It's easily one of the most brilliant and admirable things anyone has ever done with the power of the internet not to mention it's highly entertaining. Dat bus.
The team just hit $211,000 dollars, beating out last year's massive total. They've still got at least two days to go.
It took everyone jumping up and down yelling PONY GLUE to rally the chat and donate the final five grand to break last year's total within five minutes.
The people involved in Desert Bus for hope are heroes in so many ways. Really is a great thing they're doing.
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colapart legend, part devil... all manBalls deepIcrontian
edited November 2011
I managed to survive in chat for about 4 hours under the name "eatadickclown" and they only kicked me from chat after I had announced I was leaving and was about to close out.
Also, somehow they got my challenge to dance to dance to She's a Pony by Wooden Toaster.
My favorite part of that is that WHILE they were singing a song you can here someone say, "Is that guy's name Eat a dick clown?" "Yeah, banhammer that guy."
It's 2AM PST. For UPS Kingpin, it's 5AM local time. What were we staying awake for?
For Kingpin's legendary donation challenge. Most of you have heard us bust out the Flava Flav YEAH BOYYEEEE when we jump on vent. Kingpin got the entire LRR crew to yell it while wearing clocks and such. It was incredible:
Also, legendary night tonight because of the chat trolling post Pony stream. I don't know how Cola managed to get away with a name like "eatadickclown" while talking smack then entire time, while I get BANNED for saying "Mods are asleep - poast ponies!"
So, achievement unlocked - first desert bus ban, I guess. Got back in, though, so it was K.
I should also add - Cola was the one who directly replied to the mod that banned me and appealed my ban WITH the "eatadickclown" username, and he STILL DIDN'T GET A BAN.
If you guys aren't watching Desert Bus, you are SERIOUSLY missing out on some of the finest, most exciting entertainment available on the internet right now.
Moments ago, they auctioned off a full, uncut sheet of Magic The Gathering Instraad foil RARES. Upon opening bids, it quickly hit $5,000. Two or three people were locked in this massive bid war.
Suddenly, NOTCH.
Notch joins the chat and asks "how do I bid?" The chat starts going NUTS. Notch tried to bid $6,000 but he couldn't as he wasn't voiced in chat yet (able to bid). So to troll, the top bidder pushed his bid up to $5,996. Since the bids have to increase by $5, he blocked Notch from going $6,000. The chat exploded at this.
Notch gets voiced, and he throws down a bid of $6,500. The other guys immediately dropped out - not that they couldn't roll with sixty five hundred dollars, but because everyone knew that no one in chat had pockets deep enough to beat Notch.
So it was Notch's loot, and everyone starts to encourage him to SPACE BID. Space Bidding is where an auction leader out-bids themselves just for lulz. So a confused Notch asked what Space Bid was. The chat quickly explained it, then suddenly, SPACE BID. Notch threw down TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS on the sheet. Everyone was frigging NUTS. It was unreal. A massive, massive new single auction total record.
They gave it to him for $10,000, then upon his request, the entire room riverdanced to dubstep.
If you guys aren't watching Desert Bus, you are SERIOUSLY missing out on some of the finest, most exciting entertainment available on the internet right now.
Moments ago, they auctioned off a full, uncut sheet of Magic The Gathering Instraad foil RARES. Upon opening bids, it quickly hit $5,000. Two or three people were locked in this massive bid war.
Suddenly, NOTCH.
Notch joins the chat and asks "how do I bid?" The chat starts going NUTS. Notch tried to bid $6,000 but he couldn't as he wasn't voiced in chat yet (able to bid). So to troll, the top bidder pushed his bid up to $5,996. Since the bids have to increase by $5, he blocked Notch from going $6,000. The chat exploded at this.
Notch gets voiced, and he throws down a bid of $6,500. The other guys immediately dropped out - not that they couldn't roll with sixty five hundred dollars, but because everyone knew that no one in chat had pockets deep enough to beat Notch.
