To everyone who has donated to this cause, thank you so much for your contributions. Thanks to you, we have raised over $30,000 for Child’s Play Charity!
This is an astonishing feat of philanthropy, and as members of The Best Group On Steam (trademark pending), you deserve a pat on the back. You are all credit to team!

Recently Nukuler of Golden Wrench 10 visited a server I was present on. Naturally everyone was all nice about his wrench and asked about how he crafted it. We all got into the discussion of The Golden Wrench charity. We asked if he had considered donating his, and after a discussion he said he really wanted to take part in this, and then proceeded to delete his wrench.

Great news, everyone!

The Golden Charity for Child’s Play has now reached more than 1,000 donations of $10 or more!

Yes, thanks to the extremely-appreciated official blessings by Valve, not to mention the incredibly generous and selfless spirit of the Team Fortress 2 community, what started as a crazy scheme by a crazy man is now over $9,000 in comfort and entertainment to severely sick children.

Now, I don’t really understand Australia very well, but apparently on Channel ABC 2 today (yesterday? two days ago?) the Golden Charity was mentioned on the Gamer News segment of the show Good Game. Whhhhaaaatttt??

If you’ve followed along with the history of the Golden Wrench, you probably know that I’m not the first person to think about destroying a Golden Wrench.

Yes, 7. This is a gigantic deal. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that we’d raise over $3,500 for Child’s Play in a week (let alone ever), and that 6 other Golden Wrench owners would be joining the cause. Maybe the world really is a great place after all?

It’s official:

* Wrench #14 will be destroyed by [cFc] Yagami Light
* Wrench #82 will be destroyed by [dahou.se] GinaShark

I’ve decided that perhaps Golden Wrench #31 is better served destroyed than remaining to exist. I also decided that, if I were to destroy it, why shouldn’t I try to make something good come of the situation? To create something positive of this utterly divisive, bitter issue? And for that reason, I’ve chosen to run a fundraiser to benefit the Child’s Play Charity, culminating in the destruction of the Golden Wrench.

Part 2 in the timeless tale of the Golden Wrench.

It was awfully nice of Valve to institute a totally random system for distributing the Golden Wrench. It seemed so ingenious and fair… after all, I got one. But I had always wondered to myself, how can a system be both random, and fair to all time zones? How can a system with no daily drop caps be fair to all time zones, or sync with Valve’s planned day-by-day reveal of the Engineer update? Up until this point, I had assumed they were either geniuses or sorcerers. Or both. Of course, that was before the Steam Team Fortress 2 forums imploded with allegations that the system wasn’t random at all.

Somewhere, high above the Kalihari Desert, a rusty, single-engine plane completes its daily route from Mbasa to one of several nearby destinations. The plane chugs along steadily, with just the amount of hesitance one might expect of a 10-year old aircraft. The pilot, a nondescript fellow of Australian heritage (colonial, not Aboriginal) sweats profusely as the glaring heat of the African sun bears down on his little Daedelan contraption. The pulsing orange god bears its defiance begrudgingly, but continues to spare its existence.