IGN holding charity event for Haiti recovery efforts

I'm all for helping Haiti, and Bayonetta's a fun game, but... even as game promotion pieces go, that's an ugly-ass chunk of plastic. Doesn't even appear to have any moving parts. Aside from helping out in Haiti, why would you want it?

Din'tchya hear boy!? There's GOLD in them tharr replicas!!

Din'tchya hear boy!? There's GOLD in them tharr replicas!!

Right after the Haiti earthquake, the rest of the world has responded to its need for support by sending over goods and relief workers all day. Unfortunately, the airport was so full that they were forced to turn away planes, which delayed the arrival of relief goods to Haiti. Details: http://tiny.cc/haiti_death_toll

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This is what happens when Ludwig is on vacation.

You have to use your witch power.

Guess that's better than using my hair.

I'm not going to make a pubes joke.

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Yeah I don't get it either.

Idiot.

Wow, you guys must be pretty thick. It's hilarious.

@ Damion

Really, really, I'm very dissapointed in you and you to Bradwort! But anyways what the heck is an echnida anyway! I mean I know that it's some sort of animal but really what in the world is it anyway?

Acting dumb on the internet always gets the best reactions.
Unfortunately being stupid gets the worst...

I've got new for fox news, they're one of the best comedy channels out there! :P

He said coverage.

A telethon is a telethon, not coverage.

Wait, I'm not doing it right.. let me try again.

Whaaaah Fox News. Baaaaw.

There we go.

Oh God, I can see the headline now:

"Gaming website sells minor a firearm to raise money for Haiti Charity"

Be neat if it fired those.. darts like those nerf guns do

@Candlejack:

You're either clueless, or you're an idiot. We live in a *capitalistic society*. More successful people make more money than less successful people. But because some schmo on the 'net has some sort of grudge with celebrities, they shouldn't get to spend their money how they see fit?

Donating 4% of your income to a charitable cause nearly on the drop of a hat is substantial. How much of your income do you give to charity? And don't whine 'well I don't make alot of money,' because I don't either and I give over 10% of my income to charity annually (prob. around 12% when all is said and done--I'll know for sure when the ol' taxes are done).

And lets talk about celebrity homes. Where in God's green earth do you expect them to live? Suburbs? They're *celebrities.* Everyone knows who they are. Every time they go to the grocery store, fans mob them and ask for autographs. Every time they go out to eat, paparazzi chase them down and harass them. The only places they can live and raise families in peace are multimillion dollar joints. They can't go to McDonald's and eat Big Macs, they'd be mobbed. If they want to go out to eat, they *have* to go to fancy places with security guards and bouncers.

I'm not saying all celebrities are wonderful people, or even that any celebrities are good people. I don't know any celebs, can't vouch for em. But I do know if I were a celeb, I'd probably live about the same sort of life as they do. And while I'd probably keep my personal charitable donations private, I'd be annoyed if some 20-something know-it-all internet kid thought my million dollar donation wasn't good enough.

Sorry, wrong thread >

I've not gave a dime, and I dont plan on it, If it was me, I doubt anyone would even lay a hand on helping. So why bother?

I believe in supporting Haiti, but I do think the Hope of Haiti thing is a load of horseshit. The donations earned off it are from merchandise purchases, which "a portion of proceeds" go to, but how much? How can you even be certain it is going anywhere? You never know how much is pocketed and what filters it goes through - there is a business tied into this after all.

If you want to donate, go through the direct channels. Give to the support charities, even if they don't use your money for Haiti and put it in an account, it will further fund their generally helpful operations.

All the wayside dollars are funding with the celebrity shows are their agents and cocaine habits.

If you want to hear about a celebrity actually helping people in a tragedy, go read up on Steve Buscemi in 9/11. That set the water mark there.

to be quite honest, thats exactly why i didn't donate to that hope for haiti.

i dont need 20 people with a combined net worth of a billion or more dollars telling me to donate.

i did however donate 3 dollars to my student union for haiti, that 3 dollars was matched by 4 organizations.

Did any of you even look at the hopeforhaitinow.org site? 100% of the donations were going to organizations like UNICEF, the Red Cross, the UN World Food Program, and the Clinton-Bush Haiti fund. None of it was going to the celebrities; there's no merchandise; all administrative costs were being absorbed by the organization. Research before you bash, geez.

I'd also just like to give a personal donation shout-out to Doctors Without Borders and would recommend giving your donations to them. Those dudes are the real bread and work objectively, very great stuff.

