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The classic Meta game "Stanley's Fable" has a very famous achievement called "Go Outside", which requires players to unlock the game without opening the game for five years in a row, while this year's release of "Stanley's Fable Deluxe" also sets an achievement called "Super Go Outside". This time the unlocking condition is "not opening the game for ten years in a row".

According to the achievement statement, in this game, which was launched in April this year, the fastest achievement will have to wait until April 2032, but if you open the Steam game page now, you will find that 3.8% of the players have unlocked the achievement.

Apparently, there is time Assassin this time. By adjusting the system time to achieve success ahead of time, this card Bug-like game has been skillfully used by players many years ago. The first version of Stanley's Fables was released in 2013, but before 2018, many players had already made achievements by modifying the time, and the authorities were unable to stop it, but they also posted a half-joking tweet:

This passage was originally used by players to ridicule a game editor who turned on the modifier to clear the "only wolf". The official use of this is more like playing tricks. Recently, however, someone came across a strange Bug when trying to achieve something by changing the time.

One player shared his experience on Twitter: when he pulled the system time to 2040 in order to save trouble, he suddenly found that the font of the Steam client had been inexplicably changed.

According to the player, he only changed the system time of the computer, and the Steam client made an error and switched to the handwritten font mode pictured above.

After a series of surveys, the user came to his own conclusion-which can be attributed to the "2038 problem." Today, in 32-bit Unix systems, the base point of time is 0: 00 on January 1, 1970, and subsequent times are recorded as a signed 32-bit positive integer in seconds (negative numbers were recorded before 1970).

The 32-bit signed positive number converted into decimal is "2147483647". If calculated in seconds, it will be exactly 03:14:07 on January 19, 2038, and if the time goes further, some unknown errors will occur in the system.

The user speculated that after adjusting the time, other bug appeared in the font library of the computer's 32-bit unix system, causing the fonts in the Steam to be randomly replaced.

Although most users' operating systems have been changed to 64-bit, it doesn't solve all the problems. This time the character overflow only changes the font, but no one knows what more bizarre time will happen next time. After figuring out the cause, the player who found the problem concluded:

"2038 will be a particularly interesting year."

This article is from the official account of Wechat: game Research Society (ID:yysaag).

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