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Child's Play Breaks a Million Bucks
Utoxin noted that Child's Play has raised the bar for their annual games for hospitals charity. They say "Not only did we break the million dollar mark, but we decimated it with our new total of $1,135,000! This significant achievement made this holiday season a happier, brighter one in our fifty partner hospitals. To everyone who has contributed to this amazing milestone, thank you!
The hospital wish lists are still online, and some have seen new items added. While we try to get lots of new games and more to the children in time for the holidays, the hospitals have a need for equipment year-round. Likewise, we will continue to accept donations through Amazon, PayPal and the mail until next year's fundraiser kicks off."
Bravo! This kind of grass-roots charity warms my heart.
If this sort of thing sounds good to you, check out Rotary International because they do this sort of thing, on a global basis, year round. There are plenty of other similar organizations; shop around to find one that works for you.
Am I part of the core demographic for Swedish Fish?
..because games are "murder simulators".
I wished this kind of stuff made the news instead of the numerous violent video gamer portraits that are painted by TV and Paper news.
I saw this on Penny Arcade the other day, and it is good to see that Tycho and Gabe have used the power of running a top ranked webpage for a greater social benefit.
Kudos the them, and to everybody who enjoys successful and a love for charity.
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Does this count the donation that they made in Jack Thomson's name when he welshed on donating a large sum for making a violent video game to his specifications... Or was that last year?
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country did to you
if 100,000$ isnt that much to you, id be happy to take it off your hands
Yeah this is exactly the type of thing pricks like Gabe do; help raise over a million dollars for sick children. What a prick...
Most charity is fundamentally egotistical in nature. In fact, most everything we do is egotistical, even stuff we think of as altruistic. We've just been taught that ego is shameful, and so we dress our actions up in language which hides the self-gratification.
So, frankly, wanking Gabe's ego in exchange for coordinating the flow of $1m of toys and games to kids coping with chemo is a fair trade to me. Does mean I have to like the guy, or hang out with him on Friday night.
While I do not have any idea the issue at hand here, I'm not a big fan of the ends justify the means.... children getting X amount of toys doesn't just make something okay.
"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
As for the OP in this little thread... accusing somebody of being a raging egomaniac in comparison to Harlan Ellison is almost mind bogglingly ironic. If it's true this must have been a real case of unstoppable force meeting immovable object.