There are a lot of insightful comments on why this happens, but here's the jist 1. Rock is word. 2. Rock(obj.) is not word. 3. Rock is no longer word. 4. "Rock(obj.) is not word." is no longer valid. 5. Therefore, Rock is word. 6. "Rock(obj.) is not word." is valid again. 7. Game now realizes what the hell just happened and intercepts here.

Now they need to add "Infinite Loop IS NOT Infinite" to solve this.

That's an XK class bruh moment scenario

FAQ! Q) What's so infinite about this? A) Normally, negative sentences override positive ones. So, for example, "baba is not you" invalidates any sentence that says "baba is you". If you spell "rock is word" and "rock is not word" normally, the latter overrides the former and the level carries on like normal. However, the inclusion of the physical [rock] in the sentences muddles things - the effect of the sentence "rock is word" is to allow a physical [rock] to be used in place of the word "rock". kazunoko_m spelled out [rock] "is not word", which is only a sentence if rock is word. The game sees "rock is word", so it makes [rock] be a word, which causes it to recognize [rock] "is not word", so it makes [rock] not be a word, which causes it NOT to recognize [rock] "is not word"... there's no sane way to interpret this arrangement of words and maybe-words, so the game gives up and throws an infinite loop screen. Q) So we solved the halting pro- A) Nope. The game doesn't look for infinite loops, it looks for long loops (200+ iterations) and just assumes they're infinite. Q) why does this feel kinda scary lmao A) Since Baba is You employs multiple layers of meta-gameplay, you don't feel safe in your little rectangle that is the level. Its rules are so fungible that you don't feel quite secure in your grasp of the situation. Thus, when the level suffers a catastrophic failure like this one, it's a brief moment of terror that the rules have escaped your understanding and are free to tear the game apart. (I mean, let's be real, if a Baba is You level presented you with the words "computer", "is", and "self-destruct", you wouldn't dare assemble that sentence.)

Just in case for those who do not understand what happens there, I leave me explanation here. When more than one conditions in the game contradict to one another, precedence rules are applied. One of them is "ROCK IS NOT BABA" precedes "ROCK IS BABA". Therefore you might see in some levels, you couldn't make some object turn into another and if you do so, the rules would be crossed out. From 2:23, the rule "ROCK IS WORD" is established, so the rocks are now viewed as both object and text. Because of this, another rules "ROCK IS NOT WORD" is also set at the same time vertically. These two contradict, and the latter one precedes. As a result, the rock objects are just objects now. However, because the rocks are not text at this instant, no contradiction is found when the rule "ROCK IS WORD" is built and thus it works, making rocks both object and text again. Due to the same reason, precedence comes into play and forbids rocks from being text, which nullifies the rule "ROCK IS NOT WORD", making "ROCK IS WORD" works again. Thus an infinite loop is created.

The infinite loop screen seems like something I'd come up with in a dream. It completely contradicts the rest of the game's visuals and that's what I love about it.

Honestly, if I somehow accidentaly got this screen while playing alone I would probaly shit myself

This screen doesnt exist in the Switch version, so if you try to do it, the game just dies

Baba is you infinite% when

>wall is not wall Wall: aight chief, I'm bouta head out

When you go ask your mom, she tells you to ask your dad, but your dad tells you to ask your mom, so you are like: 2:24 Honestly, the Infinite Loop screen is both creepy and soothing, basically looking like the reality haa collapsed, signified by the lack of music and the collapsing tone. Just like they caused an ZK-Class Reality Failure Scenario. Reality ceased to exist... music, none, just a void. The only thing that signifies that you broke reality, is the big infinity, staring at you with the judgemental eyes. Also, it has a meme potential.

2:24 Game Process View Time! "Ok, let's see, so rock is word." "Ok, so this rock is a word...wait, rock is not a word." "Ok, so that takes precedence over that...wait, rock is a word?" This repeats about 99 more times, until... "Hey, wait, I've done more than 200 operations. Must be an infinite loop. Cue the infinte loop sequence!"

we need an infinite loop% speedrun. run the game from the start until you find and execute the earliest possible infinite loop. might be interesting to route that

2:24 the sound of a world becoming undone.

the infinite loop screen is so oddly ominous I love it

I wish this was one of endings

Setup annotation: 0:03 letting text be pushed again by using rock teleport to ruin TEXT IS NOT PUSH 0:12 now text is push again 0:24 NOT is obtained, use it to remove the wall 0:44 setting up a portable rock teleporter 1:00 portable teleporter is set! 1:03 use the portable teleporter to obtain WORD 1:20 let TEXT IS NOT PUSH so that you can push rock into text 1:34 WORD get! 1:40 set up ROCK IS WORD and Rock(object) IS NOT WORD 2:24 *the l o o p*

“I’m sorry for my poor English.” Buddy. You type better English than most English users on the internet.

