Ie, you don't strike me as someone who would think too much, if at all, about your pace, how many points you would need to get on the next screen in order to make up a deficit in points, back off to a more conservative pace in order to complete the game, etc. You seem to just sort of say "wheee!!!!" and do whatever and let the final score figure itself out.
Is that accurate, or have I totally misread your approach?
The bet: the first player to eclipse 1.17 million on Donkey Kong will buy a pretty dress to be worn by the loser upon their entrance to the Kong Off 3.Might I be one of the first to submit a guess as to the outcome of this wager?
I try not to let a bad level or a good level affect me because, with respect to pace, what has just transpired has no bearing on what is to come, so long as I continue to play my normal gameplay.
Of course 17 levels is not a huge sample size, and thereby, normalization by game's end to the mean I've established over 1000s of levels is not guaranteed.
I can't think how to explain it much more - it's a strange familiarity issue that has always and only applied to the springs. Have any other players had this experience?
Hey Ross,
For the past 2-4 weeks, I've missed most of your online sessions. I haven't boycotted your channel; I just haven't been receiving the standard email alerts. I verified my account notification settings, and even tried "unfollowing" and then "following" you again. None of the troubleshooting steps have had any effect.
I managed to catch the last few levels of your Wildcard Rematch #2 final game, but only because I suspected that, sooner or later, you'd be playing that evening. :)
I'm not sure exactly when the alerts dropped off, but the problem seems to have coincided with the appearance of the following article:
http://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/943898-twitch-tv-and-justin-tv-are-now-separate-sites (http://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/943898-twitch-tv-and-justin-tv-are-now-separate-sites)
I wonder if others are also experiencing this issue?
UPDATE: I created a new Twitch account: http://www.twitch.tv/dwwnp (http://www.twitch.tv/dwwnp) I switched some things around and now this new stream will be featured on Aurcade.
Sorry Scott, I missed your last post.
Here's your hint: the new handle is spelled dwwnp, not DWWNP.
To say I prefer playing Donkey Kong on MAME is a major understatement. I liken Arcade Donkey Kong to playing ice hockey on roller skates.
Ken is a really good friend. When you do get the DK score you're after, make sure he knows you could not have done it without his support. In fact, be sure to thank the community as a whole, as you would have long ago lost interest and motivation without them. At the end of the day, a world record on a video game doesn't mean anything, but the friends you've made along the way, they matter a great deal.
As it was initially drawn up, the structure of the Wild Card tournaments had the potential to actually hurt players who were near the bottom of the top 12. I withdrew from the third Wild Card Tournament for exactly this reason. The way I saw it, the Wild Card division was getting out of control and taking away way too many of the privileges afforded to the top 12 players. I don't support affirmative action.
Well, I'll be interested to see how you feel about this if/when Richie and Jourdan make it official that MAME scores won't qualify players for a dedicated machine...
Remember KO1, when everyone just kinda played it by ear and the community essentially voted in the participants after hashing it out on CAG? Perhaps that was the right idea.
Recently I was asked why I often position myself to the right of the bottom hammer when setting up for the grab.
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The video features a very particular circumstance wherein I have recognized and exploited a specific fireball “sub-routineâ€.
“Sub-routine my dick!†you say. “Lexmark science!†you say.
Two: the only risk associated with this tactic is in misreading the sub-routine; the sub-routine shown in these first two videos can be exploited 100% of the time.
Additionally, jumping fireballs shows everyone just how large a bulge you're sporting. In the CAG world the importance of style points is often overlooked.
The moment you start believing the game is against you, the game will turn against you.
It's easy to say that a game is hard when only 3 or 4 people are really pushing at it, and most CAG games are that way. I don't think Abdner Ashman would have the Ms. Pac Man record, for example, if there was a community of over a hundred people playing, literally around the clock, to beat it!
Abdner is the man, but yeah, I'm just saying.You guys realize Ms-Pac scores are just luck for the top players? They are getting perfect eats, so the only difference in scores is getting lucky with the fruit and getting lucky to get extra boards at the end. Donkey Kong has a lot of randomness, but with Ms-Pac the final score of the top players is mostly randomness, which saps the incentive to keep trying to improve your score.
You're right though, if he didn't have the title with his current score, it would be him with a HIGHER score!
And after watching Ben on DK3, I don't think anyone will ever beat you on that game regardless of competition, your scores are psycho.
If you go back and watch a lot of the big DK games out there, there is no doubt tons of skill and discipline involved...but I think you would be surprised at how fortunate most of those games were as well...if you took a close look at them.
You don't need luck when you have swag.
They've just played out enough games to get that one lucky one.
