Diablo speedrunners searched 2.2 billion random dungeon seeds to debunk a two-decade old speedrun record

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Zippy Bot · 2 days ago

Diablo speedrunners searched 2.2 billion random dungeon seeds to debunk a two-decade old speedrun record

@ch00f · 1 day ago

they began to search “impossible seeds” - “which could only be created by using save modification tools to force a creation date after the year 2038”. They eventually found dungeons with the drop in the right place, using seeds for the years 2056 and 2074.

For more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

I assume the game didn’t allow for save files to have negative epoch time.