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Sea Of Stars Developers To Release Patch That Removes The Completionist (noisypixel.net)
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[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because A) you have to research the charities as a lot of them give very little (or sometimes don’t, in this case) to the actual cause they are championing, and 2) sometimes people are more likely to donate to a face they know rather than an organization.

iirc Crit1kal used to donate practically all of his YouTube earnings to charity waaaaaay back in the day with pics of the monies being given. No idea if he does it now still, but I’m confident he would show the receipts if it was in question.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I'd rather just donate to the charity in question. Why funnel it through a middle man when I could just donate it straight to the source?

If they're selling other merch and profits go to a charity, I evaluate it as a sale, not as a charity, and only buy if I want the item for that price.

People like to make the argument about the money going to admin costs instead of productive work, but I think that's silly because that admin costs will need to be paid by someone. If I trust a charity to allocate bulk funds properly, I should also trust them to allocate other funds properly as well. Money is fungible, so all that earmarking does is make their accounting work harder.