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Hire a Game Coach Online
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Expert videogame players, many of them teens, are forging professional careers as coaches, finding clients — many of them in their 20s or 30s — online, the Wall Street Journal reports. Some gigs pay $65 an hour. From the article: 'Gaming-lessons.com says its youngest "Halo 2" instructor is 8-year-old New Yorker Victor De Leon III — better known by his online gamer name, Lil Poison — who has given several lessons a month since late last year, fitting the classes in after he has done his homework. His father, also named Victor, says his son has used some of the money he earns from lessons (hourly rate: $25) to buy a hamster, named Cortana after a character in the game.'"
I've heard of life coaches. But get-a-life coaches; that's something new!
Where were you when the voynix came?
I bet his hamster could beat you though...
When I have a kid, I want to put him in one of those strollers for twins and then run around the mall looking frantic.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
"What's next, degrees and certifications?!"
For the degrees, you don't need coaches. You just buy them from grade-farmers in China.
Where were you when the voynix came?
Halo2 Clan Leader: "Sorry dude, you need H+ certification and a degree in Frag Mastering to join." Applicant: "But I've been playing first-person shooters for years! I have more experience than any idiot with those junk pieces of paper!!"
Not if I have a microwave.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
I think "Kicked by console" must be some sort of certification or something, because I'm pretty good at CS and I get that all the time when I play and do well. Also people call me a "wallhack" and "aimbot", I don't know exactly what this means but I figure it's analogous to the title "Doctor" IRL.
Jolt Cola, Mountain Dew, Coffee.
Hamburgers, Tacos, Pizza - lot's of pepperoni and sausage - need that protein!
Skittles, Gummi Bears, etc... - sugars for the brain.
Cross training across platforms: alternating days of: PS/2, PCGames, Nintendo, etc...
I know NOTHING, I know NOTHING
The people who are paying for these lessons are getting schooled.
There are 0x40000000 types of people: those who understand 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point, and those who don't.
Doesn't anyone find it a little odd that an eight-year-old is making money playing an M-rated game?
Oh, I don't know about that. I've found it useful to chuck a few grenades into a room before I enter. Other than the janitor at work getting royally pissed it has served me well.
Ya that was me. For LoZ, I racked up over $200 in charges. The phone company ended up taking over 3/4 of it away and I lost my allowance for a bunch of months :(
Not if you have a groundhog digging up your yard and you can't seem to chase it off. It doesn't see the golf ball coming. The surprise shot usually sends it off for days.
There are other cross sport uses, too. For instance, baseball helped improve my bowling skills. Ever since I started bowling overhand, I'm not wasting frames trying to adjust to the lane conditions.
> People actually pay for lessons for skills that are useless away from video games?
So it's mostly just like college, then.