FoxTrot by Bill Amend for June 02, 2024

umm did you check on Steve lately? is he alive still?

A universal mom reaction.

Peter, games themselves aren’t what you need to be popular on twitch. You need a personality that draws others, lots of networking and a hook that draws people in.

Oooh, let’s watch what happens next….

Most streamers play a small selection of games so i guess more money for ramen then

…and they’re always trying to explain to their followers how all the people who beat them at their game are cheaters…

Today’s comic is… twitchy!

He doesn’t even see that hand coming up to slap the back of his head… what a good teenager.

Today’s missing classic is gocomics.Com/foxtrot/2003/06/08

I mean, it’s legit — as long as you prove before graduating that you can pull it off.

Professional gaming seems like something Jason might be more suited for.

College? Doesn’t Peter have to get through senior year {PUSH THE RESET BUTTON} junior and senior years in high school first?

20 years of ramen?

At this point, my son is in his 2nd year as a practicing family med physician, and his math genius high school pal is still gaming in his parents’ basement.

As unflattering as it sounds, it’s admittedly a more valid plan than it sounds as people have legit made actual careers doing this. I wouldn’t call it a great plan, or the one Peter should commit to (knowing him, he’d somehow fail at it anyway), and it in no way guarantees a lucrative profit…but it is admittedly one of the more sound plans he’s come up with in recent memory.

Activating the parental control feature in your home WIFI router, will fix that game playing all the time problem.

Twitch should really be a side thing until you can really get it going. Stream in your spare time when you’re not working and see if you can build up a community.

Save college money? Is HE putting the money away? I suspect the parents will find many other uses for his tuition dollars if that’s his plan.

Given what college diplomas are apparently worth nowadays (less than nothing), their ‘plan’ is a viable alternative.

Cut the electricity off and you on line folks would be worthless. Happened during Sandy, they wondered around wondering what happened. Morons.

He can do whatever he wants, as long as he moves out right after high school.

I read about a guy from Vietnam who came to the US, worked hard and sent all his money back to his family in Vietnam. He ate nothing but ramen noodles for a few years and died from lack of nutrition

Before the internet, the influencers were parents and peers. Now, total strangers have the attention of impressionable and dare I say judgementally-challenged youth of today. “Challenges” on social media make the Jack-ass movies pale by comparison.

“Twitch”?

The streaming service founded by Samantha Stephens? d;o)

Yum. Ramen.

i am not a gamer and never heard of Twitch and from the descriptions I read here I am not missing much. The only computer games I play are hidden object games from a site that has them, word puzzles, majong and solitarre that come with my computer.

My son in law had the same plan. Apparently he’s really good at some popular team based shooting game. Not the most outgoing, wittiest online personality though. If he were a color, probably be beige.

Let’s hope Paige doesn’t go down a dark path on the internet.

This is the point when parents turn into “old fogies”.

Bad news travels fast…..