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

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

Quinneapolis
a player fell into a pit

Quinneapolis
and respawned on the next level

Quinneapolis
skipping an entire stage

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and he couldn't reproduce it again

Quinneapolis
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

Quinneapolis
during a stream

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nobody knows what happened

Quinneapolis
nobody has ever made it happen again

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

Quinneapolis
a unique mysterious skip, literally impossible but still happened

✶ 天才的なIDOL様!
this would drive me to the same kind of madness as a Lovecraft protagonist

✶ 天才的なIDOL様!
it would consume me for the rest of my life

Quinneapolis
YEAH

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

Quinneapolis
but nobody can

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

Quinneapolis
god

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

ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
that's what would drive me to Lovecraft madness

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

Lightning Bolt
there are impossible things in this world

Quinneapolis
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

Quinneapolis
I just looked this up and wow

Quinneapolis
nine years

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still unknown

Quinneapolis
History of the TTC upwarp

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

BERSERKER
that's something