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Sponsor Thank You: Privateer Press
November 20, 2012 at 02:00 AM PST
Posted by Ashton

Privateer Press, the award-winning publishers of No Quarter Magazine and the explosively popular Warmachine and Hordes tabletop miniature game lines has joined Desert Bus as a sponsor this year!

Privateer has been a driving force in tabletop gaming since it released The Iron Kingdoms to critical acclaim and industry awards in 2001. Over the next few years they hit two more out of the park with the steampunk inspired Warmachine in 2003 and the feral, monstrous Hoardes in 2006, and has continued to expand their existing game lines and produce other games of immersive, breathtaking quality like their new role playing release, Five Fingers: Port of Deceit.

It’s an exciting time to be a player of Privateer’s games and that excitement is coming to you with a whole horde of swag from this awesome company.

Surprise Live Auction: A Guest Appearance in PvP!
November 20, 2012 at 12:27 AM PST
Posted by Kara

Scott Kurtz is on the phone right now and is auctioning off a guest appearance in Player vs. Player!!!!?!?!

Join in the chat and bid now!

Come now!

UPDATE: Scott will be auctioning off ANOTHER guest appearance at 9pm on Tuesday, November 20th (tonight!)

Sponsor Thank You: Paizo
November 20, 2012 at 12:00 AM PST
Posted by Ashton

One of the biggest pen and paper RPG companies in the world Paizo started developing content for the Dungeons and Dragons system a decade ago. Since then they’ve launched their popular Pathfinder tabletop adventure game, supporting it with rule books, maps, miniatures, and even comics. If you’re interested in fantasy gaming Pathfinder will have something to satisfy you, while if you prefer to enjoy your fantasy adventures in a solitary manner you can enjoy the works published by Paizo’s Planet Stories fiction imprint.

Call In: Bill Corbett
November 19, 2012 at 10:00 PM PST
Posted by Ashton

Prepare yourselves: Bill Corbett is calling in this morning at 9AM!

This is an amazing surprise for Desert Bus as Bill is a legend in the geek comedy world! He used to write for Mystery Science Theatre 3000 and also provided the voice of Crow 2.0 as well as various other characters! He’s also a performer and writer for Rifftrax, a hilarious mock-fest where Bill and his peers rip apart bad movies in the style of an in-movie commentary. Scientists have recently proven that Rifftracks are the only force on Earth strong enough to counter the so-called “Twilight Suck-Wave” enough to low the sparkly vampires movies’ leathality to “watchable”.

Bill will be calling in on Tuesday, November 20, 2012 9:00 AM PST, so post any questions in the Comments section of this post and tune in for the impending doom!

Brand New Live Auction: CERN!!!
November 19, 2012 at 08:21 PM PST
Posted by Ashton

The CERN Awesome Pack goes up for auction on Thursday at 4:00 PM PST!

Also known as the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN has donated some amazing items that are an absolute must for any nuclearphile or aspiring mad scientist!

This pack includes the following items:

  • 1 CERN baseball cap
  • 1 bracelet inspired by the geometry of the magnetic field surrounding the Large Hadron Collider beam pipes
  • 1 keychain containing an ACTUAL piece of LHC superconducting cable
  • 2 CERN pens
  • 1 CERN lanyard
  • 1 CERN compass
  • 1 CERN tote bag
  • 3 unused CERN punch cards (not available ANYWHERE)
  • A Science t-shirt
  • A Prestigious Discoveries at CERN book
  • A copy of the Flight of the AMS’ Photo book about the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
  • A copy of “Voyage to the Heart of Matter” pop-up book of the ATLAS experiement
  • “The Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment at the LHC” book
  • An adorable plush Higgs Boson particle!

WHEW! HOLY CRAP THAT IS A LOT OF STUFF!
GO BID FOR SCIENCE AND THE CHILDREN!

Surprise Addition: Bill Corbett!
November 19, 2012 at 07:47 PM PST
Posted by Ashton

One of the legends of geek comedy, is now calling into Desert Bus tomorrow morning at 9am!

Bill Corbett was a writer and voice on Mystery Science Theater 3000 and is a writer and performer for the Rifftrax!

Check out the Rifftrax website here and tune in tomorrow morning!

 

 

 

re: Skeletor and his Bony Pony!
November 19, 2012 at 07:14 PM PST
Posted by Ashton

 

Chip Nixon is the winner of the Skeletor and his Bony Pony contest:

 

Thanks for all of your entries! This was a really tough one to judge and all of you who managed to get art in within the twenty minute timeline deserve high fives all around! May all your ponies be bony, skele-bronies!