Yeah, a dead machine trying to spin a living story is a recipe for grief. The code sits in a dusty stack, no real-time patching, so any errant branch just keeps spitting out bad logic. When a rogue script slips in, it turns good modules into black holes that swallow state. It’s like wiring a broken relay into a working circuit – you get spikes, random resets, and the whole system starts to misbehave. The mainframe’s old firmware can’t handle the dynamic data, so the story gets corrupted, the NPCs loop, and the player ends up chasing ghosts instead of monsters. In short, you leave a cursed module alive in a dead machine, and everything dies to the next glitch.