Belarius

ah, our glass pot pipe then

i guess my monitor setup probably looks like a shrine

the xbox series x sure looks like a foreboding obelisk

gaussian deviates as multiples of standard deviation? ~Chara

Very puzzling🤔 It could've been used to add or subtract stat points in a ttrpg game by slight decimals.

Or a ritual implement!

Thanks for indulging my little guessing game! I figure I should come clean before leaving it too long.

If you roll all four dice, the sum of the resulting values are a very close approximation to samples from a standard normal distribution. In other words, these are collectively a z-score generator. This is accomplished by having the distribution generated by each die be approximately normal with a mean of 0.0 and a standard deviation of 0.5. Since variances are additive, the sum of four such random values results in a standard deviation of (0.5^2 + 0.5^2 + 0.5^2 + 0.5^2) = 1.0. And since there are thousands of possible unique combinations across the four dice, the resulting Gaussian distribution is quite smooth, despite each individual die yielding a pretty chunky discretization.