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Sat 2006-05-27 14:05
Do you feel lucky?

I've been meaning to post this mild frivolity every time I hear or think of the NMA song I just listened to. This time I was at a computer when it went past, so it's time I actually got round to it.

My dice still roll in sixes
And yours still turn up ones
And I've taken my good fortune
And I've run, and run…

– New Model Army, ‘Marrakesh’

What kind of numbers do your dice turn up, in general?

I think for my own answer I have to assume my life is governed by more than two dice; most of mine reliably produce fours, fives and sixes, but a couple of them seem to turn up almost nothing but ones and the occasional two.

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[identity profile] feanelwa.livejournal.comSat 2006-05-27 13:07
Ones and twos, but I roll them often enough that it adds up to the same as a lazy dull person rolling sixes every time.
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[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.comSat 2006-05-27 13:12
You dice don't seem constrained by 1-6 (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/dice/) :)
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[identity profile] dennyd.livejournal.comSat 2006-05-27 13:32
I'm fairly sure my dice are somehow conspiring to produce a reverse bell-curve distribution.
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[identity profile] jalbobble.livejournal.comSat 2006-05-27 18:36
I don't pay attention to what the original roll of my dice is. I just keep rerolling until I find something suitable.
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[identity profile] ixwin.livejournal.comSun 2006-05-28 10:40
I do get a lot of 5s and 6s, but I probably only play them averagely well.
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[identity profile] compilerbitch.livejournal.comMon 2006-05-29 04:02
I seem to be rolling a D8. Better chance of high numbers, but the universe throws occasional out-of-range exceptions.
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[personal profile] gerald_duckMon 2006-05-29 11:52
Everyone here threw a great long line of sixes when they were born, and thus ended up human, of substantially above-average intelligence, viable, in the first world and in a time of comparative peace, prosperity and liberty. No doubt the skunk-plutocrats of Planet Zog are watching us through telescopes from their vibro-massage chairs and laughing at our plight, but still things could be a lot worse.

Since then, I reckon I've rolled a fairly even distribution, but maybe there's a better analogy with poker than die-rolling games: if everyone has the same luck, the knack is to reliably distinguish the good luck from the bad, capitalise on the good, mitigate the bad, and especially exploit the fact other people can't tell how lucky you're being at any given moment. You can watch two different poker players dealt the same cards and come away with substantially different impressions of how lucky they've been; thus it is in life, also.

I think I can play my cards better than most; that's probably another important six I rolled a long, long time ago.
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[identity profile] ex-lark-asc.livejournal.comTue 2006-05-30 18:09
I throw the dice and find it's turned into a fried egg half the time. Or a bunch of hydrangeas. And that's when it *hasn't* rolled off the table and fallen into the dog's breakfast. And I live in fear of the day when the dice are going to march back across the table and throw *me* in return.

In the unlikely event that I do throw a low number, however, I have a tendency to glare at the die for a bit, then pick it up and put it down six side up and pretend it never happened...
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