Let's Do the Extra Life 25 Hour Charity Event Together! Nov. 2nd

I think if you take a break you have to make up the time later (I believe they do this so if you fall asleep or have other real life obligations, you can just separate it to two twelve (and a half) hour marathons).

Also, I'm updating the fundraising goal to $3000 for now, since we have made and far surpassed the initial goal.

EDIT: Wing-It, I still need your Twitch channel, assuming you're streaming too.

OK, I found out that the xsplit add live stream thing doesn't actually work with twitch streams in that way, so I'll just put up a 'be back later' kind of page.

Theoretically I can still play on my 3DS while I'm at the dance class...

And I think that the 24 hour thing is not *strictly* mandatory to participate, it's up to you if you want to try for it. They loosened it up so that anyone can participate, even if you do it on a different date, and if you don't do it for 24 hours. Whatever works for you.

Alrighty, I'll be on Steam tonight at 8pm to test out Killing Floor. I'll probably be in the Extra Life vent channel for testing purposes. I'll also be testing a stream. Hurray for tests! The Vent thread has all the necessary information for that, and you can go ahead and friend me on Steam so we can easily organize and play.

Hurray for things happening!

Double also: I definitely recommend doing patches ahead of time. Resistance 3 had a whopper of one that would have sucked to go through when I planned on streaming.

Yeah I planned on at least opening up each game tonight to get patches downloaded.

Will try to sort out Killing Floor so I can join folks on that one

So when are people planning to start tomorrow? 8am or another time? I don't mind starting it a couple of hours later but I want to make sure I start when the majority does.

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

So when are people planning to start tomorrow? 8am or another time? I don't mind starting it a couple of hours later but I want to make sure I start when the majority does. :)

I will be up at 8AM CST.

8am EST, so I'll probably one of the first Americans. I think Merkaba will have us all beat, though, as he's located in Japan.

Are you starting at 8am EDT (the time now) or 8am EST (the time after change)? I'll be on at 8am EDT.

As a recap, what are the expected multiplayer sessions? Last I read we had put up BF4 and Magicka for sometime Saturday morning?

harbichidian wrote:

Are you starting at 8am EDT (the time now) or 8am EST (the time after change)? I'll be on at 8am EDT.

As a recap, what are the expected multiplayer sessions? Last I read we had put up BF4 and Magicka for sometime Saturday morning?

The change doesn't happen until Sunday at 2am, which is why it's a 25 hour marathon instead of 24. It's from 11/2 8am EDT to 11/3 8am EST.

Hrm. Y'know, I usually just refer to EST because it translates easily to "Eastern". I didn't even realize daylight savings was this week.

So assume I simply mean 8am ET.

For me, my multiplayer will be Playstation All-Stars at 1pm ET, Gears of War 3 at 9pm ET, and then Killing Floor at 11pm ET.

Kamakazi010654 wrote:

My link is http://extra-life.org/participant/wl...

You got cash.

A bunch more co-workers came through today and two food trucks near my house I regularly go to have committed a bunch too! One's putting in $100 and another's donating $1 from every sale today! They haven't pitched in yet but they will. So awesome!

OK, I'll start at 8am tomorrow. Ugh, I'm going to have to try to make myself go to bed early tonight. Got a lot of XSplit configuration and testing still to do, plus a new GPU to install. Busy night.

So what you're saying is I should raise the team goal to $3500?

EDIT: And done! Holy crap, I can't believe we made $3,000. We're currently sitting at #98 in team rank, out of a total of 3,468 teams! Let's keep it going!

I should be starting in about 40 minutes time. Good luck to all of us!

Good luck all you nuts.

Unfortunately, I won't be doing anything near 25 hours tomorrow. I've come down with something, so meh.

Alright folks, hopping onto Killing Floor as well as Vent. I'll see you online (I hope).

It begins! Go Merkaba!

I'm going to get a good nights sleep and then... and then... ALL THE GAMES

Thanks for letting me torture you with my Okami knowledge, Merkaba. GL HF!

Thanks for the tips! Also glad to know I wasn't just playing by myself

Checked out my vent works during a few BF4 matches, off to grab some sleep

First 10 hours done and only had 1 coffee. Pretty enjoyable actually. I'm glad that Extra Life has given me the chance to concentrate on a lot of great games I never would have given time to before moving on to the PS4. Okami HD in particular is amazing!

Best of luck to those of you starting this morning.

Feel free to join us on Ventrilo Merkaba!

And by us I mean just me at the moment as I sort out last minute technical issues.

Good luck guys! Starting soon.

How do I go about joining the Ventrilo chat while using my microphone for my stream?

I definitely should have researched that a bit more before I started! XD

Just hit the 12 hour mark and my fundraising goal as well thanks to some awesome GWJ members! Thanks a bunch guys!

Well my Extra Life is starting in a not so stellar fashion. The real issue I've discovered is that, for whatever reason, my Roxio is having trouble switching in and out of HDMI. I don't know if it's a problem with the device or the fact that it was designed before the Wii-U was released and thus doesn't know how to handle Wii-U HDMI, but it creates major problems.

I'll be playing Playstation All-Stars with ccesarano at 1pm EST, so watch that if you'd like! Even better, join in if you have the game and are on either of our friends list.

Faith in humanity: lost.

Extra Life wrote:

Dear friends,

We’ve discovered that the Extra Life website experienced a DDoS attack agianst our datacenter. I am not sure what kind of person would DDoS a charitable initiative.

I am so sorry that you are going through this frustration today. Our entire team is purely heartbroken that someone would do this. But it has happened.

As frustrating as this is for everyone involved, it pales in comparison to what the kids we’re trying to save go through. That reality, for me personally, is about the only thing keeping me somewhat calm right now.

I am very angry and very sorry. You deserve better than this. The kids deserve better than this. Extra Life has given a lot of us some of the happiest moments in our lives.

This is not one of those moments.

Please hang with us through this.

It is important that we spread the word. Please get on every form of social media you can and tell your friends what happened. We can overcome this together.

Be ready to make up for lost time and share the news when we go live!

Sincerely,
Doc

(emphasis mine)