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=Achievements=
=Achievements=

Revision as of 13:41, 19 November 2013


This page is currently under construction.

Desert Bus 7 logo

Desert Bus for Hope 7 (AKA DB007: A View to a Bill, DB007:Qwoptum of Silence, DB007:Octobussy, DB007:MoonBaseraker, etc) will commence at 10AM PST, November 16, 2013.

Desert Bus for Hope 7 Poster (by Mike Lunsford)


New for this year is the iOS Desert Bus For Hope app developed by Jeremy, Louis Moga, and Ashton Cummings. Link to the iTunes store for the app


Drivers

All driving shifts are 12 hours long.

Driver Shift Start (PST) Total Money Raised During Shift Avg. Donations Per Minute Points Earned Bus Crashes Toilet Flushes Driver Name
No Driver Pre-Desert Bus $4,044 Raised beforehand
James November 16 @ 10:00 $31,360.67 Raised during shift $43.56 per minute 1 point 0 crashes 71 Flushes Bond
Cam November 16 @ 22:00 $29,880.09 Raised during shift $41.50 per minute 1 point 0 crashes 48 Flushes Bond
Jeremy November 17 @ 10:00 $35,161.61 Raised during shift $48.84 per minute 2 points 0 crashes 85 Flushes Bond
Johnny November 17 @ 22:00 $20,111.45 Raised during shift $27.93 per minute 1 point 0 crashes 53 Flushes Bond
Kathleen November 18 @ 10:00 $31,609.13 Raised during shift $43.90 per minute 2 points 0 crashes 59 Flushes Bond
Alex November 18 @ 22:00 $0 Raised during shift $0 per minute 1 points 0 crashes -- ---
Tally November 19 @ 10:00 $0 Raised during shift $0 per minute 0 points 0 crashes -- ---
Ian Horner November 19 @ 22:00 $0 Raised during shift $0 per minute 0 points 0 crashes -- ---
Graham November 20 @ 10:00 $0 Raised during shift $0 per minute 0 points 0 crashes -- ---
Ashton November 20 @ 22:00 $0 Raised during shift $0 per minute 0 points 0 crashes -- ---
Bill November 21 @ 10:00 $0 Raised during shift $0 per minute 0 points 0 crashes -- ---
Matt November 21 @ 22:00 $0 Raised during shift $0 per minute 0 points 0 crashes -- ---
Paul November 22 @ 10:00 $0 Raised during shift $0 per minute 0 points 0 crashes -- ---
No Driver Post-Desert Bus $0
Totals 60 Hours $152,166.95 raised $42.69 per minute 7 points (High: 7) 0 crashes 316 Flushes Bond

Guests

Call-ins

New ones added as info becomes available.

Guest Best Known for Call-in time (all times 24hr PST) Website link
Matt Fraction Eisner Award-Winning Comic Book Writer for Marvel Comics November 16 @ 18:00 (Saturday) http://mattfraction.com/
Bill Corbett Writer, Performer, Cult Icon November 17 @ 18:00 (Sunday) http://www.rifftrax.com
Khaavren and Baxter Fuzzy-Wuzzies, Dust Mops, Pro Cuddlers November 18 @ ~12:00 (Monday) http://www.loadingreadyrun.com
Bobak Ferdowsi Systems Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA Mohawk Guy) November 18 @ 18:00 (Monday) http://www.nasa.gov/connect/artspace/creative_works/feature-bobak-ferdowsi.html
Mikey Neumann Creative Software Champion at Gearbox Software, Voice Actor, Author November 19 @ 18:00 (Tuesday) (Also made an unannounced call-in @ 03:00 on November 18th (Monday) http://diagnosismia.blogspot.jp/
Phil Plait Astronomer, Skeptic, Writer, and Popular Science Blogger November 20 @ 11:00 (Wednesday) http://www.slate.com/content/slate/blogs/bad_astronomy.html
Ben 'Yahtzee' Crowshaw Writer, Video Game Journalist, Indy Game Developer, Entrepreneur November, 20 @ 18:00 (Wednesday) http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/
Bob "MovieBob" Chapman Film Critic, Gamer, Pop-culture Commentator, Independent Film Maker November 20 @ 21:00 (Wednesday) http://moviebob.blogspot.jp/
Jim Sterling Host of Jimquisition, Reviews Editor for Destructoid, Official Mysterio of Video Games November 21 @ 11:00 (Thursday) https://twitter.com/JimSterling
Bonnie Burton Actress, Writer, Comedian November 21 @ 18:00 (Thursday) http://www.grrl.com

