Morning status: Thinking about the hysterical trajectory of Dragon Quest 3 speedrun lore

where it ended up and how it got there

there was some glitch that people found that was very useful for the run but was also super inconsistent

like some days it was easy and some days you'd try dozens of times and get nothing

until someone crunched some numbers over long periods of time

and made the extremely disturbing discovery

that the reliability of the glitch varied by season

it was easier in summer and harder in winter

because the glitch was actually affected by the temperature of the cartridge

which eventually led to some people going "so like"

"what if we just--"

The surreal truth of hotplate%

The sad part is, any amount of time around things like superconductors and precision electronics would make you go "okay I can see why this happens but also it shouldn't, what the fuck" because if memory serves, the NES and Famicom have safeguards against exactly that shit

never assume any part of the famicom works consistently