Twin Galaxies - Upright Arcade Cabinet Autism

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Robert Mruczek
  • Ended up quitting Twin Galaxies due to an ethics situation in 2006 (something to do with a slapfight involving a Missile Command high score). Basically became super rich making some sort of accounting software and ended up retiring and eating pizza, watching VHS speedruns and playing vidya (as documented in The King of Kong documentary)
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In the Chasing Ghosts documentary, Mruczek reveals that he has ordered around $300k of porn. That's a conservative estimate, he points out.
 
Spellskite said:
In the Chasing Ghosts documentary, Mruczek reveals that he has ordered around $300k of porn. That's a conservative estimate, he points out.
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>ordered around $300k of porn
>ordered around $300k of porn
>ordered around $300k of porn
:story:
 
Must be some really good porn if it's worth spending the equivalent of a really nice house on.
 
Super Collie said:
Must be some really good porn if it's worth spending the equivalent of a really nice house on.
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tehpope said:
>ordered around $300k of porn
>ordered around $300k of porn
>ordered around $300k of porn
:story:
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I can see if I can grab some screencaps from it, I watched it twice in a stream because it was so fun. I'm talking wacky porn, too (one was some Bewitched shit, one was a werewolf chasing a naked woman, one was a topless angel that looked like something from a Magic: the Gathering parody).

The best part was that they cut directly from showing his porn to another guy's poster of a cat, basically going from pussy to pussy; the editors clearly were having a good time with their subject matter.
 
That has to be thousands of Porno tapes. I don't think any person in their life time can watch that much porn, without just watching it every waking hour of their lives.
 
Spellskite said:
In the Chasing Ghosts documentary, Mruczek reveals that he has ordered around $300k of porn. That's a conservative estimate, he points out.
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Imagine having enough spare money to throw around just on your pathetic sex life that you could buy multiple mail-order brides (or pick up any gold-digging whore) or have hundreds of rendezvous(es?) with the best escorts money can buy and instead spending it all on blurry porn tapes to jack off to in your bedroom.
 
Twin Galaxies' current focus is actually esports. Jace Hall has a grand and confusing vision for expanding TG into an esports league/intermediary and tried and failed to crowdfund some weird, nebulous gaming-related social media platform which is what led to them falling in with Daybreak Games (formerly SOE), the creators of H1Z1: King of the Kill. KOTK (now just called H1Z1) is the battle royale spinoff of SOE's failed DayZ knockoff and ironically enough they hired the future creator of PUBG to program it. It was extremely popular until continued poor decision making nuked the playerbase and allowed PUBG and Fortnite to take over. It's hanging on by a thread now.

Anyway, they helped manage several LAN events, qualified players for one of them (which the pros fucking hated because it was cumbersome and arbitrary) and organise a weekly stream event called Tauntfest where viewers had a chance to win a Twin Galaxies skin that sold for $500+ on skin trading sites, which is the only reason anyone cares. Most notably, they used their connections to pull in Rick Fox's esports team (Echo Fox) to help promote a $300,000 LAN event (Fight For The Crown) that aired on The CW last April. It was god awful and the winning team got leaked weeks in advance despite a brutal NDA.

They're currently helping Daybreak organise the H1Z1 Pro League (their vain final attempt at making competitive H1 work; nearly all the pros have left for PUBG and Fortnite) but nobody knows what it is they do that ESL, PGL or EL don't already do better.

I don't know if TG has partnered with any other publishers, but they're definitely trying: The two job openings they have are for brand and esports management.
 
tehpope said:
That has to be thousands of Porno tapes. I don't think any person in their life time can watch that much porn, without just watching it every waking hour of their lives.
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When you're rich, retired, and hanging around, you probably just have porn on a background monitor somewhere at any given time of day.
 
tehpope said:
That has to be thousands of Porno tapes. I don't think any person in their life time can watch that much porn, without just watching it every waking hour of their lives.
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From what I remember its vintage/art porn and not just tapes or DVDs. So its actually probably still worth a decent amount. It's pin-up art (more adult rated than it normally is).

