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Re:How the Powerball rules were tweaked to make the game an ... by mason240 on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @12:10PM (#10895798)
The difference between playing fantasy football and playing the lottery are like the difference between playing an RPG and running an UPDATE script on a database.

In the end, grinding out your characters stats are just running scripts with a nice GUI on top. It's the experience that provides the value, not the result.

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Re:How the Powerball rules were tweaked to make the game an ... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @04:23PM (#10897616)
The difference between lottery and playing fantasy football is like the difference between betting against a random number generator, and playing Eve Online part-time, respectively. In the former, you lose consistently. In the latter, you lose to people who spend most of the time in Microsoft Excel and are better at it than many a corporate accountant.
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