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Japan is on its own wavelength. (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

What I read was that it never happened in the old versions and it wasn't a bug in civ5, in that, it was a nod to the legend. But apparently Sid Meier said it didn't happen in the original games.

EDIT: Here you go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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.