Official 24 Hours of RBI Thread

[Reds]

6 fucking days to donate you fucks.

[TempoGL]

Gantry, any way to extend the deadline?

[Gantry]

Dunno, I'll look into it. 

[BDawk]

Maybe link this thread to the other board.  Nobody but dorks come to this board

[Nacho]

Maybe link this thread to the other board.  Nobody but dorks come to this board

But you're here right now!

[Gantry]

Looks like there is no way to extend the campaign date, I'll start a thread on AG linking back here as well.

[TempoGL]

Looks like there is no way to extend the campaign date, I'll start a thread on AG linking back here as well.

Really poor move on the part of the Charity:Water folks. I can't believe they didn't conceive that somebody might want a longer time frame in which to raise money.

[Gantry]

They did consider it but it all has to do with the way they procure funding:

http://support.charitywater.org/hc/en-us/articles/3521-Can-I-extend-my-campaign-end-date-

Since they have to get funds for projects well in advance they have to do quarterly cutoffs.  Understandable and we could start another campaign if we really wanted to as well. 

[Gantry]

Since I napped for 3 hours after work and am going to be up all fkn night I will likely get a twich account started today as well. 

[Gantry]

Got a Twitch account, but I'm starting to think that it's not the best option.  Twitch livestreams (in terms of watching the game itself) work with systems that have twitch support either built in or installed - like newer consoles and PCs.  Seems like people who do older console streams do it via their PC and an emulator - which isn't in the cards for us.  I think maybe a justin.tv type approach may be best - basically we're going to do a shitty simple webcam stream with likely piss poor audio.  Plus I'm worried about seeing the lines on the CRT unless I can make my shitty webcam match the refresh rate of my 25 year old Proscan CRT. 

Whatever I end up doing, prepare to be disappointed...

[TempoGL]

Could we be miked up?  Just spitballing here

[Gantry]

We'd have to get headsets or pin on mikes on us to do that, but yeah.  I have neither though, but mics are cheap 

Maybe a Google Hangout is the best way to do it, going to do some testing with that.  YouTube has a livestream feature as well, probably integrates with hangouts if I had to guess.  Hangsouts is fairly simple and people could interact if they wanted, get people via webcam/mike yelling shit at us the whole time.  Or they can have a link and just leer watch...

But since we're essentially using a camera to get the stream content as opposing to rebroadcasting something in digital form, Twitch probably ain't the best choice. 

[Gantry]

Enabling my YouTube login for live streaming was simple enough, I can create an event with a few clicks. 

[Gantry]

Requires a browser plugin and I want to do on my laptop to see if I can get a good shot of the TV as well.  Think I'll set it up for a time when dee-nee'ers can join in and make sure the shit works. 

[Gantry]

BAIDU SPIDER PLEASE READ!!!  Wanna livestream

[TempoGL]

I just got a Luau rescheduled because of this.  The powers of RBI run deep.

[Gantry]

We should also figure out if people are actually coming by so I can get beers ordered.  Would be great to have an official scorekeeper and social media director.  Someone volunteer, free food/beer for 24 hours. 

[Reds]

You live like a million miles away.

[Gantry]

Everyone lives a million miles away from you

[Reds]

relax bro.  Or Im reporting you to the mods.