I have less good things to say about the American Red Cross, but that is a personal observation, and I only express it in an attempt to generate thought about which organization to donate towards.

You're completely missing the point Killdash. The point is these celbrities live the high life while people in Haiti make pennies an hour, while people around the world make a faction of what the celebs make. They have no right to ask for donations to Haiti, and they have no right to pretend they care.

I'm sorry you're so cynical, Candlejack, but I tend to think that every one of those celebrities in attendance at the event *did* donate a large sum of money to the organizations they were representing. Just because some people have enough money to lavish upon multimillion-dollar homes for themselves, it does not follow that they do not lavish any of their money upon altruistic causes. However, you seem pretty set in your mind, so I will not try to change it.

well I dont see you actively helping Haiti and collecting large scale donations, and the celebrities are using their fame for a good cause. Sure, some of it may be PR driven, but some is also out of the genuine want to help, and Im sure most of the performers there donated to the organizations, e.g George Clooney, the guy that organized the wole thing, donated 1 million dollars before the telethon. No need to be so cynical about this.

And yet they sit in their million dollar homes eating hundred dollar foods wearing thousand dollar one time dresses using gold seated toilets and 100 dollar bills as their paper while the Haitian people make pennies a day, the american people make a fraction of what the celebs make, and their are thousands, if not millions, of homeless people in america and around the world.

Let me know when you find a celebrity who lives in a $100k-$300k home, drives an average car, eats average food at average restaurants, and wears clothes that you find at the local mall or department store and donates the rest to charity.


I dare you to find one celebrity like that. Those people could fund the reconstruction of Haiti and still have enough money to survive better than most. Instead they donate "large sums" and then try to use their fame to weasel us, the working class people, out of our hard earned money. Excuse me for expecting a human to have higher standards then to try and save their soul with pennies of their worth.

And for that matter, George Clooney's net worth per year is an estimated $25M, so he donated 4% of last years earnings. Wonderful, wonder what he's going to do with that other $24M. If you're wondering, the national average wage for 2008 is $41,334.97. Someone do the math on what percent that is of MR Clooney, because even I can see that it's a lot less than 4%.

Why would they do that?

Someone rich donates a lot of money to charity, and tries to get others to do the same. But they don't donate ALL their money to charity... so we shouldn't donate ANY money to charity?

I'm confused.

I got a big box of chocolates for my birthday, and I gave some to my friends... but I didn't give them all to my friends, so I'm bad... and I have no right to encourage others to be generous?

This just in: 24M out of 25M isn't ALL of 25M, and 1M is more than enough to live a cozy life. Most people do it on 50-100K, no reason they can't do it on 10 times that number.


The fact is these people are greedy and if you can't see that then I pity you. Though, if you can see it and think that thats ok as long as they make small percent donations every once and a while then I am disgusted by you.

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@Candlejack:

You're either clueless, or you're an idiot. We live in a *capitalistic society*. More successful people make more money than less successful people. But because some schmo on the 'net has some sort of grudge with celebrities, they shouldn't get to spend their money how they see fit?

Donating 4% of your income to a charitable cause nearly on the drop of a hat is substantial. How much of your income do you give to charity? And don't whine 'well I don't make alot of money,' because I don't either and I give over 10% of my income to charity annually (prob. around 12% when all is said and done--I'll know for sure when the ol' taxes are done).

And lets talk about celebrity homes. Where in God's green earth do you expect them to live? Suburbs? They're *celebrities.* Everyone knows who they are. Every time they go to the grocery store, fans mob them and ask for autographs. Every time they go out to eat, paparazzi chase them down and harass them. The only places they can live and raise families in peace are multimillion dollar joints. They can't go to McDonald's and eat Big Macs, they'd be mobbed. If they want to go out to eat, they *have* to go to fancy places with security guards and bouncers.

I'm not saying all celebrities are wonderful people, or even that any celebrities are good people. I don't know any celebs, can't vouch for em. But I do know if I were a celeb, I'd probably live about the same sort of life as they do. And while I'd probably keep my personal charitable donations private, I'd be annoyed if some 20-something know-it-all internet kid thought my million dollar donation wasn't good enough.

HOOOHOOHOOO!

Totally worth the double post. Especially since you didn't fix the spelling.

Oh look, another drone that values so called "entertainment" over science, the arts, and humane efforts. It's a wonder that there are any moral people left in the world.

4% of the average wage ($41,334 as pointed out by Candlejack) would be $1, 653, an amount I HIGHLY doubt the average person gives to charity even in a year. At least celebrities are giving that much, even if it is only 4%.