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I don't enjoy playing it myself, but I can definitely see the appeal of Donkey Kong. It's not just a "museum piece". There's a subtle brilliance to some of the methodic and tactical action especially on the rivet stage. And like I mentioned earlier, seeing the top players push every available point out of the barrel stage is definitely interesting. The constant control of entirely RNG created patterns is just incredibly unique.

The game has its stinkers. The random point amount for smashing blue barrels is just straight up bad, and honestly if you ask me, the elevator stage can go entirely. But there's a reason people are still competing in this game. It has a high skill ceiling, and a lot of interesting variables.
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What's your opinion of DK3? Plays more like the Game and Watch Greenhouse than the first two and can be quite mean at times. Constantly spraying DK can be tedious at times and power ups don't respawn right away without dying.
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Billy Mitchell's got a defamation lawsuit against Twin Galaxies that appears to be pretty much doomed to fail, given Twin Galaxies' expert witnesses are going to back their position up.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201 ... ward.shtml
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did you hear the king of con video- youtuber... has pulled down all his shit on billy mitchell after birry came after him.
-they settled out of court.

god knows how much money changed hands.
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I really hope someone is making a documentary about all this as it happens
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Coming soon: Hot Legal Take Hotsauce.
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EZ scape did a great vid on this absolute shower of shite.

https://youtu.be/QtAp64SxmGY

The guy who took the settlement - Apollo Legend, also scammed a fuckton of people.
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Holy shit, so that's Appollo who took the settlement?

Looks like he wasn't after justice, but rather after a fat paycheck :lol:


Now I hope that Karl Jobst, a speedrunner who's content I enjoy and who is also sued (or could-be sued?), will not sell-out as well
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WHAAAAAAAAT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ74cr1x6SE

Twin Galaxies pulling no punches. Birry this might hurt, cling fast to your gaming cock :lol:
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To paraphrase Jagger, he came to get his cock sucked, but will now get his ass fucked. Image

I see Walty Walt is gettin' it too. When duder mentioned additional defendants, I'd hoped he'd say "Not Ron Jeremy" TODDO ROGERS (he of the "human element" Dragster FALSIFICARE).

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Been meaning to ask, good Dr. Birruford : please tell me you usually say his name by inverting first letter of both name, resulting in the magnificent ROD TODGER moniker? it has to be

(the ''todger'' slang always kills me :lol: )
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Ah yes, Rod Todger aka Dick Dick! :lol: Totally forgot, tbh what I remember most is his stunning resemblance to famous Mario porno actor Mr. Jeremy!

Yeah Todger is classic, see also MEAT & TWO VEG Image (eg "Ron Jeremy should break into Billy Mitchell's house and shove his meat & two veg RAIGHT DAHN 'E MAHF")
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Full text. LA County Civil Court :mrgreen:

https://t.co/qFngp0TlLY?amp=1
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BIL wrote:Ah yes, Rod Todger aka Dick Dick!
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You can't imagine the juvenile uproar that guy caused BITD, when my AKI-loving circle of friends first fired that game up. :lol:

Didn't help we'd just heard the intro's sagely words on THE MIGHTY WOOD OF FRIENDSHIP (・`ω´・) It's beautiful, and practically indestructible! :shock:

Ah jeez, surprise nostalgia bomb. Years later, I PWNed QI when the question "what did the DikDik do that the DoDo didn't?" came up. (answer: SURVIVE. you need a good stiff dick to survive Darwinmageddon. shitty bird and his little boipucci never stood a chance :[ )
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WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING
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WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING


Something something BIRRY IS DONE FOR SURE THIS TIME :o I ain't watched it yet but there's a link to Karl Jobst that skips his sponsor message ;3 (it's for cereal!)
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Well, what a bump. I'll just leave this link here, too : https://perfectpacman.com/2022/12/25/guinness-exposed/

tl;dr Guinness didn't have any special evidence exonerating BIRRY and reinstated his MAME'd as fuck records just to get his lawsuit off their backs.
BIL wrote:there's a link to Karl Jobst that skips his sponsor message ;3 (it's for cereal!)
At least it's not for hot sauce.

Edit: Ok, watched the vid. tl;dw he used an 8-way stick (which very obviously stood out in recently retrieved photos) instead of a 4-way stick. The 8-way stick allows you to do stuff you wouldn't otherwise be able to do. And the same cabinet was used for both of his "le totally legit world records xD". Not original DK arcade hardware. Oops.
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Holy fuckin shit that's intense :shock: At first I was like "lmao so its comfier rofl?" then I was refreshed by dk DEEP MECHANIX and went "Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit" :o

Now let's watch BIRREH claim its AYKSHUALY 4way stick, or better yet, that he only used cardinals :lol:
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Your honor, I submit to the court .. there was a 4-way restrictor plate on the grassy knoll.
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Lol

It's comical that TG actually requires an original DK joystick and you can't just use a comparable 4 way stick of your choosing.

Hold on let me spend a bunch of money on a rusty joystick from ebay and refurbish it instead of buying a better one brand new for 20 bucks.
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Udderdude wrote:At least it's not for hot sauce.
At least it's not one of the ones he does about shaving your balls. I know we're not in the little things that annoy you thread, but the word "manscaping" can fuck off.
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i mean modified is modified, but how can one tell that's an 8-way stick just from the photo?
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Seems the angle of attack is Walter Day's own hyper-anal standards re: TRVE & HONEST OG hardware. Image

Remember, kids! IT'S DONKEY CHODE OR NOTHIN (`w´メ)

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A grown man gripping his DONKEY CHODE :shock:
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It seems like a weak angle to go at Billy, a man who no doubt knows how to handle a donkey chode.

Even if you could prove it's an 8 way he could plead ignorance and just say well I was at a live event. A TG rep looked over the cab and told me it was good to go. I didn't notice anything odd in the heat of the moment etc.

It's hardly the smoking gun for an all out character assassination and kick to the chode that will bring Billy down for good like Karl seems to be making it out as. For that you need to show that he knowingly cheated and lied which is almost impossible.

If anything overreaching is not a good look as it kind of plays to the whole idea that they're out to slander the guy.
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Seems destined to be a contentious case of unstoppable anal meets immovable chode :o
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Just imagine trying to fit a tuna can through the eye of a needle.
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mycophobia wrote:i mean modified is modified, but how can one tell that's an 8-way stick just from the photo?
This was my reaction, too.
I don't like cutting mean Billy slack like that, but this is quite obviously Karl Jobst grasping for straws to get more views for his cereal dollaz

What's even the threshold for "modified hardware"? I say Twin Galaxies should have just banned Billy over the t-mold on that cab being the wrong color, it's obviously been replaced!
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Ultimately the stick is a (funny) red herring, because the tapes he submitted to TG clearly show MAME gameplay, and all other "evidence" he actually got those scores at those events on original PCB are of the "Source: Dude, trust me bro" variety.
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Speak of Donkey Kong, and a tertiarily relevant video will be posted.

The entire time I could only think... yeah, they look much better like that.
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