Listening to the advice of your family is totally optional. Some of us have fucked up families. You should still listen to what they are saying out of respect for who they are. But applying it to your life a whole other story. If your family is fucked up, or you are having to listen to advice from a fucked up family member, then you keep looking like you're listening but don't apply the shit. You don't want to end up like them. When people have done fucked up shit in the past, they are pretty likely to do fucked up shit later on.
Listening to the advice of your video game mentor is absolutely essential. Without this wizardly old man or whatever he is in the game that you're playing, you aren't shit. Archsage Athos in Fire Emblem 7 was like that. There was no aspect of the plot that he didn't already know. He acted like he didn't know how the whole game was going to play out, but his every prediction was spot on. So how could he not? Dude was just humble. He verbally guides you through the whole game with cracking good advice. When you get to the final mission, he insists on joining your party so that you have a chance of beating the game. He has seen your squad and knows your stats. He knows that you're ass. He knows that your squad is ass. But the game still has to get beat. So if you saved yourself a Luna tome and you have a couple competent healers, Athos will guide your hips right to the ending credits.
You save people from awkward silence and un-funny days. You aren’t the Athos people asked for, but your are the Athos people deserved.
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