Donation Drive '08

Another year has unbelievably come and gone, and Gamerswithjobs.com still does everything in its power to sap the productivity right out of your work day. It's been a busy year on our end, from site redesigns and improvements to 100 broadcasts of the Gamerswithjobs Conference Call to regular articles from what I think are some of the best writers in the industry to a continuing effort to provide forums that are a safe haven in the storm. And, every year we take a few weeks out to put our hat in hand and come to you to help us keep it all going. At the risk of sounding like public radio, you are what keeps GWJ alive and rolling, from server and hosting costs to helping us pay for convention coverage and equipment; every year as the site gets a little bigger, it also gets a little more expensive. So, for the month of September we will be asking for your donation to help support Gamerswithjobs. Oh, and we give away prizes too.

Supporting the site is as simple as clicking the make a donation link on the sidebar or sending your donation through Paypal to elysium@gamerswithjobs.com. Every donation of $10 or more is eligible for an entry into our giveaway. You can also send a check to:

GWJ Donation Drive
Attn: Sean
PO Box 177
Savage, MN 55378

IMPORTANT - READ THIS: Being involved in the donation drive giveaway and getting your icon is a two step process - you must send a separate e-mail to elysium@gamerswithjobs.com with the subject Donation Info. You must include your forum name, the name under which you donated if it is different and the amount donated.

So, enough of why you should support GWJ, and on to what you will get by supporting GWJ. As always, we have tried to put together a nice prize package for you guys, and our Grand Prize is up to you! This year, you pick your grandprize from the following choice:

Grand Prize: An Xbox 360 - OR - A Playstation 3 - OR - A Nintendo Wii - OR - A GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB

Read on for specific details, rules and regulations.

How To Donate

We offer two ways to donate, snail mail and PayPal.

Paypal Email: elysium@gamerswithjobs.com

Also note the handy dandy donate button to the left.

*Read This!* If you would like to be entered into the prize contest and receive your latest icon you must send a separate email to elysium@gamerswithjobs.com with the subject Donation Info. You must include your forum name, the name under which you donated if it is different and the amount donated. If you don't, you may not be eligible for the prizes or your donation icon!

Snail Mail : Please note, all snail mail donations must arrive before September 30th to be eligible for the grand prize drawing. Send early!

GWJ Donation Drive
Attn: Sean
PO Box 177
Savage, MN 55378

The donation drive will run through 11:59pm September 30, 2008, at that time the link to the paypal donation links will be taken down, and no more donations will be accepted until the next drive.

As always donors get a special forum icon added to their name. Readers who have donated once get a golden key, twice gets a gold watch, three donations gets the iconic weiner bomb, four years gets you a company car, five years a company jet and for this sixth year ... well, let's just say you'll round out the travel options.

How to Win :

As always we offer multiple entries for those of you who donate a little more.

The scale for this year is the same as previous years.

Donations/Entries into the drawing (U.S. funds)
$10 - $24 = 1 entry
$25 - $49 = 2 entries
$50 - $74 = 3 entries
$75 and up = 4 entries

Only one prize per person! Winners will be drawn on a date and time to be announced.

The Prizes:

If you're not from North America, you can still win the grand prize provided you have a local Amazon.com site we can order from!

Staff of GWJ and their families are not eligible to win (staff of GWJ being defined as anyone who has ever had posting privileges to the front page).

All prizes are new and in original packaging.

Grand Prize

An Xbox 360 - OR - A Playstation 3 - OR - A Nintendo Wii - OR - A GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB

Additional Prizes

Your choice of a Nintendo DS or a Sony PSP

One of Two $60 Gift Card for a Game of Your Choice

A widely coveted edition of Risk: Black Ops

More prizes may be added at a later date.

Thanks again to you and your continued support

War-and-Peacenik
Donator V3.0
Aaron D.'s picture
Location: Inside the Beltway

Good deal.

Let the games begin!

Intracranial Overclocker
Donator V2.0
MyBrainHz's picture
Location: Gigging Them

Yay for a shiny gold key! Only two more years till weiner bomb, but it's my own fault for not donating before now.

