NOW im wondering, HOW DO YOU EVEN GET ANY MINERALS AHH
I been here a wile (i think) and im still nto sure how to get any. I know you can gamble but you cant exactly gamble w/o a ticket!
So, how do you get minerals?

None.

NudeRaider -- blessed innocent soul knows nothing of the strife we had before EUDs were discovered 
DarkenedFantasies -- Probably just didn't care. For example, at some point before release, they've updated the graphics of some of the Protoss buildings (Forge, CyberCore, Citadel, Observatory, Arbiter Tribunal), but instead of properly re-rendering them with edited 3D models, they did crappy copy-paste jobs on the rendered graphics.
NudeRaider,
DarkenedFantasies