Unity Event: Extra Life Charity Drive and Gameathon

Burnt Toast · October 03, 2012, 04:20:48 AM

Sorry - I'll shut up now. Wasn't trying to offend people.

Quote from: dwturducken on October 03, 2012, 03:56:29 AM
You must not have kids in band or a daughter in Girl Scouts... ;)

Segev · October 03, 2012, 04:23:09 AM

I don't think anybody was offended; he was commenting on how much those organizations make the kids go out and force their parents to beg everybody to buy overpriced stuff "for the school."

Burnt Toast · October 03, 2012, 04:29:38 AM

Ahh
No clue LOL. Never had to deal with that.

Thanks for clarifying though. :)

Quote from: Segev on October 03, 2012, 04:23:09 AM
I don't think anybody was offended; he was commenting on how much those organizations make the kids go out and force their parents to beg everybody to buy overpriced stuff "for the school."

dwturducken · October 03, 2012, 04:32:21 AM

Right. What Segev said. I must have my "give offense" power toggled, cuz I keep accidentally giving people the wrong idea when I post. Is that my hint to stop paying attention to this and get to work? :D

Burnt Toast · October 03, 2012, 04:48:44 AM

Work is overrated :)

Quote from: dwturducken on October 03, 2012, 04:32:21 AM
Right. What Segev said. I must have my "give offense" power toggled, cuz I keep accidentally giving people the wrong idea when I post. Is that my hint to stop paying attention to this and get to work? :D

dwturducken · October 03, 2012, 05:02:25 AM

Quote from: Burnt Toast on October 03, 2012, 04:48:44 AM
Work is overrated :)

If only. It's something that was due on Friday. :roll:

Burnt Toast · October 03, 2012, 06:06:08 AM

Not sure what your username is on here...but THANK YOU for your generous donation!

DrakeGrimm · October 03, 2012, 06:18:06 AM

Quote from: Burnt Toast on October 03, 2012, 04:20:48 AM

Sorry - I'll shut up now. Wasn't trying to offend people.

* DrakeGrimm gives Toast hugs.

pandora114 · October 03, 2012, 11:04:48 AM

http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=37152 I have $37 so far. I've been pushing the link far and wide. I thought I'd get more support around here, but it is not a pay week so maybe my donations will spike around the 15th...

Rae · October 03, 2012, 11:32:24 AM

I couldn't decide who to give money to, so everyone taking part is getting a dollar from me. Except it takes ages to make each donation, so I'm working my way through the list slowly :D

Vulpy · October 03, 2012, 01:51:18 PM

Quote from: dwturducken on October 03, 2012, 04:32:21 AM
Right. What Segev said. I must have my "give offense" power toggled, cuz I keep accidentally giving people the wrong idea when I post.

[Against All Odds]

jeangray · October 03, 2012, 02:08:15 PM

I'm right there with you B.T. in hoping we get a ton of money raised for this because, frankly, it's an amazing cause. As a mom, I've got three in school and my goodness are we getting hit right now with A LOT of fundraising for that too. We've sold over 30 raffle tickets, over 100 candy bars, and I think my son's going to be starting something else shortly. Not to mention volunteer time, donating prizes for the raffle (another $50 there), and baking 8 cakes for their cake walk ($10-15 in supplies there too plus a lot of time). We're doing our best there in spite of paying the school the $100 family opt-out of fundraisers fee, the $12 PTA member fee, and field trips galore have already been cropping up (those trips add up quick, $18 already and it's only October!). I personally have not donated to this yet (as you can guess that other stuff adds up!) but will be. I can't help but figure we will be getting more support as the event date comes closer. This time of year it seems like everything fundraising comes out of the woodwork is all so don't be too discouraged yet. We're heroes, we'll get this done! :)

PS...forgot to add I'm still only at one sponser and I have been posting/reaching out a ton. Gail Simone was even super awesome and retweeted my link!!! Had to edit this and give her props as she rocks!

Segev · October 03, 2012, 02:16:17 PM

You know what might be an...interesting maneuver...

Do we know a good contact point to invite NCSoft to put up "matching funds" donations to this? This would need to be done very delicately, but done just right, we could make this part of the "carrot" side of things. IT would be very good PR for them to be seen helping out with "heroic charity stuff," but would then be even harder for them to keep refusing to work with us. And if they refuse...well, that looks bad, too.

Vulpy · October 03, 2012, 02:31:42 PM

Quote from: Segev on October 03, 2012, 02:16:17 PM
Do we know a good contact point to invite NCSoft to put up "matching funds" donations to this?

Surely they'd see fit to help us, as I must take the sincerity of their messages to be genuine. The problem would be finding a forum that is likely to reach them. Perhaps something very public could be done to highlight our charity efforts, and extend the invitation to NCsoft to join us? Massively could help with that, if we could impose on them.

Knightslayer · October 03, 2012, 02:39:54 PM

Worth a shot, though I noticed earlier that Nexon already donated 250,000$ to charity recently (http://www.nexon.net/).
Of course that doesn't mean NCsoft did...

Maressa · October 03, 2012, 05:54:44 PM

Hi guys, I'm still battling this horrible cold. I actually seem to be getting worse. I hoped all of you would be able to help me get some of the dev team involved. A lot of them are on twitter and facebook. Any help with this would be awesome!

chasearcanum · October 04, 2012, 12:26:51 AM

Didn't the paragon Devs post something about doing their own Extra Life event before all this went down? I found a link on Matt Miller's Google+ profile, but it seems to point to an invalid event.

Burnt Toast · October 04, 2012, 12:41:12 AM

$2,190.98 raised so far! :)

Team CoH is currently ranked #34 out of 1737 teams! :)

Here's hoping we hit the $5,000 mark :) 16 more days to go!

DrakeGrimm · October 04, 2012, 02:09:32 AM

Quote from: ObsidianLight on October 04, 2012, 01:50:43 AM
A completely stupid question, and I realize this, but between work and school, I've been very busy, and haven't been able to sit down and word for word read this thread.

As a player, wishing to participate, is this a Free sign-up, or is a donation from me required?

As much as I would love to donate, that simply isn't in the cards for me, this month. So, I want to clarify that I can do this, without spending money I don't have.

Thanks, and sorry if this has already been covered :(.

Yes, you can sign up for free. I did. :)

Burnt Toast · October 04, 2012, 03:44:37 AM

Lemme know who you are when you are signed up... DrakeGrimm and I will donate to you .. ok well maybe Drake won't :P

Quote from: ObsidianLight on October 04, 2012, 01:50:43 AM
A completely stupid question, and I realize this, but between work and school, I've been very busy, and haven't been able to sit down and word for word read this thread.

As a player, wishing to participate, is this a Free sign-up, or is a donation from me required?

As much as I would love to donate, that simply isn't in the cards for me, this month. So, I want to clarify that I can do this, without spending money I don't have.

Thanks, and sorry if this has already been covered :( .