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Annual Child's Play Charity Drive Begins
Many, many thanks to the gentlemen at Penny Arcade for the kickoff of their now annual Child's Play Charity Drive. The drive is intended to hook up willing people in our community with children's hospitals across the country, to spread some geeky christmas love to young folks that need it. This year the drive extends across the country, and you can donate toys to hospitals in Seattle, Oakland, San Diego, Houston, and D.C..
Tycho has a little startup post on Penny Arcade, as well.
Did I miss something, or does the hospital in Oakland want 20 Donkey Konga bongos, but no actual copies of the game?
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I hope these guys get lots of press this year. They are absolutely right in being indignant about the world's ills being laid at the feet of violent games, movies, etc. and a drive like this will give a good face lift to the public perception of gaming.
"You guys have proven yourselves to be a powerful force when stirred into action. Here is your opportunity to use that power to do some real good."
amen, go and dig through your pockets ppl, wait a little to buy doom3 and donate here instead.
"goodbye and hello, as always" ~Prince Corwin, from Zelazny's Amber series
In the same way I am proud of Stewart for going after the Crossfire idiots. No one has a moral responsibility to do good in the world. Life really is about survival of yourself and those you love and care for. However it is nice to see people who, when given a large mindshare of public trust, do something good with it.
I know some people in the past year have bagged on Child's Play because they didn't see it being altruistic enough or as self serving, but c'mon that they choose to do anything at all is great! By something as simple as coordinating the desires of gamers to occasionally do something nice for someone else a lot of kids are going to have much better holidays and the whole group of gamers end up looking better in the eyes of the public who are constantly flooded with negative images about gamers (OMG DOOM MADE ME KILL MY BROTHER WITH A CHAINSAW AND GRAB RANDOM GIRL TITTIES!@!!!!!!!!).
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"Penny Arcade"? Funny name for a catholic school?
I surely hope they surpass that number this year. Its a great thing they are doing, someone is turning their large audience into a positive force for children.
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And watch them grows, right from the material they post about, and the skill to their drawing, all the way to their artical and follower. They truely did came a long way, but at no time have I been able to predict a community can grows into such respectable manner. A Video game community! And to top it off, this is only the second time they try this. Maybe it will turn into someone big.. Hell, it already is something big, in just two years. Considering how much Penny Arcade have grow in the past.. I can not imagine what Child's play can turn into. It could become something huge, something national.. We shall see.
At first, I thought maybe the new Child's Play movie already needed financial help.
R: That voice. Where have I heard that voice before? B: In about 365 other episodes. But I don't know who it is either.
Hmm lets see. Their audience is a bunch of gamers who read their site because its game related. Sure they could hold a charity to donate food and clothes to children in Sudan (cos they sure as hell will not benifit from a game console), but they'd probably end up doing a whole lot less good since their audience would be spending a whole lot less.
Just because somewhere in the world there are people with even less, doesn't mean they shouldn't concentrate on an area where they cam do the most good.
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I knew there was going to be at least on naysayer about Child's Play. Here is a clue bat ... kids who are sick and dying is sad no matter where they live. The charity of this cause is no less because there are others out there that may be more "important". It's not like this charity takes away from other ones. It simply adds to the general prosperisty. Please remove yourself from your elevated cavalry.
"I can not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presents danger, the solution is ignorance" - Isaac Asimov
Back when I was 13, I was laid up in the hospital for about a month to have a pair of surgeries involving grafting a metal rod to my spine to keep it from going crooked.
If not for the fact that Nintendo's Gameboy came out in stores a month beforehand and I had one, I would've gone completely nuts. Video games are a very good distraction for children who are suffering and need release, need a break from having little to do but twiddle thumbs, watch reruns on daytime television and hope the pain will subside soon once the meds kick in.
Support Child's Play. It's not feeding the hungry, but it's bringing solace to people in dire need of it, and that's good too.
How about fighting for insurance for everyone
Sounds good. Let me know when you get this charity idea off the ground. Or, were you just shooting off your mouth and hoping that somebody else will bear the burden of "charity" for you? If this is the case, then go fuck yourself.
