Desert Bus For Hope 6

Desert Bus for Hope 6 Temp Poster (by Mike Lunsford)

Desert Bus for Hope 6 (AKA Desert Bus 6: Desert Bus 3 In America, DB6) began November 16th, 2012 at 9:00 PM PST. This marks the earliest starting day of the (to date) 6 Desert Bus events. The event lasted [insert days here] and ended on [insert date here].

Drivers

Driver	Shift Start	Total Money Raised On Shift	Points Earned	Bus Crashes
James	Friday @ 9:00PM	$24,289.38 Raised on shift	1 point	0 crashes
Paul	Saturday @ 9:00AM	$29,990.16 Raised on shift	1 point	1 crash
Matt	Saturday @ 9:00PM	$16,854.39 Raised on shift	0 points	3 (!!!) crashes
Cam	Sunday @ 9:00AM	$38,162.81 Raised on shift	2 points	1 crash (Liz's fault)
Ashton	Sunday @ 9:00PM	$25,315.10 Raised on shift	0 points	1 crash
Kathleen	Monday @ 9:00AM	$44,677.27 Raised on shift	2 points	0 crashes
Johnny	Monday @ 9:00PM	$19,182.20 Raised on shift	0 points	1 crash (blamed on "Math" Wiggins)
Bill	Tuesday @ 9:00AM	$xx,xxx.xx Raised on shift	---	1 crash (distracted by Yahtzee)
Graham	Tuesday @ 9:00PM	$xx,xxx.xx Raised on shift	---	x crashes
Tally	Wednesday @ 9:00AM	$xx,xxx.xx Raised on shift	---	x crashes
Alex	Wednesday @ 9:00PM	$xx,xxx.xx Raised on shift	---	x crashes
Morgan	Thursday @ 9:00AM	$xx,xxx.xx Raised on shift	---	x crashes
Jeremy	Thursday @ 9:00PM	$xx,xxx.xx Raised on shift	---	x crashes
MORE TO COME?!?
Totals	Total Hours	$219,648.61 raised	7 points	8 crashes

Milestones

• There was an auction for a Firefly script. Mikey Neumann offered a prop sword from Serenity if the auction went to $10,000. The auction reached $3,000 before reaching Going Twice. Steve Dengler, who was driving at the time, used Fugiman to proxy bid $10,000, making it the largest increase in a bid in Desert Bus history, beating Notch's space bid on the uncut Innistrad rares from Desert Bus 5. (I caught this partway through, so someone may have to fix the details).

• At 6:46PM Moonbase Local, the lifetime donation total SKYROCKETED over the $1,000,000 lifetime donation mark. Much cheer was had by all. The chat asploded. Gangnams were styled. And the childrens were happy. WIL PLAID.

• The Chat looked, looked with their special eyes.

• William Shatner (!!!!!!!!!) was actively watching and tweeting with the Desert Bus twitter account during Prime Time hours on 20 November 2012. He was actually watching DURING the Million Dollar Moment.

Notable Memes

"High Denglervision"

This year, Steve Dengler is sponsoring the gear for HD broadcast. Where HD stands for "High Denglervision".

"One DesertBuck"

A DesertBuck is $22,805, the total raised by Desert Bus 1. Two DesertBucks is $45,610, and so on.

"Well Plaid"

Originated as smacktalk during a live auction by dave_random. It has taken over for Well Dong from DB5 for usage instead of Well Done.

"Soooo in!"

Thanks to a challenge for 'Kate and Kathleen give horrible advice', So In became the way to describe hip/happening/well-pretty-much-anything.

"My braaaaand!"

Due to repeated viewings of a 1-800-CONTACTS commercial, "My Braaaaaaand!" and "Look, look with your special eyes," were exclaimed randomly during the marathon.

"I have the weirdest [insert word here] right now."

Referencing the line "I have the weirdest boner right now" from the television show "Community." Boner has been replaced, because children.

"And the winner is... no donor account!"

Man, that guy wins everything.

Six Dollar Secret

Like the Five Dollar Facts from Desert Bus 5, a donor pledged $6 for every secret shared during Desert Bus 6.

