Rendering Thread Exception Batman Arkham City ◆ | LEGIT |

Bruce pulled up the log. The stack trace pointed to characters/joker/materials/face_final . A shader compilation failure. But that was the symptom. The cause was deeper.

"Bats?" he said, his voice normal again. "I feel… peculiar."

He was in a chair. A hard, plastic chair in a room that smelled of stale coffee and burnt ozone. The Batcomputer in the Cave was a projection. The Cave itself was a texture map stretched over a greybox void.

Batman walked through the frozen polygons of Arkham City. He walked past the Riddler’s frozen green question marks. He walked up to the Joker’s frozen, half-deleted face. He placed a hand on the corrupted mesh. rendering thread exception batman arkham city

Batman looked at the crumbling skybox. He looked at the Joker’s half-rendered corpse. And he realized: the exception wasn't a bug. It was a test.

The world froze.

"Your existence is a rendering thread exception," Batman growled, his cape clipping through his own legs. Bruce pulled up the log

"I'm a feature," the Joker laughed. "Every time you punch a thug, every time you solve a riddle, you're just re-compiling me. You can't delete me without corrupting the whole save file. You know what that means?"

He raised his arm. Not to fire a batclaw, but to open the developer console. He typed a single command.

He was wrong, of course. The Joker always finds a way to corrupt the heap. But that's a story for another patch. But that was the symptom

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He had two options.