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Re: [Bug-gnubg] random dice generator? hahahaaa
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Guido Flohr |
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Re: [Bug-gnubg] random dice generator? hahahaaa |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Aug 2017 23:44:42 +0300 |
>
> Along these lines, a friend of mine who also works in the gaming industry
> said that they often use dice that are generated in something like the
> following fashion: The computer internally creates a 36-card deck, each with
> one of the 36 possible dice rolls. Then it deals out 18 cards from this deck
> to get 18 dice rolls. Then it reshuffles and starts over to get the next 18
> rolls.
What you describe is a completely biased scheme. Your friend’s company maybe
implemented it in order to avoid trolls complaining about them cheating?
>
> With this scheme, you never get (for example) three double 6's in a row.
> Rarely does anyone notice anything strange about the dice, and if people are
> not told what is going on, there are typically far fewer complaints about the
> dice.
A set of truly random real-world dice may produce subsequent double sixes until
the heat death of the universe. This is called randomness. Randomness has no
memory, remember?
>
> I mentioned this concept on BGOnline once (a "hardcore" BG community) and
> predictably, they hated it. So that's another piece of evidence to support
> what Rich Heimlich said.
They predictably disapproved your improvements, yes. This is called
rationalism, also know as common sense.
Others have already mentioned it: You can run gnubg with your own personally,
manually rolled dice from your own backgammon set. Try it out!
<spoiler-alert>You will continue losing!</spoiler-alert>
Tim, it’s 2017, and considering the state of the art of hard- and software it
is absolutely normal that artificial intelligence beats human intelligence in
games like backgammon or chess on a more than regular basis. If you think that
gnubg has to cheat for beating you, then become a professional backgammon
player and be rich!
<spoiler-alert>You will be broke in no time at all!</spoiler-alert>
If you you are positive that gnubg cheats, why not install another software and
troll their support forum for a change?
Regards!
—
Oh, Lord, please let it rain brains!
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