finally i'm loving the "why do you care" angle. yeah, how many people complained about todds scores played any of the games he played? Dragster was one of the worst games ever, if any of you did play it, i'd wager it was only because of the dispute and most people wouldnt even know dragster existed if not for todd. First its about if robbie cheated, then its about if he thought he cheated, then its about if what he thought was true and didnt think is cheating would you view it as cheating if he was right, now its about why do i care. not sure why my feelings are the new goal post but making it all the person and not the facts is par for the course here.
but i thought i made clear before i cared because robbie is being accused of cheating. i dont care the score isnt listed, i care about the reasoning being given. Once all this focus on the person and not the score is invovled, well guess what, i'm not the one making it about people, jeremys comment and you guys follow up make it about the people, and you better believe i care about robbie. and between questing why do i care, as well as all the focus on how mean and rude robbie is, this was never about the score this was always about robbie, so as long as its made to be all about robbie and not about robbies score, then yes i care. once it actually becomes about the score and not the person i'll stop caring.
Don't tire yourself out, putting up all those goalposts everywhere.
The actual circumstances have been beaten to death, but basically, lowering voltages (and using shit like hair dryers) should either have zero effect, or be wildly obvious. I'm not sure if this entirely rules out the momentary bit flip, say in a current score, which could go unnoticed over the course of the game. I'll leave that to the experts.
The point is the expressed desire to cheat. That's not DKF's word. That's Robbie's word. "Cheating", "manipulating hardware", "modified hardware", etc. I'm more than happy to quote those yet again, if you've forgotten. Just give me the word. If you can't see why that would be a viable grounds for disqualification, then you're just not looking at this objectively. (And no, that's not making it "about you", the person. It's just highlighting your poor arguments, which you don't seem to have thought through.)
To be clear, any score is inseparable from the person who claims it. Here, I'll give you an example:
"I just found in an old newspaper, someone scored one million on Donkey Kong in 1985!"
"Woah, that's cool! Who was it?"
"Todd Rogers."
"Oh..... Never mind, then."
Otherwise, you're left with a situation where you can only remove specific scores/times proven to have been cheated, which means a cheater can exhaust a moderation team with endless bogus submissions, on the hopes that some of them will not be able to be proven cheated. Again, this isn't even that complicated. There's a reason TG isn't going to be accepting any new submissions from Billy, Todd, Rodrigo Lopes, etc. Moral of the story: Don't cheat, and don't make a big deal out of the fact that you're attempting to cheat, even if you also think you can argue that you technically aren't.
Robbie has only one person to blame for all of this. His name is Robbie Lakeman. If you care about Robbie and want to help him, talk to him. You're not helping him by enabling his "I'm the victim" complex.
