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label the sides 1 2 4 5 6 and then theyll spend forever lookin for side 3
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all my 1s
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Jul 30, 2015 18:04
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Silver Alicorn posted:using a pseudo-random distribution can be good for game balance, here is 6000 words about why the dota PRNG is good: you have to make game RNGs not actually random because it turns out that people actually hate hate hate true randomness. this is because people are stupid
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Jul 30, 2015 18:20
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maybe its because people like to have fun
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Jul 30, 2015 18:30
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people want to be convinced that the "gambler's fallacy" really isn't
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Jul 30, 2015 18:31
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Suspicious Dish posted:label the sides 1 2 4 5 6 and then theyll spend forever lookin for side 3 make it sense which sides are hidden (facing downwards or obscured by fingers) and change the numbers on those sides while they're hidden
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Jul 30, 2015 19:25
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Migishu posted:label sides 1, 2, and 4 Suspicious Dish posted:label the sides 1 2 4 5 6 and then theyll spend forever lookin for side 3 
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Jul 30, 2015 19:28
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i dont read ur posts sorry
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Jul 30, 2015 23:48
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theflyingorc posted:you have to make game RNGs not actually random because it turns out that people actually hate hate hate true randomness. valve learned this with tf2 crits
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Jul 30, 2015 23:49
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theflyingorc posted:you have to make game RNGs not actually random because it turns out that people actually hate hate hate true randomness. puzzle quest is a loving cheater and there are no words to convince me otherwise
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Jul 31, 2015 13:46
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JawnV6 posted:puzzle quest is a loving cheater and there are no words to convince me otherwise loving this gently caress you puzzle quest
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Jul 31, 2015 13:51
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*makes 1 chain* *CPU makes 50 chains in a row, destroys your character* "toally 100% legit didn't cheat completely rng we swears"
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Jul 31, 2015 13:52
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wasn't there an article about someone who reversed engineered the game and found that it was programmed to cheat?
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Jul 31, 2015 13:53
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i, too, care about bejeweled
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Jul 31, 2015 14:17
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computer parts posted:valve learned this with tf2 crits every video game company starts with a truly random RNG then they learn that the only way to make players happy is to lie to them ANECDOTE: i worked on a videogame board game where your mans fought and you constantly rolled (your attack + 2d6) VS (their defense) our players told us that they had noticed that EVERY GAME one player got high die rolls, while the other player got all low ones i tried to explain that this isn't even a mistake we can make, like we would have to code that on purpose, we just used the c standard library random function WHOOPS BIG MISTAKE did u know? that function is technically only pseudorandom THEREFORE edit: any game with microtransactions probably cheats in some way if calculating what is a bad move is fairly trivial. not sure about candy crush only because defining what is a good candy to spawn the player is pretty hard
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Jul 31, 2015 14:27
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flip the table and scream to generate entropy
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Jul 31, 2015 14:59
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daft punk railroad posted:flip the table and scream to generate entropy hold f to pay respects
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Jul 31, 2015 15:08
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Ian McLean posted:lol @ I'm going to do a Kickstarter and it will be way more popular than yours Ian. It's going to be amazing.
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Jul 31, 2015 15:35
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madeupfred posted:I'm going to do a Kickstarter and it will be way more popular than yours Ian. It's going to be amazing.
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Jul 31, 2015 16:09
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Perception is reality
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nice 3-sided die, buddy
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Jul 31, 2015 17:17
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As a Millennial I posted:nice 3-sided die, buddy 
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theflyingorc posted:i tried to explain that this isn't even a mistake we can make, like we would have to code that on purpose, we just used the c standard library random function the c standard library rand() function is a particularly bad choice even as pseudorandom functions go though, it's implementation-defined so you can never know how good it will be and i've seen some platforms where if you do rand() % 2 it will literally just return alternating 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, ... at least use drand48 or something if you're going to be lazy of course rand() is fine if you're doing something unimportant like crypto, it'sonly gamnes where you haev to be more careful
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Soricidus posted:i've seen some platforms where if you do rand() % 2 it will literally just return alternating 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, ... anyway i ran trials of large numbers of 2d6 die rolls and spat out the percentages and they were exactly what we want, also it was seeded at server startup and there was really no way to know how many times it had been called before you got there and even then it wouldn't do the stupid thing they said we did
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theflyingorc posted:i have no idea how you would even make something this bad. like - the rand shouldn't have anything to do with the %2 so i can't even understand how you'd do that unless you coded it to do that on purpose someone decided to add some extra randomness using modular arithmetic and an internal global counter? after all, what could be more random than the number of times a random number has been generated 
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theflyingorc posted:i have no idea how you would even make something this bad. like - the rand shouldn't have anything to do with the %2 so i can't even understand how you'd do that unless you coded it to do that on purpose it happens naturally if you implement rand() using an lcg where the modulus is a power of two (common and reasonable for non-crypto purposes as it's extremely cheap to compute) and you return the full internal state instead of shifting out the least significant bits (this is the dumb bit) i just wish i could remember which compiler it was that actually implemented rand() that way, i thought it was msvc but looking it up looks like it has different problems
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why do the hypothetical dice need LCD or OLED displays and not 7 seg displays? Seems like you are overengineering your e-dice since you can get really low profile 7seg displays like this http://www.kingbrightusa.com/Industry-thinnest-ultra-super-thin-SMD-display.asp and put 2 on each face and it would only be slightly bigger than a regular die
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Aug 1, 2015 02:24
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because thats been done like in the 80s and we want skinnable programmable die faces
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Aug 1, 2015 02:26
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Silver Alicorn posted:because thats been done like in the 80s and we want skinnable programmable die faces you only need one die face
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i'd buy a die with only one side
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:i'd buy a die with only one side möbius strip ftw depending on the save condition of course
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Pepsi challenge with Windows 10 as facetious as it gets on that last post.
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Aug 1, 2015 10:49
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Seriously though... I am meant to be taken quite literally.
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Ian McLean posted:Seriously though... I am meant to be taken quite literally. so are your meds, ian
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i had completely forgotten about this plan
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mixed signals are in the ethos ether plus bonus status Ok. I wrote down a list of ideas. And since I can only express my inner thoughts with this worthless kickstarter group, here they are: underground image detection site for any dating site profile ( look up what kind of ratings this image detection person has) restaurant app pain point - wanting to pay fast enough ( small logo scanner on menu/restaurant_special_list/table_sticker with tip suggestions on app for payment processing) reinventing facebook - same concept as facebook originally had with college students (only approved colleges are allowed on this network) niche marketplace app - tell us your market and we will give you your platform hotel data app - our hotel partners know your needs craigslist global app - we are the distributes of craigslist things healthcare brokerage app - how far can healthcare take you? gassoline price geolocation app - find the best gasoline price in the nearest location hunger logistics app - marketplace for good food rateme - an app to put yourself as whatever you are and obtain a rating from the world
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Ian McLean posted:rateme - an app to put yourself as whatever you are and obtain a rating from the world it's called awful.app and your rating is 
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hobbesmaster posted:it's called awful.app and your rating is I suppose it is a start! 
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