On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 07:08:25PM -0700, Ryan Carboni wrote:
One time, during my days as a paid, professional DM, I had been running a free game for some people I was involved with at the time, and the brother of the person I was most involved with at the time came up to me and made a rather incredible statement.
PRNGs sometimes have ugly faces. PRNG designed by NSA was easy to predict if you know a secret (discrete logarithm) almost surely known by the NSA. Back in my late teens I reversed a poker machine, mainly the PRNG. It was on a 8 bit 6502 compatible CPU. Reversing went well, until I decided that the PRNG heavily depended on the real money balance, not drawing the cards "honestly". I stopped because this observation contradicted my business plan.