User blog:Ultra64Detective2401/MIPS Hole HQ:Current Facts

A list of every known fact mentioned in the MIPS Hole HQ joke canon.


 * MIPS Hole HQ is a place where people search for anomalies in Super Mario 64. This is, in fact, the employees’ job there.
 * There are training tapes used, but they are severely outdated, being from the late 1600’s. How they were able to mention Mario 64 at all is likely temporal shenanigans. New tapes from late 2020 exist, but for some reason are not currently published.
 * MIPS Hole HQ is known to be overseen by a council. These are, as far as we know, the people in charge of the entire organization.
 * The ground floor and above has something known as Escherian Geometry, named after M. C. Escher. That is because gravity is relative there. This has been used to have six “rooms” in what would be a single room, and twelve when imaginary angles are added to the mix.
 * MIPS Hole HQ is implied to have complex numbers for latitude and longitude. That’s because it’s directly mentioned here nobody who can’t move imaginary units of distance should be able to find themselves there. In fact, it’s implied that anywhere with complex latitude or longitude is ruled by some society, country, or organization secret to those stuck in real coordinates.
 * Imaginary floors, and by extension, imaginary shifts in gravity, do in fact exist at MIPS Hole HQ, but are not used by newbies, instead only be experienced workers. Hence, the outdated training tapes never mentioned them.
 * Incidents tend to be quite common at HQ. Some employees simply can’t follow simple instructions, which is the cause for many incidents of falling down stairs, but it’s not just that:Technology malfunctions appear to be quite common. In fact, as of 2/6/2022, the stairs are currently malfunctioning, meaning employees are stuck using the fireman poles instead. It’s been joked that if the “Days Without an Incident” counter ever reached the double-digits, it’d be a miracle.
 * MIPS Hole has a basement floor, which is currently blocked off due to unstable topology-More specifically, it’s non-symmetrical, meaning taking one path, and taking the same path backwards won’t always get you back where you started. Many have gotten lost down there. Currently, secret tapes are stored there, as revealed by Oli leaking it, and a strange entity that is not yet revealed can also be found down there. There are also rumors of a perpetual energy machine down there, but they have been neither confirmed nor denied.
 * There have also been mentions of a second basement that is even worse, but one is not to talk about the second basement-It’s implied to be that bad.
 * Evil twins are canon:They come from the Inverse Dimension. They’re harmless unless they are unleashed, in which case they are very dangerous. There is a proper way to handle the situation where they are unleashed, yet for some reason the Council is not updating the tapes to add this information in.
 * Parallel Universes in fact exist:And they work like in Super Mario 64:That is, you mist build up speed to get there, and they exist by being physically far outside the bounds of this universe. However, objects appear to actually exist there, and the PUs appear to actually be visible-Instead, each PU is more like a traditional parallel universe, where some things are different. HQ actually has a device to transport between them, but it is currently malfunctioning. QPU alignment is canon as well, and getting QPU misaligned is hinted to have a very bad effect.
 * In fact, downwarping and upwarping are also canon.
 * If someone breaks certain rules, they are “terminated”. There are rumors this means that they DIE, but when queried on the matter, the Council explains the term means a loss of their job. That is to say, you are terminated from being an employee at MIPS Hole.
 * Things are not always as they appear at MIPS Hole HQ... Some of what people think they know is discovered to be wrong when they reach a higher clearance level...

BONUS:If these were actual videos, some of them would likely fall under the “analog horror” genre.

Keep this in mind if you want to discover the truth...