Zetsubou-san posted:

Say Nothing posted:

Fat Jesus posted:

Gene Hackman Fan posted:

since one of the oldest speedrun records just got tossed out

trapped mouse posted:

which one and why?

trapped mouse posted:

which one and why?

Inzombiac posted:

Either way that douchebag was caught faking his scores that stayed in the books for WAY too long.

Captain Splendid posted:

Ariong posted:

Todd Rogers. Here’s a good video explaining the who and the why from before his records were stripped:
https://youtu.be/8e-H4sEHB54

tldr: The dude had friends high up in Twin Galaxies, which was the first and, originally, biggest place which compiled speedrun times. His times were absurdly sketchy, including a 1698 in a game that kills you at 1300, and a whole bunch of records that were so far ahead of the curve that they were ridiculous:



He first started gaining scrutiny a while back. One of his records was for an Atari game called Dragster, and people thought it was fishy for a while. More recently somone delved into the code of the game and found that, despite Todd Rogers having the record time at 5.51, it is actually literally impossible to beat that game in less than 5.57. That was the beginning of the end for him.

theflyingorc posted:

Lol

Dude claimed to achieve a score of 1110500 in a game called Fathom

The second place record is 142

mind the walrus posted:

Man that guy is the "I unlocked Luigi in Mario 64 and the Triforce in Ocarina" kid from the playground on sad sad steroids.

quote:

“There’s like nine ways to shift in Dragster — and I don’t share that with too many people — but [Koziel is] going on one specific pattern where you stay in first gear and second gear quite a bit of time,” Rogers told Kotaku’s Heather Alexandra. “I could sit in front of a TV right now and play for an hour straight and get 650 different types of play and it would never be the same. If [Koziel’s] basing his spreadsheets and his shifting on one particular pattern, then that’s pretty ignorant and closed-minded, because you’re not factoring in the human element of how the game would respond.”

Unfazed, Koziel challenged Rogers again by saying his reasoning was “factually inaccurate.”

“[In Dragster] there is exactly one code block responsible for checking whether a player is changing shift state,” Koziel wrote in response to the Kotaku article. “That shift is completely binary: either the player is engaging it, or they are not.”

Samuringa posted:

soylon posted:

Ariong posted:

Todd Rogers. Here’s a good video explaining the who and the why from before his records were stripped:
https://youtu.be/8e-H4sEHB54

tldr: The dude had friends high up in Twin Galaxies, which was the first and, originally, biggest place which compiled speedrun times. His times were absurdly sketchy, including a 1698 in a game that kills you at 1300, and a whole bunch of records that were so far ahead of the curve that they were ridiculous:



He first started gaining scrutiny a while back. One of his records was for an Atari game called Dragster, and people thought it was fishy for a while. More recently somone delved into the code of the game and found that, despite Todd Rogers having the record time at 5.51, it is actually literally impossible to beat that game in less than 5.57. That was the beginning of the end for him.

yeah I eat rear end posted:

The fact that that guy made up so many fake records is funny/sad enough, but imagine being the guy that cares so much about the record on a game that most people have never heard of that he'd go digging through the code to expose him.

Randaconda posted:

Sagebrush posted:

The article states that Koziel claims to have no particular grievance with Rogers, and says he has never met the guy or spoken to him, and he only decompiled the game in the interest of doing better tool-assisted speedruns. Discovering that it's impossible to achieve the same score that guy was claiming was accidental.

Sagebrush posted:

“There’s like nine ways to shift in Dragster — and I don’t share that with too many people — but [Koziel is] going on one specific pattern where you stay in first gear and second gear quite a bit of time,” Rogers told Kotaku’s Heather Alexandra. “I could sit in front of a TV right now and play for an hour straight and get 650 different types of play and it would never be the same. If [Koziel’s] basing his spreadsheets and his shifting on one particular pattern, then that’s pretty ignorant and closed-minded, because you’re not factoring in the human element of how the game would respond.”

Unfazed, Koziel challenged Rogers again by saying his reasoning was “factually inaccurate.”

“[In Dragster] there is exactly one code block responsible for checking whether a player is changing shift state,” Koziel wrote in response to the Kotaku article. “That shift is completely binary: either the player is engaging it, or they are not.”

Zereth posted:

The funny part isn't really that he lied, it's that he lied so badly, and the admins of Twin Galaxies, the site keeping these records, went to bat for him so hard. It took ages for them to realize "wait, maybe we need to do something here".

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theflyingorc posted:

I found the thread on TG's website and one mod was just going CRAZY defending the guy

Taking about how the timing could be wrong on the Atari and ignoring the guy saying "no, that won't change my result"

And he keeps quoting "witnesses" that nobody knows who they are and Todd told them about himself

It's really funny