Billy Mitchell and Twin Galaxies are the Idiot Gifts that Keep on Giving

[FelixSH]

Thanks, this whole mess is probably the dumbest thing I have seen in a long time.

 

[Phantoon]

It's a festival of stupid

 

[madhair60]

Ghoulish

 

[Becksworth]

This popped up in my feed today. Apparent photographic evidence Mitchell's Donkey Kong cabinet has been modded, throwing even his King of Kong era scores into question.

 

[Purple]

Wasn't that, specifically, how this whole story started however many years ago?

 

[That Old Chestnut]

I'm surprised all the mud this guy's been buried under hasn't crushed him into a diamond yet.

 

[Falselogic]

Keeping track of all the lawsuits, counter-lawsuits, lies, slander, and general chaos would take a full time job I feel.

 

[Sprite]

Is a joystick replacement actually banned, though? It seems weird to me that repairing hardware would count as modding, given the age of these machines. I mean, if that's what Twin Galaxies's policy is, fair enough, but I can't find if the video cites any actual rules about what joysticks are and are not allowed. It just says using a non-original stick and an 8-way stick are both "definitely banned" and that the replacement stick "looks like" an 8-way stick. Speedrunning communities get really into the weeds over this sort of thing, so what's needed is a citation from Twin Galaxies.

...aaand the Twin Galaxies website is down, so I can't actually check if they have rules somewhere

This feels like gilding the lily with how damning the MAME evidence already is.

 

[madhair60]

leave Billy alone

 

[madhair60]

Well hey, whaddya know.

 

[muteKi]

It is nice to see that Karl Jobst is now publicly regarded as a smug dweeb who presents content that is misleading at best.

 

[Kirin]

So what’s up with all this lately?

 

[Kalista]

Jobst overextended in his takedowns of Mitchell and lost a defamation lawsuit.

 

[lincolnic]

Was Karl Jobst the one who got caught posting on a white supremacist Discord? Or am I confusing him with a different milkshake duck?

 

[madhair60]

Was Karl Jobst the one who got caught posting on a white supremacist Discord? Or am I confusing him with a different milkshake duck?

No, that was him. The pick-up artist racist nazi Karl Jobst.

Regardless of anyone's feelings on Billy Mitchell, I am delighted that Karl fucked around and found out in this instance. It was absolutely vile what he did and I got sick of seeing people portray him as some valiant knight slaying the cheater when in reality he's a fuckheaded bigot who lied to his fans and is now potentially destitute. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving sack of shit.

 

[Octopus Prime]

Yeah there’s a *big* difference between lying about how good you are at playing Donkey Kong and Jobst in terms of ethics

 

[lincolnic]

Appreciate the confirmation.