Here's a weirder one. The Korea Times reports that stock brokerage firm Goodmorning Shinhan Securities is seeking out skilled professional players of Blizzard's classic RTS title StarCraft to potentially train and employ as day-trading stock brokers.

The StarCraft fever spawned professional players for the tourneys as well as training groups vying to join them, who have well-honed skills like quick reflexes and finger dexterity.

Such skills are a must for day traders, the active stock dealers who typically hold positions for a very short time and make several aggressive online transactions a minute.

However, Goodmorning Shinhan is agonizing over the recruitment of the skillful StarCraft players since day traders must be specialists in equity investment and fund management.

So, it looks like there's a bit of a hitch: StarCraft players, shockingly enough, don't have inherent knowledge of equity investment and fundmanagement. Still, if you're a devoit realtime strategy player and are accustomed to monitoring and actively managing many different simultaneous situations, you may very well have the fundamental mental faculties necessary in high-pressure financial activities such as day trading. Video games: they teach you to steal cars and trade stocks.