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by BeetleB 439 days ago
It's actually the example I give on why one should not watch documentaries. It's extremely misleading (without actually lying):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24944741

(I mean yes, Billy is a jerk for sure, but the documentary was way out of line).

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They did show Mitchell delivering a frogger(?) arcade machine so a senior could practice for a tournament, which was nice. I think it was an extra in the dvd.

Billy to my mind is a bit annoying but he’s a mild “villain” in the documentary. I mean it’s video game high scores and very compulsive people..

I should watch it again.

You should definitely watch documentaries, as long as you first watch Orson Welles's masterpiece F for Fake as a pre-req. That or Abbas Kiarostami's Close Up. Then you are free to watch as many documentaries as you please.