Tired of the Media bashing gamers all the time? Tired of being indirectly called the downfall of our society and the cause for all our school shootings!?
The guys in Penny Arcade reacted to articles like that. They got pissed off, and made a website where gamers can buy gifts/games/console systems or just donate money to kids in hospitals for the X-Mas season.
www.childsplaycharity.org
The first few days, they got thousands of dollars in donations from gamers all around the country.
It's quite possibly the coolest thing ever! And the author who originally wrote the post that pissed Gabe off apologized: HeraldNet: Video gamers go out of their way for ill children
If you don't know about this yet, spread the word! If you don't have money, Spread the Word anyway!
Some of the stuff on the donation site are 2 dollars. Two dollars. Granted, you can give to charity everywhere else, without letting people know, and to the homeless, or whatever... we, as gamers, also just don't have to prove ourselves to anyone, but this is for the gaming community, and of course, for those kids!