Child’s Play 2005 Needs You

[Liquidize105]

Working as a first responder, I've seen things, hair-raising things; I've seen people at their absolute worst. Everybody dies; some sooner than later. What can you do but get used to it? As matter of fact we even crack jokes about them behind their backs, trivializing their misfortune - we have to, in order to keep our sanity.

But there's one type of call that gets to everybody. It cuts through all that tough guy bravado. It demolishes it. Some of us have quit our jobs because of it.

Pediatric calls. Children. It's tough. When you've come face-to-face with a child in mortal pain, his suffering becomes your own.

I'd like to ask that everyone pay a visit to the new website for the Child's Play Charity (http://www.childsplaycharity.org/) to learn more about how you can help, and if possible, get something for the kids. That new game can wait a little longer.

[The Iron Weasel]

Yes, Xbox 360 can wait. The children can't...thats for damn sure.

[fitbabits]

Thanks for the post, Liquidize. And kudos to the organizers of Child's Play 2005. By the way, NoName actually submitted a news story on this already (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6888&highlight=childs+play).

[StoneGut]

Great post there Liquidize (and NoName)

I'll defentially be donating again this year.

Glad to see a couple of Canadian hospitals there as well.

[ÜberJumper]

I'm just wondering if EA Staff plans on putting up a big huge massive child's play link on the top of their website?

We're running links from the Relic forums and starting our own child's play tracker so we can measure how much our little corner of the gaming interweb donates. It'd be neat to see Evilavatar.com do the same thing.

[fitbabits]

I'm just wondering if EA Staff plans on putting up a big huge massive child's play link on the top of their website?

We're running links from the Relic forums and starting our own child's play tracker so we can measure how much our little corner of the gaming interweb donates. It'd be neat to see Evilavatar.com do the same thing.
That's not a bad idea...

[Liquidize105]

I was just thinking about that. I'll PM Avatar to do it.

[fitbabits]

I was just thinking about that. I'll PM Avatar to do it.
Beatcha to it! :p

[AniAko]

I'm involved in a number of contests as various ones are going one this season. I've decided that on top of the personal donations I plan on giving, anything won (yes even a 360) is going towards this tremendous cause.

When I was in my mid teens, I had to undergo several sugeries on my back to remove a cyst, 2 of the surgeries had me stay more than a week at the hosiptal. It was no children's hospital, but I WAS in the pediatric ward since I was under 18. Here they had a TV on a cart with a SNES and two games to share among the whole ward. You had to request which day you wanted to play it and you only got about 2 hours with it. Sitting in a bed all week is quite depressing.

I can only imagine a children's hospital where these children spend EVERY day sitting around waiting for what's to become of them. I can only imagine a Hospital squeezing out it's every last penny trying to improve these children's conditions, not leaving much left over for high priced video games. I can only imagine the cash strapped parents spending every last dime trying to give their children another chance at life.

It cuts through all that tough guy bravado
Indeed...

[NoName]

Hehe, I was hoping we could run a few news stories on this over the next couple months to remind people to donate, I didn't know it'd be one a day o.0.

Not that I'm complaining, it's a wonderful thing to support.

[Liquidize105]

Calling this "news" puts it at a distance.

If it's right in front of us, what do we do?

It's right in front of us now.

[Xerxes]

Ahhhh, it's that time of the year again. Where gamers nurse the little gamer in all the sick boys and girls of the world so they can grow up as twisted as any gamers. The next generation of people to stop future Jack Thompsons.

Yes my pretties, play all the Marios on GPA SP. >:-)

[Jacob Singer]

I'm glad you folks put up these reminders. As with so many things, I'll think to myself "gotta remember to send something to Child's Play", and then I'll click on something else and then something else, and before you know it I've forgotten all about my original intention.

Going to go donate something RIGHT NOW...

[Roc Ingersol]

I won't mind if someone reposts this thing every other day or so for the next 8 weeks.

[KhitomerRouge]

And if anyone has contacts within the media, toss it their way. Or if you're on a radio/TV talk show, especially if they're interviewing Jack Thompson. There's no way that he can spin it to look bad. We can, however, remind the media that he called a $10,000 donation in his name a personal attack.

[Xerxes]

This just in Jack Thompson hates kids.

[Stormwatcher]

Do we really need to mention Yack here? Let us keep him away from such a great project.

[agentgray]

Do we really need to mention Yack here? Let us keep him away from such a great project.
I want to donate in his name. :rolleyes:

[Shifteh]

When you've come face-to-face with a child in mortal pain, his suffering becomes your own.

Their, maybe?

This is really important, but I really hope they can branch this to more Hospitals, in different cities, as I would rather help the poor kids here in the hospitals that I was in myself.

[Abash Alarmist]

I figure that one way I can contribute to this awesome cause is to go around school this week with a giant brick of chalk and write www.childsplay.com all over campus.

[Abash Alarmist]

Also, Shifteh, they are at 16 hospitals this year. Last year, I believe it was about half that...

[TheKeck]

Their, maybe?


That's a tough one. Their is definitely incorrect. It is a plural, and this sentence calls for a singular. To be politically corrent, you'd have to see something like "his or her". Of course, that sounds retarded. Our English just doesn't have a good singular asexual personal possesive. As I said, it's a tough one.

Ok, what was I saying, oh yeah, Child's Play. Great stuff. I'll try to contribute something, be it a cheap book at least.

[AbeLincoln]

I figure that one way I can contribute to this awesome cause is to go around school this week with a giant brick of chalk and write www.childsplay.com all over campus.

when you do that you might want to remember that it's www.childsplaycharity.org
Just so the chalk reading people don't get confused

[Orz]

IWK in Halifax is on the list? Awesome. I'm so there. If you're unsure which one to contribute to, I can assure you the IWK is a tremendously worthy choice.