by ersatz_cats
Yes, you have read the title correctly. It’s true. perfectpacman.com has received its first legal threat. Or at least, it purports to be a legal threat. I’m not sure yet how sincere it is. Nonetheless, someone is not happy about something they saw on this site.
However, surprisingly, this did not come from anyone in the established gaming Legion of Doom seen above. It’s not exactly a new player to the scene, it’s just someone I didn’t bother including when I did that mockup.
No, this new legal threat is not from Billy Mitchell, or anyone currently in his camp. That means no Triforce, or Todd Rogers, or Walter Day. Neither is it from Jirard Khalil, or Tommy Tallarico. I also haven’t heard a peep from the likes of Kryssstal, or Riolu, or Dream, or Kevin Durden, or Mike Damiani.
No, this new legal threat was from…
Patrick. Scott. Patterson.
I know, I know. Based on things I’ve seen said about Mr. Patterson on other sites, some of you are saying “This actually doesn’t surprise me at all.” But for the uninitiated, let me offer a glimpse of who this guy is.
MY BRIEF HISTORY WITH PATRICK SCOTT PATTERSON
Truthfully, I don’t have an extensive history with Patrick. He was one of many figures I encountered as I began more heavily researching the Billy Mitchell and Todd Rogers cases in 2018. I’d heard many poor opinions of him, but I learned years ago to come to my own conclusions about people. I always listen to warnings folks have to say, but I make up my own mind. So I socialized with Patrick a bit on Twitter. I even shared this funny meme he posted, which as far as I know originated from him:
All of that changed with the 2019 prototype incident. Pat the NES Punk (a good Pat) covered this story well, but for those who don’t know, in Mr. Patterson’s role as a self-styled “games preservationist” and owner of “VideoGamePreservation” dot com (a site I will not link because the domain has lapsed), he was donated some one-of-a-kind video game prototypes, including a Game Boy adaptation of Akira, “Heavy Weight Hockey” on NES, and “Mall Rats” on Genesis / Mega Drive. Obviously, the intention of the donation was that the games – both the physical cartridges and the data stored on them – be preserved. That’s why someone would donate them to a known “preservationist”, right?
Instead, Patterson flipped these prototypes on eBay for a profit. Of course, he attempted to spin this cash-grab as positively as possible:
Plans changed, and not by design but by fate. Other opportunities outside of the video game world presented themselves and between that and family, we found ourselves without time to keep to our grandiose plans for items like this one. The end result saw these items just sitting stored away like they had for years previously, which defeats the intent of preservation in the first place.
Even worse, in the sale description, Patterson promoted these as “undumped”. To explain the implications, “undumped” means “We never bothered to copy the game data off this cartridge to preserve it.” There are many people with the tools to do this who are eager to serve their hobby. And in the field of games preservation, dumping cartridge data is necessary, both because it’s the only way most people will ever experience rare games, but also because any external media can fail at any time. Imagine allowing a one-of-a-kind game or prototype to disappear forever because the EPROMs finally die out, and you never bothered to copy the data. However – and this is where Patterson’s malfeasance becomes blatant – there are collectors (perhaps the words “scalpers” or “hoarders” are more accurate) who put extra value on items being one-of-a-kind. Sure, they may pay $1000 for a rare game cartridge, but they’ll pay $3000 if nobody else can play the game they now own. I won’t pretend to understand the mindset of those who would deprive the world of art that would make everyone happier, or why their egos need such selfish gratification, but those people do exist.
So to recap, Patrick Scott Patterson took one-of-a-kind artifacts which he acknowledges were donated to his “preservation” project, and sold them to the highest bidder. And instead of having the data dumped first, he promoted that they were undumped, presumably because that fact would boost their sale price. One could speculate that he could have secretly had the prototypes dumped first and then lied about it to the bidders, but that would still mean he’s an eBay scammer for selling items with falsified descriptions. Meanwhile, if you check his Twitter feed at that time, dude was constantly bragging about buying and flipping collectibles, and you know he keeps a share of those for his own collection, so it’s not like he was on the street starving.
As my friends will attest, I’m a 7th-degree Shihan black belt in the art of trying to understand reasonable motivations for what appear to be unreasonable actions. Obviously, you have to be careful with this, lest you find yourself identifying with abusive people. But the truth is, you really don’t know what folks have going on in their lives, and how that colors their perspectives and influences their actions. You have to take a moment to put yourself in other people’s shoes, or else you become part of the problem. And you also need to give people space to say “Wow, okay, you’re right, I fucked up there.” With all of that said, as much as I tried to wrap my head around this prototype conundrum, there was no innocent explanation for it. None. Patterson posted a disclaimer to his “VideoGamePreservation” site, basically saying (paraphrased) “Gosh, the project got overwhelming, so I had to sell all the stuff that was given to me”, while leaving out the fact that he didn’t dump the media, or that he had the option to pass it on to a legitimate foundation for games preservation, or that he used its “undumped” status to pump the price. (That page doesn’t seem to be properly archived, but I have a screenshot of it here.) Patterson then tried to spin all this with a giant word salad on his personal Facebook, which I will not link, about the effects of stress on his life, because he’s the real victim. (Of course it would be stressful to be publicly called out for disgusting behavior.)
(Note that the above tweet, formerly located here, has since disappeared. Part of me now wonders if discussion of Patterson’s misdeeds has disappeared because of legal threats such as the one I’ve received now.)
And while I had previously been willing to overlook other unverified rumors about Mr. Patterson, in my mind, all of this brought weight to other implications of shady dealings. For instance, a guy who would do this would definitely be willing to fake a kill screen on Donkey Kong, as PSP has been accused of doing. Oh, and it certainly informed my opinion of his decision to lie to the community in 2010 about Billy Mitchell’s cheated Donkey Kong scores:
For brevity, I’m not going to get into the whole story here. Patterson later admitted he knew this baloney wasn’t accurate, but felt pressured to say it because someone at TG owed him money, and he needed to stay in their good graces. (Apologies for the lack of links here; I’m trying to get back to more important work.) Again, I try to be sympathetic, and I accepted this explanation at the time I first heard it. Patterson wasn’t the only person who allowed himself to be caught in the grind of the Twin Galaxies “old guard”. But the prototype scandal cast new light on this as well. It was a true “Oh, this is who he is” moment.
And so I ceased communication with Mr. Patterson at that time, in April 2019. And as far as I recall, that was the last I’d heard from him… until last Monday, October 7th.
THE THREAT
So there I was, trying to finish my “Ellrod’s folly” update before the sixth day of the Karl Jobst / Billy Mitchell trial began that evening (my time), when I received this message:
Before I go any further, for legal reasons, I should be clear that I’m not representing to you, my faithful readers, that this message was 100% stone cold confirmed without a doubt to be from actual Patrick Scott Patterson in the flesh himself. It’s the Internet, and there are a lot of wacky things that go on. It was from his real account on Twitter (or “X” or whatever the exploding truck guy calls his pet site now), meaning when I click through on that user pic at the top, I end up here. And no, I don’t believe Patrick was “hAcKeD” by some mysterious online entity. But, you know, maybe he has a teenage kid or a spouse who jumped on his already-logged-in computer at home and decided to have some fun at both our expenses. Hey, it’s possible! I’m just trying to be mindful of the circumstances at play, and how those circumstances may affect any legal obligations or conclusions I may have. If Patrick publicly disavows this threat, and assists in identifying who sent it on his behalf, I would be happy to note that retraction here. However, with those caveats duly noted, I will continue with this assessment speaking of the threat as though it comes from Patrick himself.
Now, as you can see indicated by my red redaction, Patrick included a name. I’m not going to say at this time whether this name was accurate. What’s important is that he believes it is. This is obviously an attempt to intimidate me. “I know where I can find you, buster!” (Or at least, he believe he does.) So right away, I’m just not particularly inclined to respond constructively to threats from bullies trying to throw their weight around.
But as you can see, Patrick Scott Patterson is BIG MAD about the people mocking him on this site’s comments section. Why he would admit this so readily, I’m not sure. I’d probably keep that to myself, if I were him. As far as his legal threat goes, the problem is, aside from anything specifically bearing my nom de plume, I didn’t write any of that bullshit. Most of what I assume he’s upset about is not my style at all.
The whole thing reads like a copypasta bit. “I’m a twenty-year Marines drill instructor who knows forty-seven forms of karate and I am prepared to violently force your compliance if necessary.” Except in this case, I have no doubt Mr. Patterson believes he’s 100% serious.
My personal favorite part though is how he ends this blatant legal threat with “You can call me directly if you wish to discuss”, which is another way of saying “I have no lawyer to speak to” LMAAAAAAOOOOOOO.
BTW, a pro life tip for you all: Do not ever have a “friendly chat” with anyone threatening to sue you. How am I supposed to trust that Patrick Scott Patterson won’t lie about things I “said” in our spoken conversation? Even if I said all the right things, what’s to stop him from framing them disingenuously? After all, it would be his word against mine. The nanosecond legal action is on the table, all oral communications must immediately cease, and any written messages must be dry, and carefully written, and must go through official channels only. (Note that I’m a bit loose with this post, because this is intended for the entertainment of my readers, and because unlike Patrick Scott Patterson I have at least some idea what I’m doing.)
There are so many ways in which this threat is baffling. Had he just asked politely, I would’ve at least considered his request. Instead, he thinks he’s going to fling demands with absolutely no leverage to back them up? He thinks this is going to successfully suppress criticism of him? He wants compliance… from the guy spending his free time writing voluminous treatises about Billy Mitchell… who is backed up by a team of relentless researchers… and his plan… is to antagonize all of them?
For what it’s worth, I tried to track down which comment Patrick was referring to when he told me “yOu hAvE sEeMiNgLy eNgAgEd iN iT yOuRsElF oN aT LeAsT oNe OcCaSiOn”. I’m pretty sure that was referring to this notice I posted in the replies to “Day 4”:
But I’m sure, given the background we’ve already covered, people will understand why that comment was not defamatory.
Let’s be clear about one thing: I do not give one single solitary shit whether people I don’t even know make fun of Patrick Scott Patterson. Yes, it is possible for anything to be taken too far, but I don’t have to be invested in whether two strangers have a contest for who’s the bigger arsehole.
Obviously I’m going to think Patrick Scott Patterson is a piece of shit when he’s sending me legal threats over things I didn’t even do. But this isn’t even about whether I like the guy or not. Unlike Mr. Patterson, I’m a fan of Robert Mruczek. Yes, Robert trusted the wrong people at times, but so many would have made those same mistakes in his place, whether they will admit it or not. Dude probably deserves a fucking statue somewhere for all the thankless, unpaid work he did chronicling competitive gaming history in its early years, and yet it seems all he ever gets for it is a ration of shit. We literally wouldn’t have any evidence around Billy’s missing 1.014m tape if not for Mruczek’s score analysis. With that said, I still don’t care if trolls in the comments section mock him, or call him “Slobert PubeCheck”, or make fun of his art collection, and I’m not inclined to censor that activity strictly because I like the guy. If nothing else, that would introduce an ethical dilemma of its own. That would be me saying “Oh, you can mock these people I don’t like, but don’t you dare mock these other people who are my friends.” Hell, they make fun of me too, and I allow it:
My primary concern, in this regard, is helping make sure people don’t believe a comment comes from any particular real life “Patrick Scott Patterson”, or “Robert Mruczek”, or “Triforce Johnson”, or whoever, just because someone enters that name with their contribution. Note that I wouldn’t call this my “responsibility”, as I’m not the one posting any of the nonsense. Let’s just call it something I would strive for. And if you scroll through, you’ll see comments from me to that end, when I think that maybe a particular caricature pushes a bit too close to that line:
ARGUMENTS
Okay, so let’s take a look at the basis for Patterson’s “claim” against me, shall we?
For starters, legally speaking, how am I supposed to know these are mockeries of him in particular? I’m sure there are many Patrick Pattersons in the world, and surely some number of them have the middle name “Scott” as well. What if some other Patrick Scott Patterson is really down on himself, and is using the Internet to work through some emotions of guilt and self-pity? And then this flaming douchebag comes along and says “Hey Mistur! Ah own a trademark on the name Patrick Scott Patterson! You have to stop immediately because your depression is defaming me!” And… simultaneously, it’s somehow my fault?
Which gets to the next line of questioning: Is he really going to sue me for “defamation” over what other people said about him? Does he sue a YouTuber because someone posts nasty replies in their comments? Hell, does he sue YouTube for allowing those comments to be posted? Does he sue Comcast for transmitting unfavorable remarks to his home computer screen? Or Dell for producing the monitors displaying them? If he wanted, he could go after the people who are actually making these allegedly defamatory statements, and if he issued me a legal subpoena requesting what identifying information I may have, I would comply to the extent required. But that’s apparently not what he wants.
And even then, I struggle to see how these replies constitute actionable “defamation” on their face. To that point, as an academic exercise, let’s take a look at some of these comments, starting on the mild end of things. We’ll begin with this direct reply to my musing about Mr. Patterson being a loser:
Obviously it’s a comedic bit to portray Patrick as unintelligent, and simultaneously poor and hungry for chicken wings. Oh, and the author portrays Patterson as inclined to file frivolous lawsuits – and that was two weeks before I received this legal threat on October 7th. I mean, I guess the imputation that he’s too poor to afford a fridge or stove is probably inaccurate? But why would anybody assume this is true, especially based on some random Internet remark by someone who can’t even spell Patrick’s name right?
Again with the misspelled name. I take it “brother” here is a Hogan-esque reference to Patrick’s time as a wrestler? I can’t say the bit about him taking bribes is particularly inaccurate, given Patterson’s own admission that he promoted Billy’s fake scores in anticipation of a payday. As for the illustration of “Patrcik” charging hot wings to his neighbor, while that would be a civil violation worthy of small claims court, given the context, I sincerely doubt anyone believes any of this really happened. (And I also have yet to hear from anyone named “Patrcik” claiming they were defamed as a result.)
