What irks me about this is that toddlers and kindergartners don’t sound like that unless they’re trying to be obnoxious (like, for attention or because their horns are twisted).

It was a stock SNES with updated sound hardware (to allow streaming Redbook Audio); they even put the RAM to cache the CD contents on the hypothetically packed-in cartridge.

This, 100%. I remember seeing the shift in the demo around the time of Occupy (I think that catalyzed it, because there was still an aspect of “we’re in this together” when it was Scientology and their hired goons) and haven’t used 4chan since, even for porn!

Minus World isn’t hidden or “outside the main path”. It’s because of what you’d now call a bug: the lack of any bounds or error checking on the level loading code in the game. If you figure out a way to point it ahead or behind the memory locations corresponding to worlds 1-8 in the cartridge ROM, you’re going to see…

Woah that is sad news, all love and respect to the family.

He is in custody, but he’s in a coma.

For clarification, Hatsune Miku (and the Vocaloid fandom) is not like Gorillaz or Kizuna Ai in that it’s not the work of a person or group to act as an artistic stand-in or avatar.

This deserves more stars. Have one.

... in Cascades?

Why do people say this and assume it’s true? Rather, when did this time wax and wane where people could say something to a wide audience and not have people react negatively? When and where was that?

I want to preface this by saying: Hi, I’m dstfblte. I’m really happy that you’re finally out and would like others to feel the same freedom and happiness that you’ve found through interactive media.

Reflecting on my time on SA (feels so long ago now), you’ve underscored to me that one of many problems with current social media is the barrier of entry is necessarily low to encourage the growth rates required for free-flowing SV venture capital; we’ve come a long way from having to weigh your 10bux against posting…

We were always surrounded by shitheads, we just didn’t realize it until now because it gets increasingly shoved in our faces. (Because loud voices = more attention = more ad revenue or eCoins or whatever)

I assume we mean WWE Raw?

That’s nothing.

One time I converted and rewired a stack of Lite-Brites to use LEDs instead of pegs and got them to run on battery power and then left them all over a city. I think I used peg designs inspired by this late-night TV show but I’m not sure because I had just smoked a bowl and it was a decade ago, so...
All…

Damn you Kinja, have to reply to myself like an idiot.

Just as an aside, if you look around for interviews with developers who watch speedruns of their own games, I’ve only seen positive reactions to the time-saving uses of bugs or exploits. If they were aware of the bug on release, usually they didn’t know what it…

Holy shit, are we actually arguing about authorial intent? Because that’s what it sounds like.

Wasn’t expecting to go there discussing speedruns...

You can guess on where I sit on that topic.

The problem with this kind of thinking is that nearly every game, when pushed to its limits in terms of speed, is going to reveal all kinds of cracks, and calling any particular one glitches or valid strategies is be debatable. This happens all the time.

Take games like Mirror’s Edge: cases where the bounding geometry…

I know you didn’t read the article and it’s not applicable here, but just to explain why it’s still relevant:

A successful glitched run in live setting is it’s own challenge. It requires you to have the skill to speedrun it “normally” to begin with, and precise enough to execute glitches on a real console, with the…

Also see:
Debaser - Doolittle (Pixies)
My Name is Jonas - [Blue Album] (Weezer)
Seven Nation Army - Elephant (The White Stripes)
I’ll Stick Around - Foo Fighters (Foo Fighters)
Jenny was a Friend of Mine - Hot Fuss (The Killers)