TL/DR version: A lie cannot live under the microscope of the Interbutts
The news came out this morning that Billy Mitchell has been completely baleeted by TG due for submitting fraudulent videos for Donkey Kong high scores.
In the competitive gaming community, this is kinda big. Like Todd Rogers big.
Funny thing, this is an example of life imitating art at the highest level. How so?
In this movie, this character Eddie Plant:
Was inspired by this true life figure, Billy Mitchell:
Who is also known as The King of Kong:
OK, getting back to how life has imitated art (SPOILER ALERT - even though the movie has been out for what, 3 years now?). In the movie Eddie is known as the King of Kong who beat Sam Brenner (Adam Sandler) for the Kong championship and Sam's life was forever ruined by the loss.
Fast forward to present day (2015).
Aliens attack Earth because of a time capsule filled with video game play (the same one from the Arcade Championship) was taken as a threat, and Earth is attacked by video game monsters. Eventually, a deal is struck that if the Humans can win without losing three lives, the Aliens will concede. The Humans win the best of three and celebrate.
But wait, there was something terribly wrong. It was discovered that Eddie (Billy M) had cheated.
So a final rematch is had, where Sam has to defeat, yep, Donkey Kong. During the battle it was revealed to Sam that Eddie had cheated and that Sam was the true King of Kong, and our intrepid hero, with renewed confidence defeats DK and the world is saved.
Fast forward to present day (April 12th, '18). Twin Galaxy, after exhaustive research which was aided by many (including Carlos, who was brought on by Billy) has determined that Billy's videos can not be from original unmodified DK boards, and therefore, all of his records (even those that were legitimate) were removed and banning Billy from TG.
It sure didn't help Billy's cause when one of the referees for authenticating some of his scores was none other than Todd Rogers, who also has been baleeted from various sites, including Guinness Book of World Records.
Birds of a feather....
Here's just one of many videos talking about the BM shit.
What I find even more surprising that I've heard nothing here, on a gaming site, any chatter about Todd or Billy. We gamers hold records dear and precious to us (Yes, Gollum Precious) and will not abide with posers.
So anyway, is Billy's (and Todd's) punishment enough, or should there be further punishments handed out? Of course, there will be an appeal process that must be gone through, but as one who's been following this for a couple of months, I don't see where Billy has any kind of chance to win an appeal, nor win any court cases that he has threatened to bring upon others.
Thoughts?
Big Deal?
Meh Deal?
WTF are you going on about Buck? It's just a game!
Tell that to the Gaming World that their life is 'just a game' and see what kind of rebuttal you get.
And remember folks, documents or it didn't happen!
Comments (4442)
SailorGirl81 Keeper Of Kittens
5 months ago
Any chance you could point me to the military thread? I can't find anything anymore...
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PUC
1 year ago
Fraid acting younger for brief periods is the best I can do for now. It's been a rough few months and I am feeling my age more than I should. If I could find a week of free time to recharge feeling younger would be a whole lot easier. But working 6 and a half days a week from November till now is starting to take its toll on my body.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
1 year ago
Yeah, doing adulting gets in the way of being young. As you get older and rid yourself of financial obligations, it'll be easier to being a kid again.
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cdnl33t
1 year ago
Hey Buck! You got FU'd today. Congrats friend.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
1 year ago
It's great to see you still hanging around these parts!
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cdnl33t
1 year ago
I try. With the anthology season of RvB there wasn't much discussion is that thread I wanted to jump in on, and I don't have much in the ways of crackpottery at the moment. So I mostly just lurk till I see something interesting.
But I'm always here...watching....waiting....
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OsageOrange
1 year ago
Hey, old friend, look who's Featured User!
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
1 year ago
Wait, am I asleep and this is a dream?
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OsageOrange
1 year ago
Not, wasn't a dream... I felt the same way at first when I got Featured
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Cassner Hail Hydra
1 year ago
Buddy, Buddy, Buddy, Buddy... Hey, FU
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
1 year ago
OK .this is some kind of joke, right?
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Cassner Hail Hydra
1 year ago
Yeah... Joke....
Featured User, totally a joke heh, heh, heh.
