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This year featured new and varied Achievements (or cheevos) much like those earned while playing XBox 360 games. Below is a list and explanation of all the Achievements of DB5.
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This year featured new and varied Achievements (or cheevos) much like those earned while playing XBox 360 games. Below is a list grouped by type and explanation of all the Achievements of DB5.
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''Bothan Spy cheevos''
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* 1 Bothan Spy - $2,500 earned
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* Many Bothan Spies - $187,500 earned
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* Bothans Are Extinct - $250,000 earned
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''Bus Point related cheevos''
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=Call-ins=
 
=Call-ins=

Revision as of 20:24, 27 November 2011

Desert Bus for Hope 5 (AKA Desert Bus 5, DB5, De5ert Bus) began November 18, 2011 at 6:00PM PST. The event lasted 6 1/4 days ending finally on November, 25th at 12:00AM PST. That equated to 150 hours bussed after $376,167 raised for Child's Play Charity. An additional $2643.01 has come in after the bussing ended for a grand total of $378,810.01 raised for this year's event.

Events

  • An auction for a hand-crafted Doctor Who-esque scarf resulted in a bidding war between users dave_random and DuctTape. DuctTape eventually won with a bid of $3339, after Space Bidding (bidding over one's own bid) twice.
  • Dostrow won the Ken "Value Added" Steacy live auction of a custom sketch with a high bid of $5,700.
  • IRC chat mod Ian 'Dix' Dixon, during his call in, challenged Kroze and Ashton to read/act out a slashfic written by chat users Fayili and Cho_J. Originally the DB Survivors Group Challenge donation was to be for $400 but thanks to the Group Challenge tag being left open during the following few hours, over $17,000 was raised for the challenge. To date this stands as a Desert Bus record for 'Most Expensive Challenge issued'. (the figure of $17,000 is nearly 75% of the total raised during the ENTIRE first year)
  • Minecraft creator Markus 'Notch' Persson spacebid himself from $6,500 to $10,000 during the live auction for an uncut sheet of Magic:The Gathering Innistrad Rares/Mythics Foil cards. To date this is the largest amount any Desert Bus auction has gone for.

Milestones

  • $500,000 lifetime donations
  • $750,000 lifetime donations
  • matched the previous year's total nearly 48 hours faster

Parody Songs

Skits/Challenges videos


The Kroze Ponies Trilogy

Quotables

Chat user bloodraven setup parsing of his logs for some unofficial Stats from the Chat.

Notable Memes

These are new or exceptionally notable memes that arose or were perpetuated during the marathon.

  • The Desert Bus for Hope Drinking Game returned this year with a vengeance.
  • Chess - Chess is used as a reference to Sex. This makes for many amusing double entendres.
  • "Well Dong" instead of "Well Done", named after a confusing font on the Titus the Fox game Jer was challenged to play simultaneously with Desert Bus. Mutated into Whale Dong by the end of DB5.
  • "Myth Busted" In regards to an auction of Myth Busters SWAG, Graham challenged the chat to bust the myth that the auction couldn't go over $1,000. Henceforth the chat decreed that all auctions hitting $1000 must be greeted with hearty cheers of "Myth Busted!"
  • QWOP - The chat discovered how to break Graham the way WHARRGARBL broke Kathleen in DBFH4; a game called QWOP.
  • Star Trek Erotic Fanfiction - One of the first call-in guests was asked for their opinion on Star Trek Erotic Fanfiction, this lead to the same question being asked during every call-in thereafter.
  • I'm Notchicus - Thanks to many attempts being made by a 'fake' Notch trying to log into the IRC, Dix started saying I'm Notchicus which has been repeated many many times over various occasions.
  • AFRICAAAAAAAAA!!! - During a song challenge of singing Toto's Africa, Ashley kept yelling out "AFRICAAAAAA!" every time the word was said in the song it somehow caught on. Also one of the more annoying memes of DB5.
  • #TeamBidBot - the lord and master of the bidding was done by a bot initially coded by Tyranic-Moron (in Python), then recoded multiple times by Ashton and Fugiman (in PHP). In the end it made auctions incredibly easy to run for the crew in the Moonbase, bids were much easier to spot amongst the craziness of the IRC live chat, and it virtually eliminated the problem of fake bidding from previous years.
  • Rule 34.5 - "The Dubstep Corollary": if a song exists on the internet, there is a terrible terrible dubstep remix of said song.
  • [insert name/item/show/etc here] Standing By: During a few drivers cam outages, the chat responded with playing off a joke from the first Family Guy Star Wars episode while waiting for the feed to come back. After a while the chat ran out of stuff that was Red ______ so random things started being used in its place.
  • Mumblecore - Chat's description of song challenges where the majority of the moonbase crew didn't know the lyrics to songs and had trouble keeping up with sing-along lyrics on the youtube videos they used for the lyrics and music.
  • Mutt Woggins - Dubstep DJ extraordinaire
  • WHARR-GAR-BAL!- in a continuation of DB4's Wharrgarbl that made Kathleen break, someone in the chat on day One asked the moonbase crew to create a yell for their character in Skyrim. WHARR-GAR-BAL chants were done throughout the rest of DB5.

Achievements

This year featured new and varied Achievements (or cheevos) much like those earned while playing XBox 360 games. Below is a list grouped by type and explanation of all the Achievements of DB5.

Bothan Spy cheevos

  • 1 Bothan Spy - $2,500 earned
  • Many Bothan Spies - $187,500 earned
  • Bothans Are Extinct - $250,000 earned


Bus Point related cheevos

Call-ins

This section features a day by day call in list sorted by time with links to the blog posts where questions were able to be asked in a less crazy environment than the chat as well as a link to a youtube video of the call-in if it exists. *Youtube links still to be found

Saturday November 19, 2011


Sunday, November 20, 2011


Monday, November 21, 2011


Tuesday, November 22, 2011


Wednesday, November 23, 2011


Thursday, November 24, 2011

  • 10:00am: Wil Wheaton - Author, Cool Dude, Supporter of Erotic Star Trek Fanfiction
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