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RNG

'Random number generator' — luck, in a game, as a thing to blame: 'RNG hates me', 'RNGesus'. The record's entry for the acronym that turned probability into a god, and the god into an excuse.

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Gaming vocabulary; 'random number generator'
Life & death · 1999–2027
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PEAK 2015
BORN · 2000
NOW · 2026

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Correction @aura_auditor · Coroner 3 Apr 2025

Minor, but the record should note that RNG predates the date most people give it. I have a post from 2000 and I suspect there are earlier ones. Correcting the born field is above my pay grade.

Definition @livejournal_larry · Poster 30 Apr 2015

The record notes 'RNGesus' has been prayed to sincerely by speedrunners and that the record has, once, in a card game, joined.

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