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...
Technogeek: If the developer were male there wouldn't have been a "conversation" in the first place.10/19/2014 - 2:27am
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Monte: trolls are just at their absolute worst when it comes to women and feminist. You could bet good money that if the developer were male the trolls would be silent and the conversation would actually focus on the journalism.10/18/2014 - 9:18pm
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Monte: Papa: Not the first time we've had a journalism scandals before, but the harassment never got close to this level; the difference with this scandal is that feminists are involved. Without the feminist angle, their would be A LOT less harrassment10/18/2014 - 9:15pm
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Papa Midnight: Monte: That's honestly rather short-sighted. As has been proven with other persons who have been targeted, if it wasn't Quinn, it would be someone else.10/18/2014 - 6:26pm
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Avalongod: I think that's part of what gives an esoteric news story like this real life...it taps into a larger narrative about misogyny in society outside of games.10/18/2014 - 3:29pm
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Avalongod: @Monte, well the trolls made death threats that came to police (and media attention). I think this is tapping into a larger issue outside of games about how women are treated in society (like all the "real rape" stuff during the last election)10/18/2014 - 3:28pm
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Wonderkarp: Zippy : Havent tried the PS4 controller. might later.10/18/2014 - 2:37pm
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Monte: Seirously, If Quinn was not involved and GG was instead about something like the Mordor Marketing contracts, the trolling would have never grown so vile and disgusting. There have been plenty of movements in the past that never sufferred from behavior..10/18/2014 - 1:57pm
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Monte: We have seen scandel's before but the trolling has never been as vile as what we see with GG. Trolls usually have such a tiny voice you can barely notice them, but its like moths to a flame whenever femistist are involved.10/18/2014 - 1:53pm
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ZippyDSMlee: Wonderkarp: You might be able to if you had a PS4 controller.10/18/2014 - 1:00pm
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MaskedPixelante: http://store.steampowered.com/app/327940/ Night Dive starts charging for freeware.10/18/2014 - 12:21pm
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Matthew Wilson: the sad thing is there are trolls on both sides of this. people need to stop acting like their side is so pure.10/18/2014 - 12:19pm
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MechaTama31: So, only speak out on a scandal that hasn't attracted trolls? I wouldn't hold my breath...10/18/2014 - 10:49am
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Monte: I feel like GG just needs to die. The movement is FAR to tainted by hatred and BS for it to be useful for any conversation. Let GG die, and then rally behind the NEXT gaming journalism scandal, and start the conversation fresh.10/18/2014 - 10:33am
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quiknkold: and we dont have a Dovakin to call a cease fire10/17/2014 - 7:37pm
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quiknkold: The whole thing is Futile. Both sides are so buried deep in their trenchs that there isnt a conversation. Its just Finger Pointing, Name Calling, Doxxing, Threats. there needs to be a serious conversation, and GG isnt it.10/17/2014 - 7:37pm
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quiknkold: I thought it was a good article. Jeff is right. I feel like GamerGate did destroy its message. I am for Ethics in game journalism, but man. so much hate. and its on both sides. I've seen some awful stuff spewed on twitter. Its a big reason why I exited..10/17/2014 - 7:34pm
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Matthew Wilson: while he focused on gg, he did call out both sides crap.10/17/2014 - 7:18pm
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Papa Midnight: That was a damn good read offered by Jeff Gertsmann.10/17/2014 - 7:17pm
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Matthew Wilson: http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/letter-from-the-editor-10-17-2014/1100-5049/ deferentially a nice write up.10/17/2014 - 6:44pm
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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...?