Bugs and glitches are nothing new in sports video games, but this graphical bug in MLB The Show 17 is so horrible it genuinely makes your skin crawl:
A bug in MLB The Show 17 early development (which has been fixed) pic.twitter.com/UBC78sUF7q
— Steve Noah (@Steve_OS) March 16, 2017
The thing on the left looks like a hastily crafted effigy created to put a voodoo curse on someone. You can’t really parse exactly what you’re looking at, but the tree trunk-like head suddenly starts resembling a villainous face the more you look at it:
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The less I say about the player on the right the better. It genuinely unsettles me and I don’t like it at all.
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These easily surpass the monsters we got from NBA 2K15’s face scanning back in 2014:
Hey @NBA2K this face scan is pretty busted. How's my face look @LD2K @Ronnie2K lol. pic.twitter.com/IN6w4dVMPr
— Sang Frais (@SangFrais) October 7, 2014