Cloning the Pig

Lord Dengler saw fit to duplicate an auction lot for a custom made N7 jacket from Mass Effect. Such benevolence shall be henceforth known as "cloning the pig."

"Do you even LIFT?"

It's rarely used in its actual form. It's used more often in places such as auctions ("Do you even SNIPE?") or when criticizing Matt's driving ("Do you even BUS?").

"Whale Dong"

The evolution of the "Well Dong" meme from DB5. It actually spawned late in DB5, but never grew to full fruition until DB6.

"Burma-Shave"

Appearing by roads / Were these old ads / Selling a product / Used by dads / Burma Shave

"Errmahgherd (and variations thereof)"

Borrowing from the Ermagherd girl meme, the chat has taken to ermahgherd-ing up all KINDS of crazy bussing things (ex. durrverrr kerm for Driver Cam)

"Sir Digby Chicken Seizure"

The now official name of the Seizure Chicken hat. A reference to the character from "That Mitchell and Webb Look".

"QWOP Cam"

For some reason the Engineering camera developed a glitch after the Key and Peele "East/West Game" skit where everyone became stuttery and jittery with all the actions. This lead to the utter breaking of the chat and mostly everyone at the Moonbase. Unfortunately, the feed needed to be restarted, and that fixed QWOP Cam.

Achievements

Unlocked Achievements

• On The Road Again - Score 1 point
• Don't Stop Me Now! - We Crash The Bus
• Excellent Posture - Someone balances something on their head
• Fancy Hat - Someone puts pants on their head
• Two heads are better than one - Two people sing a duet
• Houston, We Have a Problem - Feed goes down
• Gather Around Children - Bill's mom tells a story
• Prize Pig - A pig is sweetened
• Radio Silence - No one posts in chat for 30 seconds
• Right in the FACE - Any Desert Bus related post on Facebook receives more than 1000 likes
• Insecticide - First bug splat of Desert Bus 6
• Choral Reef - More than 10 people singing on camera simultaneously
• Dog Catcher - Someone in chat notices Spot the dog
• Ghost Ride the Whip - A driver dances besides the chair, while driving
• Can You STEP?! - Two bidders trash-talk during an auction
• We <3 Handmade - Awarded when a Craft-Along item auctions for over $2,000
• Accident Free - A driver completes his shift without crashing
• Feed Dump - 10 people on camera are wearing hats at the same time
• Might of the Masses - When a donation drive reaches over $2,000
• Well Dong - A driver plays another video game while also playing Desert Bus simultaneously
• Gender Fender Bender - Someone cross dresses on camera
• 50 Shades of Eh - Fan Fiction is read on air
• Somebody Has to Change - Two Desert Bus crew members unintentionally wear the same item of clothing
• Chilling Out - Two or fewer people in the room
• Shut it Down! - Someone's mobile phone goes off on camera
• Fake PHD - The First
• We're Helping! - When the chat can solve a problem no one at the Moonbase can
• First Blood - Curtis cut his head open
• Bid for Power - An auction goes for over $5,000
• Kickin' it up a Notch - We receive our first 5-digit donation.
• Crash the Gates - An auction's opening bid is over $1,000
• QWOPing Balls - Someone finds something FAR too funny
• Diabetic Pig - 10 pigs are sweetened
• Who's That?! - The crew manages to get an outsider on camera
• Hot Swap - A piece of equipment needs to be replaced, mid-run
• It's So Cute! - The crew has a live animal on the camera (Buster)
• Emergent Gameplay - A driver claims to have found a way to make the game more engaging
• Saturday Morning - A sing-along of an old cartoon theme song
• One... MILLION Dollars - We hit $1 million lifetime total
• Road Trip! - We reach 5 points

Locked Achievements

• The Long Haul - We reach 10 points
• Glazed Ham - 25 pigs are sweetened
• Trend-Setter - Desert Bus trends anywhere in the top 10 on Twitter
• Hammertime - Someone gets IRL banhammered by one of the chat mods
• Winter Wonderland - It snows during Desert Bus

Hidden Achievements

• WHARRGARBL - ???
• It's Named Nick - ???

Links to various Desert Bus 6 related pages

Official Desert Bus 6 YouTube highlight reel

Official Desert Bus 6 Flickr

Official Desert Bus SubReddit