So this is a story all about how one man got a world record on a very simple game called Dragster. The man was Todd Rogers, and the score he got was 5.51.
Except that the time he got is provably impossible. The game is so simple that you can simulate it using an excel spreadsheet; and no matter how perfect you execute it, the lowest possible time is 5.57. Since 1982, no one ever got even close to the same score he got.
There is no video proof of the record; Todd was caught several times trying to falsify the record; and yet somehow there are still people trying to defend an impossible score.
The reason is that there is a website that is maintaining the leaderboard, called Twin Galaxies, and it's slowly fading into obscurity. So.. they're trying to hold on to that record for however long they can; despite the fact that speedrun.com, an arguably more popular leaderboard, does not even list the score.
If you have brain cells to spare, you can entertain yourself here: http://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php?t=175364
Omnigamer, the person who started digging into the game found out that the WR had a very high chance of being faked: https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/6b60z3/the_35year_wr_solving_atari_2600_dragster/
And so, the idiots of TG challenged him to get that time of 5.57, since no human has done that either. And in two days of practice, he fucking gets it: https://youtu.be/PhDn2rObduA?t=4m
Now we just wait for TG's reaction, which I know is going to be pretty juicy.
Except that the time he got is provably impossible. The game is so simple that you can simulate it using an excel spreadsheet; and no matter how perfect you execute it, the lowest possible time is 5.57. Since 1982, no one ever got even close to the same score he got.
There is no video proof of the record; Todd was caught several times trying to falsify the record; and yet somehow there are still people trying to defend an impossible score.
The reason is that there is a website that is maintaining the leaderboard, called Twin Galaxies, and it's slowly fading into obscurity. So.. they're trying to hold on to that record for however long they can; despite the fact that speedrun.com, an arguably more popular leaderboard, does not even list the score.
If you have brain cells to spare, you can entertain yourself here: http://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php?t=175364
Omnigamer, the person who started digging into the game found out that the WR had a very high chance of being faked: https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/6b60z3/the_35year_wr_solving_atari_2600_dragster/
And so, the idiots of TG challenged him to get that time of 5.57, since no human has done that either. And in two days of practice, he fucking gets it: https://youtu.be/PhDn2rObduA?t=4m
Now we just wait for TG's reaction, which I know is going to be pretty juicy.
Welp, my phone battery is dead. Lasted a little bit over 4 years, I think, until the very end of its days.
In the modern age, when the lifespan of an average meme is decreased to weeks before it fades into obscurity, one must chase the trends to be on top. Isn't it nice to look back every once in a while to remind ourselves of the times where a meme could easily go on for years? When there wasn't an immediate stream of subpar content every time a template gets remotely popular?
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