People have the exact same "dollar and a dream" mentality with servers as they do with the lottery.
And good, completed servers occur at about the same rate as winning the lottery.
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How to start your own project:
1. Annoy everybody on an existing project by submitting or proposing changes that they don't want
2. Formally declare all existing projects to be complete crap
3. Talk at great length about the deficiencies of other projects
4. Get drunk
5. ???
6. Profit
They do? I don't seem to know anyone, or know anyone who knows anyone, who has won the lottery. People spend their entire lives trying to win and never do.
I'd say that the lottery is won frequently, but people don't win it frequently.
One person in millions will win it once in their life.
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How to start your own project:
1. Annoy everybody on an existing project by submitting or proposing changes that they don't want
2. Formally declare all existing projects to be complete crap
3. Talk at great length about the deficiencies of other projects
4. Get drunk
5. ???
6. Profit