one of my brother’s cousins is 17 and running this weed instagram where he invents weed slang that’s outlandish even by california standards and the house has slowly stopped speaking english as we imitate it
“In Ultima Online, the player was a container — one you couldn’t open, but which held your equipped items, your backpack which was the container you could actually see, etc. Because of the freeform “gump” style containment system used in the Ultimas, you could position anything to any location in a container, which meant they were basically treated like maps, with coordinate systems in them. Then we added mounts. When you rode a horse, we simply put the horse inside the player, and spawned a pair of pants that looked like your horse, which you then equipped and wore. When we first did this, however, we forgot to make the horse stop acting like a horse. Pretty soon there was a rash of server crashes because the horse inside the player was wandering around, picking up the stuff it found inside the player, rifling through the player’s backpack and eating things it thought were edible, and eventually, wandering “off the map” because the player’s internal coordinate system was pretty small, and the edges weren’t impassable.”
It is possible to make Mario stand on the death plane on the bottom of Whomp’s Fortress in Super Mario 64. If the player collects the 100th coin above a retracting platform (top left), it is possible to touch the star when there is no ground below it (top right). Mario will land on the death plane in mid-air and a save prompt will appear. As soon as the dialogue box disappears, Mario will die. (Footage of the VC version recorded by me in a Wii emulator.)