Visitors

Guest Best Known for Visit time in the moonbase (all times 24hr PST) Website link
Dan Tharp Ambassador of Awesome November 17 @ 14:30 (Sunday... SUNDAY SUNDAY) http://www.cardkingdom.com/
Steven Dengler Entrepreneur, Investor, Geek, and all around good guy November 21 @ 12:00 (Thursday) http://www.dracogen.com & http://www.xe.com

Desert Bus 007 spoof titles

As compiled by CantWearHats on LRR Forums to date: As compiled by the DB offseason Chat:
  • Dr No Donor Account
  • From Tuscon With Love
  • GoldDengler
  • Thunderbus
  • You Only Crash Twice
  • On Her Majesty's Shipping Service
  • The Desert Is Forever
  • Live And Let Drive
  • The Man With The Golden Pun
  • The Spy Who Clubbed Me
  • Moonbaseraker
  • For Your Prize Only
  • Octopimpy
  • A View To A Bill
  • The Living Bugsplats
  • License To Bid
  • Soldeneye
  • Tomorrow Never Drives
  • The Bid Is Not Enough
  • Drive Another Day
  • Crashino Royale
  • Qwoptum of Solace
  • Busfall
  • Dr. LRR
  • From Tucson with Love
  • Busfinger
  • Thunderbus
  • You Only Drive Twice
  • On Her Majesty's Crafting Service
  • Deserts are Forever
  • Live and Let's Drive
  • The Man with the Rare, Foil, Un-cut Magic Cards
  • The Mod Who Banned Me
  • Moonbaseraker
  • For your Bids Only
  • Octopimpy
  • Never Say Going Twice Again
  • A View to a Bill in his Mom's Dress
  • The Missing Daylights
  • License to Bus
  • GoldenBus
  • Bussing Never Dies
  • Triple Madness is Not Enough
  • Bus Another Day (Or Six)
  • Charity Royale
  • Quantum of Charity
  • Busfall
  • Random Will Return in DB 8

Milestones

(Times given in PST)

  • Year 1 total exceeded - 16/11/13 ~15:50
  • Year 2 total exceeded - 17/11/13 ~11:55
  • Year 3 total exceeded - 18/11/13 ~17:46
  • Year 4 total exceeded -

Video links

Selected Parodies

  • none yet

Selected Skits/Challenges

  • none yet

Quotables

One of the many images posted by chat.
  • "Anime is for dumbs." - Alex during a mock-debate with Taka over Xbox One vs. Playstation 4 while using vocal jamming technology. This challenge took place near the end of Jer's shift. The end result was that the two sounded alternately as though they were intoxicated or parodying internet hate wars, the latter of which Alex embraced. The phrase caught on in the chat, who posted meme images and applied "for dumbs" to other situations as well as simply repeating the original phrase.

Notable Memes

"Woah chat. Such doge. Wow."
check back later bro
"Silica Gel"
Chat became enraptured with Silica Gel from the N7 giveaway during the end of Cam's shift
"GIFs"
Chat was eager to post animated GIFs recording notable sight gags, often turning GIFs around in real time barely seconds after the event they depicted occurred onscreen.

Achievements

This year, like prior years featured the return of achievements. Some of these were similar to the ones of the past, some were not.

