Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:01 PM
previous plurk reminded me of the Contra Level Skip Incident, one of my favorite speedruning nightmare stories of all time
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:01 PM
at one point while experimenting to find ways to save time in Contra 1 on the NES
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:01 PM
a player fell into a pit
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:02 PM
and respawned on the next level
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:02 PM
skipping an entire stage
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:02 PM
and he couldn't reproduce it again
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:02 PM
people spent months combing over the assembly code
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:02 PM
and came to the unanimous decision
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:02 PM
that there's literally no way it could possibly happen
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:02 PM
but he caught it on video
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:02 PM
during a stream
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:02 PM
nobody knows what happened
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:02 PM
nobody has ever made it happen again
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:03 PM
a fucking cosmic ray hit the NES at the exact right moment or something
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:03 PM
a unique mysterious skip, literally impossible but still happened
𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗡𝗲𝘄𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿!
@phainein
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:05 PM
this would drive me to the same kind of madness as a Lovecraft protagonist
𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗡𝗲𝘄𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿!
@phainein
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:05 PM
it would consume me for the rest of my life
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:05 PM
YEAH
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:05 PM
if someone could reproduce it you could have the world record by like a MINUTE
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:05 PM
but nobody can
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
@lastbastion
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:07 PM
imagine how much that guy's life would have been ruined if he hadn't been streaming it when that happened
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:07 PM
god
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:07 PM
he'd be the guy from that looney tunes short with the dancing frog
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
@lastbastion
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 5:10 PM
that's what would drive me to Lovecraft madness
BERSERKER
@flare_sword
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 6:43 PM
spoken of in the same breath as people who splice runs for twin galaxies
Lightning Bolt
@graygriffin
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 7:18 PM
there are impossible things in this world
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 7:18 PM
a ghost did it
thetaClysm
@thetacriterion
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 7:19 PM
Makes me think of the SM64 TTC upwarp
thetaClysm
@thetacriterion
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 7:21 PM
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
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 7:29 PM
I just looked this up and wow
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 7:29 PM
nine years
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 7:29 PM
still unknown
Cute Quinn
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 7:29 PM
History of the TTC upwarp
BERSERKER
@flare_sword
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 7:54 PM
jesus christ, when pannenkoek of parallel universes fame can't figure out how to create your sm64 eldritch magic
BERSERKER
@flare_sword
Mon, Jul 25, 2022 7:54 PM
that's something
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