Blake Peebles Is Living The Dream
When we were little, kids dreamed of maybe one day playing bass or guitar in a band. Playing instruments was never my thing. I always wanted to be a video ho like Tawny Kitaen. Well, kids today are really fucking different than kids from yesterday.
Meet 16-year-old Blake Peebles. He quit high school to pursue his dreams of becoming a professional Guitar Hero player. Yes, the video game. Yes, he wants to make a career out of pushing shiny, plastic buttons. No, Blake doesn't know how to play a real guitar.
Somebody needs to let Whitney Houston know that she better change the lyrics to "I Believe the children AREN'T the future." For real.
After bugging their asses for months, Blake's parents finally agreed to his plan. They let him drop out of high school and hired a tutor for him. Blake spends all night playing his video games and some of the day doing school work. His mother said, "We couldn't take the complaining anymore. He always told me that he thought school was a waste of time." That's funny. I complained to my mother about school all the time and you know what she told me? "Shut up and deal with it! Now pass me the boxed wine!"
Blake has already played in professional tournaments and local competitions. So far he's only one around $1,000 in prizes. However, he did win 52 chicken sandwiches from Chik-Fil-A in a competition. Well, fuck me with a deep fried chicken cutlet! Sign me up! I'm quitting this blogging business and becoming a full-time Guitar Hero slave. Who needs a roof over your head and clean socks on your feet when you have free Chik-Fil-A!
Professional gamers can make up to $80,000 a year, but most of them make around $20,000 - $30,000 a year.
Good for Blake! There's nothing wrong with going for your dreams! Even if it means living in your parents' house for the rest of your life! And at least pushing on those buttons all day will come in handy when he finally has to get a job as a cashier at McDonald's. I mean, Chik-Fil-A.
Source: Kotaku
Thanks Andi
Just when I thought there was no hope for the future, this inspiring young man comes through to save the day. Video games are an important activity and deserve to be recognized by society. It's all about priorities, people.
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READ THE BOTTOM of this page
http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=71726&postdays=0&postorde...
thats him posting on a website and what really is going on
Please read this
http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=71726&postdays=0&postorde...
I know him personally and this is how he really is. This article is so far off from the true story its unbelievable.
I'm with ya!!
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Submitted by Your Mom Ate th... on August 20, 2008 - 9:30am.
If I had a kid and they ever approached me about dropping out of school to become a fake instrument player I'd laugh in their face. Then I'd tell them to clean their messy room. And if they decide to piss and moan non-stop about it, I'll punish them by taking away their video game priveleges. This is the most ridiculous fkn thing, ever. The kid tells his parents that he thinks school's a waste of time and they oblige him? GTFOOH! What a couple of assholes! And that kid needs to put down the electronic retard instrument and pick up a real guitar if he's got (pipe) dreams about becoming a rock star. Fucking kids these days think that mastering a stupid video game brands them a GD Beethoven or Rembrandt. And that's what being a "professional guitar hero player" is? Competing in tourneys for small cash prizes and crap-ass food? What's he going to do when the fad dies down and he's got no high school diploma to fall back on? I see him living with his parents till he's 40, earning min. wage at Chik-fi-la, and barely doing his part to stimulate the economy. But who knows? Maybe he'll get that big break as a guitar hero rock star, or at least play backup guitar in a famous guitar hero band. *snicker*
Submitted by Flower Of Death on August 20, 2008 - 4:12pm.
School isn't the only place to gain knowledge. The educational system hardly encourages free thinking or daring to make your own way in life. I think he'll be fine no matter what happens, because he seems to have a lot of initiative and drive, which he can dedicate to whatever he likes.
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You are sooo right about school. However, hitting buttons that a computer gives to you does not encourage free thinking either.
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Well, I hope he's already gotten laid a few times, because he probably never will again.
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I think it's fantastic that he's doing this. At least he'll never regret not following his dreams later in life. If he fails, it will be a learning experience either way.
School isn't the only place to gain knowledge. The educational system hardly encourages free thinking or daring to make your own way in life. I think he'll be fine no matter what happens, because he seems to have a lot of initiative and drive, which he can dedicate to whatever he likes.
The child MUST be the product of a gated community.
Someday the poor kid will be standing in front of a Chick Fil-A wearing a tin-foil helmet and selling air guitars.
This kid is a bigger loser than I am.
I hear a sign of someone being a sociopath is that they either don't get good grades or quit school because they find it boring! This may be the next charels manson!
