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== Natural glitches and non-natural glitches ==
Some glitches are considered "non-natural glitches" because they can only be performed from an already [[#As an adjective|glitched]] game state. In order to reach such a glitched game state, another glitch would need to be performed first, which would be known as the "parent glitch" of the other glitch. Conversely, glitches that do not require a parent glitch are called "
Natural glitches are always notable because they indicate logic errors in the underlying game program, i.e., software bugs. On the other hand, non-natural glitches reflect a "[[wikipedia:Garbage in, garbage out|garbage in, garbage out]]" scenario that is not necessarily due to any underlying errors in that part of the program. For example, the [[double Blue glitch]] happens because the programmer assumed that the player must earn the Boulder Badge before earning the Earth Badge. This is a very reasonable assumption: The player [[Pewter Gym skip glitch|escaping from Pewter City]] without beating Brock is not supposed to happen, and if it does, then the programmer has [[Brock Through Walls|bigger things]] to worry about.
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