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JustHere4Tichu wrote: ↑14 April 2022, 21:53 I guess that gave some of you statistics nerds a chance to *.

OK so it's clear that you didn't come onto the forum to hear an answer, you just wanted a rant to let off steam.

I hope you feel better now.

RicardoRix wrote: ↑14 April 2022, 22:07 come on...
even if you use a random insult generator it will come up with something better than that.

I just have to add that seeing someone's username be "Just Here for Tichu" complain about the randomness in other games feels like some weird prank baha.

Regardless, the thing I never get in some of these complaints is what the player actually thinks is going on. Like especially with seating order, it's clear other humans are at the table and presumably you all had equal chances of being sat anywhere. Or do they really think they are so special that some BGA programmers have decided to single them out and program in changed odds only affecting their seating order?

Ranior wrote: ↑15 April 2022, 14:35 Regardless, the thing I never get in some of these complaints is what the player actually thinks is going on. Like especially with seating order, it's clear other humans are at the table and presumably you all had equal chances of being sat anywhere. Or do they really think they are so special that some BGA programmers have decided to single them out and program in changed odds only affecting their seating order?

I suppose players believe that individual dice are handed out to each player and they ended up being the unlucky ones with the bad dice. From an outsider's perspective without any computer science knowledge, it's not too far fetched to think that some accidental coding/software/hardware error could cause that and you don't need to assume that someone did anything bad on purpose.
Of course if you know how RNG is actually implemented and coded, you know that this is nonsense. But I believe the above story could be the imagnation behind what is going on in case of bad luck.

Ranior wrote: ↑15 April 2022, 14:35 I just have to add that seeing someone's username be "Just Here for Tichu" complain about the randomness in other games feels like some weird prank baha.

Regardless, the thing I never get in some of these complaints is what the player actually thinks is going on. Like especially with seating order, it's clear other humans are at the table and presumably you all had equal chances of being sat anywhere. Or do they really think they are so special that some BGA programmers have decided to single them out and program in changed odds only affecting their seating order?

Complaints I've heard are:
1 Progammming favours premium players
2 programming favours High ELO players
3 programming favours low ELO players
4 programming is just bad and produces non random things like 10 somethings in a row (ignoring basic maths that random sequences all do this too)

All nonsense of course