(walk away slowly)
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Novarogue13
2 years ago
I can see you buying a One a year or two from now. No there isn't any new ES game. But I feel like they will be cheap enough for you and you will get one of those itches to revisit Skyrim if you haven't on a new and improved pc/mac rig.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
2 years ago
@Novarogue13 - Elder Scrolls VI
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ghostflame71
2 years ago
it's been years since I have read any of them
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ghostflame71
2 years ago
also, for pony
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niriall THE META
3 years ago
Hey you pinged me in something but I dont have "Sufficient permissions" to view it.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
3 years ago
And of course I can't remember where I pinged you at! I did the same thing to Nova.
Hmmm... I'm thinking that it had to be in the Season 13 thread.
+1 Cool
niriall THE META
3 years ago
Hey you pinged me in something but I dont have "Sufficient permissions" to view it.
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13islucky
3 years ago
9gag.com/gag/ajn6wLR?sc=geeky
for some crazy reason this reminded me of you.
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Jalnor
3 years ago
Ahoy, matey!
What's this? Click here.
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TheNefasus EtherCreeper
3 years ago
Buck what the hell were you doing on page 700 of jedipoets game of death?
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Giries PA Guardian
3 years ago
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BaghdadBean
3 years ago
I've had better days, that's for damn sure. But still hanging in here. How about yourself?
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
3 years ago
Life has been pretty damn good, all in all. A couple areas could be better, but hey, I'm not going to complain at this time (and they are areas that I control). I did have a lawnmower kick me in the chest pretty damn hard right in the breast-bone. Fucker still hurts like a bitch.
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kriss Community Manager
3 years ago
Thanks so much for stopping by the RT Radio stream! <3
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Radius55 Site Admin
3 years ago
You know, I have no idea why we're not friends on the site after so many years.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
3 years ago
I'd love to take a look.
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Radius55 Site Admin
3 years ago
Yeah, I have an outline. If you want to give the background and setting a look over I can send them to you. No clues are in it, so you can still play with no advantage.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
3 years ago
Are you ready to get your Mafia game going? I'm finished with mine (all but the Q&A).
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Radius55 Site Admin
3 years ago
I only noticed when I tried to search your username and it didn't autocomplete. Always assumed we friended each other a long time ago.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
3 years ago
Likewise, I was wondering the same thing when I saw your request. I could have sworn we had hooked up before this.
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urself
3 years ago
Just completed laso master on the master chief collection, all campaigns are completed, and you're still a scrub
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urself
3 years ago
Ur big buckeye ass knows u have to do it coop, gotta help the little ppl to complete it too
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
3 years ago
laso - as in Coop. Go Solo or go home.
You can scrub this.
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Newbs Uncle Slam
3 years ago
I likely won't have enough time between training and work to do the mafia game this time around. Next time though I would enjoy being a part of it!
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
3 years ago
That would be very cool!
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monopoly_j
3 years ago
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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monopoly_j
3 years ago
Thanks!
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
3 years ago
Merry Christmas to you and yours as well!
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TheNefasus EtherCreeper
3 years ago
Merry Canadian Sweet and Spicy Bacon Stuffed Turkey Weekend Buck!
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
3 years ago
Thanks!
And now I'm hungry...
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MissZahrah
3 years ago
Found the perfect thing just for you: an excel game arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/04/how-an-account...
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
3 years ago
I love you!
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Dylan Davesexual
3 years ago
Just got off Miami and onto 75, thanks for the local tip!
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
3 years ago
Have a great weekend!
Protection vote is due noon tomorrow.
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Gorczy The Real Slim Shady
4 years ago
This is a formal apology to you and @Capnbirdman for saying that I liked Mila Kunis over Kate Beckinsdale. I now realize that I was clearly wrong.
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capnbirdman Likes Stars
4 years ago
You were. Apology accepted. To be fair, Mila Kunis is second. Not really a close second though...because, again, Kate Beckinsale attended Oxford for three years before moving on to acting full-time. Smart, nice, and unbearably amazing bone structure.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
I formally accept your apology and am glad to see that you have seen the light.
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george4
4 years ago
i challenge you to an online game on the xbox 360. think you can take just for the lolz?
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Grogusting
4 years ago
Guess who is still playing lemmings....F you and your little dog too. Hoser!!
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
Shouldn't that have been "F you and your little lemming too!"
Now go check on the kids.
