Looks like someone's never played Cookie Clickerhttps://twitter.com/yiffpolice/status/1264649779168120837 …
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In bowling, after 12 strikes in a row, you have a perfect 300 points and the game is over. You can keep counting strikes and/or points after that if you like, but you're no longer playing the same game as everybody else, or following the same rules
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I guess the flip side of it is that videogames are so broadly diverse and weird that it's really down to the community surrounding each individual game to make up competition rules which make the most sense for their purpose
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"For competition purposes, we consider all scores to be multiplied by a trillion"
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Anyway here's Giga Wing 2, which was the highest-scoring game I was aware of prior to Cookie Clickerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsCx8wUF3bg …
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And most speedruns involve doing things which are "allowed" by the game's programming, but not intended to be. Sort of the opposite of the "maximum score" thing, wherein an infinite max score is usually "intended", and any cap is due to hardware limits mistaken assumptions
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But, but... time is from our world, points are from video game world.
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