Unemployment AKA The Gamer's Paycheck

To all you hard working brothers out there, do not fret about our economy. Especially if you have been laboring on the books for whatever time period is required by your state to receive certain benefits. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad just scraping by financially in return for a whole lot of time. Certainly, idol hands are the devils playground. But what good is there to come without evil to beget it?

Seeing as our social security is going to dry up by 2016 (well before I'll actually need it) I am embracing this time to play all of the games that garner my interest, and systematically phase out the painful memories and health effects of stress embedded in the psyche as a result of mindless servitude.  Yes friends, I speak from experience. Make sure your employer chooses you when downsizing. Give them a reason to dislike you terribly, but nothing so obvious as to warrant termination, and you are good to go.

Game the fuck on.

Way to be the exact reason why N.A. is becoming a shithole.  Taking money and doing dick all.  Hope the parents are proud.

Get a job you freeloader.

Seriously dude? Freeloader don't get far in life.

Become a student, fail your first year that your parents were paying for re-do it pay for the next 3 yourself, that's 4 years of gaming, with a little debt on the side but not much that'll have an affect.

Jesus christ people, why take this so seriously? Those hostile replies are way more troll-tastic then anything by Sprizmo. In fact, I think it was a quality post. Rock on, Sprizmo, don't let The Man get you down.

Since i'm physically disabled it's hard for me to find a real job.
So i do some charity work at 'De Voedselbank' aka as the foodbank, in order to keep my unemployment... and my dignity.
I'm from the Netherlands btw.

" @Sprizmo: so you admit your just basically trolling? "

" Become a student, fail your first year that your parents were paying for re-do it pay for the next 3 yourself, that's 4 years of gaming, with a little debt on the side but not much that'll have an affect. "

I think I'll continue being one of the most critical members of my small employer's business while possessing skills that only about 2 other people (one of whom has since resigned) have so as to ensure my spending money flow. Thanks anyways though.

Playing games all day won't pay my car off...unless I work in the games industry, which I don't.

Ironically, I work in the car industry.

" @Sprizmo: Is there no system in America where they''ll pay if you've come from some form care? "

I collected Unemployment Insurance this winter because my last job was seasonal work in the summer and the economy is so bad right now I was unable to find any decent job.  Fuck these haters because I guarantee they don't understand what its like trying to find good jobs.  Enjoy your unplanned vacation and good luck finding a good job.

" @Sprizmo: Is there no system in America where they''ll pay if you've come from some form care? "

Everyone screws over the system in some way, visiting Giant Bomb when at work, driving like an asshole, being shithead noisy neighbors, mooching off the state, exploiting the laws to become a millionaire, sitting on billions of dollars of oil...

"Get a job you freeloader."

As someone that currently has a full-time job that pays decently for my needs and who has also spent several years hopping between different temp jobs, often with stretches of no employment (and thus no source of income until the next temp assignment), I can say that I definitely prefer my current situation more.  I may not have the time I used to have to dedicate to gaming, but I'd rather have less free time and a means to feed and shelter myself than have more free time and pray that I had enough money to pay my rent.

As much as I do love my gaming, I have higher priorities in life.  Besides, a full-time 40-hour-per-week job hasn't stopped me from finding the time to beat the likes of Persona 4 or Fire Emblem:  Radiant Dawn.  I just can't play games in day-long marathons anymore.

Eating too much pizza makes pizza taste like ass.
Fucking too many bitches will make your dick raw and ruin your sex drive.
And playing videogames too often makes videogames the opposite of entertaining. No thanks.

" Playing games all day won't pay my car off...unless I work in the games industry, which I don't.Ironically, I work in the car industry. "

" @Out_On_Bail said:

" @Sprizmo: so you admit your just basically trolling? "

Don't you have to be on the offensive to be considered a troll? I'm spreading joy!

@Ineedaname said:

" Become a student, fail your first year that your parents were paying for re-do it pay for the next 3 yourself, that's 4 years of gaming, with a little debt on the side but not much that'll have an affect. "

Actually I'm 32 and I've worked crappy jobs as required for many years, never collecting welfare or anything. I was an orphan in foster care, no clear set of parents to help me with car insurance or cook me meals. I just applied to go back to school, and while I await a response I have time to meditate, work on my novel, and god forbid, do some serious gaming. I even started oil painting! When the hell does anyone do that when they're slave to the grind? "

Gizmo wins.  Flawless victory.

That sums up family guy for me, repetitive.

I actually agree with some of the TC's posts.


I myself am going to avoid spending the majority of my life in a 9-5 grind of something I do not want to do.
Hopefully I can make my money early on and relax the rest of my life.

I've been laid off for two months now.  As great as it is to sit home and play all the games you never had time to play, I'd rather have a job.  Not working can be depressing as hell. 

lol what the rest of the people have said don't be a freeloader. good thinking when somebody gets fired and call up unemployment. there is still time for playing. i work from 8-4:30 then i come home and play until around 11:30, post on here.

I was unemployed for several months after I graduated college. I can't imagine staying unemployed. I literally felt like I was becoming stupid. Also, I needed other people to talk to, a diverse group of people, not just friends who I always see. 

Does frequent touring (Concerts) count as job?

Freeloaders aren't so bad, they are like the ugly friend that makes you look better.  Thanks freeloaders!

" @Sprizmo said:

" @mikevanpwn: Nooooo, it provides people who aren't banging out 70k a year with health care that won't bankrupt them, affordable housing, and makes it harder for corporate fat cats to rake in obscene profits at the expense of the impoverished. Capitalism is broken, haven't you sbeen paying attention?So its ok for our government to give billions of dollars to failed industries so they can fail anyways (leaving the fat cats even MORE cash flow to build their own little golden palace in Dubai) but I can't go to the dentist without feeling the crushing weight of a bleak financial future.But hey as long as you don't have anything to worry about, we shouldn't either. Please. "

I think your understanding of capitalism is the issue here.  If you view America's current society as a purely capitalist society than you are completely mistaken, free-market capitalism is what made America the most opulent nation at the beginning of 20th century; government social programs are whats bringing it down today.  Government bailouts are as socialist of a program as Universal Healtcare, and you are contradicting yourself if you disagree with government action in the bailouts but support a government break on healthcare. 

Capitalism is the freedom to try, and as a possible consequence, to fail.  The government is working as hard to keep those from failing, as much as you are now attempting to keep from trying.  Therefore, this is not capitalism.

I've got to say I'm genuinely impressed by the quality of the arguments in this thread.

So what? I work 40+hours a week and I still have time to play The Sims 3 or Afro Samurai after work. When I am done paying bills I can still buy a game or grab a couple of movies while I am at it. No need to be jobless just to have fun, I would much rather have a weekly paycheck.