#todd rogers

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[danmori630]

every day i think about either tommy tallarico or billy mitchell. sometimes todd rogers.

[ephrom]

Why Are Gamers Better Journalists Than Actual Journalists?

Recently, I watched this video on Karl Jobst on Barbara Blackburn, where he exposed her famous typing record as being nothing more than a fabrication. 

This is part of a series of pieces of amazing journalism done by Karl Jobst, a YouTuber who I--like many people--have been following since he first did what I and many others consider the definitive video on Todd Roger’s famous Dragster record.

He’s also done two videos on the Dream Minecraft speedrunning controversy, the first one being nothing special outside of confirming what most people already knew (that he cheated), but the second one dispels some myths the side which called Dream a cheater were spreading.

What saddens me, however, is that I cannot find anybody who I view as being as good of journalist in the political world as Karl Jobst is in the gaming world. This is not to say there are no good journalists today, but the average political journalist--especially on YouTube--is nothing compared to the work of people like Jobst. This might be because Jobst is just so damn talented that nobody could compare to him even if they tried, but I think it’s both a combination of natural talent and the failures of modern political journalism, which seems to be more based on going moment by moment and is constantly unwilling to look back into the past. (Just look at how nobody really bothered to look into George Santos’s past until after he entered Congress.)

I don’t know how to fix this, but I do know the issue--to say the very least.

[andorknuckles]

I’ll take “Gamers who have built their fame and fortune upon a foundation of misinformation and lies” for 500, Tom.

[overthinkingvideogames]

Video game records are broken. Can anyone fix them?

A tale of 'Dragster,' 'Donkey Kong' and decades of frustration.

After Day retired in 2010, ownership changed hands a few times, and at one point, there was an entry fee for score submissions. There were reports of impropriety on TG's part (pay-offs, referees that weren't impartial), some of which fueled the Dragster controversy. Which brings us back to Hall and the present day TG.

"This is a legitimate administrative effort for Twin Galaxies to avail itself to the gaming community," he said, referring to Rogers' and Mitchell's (above) disputed scores. "There has to be one sort of church that cares about the hyper-details of these things, that is constantly learning and growing its knowledge base" he said, "because cheating is a very, very real thing in video gaming."

On recent controversies over high scores on classic games, including this dispute about Donkey Kong (featuring a player from the documentary King of Kong).

[talesofdrunkennessandcruelty]

Infamous Atari Player Disqualified From World Record After 35 Years

[astrorabby]

Never trust people associated with video games named Todd

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Todd Rogers Andover - Social Media