• ApolloLegend may be caught in legal dispute after recording Billy Mitchell & co.
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No that's literally the case with Sandler. He has talked before that his movies are just excuses to take vacations with his friends, hence why they often end up in exotic locations like Hawaii.
While Billy Mitchell has yet to respond to any requests for response, Steve Wiebe has -finally- spoken up about this whole mess, and his new title ‘King of Kong’s’ Steve Wiebe Speaks Out After High Score Controv.. “The more I thought about it from the ‘King of Kong’ days, it all seemed to make sense now,” Wiebe said. “All the things that were happening at the time… like why he didn’t come out and play me, and why he was inciting whose records were going to be authenticated and who’s were going to be dropped. ‘King of Kong’ referenced that that he was a referee and on the board of directors. When that leaked out, it started to make more sense.” ... “I’m not the champ any more, but getting recognition for being the first to a million is a great consolation,” Wiebe said. “That’s what I was really bummed out about 11 years ago.” .... “Billy will have his turn to say something in response, for now I’m just in awe,” Wiebe said. ... Mitchell has not responded to Variety’s request for comment" ~justice~ there's also a lot more in that article, like talk from the producers of the original King of Kong about all the follow-up projects that they'd like to do next. Some of the things are uh, kinda weird lol. Like talk of a musical and such... But for now, the focus is on a Broadway musical. Warner Bros., which owns the film copyrights, allowed Cunningham and Gordon to develop the show. “We’ve been working on this for three years now and we’re in the late stages of development,” Cunningham said. When asked if the current “Donkey Kong” controversy would be added to the musical, he said, “We certainly want to stay true to the documentary nature of it, we’ll certainly reference this, even if it’s in the epilogue.” tho this does bring up an interesting point: nowhere in here do they mention a "king of kong 2" like team billy claimed was happening. Yeah I'm starting to think there is no King of Kong 2 after all, and it was just another weird lie from Team Billy.
https://puu.sh/A2OpR/b57a989ac4.png Christ
Oh for fucks sakes, Billy is in town? If I had a ticket I would go record the idiot myself.
Careful he doesn't sue you
Wow, I didn't expect him to get nuked like Todd Rogers. At most I expected them to sweep it under the rug somehow and just remove the Donkey Kong scores. Can't wait to see the inevitable meltdown video.
Billy's Response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjtn3EEG65Q
"I DIDN'T CHEAT I GOT WITNESSES AND DOCUMENTS PROVING IT, BUT I CAN'T SHOW IT SO FUCK OFF" What a sore loser.
The hell was that garbage. "There is a professional due diligence being preformed" Isn't that what Carlos was for!? So now we have to wait on Billy's own investigation, which may or may not even be released. "We're gonna be totally transparent" I'll believe it when I see it.
ah so Billy's going to investigate himself now. yes I'm sure this will be a totally fair and impartial investigation that will yield a thoroughly credible and not at all laughable result. and all this after they already DID try to investigate themselves by recruiting Carlos to investigate Billy's personal DK equipment, only to have Carlos turn around and say "yea those tapes are bogus". Let's just forget that happened tho!
Literally what integrity? It's been shown time and time again that they don't give a rat's arse.
I'm kind of impressed at his demeanor. If i was spewing that much sewage i wouldn't be able to keep a straight face that's for sure. I guess he's made a career out of it though... plenty of time to practice.
It's hilarious to see major news networks pick this up too. I mean, even Washington Post is reporting on Billy being a cheater. That's beautiful.
also a few people have already pointed this out, but just gonna highlight it here in case people missed it: He brags about how he's "here with Old School Gamer Magazine" like they're something official that's actually siding with him in this dispute, but if you check the video description At the Midwest Gaming Classic today, Billy Mitchell made this official statement to Old School Gamer Magazine. Note: Billy Mitchell is on the advisory board of this magazine. lmao. just another case of Billy sneaking his way into an important role at a company, then using said company to back himself up with. Too bad that unlike with old TG, nobody gives a shit about this magazine.
ah yes, the tried and true fabio gambit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f6w4EOGMLs
And on top of all the lying and cheating, his hot sauce apparently sucks. Found it to be rather bland. I'll give an analogy, if this were woman's underwear for athletic young woman, this stuff would be the GRANNY PANTIES of the hot sauce world There's not much flavor in it, think of a blander version of Tabasco or some other Louisiana style hot sauce. Disappointing. and of course the joke reviews have started Overhyped and tastes salty, there are better sauces that put up higher scores. Best to just ignore this, most likely it will lose any awards and records that it’s won. At first taste this sauce appears to be somewhat tasty, but then it gives way to a bitter aftertaste, almost as if you've been led to believe it had more substance and legitimacy as was advertised. But it eventually becomes obvious there's not much there. There's no flavor. There's no heat. All that remains is regret. Why did I think this sauce was good? Why did I fall for the hype? Are all hot sauces this bad or is it just this one? I may never look at hot sauces the same way again.
