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We often get lots of heartfelt stories this time of year, and I think I'll share one of my own. It involves around 20 altruistic gamers, who, five years ago, took a few consoles, a basement, and a stream that felt like it was held together with duct tape at times, and raised over $11,000 in the first weekend of 2010. None of us could ever have dreamed that, five years later, it would become a professional fundraising behemoth, raising over $5 million for worthy charities in that time frame, drawing over a thousand passionate people to the event and a few hundred thousand more to watch! So while a few of those initial twenty are still going strong at these events, including, of course, the lovely lady wrecking shop on Chrono Trigger right now, one of those twenty is sitting back in Australia on a Sunday afternoon with a goofy grin on his face, full of pride at what was set in motion way back then. Congratulations to all of you, and never lose sight of just how much you've achieved! |