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But it wouldn't always pick them, it would pick them with a higher probability that also depended on the players' relative distances to the monster.

So it's a stochastic bug where any given occurrence can be explained as "you just have confirmation bias, you don't notice all the times Zygy Zebra gets attacked" or "you must have been closer than Zygy even though you thought you were a bit further away". Especially if the game has a first-player perspective which makes it harder to estimate whether you or another player is closer.



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