TL;DR

Drakoan, a beloved mod & general helper for many BAR Twitch channels was working on a 12 year old PC
Drakoan couldn't fix this due to financial and medical health issues and thus could barely spec games, let alone play them and it wasn't going to be long before his computer died fully.
A gofundme was created to get him a a new PC before his old one died.
In a very short amount of time, this amazing community raised just under $3000 for his new PC (Far outpacing the goal's expected outcome)
This was the amount we set as a upper limit! Likely more would have been raised if asked!
A LOT of pain went into sourcing the parts (due to where he lives and getting the money to him ... thanks Amazon >_>)
A few months and a lot of sleepless nights after, Drakoan's PC was built
I got to personally witness his reaction, I won't share for his privacy, but it was very heartwarming, lets just say that.

Small Personal Note

Hiya everyoneeee!

Rosie here (👋 for those who know me & nice to meet'cha those who don't). I have been incredibly fortunate to have a wholesome as heck community on Twitch. BUT I think it would not be fair to say it was just that section but all of the BAR community as we reached out on this.

So while its very literally MONTHS late, I wanna say a huge thank you to everyone who supported. Both by donating & by advertising.

Special Thanks To:

Graceful  
IHaveNoIdea  
TeaTime  
SaltyBoy

Other big donators I will not mention for privacy!

Each of the above helped either in their support, advice or deep pockets and you all deserve a extra big virtual hug from Drakoan!

>While the BAR community has its ups en downs, I think everyone should take a step back from the little in-fighting and realize how absolutely amazing raising this money was in such a small amount of time. To the community as a whole, you guys rock :) ```

Drakoan's Own Post

>I asked Drakoan to write up how it all went and he did the very Drakoan thing and made it a story-esk post. Enjoy!

My 12 year old clanker had served me tirelessly and faithfully despite not being able to run anything modern for a long while now. It would crash and thrash, it would run out of memory and start using my barely existent storage as memory, it would give me 30 FPS 20 minutes into a BAR game. One of the fans had grinded on the fan frame constantly and loudly for at least 6 years, and in the last 3 months my power button had stopped working almost entirely and I couldn't turn it back on without some tools coming out, and even then there was a high likelihood the power button would break off entirely. But it never gave up. And I hoped it never would as I'll never have the finances to buy at least even one part, let alone the fact that the whole thing runs on prayers and moving it breaks more than what gets fixed in the end.

Content, as much as one can be, mainly watching games of all kinds and BAR, making sure not to run anything else at the same time while playing something. And I think this whole thing started with Rosie essentially going 'Let's get a GoFundMe going, you're known and liked by the community, I'm sure they'll help' while I was heartily disagreeing that was the case and thinking this was incredibly well intentioned and caring but ultimately fruitless.

Before I could even comprehend the situation, she had one going already and advertising it on her stream and discord. My dear memer Graceful also did the same. Thanks to friends with deep compassion (and pockets), people were discussing what parts to get as I had long given up on keeping up with any sort of PC specs and had no knowledge to pick or assemble.

I didn't know what to feel about the whole thing, it made me uncomfortable to be in such an exposed state as I usually keep to myself in most matters and not used to getting any help, especially this kind.

Somehow we did get enough, to my confusion, and the process of figuring out the logistics and what to do began. You all figured I'd be able to assemble the thing on my own and gave opinions on what part is good and what is best for the situation, and Rosie was quick to offer her assurance and help in guiding me through the assembly.

We had to go through multiple hoops to not be entirely destroyed by the currency conversion and taxes of all variety while working with limitations on part choice and which dealer to choose. Ultimately, for the most part, we went with Amazon, which again presented its own hoops to jump through. Rosie bought the parts for me and shipped them to me through the local Amazon which ended up with her account running into multiple issues and getting flagged, while their customer support was in most regards absolutely atrocious. We had to do 2 refunds due to issues, one of which they couldn't manage and just refunded as an Amazon gift card, while the other we're still trying to get back to this day.

Parts arrived one by one, some taking a month due to said issues. Assembling everything was extremely stressful, first time I ever try something like this and without guidance I'm sure there would've been something that went wrong, yet Rosie persevered in showing me what to do. But surprisingly, the whole thing went without much of an issue (we don't talk about me plugging my monitor into the motherboard, apparently that's a no-no). Still a good month later I'm worried something will break or some unforeseen event will happen to ruin this, but even just to have something like this happen, makes me happy and is something I never expected.

I wondered why anyone would help me about something like this when there are people that need more help than me on matters more dire, and I felt ashamed and guilty for that. There's nothing special about my situation. I think the reasoning I've come to accept is, the people who helped me are the ones who are special, that this was just the luck of being around kind and helpful people and a community that cared. Thanks to all of you, and especially Rosie who orchestrated this whole thing, shedding blood, sweat and tears and money for this cause.

Drakoan.

Ending Notes

I had actually not read the above till copying it in. Drakoan, you are special to us. You deserved this for helping the community a lot and we all know you will keep doing so.

Think I speak for everyone who helped when I say "shut up and realize you're special!"