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Little did he know
As we know if a hobby isn’t financially viable as a career there’s no use in perusing it whatsoever
Yeah, where’s the version of this comic with a boomer sitting on a recliner for 12 hours straight drifting in and out of consciousness while a news channel drones on a TV?
I’m on the bus right now to go to game design school lol
It’s not exactly the same but plenty of people make a living playing video games on twitch
It’s not exactly the same but plenty of people make a living playing video games on twitch
“Plenty of people” is how many people? I mean, how many millions gamers are there out there and how many of them are making a living out of it? A million? A few thousands? Less?
If my question is half trolling it is half trolling only: as an old and non-gamer dude myself, I often see that kind of ideas floating around with younger people, that they could ‘just stream’ or become an influencer and stuff like that to earn a living because Such and Such are doing it already. So, my question is serious if its tone was not: what proportion of the population does indeed manage to become, let’s not even consider becoming rich and famous (which a lot of people seem to be willing to become) but manage to earn the equivalent of the minimum wage by doing that?
There was no Twitch back then. There was no internet, in fact.
Comic is from 1990. The Internet was very much a thing.
There was no widely available internet, which is what would matter in this context.
I mean it depends on what you mean by internet. There were BBSes but the world wide web didn’t really start taking traffic from the general public until 93. HTML hadn’t even been invented in 90.
I meant the Internet. So we are both technically correct.
If you are only connected by UUCP, are you on the Internet? What about if you are using http://www.nncpgo.org/?
Video games bad
