If you want to know how boring casinos are, but don't live near one, go to any game arcade where the games give out tickets that can be traded in for prizes. C

If you want to know how boring casinos are, but don't live near one, go to any game arcade where the games give out tickets that can be traded in for prizes. Compare with home video game consoles. They sucked most of the fun out of video games to turn them into gambling machines for kids. Now imagine if they sucked the remainder of the fun out, and the only thing left was the gambling. Now you can only have fun if you think playing a game where you are statistically guaranteed to lose everything in the long run is fun. They may have more glamour in the gambling-centric cities, but the few casinos I have been in have all been sad, dingy, smoky places filled mainly with old women staring at their slot machine with dead eyes and cups full of their pension funds. Even if you temporarily win at gambling, you're still part of a machine that sucks life out of people and leaves them drained husks. If you don't have an expert system mathematically guaranteed to give you an advantage over the house, you're better off gambling on the stock markets, because at least if you lose there, it might have at least paid for someone else to have a decent non-bullshit job for a little while, and there's also a possibility that everybody wins, even those who didn't play.