I don’t want to get on your level (in your hole?). I like spending all my disposable income on video games, thank you very much. ;)

I spent over $40 on comics yesterday. All Marvel. All Secret Wars.

If you have one year left of college, pro bono no less, you should finish it. If that sounds a lot like his father, then his father is a rational human being. I’m sorry, but pro gaming for the vast, vast, vast majority of people is not viable. Fatal1ty, who before this year was the most successful gamer of all time…

Didn’t one time, in any way, shape, or form say he was dropping out of college. Said he should finish college (while it’s paid for and one year away) before pursuing a pro gaming career - if that’s what he chooses to do. I also said we don’t know the whole story, or even half the story.

FM transmitters work great...

FM transmitters work great...

Partially true. The big (huge) difference here is you can get scholarships to play sports. I never had aspirations of playing a pro sport, but I ended up getting three years of my college completely taken care of because of an athletic scholarship. Once colleges offer scholarships for eSports (which doesn’t sound like…

Agreed! Recently spent a weekend at Comicon with the misses. Find someone to marry that’s okay with you spending $250 on prints and figures (and buy some Avatar prints and comics herself).

If it’s more than about 6 months old, it seems to be on there. Read through all of Annhialation recently and they even have the events chronologically ordered by reading order now. I can’t really speak for some of their non-MCU franchises (i.e. Star Wars, etc.) but all the big boys seem there in full force.

Marvel Unlimited is amazing. I feel like I’m 13 again with all the comics I’ve been reading.

Is there any reason to get this over a 295x2? I’ve been debating splurging on that one, but don’t want to underpowered myself if this 980 can push better performance.

Source on what? The amount of people that go pro at something? You divide the number of people participating in an activity vs the amount of people getting paid for it. So, in most things, ‘going pro’ in not viable.

I feel like we are two voices of reason amongst this land of confusion. I want to sit all these wee ones in here down and let them know how the world really works (ie, shatter their hopes and dreams.)

That’s a streamer, not a pro gamer. Upper tier Streamers can make 30-40, which is fine. I can see you’re passionate about this, which is also fine. The point is, this kid has 1 year left before he gets his degree and he made the smart decision to hold off trying to ‘go pro’ until he has it. I don’t know where you got…

I wrote a long, eloquently worded response to you (seriously, it would have won a Pulitzer) when chrome crashed, so here’s the cliff notes:

Whoa there, turbo. You sure gleaned a lot of (false) info from my little blurb there. All I was saying is we have 2 sentences from one side of the aisle here and to not paint this guy as a saint. I never said he should give up his dreams. I never said somebody shouldn’t chase theirs. I never said people can’t make a…

You really think it’s just his dad being a dick and saying no? I’m betting no. There’s way more to this story. If his parents knew how their son is demonizing them on the Internet with a sob story, he might get cut off anyway.

Sorry, but it’s the exact opposite of short sighted. Far sighted? Sounds funny, but we’ll go with it. This kid is not being short sighted because he’s not going to the tournament. He’s thinking long term, as in: “I have one year of college left. I’m going to focus on that and then reassess what I’m doing.” Short…

Yup. Pro gaming sounds like a terrible career, but that’s just me. Too many horror stories of bad ‘coaches’, missing money, broken promises, etc...

And I get the feeling that his ‘geeky hobbies’ have been a point of contention for a while, hence the whole ‘hiding this from his parents’ aspect of the story.