NEW YORK—Saying the choice was entirely in your hands, a report released Monday found that you could quit your job right now and just play PlayStation 5 until you run out of money. “At this very moment, you could walk out the front door of your office and go home to spend month after month playing God Of War: Ragnarok …
  • BoB@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Amateurs… I have been doing this for more than a decade. Thank you Satoshi

  • amphetaminisiert@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’ve been jobless for around 2 years now because of depression and shit, finally got back into working and I hate myself for not starting up my world of warcraft career back up. I could be a wow king by now 🙃😂

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I’ve done that before. When I quit I stood in Orgrimar and gave out 10,000 gold to everyone who asked. That was a shit load of gold back then, although it might not be now. But I completely changed the Azeroth life of a dozen or so people.

    • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.deEnglish
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      2 years ago

      As someone who is currently neglecting their offline life again becausenof that game (Classic Hardcore goes brrr) - be glad that you didn’t :D

    • EnderMB@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      As someone that does BJJ, I wonder how sustainable this is. It’s not particularly great on the body, so the idea of training when you feel like it, and then taking time off to rest through work sounds nice in theory, but the reality is that unless you’ve got incredible genetics or are just starting out in that white belt beginner phase, you’re going to just end up hurt.

      Don’t get me wrong, I see it all the time, but it’s not sustainable in the time it takes to get good. Ultimately you just end up as that poor twenty-something blue belt with the knees and hips of a fifty-something, still getting smeshed by higher belts.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I knew a guy who loved to travel. He would work for 1 year abroad teaching English, and then live for about 5 years off his earnings, while traveling the world. He managed about 12 years abroad before getting killed in a motorcycle accident in SE Asia.

      • Blastasaurus@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I don’t understand why everyone in the internet thinks people will understand their niche subcultures’ acronyms. US military people are the worst culprits.

    • sadreality@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      This guy was able to deliver pizza for a month and live off that money for a few months?!

      Wtf is this shit 1990s

      Gtfo here boomer

        • EdgarallenpwnEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Sounds like the dream if I didn’t have a wife and dogs to care for. Maybe I should make that call to my therapist

        • _number8_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          yeah when i delivered pizza i barely worried about groceries or food because i had infinite supply of the best food

      • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Lol, you couldn’t do that in 1990 either. You could barely afford to pay your portion of the rent on the 2 bd apartment you split with 4 people from a part-time pizza delivery job.

  • meth_dragon [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    the xinjiang stuff is actually way more insidious than cultural genocide and organ farming that msm tells you about

    what they actually do is brainwash you into getting a job, during which they implant you with subliminal commands to get a mortgage and a family, programmed to activate after you complete the ‘employment training’. after you fulfill these subliminal directives (with the help of targeted down payment discounts and government assigned gfs) the brainwashing wears off and suddenly all those rounded up prospective freedom fighters wake up, stuck on the hamster wheel for life

    aint no one ever fed their kids on a freedom fighter’s salary, lemme tell ya. these guys are just stuck being desk jockeys for the rest of their lives. fates worse than death

  • oldGregg@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’ve made it 9 months since I quit.

    Lotta chicken and rice but I thought I’d take my retirement before I die in the food wars

  • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Literally what I have been doing since last month. I made it a bit more challenging by going on a vacation for a week too.

    • AnonTwo@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      Hey man, respect the speedrun strats

      His RTA poverty game is as close as it can get without TAS

  • shiveyarbles@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The guy in the picture is not playing FIFA. If he was he’d be frowning and smashing his controller

  • theodewere@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    they should have called me for research, i actually tested this one when the technology was PlayStation™