maddeningscientist: I think my favorite glitch...

maddeningscientist:

I think my favorite glitch pokemon might have to be Bad EGG, which itself isn’t particularly impressive or scary, but peoples’ reactions to it are amazing. It was introduced in ruby/sapphire as what happens when a pokemon has an invalid checksum (i.e. you tried to hack it to have an illegal moveset)
It’s usually not possible to end up with one without hacking, but when I was lurking around on various pokemon forums it was infamous for slowly turning all of your other pokemon into badeggs. (keep in mind- this was a problem with the newer games, not RBY which nobody played seriously anymore).
Bulbapedia has nothing about this, but googling turned up a gamefaqs thread that suggests the problem is alive and well even in X and Y. Here’s my favorite quote:
olcon posted…

Procedures for dealing with a bad egg in your pc:

1. Do not touch the egg! That means no checking moves, stats, anything. It may have an item attached, do not attempt to retrieve the item!

2. The box the bad egg is in is immediately QUARANTINED.

3. Immediately remove all Pokemon from the quarantined box. They can and WILL be corrupted if they remain in close proximity to the bad egg.

4. Do not , I repeat, DO NOT attempt to withdraw the egg. Do NOT attempt to hatch the egg.

5. Your primary goal is to save all your Pokemon from infection. Treat a bad egg like you would a zombie pathogen that spreads via air.

6. Your secondary goal is to avoid the Pokemon “—–”. At all costs.
it reads like something out of an apocalyptic alien invasion and i love it