{"id":46029,"date":"2018-08-01T10:16:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T14:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46029"},"modified":"2020-08-08T10:17:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T14:17:04","slug":"back-in-my-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46029","title":{"rendered":"Back in my day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I read this article<\/a> about parents who not only encourage their children to get good at Fortnite<\/em>, but they\u2019re actually paying \u201ctutors\u201d to \u201ccoach\u201d them to become better at it, and I\u2019m not entirely quite sure how I feel about it.\u00a0 In one hand, we have a microcosm of how much the world has changed in which video games aren\u2019t just more accepted than they used to be, gaming itself has become a viable occupation for people to strive for and a platform in which real, legitimate earnings can be made through.\u00a0 But in the other hand, we have the basically the direct antithesis of the ideals and mentalities that people in my generation and older grew up through, where gaming was a waste of time, source of rotting for brains, and a definitive negative influence on our lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

After reading this article, the question that popped into my head that I\u2019ll probably query people on theFacebook about is whether they\u2019d wish if they were a kid today, where video games are accepted and viable career options, but the world around them is psychotic, we live in a borderline police state, and school shootings are almost a reoccurring lottery in which one unlucky school seems to get chosen every few months for a tragedy.\u00a0 Or, if they were content with the lives past lived, where video games were frowned upon by our parents, but we still played them anyways, and the world was slightly less psychotic and was for lack of a better term, safer.<\/span><\/p>\n

All I can think of is that if I were a kid in today\u2019s world, my parents would probably very much encourage my gaming habits, especially since it\u2019s already been demonstrated, primarily in Korea, just how lucrative video gaming careers could possibly get.\u00a0 Instead, I grew up in the 80s when Atari and Nintendo invented basically cancer machines that distracted, deviated and held back appropriate childhood upbringing, and was blamed for just about every negative behavior that children could possibly exhibit.<\/span><\/p>\n

I remember reading in like GamePro<\/em> or EGM<\/em>, an interview by a Street Fighter II<\/em> pro, that may or may not have been Justin Wong.\u00a0 They talked about how they had a manager, and how they practiced SF2 for 3-4 hours a day, and all I could think about was if my mom found out I played video games for 3-4 straight, she would yell at me and tell me to go read a book.\u00a0 No, this is precisely what occurred when I first got my Super Nintendo and was playing Super Mario World non-stop from when she went to work and came home, and I was in exactly the same place, still playing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But going back to the article itself, I can\u2019t help but feel annoyed at how pathetic these people are, hiring people who play Fortnite all the time to help them get better at the game.\u00a0 Not just back in my day, but even now, if I want to get better at a game, I do this thing called, playing the fucking game<\/strong>, and through repetition, experience and time, I will get better at it.\u00a0 It\u2019s a novel concept, I know, but it is pretty foolproof at getting better not just at Fortnite, but just about any skill on the planet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, we have these coddling parents, concerned that they\u2019re children are getting owned in a game, and fearing that the constant not winning of virtual battle royales is going to ding their confidence and ability to live normal lives, are going out and paying people who shouldn\u2019t really be getting paid for providing hand-holding, to coach their kids, to get better at a video game.\u00a0 It really kind of disgusts me, and kind of makes me wish I cared enough about Fortnite to get better at it, to where I can beat not just these coached children and sometimes their sad-sack dads, but also their coaches as well, just to prove a point that time, practice and repetition trumps their expensive coaching.<\/span><\/p>\n

Man, what a fucking world we live in now.\u00a0 Parents not only encouraging their kids to get good at video games, but paying people actual money and bailing them out of their stereotypically sad gamer lives to coach their kids, to someday become stereotypical gamers themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Christ I\u2019m getting old;\u00a0 I\u2019m not even 40 yet, but just about everything that\u2019s happening in the world seems to be obnoxious and saddening.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read this article about parents who not only encourage their children to get good at Fortnite, but they\u2019re actually paying \u201ctutors\u201d to \u201ccoach\u201d them to become better at it, and I\u2019m not entirely quite sure how I feel about it.\u00a0 In one hand, we have a microcosm of how much the world has changed … Continue reading Back in my day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,133,146,19],"class_list":["post-46029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-motherland","tag-old-man","tag-triggered","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46031,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46029\/revisions\/46031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}