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Integer Overflow: The Time Bomb Ticks

Integer Overflow: The Time Bomb Ticks
Oh look, it's the 2038 problem in action! When you store time as a signed 32-bit integer, you're basically giving your system an expiration date of January 19, 2038. After that? Total digital apocalypse. The poor guy is staring at a calendar showing both December 1901 and January 2038 because his phone just time-traveled to the edges of its numerical universe. When that integer counter maxes out, systems will wrap around to negative numbers—hello 1901, goodbye sanity! Somewhere, a COBOL programmer is muttering "Y2K was just a practice round."

Genie Overflow

Genie Overflow
Classic integer underflow exploit in the wild! The programmer found a loophole in the genie's API by requesting a negative number of wishes, causing the counter to wrap around to 4,294,967,295 - the maximum value of an unsigned 32-bit integer. This is basically SQL injection but for magical beings. The genie clearly forgot to validate his inputs. Should've used TypeScript instead of MagicScript.

Saved By Integer Underflow

Saved By Integer Underflow
When your weight variable hits zero and keeps decreasing, you don't disappear—you just wrap around to the maximum value! This is the programmer's version of weight loss where integer underflow turns you from a skinny stick figure into a buff dude instantly. No gym required, just exploit the data type limitations. It's basically the same hack that made Pac-Man playable after level 255. The thin person panicking about being "erased from existence" clearly never implemented proper boundary checks!