Board 8 > 10 million dollars, but you must hangout on GameFAQs for life

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This is way worse than a full-time job, so no way in hell would I take it. >_>

B8 is one of the only boards actually worth reading on the whole site and you can catch up completely on that in just a few minutes, so you'd have 7+ hours a day every day of the week either spamming F5 or frying your brain cells on the game boards.
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I've found a loophole that wouldn't violate the spirit of the deal, though for many people it would still not work well.

If you have a job that requires a good amount of writing, or spend a lot of your time doing writing, you can do the writing on the site and, so long as you post your messages on some random dead board (or a board that is relevant to the topic at hand if it'd upset the genie), it should count as posting. You can write a story or play on the creative writing board if that's an ambition you couldn't follow because of career restraints, or write up lab reports, technical papers, derivations, etc on the science board.

it'd still not be great, but at least it's productive
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taking this deal would be very short-sighted

you get 10 million upfront but you're essentially ruining the rest of your life
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NFUN posted...

I've found a loophole that wouldn't violate the spirit of the deal, though for many people it would still not work well.

I was actually thinking about how to word a similar idea, technically it would still count as posting even if you deleted the posts immediately after, if someone didn't necessarily want their writing posted somewhere.

However, I still don't think I'd accept it. Everyone has an off day eventually and then, oops, everything you owned is gone and your life is ruined. It still wouldn't be worth it imho
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NFUN posted...

I've found a loophole that wouldn't violate the spirit of the deal, though for many people it would still not work well.

If you have a job that requires a good amount of writing, or spend a lot of your time doing writing, you can do the writing on the site and, so long as you post your messages on some random dead board (or a board that is relevant to the topic at hand if it'd upset the genie), it should count as posting. You can write a story or play on the creative writing board if that's an ambition you couldn't follow because of career restraints, or write up lab reports, technical papers, derivations, etc on the science board.

it'd still not be great, but at least it's productive

Yeah, that's not really a "loophole" so much as a creative way to maximize the value of your time.
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as someone who does a lot of writing and who has done a lot of writing on gamefaqs

spending 8 hours EVERY DAY writing on gamefaqs would absolutely destroy me after like 2 days max
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honestly this would be a lot easier if B8 were at its heyday and the board was always super active

when it's as slow as it is now it'd be torture
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Mobilezoid posted...

However, I still don't think I'd accept it. Everyone has an off day eventually and then, oops, everything you owned is gone and your life is ruined. It still wouldn't be worth it imho

I'm not really sure what kind "off day" would cause you to involuntarily fail at this, aside from an emergency that would be covered by your personal days. I understand some people would be nervous about this though.
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LeonhartFour posted...

honestly this would be a lot easier if B8 were at its heyday and the board was always super active

when it's as slow as it is now it'd be torture

I mean, you're not restricted to B8.
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yeah but forcing myself to peruse CE for hours a day isn't worth 10 million dollars
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Invest a million or two into making the site as a whole significantly more active, somehow
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NFUN posted...

Invest a million or two into making the site as a whole significantly more active, somehow

how much would I have to pay for the site to have contests year round I wonder
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Bump
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