>semantics
It's funny I remember watching a video of Karl and some speedrunner buddy of his reacting to King of Kong and they seem to be oblivious to the fact that it's supposed to be a comedy/satire of competitive video game culture in documentary form.
>"Well, it's technically possible to cheat on emulators."
It's a rule that a baseball player has to have his shirt tucked in. If his shirt is untucked, would you call that "cheating"?
Original hardware is part of the rules, an emulator will, even if you don't intentionally cheat, change how the game runs. If you aren't willing to play by those rules, don't just lie and say you are.
Is it really supposed to be a satire? I mean it makes sense if you frame it like that but it makes more sense the creators were just dishonest or just wanted a compelling story to tell and getting high scores in games isn't particularly interesting.
The actual rule in baseball and football is that referees get to assess penalties and whatever a ref says happened, happened. If a referee doesn't call a play back then the play happened, even if one player pulled out a stun gun and tazed a member of the other team, the play still counts unless a ref calls it. If you actually followed sports you'd know this and be able to point out examples where a ref got it wrong, but I really doubt you follow any leagues if you believe that game winners can be undone by reviewing plays after the game is over.
Yeah that's the thing about Twin Galaxies and frankly a lot of other sources for certain Guiness world records historically (longest time walking a yoyo or whatever). They were all kind of bullshit and an excuse to pad the newest edition enough to justify selling it for whatever price it cost every year.
Are you retarded? Competing with MAME (in clear violation of the rules) is just cheating on it's face.
You want to argue over the semantics of the word "cheating" when it's irrelevant. To use your ridiculous analogy, your baseball player has gone out of his way to untuck his shirt, lie about untucking his shirt, and then cried when he was disqualified. If you can't follow the rules then don't compete, even if they are stupid rules.
You mean to tell me promotional material for a beer company is probably not the best way to measure human achievement?
This dude is obviously severely mentally retarded and nothing he says should be taken seriously.
I mean the narrative, but maybe not necessarily the reality, of the film is that there's this guy Steve Wiebe who was a star basketball player in high school, is married to a beautiful woman and has a wonderful family and great career, but within the inverted culture of getting video game high scores he is an underdog and has to endure getting bullied by Billy and his gang of dented hangers-on.
I mean when the "kill screen! We got a kill screen coming up" moments happen it is kind of beyond satire.
That's the worst part about it, there are so many weirdos in that whole thing that it would be fun to just know their stories and to see Billy being retarded in his own way than whatever fake beef they made.
Ya know, based on his desk setup, I'm pretty sure he was playing on an emulator as well. I don't see a n64 controller Karl.