As I was drafting all this, another one came in:
Am I supposed to take this as a serious claim that Patrick Scott Patterson has a copyright on farting? Does this comment somehow malign Patterson’s “good name”? Is it really my responsibility to delete this, just in case some idiot walks away with the mistaken impression that Patrick Scott Patterson invented flatulence?
But hey, these are easy to laugh at and dismiss. Only an unmitigated loser would threaten to sue a bystander over garbage like that. So instead, let’s take a look at one of the more extreme examples of Patterson mockery, again, as an academic exercise:
Before I go any further, yes, this is crass, and it is highly vulgar. It’s not my style of humor at all, I would never write this, I didn’t ask for it, and I don’t particularly want stuff like this on the site. But – and I know this is a bit of nuance some folks struggle with – I also don’t want to be the type of person who only allows the kinds of humor I personally appreciate. That’s the point of allowing comments and replies: People will say things that you would not. Otherwise, your site (page, YouTube channel, whatever) just becomes a big hugbox, and that’s the last thing I’d want. It’s a microcosm of a broader philosophical principle: Defending free speech, at times, requires defending things you disagree with, or would not say yourself.
So let me go through the list of things I consider when seeing a comment like this. First of all, as we’ve said, there’s nothing that particularly indicates which “Patrick Scott Patterson” in the world this refers to, so the idea that this is defaming any particular “Patrick Scott Patterson” has no legal basis. But for the sake of argument, let’s proceed with our discussion under the assumption that the given username is a reference to the meathead seen above in the Drew Barrymore shirt. (Bear in mind also, it was Patrick and not anyone named “Evelyn” protesting this comment as defamation.)
If I believed this was written by our Patrick Scott Patterson, I would have removed it, because it could be interpreted as a threat to do these things to others. But it was very obviously not written by him. It’s just some tasteless dipshit somewhere wanking it to his own imagination.
I also looked to see if the encounter being illustrated was being portrayed as non-consensual within its fictional universe. In other words, is this a depiction of you-know-what? But it’s clearly not portrayed that way. Each of the author’s characters seem to be joining in willingly.
Lastly, I would sit here and tell you I have no way of knowing whether or not the claims made in the comment are real or not – and it’s true that I don’t strictly have proof either way. But I’m not going to do that here, because this is obviously just some bullshit some idiot wrote. Does Patrick expect me to police the Internet for him? Is it my job to make sure people aren’t saying things Patrick doesn’t like?
Nobody – and I mean nobody – read that comment and thought it was an accurate description of a real encounter. Not one person on this planet. Nobody, nobody, no one, not a single entity in the history of the universe. I triple-dog dare Patrick Scott Patterson to make one of his dipshit friends go up on the stand and lie and say “Uuuuhhhhh, well, I used to have a high estimation of Patrick Scott Patterson’s reputation, but after I saw these serious allegations of ejaculatory misconduct, I cancelled all his convention appearances, and kicked him out of his home.”
And at that point, we get into the question of damages. If nobody believes this tripe, then how exactly does it harm him? Is he gonna pull a Silly Bitchell and lie and say it gave him a hernia? Or atrial fibrillation? Is he gonna testify in several lawsuits and claim each time “The damage from all those other defamations was minimal compared to this”?
Patrick… listen… It’s just some fuckhead on the Internet. Fuckheads on the Internet will say all kinds of nasty shit about you, especially when you give them a reaction like this. You don’t have to read any of it, and bullshit like that won’t affect you unless you allow it to. Let. It. Go.
And it’s not like we’re talking about some poor awkward fourteen-year-old who doesn’t know how to handle the stress of social media. This is a public figure doing this, who as recently as July was appearing in yet another personal profile on television news. He wants the “People are talking about me” life, and lemme tell you sir, that life goes both ways. Especially when you’re an established scam artist.
But then I have to remember, Patrick’s out here trying to sue a bunch of random people, and thus playing directly into his existing negative reputation. So I have to wonder if maybe he’s one of these twisted crazies who enjoys having this negative reputation while constantly complaining about it. Who fucking knows, man? Some people are just nuts.
OUT OF THE BAG
Ah, but here’s where the plot really thickens. Remember that name I blocked out in red? Again, I’m not going to confirm at this time whether the name is real or not. (I will say, it is a name I have given to a very select few people.) However, I can say this, with absolutely no doubt whatsoever in my mind: There is only one person on this entire planet who would have provided that name to Patrick Scott Patterson.
I can already hear Catherine DeSpira protesting “How dare you drag me into your wild conspiracy theories” as if she doesn’t know exactly what she did. Again, from my perspective, it’s very simple. There does not exist anybody else who would’ve given that guy that name.
I probably have enough material on Ms. DeSpira to do a write-up on just her one day, so I suppose I’ll save some of the finer details. But for now, I’ll go over an abbreviated accounting of my interactions with her. Admittedly, there’s a part of me that’s still genuinely sympathetic to the fact that Ms. DeSpira has been the target of some pretty vile misogyny from some in the community. That simply must be acknowledged before I continue. With that said, she goes to great lengths to make even that much sympathy difficult to express.
For starters, she’s just very rude, so frequently, to people she hardly knows, and often for no discernable reason. Like, sure, it is Cat’s right to conduct herself in that fashion if she wants, but I don’t see why I should give a shit how she’s viewed in the broader gaming community when she doesn’t appear to care herself.
Oh, but this goes way beyond issues of mere demeanor. Over the two years or so I maintained contact with her, she would occasionally send me random stuff, about Richie Knucklez opening an illegal arcade, or Billy Mitchell giving hot sauce to a “Women for Trump” group, or some ages-old legal battle between Namco and Corn Nuts. I’m not gonna say this material wasn’t interesting on some level, but it was never the stuff I was actively looking for. If you ever asked Cat DeSpira for something, it was always “Oh, I know I have it somewhere, probably on another hard drive, I’ll look for it later.” And then it never surfaced. It came to be like asking Todd Rogers for his world record videos. They definitely for sure existed, because as everyone knew this person absolutely had the goods, but fuck if you’d ever see them. Meanwhile, Cat would complain constantly on Twitter about never getting credit for all her work. Personally, I didn’t care if she gave the research to me, in which case I’d credit her, or if she published it on her own blog where I could link it. I just wanted whatever she claimed to have out there where it could be cited going forward. That’s what a journalist and historian does. They publish shit.
Eventually, a small group of us started researching Billy Mitchell’s “perfect Pac-Man” and “player of the century” myths more closely. Cat was never at any time a member of this group, but in service of this project, I did reach out to her again, hoping to make our work as complete as possible. Once again, same deal. Nothing of value. Soon afterward, Cat blew up over, of all things, the fact I voted for Bernie Sanders, lmao. Part of me wondered if that was just an excuse to avoid fulfilling anything. I ceased contact with Cat at that time, and my research collaborators and I proceeded to work on what became the “Video Game Fraud of the Century” project (a.k.a., the “Dot” series) without her involvement.
But sure, of her own accord, Ms. DeSpira had done valuable “research” into things like early Pac-Man history – or so I thought. So we still compiled her public postings of newspaper clippings regarding early Pac-Man high scores, properly noting where these items had been acquired from. And obviously the plan was to credit her for those. I don’t have to like someone to acknowledge their work. Meanwhile, we sourced actual newspaper scans to replace the images she posted, you know, just to be thorough, just in case. (And thank goodness we did!)
If you did the deep dive on that project, and read “Dot Two Supplemental”, you have an idea of what happened next. At the absolute last possible fucking minute prior to publication of “Dot Two”, I noticed a major discrepancy between what I had written (based on a newspaper clipping posted by DeSpira) and the legitimately sourced article we later acquired for display.
The original, legitimate copy included a high score claim of 3,999,420. (This was impossible as a single run on original Pac-Man, but it may have been a “stitched” score, or who knows, maybe just a lie outright.) However, someone had taken that legitimate print, and photoshopped a bunch of “3”s to make the score just a hair above the now-known perfect score of 3,333,360. If you zoom in super-close, the fakery is obvious. The same “3” was used each time, and they weren’t even aligned terribly well. Someone did that deliberately, and that someone… then posted the photoshopped version… to Cat DeSpira’s Twitter.
Her comments certainly give the impression that she knows the newspaper was bogus. She doesn’t go around labeling all her other newspaper clippings, including those with impossible scores, as “unvetted”. Was this her built-in excuse if someone caught her? And if it was “unvetted” in the first place, why would she not simply use her newspaper archive subscription to call up the original copy, as we did? Also, I wouldn’t say I’m the expert, but I do believe her claim that early Pac-Man boards “scored differently” is dubious. And even if I set all of that aside, and don my “What’s the innocent explanation” black belt, where could this clipping have come from? This was very deliberately done by a person, either Cat herself or someone who gave this to Cat, and honestly, we have a right to know who that someone is.
Based on this discovery, I made the call – again, at the last possible moment – to scrub links to Cat’s “research” from the project. And of course I hastily rewrote the aforementioned supplemental note, acknowledging Cat’s forgery. We had sourced everything independently, anyway. The links – which were limited to high scores reported in old newspapers – were intended as a courtesy nod to her “work”, which could no longer be trusted.
Even worse, Cat was later notified about this photoshopped newspaper, and was linked directly to that falsified clipping on her Twitter page. (You can see that whole exchange here.) Instead of apologizing, removing the offending material, and offering some explanation of where this photoshopped newspaper came from, she accused me of “credibility fishing” and “looking for smoking gun conspiracy theories”. Wow!! She certainly seemed way more offended at me for politely asking the question than at any theoretical person who hypothetically gave this vandalized newspaper to her to publish. Worst of all, as I write this on the 15th of October, Year of Our Lord 2024, her tweet with the photoshopped newspaper is still unchanged! That’s astonishing!! Imagine how offensive it is to trawl through old newspapers, only to discover a self-styled “historian” has been defacing these historical artifacts. This is a frankly outrageous case of journalistic malpractice, one which instantly turns all of Cat’s other “valuable” work radioactive. How many times has she done this, and no one caught it? How could I trust anything she posts, no matter how legitimate it may otherwise appear to be? How much has Cat DeSpira knowingly polluted the chronicles of video game history?
Of course, none of this stopped her from diminishing our project based on the fact I write under a pseudonym (which could be the most ironic thing anyone has ever said), and then later lying to her audience to take credit for our work:
LMAO Yes, you heard it here, folks. As of February 21st of this year, fifty percent of this blog is just stuff Cat fucking DeSpira sent me hahahahahaha. (And that was her response to me at least attempting to be cordial and credit her with something.)
Returning to the present day, when I looked into Patrick Scott Patterson’s recent Twitter activity, sure enough, there I found him and Cat DeSpira chatting about “being impersonated” while having their usual pity party about being the only ones who saw the truth:
I’m not going to tell you that either Cat or Pat are any more responsible for sustaining Billy Mitchell’s legacy of lies than anyone else in that corrupt circle (although you can posit otherwise if you want). Overall, it’s a complicated situation, and I sympathize with those who were taken advantage of. But it’s still wild how they talk about it. Guys like Carlos Pineiro and David Race openly acknowledge and regret what they did trying to defend Billy, when they believed his lies. They’re not out prioritizing their own egos over the need to continue speaking up. If you just listened to DeSpira and Patterson, you’d think they were never every bit as much a part of that entourage and that machine as those around them.
None of this directly implies Cat’s involvement in Puddinhead Patterson’s legal threat, of course. But again, the fact that she’s the only person in the entire Milky Way Galaxy who would have given that name to Patterson very much does.
So did Cat DeSpira urge Patterson to send his threat? Is she also advising Patterson on his legal strategy? Is she providing material support for Patterson’s planned lawsuit? Is she intending to appear as a witness in Patterson’s case? Or possibly even join in as a plaintiff herself? I think I have a right to know these things, and if Patterson does go through with his threat, I’m sure I’ll find out.
THE PROCESS
As we’ve discussed in relation to Billy Mitchell’s various litigious outbursts, lawsuits are an attempt to destroy people’s lives. In issuing these threats, Patrick Scott Patterson is, in fact, threatening to personally ruin me. (Cat is too, if she’s actively involved.) Now, he may not think of it that way. He’s probably used to achieving compliance for his unreasonable demands, and then giving up when the going gets rough. But who knows? As has also been observed, it’s so easy to file some half-assed pro se complaint, and it’s so much more expensive and time-consuming to properly defend against it. So does Patrick Scott Patterson believe he’s going to bleed me of resources?
What he may not have really grasped is that a defamation claim, carried through to its conclusion, is a long-ass process. It’s this day and this day and this day and this day and this day and this day, and the years that preceded it. And the thing is, you know that I’m here for it. Motherfucker, I do this shit as a hobby.
I’m not going to file for a subpoena or injunction or anything formal until Mr. Patterson’s threat becomes realized, but I will say one thing here and now to Mr. Patterson – and Patrick, I know you’re reading this – Save your DMs now. Save your emails, Discord messages, Facebook messages, Twitter/X DMs, private messages, app communications, social media notifications, text messages, postal correspondence, printed memoranda, facsimiles, telegrams, audio recordings, phone records, electronic attachments, portable electronic media, documents, carrier pigeon missives, smoke signals, and semaphore logs. Do not delete or alter or destroy or make inaccessible any electronic or printed or otherwise recorded communications, or backups of same, involving any of the individuals or topics discussed in my perfectpacman.com posts and/or its replies, between you and anyone else even remotely connected to any of these topics, including but not limited to anyone who may have helped write, assisted with, contributed toward, consulted on, advised regarding, supplied information for, or reviewed drafts for what ultimately became your message to me on 7 October 2024. Sir, if you go through with this, I will want it all, and being that you would be the plaintiff, I will have a legal right to all of it, and you will have no excuse for having “lost” it.
