Talk:Brilliant Battle Intuition Super Saiyan 2 Caulifla/@comment-33135685-20170919014346/@comment-31661832-20170921165302

Obviously someone's in a bad mood. Regardless, the entire "computers can't truly generate random numbers" argument is practically useless in a general use case, because the supposed "pattern" is so unpredictable that it appears random to end users.

For those who don't know how RNG works, it's as simple as this: the computer spits out a number (likely between 0 and 1) then compares it to the probability that something should happen. Assuming the "medium chance" means 50% of the time, it will compare the number to 0.5. If it's less than that the effect will happen, if it's greater or equal to then it won't.

Computers perform "RNG" by spitting out a number in a predetermined group of numbers. What makes it unpredictable is the fact that the group of numbers changes based on the seed of the number generator (usually a number). If the seed changes, the pattern changes. Some random number generators can also customize where in the pattern they start, so one number generator could determine where another one starts.

That in and of itself is not random, as you said, but we don't know what method is used to choose that seed. It could be as as simple as the date, it could be a number one of the devs chooses each morning, it could be how many clouds someone counts on the way to work in the morning. There could be a global number generator on Bandai's servers that changes seeds every time someone does a summon. In cases like those, a massive amount of natural factors (including human psychology) are factoring not into the generation, but the choosing of a random number.

Is any of it truly "random"? No, but that's irrelevant. The concept behind "randomness" is that something out of your controls alters the probability of a certain thing happening, which is exactly what RNG does. The fact that it could, in some way, be quantified is irrelevant because we as the players (and likely even the developers) will never be able to maniuplate or control the outcomes.

It is effecetively the same end result as if the numbers were truly random, because you cannot control them.