Speedrunning Memes

Speedrunners rejoice! Back in 2013, a cosmic ray bit-flip literally saved a Super Mario 64 speedrunner's attempt by causing an upward warp that shouldn't have been possible through normal gameplay. The runner was competing against DOTA_TeaBag when this astronomical intervention occurred, and it's become one of the most legendary moments in speedrunning history. Cosmic rays are high-energy particles from space that can actually flip bits in computer memory—turning a 0 to a 1 or vice versa. While usually these cause crashes or errors, this time the universe decided to be a bro and helped Mario defy physics instead. The probability of this happening at exactly the right moment? Astronomically low. But that's what makes it so beautifully absurd. So yeah, sometimes you don't need better gaming skills—you just need the cosmos to yeet a particle at your RAM at precisely the right millisecond. Science: 1, Normal gameplay: 0.