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[NightHawkIL]

I did a little math, and even without including the single 10,000 donation that someone gave, each donation balanced out to above $17. That's pretty incredible to me. That's probably 2 hours worth of hard work for many of the people that donated. Well done everyone

[A13kuza]

This rocks. Sent an email to ludwig over at joystiq. Don't know if he'll put anything up but felt I had to go the extra mile after reading through this thread. He's the editor and cheif of joystiq and can be reached through here:

ludwig@joystiq.com

The rest of the staff are on the 'about' page which is here:

http://www.joystiq.com/about/

[ZodiEmish]

ShdwFox7 wrote...

I did my part

LOL This reminded me of the first 15 seconds this Clip

I'm doing my part.

Modifié par ZodiEmish, 14 mars 2012 - 05:48 .

[Phydeaux314]

I'll share a story.

I'm a type 1 diabetic, and have been for quite a few years now. I was diagnosed when I was 9, in third grade. I had been slowly wasting away, as is normal for the disease before diagnosis, and was pretty much a skeleton when I was admitted to the hospital for treatment.

The hospital itself was a pretty drab place - I was technically in the children's ward, but all that really meant was the presence of specialists for dealing with illnesses common to children and a bunch of cartoon animals painted on the wall. Oh, and one last thing - the presence of a sort of "rec room" for the patients well enough to move around.

I was pretty out of it for the first couple of days, but on my third day there I was able to get around well enough, IV drip in tow. I asked to go to the rec room - I'd never been there, and I'd heard that someone had donated a nintendo-64 console and some games for the kids to play on. I met a boy there with some kind of lung problem - cystic fibrosis, I believe - who was permanently attached to an oxygen tank. He was a very warm kid, and we quickly bonded over our shared enjoyment of the little piece of our normal life that some kind soul had donated to the hospital.

It was a touchstone, of a kind, giving us something of a normal life outside this world of whirring machines, doctors in lab coats, nurses in scrubs, and lots and lots of needles to hold on to. We played for several hours before I had to go back, but I will always be grateful for what that one small donation gave me:

Hope.

Hope that I'd really be okay. That this wasn't the end of the world. That I was going to get out, and have a life again. That I could be like all the other kids, playing games with a friend - even if the friend couldn't breathe too well, and even if we were both hooked up to sterile plastic bags towed around on wheeled carts.

Never, ever, ever underestimate what the smallest thing can do for a scared and lonely child.

[SoHARDCORE]

I've messaged the other members of the "Fantastic Four" (yes, Rosery99, DrowVampyre, UniqueName001, I have taken to calling us the Fantastic Four) and we'll get some more updates rolling in the OP when Unique wakes up! Cheers all, I really am off to bed this time!

For serious

[KelaSaar]

Thanks for setting this up. I totally donated, since I'm certainly not going to need the money for DLC.

[Filby08]

thesnake777 wrote...

Cerberus has sent its contribution

Hold The Line

**** just got real

[Harbinger of Hope]

I'm thinking that by the end of this week, we'll have easily raised over 100K.

[DrowVampyre]

SoHARDCORE wrote...

I've messaged the other members of the "Fantastic Four" (yes, Rosery99, DrowVampyre, UniqueName001, I have taken to calling us the Fantastic Four) and we'll get some more updates rolling in the OP when Unique wakes up! Cheers all, I really am off to bed this time!

For serious

*blushes* I'm not so fantastic, all I did was make a little poster and a sig button (that I see someone else has done better as a full sig banner - kudos to you!). But I'm happy to do my part - I'm unemployed and could only afford a few dollars, but at least I can do a little thing to help.

[BentOrgy]

Filby08 wrote...

thesnake777 wrote...

Cerberus has sent its contribution

Hold The Line

**** just got real

Hope its better than their contribution to Sanctuary.

But seriously, I'm in, and proud to be.

[NPH11]

DarkSpider88 wrote...

TSE Forums?

They think we're petulent and disgusting for using charity to get what we want.

[catgirl789]

Phydeaux314 wrote...

I'll share a story.

I'm a type 1 diabetic, and have been for quite a few years now. I was diagnosed when I was 9, in third grade. I had been slowly wasting away, as is normal for the disease before diagnosis, and was pretty much a skeleton when I was admitted to the hospital for treatment.

The hospital itself was a pretty drab place - I was technically in the children's ward, but all that really meant was the presence of specialists for dealing with illnesses common to children and a bunch of cartoon animals painted on the wall. Oh, and one last thing - the presence of a sort of "rec room" for the patients well enough to move around.