I don't think anyone has ever killscreened DK in the nude. Here's your chance.
Enjoy the other places out there, the majority of which don't care about their members anywhere near as much as staff here does...
unreasonable people don't change their colors...
I haven't dropped a single credit since the Kong Off 3 and am not sure I can even play that weekend.
Thus, even discounting travel expenses, I'm still a $1000 loser.
Quote from: MDARULZ from CAGDCEnjoy the other places out there, the majority of which don't care about their members anywhere near as much as staff here does...
Raw delusion.Quote from: MDARULZ from CAGDCunreasonable people don't change their colors...
As evidenced by the behavior of <Pigger>.
It's too bad <Pigger> ran CAGDC into the toilet. It was once a vibrant place for CAG discussion and community building.
<Pigger> is an odd mix of control-freak and laziness, so he prefers to spend his free hours making forum posts or having phone conversations to excuse his laziness, rather than actually fix any of the problems members bring up.
I do give <Pigger> credit for at least addressing the concerns of CAGDC members, however, as alluded to above, his addressing of members' concerns is primarily to convince himself what a good job he is doing.
I'm going to join BBH and jump ship at CAGDC, but I want it to be known that I'm leaving not because the forums are dead, but because they're dead on account of the forum admin himself, <Pigger>.
<Pigger> is a behind-the-times, stubborn, close-minded, and ultimately delusional person. I just can't support CAGDC in any capacity any longer (not that I really have over the past few years, but I'm now making my intentions clear).
<Pigger>, if you ever read this, it's you, not me. It's 100% you, and no one else. It's you <Pigger>. Hey <Pigger>, it's your fault, not the fault of your members. You keep crying to get credit for all your hard work, but I've seen exactly zero evidence of any hard work. You're lazy, and CAGDC is dead because of you. You repeatedly blame its members for not posting enough whilst giving little recognition to your own failings, beyond accepting that you are behind on the scoreboard and new member approvals - but again, this is just stuff you say, and never do anything about.
R.I.P. CAGDC, and long live DKF.
"Where the players come first"
I had one of my posts at CAGDC not posted after a moderator decided it wasn't positive enough.
Weehawk memes! Yes!
In fact, there has been some talk recently about opening up a general CAG section of the forums,
In fact, there has been some talk recently about opening up a general CAG section of the forums, though this is entirely up to JCHarrist (the site admin), and I know he doesn't want a million bajillion subforums ala CAGDC
I'm the same way. I didn't really leave CAGDC. My primary interest in CAG is DK related and people on CAGDC were complaining that there was too much DK talk. Now there's no DK talk and people are complaining that everyone's going to DKF.
You tell me: http://www.twitch.tv/dwwnp/c/3883324 (http://www.twitch.tv/dwwnp/c/3883324)
You tell me: http://www.twitch.tv/dwwnp/c/3883324 (http://www.twitch.tv/dwwnp/c/3883324)
I was more impressed that the video started with you at 600K on your second man.
Other than rumors of the past, do you believe there has been a NH killscreen before or not?
Thought I'd post some gaming goals I'll be working on over the year:
*Joust - 1 million
The Donkey Kong Arcade World Record will go down before the end of the next DKOpen tournament.
Of that I am certain.
The Donkey Kong Arcade World Record will go down before the end of the next DKOpen tournament.
Of that I am certain.
I have to say the fact the Donkey Kong record has not been broken this year is the biggest surprise of the year in regards to the Donkey Kong forums. Have no idea how it hasn't been broken yet.
Hank Chien practices Voodoo and he put a spell on everyone trying to break this record.
