It’s not about “sharing views”, it’s about being someone who people can watch without being slightly appalled by, and given how skeevy Bialik is, including that she is CURRENTLY shilling snake oil of a pretty shitty kind, that’s not really viable.

We actually do know. By his own testimony revenue from the site made up a bulk of his ~$30k annual income. And since you seem to want to be obtuse on purpose, that only counts as income if he was making more than it cost to run the site, otherwise it would have been reported as a loss. Because that’s how self…

No... Just No... This was a bad rom site that charged for access. There is zero chance anything of value was lost. The effort this person put in was the bare minimum just to make some quick cash and they did it stupidly too, this is why they are being so badly burned by Nintendo on this. ANYTHING that was on this site…

There are literally thousands of other sites hosting the same roms and the Internet Archive. It's going to be alright. 

The thing is, you’re not going to beat all the records at once normally.

No, that’s not true... Let’s say I hold the official world record. Why would I continue to spend time racing on a track where I hold the record, when I could instead be trying to get the record on a different track?

The way I read it, Rustemeyer would try for a record that Burbank had, beat it, and then move on to the next one. He does this 17 times total, thinking he has 17 records, only for Burbank to reveal that he had even better records than Rustemeyer’s that he hadn’t revealed. Had Rustemeyer known, he would have tried to…

Go watch Summoning Salt’s video on MR’s push to get 32/32. Because he wanted to be the actual best, he published all his times as he got them. This means that if he had achieved 32/32, it would have meant he was better than all the other players currently playing.

This asshole hoarded times so no one else could try to…

It’s akin to sandbagging. Instead of an incremental and sort of “Real time” organic progression of records, it’s sudden and demoralizing and considered a dick move.

The speedrunning community thrives on open competition. Tricks are regularly found by those who aren’t the top runners, and shared with all. In addition, Matthias was trying to get all 32 records, but while he was hunting individual tracks where people had posted, someone else had secretly beaten half his records, and…

seems clear from the article, even from the words of the guy that did it, that usually they upload a record so others can contest it and he held up until he had enough victories that contesting his results with new attempts for the record would be nigh impossible

It’s a bit anti-competitive. The times increasing are what push competitors to clean up their runs and try new strategies. Might have damaged the meta by withholding info - speedrunning tends to be a very open and collaborative community. I understand why people felt kind of betrayed.

It's a joke. 

Xenophobe. Not xenophile.

Can I have more information about the hacked mon? I just cannot fathom what gives sobble a $42 USD value.

People in an adminisatrative subdivision of a Far Eastern nation have confronted a young adult for violating one of the country’s laws. According to a local news source, they say the person made a transaction involving an altered fictional creature.

“People in Aichi Prefecture, Japan have arrested a 23-year-old man for violating the country’s Unfair Competition Prevention Act.”

I’m just a little surprised just how reliant TA is reliant on Apple for income. Surely as a web site they would have any number of ways of being self-sustaining through ads or at the very minimum saw the writing on the wall.

So why doesn’t Google offer this same type of affiliate program to TouchArcade, and why aren’t we upset that they never have?

I can give you 565 million reasons (that’s 2.5% of $22.6 billion, even though they aren’t paying affiliates on all those purchases admittedly) why this decision isn’t a pointless move. Any business in any industry that isn’t in control of it’s own continuity, such as building a business entirely on the back of someone…