Ask Lemmy

Many of the songs I ripped and shared via Napster in the late 1900's continued to appear on legitimate platforms years later.

As a child I was body slammed on a bouncy castle by Weird Al Yankovic.

I ran in a 10km race and ended up taking a wrong turn. Everyone behind followed me. A small local newspaper interviewed me. I ended up in a quick tv segment and had a small write up in the paper.

The Daily Show flew out to my hometown for an investigative report on stolen Crimewatch signs.

I still have mine.

For a long time I was in the first image result if 'London goth' was typed into google.

I set up a SteamLink app onto a Raspberry Pi but I ran into a bug and couldn't get it to work correctly. Valve acknowledged that they were looking into fixing it but after a few weeks of checking, I just put it aside and forgot about it.

Well nearly a year later, the thought randomly popped into my head that I should check to see if they had fixed it. I went to the Steam Link section of Steam's forum, and sure enough, one of Valve's devs had posted a new version that fixed the issue.

... 30 seconds prior to me checking the forum.

I've never had something like that align so perfectly, but also for something so ridiculous as that.

I encoded one of the very first mp3's ever made, when it was still a "theoretical" model by Fraunhofer. I sung "I will survive" but in my very bad impression of William Shatner, accidentally posted it many years later on Napster, and found that copy following around many years after that on a torrent site. So, if you have a very old, very fake "Shatner" singing "I Will Survive", it might be me.

I'm pretty sure I am Lemmy's most commentest user.

I was among the first hundred people to join Reddit.

I worked with Linus Torvalds, met Carl Sagan, and caught a cold from Danny Elfman.

I was first to crack a code that appeared at the end of an episode of the Adult Swim show 12 Oz. Mouse. They sent me a T-shirt for it.

I’ve made breakfast for LeBron James, Kevin Love and also Denzel Washington. I was the breakfast cook in a hotel they stayed at. LeBron was a dick, never even said thank you. Denzel and Kevin were some of the nicest humans I’ve ever met.

I wrote for 7 or 8 books of a popular role playing game. Won an industry award at GenCon for one of them.

I took a picture that appeared in a Nintendo Power.

I spilled Diet Coke on Ann Coulter.

Ever been in room temperature? I’ve been to that room.

Obama followed me on Twitter

(He follows 500,000 people but hey…)

I have improved the lives of many people in small ways via my job as a therapist. The best part is that I know this for a fact by seeing the improvement over time. Therapy is, in some respects, about re-parenting people; the damage you help heal is intimate and permanent. You help people grow, literally. Very rewarding, again, in the long run.

up until Counterstrike went to 1.0, I was in the top 100 players off and on. My TFC clan hosted the first dedicated playable servers when it was released. The ladders would kill you if you jumped off them lol in the initial release.

I ran the second most popular counterstrike skins page for a few years

One week I decided to see how high I could rank in the gamespy/wql leaderboards and I peaked at 16 for the week. I got into the top 10 for the day a couple times. I remember facing most of the best players of that era. or at least the people that played on gamespy or world quake leaderboards reporting servers.

But I stopped playing and then the 1.0 version came out and my days off really took my edge off. I was never able to really get into it again. I've never played the latest version of it.

one time while I dropped acid and played it, I was so in the zone I had a 40+ killing streak. I never cheated but was banned from a lot of servers for dominating so much.

as a joke my friends and I would all play as teen pop stars or we'd pick silly names like mine was often "little yellow flower" lol because it would piss off the hardcore kids when we'd post screenshots of them getting crushed

I ran into voice actor John DiMaggio walking through LAX, and he was impressed that I recognized him.

I almost smashed into Robin Williams at the only computer store in Northern California in 1982.

I was walking around the game case while staring at the contents with 100% of my concentration only to realize at last second that I was about to suffer an imminent collision with someone. I look up and it's the guy who I watched on Mork and Mindy growing up.

The look on his face was something along the lines of 'who the hell is this weirdo'. I was so mortified.

Bonus, he died on the same day that I was part of a much suckier collision (5 car pile up that left me with permanent injuries).

Met and had a drink with lady Gaga. I did not believe it was her at first. She had dipped out of the venu after her show and came to a bar in Houston. Someone posted it on socials and the place became a zoo. They had to go into a side room and wait for a decent time to get out.

I wrote a homebrew Floridaman race for D&D that went viral

None of my actual works are ever actually appreciated, but I still see that damn thing from time to time

I have a few very minor commits to some fairly major Linux projects.

I once interviewed the former chancellor of West Germany, Helmut Schmidt, on a stage in Hamburg Schauspielhaus in front of thousands. It was also on TV.

I made the turtle subreddits custom Snoo logo.

I won a large online poker tournament (~5000 entries). It was for SCOOP (Spring Championship of Online Poker) and I was sent a very nice trophy and customized hoodie with my username on it.

Rap Battles of History said they liked my idea and used it as an example of a good idea to some other people.

I said "Neil Armstrong vs Jacques Cousteau: pioneers of the final frontiers" or something to that effect.

In the end they did Jacques vs someone else.

I was the first white guy to ever attend a studio recording of Tantei Knight Scoop in Japan so they interviewed me on the show

I have a highly upvoted comment in one of Ryan George's "Pitch Meeting" videos. 😎

Not mine but my wife’s. Rockband 3 for Xbox 360 was basically the first console game that allowed user generated content (i.e., mods, but in this case, songs). There was an indie band that put their song up. Their music video was their singer playing the song in the game.

My wife beat her score. Neither of them held the top spot. The song was pretty decent but I can’t remember it right now. They never got famous.

I appear as an extra in 2 different brazilian movies, does that count?

I've vomited on 5 continents.

Many years ago I was on a Greyhound bus trip. I was traveling about 3 hours from my home & it was the easiest way to get to my destination for lack of decent air service Otherwise I would have simply flown. I informed the bus driver that a very odd passenger was having some intestinal distress & retreated to the lavatory. I was unfortunately sitting nearby when I knew that the driver should be informed of the potential degree of olfactory danger we were flirting with. It was a stormy night and that driver made the proper call to deal with the issue which caused us a slight delay. However, that little setback saved us from being caught in a landslide. The junkie crapping all over the bathroom was the hero. I was merely the messenger.

Held the #1 spot on a Geometry Wars leaderboard for like a day.

I once sold a Panasonic 3DO to Harry Connick Jr. I used to do tech support for Glenn Close.

ESPN sent some poor intern to film a goofy segment at my college before a big game. People had no idea why he and the cameraman were there and were kind of weirded out by it, so I went up to ask what was going on. I thought I might have to tell them to leave. He explained that they were just trying to film something goofy so I volunteered to help and got a bunch of students in on it. The segment was as dumb as you would expect, but good enough to fill time on the Cold Pizza morning show. ESPN mailed me a tape of the segment to say thanks.

So I guess I was on national TV.

Back in WoW's Burning Crusade days, my friends and I ran one of the most successful guilds on one of the most competitive servers. That was true before and after TBC, but during is when we became slightly known.

We had invented our own loot system in an attempt to make one that was fair. It was designed to be fair not only in regards to accumulating points with which to bid on items, but also to encourage and enable participation of both existing and new members. Anyway, it was complicated and it worked.

Our loot system ended up getting a short article written about it in some gaming magazine. I wish I had a copy of it. My one friend still does. I don't even remember which magazine it was.