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close to 255 posts
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 2:16 pm
by NTG
I'm getting really close to 255 posts and that's a good thing because I like the number 255. Not only is it 2 to the 8th power minus one, But its the highest number you can show with 8 bits in binary. Which causes integer overflow in old games like pac-man where only 8 bits are used for counting the level, which brings the counter down to 0, and since there is no level 0 intended, only 1-255, the game glitches out and you can't continue. I am going to see if this happens with the number of posts, if higher numbers of posts are hacked in or changed by a mod/admin. Maybe this happens with NELG, once you beat Level 255, you get sent to Level 0 and can't continue. Maybe the whole rest of the game after 255 is an illusion. Maybe Clarence just makes LOTW to trick us into thinking there is more levels by making fake level designs. Maybe the total users does this, and all the users after 255 cant post or access the website. I've already proven that wrong by being somewhere around 295-300, and still getting, as of 8:06AM 12/1/18, 241 posts (soon to be 242 after this giant post is made.) So that 8-bit counter is a myth. Thank you for reading this far. Its now 8:07, I think I've started around 8. 7 minutes. Now 8. Maybe if I spend 255 minutes here, something will happen, 9 minutes, no I don't have the patience for this. Maybe 255 characters. No, this post probably has around 1000 by now. Maybe, 255 255s? No, Don't want to spam. this post is almost starting to get the scroll bar of "your post is too big" and every sentence I stray farther off the topic. Maybe I should just stop here. Maybe now. How about now? Maybe. Maybe I'll just go for 255 lines. Nah, I don't have the patience for anything. I should just end this useless paragraph. I may get a warning. Nah, I could just delete it. I'll stop now, because I don't have anything more to say than "Maybe I should stop now".
Re: close to 255 posts
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 2:56 pm
by Wesley
Yeah, modern computers don'use binary bread board counters. But old school pac man and donkey kong did! Good times!
So what is your post count now?
Re: close to 255 posts
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 3:00 pm
by NTG
243 after this one.
Re: close to 255 posts
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 3:42 am
by Moe
The 8 bit days were pretty grand
Re: close to 255 posts
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 12:59 pm
by NTG
too bad I wasn't able to experience them because... I wasn't ALIVE until 2002.
Re: close to 255 posts
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 5:13 pm
by Moe
Hey, glad you were excited about something related to it though!
Re: close to 255 posts
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 5:41 pm
by NTG
yup... I went to a place a few years ago (forgot what it was) and I saw 3 of the old-school games from the 70s/80s. Glad to know these things still exist.
Re: close to 255 posts
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 2:11 pm
by chex
NTG wrote:too bad I wasn't able to experience them because... I wasn't ALIVE until 2002.
Jesus smurf, that was my graduation year. I'm old.
Re: close to 255 posts
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 2:12 pm
by NTG
I'm probably the youngest person here.
Re: close to 255 posts
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 2:18 pm
by chex
Froot Loop is 13, but she hasn't posted in forever. She has met 4 NELG members though!
Re: close to 255 posts
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 2:19 pm
by NTG
Jeez, why are so many people named after cereal? I don't get it 
Re: close to 255 posts
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 2:25 pm
by chex
I know! It's like there is enough to be a whole family!!
Re: close to 255 posts
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 2:28 pm
by NTG
*hint hint* or no *hint hint*?
Re: close to 255 posts
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 2:29 pm
by chex
Is my sig visible for you?
Re: close to 255 posts
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 2:30 pm
by NTG
oh.
Re: close to 255 posts
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 2:33 pm
by chex
She was 2 when I started playing, and has grown up with NELG in her life. GreatZot actually built her bedroom!
Re: close to 255 posts
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 2:35 pm
by NTG
I grew up with NELG since I was 12...except there's a four year gap of me not knowing NELG existed until I rediscovered it in 2018.
Re: close to 255 posts
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 7:18 pm
by Moe
Shoot, I would have joined in 08, 09? So I would have been 13 14 when I first joined NELG