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Right, I had this hare-brained idea this evening - please bear with me. I still haven't made my mind up if it's a bit pompous or self-righteous, but screw it - my intentions are good, so I'm going ahead.
This year I don't feel as though I've really shown much goodwill to anybody for the festive period. I don't mean I've been a git, just that I've been pretty self-absorbed lately and haven't had much spare time. So I got to wondering, what can I do to help someone our or cheer them up this Christmas? I'm still going to busy working throughout, and so time for anyone else is limited - but then I had this idea:
Tomorrow evening, Christmas Eve, at 9pm (UK time) I will send to one OCUK forum member a gift of any Steam game of their choice, to a value of £20. The receiver of the game will be chosen from all who qualify.
There is a catch, and there are conditions, please read on:
To qualify, you must, between now and then, do something nice, helpful, or charitable, for someone else, at random. Dig out someone's driveway from the snow, take a hot drink to the lollipop lady, invite a lone neighbour round for tea - whatever you can come up with. The nicer the better, just do something to make someone's life a little bit better.
Handing cash to charity or to a homeless person won't count - unless the act is creative or thoughtful for some reason other than just a transferance of funds.
Before the 9pm deadline, post in this thread with the story of what you did, and why, with some sort of photographic proof. The picture must include a depiction of what you did, the person who benefitted, and the words 'OCUK Goodwill' in the image - not added afterwards, think pen on paper, stones in snow, etc.
I will send the game to the person who I think has done the best deed, and provides the best story/evidence of it. (Obviously this is a subjective thing, but my argument is that I know none of you, and so it will be based purely on merit - and anyway, even if you respond and I don't choose you for the game, you still did something good for somebody so that ought to be enough of a prize!)
Last conditions (and sorry for these), are:
(1) that you have been an OCUK member for 30 days or more, and have 30 posts or more at the time of this thread beginning. Hopefully this will allay any accusations that I may create a bogus account to receive a phony gift!
(2) that there are at least three genuine responses to this thread. If the idea dies on its ass, then the spirit of the thread hasn't worked and I will declare it void!
I realise that this might be viewed as a stupid idea, and that people might make stuff up to get a game - well, there's nothing to be done about that. It will take as much effort to invent a post and a phony photograph as it will to actually do a nice little deed for someone, and so anybody who does such a low-down thing for the sake of a cut-price computer game is a toerag. I'm putting some faith in you all here. Please be real!
As for why - well, I'm sort of hoping people who are off work on Xmas Eve with a bit of spare time will get into the spirit of it, and the £20 will buy a few good turns that I don't have time to go out and do myself. Does that sound bad? Perhaps, but the hell with it.
Go go go!
This year I don't feel as though I've really shown much goodwill to anybody for the festive period. I don't mean I've been a git, just that I've been pretty self-absorbed lately and haven't had much spare time. So I got to wondering, what can I do to help someone our or cheer them up this Christmas? I'm still going to busy working throughout, and so time for anyone else is limited - but then I had this idea:
Tomorrow evening, Christmas Eve, at 9pm (UK time) I will send to one OCUK forum member a gift of any Steam game of their choice, to a value of £20. The receiver of the game will be chosen from all who qualify.
There is a catch, and there are conditions, please read on:
To qualify, you must, between now and then, do something nice, helpful, or charitable, for someone else, at random. Dig out someone's driveway from the snow, take a hot drink to the lollipop lady, invite a lone neighbour round for tea - whatever you can come up with. The nicer the better, just do something to make someone's life a little bit better.
Handing cash to charity or to a homeless person won't count - unless the act is creative or thoughtful for some reason other than just a transferance of funds.
Before the 9pm deadline, post in this thread with the story of what you did, and why, with some sort of photographic proof. The picture must include a depiction of what you did, the person who benefitted, and the words 'OCUK Goodwill' in the image - not added afterwards, think pen on paper, stones in snow, etc.
I will send the game to the person who I think has done the best deed, and provides the best story/evidence of it. (Obviously this is a subjective thing, but my argument is that I know none of you, and so it will be based purely on merit - and anyway, even if you respond and I don't choose you for the game, you still did something good for somebody so that ought to be enough of a prize!)
Last conditions (and sorry for these), are:
(1) that you have been an OCUK member for 30 days or more, and have 30 posts or more at the time of this thread beginning. Hopefully this will allay any accusations that I may create a bogus account to receive a phony gift!
(2) that there are at least three genuine responses to this thread. If the idea dies on its ass, then the spirit of the thread hasn't worked and I will declare it void!
I realise that this might be viewed as a stupid idea, and that people might make stuff up to get a game - well, there's nothing to be done about that. It will take as much effort to invent a post and a phony photograph as it will to actually do a nice little deed for someone, and so anybody who does such a low-down thing for the sake of a cut-price computer game is a toerag. I'm putting some faith in you all here. Please be real!
As for why - well, I'm sort of hoping people who are off work on Xmas Eve with a bit of spare time will get into the spirit of it, and the £20 will buy a few good turns that I don't have time to go out and do myself. Does that sound bad? Perhaps, but the hell with it.
Go go go!
I can't enter as I didn't take pictures, but just had to share it with OCUK.
And yeah I know this is a charity thing so the prize is fairly irrelevant, but just wondering why its usually a free steam game being offered.