For those of you who don’t know, Child’s Play is the charity organization started by the famous web comic duo of Penny Arcade. Penny Arcade is one of, if not the single, most well known web comics of all time. Their topic of choice is video games, but their appeal extends beyond that realm into that of general Geekdom.
Child’s Play is a charity aimed at Penny Arcade’s primary audience… gamers. Basically, you’re asked to donate by purchasing toys and video games from Amazon.com wish lists which will be donated in your name to Seattle’s Children’s Hospital.
Last year, Child’s Play raised over $250,000 in toys, games, and cash for the 190,000 or so kids that the Children’s Hospital cares for each year. I’m proud to say that I contributed to that effort and have done so again this year.
To get an idea of how substantial this movement was (and how substantial the load of work that Gabe and Tycho undertook was), you can check out last year’s photo gallery here.
So why am I telling you this? Because this week, “BJ Shea” on his 100.7 the BUZZ radio show blasted these guys on public radio calling them “video game playing bums who are too lazy to get off their asses to do what they’re supposed to do.”
This, he says, of people who raised $17,000 for the Children’s Hospital the night before at a charity auction.
You can read the details here.
If I lived in Seattle or nearby, I would be calling into 100.7 and giving them a piece of my mind.