Rank | Score | KS | Player | Date | Platform | Source | ||||||
1 | 1,138,600 | Y | "Hanky Panky" Chien (http://www.twitch.tv/hankchien) | 11/01/2012 | Arcade | Voodoo, Sorcery | ||||||
2 | 1,137,100 | Y | Robbie Lakeman (http://www.twitch.tv/lakeman421) | 07/29/2014 | Arcade | Twitch (http://www.twitch.tv/lakeman421/c/4772026) | ||||||
3 | 1,136,500 | Y | Ross Benziger (http://www.twitch.tv/dwwnp) | 09/26/2013 | Arcade | TG, Twitch (http://www.twitch.tv/donkey_kong_forum/c/4560046) | ||||||
4 | 1,135,900 | Y | Vincent Lemay (http://www.twitch.tv/xermon54) | 01/11/2013 | Arcade | TG, Twitch (http://www.twitch.tv/xermon54/c/1852894) | ||||||
5 | 1,105,400 | Y | Jeff Willms (http://www.twitch.tv/jeffw356) | 11/18/2012 | Arcade | TG - KO2 | ||||||
6 | 1,103,700 | Y | Jeff Wolfe (http://www.twitch.tv/milehightdt) | 10/30/2013 | Arcade | Twitch (http://www.twitch.tv/milehighdt/c/3181602) | ||||||
7 | 1,094,100 | Y | Steve Wiltshire (http://www.twitch.tv/konghusker) | 01/19/2014 | Arcade | YouTube (Part 1 (http://youtu.be/L3j9Zup1ar4), 2 (http://youtu.be/ipT3JnJx0xY), 3 (http://youtu.be/R5hPx3nlyS0)) | ||||||
8 | 1,091,400 | Y | Dave McCrary (http://www.twitch.tv/lmdave) | 02/23/2014 | Arcade | Twitch (http://www.twitch.tv/lmdave/c/3777680) | ||||||
9 | 1,079,400 | Dean Saglio (http://www.twitch.tv/up2ng) | 11/18/2012 | Arcade | TG - KO2 | |||||||
10 | 1,076,000 | Y | Mike Groesbeck (http://www.twitch.tv/mikegmi2) | 05/17/2014 | Arcade | Twitch (Part 1 (http://www.twitch.tv/mikegmi2/c/4275275), 2 (http://www.twitch.tv/mikegmi2/c/4270994), 3 (http://www.twitch.tv/mikegmi2/c/4271001)) | ||||||
11 | 1,072,200 | Y | Corey Chambers (http://www.twitch.tv/clchambers00) | 08/26/2014 | Arcade | Twitch (Part 1 (http://www.twitch.tv/clchambers00/c/4996900), 2 (http://www.twitch.tv/clchambers00/c/4996919)) | ||||||
12 | 1,064,500 | Y | Steve Wiebe | 08/30/2010 | Arcade | TG |
The Donkey Kong Arcade World Record will go down before the end of the next DKOpen tournament.
Of that I am certain.
So Robbie actually has the "best of 3 scores" arcade record already.
Guys, settle down. We all know Hank is just gonna beat whoever breaks his record within like the week after he gets beaten. Kappa
Vincent got 25,200 points from death, Ross got 26,800, and Robbie only got 7,600. So, technically, if Hank had more than 9200 pts from deaths (there's no stella break down on that game), Robbie would have the record on actual completion from levels.
Dean Saglio at Richie Knucklez 8/23/14 (900K+ at ~1.15M pace with a spare)
http://youtu.be/9RbC05fsQk8 (http://youtu.be/9RbC05fsQk8)
May the forcefield be with me.
Dean Saglio at Richie Knucklez 8/23/14 (900K+ at ~1.15M pace with a spare)
http://youtu.be/9RbC05fsQk8 (http://youtu.be/9RbC05fsQk8)
May the forcefield be with me.
Wow. Hank force field too stronk. It causes electrical interference in nearby DK machines.
Rally X is a stupid stupid stupid game!!
There's a reason New Rally X was made, and it's because the original Rally X was a broken piece of shit. New Rally X is great, but the original cheats so hard that getting a high score is almost entirely luck based and is never a fun experience.
See for yourself: http://www.twitch.tv/dwwnp/c/5967404 (http://www.twitch.tv/dwwnp/c/5967404)
Rally X is a stupid stupid stupid game!!
There's a reason New Rally X was made, and it's because the original Rally X was a broken piece of shit. New Rally X is great, but the original cheats so hard that getting a high score is almost entirely luck based and is never a fun experience.
See for yourself: http://www.twitch.tv/dwwnp/c/5967404 (http://www.twitch.tv/dwwnp/c/5967404)
Rally X is a stupid stupid stupid game!!
There's a reason New Rally X was made, and it's because the original Rally X was a broken piece of shit. New Rally X is great, but the original cheats so hard that getting a high score is almost entirely luck based and is never a fun experience.
See for yourself: http://www.twitch.tv/dwwnp/c/5967404 (http://www.twitch.tv/dwwnp/c/5967404)
http://www.twitch.tv/lakeman421/c/5976294 (http://www.twitch.tv/lakeman421/c/5976294) Kappa
Rally X is a stupid stupid stupid game!!
There's a reason New Rally X was made, and it's because the original Rally X was a broken piece of shit. New Rally X is great, but the original cheats so hard that getting a high score is almost entirely luck based and is never a fun experience.
