[HN Gopher] New technical analysis confirms the evidence against...
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New technical analysis confirms the evidence against Billy Mitchell
Author : Luc
Score : 122 points
Date : 2022-09-07 19:06 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| bruceb wrote:
| I love how obsessed in a good way this person is. I wonder how
| many hours went in to this analysis? 60+ probably.
| themerone wrote:
| It's sad that a man's entire self worth is so deeply tied to a
| fraudulent game score.
| dvngnt_ wrote:
| lies. i think he has hot sauce too
| lordleft wrote:
| In Billy Mitchell's defense, his villainy is fairly low grade
| and highly entertaining. He's very fun to hate on
| acomjean wrote:
| He does remind me of a late 20th century WWF wrestling
| villain. He's a good player, even if its pretty clear at this
| point some of his scores are dodgy.
|
| Though he did some "in person"
| https://www.classicarcademuseum.org/billy-mitchell-
| achieves-...
|
| In the King Of Kong extras he brings someone a frogger
| machine to practice on, which was pretty nice. In that
| segment he comes across a pretty nice actually.
|
| If you like arcade games and are in the NH area the American
| Classic Game Museum (Fun Spot?) has a lot of the old
| machines.
|
| https://www.classicarcademuseum.org
| commmentator wrote:
| > even if its pretty clear at this point some of his scores
| are dodgy.
|
| "dodgy"? Quite the understatement there. This man has made
| fraudulent claims, has held fraudulent records and, most
| importantly, has sued people who told the truth.
|
| Defending this person by downplaying their scores as
| "dodgy" is ludicrous.
| tootie wrote:
| There's some criticism of the King of Kong film that they
| tilted quite a few scenes to make him look worse that he
| was. There was some playing with timelines and implying bad
| behavior that didn't actually happen. The thrust of story
| is true, but it was definitely a movie made to make you
| hate Billy Mitchell instead of a piece of journalism.
| DubiousPusher wrote:
| IMO, documentary film should be consumed as entertainment
| and not as an actual document. Almost any documentary
| that can be entertaining enough to draw any kind of
| significant viewership in has to have a narrative. And
| narrative is often in contention with reality.
| boomboomsubban wrote:
| I'd agree he could be seen as a fun heel until this lawsuit.
| Bringing the court system into your cheating makes you an
| asshole.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Low grade villainy is actually even more sad. Entertaining
| for sure though.
| phone8675309 wrote:
| Probably less entertaining if you're a family member of
| Apollo Legend.
| JoeAltmaier wrote:
| There's folks who have suicided when their fraud gets detected.
| Truly, their entire self-worth tied up in a score.
|
| e.g https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/08/us/marathoner-frank-meza-
| suic...
| smeagull wrote:
| I used to suffer depression, and the biggest advice I got was
| to diversify my sources of self-esteem. It's fragile to only
| have one source of ego, you want to have hobbies, work,
| friends and family, all to support you when things go badly.
| Because we all have off days, it becomes a spiral when we
| don't have things to help us through.
| scrame wrote:
| No, he also makes barbeque sauce.
| [deleted]
| darepublic wrote:
| Trial of the century
| DubiousPusher wrote:
| It's amazing that any hobby, however trivial, when interrogated
| and pursued to its deepest extremity, contains a microcosm of the
| human condition.
| walrus01 wrote:
| Some intelligence agency should hire whoever did this writeup to
| conduct similarly detailed technical analysis and write reports
| on things of greater importance than donkey Kong.
| wil421 wrote:
| Sounds like an Electrical Engineer. My father is one and I can
| distinctly remember hearing about scanning electron beams
| growing up with CRTs.
|
| I checked while writing the comment and the author is a
| hardware engineer so close enough.
|
| My mom was a teacher and she argued about red, green, blue
| being the colors of everything to my dad. The family got a
| report similar to this one about pigment vs light with
| supporting charts and formulas.
| anonymousiam wrote:
| Fun fact: Not all CRTs use magnetic (yoke) deflection. High
| speed oscilloscopes use electrostatic deflection instead.
|
| https://circuitglobe.com/electrostatic-deflection-in-
| crt.htm...
| darepublic wrote:
| King of Kong focused on Billy as the bad guy and Steve as the
| protagonist. Of course a Wikipedia check shows that all the top
| scores were taken by new blood to the field and neither Steve nor
| Billy are in the mix anymore. Kind of reminds me of Tetris, there
| was the old generation putzing around some imaginary glass
| ceiling and suddenly after the game received some spotlight the
| existing records were swept away by young blood
| stoeckley wrote:
| If you haven't seen the documentary King of Kong, it's quite an
| entertaining backstory for these events.
| scrame wrote:
| There's a companion movie "Chasing Ghosts" that I thought was
| much better for humanizing this particular group of oddballs.
| Mountain_Skies wrote:
| Even the makers of the show admit they edited footage to craft
| a villain narrative and create conflict where it didn't exist.
| It shouldn't be used to inform your views on anyone involved
| but it does make for some fun entertainment.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Pretty sure they didn't talk him into wearing his patriotism
| on his sleeve with the loud American flag ties and such --
| and his villainous Trans-Am-driving coiffure, ha ha.
|
| The guy exudes all the vibes of a narcissist. As others have
| said, a guy so much fun to detest.
|
| What a great film.
| ok_dad wrote:
| This comment about ties and cars makes me wonder what I
| enjoy that others would have perverse fun in tearing down.
| DubiousPusher wrote:
| I wouldn't know. I'd comment more but I need to get back
| to routing these RGB fan cables...
| WalterBright wrote:
| Billy Mitchell was vindicated by the attack on Pearl Harbor.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Ha ha, had to look that one up.
| tomphoolery wrote:
| i'll wait for the karl jobst video /s
|
| this is pretty awesome!
| Kenji wrote:
| Hello you absolute legends!
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