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[aflamethatneverdies]

Masterlist of fundraisers that I have received requests to share

ahmed abou omar - vetted by @/apollos-olives: gofundme link - €358 raised of €30,000 goal.

(family of 5, they have been displaced from their home several times, they lost their source of income and are struggling to meet basic needs. They need more generous donations sent their way.)

hadeel mikki also @hadeelfamily - vetted by @/90-ghost and @/northgazaupdates: gofundme link - €9,183 raised of €35,000 goal

(Hadeel and her husband need to evacuate themselves and their two young daughters after losing multiple members of their family including their uncle's entire family to the genocide)

anqer - vetted by @/90-ghost: gofundme link - €12,230 raised of €20,000 goal

(22 year old student, needs to evacuate himself, his mother and sister from Gaza when Rafah crossing opens and needs funds for continuing his education)

Munna Tashmali verified by @/nabulsi: gofundme link £6,150 raised of £30,000 goal

(Munna has 3 children.Their family has been forced to evacuate and they've been living in a small tent for the last 10 months of this ongoing genocide. They've faced countless dangers, from the threat of Israeli artillery to the famine and shortage of clean water.)

bilal abed rabou verified by @/90-ghost: gofundme link €3,738 raised of €80,000 goal (bilal is a student and software developer who needs funds to evacuate himself and his family and continue his education.)

mahmoud baloosha verified by @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi on their spreadsheet, #124, also by @/apollos-olive: gofundme link

They have only managed to raise €17,564 of €52,000 goal. They have a newborn son, and need help evacuating their family as well as Mahmoud's father, mother and sister.)

aya alanqar verified by @/90-ghost: gofundme link €4,590 raised of €15,000 goal.

(Aya, her husband and three kids need funds for evacuation once the Rafah border opens. Their home has been completely destroyed and they've had to move thirteen times for safety and have been displaced for the 14th time already. They want to evacuate themselves and their children and start their lives again.)

musab - not yet vetted but highly likely to be legitimate and reblogged by @/northgazaupdates: gofundme link - only £198 raised of £8,000 goal.

(Musab is a student of medical equipment and technology at Al Azhar University, he wants to raise enough funds for shelter and food for his family and to continue his education.)

Sahar El Tibi verified by @/el-shab-hussein: gofundme link - €18,771 raised of €30,000 goal

(They are a family of three, Sahar, her husband and her daughter and they need to evacuate, they've lost their jobs and homes and need a safer place to move to. Please help them reach their goal.)

Shyma and her family - vetted fundraiser, #141 on spreadsheet: gofundme link - $8,847 USD raised of $50,000 goal

(Shyma's daughter Amal needs surgery on her feet as soon as possible. Her husband Diaa is in Egypt trying to find a way to get Amal the surgery. They need funds to evacuate their family consisting of their four children, reunite with Shyma's husband and also get surgery for baby Amal).

Eman Salem verified by @/90-ghost: gofundme link

(Eman is organizing this campaign for her father, her husband and herself, and her four children. They've been displaced multiple times, and are living in horribly unsafe conditions. Her kids are malnourished, sleep-deprived, and terrified of future bombings. They have only managed to raise €2,426 raised of €33,000 goal)

Please reblog, boost and donate, even a small amount will help these families. It is our responsibility to help them in whatever way we can, they're already surviving through unimaginable circumstances for ten months now.

Tagging for reach

@mazzikah @pilferingapples @lemeute @sainteverge please if you can help boost this. thank you!

[popsicle-stick]

Vetted Gaza fundraisers that have reached out:

Youssef al-Habeel is raising money to evacuate his young child from Gaza

Ahmed and Dina Alanqar are very very close to reaching their goal to evacuate their family!

Mohammed is evacuating his family, still near the beginning of their campaign

Photographer Safaa and photojournalist Mohammad are evactuating her family

Software developer Bilal Abed Rabou is still near the start of his campaign to evacuate, and is offering a kickstarter-style tiered reward system if you have the funds!

