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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."
It did better than that! It grossed $44 million world wide!
It's like... donations made a quantum leap! What a sea change!
Hooray. I gave 100 bucks earlier this year along with donating during the Desert Bus for Hope run. Congrats guys and good job.
Excuse me while I gather the virgin sacrifice and assemble the pentagram required to solve your problem
Too bad Gabe is such a prick. Seriously, not since Theo DeRaadt has the world seen such a total asshole.
Ok, I've never met him personally, but I've been reading Penny Arcade for years (and I had the misfortune to play against him on Xbox Live Halo 3). Gabe's run in with Harlan Ellison is a perfect example of what a raging egomaniac he is.
I doubt that Child's Play is anything to Gabe but a chance for shameless self-promotion.
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 wouldn't call 100,000 or so past their goal "decimating" anything, although it's certainly great that they managed to get that much. The ego-stroking is a bit lame.
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
A million dollars is going to take a lot of money to replace. Hopefully they'll be more careful next year.
Congratulations on putting murder simulators into the hands of our kids. I vow to put a stop to this! I won't rest until the people responsible are made to pay for their crimes.
Regards,
Jack Thompson
P.S. Gabe and Tycho just threatened me.
What's amusing is that when The Master orders the population be decimated, he then further explains that he wants one tenth of the population killed.
must be, as it is NEVER mentioned among the things that have caused yOUR national bankruptcy.
homeowners, banks (currently selling out to the 'axis of evile' countries), oil prices (sure to rise even further in response to yet another 'glorious victory' announcement). talk about being bushwhacked?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071229/ap_on_sc/ye_climate_records;_ylt=A0WTcVgednZHP2gB9wms0NUE
is it time to get real yet? A LOT of energy is being squandered in attempts to keep US in the dark. in the end (give or take a few 1000 years), the creators will prevail (world without end, etc...), as it has always been. the process of gaining yOUR release from the current hostage situation may not be what you might think it is. butt of course, most of US don't know, or care what a precarious/fatal situation we're in.
for example; the insidious attempts by the felonious corepirate nazi execrable to block the suns' light, interfering with a requirement (sunlight) for us to stay healthy/alive. it's likely not good for yOUR health/memories 'else they'd be bragging about it?
we're intending for the whoreabully deceptive (they'll do ANYTHING for a bit more monIE/power) felons to give up/fail even further, in attempting to control the 'weather', as well as a # of other things/events.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=video+cloud+spraying
dictator style micro management has never worked (for very long). it's an illness. tie that with life0cidal aggression & softwar gangster style bullying, & what do we have? a greed/fear/ego based recipe for disaster.
meanwhile, you can help to stop the bleeding (loss of life & limb);
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/28/vermont.banning.bush.ap/index.html
the bleeding must be stopped before any healing can begin. jailing a couple of corepirate nazi hired goons would send a clear message to the rest of the world from US. any truthful look at the 'scorecard' would reveal that we are a society in decline/deep doo-doo, despite all of the scriptdead pr ?firm? generated drum beating & flag waving propaganda that we are constantly bombarded with. is it time to get real yet? please consider carefully ALL of yOUR other 'options'.
the creators will prevail. as it has always been.
corepirate nazi execrable costs outweigh benefits
(Score:-)mynuts won, the king is a fink)
by ourselves on everyday 24/7
as there are no benefits, just more&more death/debt & disruption. fortunately there's an 'army' of light bringers, coming yOUR way.
the little ones/innocents must/will be protected. after the big flash, ALL of yOUR imaginary 'borders' may blur a bit? for each of the creators' innocents harmed in any way, there is a debt that must/will be repaid by you/us, as the perpetrators/minions of unprecedented evile, will not be available. 'vote' with (what's left in) yOUR wallet, & by your behaviors. help bring an end to unprecedented evile's manifestation through yOUR owned felonious corepirate nazi glowbull warmongering execrable. some of US should consider ourselves somewhat fortunate to be among those scheduled to survive after the big flash/implementation of the creators' wwwildly popular planet/population rescue initiative/mandate. it's right in the manual, 'world without end', etc....
as we all ?know?, change is inevitable, & denying/ignoring gravity, logic, morality, etc..., is only possible, on a temporary basis. concern about the course of events that will occur should the life0cidal execrable fail to be intervened upon is in order. 'do not be dismayed' (also from the manual). however, it's ok/recommended, to not attempt to live under/accept, fauxking nazi felon greed/fear/ego based pr ?firm? scrip
If the quote had used destroyed instead of decimated would you complain that nothing was physically destroyed? M-Webster has this as one definition of decimated:
to cause great destruction or harm to
Surely you can rise above pedantry and understand that there is nothing wrong with the metaphor of 'destroying' a goal.
Hurrah, can't believe a 19 year old movie has continued to have such good theater attendance to break the record gross for an 80s horror movie. Congrats!
Just don't let that child play with your expensive toys.
Proving, every year, that people who play GTA do more than just kill real people.
-Matthew Riley "TofuMatt" MacPherson
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I guess it isn't *this* childsplay:
http://childsplay.sourceforge.net/
Because I would be really envious - I am currently a main dev for TuxMath and TuxTyping:
http://www.tux4kids.com/
and I can assure you know one has given me a million!
(however, a lot of folks who have heard of tuxmath and tuxtype may not know that they are being actively developed again).
David Bruce
Well, if you consider the goal at $1M, they accomplished that goal and added $1 extra for every $10 of the goal. That's kinda like killing every tenth dollar in line. I admit, it's a stretch, but seems like an somewhat appropriate (though unintentional) usage to me. :-)
but have you considered the following argument: shut up.
The reason "decimated" is the wrong word in this article is because there is a perfectly good, perfectly correct word to use. This word is "obliterated," and it means completely destroyed.
if the hospitals really gave a shit, they would have done it themselves... think of the poor children?
fuck that, think of all those -poor- hospitals!
ever take a look at any of your insurance bills? any of your hospital bills?
think about it, $100,000 is nothing to a hospital these days... if they really gave a shit, they would enny up themselves.
And for a second I thought Chucky was back.
Analytic & algebraic topology of locally Euclidean meterization of infinitely differentiable Riemmanian manifold
chose to donate money towards childs play...looks like they werent the only ones....
I have a game that donates to charity, more precisely to Heifer International (www.heifer.org). In fact, as I have tired of programming the thing, the donation aspect is one of the main motivators for actually working on it.
It is a clone of risk called Grand Strategy (www.denizengames.com).
Our motto is: Good can come from global domination.