William James Mitchell vs. Twin Galaxies LLC, Jeff Harrist & Jeremy Young & donkeykongforum.com, Benjamin Q Smith

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AnOminous said:
Good luck with that. He's an old man. No way he has the reflexes he used to, and he'd have to beat every subsequent person who beat the living SHIT out of his ancient record.

That would be all of these:
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Oh and these too.
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Considering he had to cheat to get even the first one when he was at the top of his form, fat chance.
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He's en route to having someone double his "record". LOL.

I wonder what the shortest time taken to finish this game is?

Found out:
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1hour, 8minutes.

Not bad, but still too long to spend on this game, which I consider both extremely simple and insanely annoying (I remember the kids that obsessively played it had a tendency to rage and punch/kick the arcade cabinets when they lost.)
 
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Something I completely forgot about with the Karl Jobst suit, isn't Notch still funding whatever the GFM doesn't cover? If that's true, that may be the reason Karl is so confident, since he has no real financial incentive to settle. As much of an L as the TG settlement and his response was, with Australian law Billy has to either win or pay back all of Karl's legal fees.

The only other alternative is to get Karl to agree to settle with both parties paying their legal fees, but if he has Notch as an legal piggy bank, there may not be any incentive for Karl to consider that settlement.
 
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Sperglord666 said:
Something I completely forgot about with the Karl Jobst suit, isn't Notch still funding whatever the GFM doesn't cover? If that's true, that may be the reason Karl is so confident, since he has no real financial incentive to settle. As much of an L as the TG settlement and his response was, with Australian law Billy has to either win or pay back all of Karl's legal fees.

The only other alternative is to get Karl to agree to settle with both parties paying their legal fees, but if he has Notch as an legal piggy bank, there may not be any incentive for Karl to consider that settlement.
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That's the only hit for the word 'notch' on his twitter.
 
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I tried watching the Karl Jobst videos about this but that dude is just too annoying. Did Billy Mitchell legitimately get the first high score in 1982?
 
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Al from Dadeville said:
I tried watching the Karl Jobst videos about this but that dude is just too annoying. Did Billy Mitchell legitimately get the first high score in 1982?
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I don't think there's any evidence that he cheated but there are rumors that other Twin Galaxy scores around the same time were cheated. Regardless, I don't think Billy was a super player or anything, just someone obsessed in a niche field where you have to be willing to play a game for three hours straight over and over again to get good. Back in the 80's people like that were rare, or at the least weren't involved in organizations like Twin Galaxies, but now there are shitloads of autistic people online that will play the same game over and over again for a higher score or faster time.
 
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Al from Dadeville said:
Did Billy Mitchell legitimately get the first high score in 1982?
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Yes. Pretty much everything was legitimate until they had to contrive stuff to make the King of Kong documentary more exciting. So they obviously used MAME to achieve higher scores because it provided most of the "story" for the documentary. Instead of simply admitting that the documentary was scripted like a WWE match these guys doubled down on their insistence that it was all real for no reason. This attracted a legion of autistic manchildren obsessing over ancient videogame scores. Probably everyone who worked on King of Kong knew it was a scripted piece.

There is no doubt that Billy Mitchell was a good arcade game player of the older classics. But after King of Kong you had a new wave of dedicated no-lifers who were willing to play old arcade games day and night to set new records. Mitchell cannot compete with them in both gaming and autism. But in the 80s he was touring the U.S. and even visited the White House. Tons of arcade game companies were paying for 'high score' articles in the news, puff pieces, to get kids to visit their local arcades. He and a handful of 'top players' were pretty much able to beat the high scores on any popular arcade game at any arcade and there are tons of news articles from local papers backing this up.

Billy was once the only one with a driver's license amongst some sponsored game group that was traveling from arcade to arcade. And he got pulled over for going 100mph trying to make it to the next arcade they were appearing at. Guy just loved playing arcade games as a teenager and made good money and fame from it. He took it way too far with the MAME 'cheating' and insisting he was playing legitimately however.
 
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Yes. Pretty much everything was legitimate until they had to contrive stuff to make the King of Kong documentary more exciting. So they obviously used MAME to achieve higher scores because it provided most of the "story" for the documentary. Instead of simply admitting that the documentary was scripted like a WWE match these guys doubled down on their insistence that it was all real for no reason. This attracted a legion of autistic manchildren obsessing over ancient videogame scores. Probably everyone who worked on King of Kong knew it was a scripted piece.

There is no doubt that Billy Mitchell was a good arcade game player of the older classics. But after King of Kong you had a new wave of dedicated no-lifers who were willing to play old arcade games day and night to set new records. Mitchell cannot compete with them in both gaming and autism. But in the 80s he was touring the U.S. and even visited the White House. Tons of arcade game companies were paying for 'high score' articles in the news, puff pieces, to get kids to visit their local arcades. He and a handful of 'top players' were pretty much able to beat the high scores on any popular arcade game at any arcade and there are tons of news articles from local papers backing this up.

Billy was once the only one with a driver's license amongst some sponsored game group that was traveling from arcade to arcade. And he got pulled over for going 100mph trying to make it to the next arcade they were appearing at. Guy just loved playing arcade games as a teenager and made good money and fame from it. He took it way too far with the MAME 'cheating' and insisting he was playing legitimately however.
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What about the red joystick?
 
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There was something seriously mentally wrong with the original set of high score players, as we have all learned, but Billy had an edge in that he could get his quarters back because daddy owned the machine.

A lot of the older set of record holders had similar stories, it's either that or the rope quarter method.

The red joystick allows for diagonals, the original hardware was a "four-way stick"

Karl doesn't seem particularly thankful for the help notch gave him, just saying that's he's not daddy war chest anymore.
 
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SaidNoOneEver said:
Jobst just put out another video on The Completionist scam and has a full-on meltdown for the first 10 mins about finances. He shows a bill from his attorney showing $50k owed just for the month. He's fucked.

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Team Billy stays winning Carl jobs sad sad little monkey
Maybe his Elliot Rodger future son can avenge him but probably not because he would be a low IQ half Mongoloid Asian mix race
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SaidNoOneEver said:
Jobst just released another Billy Mitchell video attacking Mitchell's new expert witness.

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TLDW: The expert witness will testify for anybody who pays, is terminally online, is a perv that likes porn accounts on X, wants to be a sugar daddy and is facing a sexual harassment lawsuit from a student of his.
 
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TLDW: The expert witness will testify for anybody who pays, is terminally online, is a perv that likes porn accounts on X, wants to be a sugar daddy and is facing a sexual harassment lawsuit from a student of his.
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He has two Twitter accounts, yet he still does his sugar daddy thirsting on his main account.

What a fucking Boomer perv.
 
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I mean, a judge likely would not give a shit. I've heard experts give two minutes of testimony that amounted to hypotheticals, thoroughly torpedoing the case. That's essentially what this lemon party looking motherfucker did.

The judge doesn't care if it's a porn sick weirdo, so long as he has the qualifications that define them as "expert witness" then that's the rope they'll hang you with.

I also can't see this tactic working out well for Jobst. It might play to his youtube audience, but it won't amuse a judge.
 
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