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Playing video games could get you a better job

2 pointsby HarveyKandolaover 5 years ago

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rvzover 5 years ago
It seems like articles like this from BBC suffer from memory loss here and attempt to attract towards the survivorship bias in the Fortnite&#x2F;PUGP tornaments to convince you that you can get a better job when playing games and not even mention the health risks that comes with playing video games all day long.<p>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;blogs-trending-39232620" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;blogs-trending-39232620</a><p>The Nintendo Switch is at least trying to improve how we play games (The Wii was a step in the right direction in terms of improving our health) but these tournaments are really just encouraging unhealthiness in sitting down for too long for a live-stream &#x2F; tournament for the &#x27;chance&#x27; to earn viewers or money.<p>So, I do not think that it is worth playing video games for e-sports all day to get you a better job even if money was involved (As tens of thousands of teams are competing anyway). I would either use video-games as for training &#x2F; assessment or relaxing purposes but not to do full time. Perhaps a better skill would be building AI bots to play games and may the best AI win.<p>Nice try Beeb, but HN can detect bullshit articles like this in nano-seconds.