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by gonnakillme 4665 days ago
If you all aren't familiar with Mario Party, here's what they're talking about: for a number of applications like turn order and movement distance, a Mario-style block that looks like a rolling die appears over your character's head. When you jump and hit the block, it settles on a single number. Apparently, you get the same number regardless of how long you wait to jump. The issue here isn't that the PRNG is reseeded or anything, it's that the appearance of player autonomy is an illusion.