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SailorGirl81 Keeper Of Kittens
4 years ago
You keep the forums interesting.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
You keep the site rocking with your art!
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Zack Zatch
4 years ago
Don, it's February and I am challenging myself to leave a personal comment on all my RT friends to share the love. Between you and I, it was love at first friend request. You're an interesting fellow for sure. The light that you shed on the years my profile went dark is invaluable. And your helpfulness in the Game of Death thread is always appreciated by those lazier than you!
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Zack Zatch
4 years ago
Ok, that's what I thought. Since you and Kristen Stewart have that same hard-to-read face, I think it somehow comes out in the tone of your typing.
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capnbirdman Likes Stars
4 years ago
You can start by realizing I'm a bag of lies.
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Zack Zatch
4 years ago
How can I defend myself or argue against it or stop being an attention whore if I don't know what it is that is causing your perception of me to be this way? I ask this with all sincerity.
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capnbirdman Likes Stars
4 years ago
Meh. You overestimate my dedication to proving your whoreyness. Which may or may not be partially affected by the site eating my posts.
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Zack Zatch
4 years ago
Yeah, critique ignored until specific.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
That's rather vague capnbirdman. You need to be a bit more specific.
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capnbirdman Likes Stars
4 years ago
Everything.
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Zack Zatch
4 years ago
@capnbirdman
What do I do that makes me an attention whore?
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capnbirdman Likes Stars
4 years ago
How am I more of an attention whore than you are?
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Zack Zatch
4 years ago
That you, of all people, calls me histrionic confuses me. I can't tell if you're joking or serious.
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capnbirdman Likes Stars
4 years ago
It's neither new nor my favorite. You just see me use it due to how unabashedly prevalent attention-seeking is in your life.
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Zack Zatch
4 years ago
Histrionic is her new favorite word.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
OK, fine... Since you don't charge I guess that makes you a slut.
*goes to look up histrionic*
Well! Thank you for the complement! Now come over here and sit on Uncle Buck's lap and let me show you just how much I love you
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capnbirdman Likes Stars
4 years ago
I AM NOT A WHORE AND YOU'RE BOTH FAR MORE HISTRIONIC THAN I.
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Zack Zatch
4 years ago
You and me bolth.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
Hmmm... perhaps I did feel the need to.
...
This may come back to haunt my ass.
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Zack Zatch
4 years ago
Did you really need to qualify what kind?
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
@capnbirdman is quite the attention whore.
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Zack Zatch
4 years ago
True. @capnbirdman loves the attention.
Yeah same for RTX. It wouldn't be smart to juggle 2 major things at once.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
As long as the likes of us have the tagging tool, and @capnbirdman is still alive, we shall make full abuse of such features.
And yeah, not too happy with the current alert system, but I'm holding out hope for the new layout. I am being quite patient for the layout and am in no rush for it. Just knowing they are working on it and taking their time is giving me the peace of mind and patience to put up with our current system.
I just hope they don't roll it out at the exact same time as the release of Season 12. One month before, or one month (or much more) after.
Just not the same day/week.
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Zack Zatch
4 years ago
For sure. I always loved personal comments! Except I don't like how the alerts are cleared for all personal comments because it can't distinguish between them when you're on the page.
Messages aren't that bad here, but the notification for them is weird.
Yeah Skype is great. Hopefully the new site will recapture what was lost, but it may be too late. Then again, this site can't be everything to everyone.
As long as @capnbirdman is alive and able to be tagged, the personal comments system will be used and abused. Probably.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
I applaud your challenge and am confident that you will continue such a habit after February.
One thing that was prominent during my early years here was Personal Comments.
Now it is rare that one communicates through Personal Comments (and I blame alternative communication outlets like Skype, a fantastic tool).
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capnbirdman Likes Stars
4 years ago
Yoooouuuu tagging son of a bitch.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
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jokersflame
4 years ago
Boogie has some skills.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
No! It ISN'T!
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
Without looking, is this his 'Gollum' video?
I bet it is.
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jaxom_rahl
4 years ago
[You are now reading this in a Russian accent] Greetings, comrade. It is great pleasure to inform you that for greater good of Glorious Motherland, you are now happily in service as a member of upcoming Mafia game. This is great honor for you. Game description can be found here.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
I shall protect the Motherland and provide any service that I can to help her provide for the Common Good of her serfs.
