Why Video Game Luck Isn't Real (And How to Take Advantage of That!) | Tech Rules

Hey everyone! This video's going to be a little more laid back and simplistic than the rest of my videos. If you already have a solid understanding of how RNG works, there may not be much for you to take from this video. Additionally, I'm yet again restricted to my makeshift recording booth due to a certain current event that YouTube, for some reason, doesn't want me to talk about. For that reason, you'll have to overlook the audio oddities. Despite all that, I hope you'll find the video entertaining and worth the watch! Also, show of hands...who would be interested in a stream sometime where I use RNG manipulation to catch some shiny Pokemon? 👀

this is basically like when someone asks you to "say something random" and you look around the room for something to say.

So the quote "I'm a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more luck I have." was just a foreshadowing to the gaming community?

Pokemon RNG on the DS is based on a combination of your trainer and secret ID. Both of these are generated at the start of the game based on the DS internal clock. You can then abuse this by changing the DS date and time to get a really specific trainer and secret ID which combined with a Pokemon with the ability cute charm drastically increases the odds of finding shiny Pokemon.

Who is this TAS and why is he so much better at speedrunning than everyone else?

When I was a kid, we used to go to a gas station nearby our school and play the poker machine. If you pulled the plug it would always give the same cards initially. We slow slowly learned all the paths. We could have emptied it each time but that would have quickly been noticed. The bug remained unfixed for almost a year so everytime I saw one of those machines I'd cash in :)

Soooo, me as a kid repeatedly pressing A when throwing a pokeball was my first attempt to manipulate rng KID HACKER

Man, your youtube history is bizarre. You started out of nowhere with a 3DS hacking video. And now 8 videos later, you already have almost 200k subs and is already receiving sponsors. Youre blessed my man

One of the earliest things I learned as a programmer is that computers require VERY specific instructions for everything they do. This means that you need to tell it how to pull a random number which means it by definition cannot be random. You can get close via using very specific time stamps or using weather patterns but it’s never entirely unpredictable, never truly random.

I remember manipulating rng in final fantasy 12, it was so easy there was no reason not to, you just punched yourself till you were at the point you wanted in the rng seed, then you could get anything you wanted from the chests with 'random' loot.

well i guess RNGesus is a false deity now

Every looter rpg: "Wow who knows what you may find, maybe something rare and powerful, with random stats and drops you never know what you'll get" Also every looter rpg: "btw there's extremely rare legendary items that have fixed stats that are better than every random item in the game and we're going to leave it right here on this specific boss, rendering the rest of the game pointless"

"I don't know anyone who can play a game frame perfectly" laughs in Stryder7x

The example of Maniac Mansion also works in the original Link's Awakening for GB/C. The path through the Wind Fish's Egg is randomized every time, and can only be known if you complete the trading sequence, giving you the ability to read a book in the library that tells you the correct path However, if you never check that book, the path through the Egg is known (and quite easy)

To add on to what was said about Fire Emblem: in the case of the fourth game in the series, Genealogy of the Holy War, if you were to start a new game and follow the same exact steps as someone else from the beginning of the game, you would always have the same outcome as that person (there's a good explanation of it in Chaz Aria's castle guide video for FE4 at 5:20 - https://youtu.be/xLBRhinQX6E ). So no matter what you do, the game is fixed to certain outcomes based on prior actions. You could think of it like a branching timeline, in a way. It always starts the same, but different decisions split the timeline.

11:15 Gen 1 DOES have shinies, as long as the pokemon has high enough ivs. Basically, only the legendaries can be shiny but if you catch a pokemon with the correct ivs, it will be shiny when you trade it to gen two.

I believe in the heart of the cards and everything goes my way.

"how to take advantage of that" Oldschool RuneScape players: I'm listening

Its so cool to hear how the GBA Fire Emblem RNG works, I remember reloading levels to prevent my characters from dying and being confused at to why everything seemed to happen the exact same if I moved my characters and the arrows the exact same way.

Doom's RNG is actually based on your inputs, so if you can replicate your inputs to an exact T, you'll have the same RNG every time. This makes it so that demos would work properly.