Once upon a time a bet was made between Microsoft's J Allard and Newsweek's N'Gai Croal. To my knowledge the loser of that bet has not gone through with their end. I bring this up only to say (not to disparage J Allard, he's a good sort) that bets are often made in the game industry and almost never payed off. The reason for this is mainly because we are incredible sadists and to lose means to do something so embarassing it is better to be known as someone who goes back on a bet than whatever you would otherwise be forced to do.

Last year I began participating more on Harmonix's original website - freq.com - and I got to enjoy the company/occasional invective of some of our longest-running fans.  Over the year the community started to die down a bit and (which was, in part, due to Frequency and Amplitude going offline and a bug in our verification software) a bet came about.

You see I am occasionally known for twisting my shirt up and dancing to my "trigger" song "Love Machine" by the Miracles. By occasionally I mean that I do it virtually any time the song is played - complete with new choreography. Why do I do this? Probably because I am unwell in the head. Non compos mentis. Probably. I make no apologies.

So this behavior of mine crept into a parting blog by our beloved intern Will (of Best Damn Podcast Ever infamy.) And the remaining members started begging for a video so that I could be soundly mocked. The bet became something to the effect of 'if you can get the number of active users up to, like, 75 we will do the video.' The active users at the time were down around 19 and half of us were Harmonix employees so it seemed like a sound bet on my part. What could go wrong?

Within a short time of the verification bug being fixed the population was up in the mid hundreds. Damn.

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