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I think getting the high score for a 40-year-old arcade game is a perfectly fine hobby and a fine thing to take pride in. Certainly, if you check Twitch, recor
by comex 4y ago
I think getting the high score for a 40-year-old arcade game is a perfectly fine hobby and a fine thing to take pride in. Certainly, if you check Twitch, record competition in single-player games draws plenty of viewership. The most popular games are somewhat less old (usually NES era and onwards), and it’s usually in the form of speedrunning rather than high score competition, but it’s the same general idea.
Cheating is different, of course. But I interpret your comment as dismissing the activity itself.
- twblalock 4y agoThe amount of effort being put into both attacking and defending this guy, and the media attention it has received, is far out of proportion compared to the importance of the activity itself.
- fudgefactorfive 4y agoOne of the issues is that Mitchell is notoriously litigious and has made a cottage industry of promoting himself as "guy with game world records". He has literally sued people into submission, over this exact claim, which is now forensicly validated. See Karl Jobst for reference.
- InCityDreams 4y agoDo you have an "off", or "next" button? I love this story...who is right? Who is correct? What's the tech involved? How much is a reputation worth? So much to just ignore if you don't give a fuck. Just ignore it. "But i dont fucking want guitar lessons", springs to mind. /h (for hypocrite :-)
- dehrmann 4y agoWe all love a little drama.
- soulofmischief 4y agoto you. Fortunately for the rest of us, we get to decide how much this means to us, including the people running the stories and the people reading them. And we've decided it's interesting.