The Short Film the Glitch (2022)
Another term we adopted to describe some of our problems was "glitch." Literally, a glitch is a spike or change in voltage in an electrical circuit which takes place when the circuit suddenly has a new load put on it. Some games purposely include effects that look like glitches as a means to break the fourth wall and either scare the player or put the player at unease, or otherwise as part of the game's narrative. Glitches can be deliberately induced in certain home video game consoles by manipulating the game medium, such as tilting a ROM cartridge to disconnect one or more connections along the edge connector and interrupt part of the flow of data between the cartridge and the console. Graphical glitches are especially notorious in platforming games, where malformed textures can directly affect gameplay (for example, by displaying a ground texture where the code calls for an area that should damage the character, or by not displaying a wall texture where there should be one, resulting in an invisible wall). Glitches can also be costly: in 2015, a bank was unable to raise interest rates for weeks resulting in losses of more than a million dollars per day.
Games like Eternal Darkness and Batman: Arkham Asylum include segments with intentional glitches where it appears that the player's game system has failed. Certain games have a cloud-type system for updates to the software that can be used to repair coding faults and other errors in the games. Often, games will play sounds incorrectly due to corrupt data altering the values predefined in the code. Sound glitches prevent sounds from playing properly in some way. The chance of a physics error happening can either be entirely random or accidentally caused, such as a bug in the notoriously developed 2006 Sonic the Hedgehog reboot that can launch the player character a significant distance when coming into contact with a particular crate in a particular way. This can result in graphic, music, or gameplay errors. In other contexts, a glitch can represent an undesirable result of a fault or design error that can produce a malfunction. Such glitches could produce problems such as keyboard malfunction, number key failures, screen abnormalities (turned left, right or upside-down), random program malfunctions, and abnormal program registering. Some glitches are potentially dangerous to the game's stored data, such as MissingNo.
Normally, these changes in voltage are protected by fuses. Situations which are frequently called computer glitches are incorrectly written software (software bugs), incorrect instructions given by the operator (operator errors, and a failure to account for this possibility might also be considered a software bug), undetected invalid input data (this might also be considered a software bug), undetected communications errors, computer viruses, Trojan attacks and computer exploiting (sometimes called "hacking"). Multiple works of popular culture deal with glitches; those with the word "glitch" or derivations thereof are detailed in Glitch (disambiguation). One type of glitch often used for speedrunning is a stack overflow, which is referred to as "overflowing". In broadcasting, a corrupted signal may glitch in the form of jagged lines on the screen, misplaced squares, static looking effects, freezing problems, or inverted colors. Other examples from the world of radio can be found in the 1940s. The April 11, 1943, issue of The Washington Post carried a review of Helen Sioussat's book about radio broadcasting, Mikes Don't Bite. The more difficult DJ modes can be completed in the Party mode as long as there is a "Pass It" on the last few patterns.
More generally, all types of systems including human organizations and nature experience glitches. These glitches may be caused by a variety of issues, interference from portable electronics or microwaves, damaged cables at the broadcasting center, or weather. An electronics glitch or logic hazard is a transition that occurs on a signal before the signal settles to its intended value, particularly in a digital circuit. In public declarations, glitch is used to suggest a minor fault which will soon be rectified and is therefore used as a euphemism for a bug, which is a factual statement that a programming fault is to blame for a system failure. A glitch is a short-lived fault in a system, such as a transient fault that corrects itself, making it difficult to troubleshoot. The short film The Glitch (2008), opening film and best science fiction finalist at Dragon Con Independent Film Festival 2008, deals with the disorientation of late-night TV viewer Harry Owen (Scott Charles Blamphin), who experiences "heavy brain-splitting digital breakdowns". Foreign versions of the game, however, were shipped with this glitch already patched. Doing this, however, carries the risk of crashing the game or even causing permanent damage to the game medium. For example, in 2013, Hasbro released a game called Bop It Beats. This was c reated with t he help of GSA Conte nt Gener ator Demoversi on.
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