I translated this little article so my partner and friends can read it in English:

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“August 32nd: The Everlasting Summer Vacation”

This might be my favorite malicious bug in gaming history (and no, it’s not just some urban legend—it’s a real, game-breaking bug).
In the 2000 PlayStation game Boku no Natsuyasumi (My Summer Vacation), there’s a notorious bug caused by corrupted save data.

Instead of reaching the proper ending—where summer vacation ends and the new semester begins on September 1st—players are instead trapped in a nonexistent day: August 32nd, and the world around them starts to break down: models distort, texts glitch, and everything spirals into chaos.

I’ve always been fascinated by this concept, thinking there’s some deeper philosophy hidden within it.
“Summer vacation should never end, the new semester should never start”—a wish countless kids have shared. This longing to freeze time, to resist growing up, is often described as the Jonah Complex or Peter Pan Syndrome. But this bug, with its intense meta-horror, feels like a warning: if you refuse to face the future, everything will inevitably fall apart. It’s like the hallucination of a chick refusing to break free from its shell—but without breaking the shell, it can’t grow, can’t even survive.

Perhaps none of us really have a choice in the matter. No one can delay the arrival of tomorrow, and no one can stop the flow of time.

“You can always return to the past, but no one is there anymore.” This bittersweet terror, often explored in games and arts known as "NostalgiaCore", stems from the same truth, I think: time marches on like an arrow; and life goes on anyway.