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The devastating California wildfires have led to a number of benefit events, from concerts to comedy shows, with the intention to fundraise for wildfire recovery efforts. The team at Critical Role, meanwhile, is going to do what they do best: play Dungeons & Dragons. Critical Role announced a special live one-shot D&D adventure titled Freaky Thursday, featuring Bells Hells, the characters from its third D&D campaign. The charity event stars Ashley Johnson, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Travis Willingham, Sam Riegel, Laura Bailey, and Liam OBrien, with game master Matthew Mercer. Lets do some chaotic good, wrote OBrien on X, sharing the announcement. The Freaky Thursday adventure will be livestreamed on Critical Roles membership service Beacon, as well as its Twitch and YouTube channels, on Thursday, January 30, at 7 p.m. PT. Fans, affectionately known as Critters, will be able to make donations or purchase rewards to shape the story through Tiltify. The group has set an ambitious goal of raising $180,000 with the livestream. Each milestone will unlock in-game surprises like new allies, unexpected adversaries or even character sheet swaps, ensuring an unpredictable and exciting adventure shaped entirely by the communitys contributions, Critical Role said. Story elements with the most donations will take center stage in the game. Where the money will go Donations will be split between the California Community Foundation Wildfire Recovery Fund, the Latino Community Foundation, and the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation. The company added that 10% of each donation will be stashed into our overall emergency fund, which allows [our foundation] to send help quickly in the event of a future unforeseen natural emergency. Through its Critical Role Foundation (CRF) nonprofit arm, the company has already contributed $30,000 from its emergency fund to the California Community Foundations Wildfire Recovery Fund. Even before the launch of the CRF in September 2020, Critical Role and its network of Critters have been active in raising money for a range of causes, including 826LA and First Nations Development Institute. Critical Role Foundation is just one of the many ways that Critical Role has expanded into new areas in recent years. Aside from its core show, one-offs, and spinoff web series, the group has also branched into comics and books, an animated series, and their own subscription-based streaming platform, Beacon. Its impressive work from what began as a show that highlighted the joy of playing Dungeons & Dragons with friends. You can donate and learn more here.
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Whats more motivating than a punch card? Thats the simple idea behind a recent so-called punch party that creator @emiliamariehome hosted with friends. On January 24, @emiliamariehome posted a video on TikTok of her group of friends creating punch cards (think: loyalty cards) as a Galentine’s day activity. It quickly went viral, gaining over 1.5 million views. Because whether its scoring a free cappuccino at your local coffee shop or a fresh loaf of bread at an independent bakery, the satisfaction from punching that final hole in a punch card is unmatched. Now, social media users are hacking that dopamine hit to achieve their own goals, from dating to reading. In @emiliamariehomes video, each friend picked a goal and a reward for finishing punching all the holes on their card. One of her friends used their card as motivation to try new flower arrangements. Once they punched all four holes, they would allow themselves to buy one new vase. Another wanted to try 10 new recipes before buying another cookbook. A third promised themselves 10 croissants if they went on 10 dates (10 croissants are needed after 10 hinge dates, the creator joked in the comments). In the spirit of January, the celebrated month of goal-setting, the punch cards have quickly taken off. Love this idea, one person commented. Especially as someone that struggles to celebrate her wins. Another added, this is ridiculously cute. I am doing it.” The New Year period is traditionally when millions take stock of how they live and set ambitious goals for the year ahead, often in terms of numbers. How many books will you read? How many exercise classes will you take? How many new recipes will you try? A recent YouGov poll found 31% of Americans said they would be making New Years resolutions or setting goals for 2025. But skip forward to the end of January, and a good number of those will already have given up on their goals set just a few short weeks ago. However, small lifestyle changes can often be transformative if you keep at them. And while there are a number of habit trackers that attempt to help us do that, from Apple watches and Oura rings to meticulously planned spreadsheets and Notion templates, punch cards may be a gentler way to keep yourself accountable in 2025.
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Legoland Florida plans to lay off 234 workers, primarily performers, in an effort to be more competitive in central Florida’s thriving theme park market, company officials said. The theme park resort in Winter Haven, Florida, said in a notice to the state of Florida last Friday that the permanent layoffs would start at the end of March and last through the beginning of April. Three quarters of the workers cited for layoffs were performers, and another fifth also was involved in the entertainment side of the theme park, according to the notice. The theme park resort, whose workers are nonunion, has about 1,500 employees. The theme park resort is owned by Merlin Entertainment. Merlin spokeswoman Julia Estrada said in an email Wednesday that the change would allow it to operate more flexibly in a competitive market by using an outside company to provide some of the entertainment while maintaining a core in-house entertainment team. We will continue to have a core in-house entertainment offering, which we will scale up to meet our brand and guest experiences during the year, Estrada said. Besides the Lego-themed park, the resort has a Peppa Pig-themed park, a water park and a soon-to-open aquarium. Winter Haven is located between Tampa, home to Bush Gardens Tampa Bay, and Orlando, home to Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando Resort and SeaWorld Orlando.
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