Gamers With Jobs is, first and foremost, a user supported site. Which is why between now and October 2 we will be camped out on your virtual doorstep wearing dark glasses and shaking a coffee cup full of seed-coin asking for your continued and crucial support in helping us keep the lights on and the hamsters turning in their exercise wheels. Your donation goes to providing the materials, the equipment and the financial ability to bring you the content that teases your eyes and tickles your ears every single week. While we hope you feel like the work we do is valuable, we also know that a prize giveaway or two never hurt anybody. This year is no different.
We are proud to roll out the annual donation drive and prize give away featuring a familiar option at the Grand Prize spot --
Your choice of a PlayStation 3 slim -- Xbox 360 -- Nintendo Wii -- GeForce GTX 275 for your home PC!
Supporting the site is as simple as clicking the make a donation link on the sidebar or sending your donation through Paypal to [email protected]. Every donation of $10 or more is eligible for an entry into our giveaway -- additional entries are added for larger donations. See after the bump for more details.
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 forum icon is a two step process - you must send a separate e-mail to [email protected] 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. Icons and donation information will be updated periodically, and there may be a delay between submitting your donation and receiving confirmation and a new icon.
Read on for specific details, rules and regulations including our full prize give away list and one of the coolest prizes we've ever offered.
How To Donate:
We offer two ways to donate, snail mail and PayPal.
Paypal Email: [email protected]
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 [email protected] 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 October 2, 2009, 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. First time donors get a golden key. If this is your second year donating you get a gold watch. Three years earns the iconic weiner bomb, four years gets you a company car, five years a company jet, six years a fancy yacht. And if you are one of the storied few who have been with us since the beginning and donated to the site for all seven drives ... well, you get the accessory every smart executive will be wanting this holiday season.
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 Slim - OR - A Nintendo Wii - OR - A GeForce GTX 275
Second Prize
Your choice of a Nintendo DS, Sony PSP Go or a 16GB iPod Touch
Additional Prizes
Courtesy of our good friend Ken Levine, this limited, signed and numbered Sander Cohen statue. Number 65 out of 110, this particular collectible is almost exclusively found in the possession of the people who helped bring Bioshock to gamers everywhere. Signed by Ken Levine and character artist Robb Waters who did the initial sculpt of the figure, we are very excited to be able to offer a one-of-a-kind opportunity to own this highly prized collectible:
We are also offering one of two $60 gift cards for a
Game of Your Choice
Custom Soap From Soapy Hollow!
Thanks again for your continued support!
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Hey, I donate too, even though I work here. No way for me to get the gold blingybits otherwise. Cruel, harsh masters.
If someone I know wins the statue, I want to come over and fondle it. Just a little.
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Words... are a big deal.
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I will begin processing initial donations in the next 24 hours or so. I'd do it here at work, but apparently they've gone all crazy and asked me to do work. Seriously, what is the world coming to?!
The thing about smart people is they seem like crazy people to dumb people -- Thing I saw on the Internet
It's coming to work--if it's lucky.
Words... are a big deal.
Jill Lapore wrote:Editing is one of the great inventions of civilization.
Next thing you know, you'll be asked to shave off your beard and get your avatar to match!
Bacon is a goodjer in your pants.
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NEVER!
The line must be drawn _here_! No further!
The thing about smart people is they seem like crazy people to dumb people -- Thing I saw on the Internet
What the hell? You're making money, just not for them!
I wish you guys would stop encouraging him.
EvilHomer3k wrote:You are an evil, evil person.
Baron Of Hell wrote:YOU VILLAIN!
Done. A tidy sum of internet space-bucks heading your way...
inactive here until further notice.
So you're saying your going to shave your head to be more like Picard?
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.
That or he's going to become an art teacher.
The Konami Code taught me everything I need to know about sex.
There's a Ken Levine joke in there somewhere.
Does the statue have nipples?
The way I see it, $50/year is basically $1/podcast plus two thrown in for free.
Also, how about tickets to rabbitCon in next year's winnings, eh? eh?
I ask no favors for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks. - Sarah Moore Grimké
That's actually not a bad idea.
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.
We don't have to wait for the contest to end. I have a statue right here you can fondle.
"Thanks, KrazyTaco, thanks. I'd put it in your pooper too." -Mex
"Oh, KrazyTaco, you fulfill all my wishes." -pneuman
"I sometimes hang awake at night dreaming of being called a dumbass by KrazyTaco." -Gravey
I'm going to go ahead and say that is the most romantic thing I've heard all day.
Left GWJ for good.
Rabbit when I win the statue you can fly out to Australia and fondle it, I won't mind
I can only assume that when the antichrist arrives he will be left handed, Australian, and attempting to steal our womenfolk.
Strewth wrote:Prozac is a man's man. Or clinically insane. It's hard to tell.
I just had an image of Hedley Lamar humping his statue of justice saying, "I want that land so badly I can taste it. There must be a way."
Do you ever walk alone like a drifter in the dark?
What caching method/s are you guys using on Gamers with Jobs? Some attention needs to be given to site performance. Also, what version of Drupal are you guys running? Some general sprucing up to limit the excess content spacing a little wouldn't go astray, as well as some prettyfying.
An example, the entire site header has a lot of wasted space.
The user navigation which you currently have in the header should be put into the left sidebar considering there is plenty of space there for it. The logo should then be pushed up so that there are 15 pixels space on both the top and bottom of the goodoldgames advertisement.
Anyway, just some ideas to make the site a little more appealing.
Edit: While that may seem incredibly random, I'll make it less so by saying that I have sent you my hard-earned dollars and that I get very frustrated when I inexplicably cannot access the site due to whatever technical reasons. Today I received a 'mysql has reach the maximum number of connections'. I guess that means your current donation drive is very popular.
Speaking of sprucing the place up. Where are these hooker bots with bourbon flowing from their bosom that Elysium keeps promising?
"Thanks, KrazyTaco, thanks. I'd put it in your pooper too." -Mex
"Oh, KrazyTaco, you fulfill all my wishes." -pneuman
"I sometimes hang awake at night dreaming of being called a dumbass by KrazyTaco." -Gravey
Never?
If you rule like Megatron, you're going to raise Starscream.
And here I was thinking that whomever won the statue, would get an invite to RabbitCon that was only valid when presented with the statue...
Request denied. My bomp chicka's gotta bow wow. - Rubb Ed
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Donated! Once again, thanks so much for this awesome site and great community!
Sent!
Thanks for the weekly entertainment and sometimes intelligent discussion.
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Haha, I finally get to a computer during donation time that I can send magical internet dollars from!
Thanks for the great site and podcast. Don't change, I love you just the way you are.
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Done and done! Wiener Bomb finally!
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I made a nice forumname just or this "support" action...
-Pling-
Donation done! But please take your time Ely, I need some time alone with my weiner bomb first
Hey Berend_Jan, your name sounds Dutch. Where are you from, if I may ask?
Just remember, the weiner bomb gets passed along to another user, so please clean it with bleach when you're done.
The thing about smart people is they seem like crazy people to dumb people -- Thing I saw on the Internet
Please use a pressure washer and extra strength detergent.
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