The Big Switch

[Arkenputtyknife]

In our world, it's been specifically stated that God does not play dice with the universe.

The statement has also been specifically refuted: “Not only does God play dice, sometimes He throws them where we can't see them.” (Hawking, if I recall correctly.)

But yes, real-world space and time are weird, so weird that most sci-fi simply ignores the issue and reverts to classical physics. (Warp drives, hyperspace jumps, and so forth all implicitly postulate that the universe is fundamentally Galilean.) By comparison, game physics—even with the warping of time being suggested—is pretty simple.