Give Money to Military Gamers…no really it’s going to be used on them

April 12, 2012 in Annoying Things, Geeking Out

As you may or may not be aware Twyztedmind is my Husband & also happens to be one of the thousands of Gamers in the military who get deployed every year. He’s gone now (no I can’t tell you where. I’d have to call Seal Team 6 in to re-arrange your memories if I did). He runs 2 game nights currently on the USS Enterprise (CVN 65) & has a really good turn out of other geeks who have been banished to reside in her steel walls. The problem we have is being able to get our hands on the products that the guys are asking for because none of the publishers consider us a “Real” store. I went to Las Vegas to confront these game manufactures who still do not consider radioactive steel & rivets to be enough of a store to allow us to carry their products. I think this has to do with the fact that they can only see our website (www.gamerapocalypseinc.com).

So we are trying to raise money to change that so we can get our hands on all the fluffy bunny cards the military wants. In order for these places to consider us a store we would need a store front, actual posted hours, inventory & shelving for all the inventory. We have the inventory part down with the stuff we can buy & we kind of have posted hours (right now it’s when I am awake & willing to deal with all of these silly requests) but the rest of it not so much. My paycheck right now goes to support this program but it’s not enough for us to get a store front. This is where you can help.

http://www.indiegogo.com/Military-gamers?a=337315

Copy that link, paste it into a new tab (or new web page depending on how you roll) & contribute if you are able. Share no matter if you are able or not. We need this thing to go Viral. I expect phone calls from CNN (and ignoring calls from Fox news) by the end of this week because they heard about this campaign.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/kausaustralisandsaturn/ Worthless Emo

    Emo is poor.

    • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/azirel-fallen/ Azirel Fallen

      You can still spread it like herpes!

      • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/kausaustralisandsaturn/ Worthless Emo

        HA! Its already on tumblr.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/kausaustralisandsaturn/ Worthless Emo

    WAIT A SECOND. Thats genius. If I were in the military, which is a shame that so many INTJ’s probably don’t fit into the contemporary military scene, I’d be a super hard core gamer as part of my masterminding masturbating awesomeness of strategic power mongering. Power to the (Cousins of Emos) nerd!

    And have you thought of getting a small or micro business loan? I know there are economic stimulus programs involved in granting these things in Canada right now. I bet there’d be a demand.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/kausaustralisandsaturn/ Worthless Emo

    nerds* not nerd. Emo rereads.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/azirel-fallen/ Azirel Fallen

    We did last year, but with so many of the local stores (the assholes who refuse to truly help us unless they make a profit on it too) having gone out of business that they won’t do it. Plus our personal credit sucks because congress likes to mess with our paychecks now.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/kausaustralisandsaturn/ Worthless Emo

    I implore you to not go through banks unless it is a last resort. I was referring to government funded small buisness support. Here is an example of some programs in Canada here. I am sure your local state-level government has something. Usually employment centres know a lot about small business support as well.

    Good lucks

    • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/azirel-fallen/ Azirel Fallen

      Our Small Business Administration here does that but you wind up with a Bank Loan. I wish we lived in Canada, it would make life so much simpler & I’d have a reason to use French again.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/militantrubberducky/ MilitantRubberDucky

    First off, what type of games and systems is he running? This is purely my own curiosity. If he happens to be on the PS3 network, then all I can say is that I WANT TO PLAY WITH THEM!

    How about Kickstarter? http://Www.kickstarter.com.

    • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/azirel-fallen/ Azirel Fallen

      sadly no Live accounts allowed. Right now he is running Magic the Gathering & D&D but we hope to expand to Pathfinder & Warhammer/war miniatures if we can get the funding in place to convince these asshats that we are in fact “Real”. On an awesome aside we got a mention on Thinkgeek.com’s blog today

    • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/azirel-fallen/ Azirel Fallen

      Also Kickstarter won’t let you do one if you even have the appearance of being for profit. Because Wiards of the Coast & many of the distributors require you to have a store front & have a resell license we are considered for profit.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

    Would anyone be mad if I pretended that this USS Enterprise was the starship? I won’t start doing it unless you’re all cool with it.

    • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/azirel-fallen/ Azirel Fallen

      No. In fact the Game Manufacturer’s convention I went to last month almost killed me with the number of people who thought I was talking about the Starship enterprise.