“Ugh, Morty, you’re watching streaming garbage—H.264 decode-encoded by some half-rate open-source patch. This is why your reality keeps buffering, Morty. The codec of existence is corrupt.”

“W-w-wait, so if we lose OpenH.264, my whole life becomes a slideshow?”

“Worse, Morty. You become a B-frame forever—predicted by the past, never original.”

Rick battles H.265 agents inside a dynamically re-encoding black hole. Morty accidentally triggers a “lossless remux” and merges three versions of himself—one from a low-bitrate universe (pixelated and stupid), one from a high-bitrate universe (annoyingly smooth and smug), and the original. They combine into Morty.264 , a semi-stable hybrid who can see temporal artifacts.