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I don't know if this has been noticed before on the site but could we please congratulate those who have completed a game within 136 years and 3 months? :lol:

 

I noticed that when I was on the fastest achievers section on the last page of the 100% achievers list for Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing there were 3 players who somehow managed to completed the game longer than any human has ever lived for. I took a look at each of their profiles and noticed that they all completed the game with missing timestamps, so that's why there's no real way to determine when they started the game.

 

I just thought I'd put this out there as there is NO WAY video games or the internet could have possibly existed during the late 19th century. :P

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Let's just say this was me when I encountered the error:

 

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40 minutes ago, Phil said:

I was so hoping that the OP was going to be witty or funny.

 

Would you say the image above counts as being funny? It is from Back To The Future of all things...

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THere are two interesting things about this:

1. Why is 1882 used as the base-date for the interval calculation? Common starting points would be 1900, 1904 (--> Excel), 1970 (Unix-time).

2. Why aren't all missing timestamp-people added to that list?

E.g. this:

https://psnprofiles.com/100-club/6880-code-realize-future-blessings

Only one person is at the end of that list. But there's at least a second person that should be there (me :P ):

https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/6880-code-realize-future-blessings/crimsonidol-de

 

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23 minutes ago, Crimson Idol said:

THere are two interesting things about this:

1. Why is 1882 used as the base-date for the interval calculation? Common starting points would be 1900, 1904 (--> Excel), 1970 (Unix-time).

2. Why aren't all missing timestamp-people added to that list?

E.g. this:

https://psnprofiles.com/100-club/6880-code-realize-future-blessings

Only one person is at the end of that list. But there's at least a second person that should be there (me :P ):

https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/6880-code-realize-future-blessings/crimsonidol-de

 

If I had to guess, it looks like the board wants to show the same amount of achievers for each section (first, latest, fastest). Sometimes, there are more 'first' and 'latest' achievers then fastest, so it looks like it just fills in the empty spaces with missing timestamp people to keep it even. That's why, in OP's example, the board use to have 3 missing timestamps people and now it only as one. This just makes more questions of who is and isn't put in the latest and first achievers list, though. It looks like missing timestamps don't appear on the latest or first achievers list, so why wouldn't they all have the same number? Maybe that's the effect of some CFW somewhere on the list and the lists updating at different times? Or maybe hidden games is throwing off the lists to make them uneven. Latest and first achievers would only have to be reverses of each other, so it makes sense that they would update together and be at the same length whereas fastest might update differently and that's where the funny differences appear. 

 

That's all complete made-up guesses, though.

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4 minutes ago, Kittet3 said:

That's all complete made-up guesses, though.

 

It's made-up guesses but the guess that the first/latest-list is updated at a different time than the fastest achievers makes sense. First/Last is a rather simple thing as it's just ordering the list of people with all trophies either ascending or descending by the time where they earned their last trophy. Whereas the fastest achiever-list requires some logic and therefor computation time as the interval between first and last trophy . And depending on the time between those list refreshes the data may change or maybe different input data is used.. If I a bit bored I might check which person from the first achievers list is causing the screw-ip in the fastest achievers list.

Thanks for that chain of thought!

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On 6/6/2018 at 0:07 PM, Crimson Idol said:

THere are two interesting things about this:

1. Why is 1882 used as the base-date for the interval calculation? Common starting points would be 1900, 1904 (--> Excel), 1970 (Unix-time).

2. Why aren't all missing timestamp-people added to that list?

E.g. this:

https://psnprofiles.com/100-club/6880-code-realize-future-blessings

Only one person is at the end of that list. But there's at least a second person that should be there (me :P ):

https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/6880-code-realize-future-blessings/crimsonidol-de

 

 

Yes, I was curious as to why 1882 myself. I think I once understood it. I wonder if it had to do with ms (milliseconds).

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