Herobrine Does Not Exist

Maybe I’m reading this wrong, but it looks like people are charging $250 to teach people how to play a video game

Yes, but with the coupon, it's only $150.  You're leaving out the important part, Jeremy. 

So, there's this website, which for strictly Blag purposes, we'll call "Group Couponing" which allows people to save money on certain goods and services by purchasing in bulk from the supplier.  Everybody bands together and buys one of the things, but the collective effort allows the price to drop for everyone.  It's a decent idea, and it seems to be working for them, as the website reported 2.6 Billion dollars in revenues last year.  For those keeping score at home, that's more than I made last year.  

So, who am I to question when they offer a deal for people to learn how to play a popular video game, which for strictly Blag purposes, we'll call "Mining and Crafting."  For those who are not familiar, this game is dumb.  It looks like it came out of the 80s with horrible blocky graphics, but with all the massive multiplayer online abilities of modern games.  Basically, you go onto a server and you do stuff.  There's no point to the game...you just do things.  You can build stuff, or hunt things, or grow vegetables, or start wars with neighboring players, or the most common thing to do, troll little kids and burn their houses down with buckets of lava.  

At this point, I should mention that I've never played this game, nor do I intend to.  

Ostensibly, a mod design course that you can take online allows you to learn to code in Java, a reasonably useful language common on the Internets, by playing a modifying things in this Mining/Crafting game.  Realistically, you're probably learning some of the very very basics of a coding language by using very niche commands based on a single video game.  I can't imagine how this can be transferably practical to the real world...but maybe I'm not the target market.  The target market is people who dumped the 20 bucks on the game in the first place and want to believe that it's going to do something to actually benefit them.  So, they're willing to drop another 250 bucks to take a class...which really will only allow them to play their Mine game more craftily.