{"id":32730,"date":"2014-09-11T09:34:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T16:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=32730"},"modified":"2014-09-11T09:34:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T16:34:39","slug":"defeat-cancer-help-will-pharrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2014\/09\/11\/defeat-cancer-help-will-pharrell\/","title":{"rendered":"Defeat cancer with the help of &#8220;Will Pharrell&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Will Ferrell Plays Video Games For Charity\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Lw-2ZGvyLw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Will Ferrell, star of the Anchorman movies, 2005&#8217;s Bewitched, and former cast member of Saturday Night Live, wants to play games to raise money for charity. In the video, Ferrell, speaking as &#8220;Will Pharrell&#8221; brags about his gamer credentials and claims to have played Asteroids for more than 30 hours without even taking a bathroom break. Beyond the typical gamer cliches of having pizza boxes and Chinese food takeout containers strewn about, the video is for a good cause. The link to www.willferrellhatescancer.org leads to a real <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/will-ferrell-s-supermegablastmax-gamer-challenge\">Indiegogo site<\/a>. Ferrell wants to raise $375,000.00 for cancer charities. One lucky person will be picked to play with Ferrell in San Francisco during a Twitch stream. The minimum $10 pledge gives each donor an entry, and various pledge tiers give physical rewards and varying amounts of entries in the drawing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ll admit &#8211; I&#8217;m recently educated about the close ties between video games and charity\/cancer. I&#8217;m awestruck by it all, and you inspired me. So that&#8217;s one of the reasons why I&#8217;m hosting this challenge&#8230;.I want more people need to know how video games can help and how benevolent the gaming community is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The campaign ends on October 12th, and the live event will be streamed on October 26th on Twitch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Ferrell, star of the Anchorman movies, 2005&#8217;s Bewitched, and former cast member of Saturday Night Live, wants to play games to raise money for charity. 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