Gaming lends itself to great career options, but there’s still a segment of society that thinks otherwise. The problem is production — not that those with gaming as their career options haven’t given back for “all the earth’s oxygen they’ve wasted” over the years. Who else could popularise the 1-10 score as a substitute for in-depth analysis that still gives consumers headaches and developers sleepless nights?
But 16-year-old Blake Peebles decided that taking part in Guitar Hero competitions and winning free games, equipment and food was leagues better than getting a job and running the rat race like the rest of the world. The real Whopper? His parents actually let him.
“We couldn’t take the complaining anymore,” said Mrs. Peebles. “He always told me that he thought school was a waste of time.” The PTA is gonna have a field day with this.
It is not for us to judge what a person should take up as a career option. Dozens of people become freedom fighters, insurgents and campus fiction writers every day, and nobody bats an eye or eyes a bat. But this goes against the popular parenting notion that “games are bad for you”, doesn’t it?
Whatever happened to all those parents on the other side of the battle lines shooting to kill the gaming industry advocates? So they are not all alike, are they? Hmmm… Interesting.
If anything, this incident points out just how much parenting is responsible, if not completely then partly, for a child’s growth or deterioration. Even if the guy dropped school for an actual music career, it wouldn’t be such a big deal, but the difference between actual guitar strings and coloured electronic buttons must have been very foggy in his case.
And what happens when the world finally realises Rock Band is the superior franchise? Let’s see Blake’s skills on “Rock and Roll All Nite” (Expert Level) feed him then.
Source: Ripten
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