First, Apple is not a monopoly because I can purchase a different phone altogether. No one is forced to use Apple's products. In fact, the *majority* of people don't use Apple products.

I never said anything you just mentioned. All I'm saying is a compilation of horror stories doesn't paint an accurate picture of reality. Yes they are real. These are real situations, and there's plenty (way too many) of them. But it only paint a portion of what it's like to be in the video game industry. For a lot of…

Yes, Apple is a monopoly. Because they have 100% of the industry, and Google and Android doesn't exist.

Yes, I want to lose at least half of my income.

Yeah my take is definitely anecdotal, it's just what I witnessed in the last two decades. Of course I live in one of the biggest video game city, with a studio every other street corner, so I don't have the point of view of people, like you mention, that lives and die with the only one studio in town.

All the people I know around me (incl myself) that have worked for more than a decade in this industry have been laid off between 0 and 2 times at most. I've never met someone who systematically get laid off every six months.

Let's not forget these are some extreme stories. They are definitely real, but there's also a lot of people who gets to cruise smoothly through their video game industry career. :)

As someone who never played Destiny and don't know yet if I will, this article confuse me. People who played hundreds of hours with it (800 hours even, what?) feels like they are done with it.

It's hard to quantify how important he was during the W Bush administration. If I had received a dollar every times someone from outside of the United States would tell me: "What the hell is wrong with your country anyway? Oh well, at least you guys still have Jon Stewart".

Unless you are working on a video game engine, what the hell kind of math are you even talking about?

Let's be honest here. Yes the Muslim fundamentalists are a big issue in the global sense. But in my day-to-day reality, in my own personal life, Muslims fundamentalists doesn'T exists. They are not causing me and my loved ones any arm. Nowhere near as much as the Christian fundamentalists does.

I wished they had briefed him better. He looked a bit lost and overwhelmed most of the video. :)

The good thing now is, if you end up at a Super Bowl party this Sunday, you can name drop these two guys and sounds like you totally know what's going on :-)

I don't know Lynch personally, except that he's one of the best running back in football, ever. And pro sports are entertainments, so it's as valid to allow a student to develop as a pro sport player than it is to teach a student how to become a stage actor. Or a fiction writer.

Only clueless people are saying that. All the fans who have known Lynch for years knows he's very personable and is down with fun sketches, 1-on-1 interviews and bits like that. As long as he can choose to do them or not.

Probably not tho. I can assure you 100% of all Lynch/Hawks fans are behind Lynch on this media thing. The few shiny-eyed and slobbering super fan commenters against him are the ones from other teams who've got some grudge against the Seahawks.

Never heard of Roger Goodell, haven't you?

"I never root for teams that get outplayed and limp into the Super Bowl"