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BiffsGamingVideos, aka Michael Keith Slifker

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"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a massive
twit..."

Ladies and gentlemen, permit me to introduce you to Michael Keith
Slifker (DOB 09/06/1968) of Orlando, Florida.  He may be better known
to you as BiffsGamingVideos on YouTube.

Michael (or Biff) likes to doxx people whose opinions he may not agree
with.  Unfortunately, one of the people he recently chose to doxx was
Albert Yarusso, owner of the atariage.com website.  Albert has done
more to help both the Atari and general retrocomputing / retrogaming
communities than just about anyone else, and Biff's bizarre attack on
him has not sat well with a great many people.

Believing in turnabout being fair play, we're doxxing Biff (Michael
Keith Slifker) in return.  We're also chronicling his actions in this
regard so that everyone can understand the type of pathetic little
low-life he really is.  Everything we're publishing about him here is
available in either public records (thank you, Orange County, Florida
court records) or through Google searches.

But first some background.

There is a thread on AtariAge dedicated to typically
less-than-complimentary discussion of the new AtariVCS console
currently in development.  It's often referred to as the 'That
Ataribox' thread, and, for the curious (warning: it's over 500 pages
long at the time of this writing), it can be found at the following URL:

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/266480-new-atari-console-that-ataribox/

Biff popped up in the thread in 2017.  His mission seemed to be
twofold: one, to annoy and insult anyone who didn't share his favorable
opinion of the device; two, to promote his own games that he was
"working on" as possible candidates for the platform.

(Incidentally, Biffy's games can be found at
http://www.slifkergames.com/ .  They're all made in Unity and are about
as laughably amateurish as you'd expect.)

Over time, Biffarino's inability to respectfully disagree with others
built to the point where the forum admins banned him from the thread.
He could still access the rest of the forum, but for the sake of not
having to deal with his bizarre rants and self-promoting behavior he
was eighty-sixed from the That Ataribox thread.  This made the regular
participants in that thread happy, and he was quickly forgotten.

It should be noted that there was also a separate pro-AtariVCS thread
going on in parallel.  Biff continued to participate in that one,
largely for the sake of - again - self-promotion.  That thread can be
found at the URL below (and is only at about 22 pages compared to the
That Ataribox thread):

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/278810-the-new-atari-vcs-faq-and-info-thread/

Since he was booted from the That Ataribox thread, the ol' Biffster
went and did what all cheap trolls who think that they're smarter than
they actually are do: he signed up a sockpuppet account on the forum
under the name 'SupremeEnchanter' and began posting from it.  This is
pretty much a giant no-no as far as the forum rules are concerned, but
we'll come back to that.

Half-time summary: at this point, we have a narcissistic man-child who
can't play well with others and is setting himself up for some truly
stupid and avoidable failure.

On or around August 22, 2018, Reddit user 'WhereTheIDivides' started a
thread in /r/AtariVCS called, "Should Atari shut down the ROM pirate
sites?".  In that thread (now edited to remove the doxxing that took
place), WhereTheIDivides dropped the personal info of Albert Yarusso on
September 6th, 2018.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AtariVCS/comments/99l72h/should_atari_shut_down_the_rom_pirate_sites/

This filtered over to the That Ataribox thread on AtariAge, where a
user there noticed this and brought it to the attention of the
community:

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/266480-new-atari-console-that-ataribox/page-513#entry4107161

September 6th, 2018, just so happened to have been Biffington
McBiffface's 50th birthday.  One can only assume that he chose to
celebrate the big day by being a complete tool, and failing at even
doing that.

The mistake that Biffy Wan-Kenobi made regarding his identity was a
simple one: he chose the username 'WhereTheIDivides' on Reddit.  This
happened to be the same username he posted in a Yahoo! mail address to
a thread on AtariAge where he was selling some Atari 2600 cartridges:

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/203602-atari-2600-games-for-sale-167-carts-8-rare-13-nib/

Unsurprisingly, this led to the immediate perma-banning on AtariAge of
both the 'BiffsGamingVideos' and 'SupremeEnchanter' accounts.  It also
led to a slew of reports to moderators on Reddit regarding his threads
and accounts.

Now, at this point, a smart person might realize that they're not going
to win this one and just stop.  But, no, Michael Keith Slifker just had
to keep going.  He signed up another sockpuppet account, this time on
Reddit, under the name 'AlbertYarusso' and began creating threads
purporting to come from the real Albert Yarusso.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AtariVCS/comments/9dvc0p/when_should_atari_shut_down_the_pirate_rom_sites/

We're guessing that El Biffo Guapo has now gone into some form of
hiding where he's trying to pretend that he never actually did any of
this, and, even if he did, it was someone else's fault.  He's not real
huge on living in reality or taking responsibility for his own actions.

Anyway, it was stated earlier that turnabout is fair play, so let's get
on with that, shall we?

Michael Keith Slifker
DOB: 09/06/1968
Resides in Orlando, Florida

He's had two home foreclosures: one in 2009 and again in 2014.  These
can be found via the Orange County, Florida courts.

https://myeclerk.myorangeclerk.com/Cases/Search

It's believed that he currently resides with his parents (Peter and
Colleen) due to the inability to manage his personal finances that led
to these foreclosures.  Way to go, 50-year-old guy!  Their address is:

701 S. Solandra Drive
Orlando, FL 32807

Please do not harass or bother his parents.  Even though their kid is a
total failure at life, he is an adult and as such they're ultimately
not in control of his man-child online behavior.

Known Online Aliases:

Biff Malone
BiffsGamingVideos
WhereTheIDivides
SupremeEnchanter
SlifkerGames

Websites:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-m0bnaYXMWfLG3cLwhaitw
http://www.slifkergames.com

As far as can be told, Biffany has never been married and has no kids.
Not really surprising, though, and the nonexistent kids are better off
that way than having him as a parent.

He likes poker.  In fact, he likes poker so much that he came in 49th
in a 2013 2013 World Series of Poker tournament that netted him a
whopping $1567!  Guess it wasn't enough to keep up the house payments
into 2014, though.

https://uk.pokernews.com/poker-players/michael-slifker/

There is more dirt on him, but, honestly, much of it's not worth really
digging into (though some is being held onto).  And for all of the
unwarrantedly high esteem in which Biffareena holds himself, he's a
pretty boring guy when it comes down to it.  Clearly, traffic tickets
just aren't all that exciting, though he is pretty good at getting one
about every three years or so.  Ordinary, dull, and self-aggrandizing.
So very, very pathetic.

Our appreciation for staying with us to the end.  We hope that you have
found this entertaining and informative, and have a better overview of
the type of person that Michael Keith Slifker is.  Nobody should have
to deal with him without this knowledge, and we felt duty-bound to
present it.

Until the next time,

- The Michael Keith Slifker Fan Club and Uncomfortable Personal
  Information Dissemination Bureau.

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