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With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant (feddit.nl)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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...and I don't know which possibility is the least worrying

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I made a random character selector app for super smash bros that makes you play through every character before it lets you repeat a character. And it won't let two people play the same character at the same time. My friends and I like playing random characters, but we kept getting the same characters over and over again, sometimes even in the same colors (online only). I got frustrated one day and made the app.

It definitely livens up our game nights.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, true random sucks pretty badly for any sort of repeated selection. You could make your algorithm potentially even better by grouping characters into different roles and not repeating them in a row either. Never give two sword characters in a row if possible, for example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That's a really interesting thought. We do still have issues where we get like Ken then Terry (or Mii Gunner then Mii Brawler) back to back, and for people who don't like that type of characters, its a bummer.

Each character having a list of groups that they belong to, then not allowing players to play a character in the same group consecutively would probably be a huge improvement. I would need to be careful to make sure too many characters aren't excluded, though. It would be tough to get right, but I think it would be really good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Didn't the iPod have the same "issue" that it sometimes played the same song twice in a row or randomly played the next song in the playlist?

You essentially did what Apple did and made the randomness less random so humans think it's more random.