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Jerry Whorebach wrote:
Overall, though, I liked the film. The decision to paint the real-life competition as one big meta-game of Donkey Kong - with Steve as Mario and Billy as the elusive gorilla - was a stroke of genius, even if they had to fudge the numbers a little to make it work. And if there's one thing I love to hate, it's a
href="funny arcade">community of nerds.
There is a forum called CAG run by one of the gamers in King of Kong, and there's currently a Missile Command thread. I'm going to summarize it briefly:
- A new Guinness book is printed in the UK, and mentions Mr. Awesome's MC score as being valid and on harder settings.
- Walter Day is (apparently) selling Twin Galaxies to other interested parties.
- Walter Day tells Robert Mruczek to go find something else to do (paraphrased) and deletes his account on Twin Galaxies, turning all of Robert's posts into "guest."
- Robert tells the people on the CAG forum this.
Fair enough. Everyone involved from start to finish is a dork, including me for typing that up. And we'd all admit it. Whoo-hoo.
Yeah well, all of this is blown away by the fact that there is a guy out there - Scot (sic) Rubin - who proceeds to read the posts verbatim on his "radio show." You have to check this out, it's dynamite. And of course I mean, it's a train wreck of horrible fucking radio and I couldn't believe the guy wouldn't stop. He's not giving summaries, he's not paraphrasing -- he's doing text-to-speech on what people are saying about a 30 year-old arcade game score. I am utterly amazed. This will never, ever be topped.
Of course, when he does give his analysis on the subject, here's what he comes up with, after saying that Mruczek has nothing going on in his life:
Scot Rubin wrote:
"Robert sees the new book mentioning (Mr. Awesome's) name. His head asplodes. Hyuarrrragahhh. I mean, literally."
Fucks up the use of literally and follows it with an 8-year old Strongbad reference. Goes on to read *every* *single* *word* of every virtually every single post on page three of this thread. You couldn't make this up.
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King of Kong non-review (verdict: negative) by Grumah 09/02/2007, 2:50pm PDT 
Jsoh exposes problem with modern documentaries: the oddball subjects! NT by Errol Morris' career is over. 09/02/2007, 8:06pm PDT
I tried out for a Tetris tournament once... when I was 7 or something NT by Grumah 09/03/2007, 12:39am PDT
Did you mean Werner Herzog? NT by Google 09/03/2007, 2:30am PDT
No, I meant Errol Morris, asshole, but Herzog is done too. NT by Him and his wacky topics. 09/03/2007, 2:37am PDT
You must've meant Herzog, no one else qualifies as much as he does. NT by Google 09/03/2007, 3:07am PDT
Herzog does fiction occassionally. Morris is pure doc. NT by And commercials. 09/03/2007, 5:47am PDT
Herzog Zwei, being German for Duke 2, is pronounced Haetsok Tsvai. NT by Wikipedia 09/03/2007, 7:10am PDT
Kitty haet sock. NT by pic of unhappy cat in a sock 09/03/2007, 8:08am PDT
it's more like hurts augh zzzvy NT by Quentin Beck 09/03/2007, 11:30pm PDT
More pronunciation tips from Australians, please. NT by Caltrops 09/03/2007, 11:47pm PDT
hey watch this by Quentin Beck 02/07/2008, 2:18pm PST
PAULINE was the name of Mario's Earth-girlfriend, as depicted in Donkey Kong. NT by Wikipedia 09/03/2007, 7:22am PDT
Your King of Kong primer by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/03/2007, 6:22pm PDT
It's out on DVD(Rip) now, and I loved it. by Fussbett 02/07/2008, 1:03pm PST
PS: I also enjoyed the quick glimpses of Todd Rogers, but wished for more. by Fussbett 02/07/2008, 1:18pm PST
PPS: While poking around the TG site I noticed that my Mr. Do HS puts me at #13 by Fussbett 02/08/2008, 2:35am PST
TIDDLYWINKS CHAMPIONSHIP LIVE ON TV RIGHT NOW by Grumah 02/07/2008, 4:15pm PST
I still can't find your actual opinion on the movie. :( NT by Jhoh Creebul, Witch Toucher O_O 02/08/2008, 1:08am PST
