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I met Schmooey in December, at a Guitar Hero meetup in North Carolina. He is a very good player, there's a song named Novae Ruptis with an extremely hard strumming chart. I personally watched him 100% full combo that song sixteen times in a row. But he wanted more. He didn't just want to be a great GH player. He wanted people to think he was the absolute GOAT. Kinda sad, he was really chill and cool to hang out with.

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It seems like a lot of these speed runner cheaters are in this sort of boat. A lot of them can do the record they're breaking but want to skip some of the grind that comes with speed running or are just frustrated by being so close so many times.

so he cheats at a guitar video game and all of a sudden he isn't chill or cool to hang out with... i mean, ok.

He cheated in order to claim world records, earn fame and admiration, and to collect cash bounties.

It's not just a casual "he cheated in a video game", like it was some small thing someone did to beat an end boss. It was a fairly elaborate fraud/deception over a long period of time.

I didn't say he wouldn't be outside of a Guitar Hero context. But I only met him the one time, and so it is a past tense event.

This seems more sensible than freaking out and throwing the whole person away over this nonsense. Sorry for misunderstanding.

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