>barely literate father that is always broke is obsessed with """researching""" about how to play lottery through retarded charlatan videos, books and softwares >I always say that theres no "optimal scheme" to play, since its randomly generated unbiased numbers >he always ignores me and says math is wrong and his "analysis" of past lotto numbers "trendings" is right >everytime that I go to his place, theres dozens of scribbles about lotto, with circled numbers and shit, john-nash-from-a-beautiful-mind style >his laptop is always filled with shady lotto software, along with tons of adware >never won at lotto more than he spent
I know its immature to think like this, but this shit make me lose all respect for the old man, fuck.
My dad once asked me if I knew anything about magrav technology, because he was excited about how the Russians were using it to scare the Americans. The whole thing was total nonsense, but he believed it since it was from some Russian-looking source.
It seems he will believe anything that comes from a Russian state media outlet, is a Russian think tank, or has a name ending in .ru. We are American, btw, he just hates America and thinks it is an evil imperialist country and that Russia is the unfairly persecuted good guy in world affairs.
Evan Lewis
My dad is obsessed with numbers and the lotto as well
After working shitty blue collar jobs his whole life, I think he sees it as his only chance at some semblance of a retirement. Makes me sad to think about
Lucas Evans
>randomly generated non-biased numbers Yeah sure they are. I refuse to believe that they don't intentionally prevent wins every once and awhile to keep the train going. More people buy when the pot is higher. Also you can't get too mad at him, it's a psychological pit trap designed to get you to keep playing. Even if you recognize this, it can be fun to play just for shits and giggles. Everyone has their vices.
Leo Hughes
This.
It would be interesting to see if there's some sort of statistics on lotto numbers from different ones to see precisely how random the numbers are.
Caleb Foster
Replace Russia with Stalinists and he's not wrong
Jonathan Morris
>mfw my dad is the same >except he tried it with soccer bets and succeeded Fucking pigskin brainlets.
Jaxon Murphy
What is so random about it?
In the end lotto is just a machine like every other, a deterministic one. Who knows, maybe the machine breaks down every six months, and they just use Matlab to fake data while some lazy drunk technician purposely fakes repairing it so he gets to keep a job.
Your dad will notice the pattern and score $$$, and more kudos to him.
Overarching principle of life, if you work hard, you will eventually succeed. Even if he fails, he can sell his lotto analysis knowledge to future soon to be millionaires.
Isaac White
>Overarching principle of life, if you work hard, you will eventually succeed. That is a terrible midset.
