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He could also have scheduled a recurrent funds transfer to the charity of his choice. That would have been a lot of karma for the future.
by mpermar 13y ago
He could also have scheduled a recurrent funds transfer to the charity of his choice. That would have been a lot of karma for the future.
- GuiA 13y ago> "But the hardest thing of all, he says, was something else entirely. He hands me his iPhone so that I can scroll through some messages he's saved. One is from a woman chastising him for "distracting the children of the world." Another laments that "13 kids at my school broke their phones because of your game, and they still play it cause it's addicting like crack." Nguyen tells me of e-mails from workers who had lost their jobs, a mother who had stopped talking to her kids. "At first I thought they were just joking," he says, "but I realize they really hurt themselves." Nguyen – who says he botched tests in high school because he was playing too much Counter-Strike – genuinely took them to heart."
- ghost_IV 13y agoNevertheless, this was no solution. It is not that those with low willpower will not find other distractions.
- grecy 13y agoHe said he was overwhelmed with guilt from all the people who's lives were going down the drain because of his game. Simply taking all that money and giving it away doesn't change that. The end does not justify the means.
- mpermar 13y agoThose people's lives will go down with the next game then whether is FarmCrush, or Angryville, or CandyBirds. It does not matter. So... well... better give the money to a good cause imho.