Podunk wrote:

Sometimes a man needs to temporarily stop rocking and consider what, exactly, the chicks are going to dig.

Dimmerswitch wrote:
Not to derail the thread with hobocidical discussions, but I stand by "Staats killed a hobo"

Marks The Spot
Donator V4.0
Elliottx's picture
Location: Vancouver, WA, USA, Earth, Milky Way, Universe B

Donation is in. Bombs away!

Rat Boy wrote:

Now I'm leaning more and more towards escorts.

XBL: elliottxW
WoW: Jozak - 80 Death Knight

Maximus Nofunicus
Donator V6.0
Grumpicus's picture
Location: Who dat!

I'm leeeaving, on a jet plane. Don't know when I'll be back again.

Rock Chalk
Donator V4.0
Jayhawker's picture
Location: St. Louis

Done and done!

As I mentioned to Rob at the S&T, you guys need to get some hats and T-shirts going. I would have bought one for PAX in a heartbeat. Hell, I'll still buy one anytime!

XBL - JayhawkerGWJ
LastFM - JayhawkerGWJ

Cat Herder
Donator V4.0
Hemidal's picture
Location: Houston, TX

Donation sent with an email chaser.

LobsterMobster wrote:

When they do it, it's cheap. When I do it, it's tactical.

iTumor
Donator V3.0
Dysplastic's picture
Location: Ottawa, Ontario

Donating once I get home.
Hats & T-shirts - Yes!

Clemenstation wrote:

Maybe I'll just play Puzzle Quest instead—the wonderful blend of puzzle and RPG that knows when to shut the f*ck up.

TheWanderer wrote:
Dysplastic, I love you and that odd growth on your head.

PSN / GFW / Steam: Dys

Anime Junky
Donator V7.0
Nei's picture
Location: Citadel, Widow System, Serphent Nebula

Am I missing something? I stuffed some cash into a series of tubes... and nothing seems to be happening! Help!

Xbox Live: Nei HD | Playstation ID: Nei_GWJ

CEO
Elysium's picture

A couple of side comments:

*Every few days, occasionall on the front page and in the forum we will update our list of who has donated and get those new icons out and circulating. This is not an automated process and can be a little time consuming so be patient. And, if be sure and read that part in the post that says Important - Read This if you want an icon or to be included in the drawing.

* Re: Swag - At some point we'll address this again. We've not had the best experience with this in the past, but it's something that's constantly on our radar. I won't tell you that swag is right around the corner, but if you keep bugging us about it I'm sure something will move forward.

I felt -- I feel -- that Shawn, Rob and Julian were making out with the game, and as their friend I felt it was important to point out that they were making out with an ugly chick. - Cory Banks, keeping it real

Crocket Man
Donator V2.0
Datyedyeguy's picture

So throwing in some money with my next check. Gotta keep the site alive!

XBL: Datin | Steam: Datyedyeguy
Prederick: "Put your hand up against the screen of your monitor. Feel that? That's me high-fiving the sh*t out of you through the internet."
Mex: "Oh sorry got a bit offtopic there, Halos halos items grrrrarrr"

Agent of KAOS
Donator V2.0
kaostheory's picture
Location: Helping Jeff Goldblum Pick Up Chicks Since 1993

I've got money pending on my paypal account, it should be to you sometime later this week. This site is well worth my not so hard earned money.

Fletcher wrote:

Wear the Filthy Skimmer badge with honor. For we have all, at one time or another, been filthy skimmers. And it is our brotherly duty to remind each other, that although the path of the skimmer is quick, it is also treacherous.

Office Linebacker
Donator
lancejt's picture
Location: These are words...

Donation completed, email sent, now back to not working....

XBox Live Gamertag: Lancejt | Zune | SteamID
PSN ID: Lancejt

PSI Level Ω
Donator V3.0
Vrikk's picture
Location: Onett, Eagleland

Money sent! Always happy to help.

Yet even then we ran like the wind,
whilst our laughter echoed under cerulean skies...

Forum Ornament
Donator V6.0
Location: Louisville

I have a GWJ t-shirt, nananana!

I'm betting on a boat for the new symbol. A nice gold yacht.