[omgellendean]

List of Palestinian fundraisers I was asked to share

Help Fidaa and her children

I am Fidaa from Gaza. I am 29 years old. I stand before you as a person trying to preserve his family. I am married and a mother of two children, Sila, who is two years old, and a child named Muhammad Amr, 2 months old. I gave birth to him during the war and in very harsh conditions that no human being can bear. I moved from the hospital directly to the tent, and I cannot describe the extent of the suffering and difficulty of living in the tent

Wafaa and her family

Hello, I am Wafa from Gaza I would like to take just two minutes of your time to share my story with you I am Wafa, I am 29 years old. I live under the bombardment and constant aggression against Gaza Here we struggle with a life of constant death and loss I lost a large part of my family. We also lost our house in which we used to live We were displaced more than 10 times from one place to another, searching for safety In fact, there is no safe place

Help Musab and his family

Hello, my name is Musab. I am 22 years old and was studying medical equipment engineering at Al-Azhar University in Gaza. I had simple dreams, hoping my life would continue as I wished. I worked hard, hoping to build a future for myself and my family. But everything changed suddenly due to the war that devastated my life and my family, Even my pets.

Help Ahmed to get essential needs

I write to you with a heavy heart burdened by concerns and hardships, seeking your assistance with an important matter regarding ahmed family in Gaza., they desperately need assistance. Please help ahmed evacuate his family, his wife and 3 children out of Gaza to Egypt so they can have a chance at living in peace, free from fear and oppression. Egypt is asking for 5000$ for each person to allow them to enter the country. We plan to use the initial funds to get them out and the remaining to help with their relocation including visas, travel fees, housing, food, etc. Once they are in Egypt and in safety, we will plan to help them with relocation.

Help Bilal

 I am Bilal Abed Rabou, and I stand before you as a survivor of five wars, an academic student at Al-Azhar University and a software developer from the besieged Gaza Strip. I witnessed the devastating effects of these conditions firsthand.

Help the Munna Tashmali Family Rebuild Their Home and Future

The Munna Tashmali family has faced unimaginable hardship and loss. Their home in Gaza has been destroyed three times by the wars on Gaza in 2014, 2021, and now again in 2024. Each time they have painstakingly rebuilt their lives and their home, but this time, they have lost not only their home but also any source of income. The compensation for their 2021 home destruction is still pending, and now they face the devastating reality of losing their home once more.

Help Heba and his family to survive their life

Hello, I am Heba Al-Anqar, 21 years old, a university student. My university was suspended due to the war. I am writing about my family: my father Bakr (54 years old), my mother Alaa (46 years old), and my sisters Aya (18 years old), Amal (15 years old), Muhammad (13 years old), and Maryam (8 years old). We have faced many challenges in this war, from the destruction of our home to the famine we continue to suffer in northern Gaza.

A Brighter Future for Aya and Her Familyv

I am Aya living in North Gaza with my three children, and we are facing starvation in the northern region. We have moved more than 13 times trying to find a safe place, but there is no safety anywhere. I am asking for your help to protect my children and get us out of this imminent danger

Support Ashraf's Family Rebuild Their Lives

My name is Ashraf Alanqar, and I am 30 years old. My wife, Widad Issa, and I have a one-and-a-half-year-old son named Bakr. We used to live peacefully in the Al-Shuja’iya neighborhood, in a house we built just a week before the war began. I worked as a farmer and owned a large chicken farm that provided for my family. We urgently need your help. I am asking for your support to fund this campaign to move my family to a safe place, provide us with a proper home, and ensure we have enough food, water, and medical care.

Help Nadaa and her elderly parents to get out of the war

My name is Nadaa, and I live in Gaza with my mother and father. We're facing difficult days in the war; our house was bombed, and we had to flee to the south. My father, an elderly man, can't handle displacement. My parents are elderly and need special care and daily medications that I cannot provide due to the current situation. I am doing everything I can to take care of them, but the situation is worsening day by day.

[thelifeinmyshadesofgrey]

Here's another list of fundraisers that have been shared with me over the last week. I tried to include a little info about each fundraiser, so you can roughly understand their situation. They are all legit and have been vetted, so please consider donating if you're able or help reblog this post 🙏

Bilal Abed Rabou and family, as shared to me by his friend @kareemyounes10 (vetted by @90-ghost)

Bilal was a student at Al-Azhar University and a software developer. He is now looking to evacuate his family out of Gaza and leave for Egypt, so he can then search for a country to continue his education.

As of 7th August they have raised €5,213/€80,000

Mahmoud Ayyad and family @mahmoudayyad (vetted by @90-ghost)

Mahmoud comes from an extended family of 43, most of whom are young children and women. Their fundraiser is very low on donations at the time I'm writing this, with only 49 donations so far.

As of 7th August, they have raised €535/€100,000

Yousef Hussein and family @adham-89 (vetted by @90-ghost)

Yousef is currently residing in America, but is seeking funds to get his niece, nephew and the rest of his remaining family out of Gaza. His sister and her family of 8 were sadly killed in the war, leaving her twins Kareem and Carmen orphaned and displaced with their grandparents and aunts.

