<![CDATA[Best Buy ‘game designer’ commercial]]>As I watched the first of the final episodes of Breaking Bad, I was reminding myself how it was when commercials interrupted every segment of the show. After a decade and a half of not watching live TV, commercials become interesting to me. There was one commercial shown that was very interesting to me.

It was a Best Buy commercial that showed a video game designer shopping for a new computer. For some explicable reason, this video game designer goes and buys a cheap crappy tablet.

The lesson is that it is red flag for video game designers to get out of the market. When your profession is advertised in such a way by retail stores, the end is near. It is not unlike all those commercials prior to 2008 about ‘helping you manage your houses and real-estate’ or ‘buy a starter home, fix it up, and sell it for big bucks’. The housing market collapsed soon after.

The places where to get money are places where the masses are not at. If a big store chain like Best Buy is trying to sell their products by saying they are a ‘video game designer’, that tells me there are TONS of wannabe video game designers out there (or else why would Best Buy be using that occupation to try to sell them computers?).

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