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Bethesda's Bug 

"Bethesda's Bug" refers to a flaw in design that cannot be explicitly defined as intentional or accidental, coined by Joesph Anderson in an analysis of the game Fallout 4 on Youtube.

You might have experienced a feeling where you forget you are watching a movie. You might forget you are reading a book and the world it creates becomes this oasis in your imagination. The best works of fiction feel like extensions of reality with characters that walk off the pages.
Bethesda's Bug breaks a player's immersion and at worse disconnects someone from a world they were enjoying and makes them question that world the developers have built. It makes that world feel small and reveals that it was not fully realized and might make you want to put an otherwise good game down.

"Bethesda" is a studio that develops videogames and a "bug" refers to a behavior a creator may not have intended (almost always referring to videogames or software). "Bethesda's Bug" is a transmogrification of the "Schrödinger's Cat" thought experiment.

Anderson, J. "Fallout 4 Analysis". 28 November 2015. Youtube.
What constitutes a "Bethesda's Bug" is pretty nebulous. Any example I can think of that actually qualifies is far too intensive for the purposes of this definition.
I suggest* you watch Joeseph Anderson's Fallout 4 Analysis video on Youtube if you want an example in context. It's a long video but it is worth the watch if you like excessively critical analysis. 25 minutes in he mentions Bethesda's Bug.

*He will spoil the game so if you have any intention of playing Fallout 4 I suggest you go in blind and form your own opinions before exposing yourself to a review.*
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Bethesda Software 

A Video game Developer/Publisher. Responsible for Many truly epic games, which also have truly epic bugs. Lists of bugs for their games are dozens of pages long, and their patches often leave the games worse off than before. Currently the Reigning king of the unpolished game.
DUDE 1: I can't wait For the new game by Bethesda Software!!!

DUDE 2: I can wait. They never finish their games until a few months after release. Why should I pay them to be a Beta tester.

Bethesda Steamer 

Farting in a bitches face while she giving you head
Last night I gave a hoe a Bethesda Steamer while she sucked me off.
Bethesda Steamer by gr8pimp January 26, 2008

Bethesda Syndrome

A pattern of amnesiac, delusions of grandure & even signs of borderline insanity related specifically to media, mainly BGS, in a perpetual state of self reassurance in their products to be of above average quality & justifying their reliance on free public labour. Ie, modders, to finish their incomplete games claiming it instead as "community building" (this lies in contrast to a plethora of game releases throughout the industry releasing finished game titles that go onto gather a substantial modding community) and largely relies mainly on the nostalgiaic experiences over merit & quality.

All of which are contrary to both their ever increasing subpar quality of the studio but also their chronic declinining quality & delay of releases.

Example:
"...skyrim is undoubtedly one of the best games to have ever been made imo. it has such a large map to explore, interesting dialogue with SO many npcs, and i believe there are 18 different skills that you can master..."

While not abjectly terrible or bad, Skyrim is one of the most, buggy, janky, barebones rpgs & a downgrade from its graphically inferior but otherwise more indepth & quality releases, Oblivion, and since then has increasingly released worse titles & products that have always been outclassed & outmatched by other game studios in almost every way.
(Examples of such games: Deus Ex, Balders Gate II, Fallout 1 & 2, The Witcher 3, NieR - Automata, Kingdom Come, Deliverance, etc)
"Bethesda is gonna remaster Fallout? Dont people remember Fallout 4 Next Gen? This is a serious case of Bethesda Syndrome"

North Bethesda middle school 

North Bethesda is a mostly white school filled with a mix of Kensington and Bethesda kids

Have very lit pee pee times and are similar to Westland and silver creek in its vape and weed cultures, thank fully they are not like Pyle.
North Bethesda middle school weed central

North Bethesda Middle School 

Crackhead central with a bunch of tryhard soccer jocks attempting to flex on the normal people with vineyard vines and supreme shit. 80% of teachers don’t know the subject they’re teaching. Borderline slut city and Virgin Islands in one. Abundance of introvert memers. Prolly the only good part about the school
Person one: I go to North Bethesda Middle School
Person two: pick a number 1-10
Person one: 5

Person 2: that’s your IQ
Person one: but I meme
Person two: shit my bad bro

North Bethesda Middle School 

A middle school in Bethesda, Maryland. Half the students vape in the bathrooms and the other half don't give two shits about academics. Supposedly really good as well.
The teachers are pretty hit-or-miss but all of the eighth grade science teachers are very bad. However, the science olympiad team has done pretty well for the past few years, so there's that.
May or may not be known as the "racist school"
person 1: so you go to North Bethesda Middle School?
person 2: yeah, and I'm on the scioly team-
person 1: you're a racist
person 2: how rude