To be blunt:
WTF, SoCal?
Ten people came over tonight, and only one donated any money. The other nine didn't even mention anything. Yeah, no problem guys, that's fine, right? Sure.
Of the last 75 (that's seventy-five!) people to come over, fewer than five have paid. That's over $350 lost...and everyone that came over had food, soda, and freeplay CS all night.
I lost my job after purchasing CS, which meant I couldn't really afford to buy it. That is why I asked for money - not trying to make a profit, trying to afford the machine...and it was a very reasonable amount of money, considering the value per game everyone got compared to playing at an arcade.
In total, since the beginning of December I've gotten a little over $110, which is somewhere around 22 people contributing once. To put that in perspective, more than 20 people come over every 3 days. I recovered only around 4% of the total cost of the hardware despite having people over 4-5 days a week for two months.
I can't afford this, so it is now done.
I am making my apartment back into just my apartment. I will not be coming home early or missing out on other opportunities to let people to play CS anymore, because it is not allowing me to survive.
Friends are always welcome, of course, and Rendsday lives on...but the worst part is that those friends are the majority of the people who contributed anything anyway.
To everyone else, thanks for nothing. See how much fun you have without paying anything at AI.