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- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -2/+39I donated $20.
You owe me praise. - hollywoodphony, on 06/30/2008, -1/+38I feel like these guys would have done this anyway.
- FirstDigg, on 06/30/2008, -0/+32To see the recorded videos of almost the entire marathon, go to http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mario-marathon
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -0/+22Child's Play Charity is a fantastic charity to donate to. For cash donations, they only take about 3% for administrative fees and the rest goes straight to buying games for the children. If you want, you can go to the website of the charity to see an Amazon.com wishlist. There, you can see what the pediatric patients are asking for, and buy anything from some $5 legos to $50 Nintendo Wii games and everything in between. If you use Amazon.com to buy a toy, it will get shipped straight to the hospital without costing the charity any overhead and saving money.
When I was a student I did several rotations at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, and I got to see the end result of this charity first hand. Let me say, it's well worth it. When most normal kids are spending their summers outside playing, swimming, going on family vacations, these children are stuck in hospitals for months (and sometimes not allowed to leave their rooms or worst case not allowed to leave their bed). With tight hospital budgets they can't spend a lot of money on this stuff at all, and all the "bigger" charities focus on treatment of specific disease conditions but few others if any focus on entertainment of a bored child. If you don't want to donate cash, at least check out the wishlist of a hospital close to you and buy a toy or something. - RustyJ, on 06/30/2008, -0/+20Well then, I guess it's a good thing they made 11 grand off it for charity. Whatever works!
- Surferess, on 06/30/2008, -0/+19Great idea using video games to raise money. I approve.
- mghwom1, on 06/30/2008, -0/+17This was the Internet highlight of my weekend.
- Trip42, on 06/30/2008, -0/+14Hey All, this is Brian organizer of the Mario Marathon. I wanted to thank FirstDigg and everyone Digg.com for helping to promote our event. It greatly surpassed our expectations. Maybe we'll have to do this again sometime.
- Jwoey, on 06/30/2008, -0/+13Pumbaa: I gravel at your feet.
Timon: It's not gravel, it's grovel.
I'm just saying, Lion King rules. - Firehed, on 06/30/2008, -1/+14I'll click the green button for you, is that sufficient?
- Carlix, on 06/30/2008, -0/+11The same reason people watch teams play a sport, I guess..
- haruuii, on 06/30/2008, -1/+12why would one WATCH other people play a video game?
on a positive note, $11,100 going to charity funds :]~ - inactive, on 06/30/2008, -3/+13very, very cool! NICE!
- jjef, on 06/30/2008, -0/+8i watched this off and on throughout the weekend and i must say that it was really fun to watch. kudos to these guys for a job well done!
- Kiryuu, on 06/30/2008, -1/+9These guys are kind!
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -1/+9I feel better, thank you.
Also naked women would suffice. - scy1192, on 06/30/2008, -0/+7Desert Bus was better
- cherrj, on 06/30/2008, -0/+7That money can't help replace all of the goombas that lost their lives that weekend. We'll never forget you.
- OpCzar, on 06/30/2008, -0/+7And the money is going to be used to buy video games for hospitalized children!
- eatkitten, on 06/30/2008, -3/+10What's Chucky going to do with 11 thousand dollars?
- Carlix, on 06/30/2008, -0/+6You are using the word irony wrong.
- inactive, on 06/30/2008, -1/+7pretty sweet
- DarkHornet, on 06/30/2008, -0/+5The event was awesome. A pleasure to watch from beginning to end (barring short breaks for sleep). I'm amazed and happy that the donations reached the level they did.
- xsecretfiles, on 06/30/2008, -0/+5Can't they swim?
- Jwoey, on 06/30/2008, -0/+4there was video of it... you could watch them play.
- kolop1, on 06/30/2008, -1/+2I'm happy.
- BitKid, on 06/30/2008, -1/+2If I was a hospitalized kid I would want someone to raise money to pay for a buttload of morphine for my I.V. drip.
- fhernand, on 06/30/2008, -1/+2oh man, I thought that little doll was already done with.. what's with the raising??
- allenu, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1NEVAR FORGET (the goombas)
- diskit, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1When I read "Marathon" I imagined a bunch of guys dressed as Nintendo characters walking around a city of some sort..
but this is cool too. - OpCzar, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1"Two guys have the hats
One guy has the mushroom shirt
All three have huge hearts" - Atomic1fire, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1yeah, That and dont they have polar bears in other places
like upper parts of Canada or something and zoos
Junk? what better way to give a kid going through a surgery something to do then to give him a video game - tewstep, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1are there any other benefit events scheduled for Chucky?
- proficient, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1Excellent work.
- SpencerMc, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1I have an ongoing, developing theory that the Lion King is an allegory for rule by an autocratic monarchy.
Simba rules by divine mandate from heaven in the form of his father's spirit appearing in the clouds.
The Circle of Life is like the medieval concept of the Chain of Being. The one's at the top claim that it is "natural" and the way things are meant to be, but I'm not sure the antelope think being killed and eaten by their king is that great, even if his body will someday fertilize some grass.
And the bad guys in the movie, the hyena, are in reality scavengers. They rarely if ever kill and exist on the leftovers of other animals, similar to peasants. But when the King is gone and they run things, they somehow "over hunt" the land and everything dies!
Still, pretty good movie, all things considered. - decepticrat, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1Hahahaha!! I award you the *best comment of this submission* trophy.
- DangerMouse9, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1so if a 300+ pound guy that sweat profusely and had a hair back was playing nude you could watch it?
- Dragoomba, on 06/30/2008, -0/+0I'm still waiting for speedruns.
- thegreenspanput, on 06/30/2008, -0/+0sorry, I presumed everyone would detect the sarcasm.
- Darkaged, on 06/30/2008, -0/+0I blame video games.
- xsecretfiles, on 06/30/2008, -1/+1I was trying to link to the story about NUDE video game players, but I couldn't find it
.....I could always WATCH that - bknoll22, on 06/30/2008, -2/+1Very very cool. great idea
- solid12345, on 07/01/2008, -2/+1Hopefully buy some Hanna Montana tickets so he can kill the whore.
- eatkitten, on 06/30/2008, -4/+2Cool idea.
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