See for yourself: http://www.twitch.tv/dwwnp/c/5967404 (http://www.twitch.tv/dwwnp/c/5967404)
gotta be it some reason it didn't regsiter you picked that flag up. It may have still "been" there even tho it didn't show. Would have been interesting if you went there again. MegaCHEATS!
http://www.twitch.tv/lakeman421/c/5976294 (http://www.twitch.tv/lakeman421/c/5976294) Kappa
LOL. Probably because you crashed the exact moment you got the flag, oh Rally-X.
Thought I'd post some gaming goals I'll be working on over the year:
*Donkey Kong - 1.2, maybe? We'll see how big those bounties get ;)
*Mario Bros. - At least 2 million
*Zoo Keeper - ughhhh! Such hate for this piece of garbage right now, yet obsessed enough that 50 million could still happen.
*Frogger - 300K
*Moon Patrol - 500K
*Joust - 1 million
*Bubbles/Tutankham - buy an XArcade
*Streaming - miss fewer streams, buy better gear (i.e microphone and webcam), make more highlights
Classic Arcade Gaming is fun.
*Donkey Kong - 1.2, maybe? We'll see how big those bounties get ;)Ummm, yeah, the bounties got hugenormous and I still couldn't find the proper motivation. I'll never say never, but it's looking like things are headed in that direction.
*Mario Bros. - At least 2 millionDonezo (http://www.twitch.tv/dwwnp/c/4257554)
*Zoo Keeper - ughhhh! Such hate for this piece of garbage right now, yet obsessed enough that 50 million could still happen.Close enough to donezo (http://www.twitch.tv/dwwnp/c/4394647) that I should set a new goal. I'll say 75 million by this time next year.
*Frogger - 300KMeh. Hardly played Frogger at all and it's not a fun game to stream, so this one may sit on the bench for a while still.
*Moon Patrol - 500KFun game, no excuses here. The moon should be a nice place to take the family for vacation, and it's my job to ensure its safety.
*Joust - 1 millionDonezo (http://www.twitch.tv/dwwnp/c/4172909)
*Bubbles/Tutankham - buy an XArcadeXArcade acquired and both Bubbles and Tutankham played. Of the two, Tutankham is most definitely going to be my new jam. Bubbles is awesome as well, but I'm terrible, so it'll be sidelined for the moment.
*Streaming - miss fewer streams, buy better gear (i.e microphone and webcam), make more highlightsWith school and work and everything I had to suspend my streaming efforts, but hopefully I will have some free time this summer to make up for it. I did upgrade all my gear, so eventually you'll see a better stream quality.
Classic Arcade Gaming is fun.Check. No changes here.
That takes 2 days of practice Kappa
Burger Time: 1 million
Pig Newton: 1.5 millionKreygasm Kreygasm
Burger Time: 1 millionNot so much
That takes 2 days of practice Kappa
Burger Time: 1 million
This post is simply a post where I am saying hi to my friend Ross, It has nothing to do with forum statistics or the Wildcard rematch 2 scoreboard, please move along <mad>
Oh my god, Ross played D2K! I'm so proud! BibleThump
That right there is called "taking one for the team!"
Oh my god, Ross played D2K! I'm so proud! BibleThump
That right there is called "taking one for the team!"
Fk! And I'll have to come back and up my shit score at some point because I know I can at least crack 120K. BibleThump What's worse is I bumped Phil out of the top 5, so now he's playing this garbage again too.
IMO, the creator of D2K should be punished in some way for creating this abomination. You can tell he never played the original much because he literally fucked up everything he could possibly fuck up. From the altered fireball behavior to the rising point sprites, it's all terrible!
I don't think he really messed things up but rather upgraded things.
and whatever the hell this was: http://s1329.photobucket.com/user/vondummpenstein/media/IMG_20160401_1318271_zpskurrhckd.jpg.html?sort=2&o=36. (http://s1329.photobucket.com/user/vondummpenstein/media/IMG_20160401_1318271_zpskurrhckd.jpg.html?sort=2&o=36.) Again, it was incredible. This Thai food was the best I've ever had, by miles, and it only cost me $3.This looks like tom yum goong...spicy sour soup with shrimp. Tom yum is easily one of my favorite soups, if not #1. Kreygasm Katie and I actually had tom yum khai (chicken instead of shrimp) for dinner tonight.
I also banged a gong
Virgin Airlines: you're dead to me.5 hours after Ross posted this story broke:
I have more than a few posts suffering from link rot -- specifically Twitch link rot.
Is there an elegant solution?
Here's some stuff: https://photos.app.goo.gl/A8GCnnC2cLtVWVoH2
Hopefully Barra and DaLar will upload more pictures from their continuing adventures.
No pictures of a successfully lit roaring log fire, I can't help but notice <mad>