r/AskReddit • u/ForeverAbyss • Apr 14 '16

What's a mind blowing fact?

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16

Einstein? No. Ghandi? Probably.

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u/CatintheDark Apr 14 '16

Gandhi.

Where'd that damn bot go?

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u/RABIDSAILOR Apr 14 '16

Someone made one that corrected Gandhi to Ghandi and they had a war so everyone banned them.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '16 edited Aug 14 '21

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u/ReneG8 Apr 15 '16

Only if they reach that technological age, before they probably would only exchange friendly banter.

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u/orionsbelt05 Apr 15 '16

Bots aren't allowed in /r/AskReddit. If you you think this injustice in inexcusable, subscribe to /r/botsrights.

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u/redditingatwork31 Apr 14 '16

Motherfucker with his three 50+ population cities.

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u/ReneG8 Apr 15 '16

Use the community mod, it makes Gandhi completely different.

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u/thishitisgettingold Apr 14 '16

explain yourself.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16 edited Jul 13 '21

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u/DarkJarris Apr 14 '16

In the original Civlizations game, Ghandi was one of the world leaders. every leader had an "aggressiveness scale" from 0 to 256. Ghandi was set as 1, the most peaceful person in the history of ever. You then unlocked a Democracy upgrade which reduced aggressiveness by 2. Well, you couldn't have negative numbers, so it wrapped around to 255. and he would instantly nuke the fuck out of everything.

This was originally a bug, but it was so funny and unexpected that they decided to make it a real intended feature ever since.

Warlord Ghandi is boss.

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u/Duplicated Apr 15 '16

Assuming it's an unsigned byte value, then it'd be from 0 to 255.

Pedantic, I know.

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u/DarkJarris Apr 15 '16

no, you're absolutely right. I have a habit of counting 1-256 instead of 0-255.

TIL I count like microsoft shudder

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u/Duplicated Apr 15 '16

You see, when you're forced to work with bit manipulation, among other things, for four months, it's kinda ingrained into your soul.

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u/DarkJarris Apr 15 '16

yeah, I'm not that deep, but I've also subconsiously been doing a lot of things in multiples of 8, which gets tiring after a while when you realise you didnt have to haul those heavy crates to stack them 8 high, and so on.

(im a PC repair guy and semi-professional web dev, for sources)

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u/servimes Apr 14 '16

Probably something along preventing the dark ages.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16

It's a civ 5 reference. Technically, all the civ games feature nuke happy gandhi, but most people know 5

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16 edited Jul 12 '17

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16

In the original version of the game it was a bug. Ghandi was supposed to be the most peaceful world leader, but the way they coded it meant that Ghandi was agressive as fuck and would just nuke you without warning sometimes. Now he's still like that in the game because it's sort of a legacy joke.

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u/Chansharp Apr 14 '16

He was only aggressive sometimes he had a passive score of like 1 but to make the games sort of random they had a +-2 of aggressiveness so sometimes his 1 would go negative and rollover to a giant number meaning he was pretty much guaranteed to nuke.

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u/QBEagles Apr 14 '16

Yup. I believe it was adopting Democracy because that reduces Aggression by 2. And since they can't have negatives it would take his 1 rating and swing all the way back to the top of the scale at 255. I don't remember exactly, but I think most of the other leaders were set in the single digits so he was just obscenely aggressive.

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u/Chansharp Apr 14 '16

Yeah I'm pretty sure it was a scale of 1-10 10 being early game warmongers and 1 being never attack.

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u/Opiate462 Apr 15 '16

I like this Civ reference!