Dice and Time Changes

by **Woodruff** on Thu Sep 30, 2010 12:17 am

kengyin wrote:so its psuedo random?

Of course, because it involves a list of numbers. You do realize that a computer itself is incapable of coming up with a true random number, right? It's always going to be pseudo-random if a computer is involved in the generation of the "random" number, so this list-method is just as effective.

by **GloverParkDude** on Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:16 pm

ok, i have noticed my dice going bad in all my games. my most recent turn i lost 13v2 without killing a man on barbarian castle in game number 7784743. I dont know what the odds of it happening, but I predict at some other point in this game something similarly "random" will happen to my dice. we will see.

by **Metsfanmax** on Tue Oct 12, 2010 9:52 am

Woodruff wrote:
kengyin wrote:so its psuedo random?

Of course, because it involves a list of numbers. You do realize that a computer itself is incapable of coming up with a true random number, right? It's always going to be pseudo-random if a computer is involved in the generation of the "random" number, so this list-method is just as effective.

No. It's truly random. There have been other threads where this has been established. A pseudo-random process choosing a random process still results in a random process overall, since at least one part of the process is theoretically unpredictable.