30 Oct 2006

I Met an Internet Celebrity

Talk about your odd occurrences. Last week I received a couple of random friend requests on Xbox Live, which I immediately blamed on the blog (that's what I get for posting my Gamer card front and center). As a rule, I don't accept friend requests unless I know where they came from. If I do that, I end up running out of room at some point and then deleting all the people whose names I don't immediately recognize, since I prefer to play online with people I know (I'm in the Recreation zone for a reason, folks).

Anyhow, one of those two sent me a follow-up message after I'd so politely ignored him for the better part of a week. That guy happens to be Knuckles Dawson who, unbeknownst to me, is some kind of Internet Celebrity™. It turns out that Mr. Dawson (who I shall now refer to as "KD", as typing "Knuckles Dawson" repeatedly makes me feel funny) has scored at least one achievement every day since the machine launched on November 22nd of last year. He calls this project the KD Endeavour, and even has a nice online calendar detailing exactly when and in what game he obtained his achievements.

I found all this out after adding KD to my friends list (like I said, your chances are better if I know who you are), as he is very chatty and somewhat Canadian. Then he had to go away and have a video chat with some important dude at Microsoft. Ah, the life of a celebrity...

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Comments

Knuckles Dawson said:

Thanks for only saying I was chatty. Actually telling the truth would have hurt my Online Reputation™. Anyway, yeah, sorry about leaving abruptly, but when Bastelyon calls, I kinda have to take it. Also, if I went into detail after the fact about what we talked about it, please keep it under wraps until further notice. Ciao, and hopefully we can get some games in later when your comcast is up to snuff.

# October 31, 2006 @ 4:32 AM
Knuckles Dawson said:

Yeah, I'm usually pretty good about linking off to cite relevant issues, just didn't know if your comments had HTML enabled. Oh, and thanks for putting me in your read blogs. Greatly appreciated. I'm gonna have a side bar on mine called "KD Endorses" or Endorsements or something that'll link off to the sites I read etc. and you'll be included, to be sure. You also made todays post under the "Community" header. ;)

# October 31, 2006 @ 7:31 AM
Knuckles Dawson said:

Yeah, I'm usually pretty good about linking off to cite relevant issues, just didn't know if your comments had HTML enabled. Oh, and thanks for putting me in your read blogs. Greatly appreciated. I'm gonna have a side bar on mine called "KD Endorses" or Endorsements or something that'll link off to the sites I read etc. and you'll be included, to be sure. You also made today's post under the "Community" header. ;)

Also, regarding the calendar, if you click any of the "events" it has a pop-up detailing what achievements they were, as well as a link to the Compare Achievements page for that game so you can verify the date yourself (mind you, xbox.com is timezone sensitive, so you have to adjust your settings to PST, there.) Once I get off my ass and grab a calculator, I'll finish the one that shows my total gamerscore and daily increase for each day. I'm up to like, December for that one.

# October 31, 2006 @ 7:36 AM
Knuckles Dawson said:

Sonuva...It might be me, but on my initial click of the "Submit" button, Safari gives no response whatsoever. I click it again, it shows a reaction <i>then</i>, but the page reloads and it has two comments.

I even reloaded the page in a seperate tab to double check the comments, and I guess it was still in the queue. Blargh. You're welcome to keep this here for all to scoff at if you wish. I'll just have to be more careful in the future. Again. ¬.¬ (Oh no, not an Animémoticon™!)

# October 31, 2006 @ 8:04 AM
NinjaFish said:

And for anyone who didn't know (such as myself), Bastelyon is the Xbox Live Community Manager and posts over at http://www.gamerscoreblog.com with the other Xbox Live big-wigs.

# October 31, 2006 @ 1:11 PM
NinjaFish said:

That's really weird. ASP.NET generally play nice with Safari, at least with simple actions like a submit button. Unfortunately, I don't have any Macs to test with, and I have no plans to obtain one. The page output is cached on the server, though, so you won't see your comments immediately. There should be a yellow message saying as much. I probably put it in the wrong place, though. Go me.

# October 31, 2006 @ 7:29 PM