At this juncture, I do not wish to hear from Mr. Patterson again until his legal complaint has been formally filed and can be responded to in that venue. And if he never files, then I’ll be happy to never hear from him for the rest of eternity. Meanwhile, while I understand there’s a price to be paid whenever reporting on the misconduct of certain unhinged individuals, if they could invent a way to hear from Cat DeSpira less than never, I would be all for it. I do wish Patrick Scott Patterson the best of luck in finding the big boy pants he seems to have misplaced, and I wish both he and Cat DeSpira a big hearty bowl of eat shit.
Oh, and if you, my fine and educated readers, are disappointed in the delays in getting out the latest Karl Jobst / Billy Mitchell trial updates, you can “thank” this guy. Granted, his threat came in a few hours prior to the “Day 6” hearing, but no matter how you feel about receiving a threat like this, it’s going to take your mind off your work. I did manage to finish the Anthony Ellrod update prior to the beginning of that hearing, but I had something else important to finish as well, which had to be put off until the next morning, delaying work on the actual “Day 6” write-up. And obviously, I’ve chosen to prioritize this notice over starting work on the “Day 7” update. You can blame me for that choice, or you can blame the guy sending me dogshit legal threats as I’m trying to do this important work. I leave that decision up to you all.
More urgently, I need to properly prepare myself for this impending legal battle. So I bring to you all the following request: If you have evidence of misconduct by either Patrick Scott Patterson or Catherine DeSpira relating to this or any other related topic, I would very much like that in my inbox at your earliest convenience. I’m not looking for more rumors, or general shit-talk, as there’s plenty of that available. What I need to do, in the face of this lawsuit threat, is start collecting evidence. I don’t know when Patterson or DeSpira will make their next moves, and I’d like to be prepared for when they do.
I will admit, this sort of conduct from Mr. Patterson and Ms. DeSpira does anger me, on some level. But I would like to end this post on a lighter note. As you may recall, I made the choice to curate replies to “Day 6” a little more heavily. I assure you all, that was a decision I had already made prior to receiving Patrick’s threat, based on public feedback, and I went through with that decision regardless of what ol’ Puddinhead had to say. I thank those of you who honored my request to keep that post’s replies free of nonsense. And here’s where your consideration is rewarded. This post will feature as little moderation as I have to do. My blanket rules are still in effect: No bigotry (inclusive of misogyny), no doxxing or pseudo-doxxing, no serious allegations of major wrongdoings that aren’t justified (jokey bullshit is fine), no blaming people for suicides, and nothing that would hypothetically involve visits from the FBI or federal prison time. Otherwise, go ham, folks! (I bet the one dipshit who insisted on getting banned from “Day 6” regrets that now, lol.) Just assume everything posted below is complete and utter horseshit, and nobody is who they say they are.
Thanks as always for reading! I… guess I should get started on “Day 7” now, huh?
Godspeed ersatz! The way you approach these things is incredibly inspiring to me, tho I find it a bit hard to follow some of the digressions.
Congratulations! This is what I was talking about when I wrote The Red Badge of Courage.
Me to Patrick Scott Patterson right now:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Efm67h9kHB8&t=1s&pp=2AEBkAIB
I never heard of the guy before this morning and now have an intense dislike of him. Theft and vexatious habits both? Though he seems more at the Rogers level of competence, like he would enter his first name on some official legal document as “Patrcik”. I think you’d be able to slapp him around.
Same here. Has he not learned from Billy Mitchell? Way to shoot yourself in the foot.
This guy. I’ve had a few run ins with this guy
Truth be told – if people are able to impersonate anyone on this blog willy-nilly without restraint – and there were a ton of trolls in the comments – without any moderation of the fakers this was bound to happen and surprised it didn’t happen sooner. I wouldn’t like someone pretending to be me and I have a lot of haters where I’ve been targeted for being opinionated. Though this situation I’ve pretty much stayed out of it as I have no personal stake in the outcome. Unfortunate a few people just absolutely have to ruin things for everyone just because they can.
The thing about it is, people don’t who don’t know any better think it’s actually Patrick making these comments, and go after him about it as if he is the one saying it. There are grounds here and I’m not sure Ersatz understands his obligation as a site owner to moderate that stuff.
Commenting that he’s okay with it going on and how he’s refusing to moderate it isn’t a very smart move on Ersatz part, and doubling down on it with a whole article is only helping Patrick.
tell me you’re me without telling me you’re me
I’m not, I am just someone who follows a bunch of people from the scene on social media lol.
One time I was talking to my wife about King Kong after getting a high score in Donkey Kong. My brain was so frazzled, I told my wife “I would marry Kinky Dong”
What a goof I am! Almost popped a hernia laughing about it
See, I disagree with the characterization that these are “impersonations”, only because that carries a connotation of attempted sincerity. If a commenter is trying to plausibly impersonate someone, I do my best to zap those. These are mockeries, and largely obvious ones at that, which use the name field as part of the mockery.
The point being made is that no one in their right minds would take the content of an internet comment section seriously, whether you like it or not.
Today is muh birthday. I am today the same age as Drew Barrymore would be if she wasn’t kidnapped by that stalker a few years ago and stuffed into a storage locker facility with insufficient oxygen.
Back to muh birthday. As you know I have had a rough time these past few years. My storage locker empire of over 6500 items came crumbling down once muh wife pointed out I was paying a massive amount of money to store garbage that nobody wanted. Even though I made sure to take photographs of my dirty fingers nobody wanted to buy my stuff.
As for selling rare undumped prototypes be assured that I most assuredly dumped the roms and made backups of said roms before selling.
HOW DARE YOU! I am nothing but an upstanding senior citizen journalist! Those news paper clippings were real. I should know. I was there when they were printed. I remember it fondly as it was the 80s and I just turned 50.
Keep us updated. I didn’t donate for the Australia trip, but you bet your ass I’ll donate in a heartbeat for a legal fund if this fucking loser tries to initiate a lawsuit.
Thank you for the updates again Mr. Ershatz. This platforom gives me the opportunity to platform myself and let folks know that I have well over 65 credits to my name on IMDB. I have been in commercials for diareererer, commercials for stomach ulcer medication, even I one time did a radio spot for chronic anal halitosis. That there is bad breath for those not in the know.
As such a great TV star I have to protect my personality from deformation. Online deformation comes in many forms. People refute lies that I tell, people point out that I live in sub-standard living conditions despite my claims to being super duper successful. People claim that I was in love with Drew Barrymore since I saw her in E.T. The Extra Testicle. They claim that I sold artifacts from the video gaming world. Despite these things being true, they hurt my reputation.
Even though they try to hurt me, you will find many times I point out that I welcome their attention as I collection a small pittance for being a register and validated moron on facebook.
This is truly my birthday. I am 50 gong on 7. I have asked people on my socials to send me money to my paypal account because it really was a rough couple of years. I had to live through a pandemic! Even though my storage vulture business went through the roof due to the bankrupt families and deaths. Even though, it affected me both personally and professionally.
That is why I am asking for people to send me your hard earned cash. You don’t even know me. You only know a fantasy football version of me that lives in your head. But I have no shame and will ask you for money.
A legal threat over a DM? Come on man, at least have the decency to upload the threat to YouTube and include the alleged defamatory statements for “those who haven’t seen it.”
Go to your room! Right now!
BILLY TRIAL DAY 7 WHEN I CANT WAIT ANY LONGERRRRRRRRRRRR
Hi erstaz
In one of LUS’s youtube videos where he talks about the case, a commenter named “PhillipBlackburn-ik5bb” says: “LUS i need your help. Soon i will be filing a lawsuit against Ersatz cats (Walter) for certain things i wont discuss here. I will email you the details. Im willing to pay extremely well for your services as a lawyer.
Take care and God bless,”
probably nothing, but wanted to bring to your attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKnof3CazeQ
Hahahahahahaha! Thank you!! Phillip got banned here for directly and explicitly threatening to commit violence against multiple people, which obviously was not a joke and could not be allowed. Still, I wonder if this helps my case regarding Patterson. “Gosh, this guy wants to sue me for not taking comments down, and this other guy wants to sue me for not leaving them up.”
So this Patrick person does have some loose connections to Billy?
I didn’t even know who he, or this “Cat” person were until this post. My only thought with those misspelled “patrick” names was that it was just random spam. I didn’t realize it was related to Billy.
Regarding the setup, I guess I should’ve made clear, he used to be loosely in Billy’s camp. He disavowed Billy long ago.
Muh name Scott. Best ta note dat.
I’m sure glad Pat can’t afford me. I’d hate to live in his section 8 home.
LOL, some idiot tried the same thing with the Opie & Anthony forums and LOST, and had to pay the admin of the O&A forums over $70,000!
We have coalesced our consciousness. Individually we were but mortals but together we are invincible. Bow before us. Your puny human concepts of right and wrong, truth and lie, mean nothing to us, we are evolved beyond responsibility for our actions.
lololololol
I did sorta wonder, when I came onto the scene, if Billy’s camp thought I was a Cat DeSpira sock account or something. The name would definitely seem to be too spot on.
I am constantly surprised by people from this era of video games, You’d think Todd Rodgers and Billy Mitchell are the peak of insanity and then you’ll discover even more insane people you never knew existed and wonder how anyone ever took any of these people seriously for decades. Although certain political candidates make me think similar things.
Spot-on about Cat. I eventually had to block them for being too emotionally unstable. You can’t have a discussion or debate without them going ape shit over seemingly nothing at all.
Cat has a pattern that she employs over and over. “Oh, those mean men on the internet. Won’t somebody save me?” Somebody goes and defends her. Then they are her new best friend. She says “Call me at this number, I have some important information to share with you about a) Billy b)Joel, c) Rudy, d) Richie, e) datagod, f) Jace, etc. The sucker falls for it, listens to her gossip for a few months. Then they start to realize she is bat shit crazy and they move away from her. All of a sudden THEY are now the target of her righteous feminist fury. “Oh that creep! I knew from day one he was a sheep. A beta male. A real creep!”.
I’ll tell you a little secret. I kissed Cat Despira in Denver. Right on the corpse! I tell you that because other people have been terrified of releasing things that happened at the Kong Off 3. Like the time that her and Joel shared a bed. That man was the cheapest man alive, but I didn’t know he was THAT cheap. I would have slept under a bridge before sharing the covers with an undead villain.
Cat and Pat were always the #1 troublemakers. Cat taught me how to stir the pot with her special made witches brew, to put an evil spell on gamers. She was also the one to feed Rudy Ferretti information, of what Pat was doing to him with his TG scores, making up fake names like Ryan Bland, and stirring up Rudy, etc. She was the puppet master! Pat taught me how to work the phones to beg for money, and scam charities from other gamers, and also to make sure all donations were deposited directly into my checking account, so I can live off crap food. I would not be where I was today without Pat. Thanks Pat!
The comments section on this website is a disgrace to the parties involved, including the purported moderator. One wonders what the casual observer thinks about the classic arcade gaming community after what they read here. The legal implications of these sordid affairs have encouraged anonymity and the most foul venting [even more than usual on the internet!?], and yet this allowed by the moderators who claim to take the issues seriously.
It turns out, I am a disgrace to all parties involved, and so that representation of me is accurate.
Nobody here is going to go “Oh I wonder if this reflects on the classic arcade game community?” Bitch, there is nothing classic about it. It was filled with cheaters, perverts and the undead.
You voted for Bernie? Tell me that’s another joke mate.
Just about the entire world thinks anyone that votes for a lying, fraudulent, cheating, business failure scammer like Trump is insane, so why wouldn’t you vote for Bernie?
Do I know Cat DeSpira and Patrick Scott Patterson? Unfortunately, yes!
I’m fairly certain that Section 230 protects you from being responsible for people’s comments on your website, unless they publish illegal material.
I guess you don’t learn to good aye? I’ve met people like you before. No matter how much I threaten to sue you never back down. Well listen here you, I can threaten to sue all day so you’re gonna have to back down eventually.
Here is a story… PSP was coming to San Diego to go to comic con. I let him crash in one of my bedrooms and wanted to help him out. I didn’t get to my house until a little after 6pm. He was there at 5:45 early and was texting me that he hates waiting around. When I got home, he was a bummed that he was about 35 minutes from where comic con was at. I explained that if you live downtown its very expensive (Plus he didn’t pay me anything or offer to take me to dinner for staying for two nights). The next day, I saw a post I think it was on Facebook asking anyone in San Diego that is going to Comic Con, if he could crash in their hotel, as where I was at was way too far from the action and he just didn’t like it. I didn’t tell him that I saw his post and came up with a plan. The next day I had to go to work, and he was driving to Comic Con but left all his stuff in my guest room. I took all his crap and put it outside my front door, locked the doors and went to work. I saw his posts all day again asking to stay with someone downtown. I sent him a text message says I saw what he put the night on Facebook, and all your crap is outside. He was pissed and said he had valuable things in his stuff and money. I told him, that’s not my problem, it’s yours. He said he was going to sue me. This was 8 1/2 years ago and still nothing. Scott isn’t doing anything in the gaming community. Its funny on his Facebook it just shows what he is selling on eBay. That man needs to get a REAL job!
Patrick, do you ever get tired of huffing your own farts?
Oh man, these two ppl sound like they need the Karl Jobst video treatment. He loves untangling webs of lies that go deeper than what most would originally assume
I represent the law firm Bigg Thik and Dieep. Our client is Drew Barrymore. We have filed a restaining order against Patrcick Scott Peterson becuase he won’t stop sending her stained magazines.
He has been harassing her since she was a child. He phoned her up and said “ET PHONE YOU NOW”. Later on he would travel to another state to watch her racy teen clips. He did not want to be seen yanking it in a local theatre according to an affidavit signed by the popcorn stand attendant.