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capnbirdman Likes Stars
4 years ago
I'm afraid to go back into GoD...is it running as usual in there?
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capnbirdman Likes Stars
4 years ago
Le sigh. That's what I'm afraid of. No more game=
.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
I've only stopped in once in the past few weeks.
Looks a bit boring.
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urself
4 years ago
Hope ive started something fun
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
The cunt blocked me.
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jokersflame
4 years ago
Everyone said Boogie sold out.
Nope. Not at all.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
You know you have hit it big when Major Nelson stops by your house.
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jokersflame
4 years ago
He had Major Nelson come over his house. He still endorsed the PS4.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
Without even looking at the video, I - and he - don't care if he did sell out. He's out to make a buck. However, I know he was very upset with the changes that occurred in YouTube.
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daprophet02
4 years ago
What happened to LFTO? The thread is locked. I was looking forward to that again.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
It died off. DiMono decided to be cute and locked the thread. Sadly, you're the first one in 5 days to make mention of it. We have a Skype chat going on where most of the daily conversation takes place. The Season 11 and 12 threads have had much better conversation anyways.
I've thought about getting the thread unlocked, but there really doesn't seem to be much interest right now.
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daprophet02
4 years ago
Hey Don. Yeah, I've been quiet for a bit. I've had a lot of stuff happen in my life all at once. But now I am back.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
Welcome back!
Yeah, life can get that way, but we manage!
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Zack Zatch
4 years ago
So I'm listening to the RT Podcast in order...and way back in a 2009 episode, they say your name! That was cool to hear on my way home from work, haha. Nice.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
Indeed, very nice!
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Bensonator Lord Washington
4 years ago
You are a good edition to this site. :) (Response to a journal someone made about you in case you wonder where this came from)
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BaghdadBean
4 years ago
If this is double posted, my apologies. RT is eating comments and posts like crazy tonight. So yeah, you ever going to come visit me? Or hit PAX again? I'd be happy to try to score you PAX passes.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
You can double post me any time
Life has gotten in the way of me doing any traveling. It's been quite interesting and challenging, and I'll save the stories for when I do get out that way. I will say that this year has been one of the greatest collection of business challenges I've ever faced, and I still don't know how things are going to shake out.
I find the entire situation quite exhilarating, and I may have had a most fortuitous turn of fortune today (not getting my hopes up, but...!).
If things turn out right, I'll be traveling again next year. Heck, even if they turn out 'wrong', I should be able to more easily travel next year.
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AdamJTurke
4 years ago
Damn son, tagging all of us must've taken a long time. I applaud. *clap clap*
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AdamJTurke
4 years ago
Nice. But, did a great job.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
4 years ago
(bows)
It did take some time, but I use a spreadsheet for most of the heavy work. I copy/paste each page of the members list onto the sheet, add a bit of coding to prep for the sort, sort, code to sort for duplicates, then sort one last time and add a bit of coding to add the @ tag to each members' name. All in all it filled up about an hours worth of idle time.
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p3drit0
5 years ago
in LFTO you guys are talking about "what Caboose found in Relocated"...
i thought that was what eventually became the eyeball church. no?
is there a random extra AI thingy?
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
5 years ago
For reasons that I cannot pinpoint nor quantify I have great confidence that this is not a fluke. I guess that the pace of the season is what give me hope, it feels as though it is going as fast as Recon with much happening in each episode (even the parts that are filled with good ol' RvB 'dumb').
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p3drit0
5 years ago
ep 4 and 5 brought back good feels from BGC.
let's hope that's a trend and not a fluke!
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
5 years ago
Burnie seemed to let the awriting slide the last couple of seasons. The little that Miles added last season may have been the best (he did the Carolina flashback-to-York scene at the very least).
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p3drit0
5 years ago
i DO miss Burnie and Kate as major voices... but i can be happy with season progression :D
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
5 years ago
I'm loving that RvB is getting back to the style that made it great, and we can thank Miles for taking us there.
