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04: Making the Spelunky 2 trailer with Derek Lieu

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Randomness Generator and the Out-of-Order Ask

In most games you get the same results from a seated random generator so what i suspect is going on is somewhere in the code on psn there is like a particular situation that causes an out-of-order ask and once that happens one time then it's going to diverge. One other listener uh run we got was from our friend Wayne beam again who says i didn't see a single shop until two three the rest went well through the city of gold and then died at olemec um which also makes me realize that's probably why i had no ropes was because there were like weren't in actually any shops and that's the one i died on.

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