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"I play Fortnite every day, Mom. It's my dream to play Fortnite." - What a world we live in now a days...

BLKNSLVR 8y ago
Oh the stress of modern celebrity! I'd give you all my pity but I already spent it raising children and paying a mortgage and working for sociopaths. Having said that, now I fucking well WANT to play Fortnite every day
- sky_rw 8y ago
  Heaven is being able to play fortnite every day. Hell is _having_ to play fornite every single day.
  - BLKNSLVR 8y ago
    I'm not seeing any "have to" in any of this anywhere, except in the woe-is-me voluntary victim handbook.
    - thecatspaw 8y ago
      He has to play fortnite just like we have to go to our jobs. Sure, we can just not show up anymore, but that will loose you your income. Of course, he has a bit more flexibility, but so does an employee who yields the company a million each month, and takes home half of that.
      - BLKNSLVR 8y ago
        "a bit more flexibility" and "half a million take-home per month" aren't in the same ball park (to paraphrase Pulp Fiction: it ain't even the same sport) Apologies if I'm coming off as offensive or patronising, but I really truly cannot see what there could possibly be to complain about that isn't entirely within their control to change. I think there's a bigger picture that you might not be stepping back far enough to look at.
        thecatspaw 8y ago
        What I tried to say was, if you have an employee who yields you half a million each month, you're probably not gonna fire him if he says "hey im gonna take off tomorrow". But yes, they obviously can just not stream for a single day, but it costs him. According to the article, not streaming a day looses him 15,000 subs (assuming the default cut of 50% of 5$) thats 37k lost, per day, and it adds up. Ninja seems to be aware that his stream wont live forever, that his fame is on a timer, like anyone on the internet. So he's trying to save up as much money as he can, to support his family after his fame dies down. Lets be generous and assume $200k spent per year for rent/mortage, food and all that fun stuff. A day streaming means he has 2 months less buffer, before his money would run out. 4 Months, if you're spending 100k a year. Choosing between 1 day of work, and 4 months of work, seems pretty easy to me, even if that single day sucks.
belorn 8y ago
Is it much stranger than kicking a ball around on the field? Having sports as a profession is in general strange.

Oh the stress of modern celebrity! I'd give you all my pity but I already spent it raising children and paying a mortgage and working for sociopaths. Having said that, now I fucking well WANT to play Fortnite every day

sky_rw 8y ago
Heaven is being able to play fortnite every day. Hell is _having_ to play fornite every single day.
- BLKNSLVR 8y ago
  I'm not seeing any "have to" in any of this anywhere, except in the woe-is-me voluntary victim handbook.
  - thecatspaw 8y ago
    He has to play fortnite just like we have to go to our jobs. Sure, we can just not show up anymore, but that will loose you your income. Of course, he has a bit more flexibility, but so does an employee who yields the company a million each month, and takes home half of that.
    - BLKNSLVR 8y ago
      "a bit more flexibility" and "half a million take-home per month" aren't in the same ball park (to paraphrase Pulp Fiction: it ain't even the same sport) Apologies if I'm coming off as offensive or patronising, but I really truly cannot see what there could possibly be to complain about that isn't entirely within their control to change. I think there's a bigger picture that you might not be stepping back far enough to look at.
      - thecatspaw 8y ago
        What I tried to say was, if you have an employee who yields you half a million each month, you're probably not gonna fire him if he says "hey im gonna take off tomorrow". But yes, they obviously can just not stream for a single day, but it costs him. According to the article, not streaming a day looses him 15,000 subs (assuming the default cut of 50% of 5$) thats 37k lost, per day, and it adds up. Ninja seems to be aware that his stream wont live forever, that his fame is on a timer, like anyone on the internet. So he's trying to save up as much money as he can, to support his family after his fame dies down. Lets be generous and assume $200k spent per year for rent/mortage, food and all that fun stuff. A day streaming means he has 2 months less buffer, before his money would run out. 4 Months, if you're spending 100k a year. Choosing between 1 day of work, and 4 months of work, seems pretty easy to me, even if that single day sucks.

belorn 8y ago

Is it much stranger than kicking a ball around on the field? Having sports as a profession is in general strange.