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When Venezuela's economy collapsed, playing RuneScape for about $100 a month became more profitable than a typical Venezuelan college graduate's salary. The game became a genuine source of income for many Venezuelans.
The gameDoom is the quintessential example of software porting. Porting Doom to seemingly impossible devices — pianos, notepads, microwaves — has become a programming tradition, and someone has even ported Doom to run inside Doom itself.
In 2013, during a gameSuper Mario 64 speedrun, Mario suddenly teleported. A $1,000 bounty yielded no answers for 8 years. The cause: spaceradiation flipped a single bit in the console's memory, altering Mario's position coordinates.
A mom who started playing RuneScape with her son in 2002 built an in-game business empire with recruiters, trainers, managers, and security. She held the #1 Runecrafting rank by 5× and it stood for 3 years after she retired. On her last day, she gave everything to new players.
Chess, Go, and gomoku are proven to have unbeatable strategies (Zermelo's theorem). The theorem proves they exist—not what they are. In gomoku, the winning strategy is known, so tournaments use modified rules.
In Korea, only two companies can make sojubottle caps—not due to technical difficulty, but because the National Tax Service since 1972 restricts production to designated firms, cross-checking cap counts against liquor output to prevent tax evasion.