends music gear wise.

One would have to agree that there's been a slight change of course in this thread  :D

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Also renting a private yacht into the Carib doesn't sound so bad right about now.

Rock out with some Sean Paul and Sunny fishing.
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New big ass TV, Blu-ray player, New compy, beer, more beer.

Really, i mean honestly, who really gives a fuck? If someone wants to join a raiding guild then so be it! I dont give a damn if they post here or even if they post there sig. I think it really sucks that some people are uncomfortable to post here anymore or are so pissed off they deleted there account. I mean come on, how old are we?

To reach that level of raiding that some people want, you have to have a militant hard nosed huge guild, which this is not and i am damned glad it isnt. Do I think it sucks the WoW charter fell apart? Sure, i do. Was it bound to happen, you bet. 

 Hopefully we will find another game we can all play together again as i have been gaming with you guys for like 7 years now. Maybe we wont.

Its just video games. RELAX.

I would go to Vegas hawkes. I would go and i would be retarded.

1000 - Cocaine
1000 - Hooker
1000 - Hooker
1000 - Baby Oil

done

1000 in baby oil? I would go with another hooker and have her bring her own. Might have to get more coke though.....

Put some of the money towards this. 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?VISuperSize&item=120526422984

New lap top definitely as well.

Change of heart again:  I'd buy Kithari's love. 

Yeah, so don't gripe about my sig!!  :)

p.s. where is Kith to get love from?  Ain't seen him in a bee's knees!

Holy shit Kas, that is so damn funny.

Nice to see Kas has found a new game to keep him entertained lol.  Hello Kitty Adventure Isle here we come.

Yeah, the graphics aren't the super best but I heard in Patch 3.1.1 they are going to make the profanity filter optional and add in more nunchuks.

hello kitty rules

That picture is a classic.

Has anyone said 'your mom' yet?

What guild are we in Hello Kitty Adventure Isle, I can't find you Kas. I might need some help getting out to you, I am only a level 3 cake decorator and I haven't got my sprinkles dispenser yet. So I can't get pass the Gum Drop Guard.

To Xbox360 or not to Xbox360?  I'm afraid if I take the plunge I'll dismiss you PC fanboys forever.....

if you get an Xbox that means you can't tell people how bad they suck for being a console gamer.

Hmm...did someone hack Hawkes account?  Never thought I'd see that from him!

And Dyeboy-  what happens if you got one for christmas, but didn't necessarily want one?  Like ..as in...I just unpacked it, hooked it up to the TV and played a demo game for like...10 minutes...so far.

I own a xbox. It has about 5 inches of dust on it but its still hooked up to my TV. I use mine as a DvD player because I dont wanna spend money on a real one and, I dont have zillions of dollars to throw at a HTPC.

then get a better job

im 20

OK, so you still didn't answer my question.  Just want to check the rules before I throw a shot in at someone mentioning a console game :P

My PS3 gets used very little right now, mostly blu ray, because I am waiting for the games in March. I play on my roommates 360 for mw2, but getting bored with that, and the 360 timing out randomly from games, not connecting to live, and just freezing.

I didn't have enough Rainbow Bucks to purchase a [Wolverines] guildname so I had to join up with --{HELLREAVERS}--.    It's pretty cool though, they already have the Blueberry Bush Clubhouse and they get every member a +3 Nunchuk and some Sparkly Blue Paint(tm).

This is a very interesting question.  I know you to be a gamer, but I've always seen you play FPS's, except that time I saw you play WoW :D

Let me break it down this way.  Are you questioning the purchase of getting an Xbox as opposed to the following

Xbox vs another console? (Ps3, Wii), or Xbox vs nothing?

What games would you forsee yourself playing on the Xbox?  

Any other features that are making you lean towards it? (zune service, netflix etc).

Best response ever.

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just don't play fps on your 360, and we will still love you.

thats all he plays really an occaional MMO but that has been just to fill time

Theres some fancy sigs there Night.  It just goes to show you that Talibanized Americans even play pokemon.

And you sir were the bucket of inspiration :)