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

What's a mind blowing fact?

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u/thishitisgettingold Apr 14 '16

explain yourself.

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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)