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I'd also like to add:
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in that house while the parents were seriously discussing/debating whether or not to appease this brat. I'd love to know exactly how they came to their decision and to witness the "rationale" behind it. I'd also like to know what fkn kinds of drugs they've been ingesting.
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"If Mr. McMurphy doesn't want to take his medication orally, I'm sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way. But I don't think that he would like it."
Submitted by paulapoo on August 20, 2008 - 10:16am.
Tired of the complaining? Why didn't they just take away the fucking toy guitar?
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Boarding school is always an option, as well. Apparently the parents believe they're well-off enough to support his ass for the rest of their lives, so they can probably afford the tuition.
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"If Mr. McMurphy doesn't want to take his medication orally, I'm sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way. But I don't think that he would like it."
Fucking ridiculous. I second everyone who is weeping for this country's future... between people having kids they don't give a shit about and people having kids who can do no wrong, we are in for fun times a few years down the road. I can understand why old people hate kids these days, I'm 24 and I do too.
*suppresses urge to begin ranting about deadbeat brother who is not far off from this Peebles kid*
Wow pathetic. What's he going to do in a year when Guitar Hero is no longer in?
Mmmmm... Chicka Fil A. Delicious butter chicken sandwiches. That's why I could never go vegetarian.
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"Oh lord, please help our athletes bring home the gold, enough gold so we can melt it down and buy back our economy from the Chinese". - Stephen Colbert
Blake: "And then the football players smashed my guitar-peripheral and the marching band gave me a wedgie and told me I'm not even cool enough to be a real nerd!"
Counselor: "Well, it's because you're a loser and deserved it. Take a community college app on your way out, dweeb."
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I can't help it if your sister is just prettier.
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"He quit high school to pursue his dreams of becoming a professional Guitar Hero player. Yes, the video game. Yes, he wants to make a career out of pushing shiny, plastic buttons."
Wow, when he gets older, I'll bet he'll try to pay his expenses with Monopoly money.
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She's not kidding. I'm gonna whip ya silly and I'm gonna fuck ya stupid.
Oh, and Chik-fil-a pisses me off because they are not open on Sundays.
Tired of the complaining? Why didn't they just take away the fucking toy guitar?
The parents should've just said that they're "homeschooling" the douchebag. Then it wouldn't be national news.
great parenting skills...if the kid bugs you enough, just give in. oh yeah, this kid is going to go FAR in life! this story serioulsy ticks me off, i need to go and drink some more diet pepsi and meditate
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Damnit, I knew it. I had told my mother that I wanted to follow my dream too and become a fighting champion. Tekken anyone? I play for beers.
(which is just about what he will be playing for later in life).
He stole my dream! Waaaaaaah!
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'Cause we all just wanna be big rock stars
And live in hilltop houses driving fifteen cars...
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Oops, duh, Kid Peebles not Kid Pebbles. Sorry all.
this kid has enough credentials to one day be president...
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the world is great big old place for all of us to fuck up in it...
This makes me think of South Park, if no one has mentioned this already....."Real guitars are for OLD people."
hahahhaha
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OOOPS wrong thread.
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He is my favorite. Just saw his personals ID on millionaires personals site """C e l e b C u p i d.c o m"""""" yesterday. I am wondering what kind of relationship he is looking for on ~that site.
Are you fucking kidding me?!?!?!?!
Whats wrong with them?!?!?
I shudder to think what the definition and parameters of COMMON SENSE will be in the near future, when kids like this one are the "adults".
I weep for the future. I wanted to devote my life to dressing Barbie dolls once upon a time, but it wasn't realistic. Nor is this. His parents should be bitch-slapped.
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"What? Salma was supposed to stuff her melonitas into a million-dollar wedding dress and marry that rich bitch without a prenup." - MK 07/18/08
Who needs a roof over your head and clean socks on your feet when YOUR PARENTS cave in to your every stupid, spoiled ass demand, and will wind up supporting your lazy ass forever.
Or we lucky taxpayers will.
hmmm fanks evil shoe...all the times ive been to the states i cant say ive ever seen one. perhaps i'll have to look out for one next time im there..and maybe just maybe if i bring a guitar hero game wiht me and play it they will give me 50 free burgers too :P
does look delish though
Yet another example of awesomely bad parenting. Way to go Mr. & Mrs. Peebles.