As for the guys at Penny Arcade, why flame them for choosing another charitable route? Face it, you can't help everybody with everything. But they're helping _somebody_ with _something_ which is better than most people do. Different charity organizations do different things. Some may be bigger, some may reach more people, but they all do some good (well, except the ones that are actually scams... but those are easy enough to avoid). Personally, my favorite is helping the Kiwanis International Foundation fight Iodine Deficiency Disorder. If you're looking for a way to stretch your dollar to help as many children around the world as possible, they're a good one.
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Uhh, many of the requested Spanish items are books. Living in Tucson, AZ, I know very many people who speak English and Spanish fluently, but their parents or grandparents (first generation immigrants) speak only Spanish. It's probably aimed for situations like that, Spanish speaking parents (or bilingual volunteers) reading to their children.
Believe it or not, there are 100% legal US citizens who speak Spanish and use hospitals.
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Who deserves a wish more, a kid in Sudan or a kid in a US hospital?
Are you implying that a sick child in the US is somehow less important than a sick child anywhere else? I didn't realize that children had a measurable value associated with them.
We're both going to get moderated into the seventh level of hell for this, but it's just too damn poetic for me to mod down. Way to vent your rage, motorcycle man. I salute you.
But next time, please use a blog for this.
"Why Subscribe?" Good question...
from the site:
"Michael Thomas, the PA reader who helped us add up all the toys purchased as of late last night also had this very nice quote at the end of his message to us:
'Now I understand what all of the anti-videogame people ment when they said children raised on games would grow up abnormal. They were right, we'd all grow up with really big hearts.'"
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Haven't you ever played The Game Of Life? The best part was selling off your kids and moving into the millionaire's estate.
Is that the perfect toy or what?
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Besides being off topic, I read this on CraigsList like a month ago...
Honestly, I don't know what the significance of the name is in Tycho and Gabe's heads. (Can't read the article here at work, as their site is flagged as Mature/Gaming) I would be mildly surprised if they hadn't realized the immediate association in people's heads to the horror movie, but maybe they simply wrote up the title as a literal rendition of what they planned the drive to be about, children getting joy through playing.
That said, I was a contributor last year. Twenty bucks went that some kid out there got an art kit that I would have killed to have had as a child. *wry grin* And then to balance things out, I gave $20 to a chairty providing food and shelter so I guess I was out $40, but eh...
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I'm curious what role Amazon plays in all this. Many of the games I looked at were priced at retail which makes me wonder how big their slice of the pie is. I'd like to know exactly how much they take off the top for their overhead and if they pass the profits along to the charity.
This should really be a question in their FAQ.
This is the perfect charity for me and I love the feeling every time that I turn on my xbox that there is some kid/family/whatever not too far from where I live who can enjoy a fun game for a while and forget about whatever pain they are in.
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But it's not an issue of metric spark plugs. It's an issue of nonstandard spark plugs. 99% of spark plugs everywhere, including those installed on just about every Japanese conveyance made since the 1960s, have had SAE wrench flats on them. For instance my 1989 Nissan 240SX has NGK plugs made in Japan (the car was made in Japan too) but the plugs have the same thread and flats that the plugs for my 1960 Dodge Dart had - in fact they've got the same size threaded area, they both use an aluminum washer to seat, and they both have the same length center electrode and ceramic insulator.
If you have nonstandard plugs you have only yourself to blame for buying a strange vehicle. Even my lawn mower and weed whacker use standard type spark plugs.
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Even if you donate something to Childs Play, in the spirit of this effort also consider finding those "giving trees" that pop up in malls and shopping centers around christmas, and buying some fun things for the kids there.
The trees have tags on them for want the kid wants - usually a primary thing like "gameboy" and then an alternate thing they expect to get like "socks". I am proud to say that for a few years now, some kids that dared to dream of something bigger got what they really wanted, which is a great feeling. There was even this one kid who just wanted Yu-Gi-Oh cards. My girlfriend and I bought as many packs as I could find and by chance, they had a sale on a nice Yu-Gi-Oh sweatshirt that was pretty cool.
I have to say even this idea originated from Penny Arcade, it was Gabe I think that had a post a year or two before they started up Childs Play about looking for gamers on the giving tree and suggesting that everyone try to help these kids out.
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