{"id":30,"date":"2011-03-17T11:14:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T15:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/giantpachinkomachineofdoom.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2011-03-17T12:30:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T16:30:33","slug":"buy-this-rpg-help-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/giantpachinkomachineofdoom.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Buy this RPG, Help Japan!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know most of us have enough financial problems as it is without thinking about donating towards Japan earthquake relief, but someone sent me a\u00c2\u00a0link to this<\/a> yesterday. \u00c2\u00a0You can buy something that might give you a few laughs, and still help Japan!<\/p>\n

You can buy the PDF version of the book for $7 and they’ll donate the profits AND another $5 to the Red Cross for disaster relief. \u00c2\u00a0(According to the post, it’s basically $12 minus transaction fees.)<\/em> Sounds like a good deal. \u00c2\u00a0I only wish there was more I could do to help Japan, but the way things are going I’ll<\/em> be in need of donations soon enough!<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong>
\nI’m looking through the book I just bought, and I’ll tell you, it’s put a big ol’ grin on my face already. \u00c2\u00a0Makes me want to buy an additional print copy, but I don’t have the $$$ right now.<\/p>\n

I also make a point of supporting people like this every chance I get, this is from the first page of the PDF book:<\/p>\n

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A Word On PDF Piracy<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you downloaded a pirated version of this product from the internet…<\/p>\n

Well, give the game a try! Don’t just let this shit rot on your hard drive, it only takes like 5 minutes to put a scenario together: So go print out the needed parts, bring some friends together and throw down a session or two. We only hope that if you liked it, and got some fun play out of it, that you guys throw us some money for a genuine print or PDF version of the game (www.maidrpg.com). It helps Ewen for all the murderously hard work he did on the translation (while simultaneously going for a grad degree and holding down a job, no less!), and encourages us to bring more nifty Japanese RPGs over into English.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I like that kind of honesty. \u00c2\u00a0Also, the PDF is completely without security, so I can do anything I need to with its contents. \u00c2\u00a0That’s always refreshing, too. \u00c2\u00a0I once needed to copy, enlarge, and print the pin-out diagram for a microcontroller, only to find out that the PDF datasheet was secured, and I had to find a PDF cracker, only it didn’t work for some reason, so I ended up re-doing the whole diagram in Illustrator and losing an afternoon on what I was doing.<\/em><\/p>\n

Even if I never play this game, and I think I know some people who’d probably play it with me, it was more than worth it to contribute to Japan’s earthquake relief AND put a smile on my face. \u00c2\u00a0Mission accomplished, guys. :]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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