Junior Executive
Donator V2.0
HedgeWizard's picture
Location: SF, California

Recently joined the site - will gladly shuffle along some ph4t l3wts for the awesome work you guys do.

"I cannot imagine a series of events that would ever lead me to the thought, "gee, I have infinite time and resources... I think I'll train myself to sh*t my pants."" -LobsterMobster

tronics!
Donator V6.0
Fripper's picture
Location: Portland OR

Some of the most worthwhile cash I've spent this year. Keep up the great work folks!

You thought it was gold but it was bronze

Bow Before Me, Norway!
Donator V4.0
Haakon7's picture
Location: The Untamed Wilds

Done. And my email is running screaming after it, like a Scout on fire.

Coldstream wrote:

The beating heart of the Fortress is not the engraved hematite walls of the Forge. It's the sand outside of the door where the wagon used to be. He'll bring them death... and they will love him for it.

HR Giger Counter
Donator V4.0
MaxShrek's picture
Location: Fragville Junction, NY

Time to make a small attempt at covering the insane "XBLA" thread.

Can you fly, Bobby?

Puttin' on the foil, Coach!
Donator V5.0
Mixolyde's picture
Location: Usually an ice rink in Newark, DE

Happy to help. Keep fightin' the good fight!

XBL
Jonman wrote:

Bullion Cube wrote:
Looks like a more frenetic God of War...for perverts.

*places pre-order*

7.62mm Headache
Donator V7.0
Minase's picture
Location: Seattle, WA

Sent. Keep up the good work!

I never minded piracy. Anyone who minds about piracy is full of sh*t. Anyone who pirates your game wasn't going to buy it anyway! -Warren Spector

Consultant
Donator V2.0
Ravenlock's picture

Button pressed.

Steam ID: Ravenlock
XBL / GFWL Gamertag: Ravenlock80
I write about games when I can find time at Erratic Gamer.

Pimpin' Ain't Eezy
Donator V6.0
Eezy_Bordone's picture
Location: Western Washington

Donated.

Do you ever walk alone like a drifter in the dark?

Spondee Camper
Donator V3.0
wordsmythe's picture
Location: "Not if I had a hundred tongues, every one shouting a different language in a different key, could I do justice to her splendid chaos."

Cheapest crack I ever paid for.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Because, see, wordsmythe is a jerk!

Google Profile

Polygonal and Proud Of It
Donator V2.0
interstate78's picture
Location: Beautiful Québec City

wordsmythe wrote:
Cheapest crack I ever paid for.

Seconded.

Donation sent thankyouverymuch.

FedoraMcQuaid wrote:

I have a man-crush on everybody here.
I'm quite flamboyant with my heterosexual man-love.

XBLive: Interstate 78 / PSN: Interstate78 / [url=http://steamcommunity.com/id/I

the pot and the kettle
Donator V2.0
boogle's picture
Location: Norman, OK

Will send scholarship money.

pretend boogle wrote:

tweed jacket + pedestrian = Parisian dandy

Hi Rez, Low Maintenance
Donator V6.0
Rezzy's picture
Location: Casino Bluffs, Iowa

Oh great! Now my avatar will make no sense at all!

Politely rude. Briskly vague. Firmly uninformative.

Absolut Texan
Donator V2.0
magnus's picture
Location: Dallas, TX

Donated - stay alive!

"This is way, way more bad boy than you're gonna be able to handle." - Tommy Gavin on Rescue Me.

Xbox Live: AbsolutTexan
AbsolutTexan.com

Coffee Grinder
Donator V3.0
Location: Canada

Donation away. Hope things continue to go great over the next year.

Resident, um, Resident
Donator V7.0
Dr_Awkward's picture
Location: Pangea

Leaping wrote:
I'm betting on a boat for the new symbol. A nice gold yacht.

Noooo, something on rails. Like a rocket-sled!
I'll be kicking in.

wordsmythe wrote:

awkward rules

the soul still burns...
Donator V4.0
souldaddy's picture
Location: Avoid the Digestive Teeth

Done, and done.

"Once you can accept the universe is matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy." -- Albert Einstein