Heya, I'm not terribly active on Temp but I thought this would be a topic you'd enjoy here.
Have you ever done or seen something, in real life, that can only be described (by gamers) as a "physics glitch"?
I can think of a couple. Back in high school, walking home with a friend to his place, he put his key in the doorknob and turned it -- putting an absolutely effortless 180 degree twist in the metal key. The lock did not move whatsoever and we could barely un-twist the key by force.
A couple weeks ago that happened to me at my mailbox, but it was only about 45 degrees at most. Still, it just twisted the key with no resistance at all. That's what made me think of posting this.
Another one was from a game of Bowling (10 pin) a few years ago. I'm not a fantastic bowler but played for years and averaged around 175 points, so I'm pretty familiar with the lanes. I rolled the first ball right where it needed to be, maybe a little bit too high on the head-pin, and took out only the #1, #3, #5 and #9 pins.
You might have to look at a diagram to see what I mean, but.... that is simply impossible to do without the ball and/or struck pins hitting any of the other pins. Like those are the ones you are supposed to hit in order to wipe out the rest of them. Not only that, but when I hit the pins, they made a loud "pop" noise and seemed to jump upward and back, as opposed to the usual "crash" and scatter. Nobody who was with me at the time, including several guys who have rolled perfect games before, could figure out WTF happened.
That's it for now. Tell me your (totally true) stories.
Have you ever done or seen something, in real life, that can only be described (by gamers) as a "physics glitch"?
I can think of a couple. Back in high school, walking home with a friend to his place, he put his key in the doorknob and turned it -- putting an absolutely effortless 180 degree twist in the metal key. The lock did not move whatsoever and we could barely un-twist the key by force.
A couple weeks ago that happened to me at my mailbox, but it was only about 45 degrees at most. Still, it just twisted the key with no resistance at all. That's what made me think of posting this.
Another one was from a game of Bowling (10 pin) a few years ago. I'm not a fantastic bowler but played for years and averaged around 175 points, so I'm pretty familiar with the lanes. I rolled the first ball right where it needed to be, maybe a little bit too high on the head-pin, and took out only the #1, #3, #5 and #9 pins.
You might have to look at a diagram to see what I mean, but.... that is simply impossible to do without the ball and/or struck pins hitting any of the other pins. Like those are the ones you are supposed to hit in order to wipe out the rest of them. Not only that, but when I hit the pins, they made a loud "pop" noise and seemed to jump upward and back, as opposed to the usual "crash" and scatter. Nobody who was with me at the time, including several guys who have rolled perfect games before, could figure out WTF happened.
That's it for now. Tell me your (totally true) stories.
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