Breaking the ThrowboTad Curse

On Valentine's Day, 2021, local Cycle Sports competitor and Super Mario 64 - 16 Star Speedrunner, TurboTad set forth to break his PB (Personal Best) time in Mario 64 and destroy the curse that has been colloquially known as ThrowboTad. Turbo spent his early years as a 3D printing expert, in this time he learned the ways of the 3D space. This talent gave him a vast unrelenting understanding of platforming in environments, some detailed this knowledge as cheating, but local judges at Games Done Quick gave Turbo a pass due to the nature of the talent.The ThrowbowTad Curse first began to emerge by simple mistakes like accidentally quitting to the main menu instead of saving the game. Though these minor inconveniences did not slow down the brave and valiant TurboTad, they emboldened him in his quest for improvement. Small save mistakes could not stop him as he mastered the BLJ (Backwards Long Jump) a maneuver that allows Mario's backward momentum to reach critical mass and send him at the speed of light up stairs.

Though the curse was intelligent in design. Lore curators have spent countless hours trying to figure out if this curse was actually a rogue AI (Artificial Intelligence) that was birthed through connecting a N64 and Mario 64 cartridge to the internet or if it was just a fluke. One moment lead a curator to believe this AI had taken grip of the characters in the game, using the baby penguin like a pawn on a chess board to evade all attacks as if he was Muhammad Ali in the boxing ring. Sometimes the curse manifested itself in the real world as well, using its power to intoxicate the young and able TurboTad to slow his agile reflexes so he could not overcome easy skips. The likelihood of the rogue AI became all too apparent when it started shifting the plains of reality in the game, raising invisible barriers to slow our champion runner.

Sadly for this AI, its life and existence came to an end when an emboldened TurboTad pushed beyond bad splits every step of the way and slayed his PB by nearly 1 minute. Turbo felt disappointed by this victory that did not feel like a victory, but us lore curators know the truth behind this victory. Turbo was not just victorious in his personal goals, but he was able to stop a rogue AI that would have likely launched all the nukes had it escaped the N64 cartridge. Judgement day will not be today, not this time, not this timeline.