Here’s a very stange but interesting link to something going on this Thanksgiving weekend.
This is put on by an Internet group called LoadingReadyRun.com. They are a group of kids in Victoria BC that make videos that they hope will become viral. Some do, some don’t but this weekend they are playing a game called Desert Bus. They are raising money for a charity called Childs Play which helps kids somehow.
Desert Bus is a game by Penn & Teller that was never actually sold but somehow got onto the internet. It consists of driving an empty school bus from Tucson to Las Vegas at 45 MPH in real time. There are no cars on the road and no real scenery except for an occasional tree and supposedly a bug splats on the windshield at about hour 5. If you make it to Las Vegas you earn a point and have to decide if you are going to drive back to try to earn another point. I guess you can do this as long as you want. If the bus goes off the road and crashes it gets towed back to Tucson in real time and you can start all over.
At any rate it’s interesting to watch the feeds and see sleep deprived kids doing silly things.
I don’t get it. How do they make money?
Comment by Donna — Monday December 1, 2008 @ 5:45 pm
Donations
Comment by Don — Monday December 1, 2008 @ 5:47 pm
I understand that. But what is the deal? They just hope people will give them money, or is there some gimmick … i.e. a dollar a trip, etc?
Comment by Donna — Tuesday December 2, 2008 @ 9:57 pm
You should click on the link and you would see what kind of things they do to get people to donate. They have raised over $50,000 so far in 4 days just playing a really silly video game and doing silly stuff to get people to donate.
As an example one guy shaved his beard for a certain donation level. Another guy got his legs waxed. Lots of silly and stupid stuff that people seem to love to watch. At one point yesterday they had over 600 people on their chat application.
Comment by Don — Tuesday December 2, 2008 @ 10:12 pm
I noticed Yahoo covered this today.
Comment by Don — Thursday December 4, 2008 @ 9:28 am
Of course I clicked on the link and only saw a blog about what they are doing each day, buttons for viewing the driver cam, etc. and a donation meter. But I had to really hunt for the link on the donation process.
Comment by Donna — Thursday December 4, 2008 @ 5:46 pm