Tips, Tricks and Justice

Judge John Hodgman

Jesse Thorn

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4.8 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we are joined by SPECIAL GUEST and EXPERT WITNESS Morgan Webb. John argues that using a strategy guide when playing a video game is cheating, pure and simple. His friend Josef argues that while it provides an advantage, it's not out of line to use a guide and constitutes no cheating.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I'm Baylif Jesse Thorn. This week tips and tricks and justice.
0:10.5	John brings the case. He says that when his friend Joseph uses a strategy guide while playing video games, it is to put it simply cheating.
0:22.7	Joseph says that since strategy guides are sometimes even packaged with video games, they can hardly be considered cheating, but are instead perfectly normal way of playing the game.
0:35.2	Who is right and who is wrong? Who is the cheater and who is golden-hearted? Only Judge John Hodgman can decide.
0:42.7	Please write this Judge John Hodgman enters the courtroom.
0:46.7	Video game, justice, exterminate, kill the human, kill the intruder.
0:54.7	I like that one, John.
0:56.7	Hello, Baylif Jesse. Would you please swear in the complainant and defendant?
1:01.7	Absolutely, John. Joseph, please rise and raise your right hand.
1:05.7	Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God or whatever?
1:10.7	Do you swear to abide by Judge John Hodgman's ruling, despite the fact that his entire understanding of the world of video games comes from a Coleco vision he had when he was a teenager?
1:23.7	Yes. Very well, Judge Hodgman.
1:25.7	Gentlemen, that was very good, Jesse. I'll just wait until you're done looking through the phone book. Very well.
1:31.7	That was very good, Jesse. I did, in fact, have a Coleco vision, and I rocked not only Donkey Kong Jr., but also venture.
1:41.7	Is everything okay? Is there, I hope, hello?
1:44.7	Yeah, sorry, the TV went on in the background.
1:47.7	Sorry, I'm just constructing a small hut here. I apologize. I was just...
1:51.7	Just doing some satching.
1:53.7	Just to make him a little, just making a little fort. I apologize.
1:57.7	I did have a Coleco vision, that is true, and I was an expert, not only at Donkey Kong Jr., but also George Plumpton's video falconry.
2:05.7	Did you know that, Jesse?
2:06.7	I had no idea.
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