I was pretty out of it for the first couple of days, but on my third day there I was able to get around well enough, IV drip in tow. I asked to go to the rec room - I'd never been there, and I'd heard that someone had donated a nintendo-64 console and some games for the kids to play on. I met a boy there with some kind of lung problem - cystic fibrosis, I believe - who was permanently attached to an oxygen tank. He was a very warm kid, and we quickly bonded over our shared enjoyment of the little piece of our normal life that some kind soul had donated to the hospital.

It was a touchstone, of a kind, giving us something of a normal life outside this world of whirring machines, doctors in lab coats, nurses in scrubs, and lots and lots of needles to hold on to. We played for several hours before I had to go back, but I will always be grateful for what that one small donation gave me:

Hope.

Hope that I'd really be okay. That this wasn't the end of the world. That I was going to get out, and have a life again. That I could be like all the other kids, playing games with a friend - even if the friend couldn't breathe too well, and even if we were both hooked up to sterile plastic bags towed around on wheeled carts.

Never, ever, ever underestimate what the smallest thing can do for a scared and lonely child.

Thank you for the tale Phydeaux it makes me feel proud that we've raised over $26,000 for children stuck in your situation in a day.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to bed. Good night forumites, good night Fantastic Four. Hold the Line!

[Bendok]

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 , doing the right thing, 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.

[BaladasDemnevanni]

Anyone have an off-hand link to that ending poll which everyone seems to know about?

[xAmilli0n]

^ I think its this one

http://social.biowar...06/polls/28989/

[CronoDragoon]

NPH11 wrote...

DarkSpider88 wrote...

TSE Forums?

They think we're petulent and disgusting for using charity to get what we want.

To be fair, letting all these news sites know seems a bit attention-grabby to me. I'm happy just knowing I contributed.

[Oninotaki]

Donation sent, Holding the line, lets make the ending of Mass Effect 3 the best of all time!

[Harbinger of Hope]

Phydeaux314 wrote...

I'll share a story.

I'm a type 1 diabetic, and have been for quite a few years now. I was diagnosed when I was 9, in third grade. I had been slowly wasting away, as is normal for the disease before diagnosis, and was pretty much a skeleton when I was admitted to the hospital for treatment.

The hospital itself was a pretty drab place - I was technically in the children's ward, but all that really meant was the presence of specialists for dealing with illnesses common to children and a bunch of cartoon animals painted on the wall. Oh, and one last thing - the presence of a sort of "rec room" for the patients well enough to move around.

I was pretty out of it for the first couple of days, but on my third day there I was able to get around well enough, IV drip in tow. I asked to go to the rec room - I'd never been there, and I'd heard that someone had donated a nintendo-64 console and some games for the kids to play on. I met a boy there with some kind of lung problem - cystic fibrosis, I believe - who was permanently attached to an oxygen tank. He was a very warm kid, and we quickly bonded over our shared enjoyment of the little piece of our normal life that some kind soul had donated to the hospital.

It was a touchstone, of a kind, giving us something of a normal life outside this world of whirring machines, doctors in lab coats, nurses in scrubs, and lots and lots of needles to hold on to. We played for several hours before I had to go back, but I will always be grateful for what that one small donation gave me:

Hope.

Hope that I'd really be okay. That this wasn't the end of the world. That I was going to get out, and have a life again. That I could be like all the other kids, playing games with a friend - even if the friend couldn't breathe too well, and even if we were both hooked up to sterile plastic bags towed around on wheeled carts.

Never, ever, ever underestimate what the smallest thing can do for a scared and lonely child.

I actually got a little teary eyed. Thank you for that.

[Sl4sh3r]

CronoDragoon wrote...

NPH11 wrote...

DarkSpider88 wrote...

TSE Forums?

They think we're petulent and disgusting for using charity to get what we want.

To be fair, letting all these news sites know seems a bit attention-grabby to me. I'm happy just knowing I contributed.

It's for exposure. We want more people to donate.

That is a good thing.

[Kitsudragon]

I know someone donated on my behalf earlier because of my current unemployed state, but I read all these posts, including the one above from someone who had been diagnosed with diabetes at 9...

What's happening here is magic. It really is. I found enough spare dollars to make a small contribution. It's not much, but I hope it helps.

Hold the Line.

[NPH11]

CronoDragoon wrote...

NPH11 wrote...

DarkSpider88 wrote...

TSE Forums?

They think we're petulent and disgusting for using charity to get what we want.

To be fair, letting all these news sites know seems a bit attention-grabby to me. I'm happy just knowing I contributed.

They feel we're using charity in an attempt to strongarm Bioware into action.

Not entirely accurate, but I understand how it could be seen that way.

[Hokochu]

One person donated 10k dollars? Holy ****! Most dedicated ME fan ever or really awesome person? Or both?

[UniqueName001]

MIND BLOWN