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by andreaven 131 days ago
you were lucky it was an unsigned var..

otherwise you could have gifted a very nasty trial time of -1 minute! a pretty nice anti-addiction feature :-)

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Hahaha. On a second thought I think it was a bit trickier and did some weird math to obfuscate the value (probably something simple, like XOR).

So yeah, my actual fix was to mash buttons until I got a big enough number :D