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In April of 2018, the Twin Galaxies video game scoreboard announced its finding that well-known classic game score-chaser Billy Mitchell did not achieve his Donkey Kong high scores on unmodified arcade hardware, stripping him of all his accumulated records in the process. Since then, Mitchell has oft claimed that he would fight the decision every way he could. And in September 2019, Mitchell and his lawyers said in a statement they would be forced to "resort to legal recourse" if Twin Galaxies didn't rescind its decision and reinstate Mitchell's scores.
But court filings obtained by Ars Technica show that Mitchell had already filed suit against Twin Galaxies in a Los Angeles County court as early as April 2019.
Mitchell's defamation lawsuit—misfiled as "William James Mitchell vs. Twin Galexies, LLC [sic]" and not reported in previous press accounts—has been slowly building to a planned July anti-SLAPP hearing, where Twin Galaxies will make use of a statute that lets defendants quickly strike down lawsuits that threaten "public participation." Twin Galaxies says in court filings that its statements regarding Mitchell's scores were not defamatory and that finding in Mitchell's favor "would have chilling effects on the freedom of speech."
"My law firm and I are fully confident that we will establish a prima face [sic] case for all parts of the lawsuit," Mitchell told Ars Technica in a Twitter Direct Message.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday May 05 2020, @02:41PM (3 children)
Dude, if you're fast enough to molest a squirrel, you're pretty damned fast. If you're fast enough to molest a chipmunk, you must be a holdover from Mt. Olympus or something. Ain't NOBODY HUMAN that fast!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2020, @03:08PM
That proves it was Usain Bolt! Case closed, take the black man away.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2020, @07:34PM (1 child)
In some places, chipmunks will walk right up and eat out of your hand. They have no fear of humans. I've seen it personally, and of course they tell everybody not to feed them and nobody listens. It varies from place to place. I've never seen it with squirrels, but I've heard that it happens with them some places too.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Pslytely Psycho on Wednesday May 06 2020, @12:12AM
Yes, and frequently the chipmunks break out into song after feeding them......
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