Unlocked Achievements

  • On The Road Again - Reach 1 Point
  • Road Trip! - We reach 5 Points
  • Two Heads Are Better Than One - Two People Sing a Duet
  • Saturday Morning - A Sing along of an old cartoon theme song
  • Houston, We Have a Problem - The feed goes down
Went down during the 12th hour, midway through Cam's Shift.
  • Ring-ding-dingeringeding! - A request is made (and fulfilled) for What the Fox Say?
Sung when they reached 100,000. Can be viewed at: [1]
  • Prize Pig - A Pig is Sweetened.
  • Crash the Gates - An auction's opening bid is $1000 or greater
  • Radio Silence - No posts in the chat for 30 seconds. (Why do we keep including this achievement?)
  • C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER - A Radio Silence attempt is spoiled in the last 5 seconds before success
  • Insecticide - First bug splat of Desert Bus 7!
Earned by James in his run.
  • Choral Reef - More than 10 people singing on camera simultaneously.
  • Dog Catcher - Someone in the chat notices Spot the Dog
  • Ghost Ride the Whip - A driver dances beside the chair, while driving.
  • Can You Step - Two bidders trash-talk during an auction.
  • Hammertime - Someone gets IRL banhammered by one of the chat mods
  • Accident Free - A driver completes a shift without crashing.
Completed by James in his first shift.
  • Feed Dump - 10 people on camera are wearing hats at the same time.
  • Might of the Masses - When a donation drive raises over $2,000.
  • QWOPing Balls - Someone finds something FAR too funny
  • And Then We Were the Demons - Fan fiction is read on air
Completed by Cam during the late night hours of his shift.
  • Somebody Has to Change - Two Desert Bus crew members unintentionally wear the same item of clothing.
  • Fake PHD - The first "Dear Dr" question is asked.
  • We're Helping! - When the chat solves a problem nobody at the Moonbase can fix
  • Hot Swap - A piece of equipment needs to be replaced, mid-run.
Earned by Graham at the end of the feed loss that happened during the Card Kingdom Sponsored this Hour Hour but the Stream Crashed so they have another Hour Hour. Due to difficulties with the Internet connection, the video feeds were routed through his cellphone. Graham used up about 2GB of bandwidth during the short time he hosted the stream. (His mobile phone service provided unlimited bandwidth... the fools!)

Locked Achievements

  • The Long Haul - We reach 10 points
  • Don't Stop Me Now! - We crash the bus
  • Bid for Power - Auction an item for more than $5000
  • Diaebtic Pig - 10 Pigs are sweetened
  • Glazed Ham - 20 Pigs are sweetened
  • Trend-Setter - Desert Bus trends anywhere in the Top 10 on Twitter (we'll even take just in Canada)
  • Right in the FACE(book) - A Desert Bus Facebook post receives more than 1000 likes.
  • Winter Wonderland - It snows during Desert Bus
  • Well Dong - A driver plays another video game while also playing Desert Bus simultaneously
  • Record-Breaker - We hit a lifetime Desert Bus total of $1.5 million.
  • Who's That?! - The crew manages to get an outsider on camera (like a delivery guy or something)
  • Chilling Out - Two or fewer people in the room
  • Emergent Gameplay - A driver claims to have found a way to "make the game better"
  • Shut it Down - Someone's mobile phone goes off on camera
  • It's So Cute! - The first non-human entity appears on camera

Secret Achievements

  • Excellent Posture
  • We <3 Handmade
  • Kickin' it up a Notch
  • Gender Fender Bender
  • It's Named Nick

Craft-Along Paticipants

Links to sites still to be added

Go to the Desert Bus crafters page to see a full list of which crafter donated what!

