So the invisible 12h timer runs during cutscenes. During Excalibur 2 runs, I used to open and close the PS1 disc tray to skip (normally unskippable) cutscenes. Never knew why that worked.

(I also never managed to get it)

Oh yeah. The sword you pick up in Memoria. The problem there is that the PAL version runs slower; the way PSX games "translated" between the two video systems was just to have longer VSync pauses for PAL. So the game is actually slower, not interpolated

So that's why it's called Excalibur 2!

Can be more than timers too. There's a funny one in Paper Mario where a block technically can be hit so many times it'll reset and award items again. Hit enough times it'll eventually crash. Of course it'd take around 30 years for the first rollover and 400 or so for the crash. https://n64squid.com/paper-mario-reward-block-glitch/

Let's say youre pedantic with code. Ive been trying to be lately - clippy has an ovefflow lint for rust i try to use.

Error: game running for two years, rebooting so you cant cheese a timer.

Does this make the bug any better handled? Bugs like this annoy me because they arent easily answered.

Isn't this common in the computer game scene? Shouldn't you asume your game will be disassembled, deconstructed, reverse engineered?

Although for old games released before internet was widespread in the general population, it might have not been this obvious.

they're still made like this. Just now I made a frame counter that just increments every frame on a int64. It would eventually wrap around but doubt anyone will still be around to see it happen :|

They own the past of PC gaming, as well as Call of Duty but that is more popular on consoles than PC nowadays. Those listed are small time compared to Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, League of Legends, Valorant, Roblox, Apex Legends, Marvel Rivals and a number of hard-hitting games every year such as Witcher 3, Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3 etc.

They own Minecraft as well.

> Microsoft pretty much owns most of PC gaming.

So valve next?

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Assuming correct implementation of the NTP spec and adherence to the "eras" functions, NTP should be resistant to this failure in 2036.

The problem being so many micro-controllers, non-interfaceable or cheaply designed computers/devices/machines might not follow the standards and therefore be susceptible although your iPhone, Laptop and Fridge should all be fine.

It's also running on very old hardware, potentially with some electrolytic capacitors that have dried up. And, there's always the possibility that it's a gamma ray [1]!

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221011-how-space-weathe...

They explained it was in the game code though?

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Update:

After the recent hacker news "invasion", I have now determined that the page can handle up to 1536 users before running out of RAM, meaning that the IP camera surprisingly is fully sufficient for its purpose. In other words, I will not be moving the forum in the near future as 32 MB of RAM seem to be enough to run it

Source: https://lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28

> Host it on the Fritzbox 7950 instead?

It's a router.. oh my god that made me laugh

Commenting on my Epic from an LG Fridge.

At the time of writing the comment it was practically instantaneous for me and the comment was genuine. Now it seems to be having trouble and I'm choosing to retroactively make the comment a joke about Jira ;)

Came back to check this since the tab never loaded. I'm guessing traffic caused some issues?