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

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Was thinking....Robin Atkin Downes, a younger Robby Benson, or maybe Keanu Reeves could play him in a biopic and win an Oscar. Especially since the Academy loves biopics about assholes
 
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I can't imagine said:
There's certainly a good argument for it, particularly since he started off his complaint by saying how widely-known and famous he is.
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It's also used in the SLAPP motion from Twin galaxies. Now we wait to see if the judge agrees.
 
Kendrick said:
It's also used in the SLAPP motion from Twin galaxies. Now we wait to see if the judge agrees.
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Based on Billy-boy's complaint, I think he's actually stipulating that he's a public figure. Which is an odd choice to make, but they may have just figured that it was a battle they wouldn't win.
 
If he wins this, he will finally prove the value and impossibility of the human element™ .

Yeah those scores may look impossible but it's just because you're limited to the two dimensions, while I exist in 7 all at once.
 
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Marissa Moira said:
If he wins this, he will finally prove the value and impossibility of the human element™ .

Yeah those scores may look impossible but it's just because you're limited to the two dimensions, while I exist in 7 all at once.
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I think you're mixing up your 80's gaming cheaters. Todd Rogers was the Human Element guy.

Honestly, I'm not sure which of them is worse. I mean, Billy at least had fake scores that were technically possible, and were later beaten. But at least Todd had enough good sense not to sue everyone after he got caught.

I think the tie-breaker is Billy Mitchell's sad, sad Twitch streams, where he tries to "prove" his DK skills to a couple dozen people a few times a week.
 
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I can't imagine said:
I think the tie-breaker is Billy Mitchell's sad, sad Twitch streams, where he tries to "prove" his DK skills to a couple dozen people a few times a week.
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Really I think the only old school game records guys who are still legit are the Tetris Dudes. It's like watching a series of machines.
 
I can't imagine said:
I think the tie-breaker is Billy Mitchell's sad, sad Twitch streams, where he tries to "prove" his DK skills to a couple dozen people a few times a week.
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He is good at the game, but his downfall was that he couldn't accept that he was no longer the best. He had his competition disqualified for bullshit reasons because he was friends with and financially supporting Twin Galaxies. When Twin Galaxies ran out of excuses and Billy was officially dethroned, he got back on top by cheating on mame. It's clear as day what he was doing in hindsight because instead of trying to get the highest score he could in the two and a half hours it takes to get a million points, he would die on purpose once he passed his challenger's score by a marginal amount.

 
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Amaranth said:
Fairly sure Billy has beat his own fake scores so he has/had the skills but he's just a sleaze ball and a cunt.
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Personally, I think his Pac-Man record was legit, and at least some of his DK records were, as well. It isn't like he actually had opportunity to monkey with the machines before every run he ever did, particularly early on. And he's played live plenty enough times to show he's skilled.

But TG's got their rules, and, while I think they can be exceptional at times about them, it isn't like he didn't know about them. Truthfully, if he'd just come out with a mea culpa, said some stuff about not knowing the machines weren't legit or whatever, they might have just taken the 3 scores down instead of all of his scores. Probably not, but it's certainly possible.

Instead, he had to be his usual douchey self and loudly proclaim that he knew for a fact that the scores were legit, personally watched the PCB get put in the machine, denied he'd ever used MAME, etc.
 
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I can't imagine said:
Personally, I think his Pac-Man record was legit, and at least some of his DK records were, as well. It isn't like he actually had opportunity to monkey with the machines before every run he ever did, particularly early on. And he's played live plenty enough times to show he's skilled.

But TG's got their rules, and, while I think they can be exceptional at times about them, it isn't like he didn't know about them. Truthfully, if he'd just come out with a mea culpa, said some stuff about not knowing the machines weren't legit or whatever, they might have just taken the 3 scores down instead of all of his scores. Probably not, but it's certainly possible.

Instead, he had to be his usual douchey self and loudly proclaim that he knew for a fact that the scores were legit, personally watched the PCB get put in the machine, denied he'd ever used MAME, etc.
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I'm sure some are legit, but I agree completely with the all or nothing approach. Once one of them is proven to be a cheat, all of them have a good chance of being illegitimate, and you have to treat them as such.
 
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I'm sure some are legit, but I agree completely with the all or nothing approach. Once one of them is proven to be a cheat, all of them have a good chance of being illegitimate, and you have to treat them as such.
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Oh, I completely understand them not recognizing them as such, and agree with it. Validating game scores/times is really difficult to do adequately. Because of that, it's stuck working at least partially on the honor system. If you violate the trust, it's completely appropriate to reject your submissions out of hand.

My issue with their rules has more to do with the rules on individual games, not with their approach to banning proven cheaters.
 
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It's also used in the SLAPP motion from Twin galaxies. Now we wait to see if the judge agrees.
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I don't think he loses SLAPP on the dispute over whether he cheated, even though I personally think it's obvious he did. He still says he didn't and it's the kind of thing that takes expert testimony to prove. Where I see him having an issue is proving damages. It generally isn't defamatory per se to say someone cheated at a video game. Here he could argue it is because it's his profession so it's defaming him because it is saying he is incompetent at his profession. I think it's questionable whether some ancient video game records count as such, though, and without it being considered defamatory per se, it will be hard to prove damages.
 
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this dude has cow potential imo.

threatening to sue Guiness Book of World Records back in september 2019 besides playing being the bad guy in King of Kong, a documentary about the Donkey Kong world record. pretty good, if dated, docu imo
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Very much looking forward to a full Careercow writeup on this smug cunt. Apparently King Of Kong was supposed to be much darker than its final cut due to some exceptional behind the scene actions involving Billy. Remember, Billy is the piece of shit that sent this loser fag to break into his competitors house (with his wife and children inside) just to rip his DK cab apart to make sure he wasn't using a modded board.
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Even with his cheated scores his record still got smashed and he placed in the 20's on the leaderboard for years until his records got nullified in 2018. What a loser.

He also has the exact same facial structure as the midget from GOT
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Very much looking forward to a full Careercow writeup on this smug cunt. Apparently King Of Kong was supposed to be much darker than its final cut due to some exceptional behind the scene actions involving Billy. Remember, Billy is the piece of shit that sent this loser fag to break into his competitors house (with his wife and children inside) just to rip his DK cab apart to make sure he wasn't using a modded board.
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Even with his cheated scores his record still got smashed and he placed in the 20's on the leaderboard for years until his records got nullified in 2018. What a loser.

He also has the exact same facial structure as the midget from GOT
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Who's orange shirt guy
 
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Who's orange shirt guy
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That's Brian Wu, potentially one of the most pathetic humans on this planet. He's Billy Mitchell's unofficial devotee (cockslave), famous from this scene in the documentary where he has a masturbatory reaction to someone getting a kill-screen on a Donkey Kong cab.


If I remember correctly, he dropped his entire life to move closer to Funspot arcade in NH so he could spend all day attempting to break records. According to this chart he only has 5 top ranking records, but they're on machines no one gives a shit about

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