Neoslide

Neoslide (fka. Pioterslide, sometimes mistakenly called Neodrift) is an advanced sliding technique from the game TrackMania Nations Forever and later titles in the series. Its accidental discovery on a livestream watched by a total of 10 people is still a controversial topic amongst the people in the community.

Discovery
Pioter00000, a polish twitch streamer, as usual, was broadcasting a livestream of himself playing a game of TrackMania. As mentioned by the attendees of the stream, the VOD in question seemed "uninspired" and "rather boring". That was, until Pioter00000 discovered something strange. Performing a quite weird sequence of inputs, Pioter00000 had somehow managed to force his operated vehicle to execute a drift while possessing velocity normally not enough to enter a slide. Obviously, as that was unexpected, the twitch chat reacted accordingly - a single message saying "nerd" could be seen, typed out essentially right after the yet to be reconstructed trick was done for the first time by a human.

Shocked by this discovery, Pioter00000 took it to now defunct TrackMania forums page, explaining how he achieved this never before seen marvel. The community, as with all new things, was very skeptical at first. Many players showed their distrust in Pioter00000, calling him a "cheater", a "Chest", and at times even a "Haker".

As time went by, however, many people accepted the advent of this new bug and began using it in official Nadeo runs.

Name
Despite the fact that Pioter00000 was the sole mastermind behind exploiting the neoslide, in an interview at a later date he voiced his concern about the technique being given his name. In that very same interview, he mentioned that the only reason he even attempted the neoslide in the first place was due to him being a massive fan of the character Neo from the movie franchise Matrix. He then said that the bug occurred as he tried his best to replicate the movements of Neo from the first Matrix movie. Pioter00000 then proposed that Neo's name be used for the newly discovered technique.

It was later questioned whether Pioter00000 was, in fact, sober, and was not under any substances' influence at the moment of the interview. Nevertheless, the neoslide name was the one that stood the test of time, with pioterslide slowly fading into obscurity, only to be remembered by a few players.