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Desert Bus for Hope 2010 promises more punishment for charity
It's that time of year again -- when a profoundly boring unreleased game is played for days on end in an effort to procure other, better games for hospitalized kids. Desert Bus for Hope is a marathon in which the members of LoadingReadyRun play "Desert Bus," a minigame from the canceled Sega CD game Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors, over and over again in shifts, beginning tomorrow, November 19 at 9PM ET. This year, instead of enduring the monotony of Desert Bus (in which players drive a bus from Tucson to Las Vegas, never going faster than 45 miles per hour) for four hours at a time, the members of LoadingReadyRun plan to play in twenty-four-hour shifts. And they'll keep playing as long as donations to Child's Play continue to come in. In addition, fans will be able to donate money to throw "virtual pies" at the team in an online minigame that will be hosted by The Escapist. One lucky LoadingReadyRun cast member will even get a real pie in the face. We'd say we also look forward to the charity event that will directly follow this one. You know, the effort to raise funds for Loading Ready Run's psychiatric treatment -- but they're Canadian. Their Desert Bus-related PTSD will be treated for free.
1337 nerd rappers wax gaming, b-boy style
There's something simultaneously charming and repulsive about this rap video by Canadian comedy-guys Loading.Ready.Run., performing under the nom de guerre of 64K. Power Gloves, Nintendo belts, sideways caps, and an uncanny ability to remain rhythmless throughout the entire song compel me to close my browser and forget I ever watched the thing ... but then, then I remember all the great gamer in-jokes and maybe it's all right after all."The master of unlocking"? Exactly! 1337 has all the subtlety and clumsiness of that classic Resident Evil line, put to music then captured on video with a fish-eye lens. Oh no, I'm torn again. For the morbidly curious, the whole thing is embedded after the break.
