Knuckles Dawson

So, for day 365 of my achievement streak, November 21st, I finished Gears of War on Insane with APKJester. Apparently, General RAAM doesn't like being shot by the Torque Bow, especially in the knees. I would highly recommend both you and your buddy having full Torque and Sniper ammo for that difficulty. For those of you out of the loop, Jester and I met on PDZ on November 22, 2005, so beating the final boss of the flagship title of the Xbox 360, together on the 365th day of both my streak and our friendship, was a truly bonding experience.

Afterwards, I did some Warzone against a "fan-friend", Double Chinned, whose original Gamertag was Double Chin2. He messaged me after hearing my tag being mentioned on Major's Show #186. We talked for a bit, and I asked him why he had the "2" in his tag. He told me that it was because "Double Chin" was taken. I then asked "Why didn't you just choose 'Double Chinned'?" After about 5 seconds of silence, the next thing I heard was a string of expletives. After that, I told him to go change his gamertag to Double Chinned. Obviously, he did. And even for a while had his Motto "This GT © Knuckles Dawson", or something similar.

But, I digress. Anyway, Jester and I joined in, and on the first round had some lousy teammates, who were friends of Chinned, and one sounded like he was 8 year olds. The fact I was off by 7 years scared me. After a prompt thrashing in what was essentially 4-on-2 in Fuel Depot, I noticed some arrogant remarks from the COG side. Not in the mood to allow for such notions to be made under those circumstances, I asked if I would be able to get my friends on my team, so I could actually coordinate some semblance of strategy. I called iEyeCaptain, got him on, and got TheMan661 over as well, who was more than happy to be on my team this time. From that point forward, Double Chinned and his cohorts knew the true power of KD Enterprises. It was rather cruel. Once TheMan661 had to go, I brought in French Frye to mix it up, and he definitely performed at the exceptional level I expected of him.

Jester and Rhett seemed to hit it off quite well, discussing Wrestling to the nth degree. So much so in fact, that they ended up forming an impervious duo on WWE SVR 2007. Much to the annoyance of those foolish enough to face them in the online arena. At the same time, I finally caught up with Tree , another initial "fan-friend" who added me after my Major Nelson interview. He does the podcast for GotSpeech.net, and only got his 360 recently. So, aside from a friend getting him an achievement on Madden, he's never gotten one himself. We both thought that was due for a change, so I started up a campaign on Hardcore, and we played through the first chapter, nabbing him his first two achievements. Which, to remind you, was also on Day 365 for me.

On the Wii side of things, I played through more of Twilight Princess, completing the first expedition into the Twilight Zone. Heh. It was a lot of fun and the Wolf-Link's control mechanics are really intuitive and cool. This game is going to be great to plug away at. Still on the look out for component cables, though.