After going through a couple of threads on the Gambling Discussion topic I noticed how divided the views are on trusting the RNG and the fairness of most casinos in general. So I wanted to ask everyone - Do you trust the RNGs and why?
Not really, but they are as reliable as you're going to get. This completely ignores the fact that a casino is naturally a "blackbox" operation and could have vast manipulative algorithms running that no player would ever have the ability to detect, so it's a bit of a moot point really. Casinos are generally winners with the odds built into every game in their favor, so they don't really need to go down a route like rigging a random number generator. You'll never get a true random number generator, as you're probably aware, so you just have to accept the best that is on offer which has been doing quite a good job already for decades. If you're heavily into gambling you're probably not that interested in deep number analysis like this anyway.