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p3drit0
5 years ago
either way, eps 1-3 were OK. 4 and 5 got me excited like back in the olden days.
i love Caboose-Church. one without the other isn't quite the whole deal. turns out, Caboose trying to bring back Church works just as well. (or trying to bring in another new best friend)
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
5 years ago
Caboose took Epsilon with him from Freelancer City and that is (presumably) what was uploaded to Eyeball 3000. I am not of the opinion that what was found in Sheila is what was uploaded into E3K. There were also other AI entities in the Epsi-pod that may not have transferred over (again, my opinion) since we didn't see any evidence of them existing in Season 9.
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Echelea67
5 years ago
My picture was making you...dizzy?
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
5 years ago
No characters that come to mind that I see myself in.
Depending on funds and other activities (the German/American Festival is in August and I can walk to that) I just may attend! I'll bring my camera along.
And those damn creeper/stalkers, always fucking things up...
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Echelea67
5 years ago
I've had a couple. I got rid of my first one so long ago, I don't remember how I spelled the final part of it. It was Rikku-something. Then I had another account until someone stalked it. Now I have this one
Yeah, my garden outside is doing good. Flowers are happy, people are not.
You should attend Matsuricon in Columbus next month, I'll be at that one. They're all so fun!
We've had almost nothing but rain and humidity.
You don't have any characters that stick to you, like your favorites?
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
5 years ago
Who were you on here before? Same type of name?
And yeah, Ohio weather... I love the changing seasons, but the jungle can keep its type of rainy season. Although I will say that the rain has been great for the crops in these parts. The corn is phenomenal and the beans are starting to look pretty good.
Cos-playing, the closest I ever did was some SCA stuff while I was in the service, and have been fascinated by it at conventions, but just can't seem to gravitate to even a single character to cos-play.
I'll just be myself and BuckHat.
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Echelea67
5 years ago
That's Ohio for you. I honestly thought we'd have some summer weather, but that'd just be unnatural. I really hope it all works out for you!
I had an account on RvB years ago, so I understand
They're pretty decent~! Working and working on cosplays. I have too many planned...And that would be "Kalahari's World Famous Strawberry Long Island Iced Tea"
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
5 years ago
All in all pretty damn good, especially if I can get all of my bills paid this next week without having to dip into my savings. Business has been slow this year due to second winter, construction, flooding, second construction, second flooding, and construction/flooding. But the end of it all is near and I'm doing OK to damn near fine.
I'm really loving the return to basics and dumb in RvB, it's what I fell in love with all of those years ago. I really like Miles' fresh hand at the story and the directing.
How are things in your world, and what is that pink concoction you are drinking?
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Echelea67
5 years ago
Well since we started talking,
Hi! How are you?
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
5 years ago
No-no! It's all good!
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Echelea67
5 years ago
Aha, I'm sorry!
Didn't mean to almost make you sick!
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
5 years ago
Your shirt was on backward/sideways! It was like walking through life while looking in a mirror!
It wasn't quite like having vertigo, but trying to play a video game with the look setting the opposite of what I'm used to (non-inverted).
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conmars
5 years ago
I have been absorbed in Skyrim, sooooo... not bad.
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conmars
5 years ago
Well, at least I have it on Steam, so i can still google shite.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
5 years ago
Ah yes, a great place to get lost in. I have spent quite a bit of time there myself.
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capnbirdman Likes Stars
5 years ago
I really have to start calling you "Buck" instead of "Don," don't I? You just called yourself Buck in a post and it's on your profile...change is hard and I don't wanna. Thanks for making me do brain work, guy.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
5 years ago
Well, I must have a deviant brain then. And while it has enjoyed some time in Hyrule, it prefers the land of Tamriel.
However, my brain is telling me to go with Nintendo, especially if I can play the original Zelda games.
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capnbirdman Likes Stars
5 years ago
No it's not. Brains are only meant to sit, chained to couch, figuring out the most efficient way to free Hyrule from Ganondorf's oppressive rule.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
5 years ago
In that fantasy world called 'real life', I am actually called Don. The interbuttz gave me the name Buck.
And hey, it's good to take the brain for a walk from time to time.
Then again, my mind likes to talk long walks, alone.
I always wonder what it is up to when it does that.
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urself
5 years ago
disliked fgt
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
5 years ago
You are such a heartless little bitch, so no surprise.
How's things going?
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jokersflame
5 years ago
I couldn't see what I was tagged in.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
5 years ago
Mesk's journal about the protests and riots going on in Brazil. I simply tagged all of my friends to stop bay and give it a Like to get it to Top Posts.
