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11-05-2019, 08:59 AM | #1 |
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Professional computer game players. Unreal it would get so serious. But you know what? I wish pro sports would take more of such a hard line approach to cheating. Your will to eliminate an action is shown in your will to punish an action.
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11-05-2019, 09:46 AM | #2 |
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I would love to see professional sports do this. Get caught and you're gone. No three strikes, no BS. The difference though, unlike pro gaming, is the MLB benefits from their players cheating.
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His tears bring me happiness.
Well not really as I don't know this kid but I'm 100% behind the company. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
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The most stupid kids and their keyboards know that aimbots are universally banned, in all games, and will have consequences. He's crying for his own blatant stupidity. I could write more about how much I detest his bitter tears but I might slip in a few words of choice that get ME banned over here…
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I'm not for permanent bans for just anything. Mistakes happen. But I ain't for 20 2nd chances either. People like Josh Gordon, Bartolo Colon & Ritchie Incognito should have been kicked out of the pros long ago.
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11-06-2019, 02:46 PM | #8 |
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Here's a naive question, perhaps. Was this kid making money in some fashion? He had nearly 2 million subscribers to his YouTube channel devoted to videos of him playing Fortnite. Was he sharing in advertising revenue in some fashion? For, that would explain his tears to some extent.
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Yes, and that's the real reason he's bawling like a baby. He's out a ton of money. He was also sponsored, to go along with his YouTube cash flow.
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I thus roughly calculate, and no offense to either him or you, that he made more than you last year.
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What a screwed-up world this is, that kid such as this can be in such a high-stakes position over a goddamned dumb game.
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I hear you. It's old-fashioned, I know, but I'm in favor of kids being kids until they are 21, receiving an allowance or perhaps working at the grocery store for a few bucks. This kind of stuff, the topic of this thread, is obscene to me.
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Go back far enough and kids were expected to find work between ages 12-14 to help their parents. It is really only when Gen-X and Millennials began to raise children that the idea of them being able to finish secondary school without a full time job began to take hold. I am all for anyone of any age group being able to earn as much money as they can. If someone can find an audience playing a video game and and make money through advertisements and sportsmanship's then I am all for it. But if you are going to cheat at that game then you have to accept the consequences as a result. Bru if you were truly old school then you would be for children getting an education until they were 10 and then having to find work in the local textile mill for 60 hours a week at 30 cents and hour I think you lose your old man card for a few weeks. |
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I don't understand the fascination - how in the world there is money to be made at it. Probably because I don't understand why people would want to watch to the degree that there is money to be made. That said...
I guess if I had a friend who was a slothful gamer, spending the bulk of his anti-social life in front of a monitor, I'd think it was pathetic, regardless of how much he was earning. OTOH, if I had a friend who spent hours honing his craft so he could make money in order to party like a rock star - I'd be his biggest cheerleader! |
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Calling this a job is a slap in the face to everybody who gets up every day a six and breaks his back all day for token compensation, e.g. hundreds of millions, maybe billions of people. Job! (snorts) What are his office hours for managing his social media presence?
Lucky bastard, and none too smart. Even ten years ago he'd be a third-rate sludge sweeper like all the other no-good do-nothin's. At best he's "self-employed" or a freelancer or whatever. You know, like burglars, drug dealers and hustlers.
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I will never understand why people come up with such jealousy because somebody of no consequence to them gets paid to do something they wish they could do. No matter what the skill is, if someone becomes so good at it that people are willing to pay money for them to do it or to watch them do it, then it is a career. It is extremely myopic to suggest you have to be sweating, getting dirty and struggling to make ends meet to consider yourself employed.
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