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  2. Screen of death - Wikipedia

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    By far, this is the most famous screen of death. Black Screens of Death are used by several systems. One is a failure mode of Windows 3.x. One appears when the bootloader for Windows Vista and later fails. In early Windows 11 previews, the Blue Screen of Death was changed to black. [1]

  3. Grand Theft Auto modding - Wikipedia

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    User modification, or modding, of video games in the open world sandbox Grand Theft Auto series is a popular trend in the PC gaming community. These unofficial modifications are made by altering gameplay logic and asset files within a user's game installation, and can change the player's experience to varying degrees.

  4. Flicker (screen) - Wikipedia

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    The flicker of a CRT monitor can cause various symptoms in those sensitive to it such as eye strain, headaches [9] in migraine sufferers, and seizures in epileptics. [10]As the flicker is most clearly seen at the edge of our vision there is no obvious risk in using a CRT, but prolonged use can cause a sort of retinal shock where the flickering is seen even when looking away from the monitor.

  5. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    Windows 3.1 displays a black screen of death instead of a blue one. [21] Some versions of macOS (notably OS X Lion) display a black screen of death instead of a kernel panic, usually pointed to a graphics card or sleep/wake issue, [40] it may also display a black screen when the operating system fails to boot properly. [41]

  6. Blinkenlights - Wikipedia

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    The Connection Machine, a 65 536-processor parallel computer designed in the mid-1980s, was a black cube with one side covered with a grid of red blinkenlights; the sales demo had them evolving Conway's Game of Life patterns. [1] The two CPU load monitors on the front of BeBoxes were also called "blinkenlights". [3]

  7. Screen burn-in - Wikipedia

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    Burn-in on a monitor, when severe as in this "please wait" message, is visible even when the monitor is switched off. Screen burn-in, image burn-in, ghost image, or shadow image, is a permanent discoloration of areas on an electronic visual display such as a cathode-ray tube (CRT) in an older computer monitor or television set.

  8. Sprite (computer graphics) - Wikipedia

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    A technique called billboarding allows 2.5D games to keep onscreen sprites rotated toward the player view at all times. Some 2.5D games, such as 1993's Doom , allow the same entity to be represented by different sprites depending on its rotation relative to the viewer, furthering the illusion of 3D.

  9. List of video games notable for negative reception - Wikipedia

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    GameSpot gave the game a score of 2.8 out of 10, [104] while IGN gave it a score of 2.2 out of 10 for the Xbox version [105] and 3.5 out of 10 for the GameCube version. [106] GameRankings gave it a score of 24.06% for the Xbox version [ 107 ] and 27.83% for the GameCube version; [ 108 ] while Metacritic gave it a score of 25 out of 100 for the ...