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It's built to be completely random, which means upon refresh it would likely still load differently but there's no check to prevent something like that from happening.

Sort of a fun example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness at play.



Nah, something is definitely wrong with the randomness occassionally. See this demo[0] of me reliably getting 30 satire results in a row >75% of the time. The chances of that happening are astronomically low.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/XTQsyNH


Well that's pretty conclusive. Thanks for the video, I'll have to take a look and see what's wrong.


Piggybacking to confirm I saw similar behavior, and someone upthread had 22 satire titles in a row.




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