As of 7th August, they have raised $10,549/$50,000

Salem Alanqar and family @salem-baker (vetted by @90-ghost)

Salem is 26 years old and supporting his family, consisting of his wife, Hadeel and two children, Laila and Bakr. They have had to move more than 10 times throughout the war in order to find safety.

As of 7th August, they have raised €3,524/€38,000 goal

Palestine and family @falestine-yousef (vetted by @90-ghost)

Palestine, 36 years old, gave birth to her now 3 month old son, Youssef, in harsh conditions during the war. She cannot provide enough milk or diapers for her baby. On top of that, her parents are in urgent need of medical treatment.

As of 7th August, they have raised $7,530/$40,000

[iwillbringyouruin]

Palestinian fundraisers

Here is a collection of the fundraisers of people that have reached out to me recently! Reblogs and shares and donations are appreciated

Ghazi Younis (@ghaziyounes1967) is collecting funds to get his relatives out of Gaza: post donation link (vetted by @90-ghost)

Abdel Muti Al-Habil (@abdelmutei) is collecting funds to get essentials for his family and children post donation link (vetted by @90-ghost)

Salem Alanqar (@salem-baker) is collecting funds to get himself, his wife and his two little children out of Gaza post donation link (vetted by @90-ghost)

Munna Tashmali (@monashamali) is collecting funds for her children post donation link (verified by @nabulsi)

Mohammag Taysir (@yazanfamiily, formerly @yazanfamily) is collecting funds to get himself, his wife and two young children out of Gaza post donation link (supported by @communistchilchuck, @northgazaupdates @mohammedalanqer)

Bilal Abed Rabou (@bilalassadabedrou, formerly @bilalassadabedrabou) is collecting funds to complete his education as a software developer in Gaza post donation link (vetted by @90-ghost)

Abed Alrhahman Alanqer (@anqer) is collecting funds to leave Gaza with his mother and sister to safety and to complete his education post donation link (supported by @90-ghost)

Musab (@musababd) is collecting funds to rebuild his life with his family and pets and finish his education post donation link (not verified yet but supported by @northgazaupdates)

[wheatnoodle]

Hello 😊👋

I pray you are in the best condition. I am sending you this message and I am hopeful 

Can you reblog this post to help save me and my family?  I'm new to Tumblr and GoFundMe, and we desperately need your support 🙏❤️.

I wish you a beautiful life 😍🥰

Bilal Abed Rabou is a resilient individual. They are an academic student at Al-Azhar University and are a software developer from the Gaza Strip. They are are also a survivor of five wars and are currently dealing with the ongoing conflict in Gaza. Their family was living in warmth, love, and peace and are now struggling with poverty and accessing basic necessities to live.

Bilal says, “Even six months ago, everything changed. Our once home turned into a mess and everything we cherished. Since then, we have been lost, clinging to a world of uncertainty and despair. We left our badly damaged home with only a few things. Since then, our lives have been threatened with every passing minute.”

Their family needs our help. I have attached the link to their gofundme below.

[maddzroks]

VETTED GAZA FUNDRAISERS ! ! !

