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by necovek 1652 days ago
Yeah, another problem is that none of the answers offered at that question is really "right" according to the adventure. I also find it contradictory. If you did "cast a spell" a 100 times, and recorded that sequence, and then asked what's the likelihood of getting any particular value after getting exactly that sequence, one could argue similarly that there's only a 1/2*100 chance of the previous sequence happening (yet it just did for the author), so something must be wrong with it. Basically, they are saying that some of outputs are not equally likely, and I am now seriously confused.

This is such an early point to attempt to highlight features in purportedly random behaviour that is not really random.

It didn't annoy me, it just made me quit at that point, especially as I was already battling the spell terminology.