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ahassanon Visualizing World Birth and Death Rates

French Guiana (in South America) is labelled France on this map...

ahassanon Mario Party N64 dice is predetermined

Yeah but why should that matter? If you hit it at a random time and it should be random, then why does it matter if the random number is generated at that instant or before? It's all still random in the user's eyes.

ahassanon Mario Party N64 dice is predetermined

More likely they just created a RNG with a seed at the beginning of the game and then use the generated set later on so that the N64 doesn't have to waste resources (albeit a small amount) generating a random number mid-game. I imagine every little bit of CPU power saved adds up with the N64.

ahassanon Wraith – A screenshot comparison tool from the BBC

I don't see the value of this. What sort of use case does this have?

ahassanon Hair

You can crash the JS if you circle around the inside of the face for a few seconds. It will fail on getting an element so the getOrigin method is not defined.

ahassanon Buying the new MacBook Air

The salesman isn't smart...OP is just stupid...