While Twitter users joked about how the social media platform is on the brink of death and deletion thanks to Elon Musk's mismanagement, game developers took the opportunity to make a final admission, forgiving all their design sins. It began with the senior character artist for Overwatch (open in new tab) admitting that he hid "an abstracted version of Ross in an old project" and continued from there.

Other developers have confessed to similar Loss-related transgressions against video games. For those who have been fortunate enough to remain unaware of the Loss meme, it began when the half-baked video game-themed webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del took an unexpectedly dramatic turn with a strip about a miscarriage. This attempt to add emotional weight to the gamer's sit-down gag cartoon has chroniclers online to this day tormenting each other with minimal but recognizable interpretations of this four-panel (opens in new tab).

And there is a Loss edit in the crocodile in "Maneater" (opens in new tab), an entire level of "Super Meat Boy Forever" (opens in new tab) references Loss, and somewhere in "A Hat in Time" (opens in new tab) a "cruise ship That's why there is a "size of a cruise ship" Loss meme somewhere in "A Hat in Time" (opens in a new tab). Hiding Ross's edits of textures and tilesets (open in new tab) is a recurring theme of this thread, as is hiding other images and animations, whether bananas (open in new tab) or Naruto's run (open in new tab).

Much of the "sin" is actually not so sinful, like the textured images that no one notices. For example, agreeing to reduce the reload and run speed buffs in "Far Cry 6" and not doing so (open in new tab) would make you a hero in the eyes of many. Similarly, a champion tester who noticed that when Tris rotated 180 degrees in "The Witcher 3" "her boobs would shake for 15 seconds" submitted a ticket to nerf that boob shake (opens in new tab). Also, a writer for "Guardians of the Galaxy" (opens in new tab) mentioned to the characters that another name suggested for their team was "Stardust Crusaders" in reference to the "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" arc.

Other hilarious developer hacks include a reminder that the Metro Car in "Fallout 3" is actually an item of clothing that is equipped in the player's hands; in Outer Wilds, the player does not move (opens in a new tab), but the entire rest of the universe does and movement and aiming become smoother. Also, in Outriders, there is a forest fire scene, but since there is no fire propagation system, the poor designer had to script "about 600 plants to burn individually" (opens in new tab).

But not all are blameless. May the Lord find it in His heart to forgive the monster who admitted, "I worked on Babsy 3D." (Open in new tab)