[Update] We did it! We reached our goal of $5,000! Thank to all you beautiful people that donated!
Happy Sunday, all!
Max Scoville and I will be going live on Destructoid's Justin.tv stream today from 2-6pm in hopes of raising $2500 for our CharityWater campaign. If we reach our total goal of $5,000, it will allow us to build a well to serve clean water to an entire village of people.
This may or may not involve Max playing Dead Space 2. We've also managed to convince the always wonderful and always entertaining Tactix to stop by and sing some songs for charity, along with some other guest appearances by Anthony Carboni, the host of Bytejacker and silent hero of the new Bitejacker videogame, and at last but not least, sassy old Hamza Aziz.
So why don't you swing by and donate some of that leftover holiday cash to those who can't afford clean water to drink, much less fancy and expensive video games?
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Max your drawings were awesome. Unfortunately I had to leave shortly after that but it was awesome to see my crocodile with...a blender? or something, coming out of its belly button. I suppose I'll have to wait and see it's full glory. I'm sad that I missed out on all the fun stuff afterward!
What a great website about video games on the world wide web!
I got a very stern phone call from my bank this morning, demanding to know why I spent £175 between the hours of midnight and 2:30am. That was fun. Go charity campaign! Well done to everyone involved and everyone who donated, excellent work all round.
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10:00 PM on 01.30.2011 | 
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I say that you reached $5K though. Amazing...
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All charity is great tho.
(Everything worked out better than expected. 100 bonus points to anyone who can cut together a clip-reel of our stupid, terrible, awful stupidness.)
What a great website about video games on the world wide web!
Kidding aside, great job guys!