Play a game to feed the hungry

Krynn72

Krynn72

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Every correct answer donates 20 grains of rice to feed starving people. This has been around for awhile, but i dont remember seeing it posted here. Seriously, just play it, in just a few minutes ive donated 1000 grains (about one serving) so play as long as you can.

www.freerice.com
 
Cool site, I'll definitely play this daily. And before anyone busts in here with a loud mouth loling at playing a game to feed starving people, the advertisers pay for the rice everytime you get a correct answer. I remember seeing some indie games like this, where a percentage of your money spent on their games went to starving children, but the game looked like a flash version of metal gear..with starving children..and angry militia.
 
i never really understood how getting a word correct gets 20 grains of rice....

the charity just doesn't seem logical to me.
 
giant384 said:
i never really understood how getting a word correct gets 20 grains of rice....

the charity just doesn't seem logical to me.
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Me neither...couldn't they do it whether it's right/wrong/ just for going to the site?
 
DEATHMASTER said:
Me neither...couldn't they do it whether it's right/wrong/ just for going to the site?
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They couldnt do it for just going to the site because every time you answer a question a new ad pops up, which generates enough money for 20 grains. They could however do it for wrong answers, although the ads for wrong answers may go towards actually funding the site itself.

Also, my highest level so far is 40.
 
Raziaar said:
Just making a funny :)
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Oh yeah no I figured.

I think that the point is that each time you get a word right the ad changes, so... You know? I can't explain what I realised D:

edit - F*cking Krynn D:
 
I've been playing this for a couple days now :)

It's nice to learn new words as well, but if you're a bit tired you can just randomly click on answers until you get them right, you know, just for donation sake.
 
But every wrong answer takes 20 grains away from a starving kid!
 
Krynn72 said:
But every wrong answer takes 20 grains away from a starving kid!
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lol, I can just imagine that, some starving kid about to put a spoon full of rice in his mouth, then this soldier comes up to him "sorry, we got another wrong answer" *grabs rice and shoves it in pocket*
 
Americans really hate things that involve reading, which includes things from the dictionary, such as "big" words.
 
That statistic wasnt for the game. It was referring to a "vow" made by each of those countries to donate .7% of their national income to help. The US must have made their pledge before 2002 and we're still the second farthest from completion. The top five countries have already given much more than the .7% (go Sweden! 1.03% thats ****ing awesome). The US is still less than .2%
 
The idea is about as earnest as it comes: donate to poverty by encouraging literacy, but it seems they might have misplaced their expectations a bit. I mean, it is the internet. Then again it can only improve things, so maybe they really had a dual purpose for making it that way.

Also, as to why they don't just make it a donation for every pageload or whatever, the same reason people have to put those damn passcodes on downloads and things now. People could just run a script to constantly reload it, and before they know it they're out a ****ton for trying to do a charitable thing.
 
I doubt they would be out of much money at all, it only takes a few hits to break even with the costs. The real problem would be advertisers seeing that someones running a script, and then they'll back out of the deal since no real people are seeing their ads. And the reason why they have questions, is so people will actually reload the pages themselves by answering, thus funding the effort.


I dont know what you mean by them having "misplaced their expectations" either. If you look at the "totals" page, you'll see that since October its provided 22,648,284 meals (assuming 1,000 grain portions). That sounds pretty damn good to me. Thats more than 60 people getting 3 meals a day every day for the past six months.
 
The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence; and, as I pointed out some time ago in an article on the function of criticism, it is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. Accordingly, with admirable though misdirected intentions, they very seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see. But their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it. Indeed, their remedies are part of the disease.

They try to solve the problem of poverty, for instance, by keeping the poor alive; or, in the case of a very advanced school, by amusing the poor.

But this is not a solution: it is an aggravation of the difficulty. The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. And the altruistic virtues have really prevented the carrying out of this aim. Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good; and at last we have had the spectacle of men who have really studied the problem and know the life - educated men who live in the East End - coming forward and imploring the community to restrain its altruistic impulses of charity, benevolence, and the like. They do so on the ground that such charity degrades and demoralises. They are perfectly right. Charity creates a multitude of sins.

There is also this to be said. It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property. It is both immoral and unfair.
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Oscar Wilde
 
Thats great and all, but its flawed in that we'll never ever EVER reconstruct our society in such a way. So until then, we'll feed the hungry.
 
Krynn72 said:
Thats great and all, but its flawed in that we'll never ever EVER reconstruct our society in such a way. So until then, we'll feed the hungry.
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Yes we can. Socialism, as the rest of the article explains.
 
wait...how does this work? do they actually give them food for this? if they have all this food...why not just give it in the first place instead of making a game out of it?

Its like "here...we have all this food for you, but we are gona let some western teenagers decide if they want to give it to you or not in a fun game...so hold till someone get an answer right!" like wtf??


EDIT: nvm...took the time to actually read the thread this time.
 
I tried the link because I wanted to feel like I was maybe helping the kids with flies on their heads, but I realised while playing the game that I DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT...! I just love vocab games!

Ace site. I'm at level 44 (took me ages to break through level 43) with 1420 rices gived to poors!

edit: finally gave up on around 12000 rices, highest level was 47.
 
zombieturtle01 said:
Americans really hate things that involve reading, which includes things from the dictionary, such as "big" words.
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Yeah we just all love fiddy cent and gotta say SHHREET or from American Chopper "I have an idear". Just base it on The No Child Left Behind Act because you can ask my dad or any teacher what they think of it. *Hint it's not positive. I have been to multiple teacher conferences and they also bring up how shitty the bill is. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2BKRS7-0h8
 
That preview image of the video makes me want to just punch a hole right through my monitor.
 
I'd play but what has the hungry done for me lately? *lights cigar with 100 dollar bill*
 
4600 on that run, and I started running into words I've answered at least twice before.
 
I feel like by playing this I've redeemed myself for all of the new members I've raped de-alive.
 
Krynn72 said:
And how likely is it that we're going to change our nation to a socialist one? I'd say about 0% likely.
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Not with that attitude, many socialist revolutions have occured however.
 
Solaris said:
Yes we can. Socialism, as the rest of the article explains.
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Solaris said:
Not with that attitude, many socialist revolutions have occured however.
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Hey, I like Oscar Wilde and all (obviously), and he has a very good point, but just because he was an intelligent man doesn't mean some of his ideas had holes.

To have that sort of mentality is silly. "Hhmp, I am not going to give to charity because society needs to be changed, thats the problem." Sure, but what exactly is it that you have done recently to change that?
You have to take into account that your young self isn't going to change society in a life time, never mind the world's problem of poverty.

There is direct action, and social action, while social action is the ultimate goal, it doesn't mean you can't do direct action at the same time.
That's like saying "I'm not going to donate money to someone who has cancer in my community and can't afford treatment, because the real problem is finding a cure", no crap we have to find "the cure", but by the time you find that cure the person will be long dead, when you could have just donated some money for treatment that may have saved his life. The fact is we don't have time to only look for "the cure", we need direct action now to sustain them for the time being.

Social action is very important, but to remove direct action is stupid.


hool10 said:
Yeah we just all love fiddy cent and gotta say SHHREET or from American Chopper "I have an idear". Just base it on The No Child Left Behind Act because you can ask my dad or any teacher what they think of it. *Hint it's not positive. I have been to multiple teacher conferences and they also bring up how shitty the bill is. ;)
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I'm an American. :P I know we allz ain't dum.
 
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