Submitted by greenfinch on August 20, 2008 - 9:43am.
btw. please ingore my ingnorance. what is a chik-fil-a ? haha cant say ive heard of this?
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They have the most delicious chicken salads on this earth!
http://www.chick-fil-a.com/#home
Its like a burger joint but they only sell chicken.
Chik-Fil-A was just rated as one of the healthiest fast food choices for the menu selections.
I know, just thought I would throw that in.
In two years, he'll either be over it or working at one of the Game companies creating new products and making improvements to existing ones, watch.
Who knows, it could all work out. *snort laugh*
Crap, I need some coffee.
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Submitted by Oonagh on August 20, 2008 - 9:33am.
His parents are losers, he's a loser, and hey troll, if he's on fucking celebwhatever.com my left ear's a kipper.
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HAHAHA!! MY left ear resembles a mackerel. :)
And I totally agree with you about the rest. His parents should be shot and pissed on.
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btw. please ingore my ingnorance. what is a chik-fil-a ? haha cant say ive heard of this?
And that kid needs to put down the electronic retard instrument and pick up a real guitar if he's got (pipe) dreams about becoming a rock star.
my favourite line too..
geesh if hes so good at it they should have made him move out and support him self on the 1000 dollar winnings and 50 chik-fil-a's
Your mom ate the.......
And that kid needs to put down the electronic retard instrument and pick up a real guitar if he's got (pipe) dreams about becoming a rock star.
LMAO!
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It is one thing to have the creative talent to run a website and associated business matters such as arranging for advertising, etc. but it is quite another to drop out of high school for something that is not even really a substantial talent. I would have been a little more on the bandwagon if the little 16-year old boy had actual musical talent that he was going to develop.
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Everyone should watch the Guitar Hero South Park episiode, its full of kids like Blake Peebles. What kinda name is that anyway?
Meh. Looky:
http://www.allsp.com/l.php?id=e166
And another thing...is this the real Kid Pebbles??
His parents are losers, he's a loser, and hey troll, if he's on fucking celebwhatever.com my left ear's a kipper.
If I had a kid and they ever approached me about dropping out of school to become a fake instrument player I'd laugh in their face. Then I'd tell them to clean their messy room. And if they decide to piss and moan non-stop about it, I'll punish them by taking away their video game priveleges. This is the most ridiculous fkn thing, ever. The kid tells his parents that he thinks school's a waste of time and they oblige him? GTFOOH! What a couple of assholes! And that kid needs to put down the electronic retard instrument and pick up a real guitar if he's got (pipe) dreams about becoming a rock star. Fucking kids these days think that mastering a stupid video game brands them a GD Beethoven or Rembrandt. And that's what being a "professional guitar hero player" is? Competing in tourneys for small cash prizes and crap-ass food? What's he going to do when the fad dies down and he's got no high school diploma to fall back on? I see him living with his parents till he's 40, earning min. wage at Chik-fi-la, and barely doing his part to stimulate the economy. But who knows? Maybe he'll get that big break as a guitar hero rock star, or at least play backup guitar in a famous guitar hero band. *snicker*
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"If Mr. McMurphy doesn't want to take his medication orally, I'm sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way. But I don't think that he would like it."
Hekki : LOL re the potato. I know, I'm obsessing over this Tanzler dude since we share the same birthday! ewwwwwww! ;)
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Submitted by Chris Eccleston... on August 20, 2008 - 7:23am.
Unfortunately, he's going to make millions.
Fuck I hate the world today.
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I SO echo your sentiments.
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Am I getting old or is the supermarket playing great music?
Snowpiece: Geez, I thought it was a potato made up to look like Rumer Willis in your avvie. Now that I know the real story behind it -- well, I'm even MORE creeped out. *shudders*
He is my favorite. Just saw his personals ID on millionaires personals site """C e l e b C u p i d.c o m"""""" yesterday. I am wondering what kind of relationship he is looking for on ~that site.
Parents just let the kids run free playing games now, its ok for them but not for my son. I am not kidding when I say he can conquer an Xbox game in one day if you let him, its freaky, but he's not quitting school to be a gamer.
If he's good in school, good on the bus and does what he's told, he gets to play 30 minutes a day during the week and then some on Saturday. Thats it.
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LMAO snowpiece, it DOES look like Rumer! Creepy!
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It's mah last day at work, beetches! CELEBRATE WIFF MEH! *dances*
Unfortunately, he's going to make millions.
Fuck I hate the world today.
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