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[Karaunios]

Great Darklin! Glad to read that!

[OGRE MAGE]

So is the prophecy bigger than what we are learning? Where are we in fact - another world, another plane.......

The real question is.......do any of you actually remember how you came to be here in the first place.

[Bluehorse]

You know, it seems all summer long the dice roller is trying to do a mass purge of characters by giving horrible rolls. I fully expect come Christmas Season that everyone will be rolling 20s to make things even and then go back to normal after New Years.

[Karaunios]

I think my average roll is around 6 on a d20. No kidding.

[Rex]

So is the prophecy bigger than what we are learning? Where are we in fact - another world, another plane.......

The real question is.......do any of you actually remember how you came to be here in the first place.

Yes, through the obelisk, then across a void like space and out through another portal.

[gurusql]

First we nee to find the entrance to the void like space which is covered by illusion.

[Urson]

"Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning..." (And DON'T take that left in Albuquerque)

[ravenn4544]

I think after the cave was then back to that garbage heap Monster and the eldar. And that pain in the ass bug swarm. Need to save the weed killing spray for that thing!

[Urson]

But most importantly, why does the smell of roasted Luther seem rather appealing?

**Creepy factoid: Burning human flesh smells like pork.

[Jernau35]

I believe that to certain tribes in Papua New Guinea, human meat was known as "long pig".

[Urson]

Moved from MommaPamma's Revenge

Average roll on d20 this last round: 7.2

Is there any way we can talk to the guy/s who designed the Dice Roller and tell them to fix it?

I'm no statistician- Math and I have a very rocky relationship- but I do know that sample sizes make a big difference in how accurate your results are. I'm not sure we have enough data to claim the roller is 'broken'.

[Rex]

Sample set is a major part of it. There are a couple of threads on this that we have discussed. I have also looked at a lot of results to try and see if it is biased, and I don't think it is. It just seems to not like some of us (me for example.)

As far as if I am qualified, probably more than many but less then an expert. I have a degree in Chemistry with minors in math and statistics. I also do a lot of statistical analysis as part of my job.

[jemmus]

Interesting. That's a lot of math studies.

Do we know if the US dice roller uses a true random system, such as at random.org? Or does it use pseudo-random code for the rolls. I was in a text-based multiplayer RPG-wargame called Hundred Years War, and one guy had a long string of incredibly good rolls. People started accusing him of hacking the game. He was a coder himself, and he explained to some of us that sometimes the random generation code can get "hung" for a certain player. It doesn't properly reset to 0 after a roll. That was his non-technical explanation for us non-coder laymen. (And FYI, that over 15 years ago).

[Rex]

If it is on a computer it is not truly random. Even Random.org is not truly random, it runs off atmospheric noise, which is as close as we can get, but it isn't truly random either. In fact dice are not truly random either.

[Urson]

"Wait... they can't... understand a word, can they?..."

Gasp! Chauncey's lost his best weapon!

[sastaz]

I think we are only missing.....Wake?

No, all our attacks are missing as well

[OGRE MAGE]

Ba, dump. Tiss!

(rimshot)

[gurusql]

I am going to guess the Wake hit.

[Karaunios]

I think we are only missing.....Wake?

No, all our attacks are missing as well

Love it.

Also, because it's true.

[ChubbyPixie]

"Wait... they can't... understand a word, can they?..."

Gasp! Chauncey's lost his best weapon!

He'll frustrate and bore them into submission!