This has the same energy as the PS2 Red screen

This screen and the sound effect that goes with it would have really scared me as a kid, had I not known it was coming.

Time to get aliensrock to do this

That is actually scary

I love how the game took a second to realize what happened before saying “ah hell nah”

I tried it on my switch just now, still no patch :( Baba just makes noises forever. Poor baba.

Watching someone do this is like watching someone play pokemon puzzle league really good

I have been trying to find this game for 6 months but couldn't remember the name and now this popped on my front page, thank you so much

Ok the screen is in switch now!

For some reason the infinite loop sound effect gives me a sense of dread I can not describe

That's incredible ! I tried to form this kind of thing putting "SOMETHING is WORD" and "SOMETHING is not WORD" but always with SOMETHING being the bloc of text in both cases, and now I see how to make the contradiction I wanted, so cool !

Thank you for this helpful walkthrough.

That's extremely cool. Thanks for the video. I love this game for stuff like that!

"So what's your game about? Baba: *w a l l i s n o t w a l l*

BA LÖ BA is ÖP

_TIME PARADOX_

1. ROCK IS WORD makes 🪨 usable as the word “ROCK” in rules. 2. The rule “🪨 IS NOT WORD” activates, overriding “ROCK IS WORD”. 3. 🪨 IS NOT WORD makes 🪨 not usable as the word “ROCK”. 4. The rule “🪨 IS NOT WORD” is no longer valid, and causes “ROCK IS WORD” to reactivate. Steps 1 through 4 repeat over and over, which the game detects, and halts the entire level.

It's so cool how this game has an event for when the player uses the words to form what is basically a syntax error or a stack overflow.

Normally when two commands exist, one is always chosen over another. For example, "rock is not text" and "rock is text". "Rock is not text" always goes first. What happens is "rock(obj) is not text" forms. The game also sees rock(txt) is text. The game makes "rock(obj) is not text" the one that is true. However upon "rock(obj) is not text" activating, it is no longer true, but now that it's not true rock is text again making it true. This creating the infinite loop

I got it rock is a word but the rock is not a word the game gets confused and breaks into an infinite Loop

This has meme potential

I now want a baba is you movie where he self destructs the universe in order to thwart the villain while also taking himself and his little world out in the process, saving everyone else (outside of any pocket universes in question) in a heroic move. Baba is cool

this has gotta be an achievement right?

no your fine, your English is perfectly ok, based on what I can see from the description

Cool! I had no idea this could happen

Is this a new discovery?

summary 1.when rock is not word 2.it is not "rock", so the "rock is not word" won't work 3.meaning rock is word 4.meaning "rock is not word: will work 5.meaning rock is not "rock" 6.meaning "rock is not word" wont work 7.go back to step 2 8. is said go to step 2 9. got to step 7 10. go to step 11 11. go to step 10 12. 10 and 11 in an infinite loop 13. so is pi (3.14159) but not really a loop, but it's infinite 14. circle is literal infinite loop 15. why are you still reading 16. go to step 38 17.got to step 2 18.go to step 14 19.go to step 12 20. go to step 2 21. go to step 16 22. kill yourself 23. antidisestablishmentarianism 24. supercalifragilisticexpialidoceos 25. why are you here 26. got to step 1 27.go to step 1 28. go to step 5 29. go away 30. poo 31. poo 32. pee 33. pee 34. now 35. it 36. is 37. time 38. you've just waisted your time 39. baba is not you 40. keke is not you 41. you get the idea now 42. x 10 equals a nice number. so is 6 x 23 and 6 x 111 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2642356: I am tired.

be careful around the fabric of reality, baba

"ROCK IS WORD" "ROCK IS NOT WORD" PARADOX DETECTED

I love how Baba at the end is like: "...Wow..."

Wait, did Baba is you just solve the halting problem?

