I have precisely the same date of birth as a very famous singer / songwriter who died around a decade ago.
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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.
A friend of mine and myself invented the word "twat-waffle" and no one ever believes me
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I was a primary source for "The FAQ Manual of Style" in 1996.
I had a small novelty Twitter account that Andrew WK followed at one point.
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When I was in K-12 school, we would do like a jeopardy game in class as a sort of review right before a test. I always have people that want me to be in their group since, in their mind, I'm just know as "that nerdy Asian kid" that knows a lot of the class material, idk if "Model Minority" stereotype played a factor, but like I mean I do have decent test scores, I just get lazy and procrastinate on like homeworks and stuff lolz.
A lot of the times I have the answer and the group always listens to me, basically: it's one answer per group, groups take turns, each groups has like a different person answer each round, but there is a group discussion and if I know the correct answer, the person who's turn it is to answer always listen to me. My answers are correct 90% of the time.
I think 3/4 of the times, my group wins and get the extra credit.
But, anyways, nobody actually wanted to be my friend, they're just using me for their benefit lol.
You have the power to choose your teammates. Maybe you can sell "seats" in your group if people want it that bad XD
I once came in 4th place in the world rankings on a Project Cars 2 time trial and used to regularly come in the top 5% on Gran Turismo time trials. I don't really race on PlayStation any more though.
I was a top 1000 ranked player in R6 Siege for a while. Which sounds unimpressive to people who dont know that at one point there were about 30 million registered players.
Funny Story about that is that I decided to take a break because I was starting to take it too seriously. I was good but I wasnt going to go pro and I had a good job and a mortgage that I was putting at risk by staying up all night playing. So I actually really got into Angry Birds and Plants Vs Zombies for a while something easy enough to just put down and get some sleep... anyway I was at dinner with some of my wifes work friends a few weeks later and it came up that I was a gamer and one of her friends husbands asked me what I was playing and I said "Recently Angry Birds..." and before I could say anything else he turned into an absolute gatekeeping shitlord lecturing me about how that isnt real gaming and so on for about 5 minutes. Then he mentioned he played Siege... I couldnt help myself "Ive seen that, maybe I could add you on steam and try it out sometime" so a little creative account making later a few nights later I joined him in a few casual matches. I spent about 2 hours casually windmill dunking on him before I was like "Man this IS fun, but its getting late. I might head to bed, play a little AB before I crash out."
He was at the Xmas party this year and he is still butthurt.
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My great grandfather tailored some clothes for President LBJ. It was after he left office I think.
Did that include pants?
I was a niche internet microcelebrity once. I ran a shitty facebook meme page (two of them, even) with some 40k followers.
Had my face on a news photo once.
My buddy's friend knew the guy who painted the helicopter that was used in Rambo III. Oh yeah! I've been drinking free on that one for years (as long as I'm drinking tap water).
I went to summer camp with a girl that was an extra in Godfather 3, Jacobs Ladder, and some other movies. She was awesome, we were pen pals for years after
Oh, and I worked in a bar with the wife of a B tier country music star. Whose name absolutely escapes me right now as I donβt listen to country music.
Edit!: I just remembered my best one. A local restaurant was featured on You Gotta Eat Here and I was one of the people interviewed for the show. Best part was our very small village had two very small newspapers at that time and I ended up on the cover of both that week!
I am allowed to hop on stage with Red Grammar (Andy Grammar's Father) and make any song he sings a duet. I got this privilege completely by accident, when I was 7 or 8.
A Microsoft employee stared one of my GitHub repos. Not sure they are even still an employee.
I'm 2 degrees of separation from Elon Musk, Max Levchin, and Tim Walz.
I was one of the very, very, VERY earliest people to ever buy Minecraft. This was late 2009 during the early alpha development.
I bought it because it looked fun and relaxing. I introduced a fair few people to the game, but franklyβ¦ I expected it to remain a niche thing due to how it looked and the fact that it didnβt really have set gameplay goals. You basically had to make your own fun.
It was wild to see it become a cultural icon. It was even wilder to go to the cinema and watch a billion dollar movie starring Jack Black based on a dumb game about blocks that I bought from some random Swedish dudeβs site 16 years before.
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i ended up in a strangeaeons video once. i stopped watching her content when i started high school and didn't find this out until about a year or two after it occurred.
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a bit later in my high school years, i became a top 100 global champion for a handful of week-long events in the mobile rhythm game "bang dream", of which there were usually about 10,000-30,000 players per event. not very high level, but, having an essential tremor and issues with motor coordination due to autism, it was a way for me to train my hands
Ratboy Genius said he liked my music