I love the last panel. He’s waiting for a miraculous bit flip.
Edit: Context and the cosmic bit flip is probalby not true: https://youtu.be/vj8DzA9y8ls
I don’t know dude. It sounds that this YTer is a bit angry about a possible explanation that sounds reasonable and has no proof to debunk it either.
has no proof to debunk it
Yeah, because you can’t prove a negative. He doesn’t need to debunk it, only to provide an alternative explanation which is more likely. Occam’s razor.
There’s inifinite examples of when occams razor doesn’t hold up though. It’s a useful tool, but by no means an end all be all.
Occam’s razor won’t get you to the correct conclusion for all possible combinations of truth values and evidence, but it is always the best process to follow. You might end up getting new evidence later that means you update your belief, even update it to believe in something which previous evidence meant Occam’s razor lead you to dismiss that conclusion. But it helps you arrive at the best conclusion based on current evidence.
So was it a cart slap? No. Was the device and or cart faulty? No. Was the constructions nearby the cause? No.
We only know that something flipped the bit. So why not spice this freak accident up by saying that cosmic rays were the culprit?
The device was faulty though.
Source: https://youtu.be/vj8DzA9y8ls
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I also bought into the bit flip theory but it was confirmed that the hardware was somewhat faulty which is an infinitely more likely cause than cosmic rays. There’s also the fact that there aren’t any bits that could be flipped which would perfectly reproduce the glitch.
Because assuming that is a way bigger assumption than something like “faulty hardware”, especially since this guy has stories about other things that we know are faulty hardware.
I recognized that scene immediately but didn’t know it was called the “cosmic bit flip”
And then Nintendo Ninjas break into his house for playing on an emulator.
Nope, he’s playing with original hardware, the screen shot is a reference to what was a speed running bounty. There was a streamer playing that part of Super Mario 64 and he glitched straight up, if it could be repeated it would be a great time save for speed running. After years of investigation the community decided that it was caused by a bit flip probably caused by cosmic radiation. You can’t get that bit flip on an emulator.
Hey so the cosmic ray thing was a really popular meme but the glitch was probably just a crooked cartidge. It’s funny to imagine a cosmic ray doing this but the odds are so low as to be functionally impossible, and this kind of glitch can happen with dirty or loose connections.
https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/8767558
Someone else already linked this video so here is a link to their comment
True or not, this meme doesn’t make sense if you don’t know about it.
Oh absolutely.
You just seemed like you were trying to provide info, so I added the last bit to… Add more info.
Steamour! The house is on fire!
I get it.
Still waiting for someone to solve the TTC upwarp glitch.
spoiler
It’s almost certainly due to faulty hardware
I know. I’ve watched that video. It’s extra funny that the TASer(?) bought the N64 from the speedrunner just to investigate it
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Skill issue
Yes
Fuck i’d watch aurora instead
