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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 days ago

The spiffing brit recently did a video on a bunch of fun crap like this, he crashed it doing a lot of things.

My favorite was taking all the food out of someone's house, reverse pickpocketing a poison apple in their pocket, the waiting around until 8pm when they eat and observing them dieing.

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 102 points 3 days ago

In Elder Scrolls III on Xbox, there was a memory leak that they couldn't fix, so sometimes when the game is loading a new area, it actually reboots the Xbox. Apparently there's a way the developer can keep a freeze frame loading screen up while the console completely reboots.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 23 points 2 days ago

I still can't fathom how implementing that "solution" is easier than fixing a memory leak. Like what the hell?

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

Fixing memory leaks (while not breaking anything else) is surprisingly difficult sometimes.

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

Deadlines have entered the chat.

[-] Retrograde@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

shareholders have entered chat

[-] lime@feddit.nu 11 points 2 days ago

leaks are extremely hard to find and rebooting is just one function call.

[-] emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 3 days ago

Interesting. My og modded xbox has a custom firmware, and launches games off a hard drive, i wonder how it would handle this. I might have to dig it out and ftp over a copy of ES3 just to try it out.

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago
[-] emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago

Yeah im still curious how that would work with a custom bootloader, but thats an interesting read.

[-] ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 56 points 3 days ago

It's almost like it's a requirement that Bethesda programmers never write defensive code.

[-] Jerkface@lemmy.world 47 points 3 days ago

Only cowards check for null.

[-] Justas@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

ActiveNull is so much better though.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago
[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

I always check for nuns out of habit

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 31 points 3 days ago

and I'm willing to bet that there's an hour-long video on Youtube about it

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 48 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The fan wiki page says Salmo is programmed to deliver bread to the inns they visit but if you give them bread they eat it instead. The crash is probably due to attempting to complete delivery of an item that's no longer in the inventory.

The wiki also says other characters in the game erroneously refer to Salmo with "she/her" pronouns, but until I ask Salmo for their pronouns I'll keep using neutral language.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 24 points 3 days ago

*remaster. It's largely just a reskin. As such...yeah, this probably still crashes the game (if it was a legit bug itfp).

[-] Goretantath@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

They patched SOME bugs, SpiffingBrit mentions the important ones to him they patched in his latest obliteration of Oblivion.

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Does the player character have to be present for this to happen?

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago

Sure, some bugs are amusing, even if only for their stupidity. I can do without bugs that crash the game, though.

[-] Denjin@lemmings.world 1 points 2 days ago

Best avoid Bethesda games then.

this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
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