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NES Games & State Machines
A couple of years ago gamedev channel NesHacker did a video on how everything in your typical NES game is really a pile of state machines, concurrent ones, nested ones, bunches and bunches of them. If you have any interest in NES coding at all, it's worth a look. (8½ minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lZ53Sx5oc0

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https://setsideb.com/nes-games-state-machines/
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How NES Games Use State Machines For Everything

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EmergentSage Feb 2

I'm not saying it's aliens: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18452427 #3IATLAS #InterstellarObject #OHSpectroscopy #MeerKAT #SETI #astrophysics #ComplexSystems #InformationTheory #StateMachines @setiinstitute @Astrodon

Consider: OH lines in 3I/ATLAS appear to show non‑Markovian behavior.

A turbulent coma shouldn’t remember an asymmetry for 12 days, invert it, gate a hyperfine line, and terminate at alignment.

Systems without memory don’t produce sequences.

The 3I/ATLAS Event: A Protocol Lens Interpretation of the OH Spectral Timeline (Oct–Dec 2025) A speculative analysis of structured state transitions in published MeerKAT and GBT observations

Between 24 October and 18 December 2025, Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS was observed repeatedly in the OH 1665/1667 MHz lines by MeerKAT, with a final L‑band technosignature search performed by the Green Bank Telescope. Although each observation was published independently, the combined sequence forms a discrete, bounded episode: an initial asymmetric detection, a clean non‑detection, a rapid inversion of hyperfine line widths, a selective suppression event, a brief return to dual‑line emission, and a final null result. This paper examines the entire timeline through a protocol lens: a speculative exercise asking whether the published data are consistent with a finite‑state transmission sequence. No claim of artificiality is made; instead, the analysis highlights how the ordered structure of the observations resembles a preamble → guard interval → channel test → symbol state → termination pattern familiar from engineered communication systems.

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