Two people knew who I was on Team Fortress 2 tonight. The first kept on posting my life history as he knew it to the server and predictably no one cared (and rightly so). It’s weird getting name checked. Usually it’s quick and painless but this guy just wouldn’t stop.
“It’s the guy from Television Without Pity. The site that does recaps of TV shows. Then he sold it to Bravo TV and made uber bucks! Look! His icon is the same as on Glarkware! It’s him.”
Awkward.
I just said “hi” and went back to blowing people up. He didn’t mean any harm and wasn’t nasty or anything like that but it’s a bit creepy to have someone read out your CV in public and I really wasn’t sure how to respond. I felt like the proper thing to do would be to do some research on this guy and announce to the server he got straight As in high school and went on to marry the hottest chick in town.
The second guy, CodeMonkey, just asked if I was “the” Glark to which I replied “I think so.” I’m not sure if you can answer a question like that in the affirmative without sounding like a knob. Being “the” anything makes you sound like you wear a homemade crown just to make sure everyone knows about your the-ness.
The great thing about CodeMonkey was that he mentioned he knew about me first from Star Wars Farts, a site I did briefly in the 90s before getting cease-and-desisted out of existence by Lucasfilm (fair enough). Oh how I loved Star Wars Farts. So stupid. So fun. So geeky. If you happen to read this CodeMonkey, thanks for the game, it was great playing with you and thanks for the excuse to link to the Star Wars Farts collection again. (poot)
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At least now you’ll have a tragic story to tell during the sad twinkly music portion of your E! True Hollywood Story.
“Make that six million and one forms of communication” is still one of my favorite punchlines ever.
Awww, thanks. Hee.
Speaking of farts, I couldn’t think any of anything else when I saw this.
Hee! Oh, Star Wars Farts… we hardly knew ye.
Have we told you that John’s been telling Sam “The Adventures of Luke Skywalker” — basically, just telling from memory the most exciting scenes from the movie — as a bedtime story these days? It’s Sam’s favourite story, especially the scene where Luke and everyone are trapped in a garbage compactor, and now his conversation is peppered with Star Wars references. He’s a wee baby nerd.
And it led to him making this announcement at dinner the other night:
Pointing at John: “You’re Luke Skywalker.”
Pointing at me: “You’re Darth Vader.”
Pointing back at John: “And you’re doomed!”
Awww. Let me know how Sam reacts to Daddy’s prequel tales of political maneuvering, senate hearings and trade guild formation.
Haha, I was just thinking of that game today at work and thought, “I bet he blogged about it” and sure enough…
It isn’t comfortable on the other end of the conversation, either, because I was very concerned about coming across like the other guy you mentioned, but I figured even if I did (in retrospect, the “are you THE glark?” probably was over the top) dropping sw farts would counter the lameness somewhat.
My personal fave was “Dak my friend, you’re going to be in a world of hurt.” The photo and caption were both priceless.
It was such a pisser. That was the best game I had had all week too, and just after our conversation I accidentally hit the windows key and team fortress threw up. By the time I was back in business the server was full. Would you mind if I added you to my friends list? You were the best guy on the opposition team, if I recall, and it’s nice to have quality people to play with on quality servers. I promise I won’t be a scary stalker type. Or any other stalker type, for that matter.
Damn you Windows Key! I was never so happy than the moment I saw my new keyboard had a switch to disable the windows key.
Absolutely add me to Friends. I’m Glark on Steam too — I’ll add you next time I pop on (have to try the CTF Well).
Star Wars Farts is, quite possibly, the best thing ever, and I am so very sorry I never knew about it until now.
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