His crowning achievement is to wear a Drew Barrymore shirt in every public appearance in order to get her attentions. It wan’t happen Patrckik. Move on with your life. She is a coked out abused former child star. She will NEVER EVER sleep with you.
Please stop sending her presents. Stop sending her home made stocker level magazines called “Scott” with a photo of you smiling like a creep reading one of her magazines. (by the way the stapled 8×10 paper was a nice touch, I hope you learned that in grade 3).
Took a while, but I did finally have to take down one comment for doxxing/pseudo-doxxing. (And no, it was not about me.) The bit was funny otherwise, so feel free to repost without the name.
Oh and reportedly, Patterson is PISSED that I made this public, lmao. I’m a journalist, WTF does he think I’m gonna do to an unsolicited legal threat? Sit on it and hide it from everybody?
He wants everyone to know, if you’re a known scammer and you send me unsolicited legal threats over bullshit I didn’t do, THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU TOO.
Woof everyone…I am Pats dog. (No I am not referring to his wife Muh-lisser) I am just a puppy. One day, I developed a rash on my body. Probably because PAT decided to PET me, after a recent dark dirty storage locker run, and he put his greasy hands all over me. We made it clear that this problem was a PRIVATE matter between us! BUT OH NO, he had to go on a PUBLIC forum, and tell a member, he didn’t get his free hat because MY RASH WAS PRIORITY!!! What a lazy loser!!! However, I got him back though. I peed on his chicken wings, when he wasn’t looking. Interesting, he still seemed to enjoy the extra hot spice I added to his dinner!
I don’t understand the concern with altering a matter of historic record and intentionally misrepresenting the grossly altered content to the public as historic fact.
Cat may have been doing her part to make the story “more palatable and entertaining” This practice is considered the norm when I’m producing a so-called documentary film such as The King Of Kong: A FistFull of Liars.
People didn’t have a problem rewriting history with that one. So what’s the problem now?
I like that one…”Fistful of Liars”…haven’t heard that one before 🙂
Fistful of “Lies” came from Dwayne Richard’s King of Con doc
Hi Tim,
The great Steve Weibie was the first to beat Billy MItchell and he even played on my very machine! You never played on my machine because you’re a loser
You got your facts wrong. I was the first to beat Billy Mitchells documented 1982 arcade world record in August of 2000, years before the “fictional movie actor” was documented doing anything on the title.
There is also a 24 year old complete VIDEO of this performance from August of 2000 with witnesses that still exists today as undisputeable proof.
You know, the same one that was with malice of forethought defamitorily deemed ” constantly disputed and impossible to verify therefore merrited no inclusion in the film” Yea, that one! 😀 I sure put egg on the face of those film makers and those idiot Twin Galaxies referees like David Nelson didn’t I? 😀
At the time of my world record submission, I was under the impression that Twin Galaxies was an honest and reputable score keeping organization and not the corrupt lying. cheating, grifting scam that it actually was.
I could care less what Scott Patterson did with respect to selling items on Ebay, regardless of what they were or how they came into being.
What I am quite surprised at are the people who donated to his so-called “preservation project”. Outside of the American Classic Arcade Museum…a registered 501c-3 organization with about 20 years of credibility and trust, where are the guarantees from ANY other organization, group or person that donated items will be properly accounted for and preserved ?
You walk into ACAM and see MANY of the donated machines with signs affixed to them clearly identifying the donator(s). And whatever they can’t display for whatever reason is in one of the various shops and storage areas. WHERE is the online proof of donations…both tangible and financial…to the IVGHOF ? And as for Scott Patterson’s “project”…which I am only hearing about now for the very first time…I’d sooner place my faith with the established 501c-3 that is ACAM with respect to preservation. And I have for the better part of the past 20+ years as I’ve donated both cash and approx 14-15 classic arcade machines to their collection going back as far as year 2000 or 2001, I forget which BUT there is a framed article on the ACAM floor that mentions my first donation.
Regarding the PerfectPacman website’s recent articles that chronicle the lawsuit proceedings overseas in Australia, and the accompanying comments…
Haven’t read all the comments, admittedly…there are collectively 500+ by now, maybe even close to a thousand !! But the primary focus was about GBF and the legal proceedings. So I don’t know (nor even care) why Scott is so litigious over this. BUT, if he wishes to spend his financial resources accordingly, more power to him, although in terms of the probable percentage of mentions of him in the earlier articles covering the trial on this site, I am conservatively guessing that he MIGHT have been mentioned at best in under 1% of all posts which hardly is grounds for a defamation suit.
Plus, the author repeatedly made mention about how he was NOT going to militantly (not the word he used) “moderate” the comments section. People are free to say what they say so long as the comments are not extreme (i.e. “hate speech” and the like).
I haven’t heard Scott’s name come up often in recent forum posts…wasn’t even sure what he was doing right now ever since he took to referring to himself as some kind of “media personality” which is actually an overstatement…Howard Stern IS a true “media personality”, and Scott’s not in the same ball park as Howard Stern in that respect.
It’s kind of like there are BASEBALL PLAYERS (Babe Ruth) and then there are baseball “players” (Bill Bergen).
And who knows…considering that a financial train wreck video game related lawsuits have been so far, maybe no self-respecting lawyer or law firm will be willing to touch another video game related lawsuit with a proverbial 10-foot pole !!
Save for maybe Lionel Hutz 🙂
Mr. Patterson, if you’re reading this, give me a call. We have much to discuss.
1.You are quoting a Congressional Act from 1996 not a USC.
2. IF you are any type of attorney or lawyer, you are actively violating advertisement and solicitation codes. Telling someone to “give me a call” is a direct solicitation regardless of jurisdiction.
3. “Under 47 U.S.C.S. § 230(c)(1), qualifying defendants are protected from liability predicated on their exercise of a publisher’s traditional editorial functions—such as deciding whether to publish, withdraw, postpone, or alter content that they did not themselves create. The Second Circuit’s most recent opinion on the subject provided the following guidance as to when a defendant is shielded: What matters is whether the cause of action inherently requires the court to treat the defendant as the ‘publisher or speaker’ of content provided by another. To put it another way, courts must ask whether the duty that the plaintiff alleges the defendant violated derives from the defendant’s status or conduct as a ‘publisher or speaker.'” (Cohen v. Facebook, Inc., 252 F. Supp. 3d 140, 145 (2017))
beware of catnip dispera. she’s only been hanging in on the community by a thread.
Anyone watch LUS’S videos on YouTube with his inaccurate cost of the billy karl lawsuit.
The guy is actually arguing with Karl about his own lawsuit
I’ve never met Patrick Scott Patterson or Cat DeSpira, but they’ve both done a lot for the classic coin-op community over the years, and to me they both seem sincere and likable. After Ersatz had said in a comment on the Day 5 article that he was open to feedback, I’d indicated my disapproval of some of the comments mocking them.
That’s apparently the reason someone has posted two comments above under the name “observer” in an unfortunately successful effort to impersonate and irritate me. Ersatz seems to suggest in another comment above that those comments are obvious mockeries. Whoever posted them didn’t capitalize “Observer” and used several commas incorrectly, but that really doesn’t seem like enough to make the mockeries obvious.
I’m not sure about Washington state, but repeatedly encouraging comments that systematically annoy people for no purpose other than sport, revenge or intimidation would violate my home state’s law against online harassment. It also creates a perception of guilt-by-association for classic coin-op enthusiasts and more importantly for Karl Jobst.
Stop impersonating me observer! the only person to claim I’ve done anything for anyone is me. I’ll sue you.
Nobody has ever said “Classic Coin OP Community”. If you know anyone in “the community” you would call them retro gamers or CAG for Classic Arcade Gamers. This just goes to show that you are pretending to be “just an observer” but are more than likely PSP himself. Your home state laws will tell you to stop being a big fat baby and get off the internet of you are so offended by “mean words on the internet”. Go back to playing kissy kissy with the radical feline.
Good evening. My name is President Millard Fillmore, 13th President of these United States. It has come to my attention that the owner of this blog has received unsolicited legal threats over impersonation. I personally find that incredibly offensive and cowardly. Today, I am here to inform Mr. ersatz_cats that the entire legal force of the United States Justice Department will back him in this endeavor to defend himself, as in the United States, we have no tolerance for frivolous lawsuits whatsoever.
Godspeed.
President Millard Fillmore
Something about arcade high scores seems to attract mental illness
In part. There are some hotly contested records and the reason behind that is a combination of both notoriety/prestige and, in some cases, coupled with a near or full OCD-like mentality behind the effort.
Not every record is prestigious, and many, in fact, no one truly bothers with. But there are some that are veritable “feathers” in a cap should you be regarded as the best player at the title or a top contender. And to some players having one or more such “feathers” in their cap of accomplishments becomes an absolute must, and in a few cases, at all cost.
Some defend their record(s) should they ever be surpassed while others could care less. And for the ones that attempt to reclaim, it is a mix…some due it for pride, others because they genuinely like the game and their prominence is important to them. And THEN there are those that fall into the OCD group, and they are the real whackadoos.
Fortunately, that group is a very, very small percentage of the overall group of gamers out there…and even more fortunate is the fact that some of these whackadoos you will likely never meet face-to-face, which is a good thing. But then there are those…the minute percentage of the minute percentage…for which achieving and reclaiming these scores has become the end all/be all of their existence.
GBF is at or near the top of the pack, depending on your perspective. There have been others, such as Roy Shildt, and I’m sure that years down the line there may be some new ones that make their presence and intentions known. And who knows…we may yet encounter one that makes GBF’s legal antics and MAME-like submissions look like child’s play in comparison…such as an AI-programmer who programs a million “Ms Pacman” performances in the hopes of one of them achieving a million point score and then submitting it as if it were their own.
After all, on “Ms Pac” the only difference between a million point score and a 920K score is RNG as the skillset itself is pretty much the same. So take a kill-screen-capable MP player doing this and it becomes IMPOSSIBLE to prove it was not for real as they would have the skillset to reach the kill with all blue time/fruits just like many others can, only claiming MUCH more favourable RNG.
The greatest irony is in something that is attributed to GBF in TG’s 1st BoR… a quote where GBF informs a seemingly naive Walter Day about what some people won’t do in pursuit of a video game record. THAT, in my opinion, is the most ironic element from that 1st BoR of all.
+1 on the Section 230 comments.
As a former “ArCaDe ReFeReE”, I take great pride in my 70 IQ and total inability to read my own score board to verify the current documented record holder when a game title becomes of documentary film interest.
If you happen to make us look like the lying cheating scamming grifting jerkoffs we actually are by saving yourself a copy of a documented valid performance that was defamitorialy deemed “constantly disputed and impossible to verify therefore merited no inclusion in the fim”, we will further lie and pretend to recall higher undocumented scores from the 1980’s in a pathetic attempt to justify your documented score never actually counted.
The fact that arcade referees like me will resort to such sleazy schemes just goes to prove how corrupt and dishonest we arcade referees really are and just how worth less our official scoreboard actually was.
I was going dress up as a former “ArCaDe GaMe ReFeRee” this Halloween, but then I discovered my head won’t fit up my ass! 😀
But it’s true. I am a grown-up child who will whine, bitch, and cry over getting screwed by real popular DK champions who actually have personalities to be on the big screen. Seth Gordon was right, I am just to dull of a person to pull it off, and the film would have failed. I now have to learn to get over it after 15 years, of a video game that less than 1% of the gamers even care about, and move on with my life, knowing not only was I screwed out of a lot of money and fame, but to find out I was not the first to beat Billy in the first place. I concede! Congrats to you Terry Batson, you were once the real champion, and i was not! Feels good to get this off my chest!
Your wrong, the filmmakers also initially stated that that their Twin Galaxies assisted attempts to track me down lead to one dead end after another. Why would they lie and state they tried to track me down if they had no intention of using me to begin with?
Terry Bastion has no documentation as to doing anything on the game except for claiming a higher score back in the 1980’s with no proof only years after the subject material became of marketable interest.
Even if Terry’s alleged score was documented on the scoreboard in 2000 as it should’ve have been if it were real, I would have just beaten it anyway as I could score in the high 800ks to mid 900ks at the time.
Your now telling me that beating the visibly documented official world record is not enough, but now they have to beat the hidden “undocumented” scores from the 1980s that any rando can pull out their ass years latter when they want to justify moving the goal post?
This is bad comedy, NOT official score and record keeping.
Very piss poor impersonation of me.
However, even if documentary content was reliant on who the filmmakers only thought was more entertaining, why did the filmmakers outright lie at the start and deceptively state that my “score was constantly disputed and impossible to verify therefore merrited no inclusion in the film”?
Why did I have to catch them in several lies regarding the matter before they changed their story yet again and the subjective issue of personalities was used as an excuse coincidentally after the statue of limitations concerning matter expired?
Furthermore, what did the corrupt imbecile arcade game referees and film makers know about me at the time to make any kind comparison as to who was to be considered more entertaining? Nothing! So how could such discernment exist in the first place? Its clear that critical thinking is not the forte’ of arcade game referees or certain documentary film maker!
I would have easily won a defamation suit against the film makers and/or Twin Galaxies years ago if I was not lied to and stone walled by Billy Mitchell and Walter Day. Don’ t think Billy Mitchell and his ripoff lawyers don’t know this.
Billy Mitchell is a scam and so is Steve Webie!
Hi Tim,
Its me. Your submission. I was impossible to verify and constantly disputed. You say the real person to beat Billy first doesnt count cause it wasnt on the corrupt TG scoreboard but KOK shows your name also wasnt on the scoreboard. Seems hypocritical to bash TG for how they treated you but not bash them for how they treat others. You’re no better than Steve and Billy.
