Hello Internet!
Today we have another very important PSA from Daddy Ashton. Know absolutely that we adore all of you, and are endlessly grateful for your incredible support. That said, it turns out there’s not actually a lot of room on the moon. And it kinda smells bad.
Here, we’ll let Daddy Ashton explain:
Ashton’s right guys. The Moonbase really is quite small. That being said, please please PLEASE ask the LRR crew if you are even *thinking* about coming to the Moonbase at ALL during November. There is ONE toilet, NO shower, and NO spare room in which to sleep. And there is very limited room in which to even sit.
Just my two cents.
The last part in this video shows pretty well how small the moonbase really is (starts around 7:55):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lJzetYuhK4
So what you’re saying is that if you want to come and “help out,” you should A) make arrangements for a place to sleep and shower, B) have a good idea of what you can add to the proceedings, C) contact the crew once you have A and B sorted, and make sure they need someone to do B, and then D), reconsider coming, anyway, as the travel money is generally better spent as a direct donation to DBFH. If you have a place to sleep, have something to do, have contacted the crew and gotten approval to come, and decided that your best contribution to the fundraiser would be made by being there in person, then maybe consider showing up. Otherwise, revisit all steps in order.
Having tried to organize people before, a “hey I can do X, Y, or Z” is much, much more helpful than “do you have anything for me to do” ever will be.
The crew aren’t there to let you crash on their couches. They’ve probably all got friends coming into town during DBFH who are going to do exactly that. You will most likely have to rent a hotel room for the duration of your stay if you plan on showing up.
There is, as stated above, both in the video, and in Kirsten’s comment, very limited space in the office. People who aren’t really there to do anything are generally more in the way than anything. The moonbase is a busy place, and even more so during Desert Bus.
Having watched the DBFH stream since DBFH2: Bus Harder, I’ve seen attendance balloon, and you can tell when people are just in the way. With the number of people who’ll be in and out of the moonbase, it’s really hard to not be in the way unless you have a purpose in being where you are.
Seeing someone I had met a few years ago on DB was awesome, but I understand the crew’s point because honestly, things get pretty helter skelter up in there.
Off topic, can somebody tell me where the ‘Daddy’ bit came from? I remember Graham frequently saying “Help daddy with on this one”, or something along the lines during DB5 but no clue as to why.
Wow, you are right daddy Ashton, I should pay exorbitant amounts of money to schedule a flight to the moon, that way I could hang out on camera and be a part of of the marathon.
Be forewarned I really need it to be quite for my 3 hour nap from 6 to 9 every evening and the lights will have to be turned off and everyone will need to be quite when I got to bed at 11. And I tend to get grumpy if someone doesn’t make my garlic curry every morning.
I look forward to contributing my extensive talents at semi-erotic wood carving LIVE. It should really increase your viewership, but I wont ever sell my art, once im done carving it I always use a belt sander to slowly transform the block of wood into a fine mist.
wow, I was quite wrong with my quiet.
MrPayneTrayne, starting around 1:50 of this video from last year’s Desert Bus should answer your question.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQmAclhFh3Y&feature=relmfu
Thanks for that Chemistring!
But…. but…
If I can’t come then how will I become Internet famous?
Check out the Loading Time of Cleaning the MoonBase for an updated tour.
I would actually pay to see some semi-erotic wood carving.
Having paid a brief visit last year, I can say with a great deal of certainty that space is incredibly limited. The camera lies about the width of the room, nevermind the depth. As much as I’d like to visit again, I’ll probably refrain – I don’t think there’s anything I could contribute, beyond another case of NOS, that I couldn’t just as easily provide from home. An exception may be made if I win some sort of prize, as that’ll save them shipping it, but that’s just a benefit of living in the same town.
Honestly, from what I can tell from Loading Time, and De5ert Bus, that room is cramped even when it’s not in Desert Bus mode. Not that I’m even considering coming. Lord knows that I’m too busy with college, and my money’s tapped besides.
Points being made:
1) Make contact with the crew before departing for the Moonbase.
2) If you don’t live in the greater moon area, make arrangements with anyone but the crew for sleeping and showering.
3) Try and figure out something useful that you can do to help the crew. Ask if that thing needs doing, and ask if you can do it.
Hopefully, everyone will be respectful and actually leave the poor guys alone this year. I gave up on watching the event last year when (among other things) I got sick of seeing a room with twenty people in it, only two of whom were actually LRR crew.
Do you need someone to come do laundry and household chores that cast members have neglected during Desert Bus? Perhaps someone to follow that cast maid around and make sure they don’t steal things?
Haha, how comfortable would YOU be having your laundry done by a possibly-not-very-familiar volunteer? If they were to go that route, I bet they would have someone in their volunteer pool signed-up for that.
Anyway, it’s been 5 years that they’ve been doing this, so you’ve got to assume they’ve been able to anticipate MOST of what needs to happen (and even make some contingency plans to accommodate for unexpected things). It seems like all the volunteers working together are very organized — ages in advance. Everyone wants to put on a super-great, entertaining show during the Most Boring Game Ever marathon, and they are becoming like experts. .
On the original topic: I can attest that last year it was surprisingly populated (if not outright busy) up in that Moonbase even when attempting to step in at the “quiet” times of the middle-of-the-night / early morning. The scheduling has definitely evened out since the early years! So that’s another fyi, if anyone out there was wondering about that aspect.
OH, Also! Hopefully less people means less chance of the whole crew getting SUPER SICK by the end of the week.
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