Schmooey was a lump

Do you remember the game Guitar Hero? For those of you who don't know, the game was first released at the end of 2005, and in order to work, it needed an accessory - a special guitar that had four buttons on the neck and one on the "resonator" instead of strings. The guitar was plugged into the console/computer, and there a game started, where you had to press buttons in "harmony" with your left hand and rhythm with your right, all in accordance with the song being played.

The game was a huge hit for quite a few years and then died down a bit, but its loyal player base is still quite large. Among them there are some masters who show really great skill and speed, but in recent years Schmooey was considered the best. This one easily handled songs that many of us thought were impossible to "play", and not only that, it also played them at higher than "rated" speeds.

But everything was obviously not completely clean. Despite the fact that Schmooey was a great player who proved his skill many times live, his greatest successes published in the form of videos were clearly not the most "sincere". You can see what was going on in the 27-minute video below by Karl Jobst, in which he explained in detail what it was all about, only a summary here.

The videos he posted were suspicious to some in the know for some time, but since no one could point to anything tangible, many claimed that it was just plain jealousy. Until last December, the young man posted a video in which he played the huido complicated song 9 Patterns Of Eternal Pain. At first it looked like it was going to be another video demonstrating his virtuosity, but a closer look by other players revealed some strange anomalies. There were quite a few sections where Schmooey didn't press the buttons according to the "notes" on the screen, and at the end of the video, an image of Windows Media Player appears, which suggests that the image of the song was not original, but something pre-recorded. Naturally, the players wanted an answer. Schmooey initially denied the whole thing, but then admitted that he "fritzed" some videos here and there, but most of them are still genuine.

But the answer did not convince the teammates, and after a more detailed analysis, they found that almost all the recordings, of which there are around 100, were faked in one way or another. Naturally, they confronted Schmooey with their findings, and on January 15th he admitted his actions, returned all prize money, then shut down his accounts on all social networks, gaming groups and "disappeared" from the scene.

Source: Kotaku

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