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

Kyle Rankin kyle at nblug.org
Tue Jan 6 08:05:13 PST 2015


On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 07:22:15PM -0800, Glenn Kerbein wrote:
> 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!

Congratulations Allan! Great write-up.

> 
> 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.
> > ******
> >
> >
> 
> -- 
> Delta
> 

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