  • Accents by Gwynn
  • Alanna Robertson (Etsy)
  • Alatheia (Ravelry)
  • Alexander Rodgers (Deviant Art)
  • Amanda E. M. Haynes
  • Ann Foraker (Deviant Art)
  • AnnaTheRed (Website, Photo gallery)
  • Ariel Leather (Etsy, Tumblr)
  • Artemis
  • Ash Vickers
  • Beamie's Buddies (Tumblr, Deviant Art, Etsy, Facebook)
  • Becka Reed (Etsy)
  • Blaine aka Brainstew (Etsy)
  • Brent Stewart (Tumblr, Etsy)
  • C.M. Galdre (Website, Duelist website)
  • Carly Englander (Etsy)
  • Chemistring (Flickr, Ravelry)
  • Cheryl A. Kraus (Etsy, Deviant Art)
  • Chrissey Harrison (Blog, Website)
  • Christopher David Bischoff-Fincher
  • Cultureshock
  • Dana Staab (Deviant Art)
  • David Woehr (Etsy, Tumblr)
  • DigitalSeahorse (Deviant Art, Website, Blog)
  • Emily (TsukiakariUsagi) (Website, Etsy, Facebook)
  • Eric Johnson (Website, Tumblr)
  • Erik and Vicki
  • Erin Nix (Etsy, Gniffers Gnomes)
  • Featherweight (Website, Facebook)
  • FireFlower18 (Website)
  • Firefury Amahira
  • Gavin Card
  • Gordon McMillan (Website, Blog)
  • Heather Dery (Deviant Art, Etsy, Craft blog)
  • Helen Cowart (Website, Etsy, Facebook)
  • Holly Elvins (Deviant Art, Blog, Tumblr, Facebook)
  • Icefall (Tumblr)
  • Inkwell Looter (Website)
  • J Barr
  • Jamas Enright (Website)
  • Jayne Wilson
  • Jennifer Lewis (Website, Etsy, Portfolios)
  • Jessica Schwab (Etsy, Tumblr)
  • Jexebele (Deviant Art)
  • Julisana (Etsy, Deviant Art)
  • Kate Szkotnicki
  • Kate Thompson (Etsy)
  • Katherine Bagdasian
  • Katie and Tim (Deviant Art, Tumblr)
  • Katrina Keller (Tumblr)
  • Kimberly Swanner (Website)
  • Kristin Lewallen (Blog, Ravelry)
  • Kysen Henderson
  • LadyRhian (Deviant Art, Blog)
  • Lareina Chan (Deviant Art)
  • Lynne Connolly
  • Maggie Bevis
  • Mannie Ross (Website, Ravelry)
  • Marcus Thomas
  • Marisha (Etsy)
  • Mary Hutson (Deviant Art, Facebook (hats), Facebook (baby accessories))
  • Matty (Blog, Portfolio, Tumblr)
  • Mia Steinberg (Radio show, Blog)
  • Miach (Website, Etsy)
  • Michelle Willson (Etsy)
  • MmRed (Cosplay blog, Gaming blog, Deviant Art)
  • Monique Meek
  • Nick A aka Tractor
  • Nicole Gustafsson (Blog, Website, Etsy)
  • Orin Drake (Website, Etsy, Tumblr, Deviant Art)
  • Paul Roberts
  • Penny Lane (Blog)
  • Rebornflames (Deviant Art)
  • Roxanne Wayne (Blog)
  • Ryan McCann (Website)
  • Samantha Panikian
  • Sara McSorley (Website, Deviant Art, Etsy)
  • Sarah Mendiola (Website, Tumblr - knitting, Tumblr - drawing, Etsy)
  • Sarah Overall (Etsy, Tumblr)
  • Schala-Kitty (Etsy, Website, Tumblr)
  • Scott, Just Scott
  • Sean Robert
  • Shaun nakasone (Website, Facebook, Tumblr, Deviant Art)
  • Sieg Reyu (Blog)
  • Stef from CustomDiceBags.com (Etsy, Facebook)
  • Stephanie Martin (Etsy)
  • Steve Hedger
  • Tally Heilke (Craft blog, Etsy)
  • Tania Richter (Website, Facebook, Etsy, Deviant Art)
  • Tara Heilke
  • Thoughtfully Unique - Xylophobian (Website, Etsy)
  • Tim K
  • Tina Hollands
  • Toenolla (Website, Etsy)
  • Vaso Assimakopoulos
  • Victoria Kassner (Website, Deviant Art)
  • Wayne Balion (Website, Facebook)
  • dees253
  • pipedreamdragon

