That start was so bad, and most of it wasn't even input loss, it was tiltedness caused by massive input loss earlier in the session. I was 3 seconds behind after 10 seconds of play, which normally would be an immediate reset, but I was too tilted to bother. And somehow, from there, everything started aligning.

Swimfan found a way to get some cab rides for free, but I didn't dare to go for it on this run, because it would have required great fare RNG elsewhere and reduced my chance of hitting apple guy (and not necessarily saved any time since it relies on waiting).

Played in UrQuan's version of ScummVM.