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General Donkey Kong Discussion => General Donkey Kong Discussion => Topic started by: Scoundrl on December 01, 2013, 10:42:38 am
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So and while back we all came together and found a way to get Allen Staal to the Kong Off 3.
George Riley is in serious danger of becoming homeless and I cant see how we can let that happen. I'll start with a similar donation to what I did for Allen. This time, I'll donate $10 buck for every record he beats of Brian Allens on Marp (up to the $300 he originally needed). I'll also donate $10 for and hour of Mappy/Dig Dug/Gravitar/Zookeeper but this time the streamer has to pitch in $5 to the cause. He needs $300 but I think we can do better and get him enough to keep him at least thru the new year.
Lets do this.
-Ken
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Ok, I will donate for auction a copy of "How to Win at Donkey Kong" All proceeds to benefit George Riley...
(http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j389/bilythekid_lvdc/Mobile%20Uploads/IMAG0136_zps7bde0040.jpg)
(http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j389/bilythekid_lvdc/Mobile%20Uploads/IMAG0137_zpsea57e566.jpg)
Lets start it at $25 shipped :D
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The only thing I hate more than Donkey Kong 3 is seeing someone down on their luck. It's a place that everyone finds themselves at one point or another.
I'll put up $10 per message that Brian Allen posts to these forums that don't reference himself or his scores at all up to a total of $50 for 5 posts.
I will also open bidding on the "How to Win at Donkey Kong" book at $30.
-j
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I'll bid $40 on the book, and ill pay my own shipping cause its. So far.
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whose Email address are we using at Paypal .i have a few bucks i give now
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$50 on the book
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Is there a Paypal email for this? I might be able to throw in a few bucks.
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Eric Akeson bids 100 big ones for the book.
We can use my Paypal. Paypal@athometech.com. Be sure to use the 'gift' option.
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Done i throw $15 in pot
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So and while back we all came together and found a way to get Allen Staal to the Kong Off 3.
George Riley is in serious danger of becoming homeless and I cant see how we can let that happen. I'll start with a similar donation to what I did for Allen. This time, I'll donate $10 buck for every record he beats of Brian Allens on Marp (up to the $300 he originally needed). I'll also donate $10 for and hour of Mappy/Dig Dug/Gravitar/Zookeeper but this time the streamer has to pitch in $5 to the cause. He needs $300 but I think we can do better and get him enough to keep him at least thru the new year.
Lets do this.
-Ken
Yeah I agree I'll play some of those games here shortly. I'll throw in some $$$ as well as soon as I figure out what I have when I get my bills sorted out this week. At least $25 for sure.
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Donation sent. :)
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I'll throw in $25.00 for the first member of this forum to attach a legit mame inp of a 2500 point game of Armor Attack.
This will be in addition to money I'm already going to send cause George is a good guy.
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To clarify my donation... I'll donate $10, streamers donates $5. for $15 total.
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Ill chuck in $20 to George on behalf of the the first person(excluding Shane cause he's allready done it) to get 70000 on super glob.
Post the inp file here.
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I can throw in $10.
Ken,
Do I use the above mentioned Paypal for the donations?
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I can throw in $10.
Ken,
Do I use the above mentioned Paypal for the donations?
Yes, you can use that for donations. I'll make sure George gets it.
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Money sent.
I wish the best for George and hope this helps a little.
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Paypal@athometech.com we only need 20 people to give $15 or 1500 pennys to reach a goul $300 the gole, its better to give then receve remember that shit well ture gve it a try :)
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I am very busy with school, but I will try my best to help out in some way by either streaming or beating some BA scores. George seems to have been more than diligent at trying to get a job and trying to stay afloat through other means, so I think helping him out through the holiday season is a good cause.
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I'll be streaming for an hour tonight, true believers. Best of luck to George.
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Wow, I really wasn't expecting this. I thank everyone from the bottom of my heart. Very touching, and very much appreciated.
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done
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I am very busy with school, but I will try my best to help out in some way by either streaming or beating some BA scores. George seems to have been more than diligent at trying to get a job and trying to stay afloat through other means, so I think helping him out through the holiday season is a good cause.
