Yea
same
load up the playlist and spend the days writing and…praying
Let’s see…. 6 months of quiet and beautiful scenery to earn more money than anyone in the history of my family has ever seen?
Gee…
is food delivered? do I have access to my meds? can I bring friends? is there cell phone service in emergencies (eg I fall off a scenic cliff)? are there any social opportunities in meatspace or am I just in solitary for six months? what sort of library does the house have? can I leave to go shopping, or do I have to order shit like shampoo and craft supplies delivered too? are my living expenses coming out of the million dollars, who’s paying for them?
*always gets tied up in the logistics of that sort of thing* (also people go literally crazy without human contact for extended periods)
Everything JT said (except I’m not on meds). Additionally, you said no internet and TV. Does that mean I can have a computer as long as it has no internet access? If so, how much preparation time do I have to stock this computer with entertainment supplies? (Can I use external hard drives for more space?) Does non-streaming video count as TV? If videos still count as TV even when locally stored, is that all videos, or just videos that have also aired on television networks? (I’m pretty okay with no video at all for six months, but I’m asking anyway on principle.)
And JT, why limit cell phone service to emergencies? Limit data service to emergencies, sure, but technically nobody said anything about not being able to call people. (I’m less sure about texting, since as we learned recently texting is, for most practical purposes, the same thing as email.)
Also, 1 million what?
Well, I was figuring non-emergency phone service would probably be landline, in keeping with the last-century feel of the challenge. There’d have to be something of the sort if we were supposed to stay in or near the house and couldn’t use the internet to order food/shampoo/etc. (If we had a car and were allowed to go into town for shopping, social meetups, etc, a phone might be less necessary, although since I’m always googling the hours of places, a phone and up-to-date phone book would probably still be needed to *set up* meetups, shopping, etc.)
And yeah, 1 million what? If it was buttons, rupees, or pieces of landscaping gravel, it might not be nearly as valuable as it sounds if we assume dollars; if it was British pounds, gold ingots, or tons of weapons-grade uranium, then assuming the ability to convert it to a usable local currency, it could be considerably more valuable.
A computer with no internet access would probably be allowed – at least, I bet a lot of the people talking about writing are thinking in those terms (I sure as hell ain’t writing longhand for six months) – and would be hella useful for writing, or indeed transcribing if I downloaded all current episodes of the podcast ahead of time; my guess would be that all video counts as “TV” and is therefore disallowed.
It’d be more work than sucking a dick for a billion dollars or getting shot in the leg for ten million, apropos of other similar “challenges”, but if living expenses are paid it could be a nice change. ^_^
OBVIOUSLY YOU’LL BE REWARDED ONE MILLION INTERNETS AS YOU’VE BEEN DEPRIVED OF THE INTERNETS WHILE IN THERE.
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