Noob Question

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Taric wrote:

The replies pretty much have it down, but I'll tell you specifically what it is.

Grinding Gear Games purchased an articulated robot from some of the students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

It was subsequently shipped over and set up in a booth. Once ever 24 or so minutes, the arm reaches into a large steel hat (pictures are around here somewhere) and pulls out a name. It then places the name onto a scanner bed nearby which then gets scanned into a program.

The program, aptly named Oliver's Textual Recognition Software, or OTRS (commonly pronounced Otters), then reads the scan and separates each letter into actual text.

At this point the program then removes the name from the database of accounts, and activates a "whirl switch" (forgot what they were called) which spins and shakes the hat.

The hat continues to shake for the remaining 20 or so minutes, and then the process starts all over again.



I am under the impression that the first wave of donations and micro-transactions will be put towards paying off the price of the arm and software.




*What you can take from this post:
-25 minutes and about 30 seconds between each choice.
-Once chosen the account is removed from the hypothetical hat.