Faking It

CraigBouchard

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Hey,

You say Derrick Eide's 10.95 second solve is a fake, just because he didn't inspect for 15 seconds like you probably need. Most speedcubers only use 3-5 seconds for inspection, if that. You only need to find 4 little white pieces. You can look at my 13.36 video that I've attached, and I do the scramble in the video. You can go ahead and call me AND Derrick Eide fake, even though we both talk to each other on a regular basis, and race cubes, blindfolded, one handed, and both of our records are faster than yours...Derrick's PB average record is faster than your fastest single solve on 3x3, and if you want to look us both up on the WCA results, if you even know what that is. We have both competed in official competitions and I used to hold WORLD records. I remember talking to Derrick the day he made that video that you called fake. He has more videos on his account, and if you want I'll go on webcam for you, you can give me any scramble you want and I'll do one for you, and same with Derrick (not sure if he has a webcam or not though, I don't think so) Most cubers, in fact all cubers wouldn't take lightly to being called fake, since anyone with a video online has been called fake at least once. I don't attack most of them, but when another cuber is calling one fake, then there is something wrong. Would you post a fake video? If so, what do you have to gain? Anything, not really? People think you are cool for solving fast, not really, because everyone on youtube calls any cube video fake. Chances are if I made a fake video people would start congratulating me and saying man...that was awesome! It is possible to solve a cube this fast, and if someone has taken the time to buy a stackmat, has a bunch of other cubes, as Derrick said in the reply to your comment, and has taken the time to MAKE a video of him using a stackmat with cubes in the background, do you really think he's faking it? You saying that he is faking a solve is like me telling you that a video of you doing high jump is faked. You just fell out of the air, and then played it backwards...Jumped off the mat and landed on your feet, and then played it backwards. Yes, it sounds ridiculously, but it is the same concept as what you are saying. You can go ahead and tell whoever you want what I said, or post it on a forum, in fact, I may do it myself, just because there are so many people out there that call videos fake, when they clearly aren't. Just think about what you are going to say first, because if you don't, you look like a complete moron, and then something like this happens.

Enjoy your day...

Craig Bouchard (Look me up, I dare you...I'm not fake)

So that message is a message I just sent to some 14 year old cuber named Jay. The reason for the message was because he called Derrick Eide's 10.95 video a fake. Yes, I know that a lot of people call videos fake, but I've had a lot of people saying videos are fake, and reading a lot of comments, and then Derrick and I got talking, and for another cuber to be calling it fake, thats just not right. So I decided to send the little guy a message. Does anyone else get really mad about this? I know, some videos are indeed fake, but they get found out with PROOF, not just people SAYING they are fake...

anyway...Enjoy your days...
 
Hmmm, I've so been considering creating a list of YouTube fakes. I would probably get lots of negative comments, but of hundreds of videos maybe 1one would be a mistakenly classified. :p

Anyhow, good luck with your campaigns. I've tried resisting lunch line cutters at school, to no good avail. And after some grand issues, the cafeteria people don't even stop people cutting 2 meters away from them...
"Standing up to prove a point" and "doing your small part" doesn't seem quite as much worth it as they make it sound. :(
Then again, I've turned it into a sport to dare to cut in front of me. :p

As for cubing, I suppose that we must try hard to handle among ourselves for this. I often don't even bother to show off the solved cube and final time on my solves anymore. Those who I care to impress are those I trust...
 
ha, my computer shut down and the only part I read was the letter you sent that 14 year old. So I thought you were talking about the yish video or something. And for the people saying videos are fake does get me really mad too.
 
Don't you have anything better to get upset over than the foolish comments of a little boy with an overactive ego?

Chill out. Stop sweating the small stuff...
 
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