The fastest way to experience this phenomenon is by playing the Touhou games. After a few hours of gameplay, closing your eyes will almost guarantee that you’ll see bullet patterns unfolding in the static behind your eyelids.
I wonder why didn't they add a system crash analyzer component that would tell user their CPU is misbehaving (xor eax, eax) to save themselves some hard to debug support volume.
As someone who's written replacement backend Xbox Live server infra, I can confirm that system link is very nearly the same base protocol set as is used by Live. They must have had that nailed down pretty close to launch, and were mainly working on support services that live needs but system link doesn't up until Live actually launched.
The game was actually close to ship without multiplayer, it was an afterthought. Some devs have talked about this (iirc, Marty O’Donnell was one of them).
Goldeneye is one of the best case studies for why companies should give their engineers room to experiment. If I remember correctly, the multiplayer mode was originally a side project of one of the engineers and was added near the end of development.
This isn't to say the campaign mode isn't good, but the ability for boys to play a shooter game against each other on the same console is what made that game.
Looks like the person that posted this decided to editorialize a little too much because there's nothing written about being a dashcam in the GitHub repo.
How would you know if a segfault occurred? The simulation crashing would halt your own consciousness as well. It will probably be fine though, they started with a stress test of extreme conditions back at what we call the big bang.
