Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Get His Son To Stop Gaming 338
An anonymous reader writes
"An irritated father of a 23-year-old gamer hired 'In-game assassins' to attempt to make his son quit playing video games and have him get a job. 'Feng's idea was that his son would get bored of playing games if he was killed every time he logged on, and that he would start putting more effort into getting a job.' While the son recently had a job at a software development company he quit because he decided he didn't like the work."
Welll, Now i know my new carruier (Score:5, Funny)
in game assassin. 200 bucks a day, plus expenses. I can even see the misspelled gold lettering on my office door.
If you kill him.. (Score:5, Funny)
If you kill him, he will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
Irony (Score:5, Funny)
What if his son is running a business by selling his services as an ingame assassin?
Re:Just kick him out. (Score:5, Funny)
Indeed, how will he ever conceal the fact that he can write software? He's doomed.
Re:Just kick him out. (Score:4, Funny)
The US street are littered with kids whose parent did that instead of actual get professional help.
Really? Where? Reference? Honestly, I've never heard that parents kicking deadbeat children out of their homes was a serious source of homelessness.
They're all in Portland. Also, most of them deserve it and would not contribute to society in any meaningful way regardless of whether they're on the streets or in their parents' homes.
Re:If you're assassinated in a video game... (Score:4, Funny)
If you're assassinated in a video game, what happens to your assets? I can totally see a new a career here. First, I play video games all day long and get really good at them. Then, I offer to assassinate other players with the stipulation that I get to keep all their goods. So I get real world cash for the hit and virtual world goods from the person I just wiped out. And all while sitting on my ass playing video games. Hmmm I think I need to take this idea to a good VC firm before Zuckerberg steals my idea and integrates it into Facebook.
He'll make a killing.
Re:Just kick him out. (Score:3, Funny)
And since when is "education or experience" required for software development?
Re:Just kick him out. (Score:3, Funny)
It used to be easy to conceal the fact you are a code monkey, until they invented the banana test... It can't be fooled.
Re:Just pay the son (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe his kid should look for a job as an in-game assassin? Apparently there's a market for that kind of thing.
Just cut his internet access off after 10pm (Score:5, Funny)