unormal,
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What's the toughest boss-level bug you've ever fixed?

Cheeseness,
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@unormal While working on Day of the Tentacle Remastered, I came across a bug in iMUSE (cool dynamic music system) that was manifesting reliably on Linux (other platforms too, but less consistently). Turns undefined behaviour was involved in tracking note duration. A note/sequence might be meant to last for a quarter second, but oh no, we're not always reading from the right place in memory. 8 years later, I still feel a moment of rising panic when the bird coughing sample plays in the intro.

eniko,
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@Cheeseness @unormal from what i know of iMUSE working on that system sounds super intimidating

eniko,
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@unormal poison bug in MidBoss. It existed for many years and I could never replicate or fix it. Turns out players who experienced it would start running like crazy while poisoned and the bug would only happen if the poison tick that killed you happened while you were moving continuously, something I never did as an experienced roguelike player. Fixed it the day someone pointed out it happened while moving

lkmad,
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@eniko @unormal sounds to me it was a feature. ;D

fireborn,

@lkmad @eniko @unormal Any bug is a feature if it exists long enough.

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