The Direction of Randomness and RNG
Introduction
This article was inspired by a video Firebat made this week. In the video, which I've included below, he talks about the different ways that Mean Streets of Gadgetzan introduced a lot of RNG. See, the big thing about the...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm3V5r5tHkI
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