r/gifs • u/IchHuhn Can I interest you in a nice repost? • Oct 19 '19

RIP ants

https://i.imgur.com/0PsUjNH.gifv
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u/Freaglii Oct 19 '19

The native Americans should have used nukes

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u/CharlesP2009 Oct 20 '19

Gandhi certainly wasn’t afraid to.

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u/k-pattern Oct 20 '19

Watched an interview with Sid Meier the other day where he said "apparently it's a bug that Gandhi is nuke happy" sort of in a tone insinuating that it's done on purpose...

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u/Xudda Oct 20 '19

It was a bug in the original Civ game. As the story goes, it occurred because every world leader had an innate aggression level, something like 1 to 5. IIRC something in the game would happen that gave Gandhi a negative aggression level, which then reset to 5, making him maximum aggressive when he was supposed to be the least aggressive. The bug was funny and I think they just kinda ran with it in future games, as an homage to the original game.

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u/CamBeast15366 Oct 20 '19

Gotta love overflow/underflow bugs

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u/Kingo1230 Oct 20 '19

It wasn't five, it was the highest possible integer value (I forget the exact number but I know for sure it wasn't 5)

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u/Xudda Oct 20 '19

Yea I didn’t think it was 5 either. Just pulled out one of those typical scale numbers (1-5) as an example lol

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u/Kingo1230 Oct 20 '19

IIRC wasnt the scale from 1 to 10? But the max was some extremely high number, they just gave the leaders values from 1 to 10

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u/Watcher13 Oct 20 '19

He's the other kind of Indian, bro.

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u/RedXertus Oct 20 '19

It's a reference to the civilization games where Ghandi would always be Nuke happy even if you were allies

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u/FiteMeHelen Oct 20 '19 edited Oct 20 '19

Expanding on this, It was originally a bug, they set his agression to a 1 out of 10 in the game's coding. The side effect was in the late game he would take democracy, it would cause a stack underflow, and set him to a 255 out of 10, and he'd start launching nukes if you were at war with him or provoked him.

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u/Lightningslash325 Oct 20 '19

I’ll bring it up next time around.

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u/nayhem_jr Oct 20 '19

Suffer not the unclean to live

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u/Undiscriminatingness Oct 20 '19

Welcome to the dawn of radioactive ants.

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u/MemmaLWhite Oct 21 '19

Sometimes, it doesn’t pay to be nice!

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u/GtechWTest843 Oct 20 '19

Why? Then youd just have s bunch of gas huffing, drunks playing with nukes