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World of Warcraft: Help Ron Beat Cancer - A WoW Developer in Need
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Aye, insurance in American right now is a joke, it's worthless, and a racket now. In 2000 our insurance paid for everything but $25 dollars for the whole time I was pregnant and through the birth of my son. Fast forward to 2013 insurance, we're giving the insurance companies way too much for little to no coverage.
Will definitely donate to help the guy out, it's Christmas and even if it weren't Christmas, you help those in need whenever you can.
What happens when you log off your characters????.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFQhfhnjYMk
Dark Age of Camelot
I'm as much of a cynic as most who have replied to this thread. At least I'm not quite as much of an asshat as y'all have shown.
Be well, Ron Nakada.
Being a stage 4 cancer survivor myself and experienced all three things listed above I can testify that they do work.
Don't give up hope, Ron.
Learn and understand the medical terms, speak to doctors and survivors to get answers and opinions. Decide course of treatment and fight on!
"A game is fun if it is learnable but not trivial" -- Togelius & Schmidhuber
Stage 2 survivor (9 years and counting) and I agree. Never neglect prayer, chemo and radiation. Fight the good fight!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I feel sorry for him and I also feel like an asshole for thinking this way, but how can they not come up with 25k within the company (donations from company purse and employees)? Especially if he's really in trouble and can't pay the bills, which I would really find disturbing btw, he's probably in the 20% best paid or so? How does the other 80% deal with this?
I work for an IT company and I can't believe for a second someone would start contacting my clients to donate for me.
That said if I really need it, I'm not sure if I'll refuse the help.
But something tells me Blizzard will do some donations and everyone will appreciate Blizzard for doing this and everyone wins.
TBH, it's probably less on Blizzard than it is the Health Insurance company.
The deal is: you take a metric fuckton of my hard earned money each month, and you cover me in case shit happens. Shit's happening, so why aren't you covering me?
These sort of stories make you just wanna hit something.
ding ding ding ding ding
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
God bless you & yours, Ron. I hope to see your name in the credits of many, many more Blizzard games over the years.
Edit: People are really turning this into a 'bash Blizzard' thread? REALLY? A man could die here, people. This isn't the time, nor the place for your little anti-corporate crusade. Also, we don't know if Blizzard is contributing anything at this point. For all we know, they're taking up an office collection or writing a check as we speak.
AN' DERE AIN'T NO SUCH FING AS ENUFF DAKKA, YA GROT! Enuff'z more than ya got an' less than too much an' there ain't no such fing as too much dakka. Say dere is, and me Squiggoff'z eatin' tonight!
We are born of the blood. Made men by the blood. Undone by the blood. Our eyes are yet to open. FEAR THE OLD BLOOD.
#IStandWithVic
This is absolutely correct. Just simply having a positive attitude has worked miracles when it comes to these types of situations. Scientists and Medical researchers can't figure out why, but its well documented. One of my favorite instances was a story from Michael Crichton, back when he was a physician, they had a patient from jamaica who was literally dying, his body was shutting down and they had no freaking clue why. The guy kept telling them that he had a curse put on him by a shaman, and that there was nothing they could do, that he was basically screwed.
So, when things starting getting real bad, they finally just resorted to whatever they could do, so they went out and bought a bunch of headdresses and clothes as close to what they thought a shaman would look like. Basically turned the lights down, brought in a bunch of candles and such, and then danced around the guys hospital bed chanting and such. The guy walked out of there in a few days healthy as a can be.
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The only cancer I see here is World of Warcraft. Okay bad joke.
Yes help him out! I am also sure Blizzard is helping him. I know people who have died from cancer, my good friend Jeff and my dad as well. I wouldn't put that burden on anyone!
So here's to hoping he kicks it in the face!
Originally posted by Arskaaa
"when players learned tacticks in dungeon/raids, its bread".
I have seen many young great minds have new treatments/cures for cancer that within 1 day the article/post/information gets.."missing"
We have been treating cancer the same way for decades, which is radiation and chemo.
Big hospitals just get bigger with more of the same 50 year old treatment.
I once asked a wise old man I trust.."what if they release a cure?) he said " what would it do to the economy" (Health care makes up 1/6 of US economy)
I lost my brother and Grandpa to to Cancer. I myself have a place that must be scanned every 6 months.
We MUST Find/Release a CURE for this disease for all people
I agree with what you say about the use of chemo and radiation being the only real treatment we have. and its really sad because there wont ever be a cure for cancer.
Cancer alone makes over 500 billion dollars a year in " treating people ". think about it if there was a cure thats alot of money missing.
I watched my father die to stage 4 and i got to see first hand how expensive it is. its really a bad joke how much they rape you for treatments that really dont even work.
i heard a saying long ago and it has stuck with me.
" The US is the most expensive place to die "
I know personally what he is going through, my husband is in the last stages of Stage IV Bile Duct Cancer, we have three children (one in college and two in high school), so the financial worries are there when he is gone. But, I am also very fortunate to have loved ones and co-workers who have helped in little ways to get my family through this horrible ordeal. I hope Blizzard does help him out with this, but as my boss said in a beautiful letter this year (she donated to the American Cancer Society in my company's name)
" In the busyness of the season, stop for a moment, take a deep breath, and remember what is truly important."
My God, seriously? Now you people are turning it into some half-witted tirade against the American health care system?
Absolutely disgusting how many of you people are using the story of this man's illness & misfortune for your own ridiculous, baseless claims, agendas, conspiracy theories, and political ideals. Shame on you, and shame on this site for allowing it.
AN' DERE AIN'T NO SUCH FING AS ENUFF DAKKA, YA GROT! Enuff'z more than ya got an' less than too much an' there ain't no such fing as too much dakka. Say dere is, and me Squiggoff'z eatin' tonight!
We are born of the blood. Made men by the blood. Undone by the blood. Our eyes are yet to open. FEAR THE OLD BLOOD.
#IStandWithVic
My thoughts and prayers are with you, I could not imagine what you are going through,
and I do love your quote.
You hang in there
Jesus Christ really feel for the guy, but honestly shouldn't blizzard pay-up for once in awhile, think they got the cash after 7-9 whatever years as being on top of the mmo chart.
I hope it all works out for the guy really do.
sad day
My thoughts and prayers go with you and yours both this holiday season and afterward.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ah, poor bastard.. Stage IV, there is no coming back from that. I wonder if WoW will have an in game memorial for this guy.. considering the LAST thing they will do is pay his medical bills.
Prayers for you and your family.
Hopefully he can make some recovery and that there are some people out there that will lend a hand instead of placing the blame at the feet of others.
Just knowing that this was in some way related to WoW I knew people would make this an opportunity to bash Blizzard and WoW.
Its disgusting that this poor guy is dying of cancer and yet some of you can only think of bashing WoW.
Lay aside your hate for just a moment.
Well said!
And this is why I don't live in the United States.
A country that leaves its citizens to go bankrupt and/or die when getting seriously ill.
How many people do you think, besides this Blizzard developer, are in the exact same situation? Should we all start donation funds for them? Here's a better idea: use tax money to pay for medicare, so we don't have to make thousands of donation funds and hope someone gets enough money to live.
Ah, but then I forgot how many US citizens are so violently opposed to public healthcare.