Is it just me or does anybody else, when calling out, like a phone number or something and it has a “0” in it, do yall say “o” or “0” (oh or zero) lmao
Out of all the crazy insane tricks done here, the thing that surprised me the most was that growing up to adult Link automatically equipped all those items. Edit: okay, damaging gannon with deku nuts was also very surprising!
Yeah even if it was hardware failure why would cosmic rays be the leading theory? There's tons of ways a bit could be flipped on a register, crosstalk, EMI, a leaky cap, PSU noise, microphonics on ceramic caps... Cosmic rays are imo the least likely
Eagerly awaiting 2036 when someone discovers a glitch that warps you from the shop screen in kokiri forest village by glitching link onto the shop shelves and buying himself, thereby nulling his address and setting it to the end credits sequence and someone names it "Elf on a Shelf"
I don't really care about speedruns and haven't played Wii sports in like a decade, so I have no idea why RU-vid recommended this to me. With that being said, I still watched the whole thing
How much information have we gathered regarding his physical set up? Any body thought to as where he was? Like what state? The elevation of his city? How about the time of day? Can you cross reference to any celestial anomalies like solar flares? Were there any other machines operating in the vicinity that may have had an effect on the hardware? Like something with strong magnetization? We need to do a fact finding mission because I’m tired of the upwarp not being implemented in runs!
"The idea that a cosmic ray flipped a bit in a computer is highly unlikely." And yet, ECC memory is used in servers all around the world for... what, fun?
My favorite part about these stories is how they showcase the "on the shoulders of giants" saying. So cool to see generations of runners exhaust themselves pushing the limit while newer generations get to pick up their hard work and invest their new energy into pushing it even further. A beautiful example of what makes humanity so powerful
yeah but you’re not any better than the rest, sure you provide other possibilities, but you don’t even consider that the “cosmic ray” theory has even a chance of being true. it’s very clear to see your opinion on the topic and i would’ve preferred if you were neutral.
Without watching the video: No you cant. Just think of the Water Temple. With glitches, bugs: Yes, of course you can, but thats not about real playthrough.
Imagine being a cosmic ray traveling for billions of years across the universe just to cause a bit flip in someones N64 and inconveniencing their game 🤣
A TL;DW for this video would be "Many people have been led to believe that this exact scenario (cosmic ray bit flip) is what happened to cause this bug, but there's no conclusive evidence to show that this is what caused it, so anyone stating is as fact aren't being honest, as the true answer is that it _could_ be this thing, rather than it _is_ this thing." It's not an impossibility, but it's also not like that specifically cosmic rays caused this exact thing, there's a lot of other things that are just as likely (or just as unlikely). I believe the video is trying to say that the correct answer isn't that any particular thing caused it, but rather "we don't know" what caused it, so arguing any of for a specific outcome hasn't met it's burden of proof, and the constant repeating of the assertion that X caused Y has cemented it in people's minds as a fact rather than an unknown possibility. Also calling it a myth feeds the fire of this push back in the comments, since that can be interpreted as both a widely held but false belief or as simply a legend/story that people talk about for years after the fact, at a certain point people are going to hear what they want to hear, and if they come into the video expecting an outright debunking of the theory they're going to go away more steadfast in their belief, regardless of whether or not your intention was to simply disabuse them of the certainty of the claim that it was a cosmic ray, as to many people failing to persuade them that it definitely wasn't the cause was what they interpreted the whole video to be about. There's just a bit too much content to this video that important details like 12:12 get lost in the labyrinth of statements and assertions, seeing how glitchy this specific level is with up and down warping should make the cosmic rays theory less likely as cosmic rays causing all these problems only on this specific level is insanely unlikely, but when you start conflating this find with other people's opinions and the copy-paste system of journalism it buries it under a ton of weaker arguments that people can't see the great point beneath all of the weak/unsubstantial ones.
