People who know me know that I am a huge fan of the Joystiq Podcast and especially Justin McElroy. The whole JP crew happen to also be some of my favorite bloggers but the Justin is my favorite on-air personality. I’m sorry Chris, I know how much that pains you.
Anyway, a few years ago I made a T-shirt mock-up of “I’m gonna kill you… wake up.” It’s a little JP meme taken from an on the street experience at GDC. At the end of the email I told Chris that he should add me on XBL. No shit, he actually did. This might have been right before the whole place blew up or maybe he was just getting rid of another person. To this day I am amazed he hasn’t deleted me. But that opened the door.
I thought I might as well go for the whole set and, with the recently added (at the time), ability to look through your friend’s friends list, I quickly found Justin and Ludwig‘s gametags. I opted not to send a friend request to Ludwig because I was young and naive and afraid I would never play him because he’s an ocean away. The time has passed and I know his friends list is full up now, whatever. I’m not bitter about it, really. So I sent the friend invite. Somehow he wasn’t completely thrown by the guy with 8 friends, 1 being his boss, none of the others being people he knew, and added me.
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