HELLO ALL! i've been getting many asks from families in Gaza asking for help, these are all vetted, please donate if you can. Those highlighted in red are very low on donations. Amina Yasser: She and her husband, Khalil Arhim, have three children. She dreams of providing them with a healthy and safe environment that helps them grow and learn away from the hardships of Gaza. €522/€50,000 @ameenafamily Bilal Abed Rabou: An academic student at Al-Azhar University and a software developer from the besieged Gaza Strip. €9,051/€80,000 @bilalassadabedrou Haya: From a family of 8 people, she is trying to rescue all of them through the Rafah Crossing to Egypt. €89,693/€100,000 @hayanahed Mahmoud Ayyad: Hoping to leave Gaza with his family. €6,136/€55,000 @mahmoudayyad Salem Alanqar: A 26 year old married to 25 year old Hadeel. They have two beautiful children: Laila (5 years old) and Bakr (five months old). They are desperate to flee Gaza. €6,787/€38,000 @salem-baker Amal Musa: Family of five is hoping to escape the war €1,316/€53,000 @helpamalm Shaima Alserr: She and her husband Ibrahim Al-Sir are trying to escape Gaza and rebuild their life together. €2,851/€50,000 @shaimaasblog Osama Al Angar: He and his wife Rana Raed Al-Anqar have a baby girl, she is suffering from extreme fear and panic, and suffers from lack of food and skin diseases due to the lack of water and cleanliness. The family is fundraising for basic necessities and health care. £3,826/£50,000 @osama-family Safaa Al Khatib: Her husband, Muhammad Al-Thalateeni, is a journalist who has been badly injured in the head. They have two young girls, Wateen (7) and Naya (4). They are fundraising for basic necessities. €24,997/€35,000 @safaakhatib Ola: She and her mother, father, three sisters, and little brother are fundraising for basic needs to continue surviving the war. $51,475/$85,000 @olagaza Asma Al Majed: A 19 year old stuck in Gaza with her family. She is trying to raise enough money to evacuate all of her family members. $10,214/$50,000 @asmaamajed2 Ayaa Mahmoud: A 24 year old teacher, he is fundraising to evacuate himself, his father, mother, four sisters and four brothers from the war. $7,336/$35,000 @ahmad-gaza Hazem Shawish: He is trying to save his family of 8. He has already lost his father, and his brother suffers from bipolar and is unable to access to essential medications. €9,805/€50,000 @hazemsuhail Mohammed Alwadiya: He, his wife and their young daughter are also caring for his martyred sister's daughter. "I’m writing this as a last resort to help my family and end our suffering" $7,114/$35,000 @schihiro44 Ola Ferwana: She and her three kids, Yamen, Qusai and Mira, need help to cross the border to Eygpt, where her husband is. They have already been hospitalized once and need funds for medicine as well as basic necessities. €7,942/€35,000 @abedallhferwanagaza

[courtana]

Hello😊👋,

I hope you and your family and friends are in the best of health. I am a friend of Bilal, who is currently in Gaza under bombardment along with his family. I urge you to help by sharing his page or donating through the GoFundMe account. You can find his 💔💔💔🙏🙏🤝🤲page on my profile.

Thanks for your message! Yes, I'll share your friend Bilal's campaign here once more on your behalf.

Bilal's campaign was vetted by 90-ghost.

It has €2,997 raised of its €80,000 goal.

Bilal Abed Rabou is a student from Al-Azhar University and a software developer from Gaza. His family’s home has been destroyed by the recent war and they have been robbed of their most basic rights, education, security, and peace. He plans with his family leave to evacuate to Egypt and then search for a country to continue his education. Donations will cover evacuation fees, transportation to the Rafah crossing, and other necessary expenses.

Please share and donate to Bilal's GoFundMe link:

[aflamethatneverdies]

3 verified Palestinian fundraiser that are low on funds

Aya and her family - verified by @/90-ghost

Aya @ayaanqarsblog is trying to evacuate herself, her husband and her three children from Gaza after losing their home. The fundraiser is currently at €688 raised of €35,000 goal. This could use more donations and boosting as the amount raised is very low so far.

Bilal Abed Rabou - verified by @/90-ghost

@bilalassadabedrabou is a student and software developer from Gaza who wants to evacuate himself and his family from Gaza and continue his studies. This fundraiser has only managed to raise €150 of the €80,000 goal.

Walaa and her family - verified by @/90-ghost

Walaa suffers from Type 1 diabetes and needs access to insulin which is not available in Gaza due to which she has experienced multiple hospitalisations. Walaa and her three siblings are in living in tents while their parents send them funds from Egypt. The fundraiser will reunite the family and provide much needed care for Walaa. So far the fundraiser has only managed to raise $4,177 CAD of their $50,000 CAD goal. @ahmed79ss

Please don't hesistate to share, donate, and follow their blogs for updates.

[michimonie]

Please donate if you can!

First list || Second list More people in need from my askbox in a clear and easily readable list.

Sami - UNVETTED (but seems legit) A father of two wonderful and injured daughters. They've been displaced multiple times, each new area being bombed again and again. All he wants is to get him and his daughters to safety, and get them the medical attention they need.

€525 / €35,000

Mahmoud Jehad - VETTED He was a student studying Information Technology at Gaza University before the war. Now his family is in a dire situation with both his father and brother needing medical treatment. He needs to get him and his family to safety and hopefully finish his degree.

$2,286 / $25,000

Salahaldin Ahmad Khalil Hor - VETTED He's a 38 year old father of three wonderful daughters Maria, Farah, Maryam. Him, his wife Sundus, and their daughters have suffered through displacement, famine, and injuries from bomb shrapnel. They want nothing more than to escape to a safe place to start anew.

