Wil Wheaton?

Well Dear Crap. You know you should feel ashamed when Wil Wheaton think’s you’re scum.
Last month, Penny Arcade created a makeshift charity, called Childs Play (Details here). Childs Play donated over $200,000 in cash and games, game systems, and misc. cool gear ($27,406.18 in cash & over $175,000 in gear) to a Seattle children.s hospital. A very awesome gift for the kids this holiday, also not a bad step in making the media realize that we’re not all bloodthirsty killers because we like to shoot zombies in a make believe world.
I did a few reports about 8-9 years ago when I was in high school about how idiotic the idea that gamers are being “trained to kill”, and are the “next great menace to our future”, or other idiotic crap.
That was almost a decade ago, I know, it dates me, but still, a decade or more… That’s basically one full generation of kids out there, who grew up on video games.
So that means, that since everybody who donated to Childs Play had a credit card, they’re above the age of 18. The people who donated to Childs Play were raised in the video game age. Not bad that these “monsters of society” can raise going on a quarter of a million dollars of toys & funds for a worthy cause.
I know, you’re probably saying, “This is just a stunt to try to save the reputation of Gamers”. You’d be wrong. The Media (Capitol M) ignored the entire thing. The few that did pay attention to it reported the entire thing as a donation from a “catholic school, and were valued at nearly a thousand dollars”… By the way, did I mention nearly A Quarter of a Million Dollars? Shit, they had bins of GBA SP’s and Xbox.s and Game Cubes, and literally, truckloads of other stuff. The Media makes too much money off fear and paranoia; of course its not going to say that one of their meal tickets isn.t quite as diabolical as they’d lead you to believe.
Search google for news on Childs Play, and you get three results.. Luckily Media Reform gets a lot of results.
Wil Wheaton had a few sweet comments about the situation. As well as Tyco from Penny-Arcade got his final 2 cents in.