Ok this is a thought I wanted to hive off from this thread: where you at peoples? The groove equation's in full force and we're having a great time. Come make some noise with us and boogie to the boogaloo! Live now at Key West http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Key%20West%20Island/93/99/29 (http://where%20you%20at%20peoples?%20The%20groove%20equation's%20in%20full%20force%20and%20we're%20having%20a%20great%20time.%20Come%20make%20some%20noise%20with%20us%20and%20boogie%20to%20the%20boogaloo!%20Live%20now%20at%20Key%20West%20http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Key%20West%20Island/93/99/29) because I din't want to divert that discussion too much
Animal rescue in the West is a huge thing. It is literally a billion $/£/e industry - rightly so. But it's probably a sociological map that it's the wealthy world that gets to rescue animals rather than eat them. Pets are largely a luxury. Not many of you reading this can imagine eating your cat/dog/guinea pig
In most parts of the world animal rescue shelters are rare but in the west there's a lot of them, which in some ways is sad but we can utilize that.
My thought is very simple: Let's go work for an animal rescue centre for a day. Volunteer at your local rescue centre for some web space and a few tweets and Facebook posts. Turn it into a transaction. "I'll put myself at your disposal for a day/week/negotiated amount but in return you get the whole We are Heroes This is What We Do thing done. All animal charities have social network accounts and well constructed web pages and are almost always plugged into big organisations otherwise.
The trick is to put together a "Save CoH, save a live" weekend where hundreds of CoH fans volunteer at Animal Rescue centres - and then get that into the world's broadcast media.
This is a big effort. Anyone up for it?
I would be up for any really big organized charity event.
I made a post in a thread last week about a giant homeless fund raiser with a high profile presentation that could be done in character (or at least in costume) but I think I killed the thread.
But yes I like the idea of charity or volunteerism. Even if our efforts don't work out, it wouldn't feel like a waiste.
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"Save a City, Save a Life" sounds better but is much more ambiguous. It's too bad that CoH is such a terrible sound to fit into a slogan.
Perhaps "Save The City, Save a Life," with 'the' there so people will ask "which City?" and you can mention that it's actually "Save The City [of Heroes/Villains], Save a Life."
Quote from: Segev on September 26, 2012, 01:25:38 PM
Perhaps "Save The City, Save a Life," with 'the' there so people will ask "which City?" and you can mention that it's actually "Save The City [of Heroes/Villains], Save a Life."
Save THE City, Save A Live, BE a Hero!
I really like this idea...saving animals and COH. Of course WHEN we save this game...oh devs the animals in game were only a nice start <sing song voice >.
So who wants to plan this...please not me...far to many projects already. But I will happily take part.