€6,108 / €40,000

Bilal Abed Rabou - VETTED He's a student at Al-Azhar university and a Software Developer. Through at least five wars, he has maintained his spirit, hoping to help his family escape to Egypt where they can get basic necessities and he can finish his degree. He also gives rewards for donations.

€8,637 / €80,000

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Please donate if you can!

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[e-adlirez]

I hope this message reaches you in better times. My family is going through an extremely tough crisis, seeking support on Tumblr and GoFundMe to gather the funds we desperately need 🙏❤️. Your reblogging of this post could make a huge difference in our struggling lives. As newcomers to this platform, every contribution means more than we can express in words. I wish you a life filled with beauty, and may you find happiness wherever you are.💔💔🙏🙏💌

Sure ^^

Bilal Abed Rabou is a student in Al-Azhar University and a software developer in G*z*. He and his family are caught in the middle of the ongoing siege and are struggling through poverty and the lack of basic necessities (food, water, shelter). Now they have no reason to stay, and they want to leave for Egypt and hopefully find another country where Bilal can continue his education.

Their fundraiser will cover their evacuation fees, their transportation to R*f*h Crossing, and other necessary expenses such as Bilal's tuition fee. Please help them and donate if you can.

[e3khatena]

so whats the deal with overkills the walking dead?

I'm glad you asked! (approx. 2,300 words)

So our story starts during Payday 2's first anniversary, the Fall of 2014. Players had to attain certain community goals to get new things to play with during their first annual Crimefest event, and the last two prizes were secret. They wound up being John Wick as a playable character, and the trailer for a new game Overkill was working on, based in the world of The Walking Dead comics. The premise was simple: it was set in the same part of the world as Payday 2, Washington DC, and would involve players trying to keep themselves and their camp alive during the zombie apocalypse made popular in Robert Kirkman's graphic novels and the AMC TV show. Given the fact that Payday 2 had proven to be a tremendous cultural hit around this time, getting the likes of Giancarlo Esposito and making cameos in the Wick movies at the height of their popularity, and given how at the moment it is very possible to argue that Payday 2 might have sold more copies than Super Mario Brothers 3, it would seem that OTWD was in good hands.

The problem, though, was their CEO. Bo Andersson used pressure he conjured up in Varvtre AB, a holdings company he was on the board of directors for, to become the CEO of Starbreeze when they acquired Overkill Software, the makers of Payday: The Heist and Payday 2. This also moved Bo from a role within the games industry alongside his brother to being his brother's superior and putting him in a firmly business role. This was good for Bo, because it would allow him to scrape capital from Overkill on their pursuit into superstardom to fund his own dream project: Storm.

Storm was a concept that Bo had been working on since 2008, the idea of bringing virtual reality back from being a curious novelty we played with in the 1990s into a mainstream competitive eSport. Players would wear tactical vests with computers built into them and a 5K resolution HMD that Acer would develop with the aid of Starbreeze in a massive bespoke arena, and using a combination of LIDAR scanning, realtime texture mapping, and the Valhalla game engine Starbreeze paid $8 million for, their physical arena would turn into a sci-fi deathmatch where players would cooperate to eliminate the enemy team and seek victory.

Bo Andersson was paying tens of millions of dollars to invent Laser Tag.

But how does this tie into The Walking Dead? Well, as a proof of concept, the work that Overkill had done in their in-house game engine, Diesel 2.0, would be ported into Valhalla to bring Overkill's The Walking Dead to life. Overkill's employees had long complained that Diesel could not compete visually, and even incorporating proper normal maps and bumping up the texture quality could not shake the appearance of a Source Engine or early Unreal 3 title. Despite releasing in 2013 and with the game now moving into 2016, onto the 8th generation of consoles, Payday 2 was not a looker and Overkill's The Walking Dead faced the same fate.

The problem, though, is that Bo Andersson bought the Valhalla Engine, which was being designed for VR first and foremost, much too early. The engine was literally incomplete, and the programmers had to write tools for the engine before they could write any code for the game itself. After nearly a year of work, they did bring Valhalla into a usable state, and used its VR prowess to power Payday 2's VR version. Bo also proposed a VR demo of Overkill's The Walking Dead to be hosted in Dubai, at VR Park (now titled PlayDXB), to demonstrate the game, the headset, and the VR technology to Middle Eastern investors who could free Bo from the shackles of Scandinavian game development and make him the worldwide name in VR. This delayed their actual non-VR Walking Dead game, which had serious funding from Skybound Entertainment and Robert Kirkman, past its intended 2016 street date. The game was nowhere near finished as Overkill staff were pulled back and forth to so many different projects within the studio. They received an extension to their deadline, Fall 2017, and work continued on the Valhalla Engine and the VR demo.

