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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Playing a video game, I managed to quicksave in the split-second before an elevator squashed my player (who, for some bizarre reason I can't ever imagine, was standing under it as it was descending -- nope, don't look at me, it's not my fault).
So I'd get crushed by the elevator, the quicksave would reload, I'd get crushed by the elevator, the quicksave would reload, I'd get crushed by the elevator...
I eventually reverted to my last manual save, which was an hour earlier.
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You found a bug.
I had one like that decades ago.
I worked for a bank, and the area I was in had a couple of Digital Equipment PDP-11 mini-computers. The Small Systems Manager decided to use one to support word processing by the secretarties. (This was before word processing was a standard application on PCs just beginning to appear on desktops, and secretaries used dedicated WP systems from companie liker Wang. DEC had a WP setup for the PDP-11s, so...)
The DEC box also had an assortment of games. One of them was an old text adventure game called Dungeon, which was a clone of the original Adventure game. You started at a location, and had to get into and explore a dungeon, collecting treasure and avoiding monsters. (You learned to take notes and draw maps to keep track of where you were now and had been.)
One room had a vampire bat that would swoop down, pick you up, and carry you off to another part of the dungeon...
unless you were carrying the garlic, in which case it stayed as far away from you as it could, holding its nose.
I was carrying the garlic, but I had it in the paper bag which normally held lunch. So the bat would swoop down and carry mo off, reset, swoop down and carry me off, in an endless loop till I terminated the game.
I was tech support for systems like that in my area, and secretaries discovered they could play games when not doing work assigned by superiors, so I'd get official support calls like "How do I get the bucket top rise to the top of the well?" I once answered that one in person for a secretary while the high level VP she worked for was standing beside her.
"Under what circumstances does a bucket normally rise to the top of a well?"
"When it has water in it... Oh! So I have to have the bottle with water in it, and..."
"Exactly."
(VP Ed was a good guy I liked a lot, and was not perturbed by his secretary playing games on company time. She carried out his assignments with precision and dispatch, and had spare moments to play Dungeon. Fine by him.)
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Dennis