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Fizz
5 years ago
Interested in your opinion on this.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
5 years ago
I don't always have Gold, and I'm considering dropping my home Internet for a few months. I tend to be too busy to play much on the console, so I see no need to spend the money for the premium services.
However, I do like to fire up the console from time to time, and if MS is going to insist that my console check in to play a physical disc (or even a digital copy) they can kiss my ass.
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Fizz
5 years ago
Despite the fact that there's still much unsure or they're still working on it, most of these changes from the original statements seem for the better. Then again, it couldn't be worse, so those are easy points.
The giving away games part and not being able to play online are my main concerns just now. To me, it'd seem best if they can make a difference between physical disks and online purchased games. This way, if you have the disk, you can still play the game offline, but you can't do this with the digital copy, which you can only share with 10 relatives.
One of the big pro's is the 1 Gold per Xbox thing. Then again, PS has free online gaming, so there's that. Plus I'm mostly the only xbox player at home.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
5 years ago
USED GAMES
"We [MS] designed Xbox One so game publishers can enable you to trade in your games at participating retailers."
This wasn't made clear in the beginning, and it still isn't crystal clear. As of right now, there is not a system in place for you to trade your games in, but MS is working with retailers like GameStop to get a system in place, one where MS will be provided a fee for a used game transaction. You will have your ability to play that game on your console after trade in even though that game will still exist on your hard drive.
"Microsoft will not receive any money from these transactions."
This is not what I've read from official sources (like VP Phil Harrison) nor from direct conversations with GameStop. I will try to do a followup later.
FIRST PARTY GAMES
"In our role as a game publisher, Microsoft Studios will enable you to give your games to friends..."
MS has stated that you will be able to give a friend a game, but that game can only be gifted once (your friend cannot give that game as a gift later) and that friend must have been on your Friend's List for at least 30 days.
RENTING GAMES
"Loaning or renting games won’t be available at launch, but we are exploring the possibilities with our partners."
Microsoft and companies such as Gamefly are working on a system to make this work.
MS has stated this since the Xbox One reveal. I doubt that it will be available at launch.
DRM--WHY?
" install your games to your hard-drive and have your entire library available to play without putting the disc in the disc tray.
This is why the 24-hour check is required.
The drawback to this is not being able to game offline. "
This is why I may not get the Xbox One.
PRIVACY
"You are in control of when Kinect sensing is On, Off or Paused: If you don’t want the Kinect sensor on while playing games or enjoying your entertainment, you can pause Kinect."
Some people are upset that you have to have a Kinect just to use the X-1. Others feel that it is spying on them, especially since MS signed up with PRISM (the spying program that the NSA (National Security Agency of the US) back in '07. I understand that the Kinect can be used to spy on you and everything that it picks up can by stored by the NSA.
XBOX ONE- A GAME OF CIRCLES
"...you will be able to have a "circle" of friends, 10 people to be exact, that will be able to access your game library ... at anytime (as long as you or someone else in your circle isn't playing it)."
I do believe that this is true and think I have heard this from an official source. This is something that MS should have announced at the X-1 reveal and repeated loudly and clearly since then.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
"...allow all users on one console to have gold by just one user having it."
This is the first that I have heard of this. This would be a huge incentive for a family to purchase an X-1 and go Gold.
Post any question you have here and I will get back to them as soon as possible.
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OsageOrange
5 years ago
Ready for the premier of Season 11 tomorrow?
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
5 years ago
I was going to do a rewatch, but spring and summer I'm too busy with outdoors stuff to really spend any time on watching videos or playing games.
If something comes up I'll go back and review some episodes though.
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OsageOrange
5 years ago
Got myself caught up in re-watching prior seasons the last few weeks.
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
5 years ago
Oh, you know it!
I stayed over at work to get all of the chores out of the way for the weekend just so I can be sure to be home in time for the premiere.
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Jalnor
5 years ago
Oioi... did anyone answer your call to arms? Got at least 4 Comrades ready when you are
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Jalnor
5 years ago
Ah. No worries. Let me know!
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buckeyedon Crackpottist
5 years ago
I'm not at home.
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urself
5 years ago
might want to remind them, nato stomped the shit outta the gay ass ussrvb team last time they went to war then they pussied out and other games
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