I have enough problems staying awake for 17 hours a day. There would be NO WAY I could game 17 hours a day and not be a complete basketcase withing a week.

If you're not the only one concerned about his decision then perhaps an intervention will work. However, in order for something like that to be effective, you and whoever else gets involved has to set out clear goals and then everyone has to remain firm on their decisions. Get into the intervention and tell your friend that you respect his decision to live his life but you cannot remain his friend while he insists on pursuing such a dead-end path. Present your problems clearly and concisely, tell him what you think will come of his decisions and leave it at that. If an intervention doesn't work, then he'll have to learn from his own mistakes. Whether or not you stick around to see it happen is up to you.

However, 2beers brings up a valid point. If your friend does, in fact, succeed in some way with this venture then you'll end up being the one learning from your skepticism.

However, 2beers brings up a valid point. If your friend does, in fact, succeed in some way with this venture then you'll end up being the one learning from your skepticism.

This isn't a very good point though!  If your friend wanted to just go out one day and put thousands of dollars into lottery tickets it's obviously a bad idea, but if they MIRACULOUSLY win it doesn't mean that YOU WERE WRONG SEE???  GUESS IT WAS A GOOD IDEA.  It's still not a good idea, it just HAPPENED to work out when it very very easily could have failed horribly.

Right i know what you are saying steel, and i've tried to make him understand those points. seriously i think i'm going to find some other people to tell him off about this because i dont care, i dont want this to get out of hand.

edit: if he somehow manages to make money at this I don't know what i would do, velfarre brings up a good point but i know what you are saying mamamack

Plus, if he makes any money at this, it sure as hell isn't going to last.  He'll probably make money one time AT MOST, and not very much.

This isn't a very good point though!  If your friend wanted to just go out one day and put thousands of dollars into lottery tickets it's obviously a bad idea, but if they MIRACULOUSLY win it doesn't mean that YOU WERE WRONG SEE???  GUESS IT WAS A GOOD IDEA.  It's still not a good idea, it just HAPPENED to work out when it very very easily could have failed horribly.

I'm not advocating everyone run out and do stupid things, nor am I a fan of the whole "I told you so!" sentiment. I firmly believe that Cyborgasm's friend is going to fail miserably at this rather hair-brained adventure. On the off chance that said friend does happen to succeed then I am willing to apologize for being skeptical and learn from the experience. No where in there did I ever say that his choices were good or sound nor would I ever admit that what he did was a good idea. I will just be wiser for the whole experience.

The only way to stop him is to beat him at his own game. You must join the MLG and defeat him. Just hope it's true and he's not getting massively trolled by some guys over xbox live.

Lmao, South Park WoW montage all over again. x_x

Wouldn't it be funny if he actually DID make over fifty thousand off of this?

On the off chance that said friend does happen to succeed then I am willing to apologize for being skeptical and learn from the experience.

But why?  You have every right to be skeptical, and even if he succeeded (by the way, it would take years to even know if he succeeded because like I said he could get money once but it definitely won't last) you have no reason to apologize for being skeptical.  You don't have to learn from this experience because it's such a one in a million shot that if another friend came up and said the same thing you shouldn't go "well this guy did it, i guess i shouldn't be skeptical", because chances are that second friend isn't going to succeed at that same one-in-a-million shot!  It's not a matter of becoming wiser, it's just dumb luck and that doesn't make you wrong to have said it was such a bad idea.

Actually there is pretty much a ZERO percent chance this could be his career because it won't be long before it's some completely different game that all these tournaments are based around, and unless you're that autistic kid from The Wizard you aren't going to suddenly become a top player in it too.  If suddenly no one was playing football, it's not like the football players could just immediately pick up basketball.

not really, these tournaments don't really evolve like that. it's all sequel shit. last year it was halo 2 and guitar hero 2, this year it's halo 3 and guitar hero 3.

still dumb but it's not like they push in new directions, they go from one shitty game to the next shitty game in the series.

yeah but isn't the halo series coming to an end?  that means that there's going to have to be a new game soon

There might be more Halo games. I thought Halo 3 would be the last one, but then they went back to the original intent of the franchise and made Halo Wars turn-based strategy game.

U gotta let a gamer game, bro...

the bigger point is it's hard to think of a more worthless career.

even with athletics you can point to health benefits, a sense of comradery, or hell just providing other people with a good time, but most GAMERS don't even pay attention to MLG, let alone most people. it's trying to ride a gravy train without realizing its a train...powered by gravy???? ITS NOT GOING ANYWHERE!

I agree with mamamack let that fucker hit rock bottom and laugh at him as he falls.

you should try your best to convince him to stay in school while he does this though. A job you can get again but I wouldn't let my idiots drop out of college for gams.