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The generous folks over at IOGEAR have decided to up the ante for all of you and throw in an IOGEAR - GCS1782 - 2-Port Dual Link DVI KVMP Switch with 7.1 Audio and Cables with a street price of $299.95 into the winner's loot. This means the largest donor of the 3 randomly-selected respondents to this thread with their gamerDNA Child's Play signature attached will receive:
Lifetime Patrons Account
60-Day Prepaid WoW Timecard
$50 Gift Certificate to J!NX
IOGEAR GCS1782
If you haven't yet donated to this great cause, I highly encourage you to do so and at least hedge your bets against the rest of the cheapskates on these forums. Once again, let's really pour it on over the last couple weeks of this year and try and spread the holiday cheer beyond our own community. Also, big ups to IOGEAR for supporting our effort!
Thanks everyone!
ORIGINAL
I am very excited to announce that Elitist Jerks has teamed up with the fantastic people over at gamerDNA to support Penny Arcade'sChild's Play. We're also not content to merely follow the rest of the crowd, so we've devised a bit of a contest for all of you to help participate in spreading the word about and donating to Child's Play this holiday season.
About Child's Play
Originally Posted by Child's Play
Since 2003, we've set up and organized Child's Play, a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 40 hospitals worldwide. In four short years, you as a community have answered the call and come together to raise millions of dollars.
That was awesome. You guys have proven over and over again that you are an overwhelming force, and you really came through and made a real difference to the millions of kids that children's hospitals care for each year. So we're doing it again this year, only this time we've expanded Child's Play to more hospitals around US and the globe so you can send toys to a hospital a little closer to home.
Child's Play works the same as last year. With the help of hospital staff, we've set up gift wish lists full of video games, toys, and movies. You can go to each hospital's list and buy a toy, and that toy will be sent to the hospital. Some of these kids are in pretty bad shape. Imagine being stuck alone in a hospital over the holidays, getting something from a fellow gamer would really raise their spirits. Some of the stuff the hospital will give away for kids to keep, while other gifts (like consoles) will be kept by the hospital for patients to use throughout the year.
We are arguably the largest community of gamers on the internet. The important word there being community. We are not a faceless corporation and you are not just a number tracked by a database and then relayed to hungry advertisers. You guys have proven yourselves to be a powerful force when stirred into action. Here is your opportunity to use that power to do some real good.
Come back and reply to this thread with your new signature displayed (and kindly spam that signature elsewhere too)
Strongly consider donating directly to Child's Play via the ChipIn widget at the bottom of the leaderboard
Prizes
Three replies will be randomly selected from this very thread on January 1st, 2009. The one with the largest donation to Child's Play (proof required) will receive:
Lifetime Patrons Account
60-Day Prepaid WoW Timecard
$50 Gift Certificate to J!NX
The other two tightwads will receive:
Lifetime Benefactors Account
60-Day Prepaid WoW Timecard
Please do not reply to this thread with anything other than a brief message to demonstrate your signature and to qualify yourself for the contest. Additionally, images in signatures have been enabled for all user accounts for the duration of the contest.
I'd really love to not only support Child's Play, but smash the other participating sites in pageviews and money raised as well. The winning community will be rewarded with 6 Nintendo DS and games donated to a hospital of their choosing. Let's crush the competition and decide the fate of those handhelds! Our leaderboard can be accessed at any time right here: Child's Play | Decades of Influence | gamerDNA
Thanks for your participation and generosity this holiday season!
A bit belated perhaps, but we've opened a new forum for public perusal, /LFGuild. The standard recruiting forums widely-available elsewhere have been ratcheted-up a notch to ensure that only the proverbial cream-of-the-guild-crop are posting ads you want to browse. Here's a bit more detail from the Announcement at the top of the new forum:
Why You Ought to Use /LFGuild
This forum has an established reputation for attracting the type of gamer you want in your guild.
Over 1 million of these gamers visit this site every month.
/LFGuild puts your guild right in front of their face.
How to Use /LFGuild
Firstly, you should be aware of a couple of the things that make this forum unique from the rest of Elitist Jerks:
There is a $25 fee to create a new guild advertisement (thread) in these forums.
Threads in this forum are sorted by Date Created (which means sorting is unaffected by replies).
