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previous plurk reminded me of the Contra Level Skip Incident, one of my favorite speedruning nightmare stories of all time

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at one point while experimenting to find ways to save time in Contra 1 on the NES

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a player fell into a pit

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and respawned on the next level

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skipping an entire stage

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and he couldn't reproduce it again

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people spent months combing over the assembly code

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and came to the unanimous decision

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that there's literally no way it could possibly happen

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but he caught it on video

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during a stream

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nobody knows what happened

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nobody has ever made it happen again

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a fucking cosmic ray hit the NES at the exact right moment or something

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a unique mysterious skip, literally impossible but still happened

Ai's20thBDay
this would drive me to the same kind of madness as a Lovecraft protagonist

Ai's20thBDay
it would consume me for the rest of my life

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YEAH

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if someone could reproduce it you could have the world record by like a MINUTE

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but nobody can

ɢʀᴏᴜᴘᴄʜᴀᴛ ᴛʏᴘᴏ
imagine how much that guy's life would have been ruined if he hadn't been streaming it when that happened

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god

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he'd be the guy from that looney tunes short with the dancing frog

ɢʀᴏᴜᴘᴄʜᴀᴛ ᴛʏᴘᴏ
that's what would drive me to Lovecraft madness

ghost of lowtax
spoken of in the same breath as people who splice runs for twin galaxies

Burned Out
there are impossible things in this world

Quinamarink
a ghost did it

thetaClysm
Makes me think of the SM64 TTC upwarp

thetaClysm
a trick with a $1000 bounty for anyone that can reliably reproduce it, and which is currently most plausibly explained by a random bit flip caused by cosmic radiation

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I just looked this up and wow

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nine years

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still unknown

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History of the TTC upwarp

ghost of lowtax
jesus christ, when pannenkoek of parallel universes fame can't figure out how to create your sm64 eldritch magic

ghost of lowtax
that's something