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Re: ITT I humbly request $50 USD from DRLFF
Heh. I have no physical possible way to earn money as the only place near my house that I can get a job at for my age has no positions open (as of today; I check every Saturday to bug the ♥♥♥♥ out of them) and I have no real services to offer to anyone, other than basic yardwork for neighbors, none of which are interested. My parents are beyond bankrupt to the point where it's not uncommon for us to go a day or two without food while waiting for their next check, so I can't really ask them, either; they have enough problems without worrying about buying me luxuries like, say, any form of entertainment at all. My computer? Grandma. PS3 and TV? Older brother. The clothes on my back? Mostly secondhand. I don't even have a graphing calculator for school (which I should have had since last year) So yeah, I'm not some spoiled kid who's spent all of his allowance and still wants more, nor am I some lazy ♥♥♥♥ who just wants free things. I understand where you're coming from, though, and I'm sure you weren't trying to make that sound offensive, but I gotta tell you that it hurt a little reading it.
Meanwhile, due to DRLFF thankfully containing lots of incredibly awesome people, there have already been multiple people offering to donate anywhere from $5 to $15ish in some form or another, and someone from that group of awesome people has already offered to just buy the whole thing outright.
Also, if you think people don't get free stuff from the internet in general or that most of the users are unkind and total Scrooges, I've seen or heard of plenty of instances where people have gotten things from complete strangers, sometimes things valued in hundreds of dollars. Philanthropy seems to be pretty common.
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why do you think you deserve a new GPU anyway?
never said I did, man.
That said, this thread was more of a "well may as well try can't possibly lose anything" kind of deal and I wasn't expecting much to come out of it. Turns out some people can be pretty awesome.