• r00ty@kbin.life
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    1 year ago

    Nah. With binary, you can lose one hex digit AND the max year would be 2047 (11 bits year, 4 bits month, 5 bits day). What’s not to like about hex anyway?

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      1 year ago

      Wouldn’t it just start over when it hit the max? Kinda like Ghandi being so peaceful he becomes a genocidal nutcase in Civilization?

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        1 year ago

        Yes, although isn’t that an urban legend? Pretty sure I read that it was.

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          1 year ago

          It was acknowledged as a bug by a dev. The value went from 0 to 255 and then started over. So 256 becomes 0. It’s basically a feature now.

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              1 year ago

              Thing is, it did happen in the earlier games and I doubt Sid programmed all the games himself. They just put his sexy face on them like the Nintendo Quality Control stamp.