The creation fee is not there to merely pad our pockets; it also serves as an effective deterrent to those wishing to recruit for their comedy/vanity guilds and for those unwilling to craft a thoughtful advertisement. Likewise, tactics employed to keep your thread visible, such as bumping, will be ineffective here. The quality of your posting is the only metric by which others will judge your guild. Also, you will have full editing (and thread closing) privileges here. All threads with a post in the last 30 days will be visible and will forever be accessible through forum search.
Secondly, your thread title must take the following form:
[Faction][Server] <Guild> Title
[Horde][Mal'Ganis] <hellsoaps bros> cum party 2nite
[Alliance][Kel'Thuzad] <Gune Skwad> Looking for a T5-geared Destrolock
Lastly, put some effort into the actual content of your recruitment post (it will be seen by a ton of people who have no qualms making snap decisions about others). You ought to include a concise, but information-rich, summary of who you are, what you are looking for in an applicant and any other significant data you think may help an ideal candidate make an informed decision about your guild. A template (cribbed from Gurg) that can be altered to your needs can be found below:
Originally Posted by /LFGuild Template
About Us
<Insert guild history and background here.>
About You
<Insert desired characteristics of applicant here.>
Class-specific Notes
<Insert any class-specific desired traits here.>
How to Apply
Send a PM with the following information:
Character Name
Level
Class
Race
Current Server
Link to your armory profile.
List your serious alts.
What are your playing hours?
What is your guild history?
What is your character's endgame role?
What is your prior endgame raiding experience?
Why do you want to leave your current guild?
Why do you want to join this guild?
Tell us a bit about yourself.
Please list references who would be willing to vouch for you.
Please list some out-of-game contact information.
<Insert closing thank you here.>
If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to PM me or e-mail me directly. Thanks!
Oh, right. No front page updates in a while, since not much was truly update-worthy (though the expansion has really been fantastic as a whole, "hey guys we killed Kel'Thuzad... again" doesn't entirely make for an enthralling post). As a bonus, a flex pic, albeit with an impostor, yet also a legend in his own right:
Grats to Eliiria on the mount, and to everyone who got this done tonight. This isn't the hardest encounter Blizzard has ever designed, by any means, but it's also no joke either. It's not M'uru, but it's definitely Sunwell difficulty at this gear level, and that's encouraging. It's certainly proof that Blizzard hasn't forgotten how to make fights that are hard, but also are fun as well.
I don't really buy the argument that the game has lost all challenge -- we're just getting started. Remember, Gruul and Magtheridon and SSC/TK v1.0 were all overtuned and half-broken. If we'd gotten the final nerfed versions of those on release, they'd have been steamrolled just as easily as the WLK content has, without a doubt. It's silly to fault them for actually getting "entry-level" tuning right so far. As I said, Sartharion + 3 drakes isn't pre-nerf M'uru, true -- but it also isn't something that's exactly going to be accessible to the "average" player. The prevailing attitude among much of the community strikes me as fickle. Sunwell was a masterpiece, and so much of the rest of this expansion so far is so polished. The same people who made all that stuff that we loved so much are the ones who made this content. I think they deserve, if not the benefit of the doubt, at least a chance, and some time.
This encounter is a promising start, at the very least.
December 11 update:
Yes, it's harder. Also a ton of fun. Great job all, and I'm looking forward to our caster group pulling it off this weekend too (no pressure guys!).
Next, I have to give heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the people who put in considerable time learning this fight with us, but weren't inside the zone for the kill. Ishaxa, Cryingrogue, Scorned, Relwin/Kurapica, Loderunner, Fix, Eswedge, and Wodin -- I wish you all could have been in there with us tonight. Next week.
To Blizzard, props for making the best raid zone the game has seen (yes, better than Naxx, I think). It leaves me excited for what's in store in the coming expansion.
To all of my guildmates, old veterans and new recruits alike, thanks for making the zone and really our entire raid progression a pleasure. When I told some (many) of you that you were terrible players I only kind of meant it. Congrats on a well-deserved rest, and on accomplishing what we have while keeping a balanced perspective on the game.
It's a privilege to be able to experience this at this point, and I know a lot of people are curious, so here's a quick snippet of the best part of one of our first pulls. Can't wait to get to work on this guy.
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