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TwinGalaxies had quite the extensive writeup on Todd's various cheating [1].

There was a staggering amount of evidence, including TAS (Tool Assisted Speedruns) proving that Todd's time is physically impossible. That blew up in a 274-page thread, but ultimately I believe it took Robert T Mruczek's writeup to finally ban Todd.[1] Not surprising as Mcruzek is part of the "old guard".

I think this reflected very poorly on TG and I have no intention of using them in the future.

[1]: http://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php/175364-Dispute-Di...

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Wait what? I was with you until the last line and now I'm confused. Why does this reflect poorly on TG if they removed it when there was good evidence it was false?

They have fabricated records and turned a blind eye for decades to Todd's outrageous 'records'.

The evidence had existed for games like centipede many years, and the dragster game had been taken apart and proven fake via the actual machine code for 6+ months. TG didn't act on it until one of the inner circle got involved, that is the shameful bit.

They refused to remove it after having the evidence of falsehood for a very long time... until they got the personal arguments of one of their 'old guard' members. In other words, they don't care about objective reality and care only about the emotional investment their friends have.

Why does it reflect poorly on TG?

> Todd's "Dragster" performance is one that I have qualified as being one of the top five video game performances of all time within multiple forum posts and in several interviews.

I'd be curious to know what the other 4 performances were.

Because they accepted beyond ridiculous scores without any real proof, or even skepticism? In like every game this dude has a record in his score is impossibly higher than 2nd place. And these aren't even games or records which have been around for a couple weeks so that you can argue there's room for improvement.

I think it's at the very least equally likely that the PR beating they were taking as a result of the Apollo video led them to make the decision rather than Robert's guidance.

Since watching King of Kong, I haven't been surprised about any of the shady stuff I hear about TG. Also, I'd recommend that anybody who hasn't watched that movie to watch it, it's hilarious.

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