This is a word for word recreaction of Jso's original post. by Jhoh Creebul, Witch Toucher O_O 02/08/2008, 1:10am PST
Billy Mitchell calls the Onion AV Club by Fussbett 02/08/2008, 12:55pm PST
That was interesting, thanks. NT by bink 02/08/2008, 4:02pm PST
Saw this yesterday and really enjoyed it. by skip 08/02/2012, 5:29pm PDT
Huh, I thought Wiebe came off almost as bad as Kuh. by Jerry Whorebach 02/22/2008, 10:30pm PST
Scot Rubin makes these guys look like the Evil Knievel by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/14/2008, 9:40pm PDT
"Scot Rubin on line one." "The inventor of Crash Bandicoot? Put him through." by Jerry Whorebach 03/14/2008, 11:44pm PDT
The King of Kong DVD extras, part one million. by Fussbett 03/15/2008, 12:14am PDT
Fussbett feels about deleting posts the way God feels about sin. by Fullofkittens 03/15/2008, 7:52am PDT
What would be your opinion now of the story? by Let's Do It Doggy Style 02/01/2012, 8:40pm PST
as a drama of nerd vs jock (who both play dk), it was actually a decent movie by sdroa jists 02/02/2012, 1:24am PST
Billy Mitchell is a jock? by motherfuckerfoodeater 02/02/2012, 9:21am PST
jooooooooooooooooooooooocks! NT by Gabe 02/02/2012, 9:30am PST
Steve Wiebe live stream of record attempt by Fussbett 06/02/2009, 10:07am PDT
I haven't see it available to rent anywhere, even the superhip place across lans NT by Fullofkittens 06/02/2009, 11:37am PDT
I could download it but I still don't really care enough NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/02/2009, 11:41am PDT
JsohDoesn'tCareCount++ NT by Fussbett 06/02/2009, 11:53am PDT
it's available for download, but downloading it would be too much work NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/02/2009, 12:10pm PDT
So, he doesn't care? NT by Worm 06/02/2009, 12:59pm PDT
Maybe you just need more context by FABIO 06/02/2009, 1:26pm PDT
The camera in fucking Journey had more bandwidth than this fucking thing NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/02/2009, 12:58pm PDT
Re: The camera in fucking Journey had more bandwidth than this fucking thing by Fortinbras 06/02/2009, 1:53pm PDT
2 minds, 80 columns: the ICJ/Fortinbras AIM log story NT by Ray of Light 06/02/2009, 2:16pm PDT
That's what I get for dropping it in a notepad file NT by Fortinbras 06/02/2009, 2:44pm PDT
Also it was Gtalk NT by Fortinbras 06/02/2009, 2:44pm PDT
Any chat log with Fortinbras just makes me wish for an INC-Fussbett log NT by The Littlest Hobo 06/02/2009, 3:02pm PDT
Shit. I didn't realize that would be posted. I would have been funnier. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/02/2009, 4:35pm PDT
Atoning for my sins by Bodybag 06/02/2009, 1:57pm PDT
so far the movie isn't about donky kong at all: A+ 4 stars NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/02/2009, 2:35pm PDT
Congratulations! NT by Shinji 06/02/2009, 3:10pm PDT
^_^ by Weyoun Voidbringer 06/02/2009, 4:20pm PDT
Re: ^_^ by Creexuls, a monster >:3 06/02/2009, 5:48pm PDT
It's so much easier to watch it when it's right in a post. :3 NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 06/02/2009, 8:27pm PDT
So what were the rumors of Billy "Duder" Wilson playing up the villainy? by Creexuls, a monster >:3 06/02/2009, 8:55pm PDT
EPILOGUE by Fussbett 04/12/2018, 4:06pm PDT
The arcade community always helps a man up. by reeeeeeeeeeee 04/12/2018, 10:28pm PDT
Been following the feverish lead up by 25c 04/14/2018, 2:44pm PDT
Re: Been following the feverish lead up by Shredder 04/14/2018, 5:51pm PDT
Flack has the most balanced take and description of all of it. by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/19/2018, 6:14pm PDT
The "Oops Billy" Guy by oh dear 10/30/2020, 4:33pm PDT
Help me solve the Daisy mystery in the top post NT by Mysterio (mystery spotter) 07/08/2022, 11:16am PDT
Hmm - the broken image link was a Ukraine flag with the words "No War" on it by Mysterio (mystery spotter) 07/08/2022, 2:36pm PDT
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