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Help an indie developer literally stay alive

by valryon on 4/9/13, 2:09 PM with 13 comments

• by xutopia on 4/9/13, 3:01 PM

  Can someone explain to me why someone needs to raise money to get shrapnel out of their body? I mean isn't there some safety net at all?

  I'm seriously confused here. I'm Canadian and this seems so bizarre to me.

• by valryon on 4/9/13, 2:15 PM

  Notice that, more than a debate about why we should donate to save her or not, I think what's interesting here is that a Kickstarter-like website is used for totally personnal and life-threating purpose for the first time.

  Or at least successfully used like this for the first time, I can't recall any other example.

• by jetti on 4/9/13, 3:05 PM

  In a world of sensationalist headlines, I'm glad that I ended up clicking this. To be honest, I truly thought that this was going to be about getting funding so that a developer could pay rent and eat while they make the next big thing. The world "literally" has been so overused that, to me, it has lost its meaning. Glad I took the time and I really hope she reaches her goal as it would be a shame to have more than enough for the surgery but not enough to meet the goal and then not get funded.

• by Nick_C on 4/10/13, 10:31 AM

  Page has gone or been removed. Here is google's cache:

  http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4oX9yz4...

• by jetti on 4/11/13, 1:48 AM

  Does anybody know what happened with this? I donated to the campaign and just received an email saying that I've been refunded my donation and the page is gone.