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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

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

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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

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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

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that's what would drive me to Lovecraft madness

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

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there are impossible things in this world

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a ghost did it

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Makes me think of the SM64 TTC upwarp

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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

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

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that's something