This week's Child's Play Charity Auction Dinner raised more than $200,000 for worthy causes, reports Gabe of Penny Arcade.
Among the items auctioned off was the rather impressive statue at left depicting an Orc from World of Warcraft on his mount.
Simply awesome - both the event and the statue...
Cecil475: @PHX Corp - The dude's a moron who wouldn't know crap if it came up and kicked him.05/19/2013 - 6:36am
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PHX Corp: http://kotaku.com/ea-sports-developer-calls-wii-u-crap-and-nintendo-wa-508481261 EA Sports Canada Moron calls Wii U 'Crap' and Nintendo 'Walking Dead'05/18/2013 - 11:42am
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E. Zachary Knight: If the videos are of sufficient quality that people subscribe and watch regularly, then those let's players are providing a service that people want. That is the heart of capitalism. That is not something that should be shamed.05/17/2013 - 8:06am
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E. Zachary Knight: I have no idea who either of those people are. However, I still don't see why making a business out of creating let's play videos is somehow evil or wrong.05/17/2013 - 8:04am
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MaskedPixelante: It sure is if you're just doing it for the money. See Tobuscus and/or Pewdiepie for what happens when people get into it just for the money.05/17/2013 - 7:30am
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E. Zachary Knight: Why is it wrong to make money doing LPs? Why should that be something that should be shamed?05/17/2013 - 6:20am
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MaskedPixelante: https://twitter.com/PsychedelicSA/status/335183893214924801 Now here's an interesting, glass half full thought about the Nintendo LP thing. It outs the people who are just doing LPs to make money.05/17/2013 - 5:56am
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E. Zachary Knight: I responded in writing to all this "let's play" stuff Nintendo Started. No need for my permission, I won't give it. It's not mine to give. http://divineknightgaming.com/?p=29205/16/2013 - 2:21pm
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E. Zachary Knight: Lars Doucet of Levelup Labs has a Reddit going on game companies that allow monetization of Let's Play videos. http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1egayn/lets_build_a_list_of_game_studios_that_allow/05/16/2013 - 1:04pm
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Sleaker: @Imautobot - yah I wouldn't use an emulator as a good first run test of how stable the console is, haha.05/16/2013 - 11:47am
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E. Zachary Knight: The 50th person to jump off a bridge is just as dumb if not dumber than the 1st.05/16/2013 - 10:03am
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MaskedPixelante: Yeah, let's all jump on Nintendo for doing this, even though they're hardly the first company to do this...05/16/2013 - 9:47am
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E. Zachary Knight: Wow Nintendo, this is wrong. http://kotaku.com/nintendo-forcing-ads-on-some-youtube-lets-play-video-50709238305/16/2013 - 8:44am
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Imautobot: @Sleaker, further gameplay has revealed that the controller button do stick under the faceplate. Also, The NES emulator (Emuya)keeps crashing on me, though I think a bad ROM is causing it.05/16/2013 - 7:10am
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Papa Midnight: AE: I wonder if any other publishers will follow suit.05/15/2013 - 8:12pm
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Andrew Eisen: EA is ditching Online Pass. http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/15/ea-kills-its-controversial-online-pass-program/05/15/2013 - 7:20pm
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Avalongod: @Zach and quicnkold...I've read the bill and the intent of it is to fear-monger. It's not a balanced message. I don't recall the ESRB being mentioned at all. It's more "keeps your kids away from these movies/games or they'll become violent"05/15/2013 - 4:35pm
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E. Zachary Knight: quiknkold, The big problem with that legislation is the amount of misinformation out there. Who is going to ensure that the information in the pamphlet is accurate?05/15/2013 - 3:25pm
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quiknkold: REBeardogg : I'm on the fence about this. on one side, I want parents to be aware of the ESRB, and even Movie Ratings. On the other hand, I feel this will be used for nothing but Propaganda. The ESRB does a good job.05/15/2013 - 3:07pm
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IanC: Frostbite is coming out on iOS devices. Yet the Wii U cant handle it? *coughbullshitcough*05/15/2013 - 2:31pm
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Comments
Re: Penny Arcade's Child's Play Charity Auction Brings in $200K
Awesome, just plain awesome.
Especially the dickerdoodle pics (NSFW). :)
Re: Penny Arcade's Child's Play Charity Auction Brings in $200K
Wow. If that is life size that was cheap! I would have paid much more and I dont even like WoW.
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Re: Penny Arcade's Child's Play Charity Auction Brings in $200K
It actually looks quite small, about 3-4 times the size of a Games Workshop Orc Boar-Rider, which it looks very much like (being an Orc on a Warg(?), this is hardly surprising).
Re: Penny Arcade's Child's Play Charity Auction Brings in $200K
They've raised nearly an entire million all together. It's pretty impressive, all economic things considered.
Re: Penny Arcade's Child's Play Charity Auction Brings in $200K
what was the winning bid on the statue i wonder? :P
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Re: Penny Arcade's Child's Play Charity Auction Brings in $200K
Gabe got it for $4500
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ouch O.o thats a hefty sum.
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/12/10/
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Re: Penny Arcade's Child's Play Charity Auction Brings in $200K
lol yes, i saw that comic the other day but the actual dollar amount was nagging at me.
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Re: Penny Arcade's Child's Play Charity Auction Brings in $200K
Slightly more than eleven dollars.
Re: Penny Arcade's Child's Play Charity Auction Brings in $200K
One thing you forgot to mention Dennis was that the statue did have a pretty heavy bidding war...
With Gabe winning it in the end.
Re: Penny Arcade's Child's Play Charity Auction Brings in $200K
The guys over at penny arcade have done so much good they could go around randomly beating up homeless people and would still be viewed as great guys to the general public.
Re: Penny Arcade's Child's Play Charity Auction Brings in $200K
Wait. Are you implying that beating up random homeless people is a bad thing?
Should I not be doing that?
Re: Penny Arcade's Child's Play Charity Auction Brings in $200K
These murder simulators are teaching our kids to go around beating up homeless people!
Re: Penny Arcade's Child's Play Charity Auction Brings in $200K
I thought that was Bumfight...?