Hello Everyone

It's time once again for the Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run and once again I shall be doing my best to entertain you all with my sleep deprived insanity and poor push up form but before I get to what all I have planned I want to talk about something real quick.

This year we have shifted back to Pencils of Promise as our charity which is cause I truly believe in. A good education is a priceless gift that everyone deserves and this year we are hoping to raise $ 15,000 as a team. My own personal goal this year is to reach $ 1,000 Raised for Pencils of Promise.

That being said I feel that there is another cause I wish to help out this year as well. Mental Health is something that we can sometimes forget about but it's something I feel is incredibly important. Late last year I lost a friend to suicide. It came as a shock to say the least. I kept going over and over in my head trying to figure out why. Asking myself if there was anything I could have done, anything I should have done. The only thing I kept coming to was I really wish they had reached out for help. A lot of people out there struggle with mental health and the most tragic part about it is a lot of them just keep it to themselves. Struggling in silence is never the answer so if you are reading this and you feel you are in a dark place, please reach out to someone.

So this year my main incentive to donate to my stream (aside from watching me suffer doing push-ups of course) is my planned donation match. This year for every $1 dollar raised to Pencils of Promise I will match that donation ( up to $1,000 USD ) to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in my hometown of Toronto, Canada.

So with all that said let's get into the meat and potatoes of what I have planned this year:

• This coming Friday April 9th at 6 PM EST: Myself and some friends will be doing a full co-op playthrough of Trine 2. Afterwards we shall move on to completing a few of the scenarios of Resident Evil 6. If we have enough time we will also try to beat We were here together.
• On Saturday April 10th starting at 10 AM EST to Sunday April 11th at 6 PM EST: I will be doing a full playthrough of Resident Evil 7. I don't usually do to well with first person horror games so.... that should be interesting to say the least. Once Resident Evil 7 is done I will move on to either Sword of Mana or Muramasa: The Demon Blade.

You can watch my stream on either explosive runs or on my twitch channel http://www.twitch.tv/jatzu84

You can donate to my Stream here: https://fundraise.pencilsofpromise.org/fundraiser/3178639