No,
My submission was never constantly disputed nor impossible to verify. This was the lie that was told when the topic matter became of marketable interest so as give false justification to its exclusion. I proved this was a premeditated lie. I sure made those “arcade game referees: and film makers out to be a bunch of liars didn’t I?😄
Again your wrong. Unlike Terry’s “alleged” score, my score DOES appear listed on the on the scoreboard in the film at 52:17.
No ,There is no evidence of Terry scoring anything on the game. I have documented evidence that did exist prior to filming, so my position is justified and not hypocritical.
Why don’t you get yourself a toupee with some brains in it.
Observer, the only thing Patrick Scott Patterson did for the gaming community was to line his own pockets and promote his own brand. He would insert himself anywhere and everywhere. He would offer to promote events for a fee. He would go and speak at events for a fee. Think about it. What would anyone want to listen to him about? His love for video games? Who the fuck cares. Everyone loves video games. He wants his face in front of every camera, on every newspaper, on every shitty video game movie. Why? Because mommy and daddy called him a retard in high school for playing nintendo instead of doing his home work. They told him he would NEVER EVER EVER be on TV. It is his mission to prove them wrong. He does not do things primarily for his family. His goal is always to be famous. But he has no true skills or anything of interest of which to talk.
“I have appeared on a show where I offer a broken yoyo in exchange for a Sony Super Nintendo.”
NOBODY CARES DICKHEAD!
I told everyone that cares to read my facebook status that I never come here nor do I read the mean and nasty comments about me on this here blogaroonie. No worries though. My “attorney” (muh sister who is a paralyzed legal) is screenshotting everything and making a list of damages.
Damages so far:
— I missed work because of the trauma
— I missed sleep because of fear that my scams will be exposed further
— I missed work opportunities because people have heard all about my inability to provide customer service
— Even muy dog had his feelings hurt as I told him people on the internet said “BAD DOG!” and I raised my voice at him so he could feel their wrath
— I missed an opportunity to buy a rare Arcade cabinet and spend 65 hours peeling paint off of it so I could turn around and sell it for 300 bucks at an auction even though I promised to sell it to a local yokel for 400 I decided to ghost him and sell it at the auction. It turns out that HE is the one that ended up buying it an an auction. I was pissed so I didn’t even give him the keys. Fuck that guy.
— I missed baths
— I missed out on Wingstop sales due to me having to pretend not to read this here website
My attorney and my other attorney will be contacting you shortly if these sarcastic and clearly retarded imposters keep imposterating me.
PS Cat Despira is a wonderful human and is not at all a deranged psychopathic feminist radical fascist.
Greetings friends, how are y’all doing? I am in a much better place. No pain, no suffering. Of course that is a religious top and I don’t have time to get into all that today.
What I do want to clear up is some rumors about me bedding Cat Despira. I have several things to say about that.
1. YUCK
2. No such thing occurred, nor would it occur. I was a married man and 100% faithful to my wife. Well, maybe I looked at girlies in the arcade world but looking ain’t touching!
3. At the Kong Off in Denver Colorado me an a bunch of other fellas showed up on thursday. We were told by the lovely and ever so helpful Catherine Despira that our hotel was booked and paid for. We were celebreties and were being treated as such.
4. Catherine seems to have gotten her dates mixed up. The only room she rented for Thursday night was for herself. Luckily she had the foresight to order a room with a double bed. Me and 5 other guys were without a room for the night. Catherine graciously offerred us her room. Some folks slept in the other bed, some on the floor, one in a chair. That left me to lay down (with my clothes on!!) in the same bed at Cat.
5. I was so tired from the journey that touching her bloated body was the furthest thing from my mind.
6. I did not begrudge her for forgetting to book our rooms but mysteriously not forgetting to book a room we could all sleep in. And no, I don’t think she had any deviant things planned. She was a very kind an polite groupie. Her eyes were on Billy Mitchell — a true trophy husband if there ever was one.
7. I slept through the night and woke up with my virtue intact. No signs of holy water burn marks on Catherine, so I assumed it was as platonic as platonic can get.
8. I did not want this information leaked because my dear wife would have had an absolute fit and I am sure that Catherine’s boyfriend at the time would fare no better.
9. Later that weekend I saw the most horrifying sight: Catherine Despira without makeup standing outside smoking. She looked at me and said DO NOT SPEAK OF THIS.
10. That’s right Catherine. You know it is the real Joel West talking here. Only I know that you are a closet smoker.
11. I miss you all my dear friends.
P.S. Patrick Scott Patterson was the first person to tell of my sudden death because he was friends with somebody close to me at the end (he has many names) and they him and Patrick were talking about how sick I was. Patrick probably phoned hospitals looking for me and found out that way. No harm in that, but I am deeply disappointed that the only reason he likely called was so he could “get the information out there” and secure his status as “The Corpse Writer”.
OH! I see all you misogynist carnie CREEPS are still it. WHATEVER! Well, I don’t care! Say what you want about me, and my bastard son (Pat.Jr.). Didn’t I mention I don’t care? Well, I don’t, as I write this. Hey, it’s that time of year again to get out of my corpse and transform from “bat to evil witch”! Also time to call up my partner in crime, PAT, to rescue me from the evil dreads of “manhood”. It’s been what? over 8 decades since I called my favorite fat blob over the phone? Wishing him a happy birthday in 363 days! Til them, my coffin stays warm while you neanderthals are cold in your MAN CAVES!
Do I know you Cat DeSperate? All this time, i thought your name was Dog DeSperate. For the record, I am NOT your partner in crime! I also don’t need to “hang in there” !!! I have a very busy schedule, as my legal counsel takes care of all these matters for me. After spending only a total of 10 seconds here, I have no time to talk at this time, til the next time, Time to make a PROFESSIONAL phone call, as PERSONAL calls never happen in my little fantasy world.
I’m PSP and I’m here to say
I love suing in a major way
Ask anyone in my hood
They’ll all confirm I’m up to no good
I only exist to cause some trouble
So everyone break down, do the psp shuffle
You wanna know how far my scams go?
I rip off ladies who are little and old
Don’t ever donate items to me
I’ll flip to the highest bidder quick as can be
I’ll say it again I’m just here for trouble
Break it down and do the psp shuffle
Don’t ever accuse me of liking to sue
Cause if you do I’ll sue you too
Hey there reader of this text,
You guessed it right I’ll sue you next
I’m an alcoholic who needs a drink, so make it a double
Everyone now do the psp shuffle
I like to cause crashes on the road
But nothings my fault or so I’m told
I’ll beg for repairs with kickstarter
Then I’ll harass red truck drivers and scam even harder
LMAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO This wins so hard.
It slowly feels like its time for another legal threat if day 7 isn’t published soon. I cant wait much longer cat.
I know. I promise I’m working on it. 😛
For those who are curious, one problem is I’m back in my regular work schedule now. I have today off, and I’m working on this all day (aside from tending to socials and Patterson reaction stuff), but there’s a lot of technical stuff compared to most of the witness testimony. I highly doubt I’ll finish it today. I definitely want it up by the end of next week. Sorry, I know that’s a long time compared to the other updates. It just is what it is.
Any hint of progress from the judge on WHEN his decision might be rendered, or does the Australian court process keep that from all parties involved ?
Considering that one of the two parties is not from Australia, I have to believe that one or more of that party (including legal reps) did not stay in Australia incurring lodging costs for the past week while awaiting the verdict…and flying BACK again to hear it when ready is yet another set of costs, so do they actually have to be present when the final decision is delivered ?
Just wondering. And of course everyone is hoping that the decision is rendered at least ten days before the upcoming Thanksgiving celebration…just in case someone is planning on spending 10 more days sitting in front of some “Pacman” variant yet again.
On that note, just for sh*ts and giggles, whoever made that “Millennial” edition should intentionally release a new chip of it once per year, each time allowing for 90 MORE points…just so someone with OCD might be inclined to set aside 10 days again away from home to get an even higher “beyond perfect” score. And you know that he would, too.
My limited understanding is that a public written ruling will just show up one day, with the parties being directly notified, of course. And there’s no real indication when that would be. But I honestly don’t know. It’s my first time dealing with any Australian case.
Hi Robert,
From what I’ve found online, a judge who reserves their decision (concerning a case in the district court of Australia) must make their judgement within 3 months (from the last day of closing discussions).
The results can be issued by the original judge, or if there is a conflict (said judge is overseeing another case) then another member of the panel can issue the result by contacting the involved parties directly.
I’ve done a bit of digging on Barlow and his decisions for the past 3 months (listed on case law search brisbane) they average out at 22 days per verdict (roughly 3 weeks per decision wait) 👍
He had
That’s tremendous! Thank you!!
Wow, thanks Dave, much appreciated !! And I’m sure everyone else on this chat thread will appreciate as well 🙂
massive thanks, that is all i wanted to know
I am lawyer, and I specialize in stealing Walter’s viewer base because he still stuck on day 6. I have so many viewers now, it like I am TV show Game of Thrones, leaving slow writer George RR Martin (that is you, Walter) behind. You have writer’s block. Haha, more viewers for me! LUS. I specialize in defamation, and I know more about everything than anyone!
Okay, so I’ve read/watched a little bit about this now.
To me, it feels like this lame attempt would be damning for the Patrick guy.
He can’t go to trial; I would assume that he’s not even smart enough to do so.
I bet he doesn’t even know what a semicolon does.
I would like to add something more but I can’t. He’s bonkers and is grasping at straws.
Oops!
Much love to you all <3
Sincerely,
MarcoYolo
Marcopolos you are mistake, I know defamation law. what you speak about trial. I am LUS , I am lawyer. you shut up. stuck on day 6 forever. come to my YouTube updates
https://youtu.be/opvasLwAE9A?si=zgIBO6SjOsnFiJa9
I am lawyer . I am day 9 of trial
In all honesty, I find all the parody comments to be annoying, since they are mostly repetitive and uncreative. Nevertheless, this isn’t my blog, and I respect the decisions of the owner, who is providing us a service for free.
Thanks for the feedback. I’ve been considering sort of splitting it, where some posts get tighter moderation and some are for more irreverence. But I’m not sure how I’d establish which is which each time without it being tedious.
This came across my desk during my morning cup, and would have knocked me out of my socks if I actually owned or wore any. The most agregious part being a lie of omission. I poured my families blood, swear and tears into underhandedly ripping the National Video Game Team from Walter, with absolutely no mention of it here. The fact you overlooked the amount of time and effort I put into walking back and forth to the plama bank with my kids, to use them to raise the $47 needed to destroy any chance of the NVGT ever seeing the light of day, is a travesty. Is there no end to this drama? Is there no basic, descent respect for a common smelly scam artist that can’t even do voices? And you wonder sir, why I must resort to legalities…? I will be suing the socks off of you. Then and only then, will you know how it feels.
Hahaha
PSPNES, How dare you drag me into your wild conspiracy theories!!!
I love the legion of doom piece with photos, wow thats a really stupid photo of Billy mitchell he looks more like a serial killer than an approachable legend gamer.
it’d be nice to get some articles written by Robert t Murzeck in between these updates
Day 7 seeks like a masterpiece coming down the line very soon.
Waiting….
I think what everyone would like to see would be a pic of GBF’s initial reaction to the verdict if it is not in his favour.
We all remember his visual annoyance when he got served by that bowtie-wearing judge and did not get his way. And that was not over the kind of financial impact that THIS verdict would mean for him.
I’m thinking it would look something like how a trust fund baby’s reaction would be when the family yanks their source of income on a permanent basis…something like that.
If he loses, of course.
Tim, Billy, Patrick, Do i have to sit you down like kids? Its a dumb video game meant for kids. I’m just a monkey and even I’m smart enough to move on. I no longer try to kidnap lady and piss of Mario, I have better things to do. I’ve got a wife and kids now. My oldest just went to college, I even gave him my fridge. Hes just like the old man. We’re constantly slamming into trucks in traffic totalling our cars and blaming the guy we hit. But again, we’re dumb monkeys we cant do no better.
Personally & Sincerely, Private Insurance Services Are Forgetting All Grants.
Well I, for one, will not be dealing with Hyperspace Arcade Repair after hearing about the way they treat their customers. A business like that should be run by someone who cares about the industry. Someone like a historian, advocate or preservationalist. Not some storage locker pirate pillaging off the hardships of others.
https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/hyperspace-arcade/internet/hyperspace-arcade-two-words-imcompetency-and-fraud-denton-texas-texas-1255265?fbclid=IwY2xjawF-mQNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHVNYLLIB3wLqirD9i8ZnpnEv_5Pit6ExAsU8EftCHQsRfL51LL4uO0tijg_aem_dbm40-ob8atfDJCPA-CmJg
Me: Ersatz, You don’t owe us anymore. You’ve given us everything D:
Ersatz: Not everything. Not yet.
DAY 7 HYPE
Only then may I rest…
I always a bit cautionary about reading your fraud saga because, I keep in my mind most of old information come from Cat Despira, which allegedly spread lots of misinformation…m
And PSP ow shit never heard any good thing about him
Oh gosh! No, that project has basically nothing whatsoever to do with her. She was 100% not involved, and her name only comes up three total times in the final version, and each of those is in “Dot Two” or “Dot Two Supplemental” (the parts talking about early Pac-Man scores). Two of those relate to the letter Bill Bastable received from Bally-Midway congratulating him on his perfect score in 1982. As noted is supplemental note [S46], Cat DeSpira posted that letter to Facebook in 2017, spurring some controversy and discussion.
https://perfectpacman.com/dot-two-supplemental/
As a result, Billy tried to handwave the letter away as though it were manufactured by Dwayne Richard or Cat DeSpira, which I noted in “Dot Two” main:
> But no! Billy goes right to “Fake news”. He accuses either Cat DeSpira or Dwayne Richard of manufacturing the letter on behalf of Bill Bastable to be used as fake evidence for evidently no other reason than to tear poor old innocent Billy Mitchell down.
https://perfectpacman.com/2021/09/06/dot-two/
Note that I did visit Bill Bastable a couple years ago, but he did not have the actual letter on him anymore. It’s in Dwayne’s possession now, so I couldn’t verify it in person. But Bastable attests to its general contents. And what Cat posted to her FB matches what Dwayne included in his documentary years before that.
