Charity - Extra Life
For most of the day I've been on and off watching the Wizards of the Coast DnD Extra Life Marathon. Basically a large cast of rotating players, with DM Greg Bilsland are playing a 25 hour game or Hoard of the Dragon Queen. As of the time of this writing, some...I guess 15 hours in? We've raised almost 75 000 dollars for Extra Life just through Wizards of the Coast. Extra Life is a large, charity streaming event of gamers all across the world playing to raise money for the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.
Across the entire Extra Life program, we've raised 4.2 million dollars this year so far.
Showing posts with label Gamers. Show all posts
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Saturday, October 25, 2014
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Rant - Steps
Rant - Steps
In 1999, a terrible thing happened. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 13 people, including one teacher, and injured another 21 people. They brought almost 99 explosive devices, firebombs, automatic weapons and shotguns with the express purpose of killing hundreds of students.
In the aftermath that happened, gamers everywhere stood up and decried that their pastime incited the pair to violence. Numerous studies were commissioned, lawyers stepped up on both sides, psychologists analyzed children, we collectively took steps backwards and forwards in this strange dance around the ideas of interactivity and violence.
Yesterday, someone sent a message that said in opposition a person who wanted to give a talk about feminism in games, that they would actively oppose it with guns and bombs. That they would make it worse than the "Montreal Massacre". 15 years later, and we are exactly what we fought so hard against, because there is a lunatic out there using games, and gaming as a shield. 15 years later, and a 'gamer' is actively engaged in terrorism.
We are now at the same place we were at that miserable day that 13 people died. Our pasttime is under attack because there are unhinged people out there. I wish it was common sense, but apparently that died a long time ago alongside common decency.
In 1999, a terrible thing happened. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 13 people, including one teacher, and injured another 21 people. They brought almost 99 explosive devices, firebombs, automatic weapons and shotguns with the express purpose of killing hundreds of students.
In the aftermath that happened, gamers everywhere stood up and decried that their pastime incited the pair to violence. Numerous studies were commissioned, lawyers stepped up on both sides, psychologists analyzed children, we collectively took steps backwards and forwards in this strange dance around the ideas of interactivity and violence.
Yesterday, someone sent a message that said in opposition a person who wanted to give a talk about feminism in games, that they would actively oppose it with guns and bombs. That they would make it worse than the "Montreal Massacre". 15 years later, and we are exactly what we fought so hard against, because there is a lunatic out there using games, and gaming as a shield. 15 years later, and a 'gamer' is actively engaged in terrorism.
We are now at the same place we were at that miserable day that 13 people died. Our pasttime is under attack because there are unhinged people out there. I wish it was common sense, but apparently that died a long time ago alongside common decency.
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