Sponsors

Organizing Partners

Needs update

  • Dammit Liz Productions
  • The Escapist Magazine

Corporate Sponsors

Needs update

  • Wizards of The Coast
  • Dracogen
  • Penny Arcade
  • FanGamer
  • Ken Steacy Publishing
  • Card Kingdom
  • Topatoco
  • Obsidian Entertainment
  • Big Giant Circles
  • Minority
  • GSTQ Fashions
  • Vandal Eyes
  • Archie McPhee
  • The Rover Outpost
  • PopCap Games
  • Geek & Sundry
  • Epic Games
  • Paizo Publishing
  • SEGA
  • Double Fine
  • W!ZK!DS HeroClix
  • Solar Robotics
  • Volpin Props
  • Plantronics
  • Puzzle Juice
  • Fernwood Coffee Company
  • Dragon Chow Dice Bags
  • Privateer Press

Tecnical Sponsors

Needs update

The Mötley Desert Bus Crüe

(To be modified soon)

Organizing Group

Drivers

Engineering

Volunteers

  • Kate Stark - Nomordinator
  • Coriander Dickinson - Mistress of the Prize Mines
  • Andre Van Slyke - Site Manager
  • Brent Stewart - Site Manager
  • Ian Jacek - Site Manager
  • Kim Rose - Site Manager
  • Kelly Clark - Blogger
  • Matthew Murray - Blogger
  • Pika - Adorbz
  • Harry, the Creepy Doll - AAAAAAHHH!

Shipping

Chat Mods

  • Kroze
  • Chris "Fugiman" Gamble - Squire of Internets
  • Dix
  • AeroCmdr
  • Pika
  • ken|home

Other

  • Andrew Ferguson - Photographer
  • Liz Smith - Thing Wrangler
  • Serge Predolin-Yager - Caffeine Genie

Guests In The Moonbase!

Annual

Special

  • We'll see!

Flush Count

With the setup for Desert Bus for Hope 7, the piping in the moon base was set close to the microphone for the driver camera. This resulted in the flushing of the toilet in the Moonbase being quite audibly heard within the stream, and commented on - which the Chat quite obviously latched onto early.

While initially it had been set up so that those in the moon base would be keeping track of this, this soon ran awry as the counter they had only went up to 6. Following this, a shared online spreadsheet would be made, and elaborated on to a excessive degree. Some of the more unique peculiarities of this would end up being:

  • Total Flushes
  • Average Flushes per hour
  • Value per flush
  • Flushes per hour per person
  • Gallons Flushed

This would all accumulate to the "Flush King", a title awarded to the driver during which the most flushes occurred. For DBFH7, this was <Name>

Additionally, other stats would be recorded on this as well, such as:

  • Things Knocked Over
  • Chat Crashes
  • Dance Party Button presses
  • Math Fails
  • Feed Crashes

Which were not necessarily as tracked as well as the flushes during the course of the event.

Desert Bus Picks the NFL Winners

As in previous years, Desert Bus for Hope began on a weekend during the U.S. Football (NFL) season and this year, it was Cam's turn to predict which team would win and why. These decisions were made knowing nothing about the teams playing other than their team names. A U.K. viewer named Jamie then bet £1.00 GBP (about $1.67 USD) on each game and said that he would donate all of his winnings. As of Monday evening, LRR's final record was 6 wins, 2 losses, and X ties, raising $X.00 (rounded up) for Child's Play.

Links to various Desert Bus 7 related pages