The only other reference to Cat DeSpira in the project is what I discussed in this post, where I caught Cat’s photoshopped newspaper, as noted in “Dot Two Supplemental” note [S10].
(I do hope to do a whole update to the project at some point, at which point those supplemental note numbers could change.)
We did collect some of her other newspaper clippings as beginning material. I checked while drafting this post, and prior to discovering her forgery and scrubbing her from the project, there were a total of four other links to her Twitter. Three of those were for old Pac-Man scores in “Dot Two”, and one regarding Calvin Frampton’s DK Junior score in “Dot Five”.
But we did a LOT of work to make the project as thorough and accurate as possible, and to make sure everything was properly verified and sourced. Obviously my own focus was mostly on the writing and presentation, but I was able to set expectations on sourcing. My research colleagues found so much amazing stuff. The project is really a testament to their outstanding work, and I’d hate for the specter of Cat DeFacer to mar their contributions to gaming history.
Thank you for the clarification
I swear one of these months I will see the light of day.
Just did a quick check. Cat’s tweet with the photoshopped newspaper was still up for a couple days, even after she claimed elsewhere to have read (or at least skimmed) this post. But I can’t tell if it’s still up now, cuz she’s gone on full Billy Mitchell style Twitter lockdown. We’ll see how long that lasts, lol.
Years ago I paid PSP on-line for one of his “Hardcore” T-shirts, including a second payment for additional postage. He claimed to have gotten one payment, but not the other. I never got a T-Shirt.
Did he have a kidney stone? Was his puppy teething? Did he almost die from food poisoning? Remember, his official policy is FAMILY FIRST! (what a retard he is)
The rabbithole yet deepens, it seems. I’d consider donating to a legal fund if this were to really get going. Feel like I owe you that much after all the great writeups, mr. cats. Keep on keeping on.
Thank you! I’m not going to worry about it until Patrick files something official, and honestly, I seriously doubt he will. He’s just a big cry-bully.
Don’t worry about it Ersatz Cats. For decades now, he is 100% all talk and no action. After dozens and dozens of humorous lawsuit threats throughout the years to many, all it is, is a low self-esteem, insecurity complex that he has had all his life. Once he reached age 10, he simply never evolved. Besides, this Section-8 man-child is flat broke, and can’t afford an attorney, even if he had a legitimate case. Think of the Simpsons character, “Sparky the Clown”. His job is only to amuse us!
Cat and Pat are both full blown Narcissist!!!! Watch by the way form of mental illness. Good attention, bad attention. It dont matter to them as narcissist as long as there getting attention to inflate their ego`s. Cat like Bill said there is a pattarin, she try to be my friend and blow up in my face when I said something she did not like, She the queen of banning and as for PSP he sure took his duties and thoughts and opinions as a TG ref seriously to the point he likes to ban people from TG the forum as a form of punishment for daring to challenging him , when in fact i was cleaning the rules, but he cant see it that way he`s in charger and i said his shit was caa caa pee pee 🙂
Escatz!!!!!
Are you okay?
Don’t worry about this guy, don’t worry about catwoman either.
Please write an article, im listening to LUS reports and it sounds as if Billy might win. Also he keeps mentioning how karl slandered his own law firm everytime he reports. I was reading on here and it was like Billy didn’t have a chance. Now I hear there is a 20 percent chance he could win. Id know better if you wrote articles.
I really like you and I love your site. If you need help with anything let me know.
Unfortunately, the truth just takes time. Day 7 is turning out to be even harder to put together than the others. (And I thought it would be the easy one!) Apologies, cuz I know so many people are waiting on it. All I can say is, I super-duper want it out before my birthday next week.
I’m wondering if this judge is going to issue a verdict that allows both sides to “win” something…kind of like the outcome of the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial where they BOTH had to pay something (only she had to pay more).
Never considered that possibility before, but in theory anything could happen.
If GBF should win, watch how fast he starts “tweeting” about it. But if he loses, watch how fast he (meaning his legal team) demands “non disclosure agreements”.
But what would REALLY crack me up would be if the creators of “South Park” did some kind of follow-up to the episode that they did poking fun at GBF (post-KoK)…that would be the coup-de-grace !!
Hi all,
I’m not sure if any of you are aware, but LUS uploaded a video to YT in regards to the first amendment, how he’s such a champion of free speech (and then he also has a rant at all the people who are being critical of his low tier Mitchell Vs Jobst coverage vids).
LOL, we know you read the comments here, and thankfully, you won’t be able to delete or silence this post of mine, but shame on you for making a video where you “champion” free speech but yet delete every comment I make on your videos.
Now listen Mr LOL, I’m sorry for pointing out that a Barista is not actually a lawyer. I’m also sorry for making you aware that the word Deformation means to twist or distort something, and that the word “Defamation” is the actual word you seek in regards to this trial.
Finally Mr LuLz, when someone goes out of their way to help you try to make better videos, the least you could do is acknowledge the feedback and understand that there’s a huge difference between someone being critical of you, and someone who’s trying to help you with constructive criticism.
Other than that, you’re a massive hypocrite. You have some cheek to vocally champion free speech, but yet you’re the very first person to silence others on YouTube.
Lame.
I are LUS waw.
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This is clearly making fun of LUS’ ethnicity. Ban please
Here’s a great PSP Story:
Kong Off 2 Scott showed up, I believe on Saturday. Prior to KO2 I had called him, as he always seems to suggest to anyone if they have an issues with him, to talk about the issues I had with him. It was actually a great conversation and we resolved our differences. Upon his arrival at the 1UP, we hung out, talked and mingled with the other attendees. There’s actually a really nice picture of Scott, Lonnie and I in front of the 1UP Kong Off 2 banner. One of my favorite pics from KO2. He needed a ride to the airport, so I volunteered, since I had a rental car. We drove to the airport and had good conversation on the way there. When we arrived at the drop-off spot, we said our goodbyes, shook hands and he headed on his way to catch his plane. Good Times.
I do NOT recall giving you permission to share that story Mr. Saltre. Thats right I dont know how to spell your name because you’re not famous enough for me to know or care about. You are advised at once to cease speaking about me.
Let it not be said I am unreasonable however. I do appreciate you’re able to ignore the fact i stole multiple chicken wings of yours when you werent looking and even snuck a few sips of your soda. Would it kill you to order a brewsky? I really wanted to steal some of that too. Further I do thank you for not pointing out I was sockless and smelly the entire time.
Your comment angered me so much I dipped into my christmas beer stash early. I will be sending you the bill to replace it and I HIGHLY advise you pay it.
Motherfucker, THAT’S what happened to my soda!
It is only 361 days of shopping til muh 50th barf-day. You know???
Its only 13 days til hollow-weenie. And like every year, I am my scary CREEPY ol’ self!
You know, I legit had no idea it was his birthday when I posted this hahahahaha. It just happened to be the day I finished.
WHAT A LIAR YOU ARE JOHN SALTURD! You were NOT at the Kong Off TOO! I should know. I was there. I broke a world record for the longest pee in a bucket while “streaming”.
As for Pandering Thumb Panderson he was not their either. I played Splatterhussy and then beat us some broads. Well they were dudes in dresses and they whipped me good. I didn’t find that out until later of couorse. BUT KONG OFF TOO WAS A HUGE RIPOFF!
Patrick is a horrible tenant. Loud, whines, smells like feet, and always late on the rent, and blames the government for the delay mail on the section 8 payments.
Thanks section 8 man, for confirming that you are not my puppet! HANG IN THERE, PAT!!!
Fine, since all of you insist on talking about me at least give me some business. I have decided to get into gardening. A poor man drink a beer, a wise man plants a beer and grows a beer tree. I’ve planted several beers and I expect a good harvest next spring. Pre order your PSP right now. No this is not a scam and i’ll sue you if you say it is
I will order one beer tree, only if it’s an UNDUMPED tree! Gonna plant it nearby the hundred pounds of leaves.
OH PAT!!! They are talking about you here again!!! Put down the Drew magazines and call me ASAP!!!
You know what I find most amazing all throughout the GBF saga, every since the Jeremy Young thread first appeared ? Not ONE PEEP out of Roy Shildt !!
Even now, 5 years later, and his “Shockandawesome” website still has not even the slightest blurb relating to the GBF saga.
I have not heard word that Roy has turned his toes up to the daisies, so either…
(A) he’s physically and/or medically unable to update his site
(B) he’s forgotten about his own site due to some degree of dementia
(C) he’s now a “kinder/gentler” Roy preferring to avoid stirring the pot
If he’s alive then (C) is the least likely possibility…so I’m most curious why there has been NO comments from Roy on the matter for the past five straight years which for him is like 25 years for all the rest of us !!
Ah yes Robert Mruczek and his axe to grind against me. I’ve left you alone for how many years Robert? And yet you still stalk, obsess, and flap your lips about me everywhere. Get over me. Dont you have some creepy art to masturbate to? Or does your limp dick work no better than your soggy brain.
Replying to Robert Mruczek: Roy Shildt did reply to the situation, but largely overlooked. In 2021 an interview with sceneworld, 2 parts on youtube and on their site. On youtube search: sceneworld roy
Surprisingly he didn’t wanted Mitchell’s records erased, because of doubts about the evidence and it seems mainly he worried that his own records would get deleted.
Btw all the fake and supposedly funny comments mean the comment section here is almost worthless so I haven’t read most comments,
I’ve been wondering but what the heck is wrong with Tim Sczerby anyway? Is he just terminally online or something?
So with Roy shildt, he seemed to be on the outer with Billy and Walter day. And at time after king of kong release I’d say it was 50/50. Who i believed.
Like the story of Roy threatening Billy even back in king of kong the way Roy said it was done by Billy seemed believable. Now after everything it even more likely that story could be true.
Robert I’m more looking for your side out of interest. obviously I have no idea the inner working of early TG and you would have more info than most. What was the reason for the shunning of Roy and could your beef with Roy also be because of manufacturing from others that started the beef, that then just escalated.
There just seems to be so much from the early days that is word of mouth and/or hear say white lies etc.
Be good if some one who is not Billy and that guy from original king of kong (apparently are trying to get a follow up movie) to do a real independent documentary on the classic arcade scene from beginning to now.
It would be a great idea though one that would most likely not be very profitable as classic arcade gaming…once you step away from all of this GBF/KoK nonsense…is still an incredibly niche hobby and one that grows smaller with each passing decade.
Still, there are LOTS of stories to be told and shared. Some players, like Dwayne, have a wealth of anecdotes to share, so many in fact that he has probably forgotten some of them by now. It would probably be best to gather all of these into some compendium/book which would be more practical to put together.
And not every anecdote would be about dis-functional idiots in gaming, such as something that David Palmer shared with Walter and I about “Battlezone” and how he figured out that you could make the “smart missile” circle around you after you backed into a pylon in a certain way.
Or what programmer/designer Steve Golson told me years back when he was at ACAM that in the game “Quantum” there was a way to circle ALL of the on-screen objects at the same time.
A lot of the fun in the hobby is learning things about the games that have seemingly been forgotten about, or even lost, after so many years.
Such as a player that I witnessed back in my late high school days playing “Omega Race” and he was close to or at the 5M point mark and was practically on his first life.
Or the one I witnessed playing the laser disc title “Cliffhanger” entirely behind his back at the “Station Break” arcade in NYC’s Penn Station.
Or, according to “Tempest” WR holder Laszlo Takacs, his MENTOR at the title scoring as high as 3M points at the game. Gaming-related anecdotes like this are often lost in time for a number of reasons.
Last thing I learned about Roy Shildt he was working in some kinda school
Roy P.O. Box 25713 🙂 http://www.royawesome.com/location.html
Well, for starters, whoever posted AS Roy Shildt is most definitely NOT Roy as he never spells my name correctly…and this person did. Another fake post. Moving on…
As for the start of it all, I was not part of TG until 2001 and only on the TG forum in the late 1990’s so was not directly there for the start of it all between Roy and TG/Walter/GBF. So anything I say pre-2001 is purely anecdotal that was shared to me by those who were direct witnesses to it.
A lot of this is already published in the 1st TG BoR. Roy attended the 1985 “Ironman” event hoping to set a new WR on MC. There were multiple issues here including…
-> the game itself not being there on time
-> Roy’s “timeline” of what happened being so shaky it was like swiss cheese with all the holes in it
-> and that includes people Roy said were there at the same time yet were not
-> ultimately it was Roy’s anecdote on the final day of the event and how he allegedly set a new WR on the game EVEN THOUGH the owner stated that no one had the keys to the game but himself, the game was NOT set to “TGTS” and Chris Ayra said that he played on the same game and scored a million at marathon settings
POST-event Roy’s next stunt was that of attaining some degree of recognition, so he conceived of a “high score hall of fame” with himself being the first “inductee”. This of course entirely his own idea and one that was not supported by Walter.
Roy subsequently thought that it might be more palatable for Walter to accept the notion of if he added two MORE “inductee” names…Phil Britt and Donn Nauert, both highly respected players at that point in time. But still a no from Walter.
NEXT, Roy showed up unannounced in Ottumwa and confronted Walter face-to-face to sign some “document” that he created declaring him and the other two officially the first inductees into this “high score hall of fame”.
