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Gambling with Lain
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this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2025
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Make it a bit more fun.
1 in 6 chance to trigger the logic.
The logic?
The slow deterioration, and random issues appearing that are tough to diagnose would be more fun than such wanton destruction.
The equivalent of losing (part of) a finger on each success/failure, instead of totally evacuating the contents of your skull.
The chance is actually 1 in 7 because both 0 and 6 are included in the
randInt()range.Oh right. I thought it might work the same as range etc in python, where is does one less than you specify.. Coming from, well every other language this really threw me off on my first python excursion.
You can get the exclusive behaviour with
random.randrange. (Relevant Stack Overflow question with a somewhat interesting answer)Any language... except MATLAB. Fuck MATLAB.
(Their arrays even start at 1, what the fuck?!)
Lua starts at 1 too. It's infuriating. I believe for the same historical reason Matlab does.
Both meant for non CS people.