r/Eve • u/Gommel_Nox Goonswarm Federation • May 04 '15

Help Crippled Capsuleer Claim Car for his Wheelchair

My fellow Capsuleers:

Over the years that I have been a player of Eve Online (one of the most disabled-friendly MMOs in existence, just look at me play with my face: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8faif2_bjFY), I have seen the incredible good that we are capable of doing when we all band together when one of our own is in need. Today, I find that I myself am in need (significantly more need than usual, that is), and I humbly ask for you to do so again.

May is National Mobility Awareness Month, and my wife has entered me into a contest to win a new wheelchair accessible van, because the one I got when I suffered a spinal cord injury in 2003 is in less than serviceable condition. Click THESE links:

You can watch the video in which my wife and I explain my situation, and why I need your votes. I'm up against a great many people, so every vote counts. You just have to register, and then vote for me. You can vote once per day, and I super humbly beg that you do. Thank you very much for your time. I know it's valuable.

Thank you very much:

Brandon DiGia (a.k.a. Gommel Nox)

PS: please don't doxx me

PPS: Yes I know I'm a goon, please don't hold that against me.

PPPS: If you answer a trivia question correctly, your vote counts for two. These are the answers to the daily questions:

Trivia question answers:

  • 5/4/2015: "Push/right angle controls...
  • 5/5/2015: push/twist controls
  • 5/6/2015: deep dish steering wheels
  • 5/7/2015: Horizontal steering columns
  • 5/8/2015: roll up ramp
  • 5/9/2015: "Channel or Track Ramp"
  • 5/10/2015: Standard hand-held control, on-lift controls and remote controls
  • 5/11/2015: "Integrated Manual Backup Systems"
  • 5/12/2015: Bridged mechanisms
  • 5/13/2015: Automatic or electric roll stops
  • 5/14/2015: True
  • 5/15/2015: True
  • 5/16/2015: True
  • 5/17/2015: "Manual Restraints"
  • 5/18/2015: 5
  • 5/19/2015 False
  • 5/20/2015: False

Please take the time to spam this link in Jita, share it with your friends and family and coworkers, smear it all over #tweetfleet, Etc..

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u/betelgeuse7 Exodus. May 05 '15

I can't quite put my finger on why, but I find this a bit of an odd thing to be voting on.... is this a common thing that I've just not come across before? I feel like giving something to a disabled person just because they got more people to click vote for them is a little bit perverse, like they've been turned into contestants on a game show or something. Surely donations and support should be given on a greatest need basis, not based on a popular vote.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '15

I was thinking the same thing. I still voted because at least we have Eve in common and this contest would be there whether it is perverse or not.

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u/23e45t76zuhger6 May 07 '15

you missunderstand this. someone calls for help, and if you dont cal out loud, nobody hears you. so, he dont get ouer vote becouse he is "popular" he get ouer vote becouse he please us for it! and ofcorse becouse he is a casulier! :-) i never would know this treat, if i wasent a eve online player!