...and I once calculated that it would cost me a few thousand dollars a year to play Magic: the Gathering competitively...
Unless Crono’s disregarding his potential winnings, your question about whether he thinks he’d be able to earn money that way seems to have been answered.
Yes, but from earlier discussions he had suggested he’d be able to play professionally, so that’s what I interpreted him to mean here, and the cost is gross rather than net, so he’d only need the first year’s expenses to be self-sustaining.
So I was indeed sneaking in assumptions from earlier exchanges.
If that is gross, sure. I did mention that he might be disregarding potential winnings. It seems odd to me that he’d word it that way in that case, though.
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Unless Crono’s disregarding his potential winnings, your question about whether he thinks he’d be able to earn money that way seems to have been answered.
Yes, but from earlier discussions he had suggested he’d be able to play professionally, so that’s what I interpreted him to mean here, and the cost is gross rather than net, so he’d only need the first year’s expenses to be self-sustaining.
So I was indeed sneaking in assumptions from earlier exchanges.
If that is gross, sure. I did mention that he might be disregarding potential winnings. It seems odd to me that he’d word it that way in that case, though.