Chose one :) You can't state it was a myth and then later say you don't know!
I've heard the same thing about older CRT monitors and remember reading about people damaging their CRT monitors by careless programming in regards to refresh rates. But I haven't actually seen in real life, and I must have read about this in the early 90s or something like that I think, so long time ago.
> You can't state it was a myth and then later say you don't know!
The word myth generally has two meanings. One is that it's a false belief. The other is that it's a legendary story of which the truth is not known. GP obviously intended the latter definition.
Well I mean it was in the category of "you can catch mew in Pokemon Yellow if you get to the truck behind the ship"-myth. People have said it, I read about it online in the "early days" but I've never seen it happen to anyone.
Yes, "back in the day" you could only get it through official distribution, or hack it in with a gameshark code. There was a truck behind the SS Anne that you could get to(you had to get the HM move from the boss, then faint - that would put you in the nearest pokecentre, so you could continue until you found HM Swim, then you could go back to the ship since it never departed, and swim behind it - and yep, there was a truck) - but that truck did nothing, it was just set decoration.
The RNG method to encounter Mew in the wild was only discovered years and years later and most definitely wasn't known 20 years ago.
I heard this in regarding to Linux and X, back in the 90ies. That scared me away from Linux for quite some time. I felt confident, that I could fix any "software damage" to the family PC running Windows, but I did not want to risk hardware damage.
> No idea if that was real though
Chose one :) You can't state it was a myth and then later say you don't know!
I've heard the same thing about older CRT monitors and remember reading about people damaging their CRT monitors by careless programming in regards to refresh rates. But I haven't actually seen in real life, and I must have read about this in the early 90s or something like that I think, so long time ago.