I would be a thoroughly bad person if I didn’t mention a post that went up on the blog of the charity we are helping to raise funds for next week. I would be the worst guy ever, I think; a total jerkface, really. So here we are, talking about that blog post you should totally read.

Which brings me to the crux of this post: THIS LINK! Clicking that guy will take to straight to the Preemptive Love Coalition blog and you will be able to read the post. You will hopefully then click around even more to better inform yourself of the situation(s) that the PLC is doing their best to help aid. If you did, you would be super cool and someone will probably randomly give you a high-five on the street tomorrow. It happened to me, is all I am saying.

We at Hardmode.org are very pleased to announce our fourth event: Diagnosis: Video Games! Working with Operation Healing Hearts to raise funds for the Preemptive Love Coalition to aid children in Iraq with congenital heart disease, we hope to help OHH knock out their $30,000 fundraising goal, and with your help we can do just that!

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As you may or may not know, last month we had an event for the YWCA of Oklahoma City; this information has just been splashed up on the home page for two months, so you really have no excuse. This month, because the YWCA is cool, Hardmode.org and the event were featured in their newsletter!

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And so here we are, the rest of the awesome pictures! This time, though, they are classy. If you so desire to see them, click on through to the other side.

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As with all good organizations, reflecting upon past occurrences with the objective to get better is not a bad idea. Some places do it poorly, creating forms with imprecise vernacular that change every year making it difficult to judge what they did or did not do well in the past assessment period (not that I have ever experienced that *shifty eyes*). Others, like us, just ask a couple of questions and see what people say.

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In past events, we tacitly decided to not take pictures, not because we think pictures are stupid, but because we all simply just forgot to take any. Our B. This time, however, we had some sweet camera action going on here and there, and I can prove it because here are some pictures!
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So we finally are finished (and finally have sort of woken up), so let’s talk about the success we had with all of your help!

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Rounding out our third event will be one of the greatest games ever created. There really isn’t any legroom to deny this fact, and trust me, it is a fact. The game in question, of course, is Valve’s 2007 super-duper amazing game Portal.

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