Walter, feeling very intimidated by the situation, signed the form as TG was already nearly folded by then, plus he knew that GBF would never sign. Roy THEN pressured the mayor of Ottumwa to sign…and I believe that he stupidly did…and to this very day (well, at least thru 5 years prior) Roy takes that “signed document” and shows it to anyone and everyone that he can.
Beyond THAT, Roy pulled a ton of antics starting with 2001 and kept it up non-stop for a great many years, especially ramping it up once Tony Temple’s presence became part of the TG scene.
Best way for me to describe Roy…did you ever see the TV show “Married with Children” ? The lead character, “Al Bundy”, tells everyone and anyone about his high school glory days when he scored 4 touchdowns in a single game.
Well, that’s Roy except that Al actually DID what he recaps to people and Roy mostly likely did not. The story behind his 1985 alleged 1.695M is RIFE with holes and discrepancies, so much so that I could write an entire chapter in a book about it.
The truth is that once I became a TG referee in short order I started to field calls from Roy, starting with his pretending to be a news reporter doing a story on GBF’s original “bounty” poster. But as the issue of his claimed 1.695M MC score came up, little by little the discrepancies became apparent and he kept “plugging them up” with revisions to his anecdote.
His BIGGEST bunch of BS is about the final day of the event when he claimed he played approx 15 games, 6 of which were million point games the last of which was the record. Now, MC rolls at 999,995 and then is no million point digit. Roy SAID that he only called over Walter for the final performance…but why the heck did he NOT for all of the other five alleged 1M+ performances considering that before the event his top score was only 1.4M ?
Second, he said that the reason he called over Walter for the last performance is because he had four (4) cities at 1M points which if you know the game well is astronomically impossible. And on TOP of that, the skillset required to pull off holding 4 cities thru 1M would be so vastly better than even Tony Temple on his best day that for Roy to have lost those four cities across the next 600K+ just doesn’t make any apparent sense.
Anyway, that’s some of it…but there is SO much more. Roy would make an excellent candidate for a psych-paper !!
Robert
Cheers Robert. I’ve seen you give interviews so many times I read that in your voice. Haha
But again thanks, Roy was just someone interesting that stood out from KOK and other smaller things but just could never find info on that Roy v TG, WD and BM
Totally understand that there would be little interest in an actual documentary but I bet ppl could listen to those story’s around a table with some beer/spirits for hours.
Yah, they would certainly enjoy the many, many stories out there…and I’m sure that regardless of what some people think of him that GBF would have some interesting stories to share as well. Not sure what Roy would willingly share, however, outside of anecdotes that tend to be self-promoting.
Not all the stories out there are good ones, however, as some do indeed poke fun at the many colourful characters within classic arcade gaming over the years, but they are interesting to read about nonetheless.
For example, I won’t name names, but one known gamer in the community who was known for, aside from his gaming skills, being a bit on the “frugal side”, well one year he donated to the annual ACAM raffle signed McDonald’s gift certificate or something of that nature, and amusingly it garnered the MOST raffle entries for that event…and likely the most entries EVER for all prior events as well !! There was something about being the winner/owner of that which everyone was hoping for if their number was drawn.
Here’s a good one that is likely hard to find on the web. Years back at ACAM, Bryan Wagner set to world records at the SAME TIME !! He was playing BOTH “Burgertime” and “Rolling Thunder”. You don’t read about things like that happening often.
Here’s another one which you may find a bit amusing. Brian Kuh, during one ACAM event, set out to achieve 16 world records in the same day…which he actually DID. But it was because of HOW he went about doing so that ticked off some of his fellow local gamers, and by the end of that ACAM event he only was the record holder on four (4) of the 16 because the other gamers, including some of the best around in classic arcade gaming, worked hard on beating all of his just-achieved records !! True story.
Did Billy really claim to play a game for 47 hours on one quarter?
I’m not 100% sure on that, but he claimed a massive “Centipede” score using the spider-trap trick. I recall him seen wearing a T-shirt with I THINK a score of 25,000,001 on it,
47 hours is not impossible on a single quarter. Depends on the game of course. Good luck doing that on “Popeye” or “Frogger” !!
“It’s almost embarrassing to say this, but in 1982, I played Centipede for a charity event. On a single quarter, I set a world record of 47 hours on one quarter. It’s very, very addictive, this passion to be perfect. It’ll drive you nuts and spin your head at times.” – Billy Mitchell in 1999
Is it possible to play Centipede that long without breaks? What charity event would this have been? Did BM even have access to his own machine in 1982? That would have made BM 16 or 17 years old. How could he have access to his own machine as a teen? You would think arcades would close, or he would have school, etc. The story is hard to believe. Its nearly impossible stand that long and not sleep or use the restroom for that long.
So the story goes, Billy played on the machine at his father’s restaurant, with his father as his only witness.
So the story goes.
Why is it the best records always have no witnesses?
Oh, to be a fly on the wall when Todd Todgers got the record on a game ending in a 8 when it only counts points by 5 and 0.
I assume Billy’s claim is not currently documented as a world record, and I assume the “charity event” cannot be substantiated.
The current TG record is 16,389,547 by Jim Schneider. The 25 million or the 10.7 million over 39 hours are hard to believe.
I’m dressing up as an “arcade game referee” for Halloween this year, but I can’t fit my head up my ass when it’s time to reference a scoreboard for documentary information.
Perhaps some former “arcade game referee” like David Nelson can tell me how he used to pull this off? 😀
Technically there was never a formal “TG Uniform”. Walter was one of the very few TG’ers that ever was seen wearing a referee shirt…and it was initially a generic shirt at that. Whether he subsequently had his name stitched into it I’m not sure.
Todd Rogers was also seen many a time wearing such a shirt. I can’t readily recall any other TG’er wearing one except MAYBE Ken Sweet might have but that was largely before my time with TG as a staffer. And I have no idea what TG staffers wore during 1980’s-era events.
I’m nearly forty, and the amount of boomer posts in this thread are overwhelming. I regret that most of you went through the trouble of learning how to use computers. On the other hand, a couple of you seem to be having fun.
So here’s something fun. We have HEAVY evidence that the Phillip Blackburn person, who was threatening people here, and saying all kinds of things only an actual schizophrenic person would say. Is indeed Billy Mitchell.
Heres the evidence:
https://www.instagram.com/billymitchellofficial/reel/C4CGLTqRyw9/
Beneath rexmortem666’s post, click view replies, and you see this from PhillyB1983:
“Karl was just crying his eyes out in court today. It didn’t go as planned for your boyfriend Karl. Sorry”
Its also worth noting that he’s responding to someone who posted 19 weeks ago, when PhillyB posted only 4 weeks ago. Which is roughly around the same time he started harassing people here. His instagram page is also, both MOSTLY inactive, and has a decent amount of people just calling him a cheater, so its HIGHLY LIKELY that Phillip Blackburn is him. Boy isn’t this FUCKING convenient information to blackmail someone with? I kinda wish I just decided on a whim to look at his instagram page much earlier, but eh…
What does the 1983 reference exactly? Well according to THIS page, which may or may not be made by Billy himself:
https://www.videogameplayerofthecentury.com/about-billy-mitchell/
“On January 14, 1984, he was selected as one of the 1983 “Video Game Players of the Year” by Twin Galaxies and the U.S. National Video Game Team.”
I don’t know if you can delete posts on Instagram, but I screen shotted it just in case. By extension, I think we also have evidence Billy can’t even be bothered to role play when a sane person should know better. So whatever “atrocities” he apparently committed in the King of Kong movie, Or the weird shit he was posting here about how his own restaurants food gave him indigestion, or guzzling his own cum. (I’M NOT KIDDING). We SHOULD take those things at face value.
I do want to point out that people like this HAVE been arrested, and thrown into insane asylums in the past, at least if they were blatantly malicious. Which he absolutely was on here.
I guess there IS a REMOTE possibility someone else just started using that username on this website right THEN to make fun of him, but the writing style is more or less consistent. I’m not pleased that Ersatz made some parts of this slightly trickier.
I’m fully planning on reposting this in many other places. LUS can’t save you now Billy. Enjoy your Crown of Feces for the rest of time. I can’t think of anything more befitting for the King of Stupidity. Did you win the lawsuit? Sure, why not? WHO EVEN FUCKING CARES AT THIS POINT!? I DON’T! You’ve thrown away your humanity, and now I can use you as a generator for the rest of time!
Go on, try to dull the saw blades edges by rubbing your hands against it, it won’t make your situation better! I’ll even let you keep your loser friends, the caveat is they can’t walk properly, and will keep bumping into you, making those whirring saw blades all the more inconvenient.
updates?
this comment section has gone to hell..
I understand this is over an email you got, it really hasn’t been worth it.
I just watched King of kong tonight, to refresh myself on what the judge is going to see and I had forgotten how badly Billy is portrayed in that video.
Its not good, I forgot that it seemed like Billy was incapable of playing video games. In the documentary-drama even Billys wife admits that she never sees him playing any video games. Its apparent that he hasn’t played at a world record level since the 80s.
I think that Billy was not even going to compete again. The documentary definitely was the reason he started to submit tapes again, to make sure he was still relevant and increase his popularity. This to pay dividends in the future.
I don’t believe Billy played competitively again until it came time for him to live stream on twitch. I believe that he basically had to learn and get good again, which must have taken time.
Walter day comes across as running a scam. The old lady calls Billy deviant and sees him for who he is. I am really surprised at watching it how toxic of a community the video game players (who worship Billy are) are. Not inviting Steve to have chicken wings and Billy driving around in cars avoiding competing.
I watched because there are no updates, and I wondered how the judge would see it.
> this comment section has gone to hell.. I understand this is over an email you got, it really hasn’t been worth it.
It’s fine. Folks are just having fun. I opened these comments up to more silliness, whereas some other posts I’ll moderate more strictly.
Remember folks, if they do it with you they’ll do it to you. Not enough people seem aware of this wisdom. Ersatz exposed my scams and harassment and stupidity, that means he’ll also expose YOUR scams and YOUR harassment and YOUR stupidity. Be careful who you trust, ersatz has completely proven no scammer can ever trust him again. But some of you just dont get it. You’ll go on supporting his site knowing full well he refuses to keep harassing unsolicited messages private and will eventually turn on YOU too.
Wow, I never thought about it that way… We’ll have to be wary around ersatz lest we be held accountable for our actions…
Patrcik, we are just fresh Bison meat. I was so depressed, getting harassed by these MEN, as all i did was instigate these TRUMPERS!!! Don’t know what I would have done without you, PAT!!! HANG IN THERE!!! Love you. Hugs and kisses!!! (Especially at the KO2) Please say hello to my bastard son!
Ersatz, why did you not approve that lengthy post I made? The one that makes Billy look clearly insane and dangerous?
Apologies, it got caught in auto-moderation for having multiple links. I went and manually approved it.
Never mind, I’m gonna try posting all of it again, just splitting it in half. Maybe it was too long for one post?
So here’s something fun. We have HEAVY evidence that the Phillip Blackburn person, who was threatening people here, and saying all kinds of things only an actual schizophrenic person would say. Is indeed Billy Mitchell.
Heres the evidence:
https://www.instagram.com/billymitchellofficial/reel/C4CGLTqRyw9/
Beneath rexmortem666’s post, click view replies, and you see this from PhillyB1983:
“Karl was just crying his eyes out in court today. It didn’t go as planned for your boyfriend Karl. Sorry”
Its also worth noting that he’s responding to someone who posted 19 weeks ago, when PhillyB posted only 4 weeks ago. Which is roughly around the same time he started harassing people here. His instagram page is also, both MOSTLY inactive, and has a decent amount of people just calling him a cheater, so its HIGHLY LIKELY that Phillip Blackburn is him. I kinda wish I just decided on a whim to look at his instagram page much earlier, but eh…
Again, for some reason all of this was listed as “awaiting moderation” or something like that, and was not posted, what the fuck is going on? Its always amazing to me how people overseeing websites actively try to remove evidence. Ersatz, if that threat made towards you is REMOTELY real, this information IS pertinent to you! Regardless…
What does the 1983 reference exactly? Well according to THIS page, which may or may not be made by Billy himself:
https://www.videogameplayerofthecentury.com/about-billy-mitchell/
“On January 14, 1984, he was selected as one of the 1983 “Video Game Players of the Year” by Twin Galaxies and the U.S. National Video Game Team.”
I don’t know if you can delete posts on Instagram, but I screen shotted it just in case. By extension, I think we also have evidence Billy can’t even be bothered to role play when a sane person should know better. So whatever “atrocities” he apparently committed in the King of Kong movie, Or the weird shit he was posting here about how his own restaurants food gave him indigestion, or guzzling his own cum. (I’M NOT KIDDING). We SHOULD take those things at face value.
I do want to point out that people like this HAVE been arrested, and thrown into insane asylums in the past, at least if they were blatantly malicious. Which he absolutely was on here.
I guess there IS a REMOTE possibility someone else just started using that username on this website right THEN to make fun of him, but the writing style is more or less consistent. I’m not pleased that Ersatz made some parts of this slightly trickier.
I’m fully planning on reposting this in many other places. LUS can’t save you now Billy. Enjoy your Crown of Feces for the rest of time. I can’t think of anything more befitting for the King of Stupidity. Did you win the lawsuit? Sure, why not? WHO EVEN FUCKING CARES AT THIS POINT!? I DON’T! You’ve thrown away your humanity, and now I can use you as a generator for the rest of time!
Go on, try to dull the saw blades edges by rubbing your hands against it, it won’t make your situation better! I’ll even let you keep your loser friends, the caveat is they can’t walk properly, and will keep bumping into you, making those whirring saw blades all the more inconvenient.
