Also, penises and vaginas are primary sexual characteristics. Breasts are secondary ones. They are in entirely different categories.

Steve, I can't help but think that the bullet point list should be in the article, along with your analysis. Mentioning 8 points but then spreading them into paragraphs with no clear headers is a little frustrating as a reader.

They are different though. Inequality was much less in the 1970s and wasn't really on the agenda outside very socialist circles. Rather, people feared a resurgence of the Cold War, nuclear Armageddon, another Vietnam, Peak Oil, overpopulation, economic stagnation and so on.

I'm using a Lumia 930 now and honestly, I find it more beautiful than either the iPhone or the Samsung Galaxy series. It has a weight and a feel to it that don't exist in the other two, and I like the dash of colour from the orange back.

Also, the PS4 captures in abominable JPG format, whereas the XBO's screenshot function is in much higher quality .PNG.

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I didn't make a moral judgement, just that the police are unlikely to admit to being trigger happy enough that killing innocents is a widely accepted consequence of calling SWAT.

Ultimately, these people, if they do it correctly, are impossible to track down. Online telephone numbers, smart use of anonymizing services, care taken not to implicate oneself by admitting to the crime online or contacting the victim etc... It's only the stupid ones that get caught, and it'll always be like that.

That would amount to admitting that the police force intend to shoot potentially innocent people based off of anonymous tip-offs. I think LEOs are rather unlikely to say that calling SWAT amounts to a death sentence.

Certainly. But I maintain that the toughest step is the first one (ie. getting into investment banking). The key is to start in your first year at college, before most people even think about careers.

If you're an analyst at a bulge bracket, private equity interviews are relatively easy to line up, even more so if you have solid connections. Landing a top 10 MBA, as you say, is about doing well on the business school entry tests, which can be easily studied for.

Ubisoft, EA, Activision, Zenimax, Take-Two, the big Asian publishers as well probably.

I don't know. An EVP at EA or Activision is probably on $450k a year. The top few in the big four or five are on well over a million. Wilson's on $13m a year, Kotick's on like $50m or something ridiculous. The potential to make money is certainly there.

I'm talking about people who really want to get into gaming. Many people leave finance because they enjoy working in an industry they like (movies, automobiles, defence, media/software, tech), or because they are tired of working 100 hours a week. The most common exit route from investment banking is into corporate…

Most production staff are promoted from development. I will repeat my advice the last time one of these articles was posted though- the best way to get to the top of AAA gaming is to do investment banking for a couple of years, maybe transition into private equity for a while, do your MBA at a top-10 and then join a…

Who the FUCK has FIVE children without a stable job? The only responsible way to have more than two kids is if you are at least upper-middle class, bringing in more than $150-200k a year, have a house (mostly) paid off, and have an extremely stable job.

If you ascend high enough at a reputable studio, you're safe. The people at the top of Rockstar, Bioware, Nintendo, Ubisoft, Bethesda and so on have pretty stable jobs. The main issue is when you're a replaceable grunt with stars in your eyes.

Exactly. If you're flying in from another country or other region, make sure you demand a 2-year minimum contract, with a colossal severance check if they fire you too soon. Finance is just as volatile as gaming, and this is what everyone here does.

Unionization only works if there is a lack of available replacement labour- you only have leverage if you can actually damage companies with industrial action. There are tens of thousands of kids graduating college each year who want to work in gaming. Except for the savants at the top, who already get paid very…

It's clear they wanted to differentiate it from the 1960s Bonds.