Video Game Virtuosos Gifts

"Thankfully, college is preparing us for unemployment."

'I'm sorry, but there are no guitars in 'Oom-pah Band Hero'.'

"Your list of skills are guite impressive. Xbox champion of the universe sounds like quite an accomplishment."

"Gabe's in the Guitar Hero program at Juilliard."

Kitchen Tetris

His family thought he'd been wasting his life, but Steve Wiebe was about to prove everyone wrong.

Cat plays an arcade game that involves shooting at gun into a mouse hole.

Gymnasts falling off the winners pedestal.

"What's an imagination? It was something kids used to enjoy before they invented video games."

The Work-from-Home-Polka

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Lockdown Brain

"Dog toys are really getting high tech."

Busking during a pandemic

"5...4...3...2..."

Remote work

"If robots can replace workers, then they can replace students. So I created one for me. Now I can stay home all day and play video games."

'Pete plays truant, but keeps up with his lessons!'

"Force level 3 on those high-five's! That's my photon firing hand!"

'It's not just that he plays games all the time, it's the games he plays. He's not playing 'Guitar Hero,' he's playing 'Guitar Sidekick''.

"....and Brian, down there, is just here to even out our grid."

'Pull it over, Speedy.'

'Are you sure sitting on a bean bag chair isn't considered getting a daily requirement of vegetables?'

'Chlamydia, that's a new one on me.'

"Of course we're still friends, but Eddie has the newest video game system....yours is three months old!"

"No, you may not call me Mrs. Z."

Cowboys playing guitar video games.

"OK, not only is what you’re doing disruptive, but I’m pretty sure it’s unethical."

Natalie Merchant

"In my day, we had to trudge through a mountain of shag-pile carpet if we wanted to change the channel."

Anyhow, thanks for listening, Rudy. It's part of the job. I guess you're right: the move to 3rd grade is a big one. There are lots of changes. You've just got to roll with it. And buy a new video game console? It eases any transition. How did you get to be so smart? Playing lots of video games.

"What do you mean, my pen name can't be 'J. K. Rowling'?"

"Wow, this new version is a way more immersive waste of our youth."

"Mijo, just do what you always do before you write a paper...it's obviously working!"

'It's an animated movie, you don't have to do method.'