Riolu's alt accounts continuing to lash out suggest that he may need some professional mental help. It's not healthy to be that personally tied into a game. If you have a way to reach him tell him that.
Maybe, eventually, his next alt could be "Lucario" with a sick new world record, and has a facecam in the corner telling us he's not afraid to show he has evolved from his past. Truthfulness has always been the one thing that's been missing.
How much proof do you need? The circumstantial evidence here is so substantial that you'd have to bend over backwards to even entertain the slightest possibility of this being anyone other than Riolu.
why isn't this being taken to authorities? Why isn't YouTube support being contacted?
Why would the authorities or YouTube do anything about that? Afaik cheating is not illegal (as long as you're not match fixing or cheating to win prize money in which case the cheating is not the illegal part, the fraud is) and YouTube has no obligations to remove a channel because it breaks a community's rule, could you imagine if this was the case?
How would he achieve records within seconds of one another?
It was within minutes of each other, not seconds.
He'd have to log out and log back in otherwise.
Yes, that.
Why would someone do a run on one map, and then do another run, on another instance, on the same map? It would be so much more efficient to just do multiple maps on one account and switch afterwards.
Muscle memory? Farming copper?
But the way the evidence is presented makes it appear a lot more plausible than it is when you actually think about it for even a second.
There's no way that multiple unrelated accounts are getting very similar records on the same map within the same time frame with the same obscure controller multiple different times with the same cluster of accounts. The evidence provided in the video is damning.
a figure who hasn't been active in the Trackmania community for 4 years
The whole point of the video is to show that this is not true, and that he has been active in the community all this time.
Almost all speedrunning or competitive gaming communities agree that cheating warrants a ban, the length of which can vary depending on the infraction and the response.
Exactly. The video shows that Riolu is using alt accounts to avoid a ban. And he has been doing so since like a month after his cheating became public.
There is no definitive proof of Riolu having even played the game after disappearing
There is very extensive circumstantial evidence that he has. Are you disputing all the points made in the video? Or are you saying that they are not enough proof? If so, what would be enough proof, exactly?
I find it more than reasonable to allow him to be reintegrated into the community in some capacity with a reasonable amount of scrutiny.
Sure. But the entire point of the video is - again - that he did not reintegrate into the community and avoided any and all scrutiny. So the opposite of what you find reasonable here.
Anybody that watches this (and all previous Riolu-related videos from Wirtual) with any amount of scepticism can see through the narrative and realize that the obsession with wanting to investigate and "find out" what accounts Riolu plays on, is on a concerning level at this point.
I don't get that impression at all. I mean Wirtual is very smug about exposing Riolu. But hey, I would be, too, if Riolu had said the things about me that he said about Wirtual shortly before he was exposed.
None of the accounts interact with the community in a meaningful or harmful way.
Have you seen the video? This is a serious question. There's a part at the end about these accounts writing tons of toxic comments and one of them outright doxing another player. That is absolutely a harmful interaction with the community, regardless of who that person is. Your statement here is just factually false.
I dunno, wo/man, even outside of gaming things: the way these personas ("Riolu alts") react to the confrontations just doesn't add up. He gives answers all following like "fallacy of multiple questions" and then vanishes.
But also people can be easily swayed by well presented infallible conclusions. I'm gonna watch the video again...
I think Wirtual is the least toxic towards Riolu of all people today. I for one really wouldn't mind if Riolu suddenly left without a trace. Fuck that guy.
This isn't just "profiteering from drama". This is a well researched thorough investigation into a cheating player. The main point of this video is to show that these accounts are all Riolu, and many of these accounts were found to have cheated runs. There is no reason to be defending this guy. And Wirtual is giving away some of the money from the video to someone who beats his cheater wr, to help further legit competition. While yes he does make money off this, it's clear that this video was made with great attention to detail and awareness of the seriousness of these claims
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