o hi I should probably give this an update since I'm like a MONTH late lol. Billy finally did his big press conference again, inviting a fuck ton of journalists to it. It was pretty much a cringey shit show as anyone could've guessed https://variety.com/2018/gaming/features/billy-mitchells-redemption-1202840342/ Mitchell tells the crowd of nearly 150 people to be bold. “You’re here,” he says. “Don’t leave and say something silly. Ask me anything.” At this point, a man in front of me raises his hand. Mitchell continues to talk. The man slowly lowers his hand. At the mention of pornography and pedophilia, Blackwolf’s face scrunches up in the shape of the appropriate punctuation. Alas, as a shark must move in order to live, Mitchell just keeps talking. “I’ll do the same score [on ‘Donkey Kong’] and then I’ll let the game die.” But why wouldn’t you get a higher score, he asks himself, the only person he cares to give an answer to. “‘Cause I don’t have to,” he says. “I’m Billy Mitchell.” https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/billy-mitchell-sfge-2018-video-1202860788/ Variety’s Jon Irwin attended the talk and said the former champ disparaged journalists, calling them “jealous crybabies,” and segued into a story involving his teenage son, pornography, and the FBI. lol...
can someone give me a tl;dr or synopsis? i only know that twin galaxies is a video game speed record thing(i think).
So uh... what is even his fucking endgame at this point? He's been proven to be a fraud and there's pretty much no fucking way for him to ever recover after having his web of lies collapse like that. This is a legitimate question - why is he even still around?
Because he needs the attention and he needs to maintain his version of reality. Without his (cheated) video game records, he's a literal fucking nobody. His entire reputation and public visibility is tied to Donkey Kong. He's a con man and all he can do is try and salvage his con. "Hero" of video game high score records, which some people take more seriously than most football fans take the Super Bowl, and prominent member of video game high score record compilation site Twin Galaxies discovered to have been a dirty fucking cheater playing on emulation (which opens the door to all sorts of cheating) when he claimed to have been playing on original arcade hardware. Emulation records are accepted but they treated differently than real-hardware records because of the ability to tamper with emulation; they're still considered valid but valid with the condition that it's emulation and not real hardware. "Hero" fights back and claims he'll provide undeniable evidence to prove his innocence. Proceeds to put off and draw the process out as long as possible, selects an expert to forensically examine his actual physical setup, expert takes forever. Meanwhile the other side has been methodically going frame by frame through all of his old DK records and finding undisputable proof that almost every single video he ever submitted was played on MAME and not real hardware. Ultimately, fucknut's own expert says he cannot replicate the submitted footage with the alleged hardware combination and it has to be MAME, meaning his own expert exposed his lies. In the background to all of this, it's revealed that Twin Galaxies had severe corruption issues at the top, with cheaters being the sole witnesses to each others' impossible-to-obtain high scores, and TG management ignoring calls to investigate suspected and alleged cheaters and suspicious high scores while the cheaters enjoyed cult hero status among the community, making naysaying them a social minefield.
Oh boy, I can't believe this he's not letting this shit go what an egomaniacal airhead
Fuck I was going to ask about this, I was thinking about him the other day while watching GDQ. What was the last we heard from him?
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Figured i'd give this a bump as this is a massive one, billy Mitchell actually sat down on a live stream and proceeded to get a 1 million score on DK. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/290847896?t=01h44m01s Video begins when the run starts.
I can forgive Mitchell for at least doing his best to prove himself on legitimate hardware. He can deny using MAME all he wants but we know this will never have any ground. Showing the world what he can do isn't going to bring back his records, but I appreciate his efforts into correcting his mistakes even this far forward into the future. I still don't know if he's permanently banned from any leaderboards. It is fair that anything he had were removed. But him still managing to get to the 1m mark with this even broadcasted/saved on twitch (fuck tapes), His ability to get 1m is set in stone
Can't confirm if it's legit hardware though, he's messed with cabinets in the past remember?
No sound run with really shitty camera angles and no direct feed doesn't really prove a great deal. The buttons aren't shown on any of the cameras, just the backs of his hands. He could just be playing along to a MAME run that's being fed into the cabinet.
There is audio, you can't hear it since it is being played in an actual venue. Maybe because he wanted to be somewhere to celebrate. His home setup has much audio, but it's still no button cam https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1755/2a58d61c-68be-475b-85be-01aec901cfc7/image.png the machine at the arcade though, kek'd https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1755/bb6f4037-ae5b-4140-a093-d51253ccb465/image.png
The authenticity (or lack of) of his original scores is relevant because it was the first supposed 1 million high score in that game, ever. That's what made it legendary, nowadays plenty of other people have broke the score. He does have a pegitimate pacman score which was also struck due to this one being illegitimate. He robbed someone else of that achievement by cheating, and he deserves nothing less than being kicked out of the community for doing so.
Of course. Reaching an outdated record will never be able to undo anything that's been done. I just have to give the man respect for actually wanting to break it again. If the man wants to continue to go for the record, as long as he can prove that the run is legitimate, it's fine by me
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