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This ‘MLB The Show’ bug is legitimately horrifying to look at

James Dator
James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.

Bugs and glitches are nothing new in sports video games, but this graphical bug in MLB The Show 17 is so horrible it genuinely makes your skin crawl:

The thing on the left looks like a hastily crafted effigy created to put a voodoo curse on someone. You can’t really parse exactly what you’re looking at, but the tree trunk-like head suddenly starts resembling a villainous face the more you look at it:

The less I say about the player on the right the better. It genuinely unsettles me and I don’t like it at all.

These easily surpass the monsters we got from NBA 2K15’s face scanning back in 2014:

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