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You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow

177 points · 106 comments · ronreiter

  1. sph · · focus · HN ↗
    Yet another downside of using ‘safe’ languages. You don’t get cool stuff like this.
    1. surgical_fire · · focus · HN ↗
      Nuclear Gandhi would never have been a thing.
      1. ufo · · focus · HN ↗
        Nuclear Gandhi is an urban legend. Turns out there was no such bug in Civ 1.
        1. surgical_fire · · focus · HN ↗
          I know. The urban legend would still not be a thing.
          1. sph · · focus · HN ↗
            It would’ve been debunked by Snopes on day 1: “impossible, the game is written in Rust”

            (I can’t think of one language that defaults to saturating integers)

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