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But the engine refused to end. The screen began to tear horizontally. Sprites melted into each other. Rugal’s eye appeared on Sailor Moon’s brooch. Tankman’s turret fired Ronald McDonald’s shoes. The background—the Blue Screen of Death—began to show actual error text: The announcer, a garbled WAV file of the