Gamers Helping Haiti Offers $1400 Worth Of Stuff for $20 Donation
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Hold on...there's a Doctor Who RPG that I haven't got????
Oh...yeah...Haiti...that's nice...might spend something as well.
Oh...yeah...Haiti...that's nice...might spend something as well.
Thats awesome. +more faith inhumanity
(eat that micheal atkinson! you complain about us being heartless beings, while we are busy ignoring you and donating money for haiti! HA!)
(eat that micheal atkinson! you complain about us being heartless beings, while we are busy ignoring you and donating money for haiti! HA!)
While this is a good idea, doesn't anyone except me find it strange how no one gave a shit about Haiti until the earthquake? Even though it is one of the poorest countries, most people couldn't point it out on a map, and now everybody is suddenly worried about Haiti's people.
Sorry, I'm not trying to start a flame war, but it really bugs me when people only care about a cause because it's "cool" to, thanks to the news and media attention. This also happened with Swine Flu, everyone became a doctor and spazzed out about H1N1, even though the normal flu is exactly the same (I've had both before). Imagine what all this money could do for another small, poor nation that no one will hear about until something terrible happens to it.
Sorry, I'm not trying to start a flame war, but it really bugs me when people only care about a cause because it's "cool" to, thanks to the news and media attention. This also happened with Swine Flu, everyone became a doctor and spazzed out about H1N1, even though the normal flu is exactly the same (I've had both before). Imagine what all this money could do for another small, poor nation that no one will hear about until something terrible happens to it.
I know it's a tragedy and everything, but I find it hypocritical that we'll help out these people, yet the Lubicon first nations people in Canada are being completely ignored while they suffer just for the sake of oil. Hell, the only reason I heard about it was because of my involvement with the Amnesty International group at my school, and I think it's a little shoddy that as soon as money and wealth is involved, people will turn a blind eye if it's to their own personal detriment. Haiti? Sure, people will help, it's a horrible occurrence, but the Lubicon people? Obviously their petrol is more important than the thousands of natives on those lands.
You forgot the Tsunami Fundraising Madness.Slayer_2 said:
Isn't it weird that all those people who got struck the hardest back then, never saw a dime of those millions raised. But Hell, we in the west didn't care. After all, we bought off our guilty conscience.
My guess is, the same is gonna happen to Haiti.
One word of advice on this from somebody who shelled out for it: their bandwidth is swamped.
If you do this, don't expect ready access to your goods:
If you do this, don't expect ready access to your goods:
This is for Doctors Without Borders though, they're a damn fine charity and you KNOW where the money is going.Casual Shinji said:
Not a tabletop gamer but I also applaud this effort of the gaming industry to help the people of Haiti. What I am wondering though is if the same people who gave Bungie crap for donating a max. of $77.000 Will also give these guys crap. I'm sure these guys could also just give the money to Doctors Without Borders but they also choose to get publicity out of it. They even offer tons of games to get people to donate through their charity.
Now I'm not saying this is at all a bad thing to do. I actually think it's great, but I'm wondering if anyone else sees it's a bit hypocrite to jump up and down out of glee for this charity and at the same time call Bungie a couple of publicity whores. Because if you do so it looks awfully like you're rooting for the guys who give you the most stuff.
Back to the matter at hand: Great idea and congratulations on the success
I have to admit I clicked on the Serenity link, read "All you need is dice, friends..." and had to laugh a little.
Now I'm not saying this is at all a bad thing to do. I actually think it's great, but I'm wondering if anyone else sees it's a bit hypocrite to jump up and down out of glee for this charity and at the same time call Bungie a couple of publicity whores. Because if you do so it looks awfully like you're rooting for the guys who give you the most stuff.
Back to the matter at hand: Great idea and congratulations on the success
I have to admit I clicked on the Serenity link, read "All you need is dice, friends..." and had to laugh a little.
There are a lot of D20 micro-supplements padding out the bundle, but I'm pleased to see it actually does have several popular and well-reviewed stand-alone works in there. All in all, it's a pretty accurate snapshot of what you can buy on site.
Three Sixteen is in there. It's a great game, wonderfully simple but amazingly nuanced. Practically the best game ever.
-- Alex
Three Sixteen is in there. It's a great game, wonderfully simple but amazingly nuanced. Practically the best game ever.
-- Alex
Okay, hypocrite was the wrong word, I was writing that in a flourish of indignancy. All I'm saying is if we could give as much support to situations like the one I described as we have for something that only just happened, then the world would be a happier place.paulgruberman said:
No, just... no. I wish people would research [http://www.disasterdiplomacy.org/katrina.html] stuff before just saying things. This in particular is something I am so sick of hearing.Sulu said:
Anyway, OT I'm not really interested in tabletop games myself but I will have to send this link to a few friends of mine. I'm amazed at how much money has been raised from this alone so far.