What the heck!!!!!! Why is everything always about me? ???
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Oh, my bad. I read it wrong. It's if George beats BA's scores. Hmm... idk if i have access to any of those other games. :/
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My $50 is sent because I know BA is good for the 5 posts about things other than himself or his scores.
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$15 sent from the UK.
Good luck George!!
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Just sent George $25 Ken. Merry Christmas George.
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Just sent my contribution. I hope it helps.
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I am so hungover. Holy fk. Sent ya ten bucks kenny!
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Mappy played and money sent. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year George!
One-hour Mappy: http://www.twitch.tv/xelnia_games/c/3331821 (http://www.twitch.tv/xelnia_games/c/3331821)
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Screw $300! Like Ken said, lets crank it up and get at least $600. It will get
George well into the New Year, and without the pressure of paying a couple months rent, he will be able to focus on finding work.
With the amount of people we have in the classic gaming community, we can do it with very little sacrifice on our end. Tis' the season!
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$25.00 sent.
Now someone better knock out 2,500 on MAME Armor Attack so George can get another $25.00!
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I'll give it a try John but if my Gravitar playing is the barometer then there is trouble.
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I don't know they guy, but I'll stream some Mappy and donate $10.00 for every 100,000 points on my best game.
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Screw $300! Like Ken said, lets crank it up and get at least $600. It will get
George well into the New Year, and without the pressure of paying a couple months rent, he will be able to focus on finding work.
With the amount of people we have in the classic gaming community, we can do it with very little sacrifice on our end. Tis' the season!
I concur I hope he can get at least $600 to not sweat on this for at least a month. $300 is 15 days of rent if I read it correctly. I sent $25 and hopefully with everyone here he can perhaps get enough to not worry about it. If I was in the same boat I would really appreciate people doing the same for me.
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Hey John,
I just put up a 4030 today on Armor Attack. Addicting game.
INP file should be attached. Used Wolfmame 106
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Thank you everyone. This literally brought tears to my eyes, and it is bringing tears to my eyes as I type. Today I had a real doozy of a job rejection. It was by far the worst rejection I had since I began searching for a job. A type of rejection that would have probably made me pack it in, in regards to searching for a job. I think I would have lost complete faith in humanity, and myself if it wasn't amazing actions of you people.
OK, and the truth is I was much worse off than I even let on. Over the past few months I sold a huge portion of my garbage Pail Kids collection. I sold my Album, and 45 collection. I sold off my sports card collection. I gave away my Donkey Kong 3 machine. I sold a vast majority of my classic video game collection I sold or gave away most of the books I had. I threw out a bookcase, a coffee table, my sofa. I had went to the swap meet several times in the past 5 months as well, and sold, or literally gave away many things as well.
And so the first of the month had come, and I still needed time to figure out exactly what I should keep for my car, and what I should throw out. I actually had a deal worked out with my landlord to pay two weeks at a time instead of a month at a time. I had about $250 left with a $126 check coming in for two weeks work of my part time tutoring job. Which made $376. I needed to pay $247.50 for two more weeks which would have left me $129 left, but I had to pay $96 for my yearly car registration that was due on the 8th of this month, and $40 for car insurance for the month as well which was also due on the 8th. Well you do the math, and I would be in the hole. I was also a month behind in my electric bill, gas, credit card, and Internet. Paying for those bills was actually an afterthought.
So I was resigned to my fate. Try to somehow come up with $100 to $300 more dollars, and call it a day. I couldn't go with my parents because both of them are dead. I couldn't live with any of my family or friends because they all were either overcrowded to begin with or were living with other people who were not likely to let me in. I thought my sister down the hill may have been an option, but in the beginning of November she also had problems of her own, and was forced to live her boyfriend with his two kids. She told me straight out right before Thanksgiving that living with her would not be a possibility.
The only semi hope I had was with this person's grandpa that I tutored, and he offered a place to stay on the spur of the moment without clearing it with his son, and grandkid that I was tutoring. Also when I called back to tell him I may extend this a couple of weeks it didn't seem so definite anymore. He also has the beginning stages of Alzheimers, and so I wasn't sure how reliable it was. Besides tutoring I barely even know them.
