BABScon versus Student Debt: Week 2 update. · 8:37pm Feb 27th, 2014
My laptop is glitching out on me.
That could be a problem, when it comes to making the rewards for those of you that pay the appropriate levels. But I do intend to eventually have them and I've actually taken some steps to make things easier on you! Point one: I've reduced my prices. Point two: there's now a daily update on my main user page!
Yaaaaaaay!
Unfortunately, there seems to have been a sudden drop in donations. I'm not asking those of you who already contributed to give me more, but for those of you that don't... I understand. The economy is hard right now, and you might not have gotten the check from your job yet. I know that the cause I'm funding is frivolous and a lot of you won't be able to make it to BABScon to see me. Even ten dollars can set you back, and just to send me to a three-day megaparty? You're reluctant, I get that.
But.... the fact is, this is honestly the first convention of any kind I would ever have attended, much less been invited to. I'm not a very social guy by nature, and my few offline friends are kind of off doing their own thing. In this day and age, people like me get left behind a lot. I got lucky enough to find a place that would accept me and get my feet into some sort of job... after I spent a couple years bouncing from school to school and not being hired by anybody at all. The brony fandom helped to direct me somewhere, and even if I can't make a living off of it I can still respect what it has done for me: connected me to something, something I can actually do. And I want to contribute back to the fandom however I can.
Isn't it the same for a lot of you? You've had a good life, but after the mandatory schooling period you had no idea what to do. Something got your attention eventually, something got you where you were now. Maybe it was the fandom, or maybe... something deeper. Older. I don't know. All I know is that, for those of you with some sort of income, you've got your roots now and you can understand how it feels to still be digging into the dirt. Even speaking about how a fictional race is treated in the fandom... that's something I can put on my resume. That's a way for me to be noticed, for a moment, and maybe find my little patch of land.
Just... please. I'm not asking you to give me your grocery money, or to stop paying your bills, or to dig into your emergency fund. I know there are a lot of you, and I'm only asking for a little bit from each of you. If it's too much, I understand. If it isn't... can you give me this one dream?
If you wait until March 1st, I'll be getting a check.
I dont have the ability to give money, but I do freelance repair computers on the side and may be able to help you with your issue there. do you know what exactly your issue is? Or if it's hardware or software as well? If it is failing to boot or bsod'ing early on, it could be a ram problem and you may need to remove a stick or reseat your ram.(I had to tape mine in on my computer to prevent this) If it's not finding the os or somthing like that, you will need to point the bios towards your installation. or more things like that. if it's the power cord, or you are getting artifacting on the screen (weird lines, shapes, etc.) there may be an actual unfixable hardware failure.
If you think I can help in that way just send me a message or reply to this comment.