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Having watched The King of Kong, this doesn't surprise me that much.
That is one hilarious and fascinating documentary. Considering when it was made, I found it incredible how there was a niche of society that had managed to come so close in capturing time in a bottle.
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I would argue that it does. Being a child molester shows a horrifically bad sense of judgement and a flagrant disregard for the law.
So, here's a thought experiment: consider "Carl H". Carl H ran the site computerscienceforeveryone.com. He was an incredibly passionate individual who spent his time creating free video tutorials on C programming. Along with these videos, he created supplementary materials, quizzes, and engaged with anyone who had questions. He even provided live one-on-one instruction to people over Skype, all for free. By all accou…
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> doesn't actually mean that everything they did was a lie or a crime Nobody said that > they are a horrible, detestable human Nobody said that either All that's being said is that it's more likely he would do something nefarious, given his background.
The issue is that "child rapist" implies "poor judgment of character". This implication cannot be made because there are plenty of accounts where "non-child rapist" have "poor judgement of character". No one is arguing a child rapist is okay; the issue other posters are having is that it is a incorrect argument. Any further "but what if's..." are simply assumptions that do not have proof.
1. The issue is that "child rapist" implies "poor judgment of character". This implication cannot be made because there are plenty of accounts where "child rapist" have "good judgement of character".
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2. The issue is that "poor judgment of character" implies "child rapist". This implication cannot be made because there are plenty of accounts where "non-child rapist" have "poor judgement of character".
being at least a logical (regardless of correctness) statement
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I would argue that it does. Being a child molester shows a horrifically bad sense of judgement and a flagrant disregard for the law.
So, here's a thought experiment: consider "Carl H". Carl H ran the site computerscienceforeveryone.com. He was an incredibly passionate individual who spent his time creating free video tutorials on C programming. Along with these videos, he created supplementary materials, quizzes, and engaged with anyone who had questions. He even provided live one-on-one instruction to people over Skype, all for free. By all accou…
Distributing knowledge, like Carl H was doing, does not involve the kind of sensibilities required to be a referee, judge or notary.
Were Carl H a federal judge, his crime would definitely put all trials presided by him under scrutiny.
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Speedrunslive defines a glitch as an "unintentional mistake in games code." In your example, the dash-crouch in SMB is a glitch.
Unless we're talking about something different than I'm imagining (like sliding through a wall or something), that seems obviously not a glitch. Mario has momentum that continues to apply when he changes to a crouching state and it would look really weird if it didn't. (I recognize that this is just proving the point that "glitch or not" is hard to define... and probably harder to define than one would expect.)
Like how some competitive gaming communities often have informal rules to keep competitive play interesting by banning specific overpowered mechanics, the more important reason for allowing/banning specific glitches or types of glitches is to keep the competition interesting for speedrunners and viewers.
Obviously some games are more interesting than others to speedrun, but like in the example of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, by ruling out specific glitches you can make sure that speedrunners continue to explore the surface area of the game rather than only trying to optimize a specific glitch with outsized impact on run-time.
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It's a pretty safe bet, though.
People commit horrible crimes. That's one of those things that happen. It doesn't actually mean that everything they did was a lie or a crime, even if they are a horrible, detestable human in many senses of the word. I'd nearly argue that it would be in his worst interest to participate in defrauding something since it might have revealed his horrible offenses.
But only because that'd be pretty hard to pull off.
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Yes, the analysis proves 5.51 is impossible, and it's been confirmed that 5.57 is the best possible time through the use of an emulator with preprogrammed inputs, meaning that it plays the game perfectly. Todd Roger's response is that the analysis failed to consider the "human element" and how the console would respond to that.
> Yes, the analysis proves 5.51 is impossible, and it's been confirmed that 5.57 is the best possible time through the use of an emulator with preprogrammed inputs, meaning that it plays the game perfectly. An emulator with preprogrammed inputs doesn't mean it plays perfectly. It just means that it plays reproducibly. Whether or not it plays perfectly depends on the preprogrammed inputs. How did they choose the input…
Based on that code, the alleged record was not possible.
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For those who can't watch. Some games were scored in increments of 5 and he somehow got a score finishing with an 8. Many scores were ridiculous like 650000 for a game that goes in increments of 100 and the second highest video verified score was in the 90k range. Then the fact that all his records were referee verified instead of video verified. The referee is serving a sentence for child rape. Then there is the lie…
Ironically, in the case of the Dragster record, his exact time does match the nature of Dragster 's clock being only precise to 3/100ths of a second: > Despite Omnigamer’s claim, as previously mentioned, Activision supposedly had created a machine-assisted run that determined 5.54 a perfect score, which is .03 better than Koziel’s model, thus making it impossible in his determinations. Crane explained to me that the…
And this same gamer lied about other games with scores that are impossible to get.
So, is the opinion that he just fabricated the photo, or that he had a knack for figuring these glitches out? Because as far as I know, glitching things is considered all well and good with speed runners, and lots of his other high scores imply some kind of glitching or another.