Abyss

I tell stories about competitive gaming and glitches
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[Abyss @Abyssoft]

Lots happening in Super Mario Bros speedrunning right now.

https://t.co/PTQnOPMI25

[Abyss @Abyssoft]

TAS tie in SMB is imminent

[LeKukie @lekukie_]

After 7 years, I've finally done it. 4:54,365, I'm the first ever brazillian to have untied WR in any% of smb1, and it's way better than I ever expected to have it be. HOWEVER, the grind is not over. There are still 6 frames to be saved until I'm done. Stay tuned! :)

[Abyss @Abyssoft]

I've never been more invested in something than I am in this stolen Lego collection.

[Abyss @Abyssoft]

@IanRunkle @LawfulMasses had a great summary in his first analysis video of everything BAM did wrong and each sentence reads like a knockout blow from Ali, Holyfield, Tyson, Foreman, Klitschko, and Wilder. All of the bad PR is avoided if at any step they just made the family whole.

[Abyss @Abyssoft]

@Basedtakes01 When I'm on mobile I'll just hit send tweet and give no fucks.

[Abyss @Abyssoft]

This must have been a brutal reset he'll in the early game

[Kylos @KylosWeb3]

Back in 2019, a YouTuber named Game Champ 2000 ( @Gamechamp3k ) decided to attempt one of the most insane Pokémon challenges ever created. He was going to beat Pokémon Blue on original Game Boy hardware without taking a single point of damage the entire game.

But here's where it got brutal: he set one rule for himself. If any of his Pokémon took even one HP of damage at any point, the entire save file had to be permanently deleted. No soft resets allowed and no backups whatsoever. Even getting poisoned or confused counted as an instant loss.

Pokémon Blue is basically rigged against you. That's because every move in the game with 100% accuracy still has a hidden 1 in 256 chance to miss. This means that a random freak miss from the AI could erase weeks of progress in seconds.

So Game Champ spent hours grinding battles against Metapod with Harden, biking back and forth to abuse the daycare for free levels, and manipulating the dumb Gen 1 AI into picking moves that physically couldn't hit him.

But the Elite Four was the real nightmare because you fight all five trainers back to back with no Pokémon Centre between rounds. One critical hit from Lance's Dragonite ends everything.

After 222 hours of grinding across 12 straight days, Game Champ finally beat the champion with total damage taken across the entire game being zero, marking the first time anyone had ever done it in history.

What a feat.

[Abyss @Abyssoft]

@Boi_die To my knowledge it is.

[Abyss @Abyssoft]

While there playground rumors around this truck were rampant in my school, I think a better question is why was there a truck in the first place?

[Lost Internet @LostMemeArchive]

Pokémon Red and Blue had one random truck near the S.S. Anne.

That was enough.

Kids became convinced Mew was hidden underneath it, and rumours spread through playgrounds, forums, and fake cheat websites.

There was no Mew.

Just a truck and millions of disappointed children.

[Abyss @Abyssoft]

Rare and Nintendo were on generational runs in the mid 90s to early 2000s

[eStarland @eStarland]

The Best N64 Game of Every Year 🏆

[Abyss @Abyssoft]

My day is always made when Rebecca uploads one of these videos.

[Rebecca Tripp @EvokeSeagull]

Please check out my Final Fantasy 4 analysis video! It goes deep into the lore, psychology, philosophy, spiritual symbolism, and more! https://t.co/Uc1GuqgV0r
Can you please give it a retweet if you enjoy it? The algorithm has dropped me in recent years due to low activity!

[IRL Loading Screens @IRLoadingScreen]

IRL Loading Screens compilation

[90s WWE @90sWWE]

This picture of Bret Hart in double white denim in front of a lake should be on Canadian currency.

[Abyss @Abyssoft]

There's a 1-800 number on the "Lunar Tunes" page for a $8.99 casette of the movies soundtrack, I wonder if they'll honor it if I call.

[Lost Internet @LostMemeArchive]

The original Space Jam website is still online.

It looks like the internet refused to move on from 1996.

No autoplay feeds, no infinite scroll, no algorithm. Just a website stuck in time.

You can still view it here: https://t.co/9k1NPfUWGD

[Abyss @Abyssoft]

The N64 with Mario Party 3 loaded in, these guys brought in the millenium the right way.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

The last few minutes before the end of the world.

[Abyss @Abyssoft]

@oldcanadaseries if you could clarify where you got this tape from, or if @CNRailway could confirm that this video was made in the 90's that would be great!

[Abyss @Abyssoft]

If you search this video it's just a bunch of accounts that posted it within the last 2 days. I find it hard to believe that this wasn't uploaded anywhere in the last 20 years. I'm not calling this fake content or AI generated, but I have doubts about its authenticity

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

A 1991 CN Rail fitness video

[Abyss @Abyssoft]

I've done some sleuthing and the train in the background of the outdoor shot appears to be period accurate from what I could find (not a train expert though) so this is either legit or some effort was put in to make it look legit

[Abyss @Abyssoft]

@myretrolifeshow @100thCoin can probably explain what's wrong with the emulator in this video!

[Abyss @Abyssoft]

@SandyofCthulhu I have trouble conceiving of a produce farmer or electronics manufacturer giving 30% of their revenue to a grocer or hardware store, when the relationship historically been "we buy from you then mark up" maybe the 30% is a by-product of it being digital media?

[Abyss @Abyssoft]

@SandyofCthulhu If Steam becomes a mess do you see game companies creating their own launch portals? It's always seemed bizarre to me that game companies tolerate 30% off the top, the trade off of discovery and potential users must be worth the downside?

[Abyss @Abyssoft]

Someone at my weekly pokemon league showed me that Mew in a magazine and I told them it was false, core memory unlocked

[MAX CHADWICK @maxchadwick]

in August 1997, Japan Railways East launched a Pokemon Stamp Rally

the requirement was to travel to 30 stations on Tokyo's Yamanote line in 2 days

the mission was to collect a unique stamp at each station and complete the entire stamp book before the deadline

the event ran for 9 days only

all 100,000 reserve tickets sold out in advance

complete the rally and you received a 2-card booklet: a Surfing Pikachu by Toshinao Aoki and a Mew by Ken Sugimori

the Surfing Pikachu shows Mt. Fuji and a train in the background, as a record of what those kids saw out the train windows