(NSFW warning, you see some tee tee and vegen):

The piece in that video he commissions is by Hajime Sorayama (at least that's what the name sounds like):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajime_Sorayama

There's also this link where his previous works have sold at auction (and their prices):
https://www.invaluable.com/artist/sorayama-hajime-ob9f66ruso/sold-at-auction-prices/

So it may not be a hobby that everyone can care about and it may be autistic, but it isn't exactly just collecting lego and amiibos. And in his defence, he at least pays for it all with an honest job.
 
(making this a separate post because its a very different tangent)

In this video Robert Mruczek says that at some point after he quit because of ethics issues, Walter Day told Billy Mitchell to fuck himself and that he was no longer a board member, fired the lawyer/attorney who was doing probono work and a bunch of shit.

Interesting reading about Robert:
http://www.mtv.com/news/1524620/gamings-top-ref-pays-big-bucks-for-record-breaking-scores/
http://archive.fo/bSYaR

There is indeed a good deal of dust in the headquarters/bedroom of the senior arcade referee of Twin Galaxies, the 25-year-old collective of gaming enthusiasts and referees that serves as the closest thing to an official video game record-keeping organization. This room, where Mruczek verifies video game records by scrutinizing the videotaped efforts of gamers from around the world, is cluttered with gaming systems, a TV with rabbit ears, binders of classic trading cards, assorted fantasy tchotchkes (including a statue of a white tiger) and six different editions of one of Mruczek's favorite books, the Rambo-spawning "First Blood."
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Saying that Mruczek knows gaming is like saying Stephen Hawking knows about time and space. He says the maximum score possible in "Pole Position" is common knowledge and, as far as he knows, no one has ever reached it. He knows how "Ms. Pac-Man" ends: at level 133, after which the player will see either one, two, three, four or eight glitch screens. "We've never seen five, six or seven," he says. "That would be big news for Ms. Pac-Man." He was once quizzed by a radio show, being asked to listen to someone playing a mystery video game. He didn't just correctly guess the game ("Space Invaders") or the version (Atari 2600). He says he counted the sounds of the explosions and guessed the score within 30 points.
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In 2005 he and a few other Twin Galaxies referees posted challenges for more than 150 games, with over $20,000 in potential winnings. They offered $150 for the fastest completion (without dying) of "Halo 2" on the hardest difficulty mode; $300 for a new "Pole Position" world record; and $1,000 for reaching the "Frogger" score claimed by George Costanza in an episode of "Seinfeld."
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His companies profile (keep in mind its a serious accounting company) of him also had this picture:
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https://www.doremus.com/people/robert-mruczek/ (website is down and no archive copy available)

All in all seems like probably one of the more level-headed people in the Twin Galaxies empire and quit many years ago over ethics issues.

Also here's a pretty autistic website about Twin Galaxies autism:
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http://spyhunter007.com/walter_day_conversations.htm
http://archive.fo/pSMbR
 
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Twin galaxies has disavowed Todd and Guinness World Records all revoked titles held completely.

24 hour ops completed :pinetar:

 
Detective_Exceptional said:
It's so shocking how much Twin galaxies based its reputation on a guy who has possibly fabricated over 1700 runs. Is this what kills the credibility of Spedrunners?
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Old timey 80s speedruns, sure. Nowadays, speedruns are from much different sites and the rules are led by their categories and some shit is actually pretty interesting (I recommend watching Summoning Salt's video), albeit still has it's fair share of 'tism.
 
Wait, is Todd's closet full of spiders okay? Did anyone think of how this will effect the spiders?
 
Munchingonfish said:
Fair share? It's all autism.
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These aren't even really speedruns. TG is about high score, which almost nobody gives a shit about anymore. All this proved is how far TG was willing to go to hang onto their reputation as pioneers within the industry.

I'll take all the autism of GDQ over people so pathetic that they'll lie about high scores in video games for an ego trip.
 
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