Mods the title says 'today' as in the 10th, seeing as it no longer is that day /lock for irrelevancy
1) buy an island 2) build some tree houses 3) get solar power, windmills, or anything that can create its own energy 4) start a farm.. just the basics so I won't have to leave the island 5) move in friends and family and recreate a community like the movie "the beach"....(( without all the killing))
I would quit my job with a going away party for myself. They deserve a good good bye. I would then go around the world for a year to visit my friends. All of my friends. I would have am honest sit down with them and determine what they need, within reason, to make their lives better and try to help them out. I would invest 50% of what I earned. I would approach my friends in the respective fields to help me out with this. I would open my own Comic / Used Video Game Sales and Repair shop / Fantasy, Sci Fi, Horror Book shop and a small corner would be for B rated Horror movies. I pretty much do this all on the side already just as hobby and I use y hobby to self fund itself. Id also open a Production studio (myself and friends would run it) and also start a small not-for-profit record label. We would only aim to generate income for paying our workers and funding our underground bands. Done it before and would love to do it again. That's all in order too. Lump sum first. Then trip to friends while investing and donating. Then my ultra dream Comic / Book / Video Game / B-Rated Horror shop which would be amazing. Then start up my mini record label / studio for properly promoting smaller bands and getting them up and alive before they deal with bigger labels. People would come to us too because of the talent we would have working our studio for our respective genres (Death Metal, Black Metal, Hardcore, Grindcore and Noisecore backgrounds from the few guys I have in mind all of whom are local and might be available). That and I would buy 2 small homes. One in NYC and one in San Diego. If enough money was left over I would open a proper venue for metal shows in San Diego because SoCals scene got weak. I was unimpressed. All the ones they have suck. Need more violent pits and that happens with ALCOHOL. Hear me SOMA? Get your liquor license.
As of today the powerball is up to 1.5 billion...That's enough to do anything you want. You could do something right with it or you can be a self centered retard and squander it away on worthless toys. Personally I would do both, help the needy and buy my broke butt a cpl cool toys. Its just to much money to wrap my head around, when I'm used to just making 40k a year.
I would buy AtA and shut down all their games, just to make the cash cows angry and beat up their devices in fits of crying rage from mommies basement
Donate it all to the american government with the terms that it be spread equally among every citizen making less than a certain annual amount.