solarbird | mst3k and desert bus

Very busy today, but here’s what’s fun today:

1: The annual Desert Bus for Hope play marathon is running! Desert Bus is probably the worst video game ever made – this was by design – wherein you drive a bus in realtime from Tuscon to Los Vegas in realtime. There are no stops, nothing happens. It does get dark and one or two bugs may hit your windshield. When you get to Los Vegas, you get one point, and start heading back.

In other words, this was Penn and Teller pulling an Andy Kauffman on videogaming. And where this goes from unmitigated pain to hilarity is that the whole thing is hosted by Loading Ready Run, a group of comedians from Victoria, who are hosts. No; what makes it hilarious is the chat stream running in parallel, with which they interact. The chat stream is critical.

Here’s the twitch stream, and here’s the official website. For me, as a Zeta Shift regular (midnight-6am Cascadian time), things really start getting hilarious late-night. But Dawn Patrol, Alpha Flight, and Nightwatch all have their things.

2: Mystery Science Theatre 3000 is attempting a comeback; here’s the Kickstarter. They broke US$1,000,000 in the first day. They’re hoping to break US$2,000,000 today, and they’ve announced the new host. Joel is driving this, and he specifically wants a new host, because it’s no good if it doesn’t stay fresh. But some of the old crew will be involved, so the flavour doesn’t go away.

As Joel said, ‘you can take MST3K out of Minneapolis, but you can’t take the Minneapolis out of MST3K.’

Anyway, those are fun, there are updates, enjoy and possibly donate. “Think about it, won’t you?”

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