Some of the mechanics in this game are crazy

did this and made it so that even z gave an error i had something that wall is word and wall(obj) is not word it didn't work the first time so i pushed the wall out then pushed it back that worked, then i pressed some z and the first one gave it then pressing z was pointing into null lol, there was nothing to go back, got error message lol

explanation: rock becomes word, then not a word, but rock is a word so the game engine shuts down the loop before the game crashes

Infinite loop screen lowkey spooks me

Baba! You've created a time paradox!

this is deep

This should be an achievement

I have done this thing too, but it didn't show the infinity screen. I guess it's an older version. But without this thing, it's even more creepy as heck..

Rock: "Does not compute." *Explodes*

Rock is Word Game: ok Rock Is *not* Word Game: ok. Rock is Word disables, Rock is not Word enables Game: wait rock is actually word? *enables Rock is Word (The next 2 lines repeat.) Game: And rock is not actually word? *enables Rock is Not Word Game: And rock is actually word? *enables Rock is Word (200 cycles later) Game: Wait I realized Ive been doing this 200 times, so I guess I will print an Error. *ERROR: INFINITE LOOP.*

So heres the explanation: [TEXT] = in game object ROCK is WORD - defines that the rock can act like its word self, therefore allowing to build rules with both object and text [ROCK] is _not_ WORD - defines that the rock cannot act like its word self, therefore not allowing the action of using it as text, however, due to it being the object, it causes an loop, and the game would crash but here we are at the “INFINITE LOOP” screen, preventing from freezing the game.

The truly unsettling thing is you can undo the infinite loop

YOU DESTROYED THE FABRIC OF SPACETIME

I showed this to my 8yo who is currently working on "Research Facility" and now he has a new goal.

the sound is nice tbh

That screen is low-key terrifying. ._.;

I like how you can see the split seconds where the game attempts to wrangle this mess of code.

now im intrested in what would happen if you make Text is not word

Thanks to you, i destroyed my baba game (Emulator)

rock (word) is word, also rock (obj) is not word. (CONFUSED SCREAMING) also: "In that version, the infinite loop prevention feature is not yet supported and may cause unexpected malfunction or equipment failure." what in the world?!?!

Nice.

The loop was triggered via Rock being a word and not a word at the same time. In other words, Quantum Mechanics isn’t present.

What I see is Rock is word Rock is not word If rock is word then the word “rock is not word” work but if rock is not word then it doesn’t

Woah.

"Equipment failure"? Does an early build damages your pc or the switch itself gets damaged?

the inf. loop: "rock is push" allows object-rock to be pushed downward to make: rock is word, object-rock is not word, intersects at "word" "rock is word" turns "object-rock is not word" into "rock is not word"

Considering how this game is Turing complete, I wonder which kinds of infinite loops they check for (since they couldn't catch everything).

this sounds like a nightmare

comments: only sees "rock is word" and "rock (obj) is not word" me: also sees "rock is rock (obj)" at the top left of screen the third rule is also needed for the infinite.

Rock is word Rock then becomes word, completing: Rock is not word Forcing rock to become not word Rock is now both word and not word, as there have been operations this 'tick' already, there appears to be no check for whether there's contradicting rules Rock is now stuck as both word and not word An alternative interpretation is if the upper rock upon becoming a word does not immediately become image again, the game gets stuck flipping the thing back and forth infinity times in one 'tick' so it stops

for anyone wondering: NOT rules override rules without NOT so, ROCK IS NOT WORD overrides ROCK IS WORD however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word however, since the rock in the former rule is an object, the latter rule becomes true so the former rule becomes true and rock is no longer a word

Top 5 saddest anime endings

Rock is win,end of the loop

Baba is push Baba feeling push is not push

I have no idea what the hell I just watched but this game looks cool.

ROCK is WORD and NOT WORD TIME is ERROR REALITY is DONE ALL is LOOP

It happens because if rock is word then it is made into rock is not word but then it says rock is word so rock is both a word and not a word

Coool

The game went "???"

2:23 No Baba. DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!

The REAL secret ending!

When rock is a word when rock is not a word

This is the Grandfather Paradox but minus time travel and plus modifying the laws of physics.

whoah

ik this is like a 2 year old video but is there any way to do this another way? like without the whole word sequence? or is this the only way to break the game with an infinite loop

or simply, making “rock is word” then using an item rock to make “rock is not word”

W A L L I S N O T W A L L

You should unlock a secret level by doing this.

Would a softlock occur if word was not push and word was not text?

Unholy fork!

Also known as the contradictory fail