2026-03-29 (discuss.online)

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HELP WANTED SEPT. 2, 2005 / NINTENDO EXPERT NEEDED $50, 000 salary + bonus Equal opportunity employer 555-[scribble] / IF YOU HAVE 50,000 HOURS OR MORE OF VIDEO GAME EXPERIENCE, WE NEED YOU. / VIDEO PLAYER dragon slayer $150,000 / LOOKING FOR GOOD MARIO BROTHERS PLAYER $100,000 plus your own car. 555-[scribble] / DO YOU LAUGH IN THE FACE OF KILLER GOOMBAS? CALL US. $50,000 yr. plus a free house [scribble] / CAN YOU SAVE THE PRINCESS? We need skilled men and women $75,000 + Retirement. [scribble] / SUPER MARIO BROS. Expert. $95,000 yr. Four-day work week + Ferrari / Expanding company needs skilled computer games expert. Call / DO YOU KNOW A NINTENDO EXPERT? Please read him or her this ad.

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[-] TractorDuffy@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago

Video games bad

[-] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

It's not exactly the same but plenty of people make a living playing video games on twitch

[-] Libb@piefed.social 11 points 52 minutes ago* (last edited 51 minutes ago)

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?

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 points 3 minutes ago

Also, of those who do make a living, the tiny .1%, how many of THOSE are women, basically selling cleavage and "just chatting".

Not knocking, but Farside kid has an uphill climb unless he wants to do a Fin5ter or something.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 points 31 minutes ago

There was no Twitch back then. There was no internet, in fact.

[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago

Little did he know

[-] everett@lemmy.ml 1 points 59 minutes ago

Please read him or her this ad.

this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026

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About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.

The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side

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