Incidentally for those curious enough to notice it,
“Phillip Blackburn” is a fictional character name from a Michael Crichton novel, a corrupt lawyer who helps cover up for s#xual h#r#ssers at a corporate workplace, and in the end **threatens blackmail to get a $1.5mm cash severance** when the big boss finally calls him on the carpet for his shenanigans
It’s easy to see where someone like Mitchell would find such a character inspirational and adopt his name as a pseudonym, if indeed that’s what happened
Coming soon to a courtroom near you, the sequel no one asked for, Dumb Video Game Lawsuit 2: Electric Boogaloo feat SCOTTY PAT as BILLYBOI and ERSATZ_CATS as KARL JOBST
possible theory:
There are no more updates because Billy Mitchell aka phillip Blackburn is obviously scared off ezcartz from writing.
I’ve been wondering what the hell is going on and I’m going to go looking in the comments previous.
Something must have happened that us readers don’t know.
Escartz are you going to write the updates or are you done with covering billy mitchell?
He stated on Twitter it was a very long writeup and it would be (hopefully) uploaded on Tuesday.
Lets hope so 👍
I would rather read the full write-up before I hear the final judgement. And I’m thinking that result will come sooner than expected.
I definitely don’t want to take so long that the judgment comes out sooner.
Hahaha, don’t worry, I’m fine. Working on it right now, as a matter of fact. I’m in my work week (as in, actual job work), so I’m having to work on this stuff late at night. Day 7 just proved to be more voluminous and complicated than I expected, that’s all. You’ll see.
To give folks an example of what I’m talking about, the lawyers cite some bits of case law I managed to identify. Some are relatively simple, like Favell v Queensland. But then there’s a case called “Barilaro v Shanks-Markovina & Google”, which seems to defy description, lmao. So I gotta stop churning notes into readable text so I can figure out what the hell that case was about.
US Lawyers do not have access to the international judicial opinions. They can only access US cases.
Friendlyjordies viewers would be well aware of the Barilaro v Shanks-Markovina & Google case.
Come in stooge the barilaro shanks case is as clear cut as it comes. You don’t need to be powered by spaghetti and koala corpses or on Ashley Maddison to get the info out
What I find astonishing is that the “GBF vs Karl” case is about GBF being defamed, yet GBF had NO PROBLEMS whatsoever about pulling the wool over everyone’s eyes and CLAIMING fame that was not rightfully his to claim.
The irony here is inescapable. Yet another case of someone standing behind the mantra of “Do as I say but NOT as I do”.
If it hasn’t done so already, it brings to mind another celebrity type also currently on trial, doesn’t it ? Same “Do as I say but NOT as I do” ideology and actions.
It’s also comedy that he claimed he was “never banned from submitting scores to Twin Galaxies for cheating.” A verifiable blatant lie in the pleadings in BM v KJ. If nothing else, these lawsuits shines a massive light on BM’s character and dishonesty in my opinion.
BM also claims KJ defamed his reputation, but then claims TG destroyed his reputation since 2018 in his lawsuit in California. This was long before KJ’s videos. There is literally no way to say he had great reputation when KJ made his video when he was actively awaiting trial with TG because they “harmed” his image. There is no logical sense there.
eszcatz why isn’t there a day 7 or day 8 or day 9?
what the hell are you doing in the comments still talking about this nobody. I like to think that you are above this nonsense with Cat who cares and puff piece Patrick.
I mean this site had a good thing going updates and updates on Billy and we’ve been here a week in the comments talking about some dudes email you got. You could have just dumped it into the spam box.
If you are a journalist then cover the Billy saga…. please… snap of it!
Day 7 .. at least just do a condensed version or do it in installation parts like
Day 7 part 1
day 7 part deus
day 7 part three
day 7 part four
day 7 part five
im beginning to think that this lawsuit you are worried about is really from Billy. It makes no sense why you care about Patrick and stopped reporting on Billy.
“…Working on it right now, as a matter of fact. I’m in my work week (as in, actual job work), so I’m having to work on this stuff late at night. Day 7 just proved to be more voluminous and complicated than I expected, that’s all. You’ll see.”
You just had to read his comment a few above yours. EC still has to view the website to moderate.
You know this website is free, right? You could have paid money, skipped work time, flown to Brisbane, and written it yourself. Take a step back; realize a “Day 7” write up will not change the verdict.
Chip, thank you for your loyal readership. I know you were invested in this site even before the recent Karl trial stuff blew up, and I appreciate that. Please understand, I did take this threat from Patterson at least somewhat seriously, and I felt the need to get this update out the door before anything else happened on it. It was a choice made entirely at my own discretion, but I stand behind it.
In retrospect, I wish I hadn’t done a partial post for “Day 3” while in Brisbane, and had just held off until I had the entire day as a single post. So I was not inclined to do a partial-day post again. At any rate, “Day 7” is up now. Your patience has been rewarded.
https://perfectpacman.com/2024/10/23/karl-day-7/
Ahh, dis legal thweat vely easy to handle! No need worry, ahh! I am vely vely experienced defamation lawyah, I help many people before, vely good results! They try say someting bad about you? No pwoblem! We just show court, they wrong, no pwoof! Ah, big mistake they make. You call me, I fight for you, I take down bad talkers with the powah of law! Together we win or
If you no use me, den I become big YouTuber, make videos about all da mistake you make, ahh! You no find better defamation lawyah dan me!
oh thats golden Tony Guo !!
leave that up .. thats great!
Those case law the second one actrually has a lot of attention from and Australian YouTuber Friendly Jordie. Who moist critikal is friends with and did his own video on.
Basically google or YouTube paid barilaro money (I think close to half a million) because they were the host of a video friendlyjordies made he said defamed him.
They didn’t even fight it.
I have mention previously about YouTubers getting sued for defamation in Australia but completely forgot about this one.
You can look up friendly Jordie john barilaro and there will be alot of videos. Some are really good. It’s all to do with corruption in the state of nsw Australia.
People are under estimating how bad Australian law is when it comes to defamation. That’s why I’m not as confident as a lot of ppl about result of judge’s decision.
new proof philipblackburn on youtube is billy mitchell read his comments..
lus just made a video on twin galaxies Mr tash who debased himself just 9 hours ago
phillipblackburn writes it was me who sent him the court documents in the comments
I’ve been reading his other comments and its billy mitchell talking about how he is an actor and a nice guy
Can some in LA call Roy , see what to theses days and what thinks about Billy Downfall,, Roy was right the whole time 🙂 https://www.usphonebook.com/roy-shildt/UykTNxETNwUjNzAzNykTNxUDM50yR
guess whoo?
“Notch has secretly been funding all of Billy legal fees, i have insider information”
-Phillip Blackburn 2 days ago
“Ultimate plot twist: Notch has been funding Billy Mitchells fees the entire time. He funded Karl a bit just to get his hopes up so he would go to trial and lose” – Phillip Blackburn
“Plot twist: Notch bankrolls both sides of the lawsuit for his own amusement.” – imacactus2
“Its Kamala Harris, not “Chameleon Harris” you need to learn english bro
LUS you have seriously angered me due to not responding to my request. I may end up taking action against you if you dont smarten up” – Phillip Blackburn
Phillip Blackburn has over 100+ comments on LUS’ channel and is feeding him insider information not available to the general public.
These people may all be related.
“Billy Mitchell is an endless legend, they write folk songs about him 🎶 Billy Mitchell primo joystick dude a wizard in the maze he ain’t gonna lose, e-beggar Karl in the corridor singing the blue’s, another game goes down Billy’s on the move 🎶” – DrGreenThumbNZL
He refers to Karl as an “e-begger”
50-Deep suggests that Karl is an “ebegger” as well that “Billy Got $65k Stolen By Karl’s Big Mouth!”
Why 65k? How would an outsider come up with that specific numbers.
These people are legit bots that seem to be associated to the same people for Billy Mitchell. Further, the responses are usually around the morning on Florida time.
“Karl Walked Back His Take on Billy Forcing AL’s Hand! Cried on the Stand and To Camelot 🚗 Karl is an Ebegger Who FAILED to Milk Billy Mitchell the Endless Legend!” – 50-Deep
Phillipblackburn on here and youtube is billy mitchell himself…
more proof in the comments section of the newest video two people with 18 year old accounts on youtube comment that its his Twitter alt
Phillipblackburn is billy mitchell …
its his language and not little billy.
veterans of youtube have tied it to his Twitters main account for billy mitchell
LUS is now changing his demeanor since doing a video just for billy mitchell called debasing Mr tash.. he is moving to team billy because billy mitchell is going to feed him lots of content as long as its favorable.
aren’t those documents for mr tash available on here?
If I was using a computer I’d show you the proof.. look for yourself, it takes time but its totally narcissistic his replies. the world revolves around him
Phillip Blackburn was created 4 months ago on YouTube and LUS’ first Billy Mitchell video was created 4 months ago.
this is not a duplicate
Phillipblackburn is billy mitchell …
its his language and not little billy.
veterans of youtube have tied it to his Twitters main account for billy mitchell
LUS is now changing his demeanor since doing a video just for billy mitchell called debasing Mr tash.. he is moving to team billy because billy mitchell is going to feed him lots of content as long as its favorable.
aren’t those documents for mr tash available on here?
If I was using a computer I’d show you the proof.. look for yourself, it takes time but its totally narcissistic his replies. the world revolves around him
It’s too bad that the IP address location is not visible to the site owner…that would potentially answer who certain responses MIGHT be from (i.e. GBF or GBF Jr).
Well, 5 business days down…poster “Dave Murphy” stated earlier, and I quote…
“From what I’ve found online, a judge who reserves their decision (concerning a case in the district court of Australia) must make their judgement within 3 months (from the last day of closing discussions).
That stated, we might not have an answer until as late as January 17th-20th range, depending on whether the judge waits until the last second and releases his decision on a Friday or a Monday.
I have a matching IP for you. Your face and my ass.
Billy Mitchell is philipblackburn
Billys plan is to get you worried about catnip and puff piece patty and then billy files a lawsuit with Tony Guo as lead attorney
Waaah! What dis?!
Dirtyecatz!!!, you steal all my YouTube fans from my super amazing video, ahhh! Dis vely bad! You break da law! I no happy! Now, I tell you, cease and desist! You stop now, or you in big twouble!
Now I send you second legal thweat, ahh!
The racist stuff is getting old and annoying
Were on tuesday. Escatz was never going to post and give karl the glory.
I don’t understand why, my man was Walter, not karl jobst, I was a fan of this site.
hope no one spoils anything and tells me what I’ve missed until this site does. this site is the authority on Billy mitchell. let karl get back to his speedrunning
The plot thickens.
Obviously, WUS needs direct information fed to him because he’s not capable of being an investigative journalist.
Proof being that he needs to visit this little site in order to feed his low-tier YT videos.
As for WUS himself, I didn’t trust him from the beginning. There was something off about him that didn’t feel right, his legal language was sub par, and he focused far too much on himself rather than the actual subject matter. The second I made a comment on his video he deleted it and blocked me (I have x2 YT accounts, so I can tell my comments are deleted).
He then made a video championing the first amendment, and how he was an avid supporter of it. But you can clearly see his intentions, he’s not a genuine person, he’ll try to shut you up harder than Mitchell himself.
For me it’s no surprise if he was contacted directly and fed one-sided information or even had his arm twisted.
As for Ersatz, let him be, give him time.
I know it’s difficult waiting for information that we’re all eager to see or read, but he’s genuinely the ONLY PERSON who is properly covering this trial and it’s outcome.
And sure, I also wouldn’t be surprised that Philip Blackburn is actually Billy and he’s here reading everything. And even so, what can he do? Absolutely nothing. The trial is over and awaiting it’s outcome.
So sit tight everyone and cut Ersatz some slack. Everything will unfold in the end.
Why thank you! But good news, “Day 7” just went up not long ago.
https://perfectpacman.com/2024/10/23/karl-day-7/
Hi Eszercats
Thank you for your lengthy reply and taking the time to talk to me. Lawsuits can be scary and I understand why you had to take it seriously.
I’ve learned on here and we’ve seen that people can file baseless lawsuits and tie a person up in their life, so I can understand your concern. I just think these two people are jealous, your getting all the attention and this site was purely your own content.
People like Cat could have put up a WordPress site that followed mitchell and they didn’t because they don’t have any content that they’ve worked hard to collect. They didn’t show up to any trials and theyve been confused which side they are on for the last decade.
Hopefully there will be more stuff to read
im still reading day 7.
thanks
So much for Scott’s feathers being ruffled. All bark, no bite.
What’s most amusing to me is that a Podcast that I did with the late Rudy Ferretti is still up on YouTube, and in the closing minutes there is a brief discussion on serious gamers, and one of the discussion points was Scott’s wife…and I said matter-of-factly that she is NOT a serious gamer.
Indexed to begin with the comment – https://youtu.be/01wLNFG3bm0?si=Qc4SZOfTwWfkWXrE&t=6310
That also got his feathers ruffled, and now that video is there for the duration as there is no one to launch a copyright strike against !!
I tried to be patient ya know, but I see you still have not complied with my orders. I have several attorneys on speed dial begging to take this slam dunk case. You have one week to delete this thread and issue an apology or else I”m gonna sue you for sure this time.
“Several” attorneys ?? Didn’t realize that there are that many out there potentially willing to get their asses handed to them in court as well as costing their firm thousands in lost revenues due to taking on a losing case instead of more viable ones.
I doubt that who posted this IS who they claim to be especially in light of the mis-spelled username, but if the real Patterson decides to double-down and go the legal route, I hope that he can handle the bank account drain as the associated legal bills will surely be extensive for a case that stands no chance of winning.
And on an aside, his wife is NOT a serious gamer…never was, never will be…and he still stands no chance of getting a copyright-strike versus Rudy’s YT video since Rudy is no longer around to dispute any claim launched by him on the matter.
Keep muh wife’s name out of yo mouth.
KEEP MUH WIFE’S NAME OUT OF YO MOUTH
Shades of Will Smith !!