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Maia is the oldest daughter of Trini and Kimberly Gomez-Hart

At 17 she's 5'6", with curly dark brown hair and deeply tanned skin and wide dark brown eyes

She was adopted by them at age 5, after her mother had been killed by one of the many beings after the Zeo crystal

She doesn't remember much about her birth mom, and while it took her time to adjust to Trini and Kim, she eventually considered them her parents

Before then she called them by their names, but at age 8 started calling Trini Mami and Kim Mom

Her best friend is named Geoffrey

They became friends after sitting beside him in the sixth grade

This was around the time that Maia started to clue into the fact that she likes girls

At 16 she identifies as a lesbian, but she goes through a couple labels until she found the one that fit

She has an affinity for loose and comfy clothes, and has a closet full of hoodies with random nonsense slogans

She enjoys skateboarding a lot, and helped start Angel Grove's first and only X-Games team

She's not a troublemaker though, as she believes rules are there for a reason

Sure she does dumb things, she's a teenager

Out of her two siblings, she gets along better with her brother, David

She still likes Livia, but her and David tend to be more civil together

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What is a random seed?

I’ve gotten questions about how to use random seeds. They come up a lot in discussions of things like Osmos’s fixed level generation, but it can be tricky to jump from knowing they exist to figuring out how to use them.

To understand random seeds, it helps to know how computers generate random numbers. Most random number generators are actually pseudorandom number generators. When computers do an operation, they’re supposed to get the same result every time. That is, they’re deterministic. PRNGs use some clever math to take one number and jump to another number in a way that’s unpredictable.

Thus, the RNGs that we use output a sequence of numbers, each one based on the last one that was generated. A seed is just the starting number.

This can lead to some unexpected technical issues if you try to use a random number generator without considering how they work under the hood. But as a general rule what you want to do is to set the seed at the start of your generation and then use that generator for all of your calculations that need a deterministic, repeatable result.

(I sometimes set up two RNGs: one for the important calculations that other stuff depends on and one for the incidental stuff like randomizing the paths of particles, where no one will notice if they’re not exactly the same.)

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