As you can see the $100 to $300 wasn't to stop from being homeless it was to get two more weeks, and some gas money and go on my marry way. I was at a point where I was feeling completely rejected, and bitter at myself, and the world. The motivating factor for me asking for help was just to say I did it if people asked me if I explored that avenue. I wasn't expecting anything really at all.
But what you have done now is great. I now have enough money to pay for rent for all of December, and at least the first half of January while paying all of my bills. Even the late ones!
Again if it wasn't for what you as a community have done I would have felt that almost no one besides my nephew, and 4 or 5 friends really cared about me. My faith has been restored. You know when I saw the first response was by Ken House I was almost positive he was going to rail on me for being a complete creep for asking for help. I was wrong, I was very wrong as he has been in the lead for the whole thing.
Also one more thing. Things I see things in a different perspective. I was wasting away on my own money, and the drive wasn't so strong. Now though because this is not only other people's money, but money from people that actually care about me, and actually want me get out of this hole I feel as if I owe it to all of you to do the best I can to find a full time job, and just go all out with this.
Thank you again. To all of you. Thank you. This means so much to me.
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My best Mappy game was 257K. I'll chip in $25. Where should I send it to?
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Send $ to Paypal@athometech.com
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I am offering a last call on the "How to Win at Donkey Kong". The copy that the winner receives will be in significantly BETTER condition than the one I pictured. The charity auction will end in 48hrs (11am eastern time on Thursday, the 5th of December). Thanks again for helping to support George everyone :)
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OK, good news. I just applied to a truck company, and got accepted to their truck driving school. While most people would have problems being away from their families weeks at a time, I don't mind since I don't have a wife or kids. 8) Oh, and I wouldn't get a paycheck until mid January, and so your donations have made this possible since I can pay until mid January! :)
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OK, good news. I just applied to a truck company, and got accepted to their truck driving school.
Congrats George!
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OK, good news. I just applied to a truck company, and got accepted to their truck driving school. While most people would have problems being away from their families weeks at a time, I don't mind since I don't have a wife or kids. 8) Oh, and I wouldn't get a paycheck until mid January, and so your donations have made this possible since I can pay until mid January! :)
That's great to hear George! I'm glad to have helped out and sounds like things are looking up! Since I never got the friend request approved if not for Ken House I wouldn't have know about this (and I'm sure several others wouldn't have either). Thanks Ken for bringing this up here and to everyone who helped out here! Regardless of what people say I do feel this is what Christmas/Holiday Season is really about! Pay It Forward because one day you never know what side of the bed you may wake up on!
Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays Everyone!
Dan
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Just to clarify, the email address for donating to George is athometech@paypal.com, correct? I get paid on Friday, and just want to make sure I have the right info. I'm happy to be a part of a community that cares.
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Just to clarify, the email address for donating to George is athometech@paypal.com, correct? I get paid on Friday, and just want to make sure I have the right info. I'm happy to be a part of a community that cares.
The email is PAYPAL@ATHOMETECH.COM not athometech@paypal.com...
Thanks everyone who continues to help George out. It looks like he has a plan and you all are making it possible.
I sent George all the money that was donated up until December 2 (Except for Fruitys which came in after I sent it). I will send what I have received since on Friday the 6th.
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Sorry, Ken, I had it backwards ::), thanks for clarifying.
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It looks like Eric isnt going to honor his bid for the Book Ethan offered so its back up for grabs. He makes the naughty list!
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Restating my original bid of $50
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Well some more good news. Just got my Trucker Permit today! Did cost $68 to get though. This definitely was my first big hurdle to overcome. Next hurdle is getting the drivers license. :D
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Awesome to hear, George!
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With no other bids in several days, can we say $50 is the winning bid for the book?
Where do I send the money?
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Yes,
Shaun, I believe it is safe to declare that you are the winner 8) Please send the money to the paypal address that Ken has listed above in the thread and you can PM me your shipping info. Thanks again for helping us support George!
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Ken has my $$$ for George, and Ethan has my address. Thanks guys!
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great thread, well played guys :D
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