Morden
09-13-2008, 06:12 AM
Warning - wall of text incoming.
Hello everyone,
I'm usually not posting these days but I am certainly on quite a bit and contributing to the community in my own way. I realize that I'm just another cog in the machine here at WHA, but I would like to appeal to the community with what is hopefully a worthy initiative and one that will put the WAR community at the forefront in a good way.
The Cheap Ad
My personal blog, Overly Positive (http://overlypositive.com), is a minmally humorous look at "The Bright Side of Geek Media", including gaming and a few choice topics on WAR. Everyone's read the rant-ish type blogs and reviews - well, at OP we are annoyingly sunny all day, every day. :)
The Event, or "Why we are crazy enough to play WAR for 24 hours"
Advertising and characterization aside, Overly Positve is participating in the Extra Life charity event on October 18th, organized in part by gaming site Sarcastic Gamer:
http://extralife.sarcasticgamer.com (if the page does not load right away, reload)
The event is a 24-hour gaming marathon, where the participants get sponsors and play the game of their choice. Overly Positive plans to play - what else - Warhammer Online - for 24 hours straight, with real-time updates on the OP blog on just how far we can get in 24 hours of WAR goodness, all for a good cause.
Overly Positive is looking for donations in the form of monetary sponsorship. All of the proceeds and donations will go to funding Pediatric Children's Cancer Research for Texas Children's Hospital. Sponsorship is at $1/hour, so to sponsor Overly Positive, $24 would ideally be donated. However, any amount of money you can donate, bigger or smaller than that number, is greatly appreciated. Our goal is $500, but we obviously are fine with exceeding that number.
I will be updating this post and moving it back up to page one of this forum with news regarding what Overly Positive will be doing as the date gets closer. As this is a month away, I wanted to get in my post here now and get people thinking about donating to a good cause and also bringing the WAR community up in the eyes of others as one that gives of itself for others.
How you can contribute
Make a Donation
Here's how you can donate through Overly Positive.
Go to http://overlypositive.com
Click on the Extra Life banner on the right. You will be taken to the donation page for Overly Positive.
Click the Donate Now button
Fill the form, and donate online. If you wish to make an offline donation, please PM me so I can send instructions
Advertise
I'm asking the community, if they think this is a worthy cause, to take this post and put it in their blogs, their sites, facebook, myspace, whereever! We're raising money towards saving children, so I would hope that the WAR community picks this up and runs with it.
Join Team WAR and create a page of your own
I've created a team site in addition to my own page for anyone who wants to participate in the Extra Life event on their own. If you decide to create your own page to support this cause, join Team WAR by going to my page via the instructions above and clicking the link to create your page and join Team WAR. Alternatively, if you just want an invitation to the Team so you can create your own sponsorship page, just PM me on these forums and send me a message with your contact info.
Thank you so much for reading, and hopefully, contributing to what is no doubt something that deserves more attention. Help Overly Positive out, and show everyone that the WAR community can be a positive influence on others.
Hello everyone,
I'm usually not posting these days but I am certainly on quite a bit and contributing to the community in my own way. I realize that I'm just another cog in the machine here at WHA, but I would like to appeal to the community with what is hopefully a worthy initiative and one that will put the WAR community at the forefront in a good way.
The Cheap Ad
My personal blog, Overly Positive (http://overlypositive.com), is a minmally humorous look at "The Bright Side of Geek Media", including gaming and a few choice topics on WAR. Everyone's read the rant-ish type blogs and reviews - well, at OP we are annoyingly sunny all day, every day. :)
The Event, or "Why we are crazy enough to play WAR for 24 hours"
Advertising and characterization aside, Overly Positve is participating in the Extra Life charity event on October 18th, organized in part by gaming site Sarcastic Gamer:
http://extralife.sarcasticgamer.com (if the page does not load right away, reload)
The event is a 24-hour gaming marathon, where the participants get sponsors and play the game of their choice. Overly Positive plans to play - what else - Warhammer Online - for 24 hours straight, with real-time updates on the OP blog on just how far we can get in 24 hours of WAR goodness, all for a good cause.
Overly Positive is looking for donations in the form of monetary sponsorship. All of the proceeds and donations will go to funding Pediatric Children's Cancer Research for Texas Children's Hospital. Sponsorship is at $1/hour, so to sponsor Overly Positive, $24 would ideally be donated. However, any amount of money you can donate, bigger or smaller than that number, is greatly appreciated. Our goal is $500, but we obviously are fine with exceeding that number.
I will be updating this post and moving it back up to page one of this forum with news regarding what Overly Positive will be doing as the date gets closer. As this is a month away, I wanted to get in my post here now and get people thinking about donating to a good cause and also bringing the WAR community up in the eyes of others as one that gives of itself for others.
How you can contribute
Make a Donation
Here's how you can donate through Overly Positive.
Go to http://overlypositive.com
Click on the Extra Life banner on the right. You will be taken to the donation page for Overly Positive.
Click the Donate Now button
Fill the form, and donate online. If you wish to make an offline donation, please PM me so I can send instructions
Advertise
I'm asking the community, if they think this is a worthy cause, to take this post and put it in their blogs, their sites, facebook, myspace, whereever! We're raising money towards saving children, so I would hope that the WAR community picks this up and runs with it.
Join Team WAR and create a page of your own
I've created a team site in addition to my own page for anyone who wants to participate in the Extra Life event on their own. If you decide to create your own page to support this cause, join Team WAR by going to my page via the instructions above and clicking the link to create your page and join Team WAR. Alternatively, if you just want an invitation to the Team so you can create your own sponsorship page, just PM me on these forums and send me a message with your contact info.
Thank you so much for reading, and hopefully, contributing to what is no doubt something that deserves more attention. Help Overly Positive out, and show everyone that the WAR community can be a positive influence on others.