Sign up ×  I'm currently building a game whose NPC's are going
to be assigned a random gender and a random name for the right
gender. To do this I will be using a "database" of names
(actually a text file with tuples). There would also be a list
of last names, which will be added to the first name also
randomly.  My question is the following. Suppose one such random
name is "George Bush", and this person has been randomly
assigned the job of president. As you can see, this could easily
be seen as having been "copied" from a real-life person.  The
main issue is this. Names will be randomly-generated, yes, but
the seed for random-number generation will be constant. In other
words, the name of an NPC would be randomly-generated, i.e. I
wouldn't choose it, but it would be the same for every player.
Could this get me in trouble? We cannot verify all possible
names, since the generated number of NPC's could be potentially
limitless (new NPC's are being created whenever needed).
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