Good Bad Bugs/New Media

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Examples of Good Bad Bugs in New Media include:

  • In the Google Earth flight simulator, if you hit the ground, you die. However, if you start on the ground, don't take off and be very careful with the controls, the game doesn't register you hitting the ground as dying. Because of this, you can, among other things, taxi a propeller plane through/out of/into the Grand Canyon/Mount Everest and taxi a F16 on/under water.
  • deviantART had a bug that if you checked a message as soon as you received it, the time would sometimes say, "In the future."
    • Sounds more like The Dev Team Thinks of Everything to me...
    • The explanation may be more mundane. A lot of web frameworks have reusable functions to convert dates into human-readable relative descriptions, such as "5 minutes ago" or "1 day ago". They're written to be usable for any date in the past or the future; so, for example, you could have reminders for "2 days in the future."
  • YouTube has a bug where if you put a 0.1 second pause at the end of a video, it will sometimes loop back to the start. This has led to some interesting results.
    • Speaking of YouTube, the official iPhone and Android apps for the site both have exploits that allow you to view 18+ videos without an account.
  • Some forums have bugs where a person's post can be shunted a few minutes (or even hours) back or forwards in time and end up appearing in the wrong place. While this can be amusing enough as it is it is even better when it's a forum about a time travel game.

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