Ask Lemmy

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.

Clips from my very old Sven Co-Op youtube videos were used in the NoClip documentary about Half Life. One of the friends I played with too has some old clips used.

I wasn't notified at all, I was just watching the documentary and basically did this:

German indie rock band Guano Apes has an autograph from my wife.

Basically one of the band members was a friend of a friend and she was over once or twice. And he has a door where he collected visitor's autographs.

I don't know if they were already famous at that time. They might have been.

Sante and Kenny Kimes: A notorious mother-son team who committed a string of crimes across the United States, including robbery, fraud, arson, slavery, and murder. Their story was the basis of the TV movie A Little Thing Called Murder and featured in a Netflix documentary.

When they were arrested the son had my business card in his jacket. The police interviewed me but we could never figure out how he got it.

TL;DR- Drunk and with no experience I lead a small group in pretty big parade.

I once led a small marching band in a parade while incredibly drunk, with a flagpole effectively attached to my cock (yeah, just rest the end against your belt, it's fine), and with only 45 minutes of training the weekend before. At the largest fife and drum muster in the US. I had no prior experience at anything remotely related. I had only been to one of the corp's meetings previously. Later that night I kissed my future wife for the first time.

I'm sure there's some wonderful psychoanalysis take away that I thought of the flag as an extension of my cock.

To this day I have no idea why they didn't get the actual marching band member boyfriend of one of the members to lead, because apparently I was pretty awful at it. It got some minor news coverage, so there's a chance a picture exists somewhere.

I was my states chilli eating champion and even competed in the national championship

I was a disc jockey in radio, not clubs, off and on for several years. I was never a big name or well known.

i dont think this counts, but i got mentioned in the news for a false positive covid 19 test

I was in a TV commercial for an online second-hand store that was broadcast on national cable TV and people recognized me for like a year after.

I lived next to air bud as a kid. My mom hated the dog because the owners would let it roam around and it would shit in our yard.

An app I developed was once used by Angela Merkel.

I used to do a very niche job (that does not exist anymore) that required great skill, and I was so good at it, I was likely in the top 10 of all time. There were less than 1000 people qualified to do this job, and I was in the top 1%, AND those ~1000 people were the only ones to ever do this specific job out of the ~8 billion people on this planet.

Now I work a relatively mundane IT job, and no one knows or cares about what I have accomplished, except for my peers.

Unfortunately we didn't get 1st place, but my high school Splatoon 3 team got 2nd place in a national e-Sports competition, so I guess I used to be one of the best teenagers in the nation.

Back in high school, I got second place in a state-wide coding competition (there were like 5 entries total)

A member of the German pirate party follows me on Twitter. He killed someone and transported him with a hand truck through Berlin. He then killed himself.

There is a famous comedian with the same as me.

Back in my Reddit days I made a meme for the D&D memes subreddit about how my players decapitated an enemy with a bag of holding

That somehow ended up on the front page of Reddit and I very quickly learned about a TTRPG series called dungeons and daddies that did the same thing

The FAA had to alter IACRA because of me. Well, to be honest it was their own damn fault.

IACRA is the system where you apply online for pilot's licenses and such; instead of filling out an 8710-11 form and mailing it to the local FSDO or whatever, you do that on the internet.

I was applying for my light sport instructor license. One of the prerequisites to become any kind of aviation instructor is to demonstrate knowledge of the Fundamentals of Instruction. They accept four things:

• Scoring a 70 or above on the FAA's FoI knowledge test within the last 24 calendar months
• Proof of employment at an accredited college or university as a professor
• A state-issued teaching certificate for grade 7 or higher
• Any other FAA issued instructor certificate, logic being is, if you're already an instructor, you've presented evidence of one of the previous three.

I took and aced the FoI test fairly early in my CFI training...so early that the test result was threatening to expire. So rather than take it again, I decided to take the test for Basic Ground Instructor, which essentially made the test score permanent.

The day finally came for my CFI-SP checkride, I start filling out the IACRA form...and the website will only accept a knowledge test score. I call the examiner, she pulls it up, goes "Huh. Well, looks like you get to fill out a paper 8710 and I get to call Washington."

So if you're the web developer the government hired to make and/or fix that form, I was that guy! And since it's a US Government website, I bet you did it in the most bullshit unusable way possible.

My first follower on Twitter was Stephen Fry.

My Spotify issue/feature request was attributed to bringing back a good version of the full screen view on desktop.

I've since moved away from Spotify but it was cool that that happened (even though they should not have made it shit beforehand in the first place)

I did a photo shoot for Johnson and Johnson as an infant lol for one of their products.

And also was one of the IRL kids on Teletubbies.

Knelt down by a torpedo tube that wasn't receiving signals from the Torpedo Settings Panel, pulled out a Mechanicus Purity Seal I kept in my jacket, and recited the prayer written on it.

Torpedo tube started to recognize the TSP connection.

I was in a ring pop commercial for about half a second, and it was just my silhouette.

I also started a Smash Brothers tournament for Smash 4 that ended up in the national rankings at one point. I think our largest tournament had 80 people. We had some high ranking players like Jtails come, and even guest commentators like Max Ketchum. I was actually college room mates with one of PC Chris' close friends, and I had the pleasure of getting absolutely destroyed by Chris in Melee a few times in some basement hangouts. My college room mate actually made a brief appearance in the Smash Brothers documentary in the chapter about PC Chris.

I reported an error in the documentation of a vendor we use at work.
Error was, that the Agent is supposed to create a windows event entry upon being upgraded. But it gave a event-id different from the one in the docs.
I wanted it fixed because I used it to execute a script.

They acknowledged the error and fixed the event id number.
In the next version they changed something. Now it doesnt give any event-id at all despite the documentation saying it should. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i have a photo on Google maps viewed 3.6 million times.

Ha, Sway of MTV fame (now he does a show on xm or whatever it's called now) follows me on Instagram. I met him playing poker. Nice dude.

I tried bubble tea a solid 7 years before it took off in the USA, in the USA. The owner of the store unfortunately closed several years before it blew up, and I felt really bad that the dude was ahead of his time.

I also tried Adeni (Yemeni) Chai and Coffee from the first Qawah House only a month after it opened. Now the product has rapidly expanded to the point where several chains are in direct and very heated competition with Starbucks which is cool.

I don't like sharing this because it kinda sounds less like fame and more like I'm being a hipster lol.

I once was in the office next to Stephen Hawking.

That is, I was waiting for my dentist appointment, and Hawking and his team were on the next module of the building by the side, on the office across from mine, prepping a lecture he would present the next day at my city.

I have two.

I used to be friends with a youtuber who made guide videos for a popular game. (I'm being intentionally vague.) He liked to end his videos with a certain type of clip specific to the game but was having trouble getting the clip. I'd been playing with him for a bit during this time and managed to get the clip he was looking for. After he failed to get the shot he wanted for a bit longer, he asked if I wouldn't mind him taking my clip and pasting his name over mine. I said of course. Once every few years I watch that video and smile.

I was on an intramural soccer team with Jessica Biel. (I never did work up the courage to say more than two words to her. I get starstruck hard and easily.)

I was on TV broadcast across dozens of countries once!

(In a crowd shot)

I was a participant in what was described as a "tipsy, low-kick cancan line" by a young journalist covering a show for a university's student newspaper when I was a pre-teen (ah, all-ages shows, good times).

I've been censored on the radio on two separate occasions (made jokes about a competing station when calling in for a giveaway).

There's others but they are far lamer, if you can believe it.