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[InnerSphereNews]

(There will be many thank you's here, so prepare yourselves!) We here at PGI want to give a huge congratulations to 'xImpalerx', over at NGNGTV, for his successful 24 hour MechWarrior Online Marathon! The MWO community absolutely shattered his original goal of 2500 dollars in donations to the Autism Science Foundation, currently sitting at 8,052! We got a huge amount of retweets and wanted to thank all of you, specifically:

• Tybee Diskin, lead actress of Fallout: Nuka Break (currently in it's second season!)
• Abbie Heppe, Community Manager for Respawn Entertainment, creators of Titanfall.
• Carolyn Petit, Journalist for GameSpot.
• David Jaffe, creator of Twisted Metal and God of War, as well as founder of Eat.Sleep.Play.
• Cliff Bleszinksi, of Unreal and Gears of War fame.
• Marcel Hatam, Online Marketer for Crytek.
• John Cheese, columnist for Cracked magazine.
• Brian Fargo, of inXile Entertainment and creator of publisher Interplay, who were behind such games as Wasteland, Earthworm Jim, Descent, Fallout, Baldurs Gate, and Planescape Torment.

We are extremely proud to be a part of this amazing community, and want to thank all of you who donated. Big or small, your contribution mattered! Thank you for all the retweets, donations, games played, everything. Thanks to the crew at NGNG TV for helping run this, and anyone else we missed! You can still donate, so please go do so! Again though a huge kudos and congratulations to Impaler, and a massive thank you to all of you out there in the MWO community. We'll see you on the battlefield! Cheers, The MechWarrior Online Team

[Garth Erlam]

You guys were awesome, I am so proud to be a part of this community. Fight on, MechWarriors! o7

And thanks to Jordan Weisman for joining us at the start! Way to kick it off!

(And please, if you haven't already, donate while you can )

[Belorion]

Sweet

Edited by Belorion, 03 July 2013 - 04:01 PM.

[Ozric]

Such good work. Amazing job guys.

[Dex Zytesin]

Amazing stream, Impy did an awesome job!

NGNG guys thanks for all the work you did to get this setup!

Once again blown away by you guys at PGI, you all donated individually and one massive one at the end on behalf of the company. Thanks for hanging out with us and supporting things like this. You guys rock!

And the community, one of the best around for sure!

[Dagger6T6]

I am blown away by the generosity of the MWO Community... all of you continue to display why the Mechwarrior community is such a fantastic and passionate group.

A big thanks to Jordan Weisman, who took time out of his busy schedule of putting the finishing touches on a new Shadowrun game to chat with us for an hour and kick off the 24hr live stream.

Also a big thanks to George Ledoux (voice of Duncan Fisher) who stopped in more than once to chat with us about the origins of the Duncan Fisher voice and give us insight into the world of professional voiceover acting.

Thanks to all of the behind the scenes people at NGNG that helped Impaler pull this off. Thanks to PGI and all of the developers that stopped by to keep us company during the 24 hours. Thanks to all that donated to the cause!

And finally thanks to Impaler who got this idea organized and spent many more hours than just the 24 we all shared with him live on twitch to make this event happen.

Edited by Dagger6T6, 03 July 2013 - 04:28 PM.

[Grimmnyr]

Nice work, saw 'Impaler' in at least one game last night!

Edited by Ed Steele, 03 July 2013 - 04:41 PM.

[Rigger]

This on a personal level I thank every one that has donated to this cause, and to those that put the drive on. My best friend that I consider a brother has not only 1, but 4 sons with Autism. Its good to see and hear that someone is out trying to help, its even better when its part of a community that I play with that is doing it.

Thank you!

Rigger

[Butane9000]

Garth Erlam, on 03 July 2013 - 03:35 PM, said:

You guys were awesome, I am so proud to be a part of this community. Fight on, MechWarriors! o7

And thanks to Jordan Weisman for joining us at the start! Way to kick it off!

(And please, if you haven't already, donate while you can )

So that's what you were shouting at me when you told me to donate. I thought that was odd.

[Monsoon]

Well done! I'm sorry I couldn't make it out to this. Glad to see that Brian Fargo's name on that list, but don't forget to list his current credit.

Wasteland 2: http://wasteland.inx...ertainment.com/

[Thorqemada]

Sorry Guys...

No Paypal = no donation!

[Mr Butterworth]

Was a wonderful event, a lot of fun, and for a great cause. MWO number 1 gaming community in the world!!!!

We shouldn't forget DrummerGirl either who I'm sure had a bit of behind the scenes work as well as all she did as Impy's assistant.

Edited by Mr Butterworth, 03 July 2013 - 07:23 PM.

[3Xtr3m3]

WTG IMPALER You did it you made it through all 24 hours, Now hit the sack you working this weekend. lol.
A little heads up BEFORE he finished would have been cool though.

[Kellsey]

It whas an amazing stream, glad they raised so much money

[McValium]

Absolutly amazing Community, Thanks to Impy, the NGNG and the Guests for the great work.

[Kiiyor]

This is fantastic - well done to all involved!

It's this sort of thing that reaffirms my faith in humanity. I'll head to work later to bring myself crashing back to earth, but for now, I shall ride the natural high that i get seeing people do good things.

[Strongpaw]

Great job Impaler I salute your endurance!
I also salute everyone who contributed! You guys are awesome!!!!

[XamNiner]

Nice job Impaler! Thanks to everybody involved.

[Razuko]

An Impaler hero mech atlas needs to happen.

[xImpalerx]

Now that I've had a few days to recover I'd like to say thank you to those who came to watch, who donated, tweeted (including some high profile people), people that joined me in call, my special guests Jordan and George, my co-host DrummerGirl, PGI, IGP, NGNG, I could keep going but I doubt the MWO forum servers could handle it all.
It blew everyone (myself included) away!

If you missed parts of the show there are currently 6 highlights up of some of my favorite moments (I only made 4 of them... the shaving was not my idea!!!! you sick sick people!!) in the video section of twitch.tv/ngngtv
(http://www.twitch.tv/ngngtv/videos)

Thank you all so very much and maybe we'll do it again sometime