While in the subway today, was - I'm sorry to say - camping Eumenides for that ring that does you know what. I've yet to get one.

Of course, no one likes to look at battle spam and kill Slum Runners while waiting, so I browsed through a few online newspapers, and one featured a quicktime movie implemented on one of its pages. I play in windowed mode, and when I alt+tab'ed back to the game, strange things started happening. All textures flickered, and here are examples:

http://www.transient.nu/ao/ao_strangeerror.jpg

As you can see, my name is completely illegible, as is the chat prompt.

http://www.transient.nu/ao/ao_strangeworldmap.jpg

This is the world map, though you wouldn't believe it

After exiting the game and restarting it, hoping things would get better, something even stranger happened. The entire screen started shuffling about, and looked much like this (manipulated, the screenshot didn't capture it)

http://www.transient.nu/ao/ao_strangererror.jpg

Pretty sick. In addition to it looking like this, the luminosity of the textured flickered and varied alot as well.

This is Eumenides by the way, for those of you who have yet to meet him:

http://www.transient.nu/ao/ao_eumenides.jpg

No sign of this error after I rebooted.