So Easy, Even a Child Could Play It

Just a quick post to remind anyone who might be reading this blog about Penny Arcade's annual Child's Play charity drive.

The hospitals still have plenty of items on their wish lists---and they're not all expensive. If you can't afford a console or a video game, consider adding a board game or a DVD to your shopping cart next time you're at Amazon.com. Or, think of the non-reusable items that children's hospitals go through on a regular basis: batteries, playdough, coloring books, etc. Or, you can buy this stylish Child's Play T-Shirt at ThinkGeek.com to support the cause and advertise it, which we know today as multitasking.

Gamers get such a bad reputation for being self-absorbed, immature, violent, apathetic, alien-killing people. Except for the alien killing, these stereotypes are (often) not true---and this is the way to prove it. For any non-gamers reading this---if you've ever accused anyone of using video games to escape from reality, please consider that no one needs to escape from reality more than critically sick kids.