Fast forward another year. Starbreeze puts out Raid: World War II, a Diesel 2.0 title in which four players steal from the Nazis in almost exactly same manner as in Payday 2, starring John Cleese as the handler for the crew, and some trailers commissioned for their Walking Dead game using virtually zero actual in-game assets, and Skybound makes them an ultimatum: if the game is not out by November 2018, then they lose the rights to the license. They have wasted the rights holder's time and money for too long, and the project is dragging its heels with a CEO seeing it as a low priority to get their contractually-obligated co-op FPS for PCs and consoles out versus his ambitions of filling an entire space in Dubai with his name, his brand. Overkill developers, who had been clamoring for years to use an actual engine that makes sense for FPSes, finally get their wish, and Bo Andersson invests in commercial licenses for Unreal Engine 4. The problem now, though, is that the staff have a year to make the game in Unreal, with the caveat that they have zero experience in the engine. If they had made this move two years ago, they'd have the time to commit to learning the ins and outs, but they don't.

Overkill goes into crunch, with staff sleeping in the offices and working 100-hour weeks to learn Unreal and take what the documentation and tutorials offer them and implement it into their Walking Dead title, reverse-engineering the concepts they had implemented into the Diesel and Valhalla versions of the game and dropping them into Unreal. Bo Andersson, all the while, is going on vacations and not coming in on the regular, spending his time playing zombie games for inspiration and coming to the staff with his own ideas for the game based on them. Glory Kills, Special Infected, robust base maintenance mechanics and the ability to command teams of non-player survivors on missions all wound up in the game with little actual regard for how these pieces fit together. By the time that he realized he should be more actively hands-on, he only had a scant few months to spend with the staff at the final mad dash to make a playable product. The game was playable at E3, with two demo levels, and one of them playtested so poorly that the staff had to pull it from the rotation, but when Bo heard this feedback he would not tell his staff. He told them the game was testing great at E3, that people loved it.

Overkill's The Walking Dead released on the 7th of November, 2018, a week after Payday 2 ended support by letting players kill fallen angels and solve a giant puzzle wheel about the in-game lore in order to turn Bain, the player's main contact, into the US President via a body-swapping artifact used by the ancient kings of Kataru, who were gifted immortality at the same time common man was gifted the knowledge of good and evil at the Garden of Eden. While the clown-themed robbery game ended on a confusing note, Overkill's The Walking Dead was getting started to a whole heap of roughness. The game's combat was frustrating, with hordes of walkers that had to be put down one clumsy charged melee swing at a time and human enemies who fired off AKMs and MP5s with reckless abandon. Their noise would draw hordes, which would need to be contended with via your own noise, as dealing with a few dozen enemies with melee combat was awkward and difficult.

Being grappled by a zombie cost a health bar and a half in a game where your starting character had on average four healthbars to their name, and the underlying gameplay, despite being completely linear missions in level and objective design, were just Payday heists at the end of the day. Hell or High Water involved you raiding a camp owned by The Family, an antagonistic gang your camp is at war with, and stealing their supplies. In turn, they arrive at your camp and you kill five waves of them in Worse Than Walkers, in a move no different than Payday 2's Safe House Raid mission, with no zombies in sight. The camp-building mechanics, which were tied to player level and their ability to tend to the needs of their workers, were a confusing mess of UI elements that did not mesh together, and all weapons were earned in a gachapon-style case system and would degrade over time, requiring the player unjam them, fix them with the supplies they need to keep camp morale up, or watch them fall into disrepair. There was also no tutorial mission, with the game opening with The First Shot, the E3 demo mission that tested so poorly they stopped running it.

Overkill's The Walking Dead performed poorly, both critically and commercially, and Starbreeze went right into damage control. The game's high price tag to low gameplay ratio was combatted with a $30 version that required paying for the missions $60 players got for free. Season 2 went into production very quickly, with fixes to the base game, new weapons, and new survivors being promised within the coming months. Unfortunately, this was too little, too late, as Skybound issued a cease and desist to their business partner after just three months of sale, and by February 2019, Overkill's The Walking Dead was just as much a corpse as the undead shamblers present in the video games.

