My friend Chris, who had to withdraw from university because his financial aid didn't survive the partisan battles in the legislature, has taken his 6 months of free time to start a daily analysis / replay show for the game we both play, League of Legends. He started doing it pretty much just out of boredom, but he's a top 5% player and he's really insightful.
Anyhow, after a month of doing it, he got interviewed by one of the major community sites, and he's a featured commentator now. Which is pretty sweet.
He tried to play competitively last year, but he never got to the top, tippy top level where your team gets invited to tourneys and with national coverage. But now he's got recognition, and he's so much happier now than he's been in at least 2 years.
I'm pretty happy for him, and there's some community momentum to get him on the tournament webcast commentator team for one of the next big tournaments. And those spots actually pay money!
(if anyone plays LoL, he's Studio, and he runs the Studio Daily. Ex:
Studio Daily #19)
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Peopleare harrasing me... grrrrrh.
Also people with big noses aren't jews, they're just french
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