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Offline Scoundrl

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Lets help the gamers in need this holiday season.
« on: December 15, 2015, 11:32:09 am »
Around this time in 2013 George Riley was in pretty serious danger of becoming homeless and thanks to the DK community he was able to make it thru and even found a new career even if he hates it!

This year fellow gamer Jimmy Linderman is in very serious financial trouble and has had some medical difficulties (I dont know Jimmy very well and dont know all the details but he is not doing well)
Josh Jones passed away recently and his family is left with a lot of debt. Again, I didnt know Josh very well but he is part of our family none the less.
I just found out that Joel west is in rough financial shape to so this is gonna be a three way split.

All that said I'm going to do basically what I did for George.

I'll donate $10 bucks for an hour of Mappy/Dig Dug/Gravitar/Zookeeper/MrDo/Berzerk/Frenzy streamed (capped at $300 on my end but no limit on what can be donated obviously) if the streamer will donate $5.

I'll let the gamer pic where there part goes and I'll decide how to split my part when its all said and done to try and spread it evenly.

We can use my paypal account to store the money until there is enough to pay out. It's Paypal@athometech.com (make sure and send it gift so we dont have to eat the fees)

Every penny will be accounted for and given to the cause(s) specified.

Lets do what we can to help these people out this holiday season.
-Ken

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« Last Edit: December 15, 2015, 02:00:59 pm by Scoundrl »
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Re: Lets help the gamers in need this holiday season.
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2015, 12:15:42 pm »
Sounds great Ken I will do it. My time is going to be limited here shortly but after the holidays I will have a lot more! I'm posting the link as well.

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Re: Lets help the gamers in need this holiday season.
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2015, 01:51:45 pm »
How about some good games this time? Kappa

All jokes aside this is a great cause and ill fire it up this coming Monday.
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Re: Lets help the gamers in need this holiday season.
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2015, 02:13:18 pm »
wow good job sir.. luv ya ken .no homeo..
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Re: Lets help the gamers in need this holiday season.
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2015, 05:15:48 pm »
Just to let you guys know, I'm NOWHERE near these guys on DK!!!

Ken, I don't know if you know what has happened to me, but I'll give you a brief story:

On Memorial Day this year I went for a walk and came back fine. 2 days later my right foot started hurting. I also noticed my Big Right toe was bleeding. I tried to let it heal on its own and after a month, my foot was still hurting so I finally went to the hospital and found out the toe was infected...to the point where it had to be cut off. In November, when I was recovering nicely, I had a setback...and more...My right foot was in pain, (even more than the first time) to the point that I could barely walk. On Monday Nov 9th, I changed the bandage on my foot and noticed the 4th toe was "Blacker than black". I probably foolishly worked that week and again went to the hospital, and ended up getting the 2 right end toes cut off.

Right now, I thought I was actually healing, but the infectious disease doctor believes that I have an infection in the wound(ANOTHER SETBACK). I wanted to go back to work THIS PAST Monday and he told me NOT to go.

At this point, I don't know when I be able to go back to work.

This is why I'm looking for anyone out there who can help me out with food and money. Anything will be greatly appreciated. This is because I'm going to be spending at least $100 over the next 2 weeks with paying for my health insurance, travel to my doctors appointments and paying the co-payments for my meds. That would leave me with UNDER $100 left and once my money AND food run out, then it's "Tuff ****" according to my roommate AND HIS MOTHER, who wants to "Stick her nose where it don't belong"....which, unless I start work again, I may decide to declare myself HOMELESS.

This is ALSO because since my roommate is getting "all the benefits" and I pay HIM the rent, if I report that to the HRA or whatever organization, this would affect him, so I'm prevented from applying for any of this.

I (under normal circumstances) would NEVER ask for this kind of help. So ANYTHING would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you DK community for your understanding

Thanks, Ken for the shout out for me.
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Re: Lets help the gamers in need this holiday season.
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2015, 06:27:49 pm »
Great idea!  I will match what Ken puts in.

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Re: Lets help the gamers in need this holiday season.
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2015, 06:33:26 pm »
Great idea!  I will match what Ken puts in.

Welcome to DKF, Jimmy!

Thanks, Jeff!!!

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Re: Lets help the gamers in need this holiday season.
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2015, 07:07:14 pm »
Thnaks for letting us know whats going on Jimmy.

So with Jeffs match its basically $25 to help our fellow gamers for one hour of playing something fun..

I suggest you post in the shoutbox or facebook before you play so we can all have a little fun!

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Re: Lets help the gamers in need this holiday season.
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2015, 08:47:09 pm »
i grabbed all the roms...ill put in some time this weekend <3
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Re: Lets help the gamers in need this holiday season.
« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2015, 12:14:22 pm »
Ok well damn looks like I won't wait. I'll try and play some zookeeper tonight for sure unless the wife isn't feeling better. You can watch me stink :D - I'm never gonna get a 4 million point jump again my scores seem to hover around 400k total.  <Kuh>
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Re: Lets help the gamers in need this holiday season.
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2015, 04:31:28 pm »
Gonna be firing up my stream in 2.5 hours for this. Probs gonna stream for 4 or so hours.
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Re: Lets help the gamers in need this holiday season.
« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2015, 07:26:29 am »
I'll be streaming in the next 20-30 minutes for this.
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Re: Lets help the gamers in need this holiday season.
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2015, 09:15:03 am »
Post a link in here to the highlight of your stream so I can keep track of who did what.

http://www.twitch.tv/xelnia_games/v/30943591

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Re: Lets help the gamers in need this holiday season.
« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2015, 11:09:57 am »
Can you please tell me how things are going so far?



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Re: Lets help the gamers in need this holiday season.
« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2015, 04:07:15 pm »
played for an hour today

http://www.twitch.tv/ptudose/v/31007364

ill donate $30 to split between the 3
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