In this modern age it's easy to just get depressed by the horror of it all and curse the way humanity seems to be content to just slide deeper and deeper into shit, what with all the religious bigotry, race hatred, war, etc in the world. It is a beautiful thing, therefore, to be able to report that some of us are still trying to aim for higher things and be the best that humanity can be. Come on down, therefore, Steve Wiebe:

Steve Wiebe now rules as the Donkey Kong king after setting a new world record with more than 900,000 points in the classic video game. [...]
Finally last week, the Redmond resident broke an 879,200-point record set last year by a New York man, which edged past one set nearly 20 years ago by Billy Mitchell, a Florida man generally consider the Don of the Arcade Game. Mitchell's mark was 874,300.
Wiebe scored 947,200 points in the 22 levels of the game. He sent a videotape documenting his feat to Twin Galaxies, the definitive scorekeeping organization for gamers.
The record was big enough news to video-game enthusiasts that they crashed the organization's Web site, said Robert Mruczek, chief referee at Twin Galaxies.
"If you beat a gamer with the caliber of Billy Mitchell, that's a feather in your cap," he said. "They're the cream of the crop when it comes to video gaming." [...]
Mitchell, 37, says he only counts his scores if they're played in a public venue, and he won't say if he can beat his cross-country competitor. He'll only say that he's planning something big and unprecedented in response to Wiebe's win. [...]
Wiebe said he'll keep striving for the million-point mark, then retire.

Fucking geeks.