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[Yalision]

Good night guys. I've been fighting all night. Gotta double tomorrow so I won't be back until the night. Hold the line.

[Missy_MI]

Just added my donation as well. Such a good charity. I hope more folks join in.

[Eirileth]

Guys, I'd love to stay up with you all tonight to watch this (true) Space Magic happen. But I must sleep. Keep it up. Hold the Line. In the words of Garrus Vakarian "If you yell loud enough, someone will eventually come over to see what all the fuss is about." Stay polite and respectful. In the words of Theodore Roosevelt "Walk softly, and carry a big stick." And as that wise man I've been quoting once said "It is better to have tried and failed, than never to have tried at all." No matter what happens with EA and BioWare, remember what we did today. No one can take THIS away from us.

[Blazingkats]

Can someone give me the link to the Child's Play sig please.

[OneRabidAnt]

MadMackNT_os wrote...

I’ve seen a lot of people posting Shepard saluting, or saying “this is what Shepard would’ve done” and frankly, I think you’re probably right. The last interaction we had with our character(s) was, for the most part, out of our control. Whatever choice we made, people were going to suffer, there was no Paragon option to persuade, no Renegade option to headbutt, there were just three crap-sandwich choices. The theme was clear: your choices don’t matter. Furthermore, it’s not even clear what ends up happening as a result.

The idea of donating money to Child’s Play is the perfect answer to that, it’s our catharsis. We wanted to know that our choices mattered, that what we did had a repercussion, that somehow, the universe was a better (unless your Shepard was just a dick) place for our character having lived. By donating to Child’s Play, by taking an active role and donating, we are showing that our actions matter and that the world is somehow a better place for us having been there. This has gone beyond games and beyond endings. We’re very literally taking a crappy ending from an amazing franchise and turning it into something far bigger then it could’ve ever been on its own.

We’ve taken the negative experience for us and turned it into something that is going to benefit sick kids in hospitals all over the country. We’ve taken the idea of Shepard’s actions from a video game and translated into real world good deeds.

In a post I wrote the other night, I said that the endings we’ve seen are a cop out and are far less than the franchise deserves.

However, what this forum is doing, right now is different. What better ending can a game whose, in my opinion, underlying theme was persevering against something seemingly impossible odds, doing the right, overcoming differences, bringing people together for a common cause and in the end effecting a positive change on the universe around you, have than this: its fan base coming together to raise tens of thousands of dollars to bring the awesomeness of video games to kids who are otherwise in a terrible situation.

Nothing Bioware releases is ever going to give me the sense of satisfaction that I have right now.

We’re writing our own ending right now, through our actions.

The ending that Mass Effect deserved.

  While I hate to describe what you so eloquently wrote and conveyed in so simple a way.....This.

[Melicamp]

We're all the very models of beneficent Salarians,
We give much more to charity than those BioWare Batarians.
We'll hold the line indefinitely, donating money philanthropically,
Because the Normandy crashed on a planet that was tropical-y.

[Sl4sh3r]

Loading_Ammo wrote...

Can someone give me the link to the Child's Play sig please.

[*url=http://retakemasseffect.chipin.com/retake-mass-effect-childs-play][*img]http://i42.tinypic.com/b3snlv.png[*/img][*/url]

Take away the *

[Umbrellamage]

Melicamp wrote...

We're all the very models of beneficent Salarians,
We give much more to charity than those BioWare Batarians.
We'll hold the line indefinitely, donating money philanthropically,
Because the Normandy crashed on a planet that was tropical-y.

Silly Turian, you're not a Salarian.

[GeneralGrey]

Just contributed. Feels good to hold the line

[irJessica]

Loading_Ammo wrote...

Can someone give me the link to the Child's Play sig please.

[img*]http://i42.tinypic.com/b3snlv.png[/*img]

Remove the *'s 

Edit: Alas I was beaten to the punch!

Modifié par irJessica, 14 mars 2012 - 05:38 .

[ZodiEmish]

Yalision wrote...

Ampmaster wrote...

Sent tips in to both my local news desks, hopefully they pick it up!

There is an entire thread dedicated to this.

You should add these to your list on the thread.

newsmanager@foxnews.com

Mediainquiries@msnbc.com 

news-tips@nytimes.com

wsjcontact@dowjones.com

scoop@huffingtonpost.com

BBC

CNN

ABC

Those Might help too, and they are some really big news networks. If we keep on speading the word one of them is bount to pick us up.

[Melicamp]

Umbrellamage wrote...

Melicamp wrote...

We're all the very models of beneficent Salarians,
We give much more to charity than those BioWare Batarians.
We'll hold the line indefinitely, donating money philanthropically,
Because the Normandy crashed on a planet that was tropical-y.

Silly Turian, you're not a Salarian.

...I am now! 

[warlock22]

I support this!

[Lucubration]

Good night, and good works. Hold the Line.

[Melancholic]

I'm effectively broke, but I can't pass this one up.

[lady winde]

Donated $20. Everyone that has helped, either by donating, spreading the word or keeping by keeping morale up... you all rock my socks.

[SSVDisappoint]

Could we get all of the articles relating to this on the front page...pretty please?

[OneRabidAnt]

This has gotten so big honestly I find it hard to believe it. 1k..yeah thats good. 5k? possible. 10? I doubted it. But never could I believe that the community could come together like this. 26k in a little over a day? That's good. That's damn good. That's amazing. I'm humbled. As we keep going I get more and more in awe. I'm high as a kite on excitement right now.

[catgirl789]

SSVDisappoint wrote...

Could we get all of the articles relating to this on the front page...pretty please?

I think the OP went to bed for the night, but maybe we could gather it together in a post for them to collect in the morning?

[thesnake777]

Cerberus has sent its contribution

Hold The Line

[Yalision]

ZodiEmish wrote...

Yalision wrote...

Ampmaster wrote...

Sent tips in to both my local news desks, hopefully they pick it up!

There is an entire thread dedicated to this.

You should add these to your list on the thread.

newsmanager@foxnews.com

Mediainquiries@msnbc.com 

news-tips@nytimes.com

wsjcontact@dowjones.com

scoop@huffingtonpost.com

BBC

CNN

ABC

Those Might help too, and they are some really big news networks. If we keep on speading the word one of them is bount to pick us up.

Done.

[ShdwFox7]

I did my part

*edit: I wasn't the $10,000 donor. But dang though, nice job if it's a serious contribution.

Modifié par ShdwFox7, 14 mars 2012 - 06:00 .

[rorako]

I've emailed all the news rooms and am done hitting refresh for the night. Thanks for brightening my week up, guys. Between mid-terms, the disappointment from ME3 ending and the fallout that came of it, it's good that this happened

[GBGriffin]

I should have gone to bed earlier, but the sound from that $10K bombshell dropping woke me up.

Let's keep this going! Hold the line!