Perhaps what sealed the fate of the game wasn't its overall quality, as The Walking Dead is home to a large number of subpar games, but its tone and gameplay. Overkill's The Walking Dead is a very staunchly libertarian take on the franchise, pitting the player with the idea that they are to be a colonizing force, destroying an antagonistic camp and treating the other people just trying to survive as cannon fodder not unlike if they were just walkers with guns. This is no surprise given another face at Overkill, executive producer Almir Listo, having a robust fascination with libertarianism and the cult of personality that surrounded fringe Right-wing groups. Almir himself is not a conservative, but he has proven time and time again that he thinks the way Donald Trump talks is funny and has an interest in American conservative viewpoints and conspiracies as an outsider looking in, likely not helped by an unnamed comics writer taking over Payday 2 in its final year to turn the game about robbing banks into one with an ancient conspiracy and Nephilim to mow down with your MG42 or M16.

The Walking Dead is a story about its people and how they're shaped by the conflict, by the apocalypse that surrounds them, and while Kirkman expressed early interest in the sound-based horde gameplay encouraging quiet takedowns and swift, accurate gunplay, it is very possible that the idea of not just a bad Walking Dead game, but a bad Walking Dead game from a popular studio that fundamentally misunderstands the world of The Walking Dead and needs to fall back on generic bandits and raiders to fill its spaces a la Bethesda's open world titles was a bad look. We'll never know for certain, though, as the game has been pulled from sale for ages.

But this brings us to sometime last week. September 21st marked the launch of Starbreeze Studios' (formerly Overkill Software's) Payday 3. The game features a lot of the stuff they had worked on for The Walking Dead (weapon models, a rework to the Shield enemy, armor working exactly like health in OTWD) but also a ton of its own ideas, and in general the gameplay is very solid. The issue, though, is the progression and a number of bugs that hamper the experience, alongside requiring a Starbreeze Nebula account and online connection to play, with no offline mode to speak of, which caused problems when the servers for the game were down for its first three days after launch. Starbreeze promised a patch was coming shortly thereafter, but on October 21st, a month after the game released, someone with ties to Starbreeze, fed up with the Starbreeze Nebula account requirement and persistent Internet connection to play a game with obvious issues and no Patch 1 release date in sight, released the final build of Overkill's The Walking Dead. This featured a proper tutorial, made the original The First Shot into an optional random encounter a player could take on for additional resources, a slew of new weapons, a wandering trader who could sell you blueprints to the DLC's guns, and the rest of Season 2's missions. The leaked build is not playable online but is DRM-free, running just fine completely offline and preserving the game for future generations to point and laugh at, albeit without any help to ease the difficulty for a game that expected four human players at a time.

Perhaps the weirdest part of the leak is that it brought out a handful of fans from the woodwork who view Overkill's The Walking Dead as an underrated gem buried before it could truly shine, individuals who feel the game could be one of the studio's best with enough polish, and as a result Robert Kirkman has been once again inundated with people asking about the now five year-old game, hoping to give it another chance. I, personally, feel that the clumsy pacing, questionable storyline bearing little similarities to the graphic novels it's based on, and the over-reliance on generic bandits voiced by Payday regulars Josh Lenn and Joseph Balderrama prevent the game from being anything but a really weird footnote in a company's confusing, convoluted history.

[burnyourvillage1968]

Vetted list for Palestinian families in need:

Please donate, share and reblog !

Karam Al-Nabih and his family (€12,895/€20,000)

Abdel Mutei and his family (€9,324/€50,000)

Ahmed Alanqer and his family (€50,426/€59,000) (Almost there !!)

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Help Bilal Abed Rabou and his family, an academic student and software developer (€7,302/€80,000)

Help Ola Ferwana to get the funds needed for her children since her husband Abedahll is stuck outside of the borders who is also the breadwinner of the family (€1,924/€35,000)

Help Mahmoud Khalaf evacuate his family in Gaza (€22,546/€30,000) (Almost there people!)

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Help Ghazi Younis evacuate his aunt stuck in the Gaza strip ($3,457/$50,000)

Help Haya Alshawish and her family evacuate from the Palestinian Genocide (€72,395/€100,000) (Almost close!)

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Help Marleen fund for Mahmoud Baalou and his family to evacuate Gaza (€5,581/€50,000)

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[sea-snail-mail]

I hope this message reaches you in better times. My family is going through an extremely tough crisis, seeking support on Tumblr and GoFundMe to gather the funds we desperately need 🙏❤️. Your reblogging of this post could make a huge difference in our struggling lives. As newcomers to this platform, every contribution means more than we can express in words. I wish you a life filled with beauty, and may you find happiness wherever you are.💔💔🙏🙏💌

Hello! I'm so sorry about everything, I'll do whatever I can to help, thank you for reaching out!

