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If there's a loot box with a 50% chance of a cat in it, no game developer in their right mind would bother determining if there actually is a cat or not until s
by AnotherGoodName 5y ago
If there's a loot box with a 50% chance of a cat in it, no game developer in their right mind would bother determining if there actually is a cat or not until someone checks.
- pishpash 5y agoSo some kind of efficiency principle at work? The universe does seem optimized in certain ways that make it mathematical.
- inter_netuser 5y agowhat are the optimizations you are talking about?
- rep_lodsb 5y agohttps://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Schroedinger%27s_Cat https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Schroedinger%27s_Cat
- astrange 5y agoThat depends on if the developer wants to allow RNG manipulation speedruns or not.
- kolinko 5y agoActually, the opposite - a good dev would simulate two outcomes. Otherwise you may have a serious lag the moment someone opens up the box, because the system would need to simulate the cat’s behaviour for the past.