So it was Notch's loot, and everyone starts to encourage him to SPACE BID. Space Bidding is where an auction leader out-bids themselves just for lulz. So a confused Notch asked what Space Bid was. The chat quickly explained it, then suddenly, SPACE BID. Notch threw down TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS on the sheet. Everyone was frigging NUTS. It was unreal. A massive, massive new single auction total record.
They gave it to him for $10,000, then upon his request, the entire room riverdanced to dubstep.
Unreal. This whole thing is simply incredible.
Goodlord how do I get into this chat!!!!????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
MUST DONATE MONIEZ
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colapart legend, part devil... all manBalls deepIcrontian
edited November 2011
Watch the thing and click the live chat button thingy
Desert Bus 5 ended a minute ago. Final donated total: $376,253.01. Unbelievable.
I was bummed that I couldn't donate very much this year because of being laid off, but as a result, I got to watch almost the entire event. It is such a bittersweet moment, now, because you become close to these people. The people in the chat, and the people on the video stream become a sort of family. Every single moment of each day, these people are interacting with you as a viewer. And now, that's it until next year.
I seriously have withdrawal for a few days after this ends. I'll miss it, but what a fun ride it's been.
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It took everyone jumping up and down yelling PONY GLUE to rally the chat and donate the final five grand to break last year's total within five minutes.
It's good to see the Bus-ing is going so well this year.
Also, somehow they got my challenge to dance to dance to She's a Pony by Wooden Toaster.
For Kingpin's legendary donation challenge. Most of you have heard us bust out the Flava Flav YEAH BOYYEEEE when we jump on vent. Kingpin got the entire LRR crew to yell it while wearing clocks and such. It was incredible:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/m4DSVKj40EM
Also, legendary night tonight because of the chat trolling post Pony stream. I don't know how Cola managed to get away with a name like "eatadickclown" while talking smack then entire time, while I get BANNED for saying "Mods are asleep - poast ponies!"
So, achievement unlocked - first desert bus ban, I guess. Got back in, though, so it was K.
Haters gonna hate.
Moments ago, they auctioned off a full, uncut sheet of Magic The Gathering Instraad foil RARES. Upon opening bids, it quickly hit $5,000. Two or three people were locked in this massive bid war.
Suddenly, NOTCH.
Notch joins the chat and asks "how do I bid?" The chat starts going NUTS. Notch tried to bid $6,000 but he couldn't as he wasn't voiced in chat yet (able to bid). So to troll, the top bidder pushed his bid up to $5,996. Since the bids have to increase by $5, he blocked Notch from going $6,000. The chat exploded at this.
Notch gets voiced, and he throws down a bid of $6,500. The other guys immediately dropped out - not that they couldn't roll with sixty five hundred dollars, but because everyone knew that no one in chat had pockets deep enough to beat Notch.
So it was Notch's loot, and everyone starts to encourage him to SPACE BID. Space Bidding is where an auction leader out-bids themselves just for lulz. So a confused Notch asked what Space Bid was. The chat quickly explained it, then suddenly, SPACE BID. Notch threw down TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS on the sheet. Everyone was frigging NUTS. It was unreal. A massive, massive new single auction total record.
They gave it to him for $10,000, then upon his request, the entire room riverdanced to dubstep.
Unreal. This whole thing is simply incredible.
Goodlord how do I get into this chat!!!!????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
MUST DONATE MONIEZ
Lol I just realized. :b Thanks though man!
*bro-hoof*
Desert Bus 5 ended a minute ago. Final donated total: $376,253.01. Unbelievable.
I was bummed that I couldn't donate very much this year because of being laid off, but as a result, I got to watch almost the entire event. It is such a bittersweet moment, now, because you become close to these people. The people in the chat, and the people on the video stream become a sort of family. Every single moment of each day, these people are interacting with you as a viewer. And now, that's it until next year.
I seriously have withdrawal for a few days after this ends. I'll miss it, but what a fun ride it's been.
It's honestly a really weird feeling.
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