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I'll start off my saying that this isn't spam (no, really it's not! ) - I've been a member here for a few years and I'm no spammer as others will testify to.

That's that out of the way, please indulge me further dear reader .........

David Vigil is an American who creates excellent replica merchandise related to Naughty Dog's 'Uncharted' and 'The Last Of Us' PS3 games - sadly he has life-threatening pancreatic cancer (his second cancer attack in 12 months). A number of people have been doing their utmost to try and help David. His story has been covered by Kotaku, Joystiq and Polygon to name three off the top of my head. However, more money is needed - he needs another $20,000 by 21st November; nearly $30,000 has already been donated but the donations are only slowly coming in and at the current rate he won't meet his target.

You can read a lot more in this NeoGAF thread:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=715529

David's donation and information site is here:

http://www.gofundme.com/THEFIGHTBEGINS

Kotaku article:

http://kotaku.com/uncharted-craftsman-s ... 1466235146

Joystiq article:

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/11/17/naugh ... ic-cancer/

Polygon article:

http://www.polygon.com/2013/11/18/51172 ... ith-cancer

David needs the money by 21st November. A number of us are trying to help save his life even though many of us don't know him personally.

Can you help, if not by donating then by simply passing this information around to friends or by posting it on other forums?

Thank you!

$17,000 now needed (someone just donated $1,000 and a day or so ago someobody else donated $7,000), it's getting there slowly ..............

Every time I hear this stories, I ask how fucked up is the american health care system.

Tell me about it, it's totally nuts and causes an incredible amount of suffering. While our NHS is far from perfect, it's better than America's 'system'.

Sorry to 'bump and beg' this again but now with $16,000 needed and only 24 hours to go the deadline is looming large. If you can't/don't want to donate then please Tweet a few online games news sites and ask them to cover the story.

Two sites that really could help if only they published a story are IGN and GiantBomb, Tweet as follows:

Greg Miller at IGN, Twitter: https://twitter.com/GameOverGreggy

and Patrick Klepek at GiantBomb, Twitter: https://twitter.com/patrickklepek

Just refer them to: http://www.gofundme.com/THEFIGHTBEGINS

Again, sorry to ask this but a very few of us are trying really hard to raise the money for David Vigil.

Thank you!

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