Guys please donate to and share Bilal's gofundme! Their campaigne has been verified by 90-ghost

They are very low on funds with €3,115/€80,000.

Here is a link to their story along with a video from them: link

I will also write it here in case you cannot open it:

"You'll never know how strong you are until strength is your only option."

"From the heart of Gaza, these words become more true than ever. I am Bilal Abed Rabou, and I stand before you as a survivor of five wars, an academic student at Al-Azhar University and a software developer from the besieged Gaza Strip.

I witnessed the devastating effects of these conditions firsthand.We were a family, living in peace, love and warmth. But everything changed when conflict and despair swept through our lives.

Living in Gaza means confronting ongoing conflict, struggling against poverty and the lack of basic necessities to live. Life is very difficult, and even the simplest tasks seem impossible.

Yet, despite all the chaos and pain, we remained grounded by the warmth of our love and the strength of our spirits.

Even six months ago, everything changed. Our once home turned into a mess and everything we cherished. Since then, we have been lost, clinging to a world of uncertainty and despair.

We left our badly damaged home with only a few things. Since then, our lives have been threatened with every passing minute.

But now, there is no longer a reason to stay in this place full of suffering, where we are deprived of even the most basic and important rights, education, security and peace.

Our hearts hurt because of all this injustice. We were willing to endure anything to keep our family together and provide comfort and care for our father in his time of need.

With each passing day, our despair grows and our burdens grow heavier.

We need your help to break the cycle of suffering, rebuild our shattered dreams, pave the way to a better future, and reunite with our family. Your support is not just a lifeline; Rather, it is a beacon of hope in our darkest moments."

[yonduismarrypoppins]

Hello😊👋,

I hope you and your family and friends are in the best of health. I am a friend of Bilal, who is currently in Gaza under bombardment along with his family. I urge you to help by sharing his page or donating through the GoFundMe account. You can find his 💔💔💔🙏🙏🤝🤲page on my profile.

Hello! Thank you for sharing, I hope I can help Bilal leave Gaza safely!

Below is Bilal’s story from the pinned post!

“You'll never know how strong you are until strength is your only option."

From the heart of Gaza, these words become more true than ever. I am Bilal Abed Rabou, and I stand before you as a survivor of five wars, an academic student at Al-Azhar University and a software developer from the besieged Gaza Strip. I witnessed the devastating effects of these conditions firsthand We were a family, living in peace, love and warmth. But everything changed when conflict and despair swept through our lives. Living in Gaza means confronting ongoing conflict, struggling against poverty and the lack of basic necessities to live. Life is very difficult, and even the simplest tasks seem impossible. Yet, despite all the chaos and pain, we remained grounded by the warmth of our love and the strength of our spirits.

Even six months ago, everything changed. Our once home turned into a mess and everything we cherished. Since then, we have been lost, clinging to a world of uncertainty and despair. We left our badly damaged home with only a few things. Since then, our lives have been threatened with every passing minute. But now, there is no longer a reason to stay in this place full of suffering, where we are deprived of even the most basic and important rights, education, security and peace. Our hearts hurt because of all this injustice. We were willing to endure anything to keep our family together and provide comfort and care for our father in his time of need. With each passing day, our despair grows and our burdens grow heavier. We need your help to break the cycle of suffering, rebuild our shattered dreams, pave the way to a better future, and reunite with our family. Your support is not just a lifeline; Rather, it is a beacon of hope in our darkest moments.

Please donate to their gofundme page and help Bilal get out of Gaza!

[fiapple]

My friend in Gaza has recently survived a severe siege and is in urgent need of support to ensure the safety of their family. Please consider sharing their story and donating to their cause. Your contribution can make a significant difference. Donation link:

https://gofund.me/3ac67378 🙏

Of course!

Everyone, samhslam has gotten in touch with me on behalf of their friend Bilal Abed Rabou. Bilal is a survivor of several previous onslaughts against the Gaza Strip. He is a software developer who was studying at Al-Azhar University prior to the initiation of the current genocide. He would like to be able to evacuate to Egypt, where he can then sort out where it would be best to continue his education. His campaign is low on funds, at is has only recieved €2,496 of the €80,000 goal. Bilal has been gracious enough to create a tiered reward system for those wishing to help, and the link to do so can be found below. If you have the funds, please consider helping this user's friend reach safety & continue his educational journey!

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