[NBLUG/talk] OT: AGDQ 2015 charity gaming marathon for cancer prevention

Glenn Kerbein glenn at spontaneousdancing.net
Mon Jan 5 19:22:15 PST 2015


Allan is famous on Ars:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/01/pokemon-plays-twitch-how-a-robot-got-irc-running-on-an-unmodified-snes/

Go Allan!

On 01/04/2015 12:14 PM, Allan Cecil wrote:
> OT: As you may know, last year I participated in
> <http://tasvideos.org/forum/t/14362> a yearly fundraiser for the
> Prevent Cancer Foundation <http://preventcancer.org/> named Awesome
> Games Done Quick <http://gamesdonequick.com>, which is a week-long
> marathon event where video game players play through different games
> as quickly as possible while ~100k live streaming viewers watch and
> donate for raffle prizes and incentives.  As cancer claimed the lives
> of three of my grandparents I am motivated to support the AGDQ charity
> efforts any way I can.
> To that end, I've organized a TASBot block
> <http://tasvideos.org/forum/t/15787> for AGDQ 2015
> <http://gamesdonequick.com> with massive amounts of help from people
> in the Tool-Assisted Speedrun <http://tasvideos.org> community as well
> as several fellow co-workers.  AGDQ 2014
> <http://tasvideos.org/GamesDoneQuick/AGDQ2014.html> raised more than
> $1 million in donations and my hope is to raise $25k during our TASBot
> block alone today sometime after 8:00 PM EST
> <https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule> (~5 PM PST; the schedule may
> slip a bit).  You can watch all week at: http://gamesdonequick.com
>
> A number of people from NBLUG helped out with this and I am thankful
> for their assistance.  Also, I apologize for the uncharacteristically
> HTMLized E-Mail - I usually write E-Mails in plaintext. :)  Thanks
> again, all!
>
> A.C.
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