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Ginsu Victim:
quoted from sdkess, a guy who was at the funspot event (and at Kuh's cabin):

Now for some other clarifications:

    Why not submit the tape when you first got the score?


Because, as a general rule, Bill does not submit tapes. The Funspot tape is the only score of Bill's ever submitted that was not achieved live in public. It was not even intended to be a submission but ended up getting submitted anyway. He was planning to set a score live at some undisclosed point. He eventually did this and still holds the record.

    Steve Weibe might have liked to know the new high score before he flew out to Funspot.


Steve did know that Bill had over 1 million on tape. He just didn't know the exact score. They discussed it together at the CGE 2K4 event 9 months earlier. Here is a link to the radio interview that took place about 9 months before the Funspot events:

http://www.twingalaxies.com/files/billyandsteveinterview.mp3

Even if Steve didn't know that Bill had a better score, why is it Bill's responsibility to inform his primary competitor of his every move?

    If Billy's high score was set in 1982, why did he himself never beat it until the events of the movie?


He did beat it before the events of the movie. Bill got 933k live at the Midwest Classic in 2004. Granted, this was only 2nd place behind Steve, but Bill did no point pressing and just raced through the game. Also, Bill has a family and a business to run. Gaming is not his #1 priority.

    Why did Bill tell people to guard the tape with their life?


It's obvious that he's not completely serious. A lot of what Bill says is intentionally over the top. He does this on purpose as part of his "gamer" persona. It's a big stretch to imply that Bill intended to formally submit the tape just because he told Brian and Doris that the tape was really important. People who were at Funspot and watched the tape in the cabin were all told specifically that the tape was not a formal submission.

Donkey_Kong:
Some people can't get over the fact that Billy was made to look like the villain in the film.

Also, try to put yourself in his shoes. Try to imagine that you have (or have had) the world record on one or two of the most popular games of all time. You have either held the record from back when the game first came out, and are still competitive on it to this day....Kinda hard to do right? The truth here is...not many people (if any) that talk about how much of a --meecrob-- Billy is, can say that they have been in, or are in a situation even remotely similar.

Anyway, I suppose we are all judgmental in our own way on our own level. I read this forum a lot, almost all the threads and a lot of times I see things and become judgmental as I'm sure some do with my ramblings. Just remember though, that you never know who is reading your posts here. You could be insulting the very person reading your post, including Billy. In fact, I made a post one day at Twin galaxies and Billy called me the next day to explain to me on the phone, how the film made him out to look like a --meecrob--. How things were completely different in reality. So yea, I tend to TRY not to insult people online, directly or indirectly because of this...you all make your own call of course.

Anyway, that's all I got to say about that! :)   :cheers:

shmokes:
If Billy does not want to look like an ---uvula---, perhaps he shouldn't act like a complete an utter ---uvula--- while there are cameras on him.  I'm just sayin . . .

RayB:

--- Quote from: shmokes on June 12, 2008, 11:49:06 pm ---Some of what GinsuVictim is saying about the film may or may not be true, but there's no question that Billy Mitchel is a --cream-filled twinkie--.  Unless his lines were written for him and he was literally performing them for the film (and unless his ties are fake), he's a --cream-filled twinkie--.
--- End quote ---
Watch the interview where he buys Doris Self a QBert machine. He's not the ---tallywhacker--- the movie is edited to make it seem like. Read up Twin Galaxy's forum posts on what was presented falsely in the movie. For example, there are links to radio interviews where Wiebe and Mitchell both appear together and are rather chummy.  The movie, like most movies, was edited for "best effect" as opposed to pure fact.

Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote from: RayB on June 14, 2008, 11:16:35 am ---For example, there are links to radio interviews where Wiebe and Mitchell both appear together and are rather chummy.

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Like the one I posted above.

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