Top ten Glitches that have changed my life pt.3 Runner up

Within the next few weeks I am going to do a reoccurring post that will follow the top ten glitches that I have experienced in my life. These will be my own personal accounts of glitches so you may see some that happened to you and you may see some that did not. Along with talking about the glitches themselves I will be talking about how they effected my life as well, be it virtual or real life. The term glitch will also be used liberally to mean anything that breaks, distorts, borks, cheats (not codes), or does something in the game that is unusual or unintended. I would love to hear what anyone thinks everything so let me know in the comments.

"B-but my followers will hate me!" I said in protest.
"No they will not, just chill out for once" Said my brain
"But this does nothing for the list!"
"You are completing the list in a more absolute fashion." Responded the brain.
"Bu-"
"FINE, I will do it myself. Hands open a web browser!" Brain commanded
"Already done" Reported my hands.
"Internet!?" Came an excited voice from my crotch
"Down boy! It is blog time now! Fingers take this down!"
"Sir yes sir"  Hands shouted.

Grand Theft Auto 3

The runner ups

And that is how this latest blog post came about. My body rebelling against me and typing out the runner up glitches to the last post. This list is still kind of blurry in my head, you can probably tell that I do not have every thing written down yet. I am actually only to about seven or so glitches that really changed me so far. Its been more of a learnrning experience than anything, a bit of fun nostalgia-ing though. Anyway GTA had many many glitches in it and so it was hard to choose just one that really effected me. I did ,however I had two others that simply would not die down in my head and so I thought I would talk about them. These do not count toward the top ten, hence "runner-up," but are part of the list all the same.

If only the first garage was this loose-er...big...

If you read my last post you will remember that I had to delete my save file because I had summoned way to many tanks into the world. There was another reason for my decision to delete the file as well. You know how when you try and put a large dangerous object into a box that might be a little to small, and then you cant seem to get in out of the box no matter how many times you shoot the cannon? That is what happened between my garage and a tank I wanted to save for some reason. Looking back I have no idea why I wanted to place a tank in the first available garage anyway, it is not like I could not create another. The end result was a tank garage coitus that could not be undone and would never end. I tried, I fired round after round into the garages sultry walls but to no avail, she would not release my hot iron tank.

What did you learn?

I learned that square block goes in square hole and circle block goes in circle hole. And tank block never goes in garage hole and if you have to shove it in it probably does not belong. Aside from all that I learned to never save your game when cheating.

Grand theft sprinter

He never saw that dragon coming.

This glitch is pretty brief as most everyone knew about it. If you tapped the run button continually you would never run out of stamina and you could run everywhere. Some could argue that this was intended for this game but I do not think that it was. Considering that in the next few games they released they used a variation of this to keep you from running like a marathon sprinter on cocaine. And that change is really the whole reason I bring up this glitch. They (the developers) saw what had happened with this glitch and then integrated it into the games properly and they were slightly improved by this.

What did you learn?

I learned that great ideas will sometimes come from something that was never supposed to work in the first place. This rule applies a lot to my gaming life (LBP2) and to my love life as well.

Well that wraps up the "runners-ups" For glitch number three. This may happen for a few more games on the list as well. I do not want it to become "Top ten glitches that changed my life... Fallout edition" and so any game with multiple life changing glitches will have runner up sections rather than another number on the list. Let me know what you think in the comments and do not be afraid to share your own experiences or suggestions for the list.

-Snickelsox

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Top ten glitches that changed my life. pt3

Within the next few weeks I am going to do a reoccurring post that will follow the top ten glitches that I have experienced in my life. These will be my own personal accounts of glitches so you may see some that happened to you and you may see some that did not. Along with talking about the glitches themselves I will be talking about how they effected my life as well, be it virtual or real life. The term glitch will also be used liberally to mean anything that breaks, distorts, borks, cheats (not codes), or does something in the game that is unusual or unintended. I would love to hear what anyone thinks everything so let me know in the comments.

Grand Theft Auto 3

Tanks... tanks everywhere

Hey guys how are you?!

I remember being so happy when I opened that present on my birthday to see the colorful album art of GTA 3 staring back at me. I was stunned that they would buy me a game where I could kill hookers and set people on fire, those being my favorite pastimes in that game. Sure this game may have had some complex ideas about right and wrong ( I think) and was wrought with violence, and maybe that did shape me as a child but I have not gone on a flamethrower rampage yet. I also remember the day that I discovered the tank cheat code and subsequently broke the game entirely.

This games was renowned for being a major contributor in both kid violence and sandbox game play. It also was renowned for being super buggy with a wonky camera system and planes that could not fly. This is why I used cheat codes in this game to begin with, I just wanted to play, not try and do stupid racing missions. During one of my run-and-gunscapades I wound up atop a doughnut building surrounded by police and in dire need of a miracle... or code. Rockets were ineffective against the masses and the health cheat took too long to enter. I knew that I would surely die if I set foot off the rooftop and so I decided to try and make a tank appear on the roof so I could ride away with style and a cannon. I did the ritualistic dance to summon the tank from the Nega and I watched as the portal opened and the tank fell from the sky, not on the roof, but onto a pile of cop cars. My characters soul may have been sacrificed but the lulz that were had were well worth the price. I began to do the cheat over and over again making a pile of tanks that crushed all the cars that came near me.

"Loan me a 20?"

Slowly but surely I noticed a change in the world. There were small pyramids of tanks where a battle had occurred and I had used my dark powers to win. But there we so few cars around, and the streets seemed dead. I would look for a cab but none would come near. Occasionally I would find a group of people and I would slaughter them, the stars would pop up on my screen and I would hear sirens but no cops would arrive on the scene. No ambulances would come by to help the dearly departed, they would just lie there as my o so alone character stood over them with a rifle. No this is not the beginning of your new favorite creepy pasta, though I might just do that, it is what happens when you overload the games cache.

My city looked like this in some places.

The tanks were somehow a constant strain on the processor and were always put in place even if that part of the map had not even loaded. This meant that all the other cars had no room to be created, even most of the ones that were supposed to always be placed in the same location. The only way to get around was to summon another tank and go from there. Even the missions became broken as some critical cars would never load. I took it upon myself to fix this problem but seeing as how most tanks were indestructible and I had made just over nine-thousand of them the better decision was to just restart.  I did not want to do this as I had just made it to the third island before the realization set in but it was the only option. With bitter tears in my eyes I deleted the save file off my card and began anew. My new character oblivious to the horrors that had befallen his predecessor.

What did you learn?

I learned that while sometimes you can cheat a little and everything will be fine. Sometimes however, even in real life, too much of cheating will burn you in the end. Too much of a bad thing is a bad thing. I also learned that you should never save your game when using cheat codes.

-Snickelsox

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