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The Speed Gamers Raise Over $26,000 For Charity

Posted by Soulskill on from the and-counting dept.

Levonn Lawrence writes "Moving into day four of seven, The Speed Gamers (TSG) continue to play a Final Fantasy marathon for an unusual reason: charity. The guys at TSG are playing through every main Final Fantasy game, from one to twelve, over a period of seven days in hopes or raising $50,000 for ACT Today (Autism Care and Treatment). The marathon is streamed live for people to watch. ACT is a charity helping to financially support families effected by Autism. The marathon started 6pm CST, Friday, July 17th, 2009 and is going until Friday, July 24th 2009. So far they've raised over $26,000 (not a typo) and they're only 89 hours in."

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  1. Every main series game from 1 to 12? by RogueyWon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh dear, I do hope they aren't including Final Fantasy XI in that. Much as I used to love the game (and still get the odd pang of nostalgia for it), it would be a hilariously awful idea to include it on this. I guess you could interpret "beating it" as being "finishing the plot missions for all of the current expansions", but still...

    "Here we are, going into day 217 of the challenge, and player 4 has just dinged 63. This, of course, marks the half-way point in his experience grind. Now over to Bob, who's going to tell us about that exciting episode earlier, where half of the players spent 7 hours trying to find a tank, who then left them after 20 minutes."

    1. Re:Every main series game from 1 to 12? by Jedi+Alec · · Score: 2, Funny

      More like I hope they aren't including Final Fantasy VIII [printfection.com] in that. God, what a terrible game. I Think people will start taking money back if they have to read the Emo-fied dialogue that comes out of Squall for that entire game. ...whatever.

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  2. Final Finatasy 3/6j 4 step plan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    1. Vanish
    2. X-Zone/Doom
    3. ???
    4. Profit!

  3. Re:Slashdotting by illeism · · Score: 2, Funny

    some gil, a blue all materia, one esper of your choice and a new overdrive ability!!

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  4. Re:Grammar nazi says... by daybot · · Score: 2, Funny

    "families affected by Autism", not "effected". In this context, "affected" means the families were impacted by Autism; "effected" means Autism implemented the families.

    Did autism effect your grammar nazism?