Raising Funds To Fly Valve CEO Gabe Newell To Australia
SUCCESS!
The Fly Gabe Newell Fund Has Been Successful!
We raised over $3000 in not-even-three-days. Gabe and Erik flew down on their own dime and hung out with me. All funds raised were donated to the Child's Play charity. See below for my summary of the event.
Thanks, everyone!
For the text that was previously here - detailing the sequence of events that led up to all this - go here and here.
In the name of all that's holy, guilt trip them into donating the cost of those plane tickets to charity- assuming that actually make it to Oz. Those two are wealthy enough to go anywhere on their own dime; isn't the thought of seeking contributions to fly already-rich men halfway around the world to look at a game just a _little bit_ repulsive?.
It would be VERY awesome if you somehow swung things so that Gabe and Erik could be in the country at the right time so they could make a special appearance at a certain gaming exhibition in melbourne in november :P Namely the Egames Expo.
When Joe “Lacabra” Wintergreen-Arthur was eight years old, he managed to build a 100% accurate 3D representation of the interior of the CIA building at Langley - even the top-secret parts where photography is prohibited - in Worldcraft. He was investigated for years and unmarked cars still follow him everywhere he goes. Seventeen of his last twenty-five girlfriends turned out to be agents. More recently, he's made a Half-Life 2 mod, a Left 4 Dead campaign, flown Gabe Newell to Australia, and is workin' on a couple of games in UDK that you should totally check out.
In the name of all that's holy, guilt trip them into donating the cost of those plane tickets to charity- assuming that actually make it to Oz. Those two are wealthy enough to go anywhere on their own dime; isn't the thought of seeking contributions to fly already-rich men halfway around the world to look at a game just a _little bit_ repulsive?.
ReplyDeleteIt would be VERY awesome if you somehow swung things so that Gabe and Erik could be in the country at the right time so they could make a special appearance at a certain gaming exhibition in melbourne in november :P Namely the Egames Expo.
ReplyDeleteYour L4D campaign better be pretty fantastic.
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