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 === Glitching and crashing when trying to exit the game ===
-'''Description:''' When you try to exit LEGO Island normally, the Infomaniac bounces into the center of the screen, two LEGO bricks appear, and he asks the player to confirm they want to exit (clicking the green brick to leave and the red brick to stay). For unknown reasons, it's fairly easy to glitch this sequence, particularly on newer computers, and often times the game simply ends up crashing with an accompanying "buzzing" sound before the user can select an option. This often inadvertently results in lost save data, since the game only saves upon clicking the green brick and confirming exit. If it doesn't crash, it can result in a chunk of sound that continues to loop until the game exits.
+'''Description:''' When you try to exit LEGO Island normally, you're teleported to the Information Center, and an animation plays where the Infomaniac bounces into the center of the screen, two LEGO bricks appear, and you're asked to confirm that you want to exit (clicking a green brick to leave or a red brick to remain in-game). Starting with Windows Vista, this sequence has become extremely glitchy for currently unknown reasons.
-'''Steps to recreate:''' There are many ways to trigger this, but continuously clicking the exit door or pressing the Esc key in the Information Center will usually do it.
+The Infomaniac's animation will flicker or jump erratically, and an intermittent buzzing sound will play. Frequently, the game will crash before the user can even select an option, resulting in lost progress since the game only saves when you click the green brick to confirm exiting. Whether the game crashes or not appears to be more or less random.
+If the game doesn't crash, it's possible to get chunks of the Infomaniac's dialogue to loop indefinitely, even after moving to different rooms or to the island.
+'''Steps to recreate:''' This is a very consistent bug on modern versions of Windows as well as Wine and is extremely easy to trigger. Chances are you've seen it happen already without even trying to cause it. Continuously clicking the door in the Information Center (or pressing Esc key) can make the glitch even more likely, or exacerbate it further.
 '''Inadvertent Usefulness:''' The ease of triggering and exploiting this glitch has led to popular memes in the community, including [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulOQeC8p_GU "Are You Ready To Le?"] (a glitched loop of the Infomaniac's question "Are you ready to leave LEGO Island?").