How do you get a job writing in the game industry?

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

People who do the hiring for game mags/sites have penises, and they need to be sucked on occasion. Think about it.

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And those are the women editors, too.

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Originally Posted by youandwhosearmy

From everyone who I've talked to its really, who you know, and the luck of the draw.

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Networking skills is key to success in any feild you'll ever go in to.

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Originally Posted by g0zen

It could always be worse, you could be Philosophy majors.

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Hey! ;)

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Originally Posted by Mman

If you are excellent at keeping a deadline then their will always be a job for you out there.

Sadly, I'm an English major.

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I agree. That is sad. You use the wrong form of "there" and end a sentence with a preposition in the same post you tell us you are an English major.

Get a fucking life man. It is an entirely informal message board, not some thesis I am publishing. My point was made and that is adequate for my purpose. I hate fucking tools who point out grammar errors in informal situation like conversation or THE INTERNET.

Edit: On this note I have been working on a linguistics paper dealing with language and technology. Language is developed entirely by speech which is in engrained in humans and is largely what makes us unique among the world's animals. We have spent the last couple thousand years developing writing systems to try and make perminent our speech, but much of it is imperfect. Now that so many people, especially Americans, converse so often on the interent I am interested in what effect this is having on our language and speech patterns. Quite interesting stuff.

Ive spent so much time doing math the past 4 years that Ive even changed the way I write certain letters because of the necessity of doing so in math class (writing a z with a line through it to differentiate from a 2, writing u with the serif on the side to differentiate from a v, and I write my f's a little longer almost like an integral sign).

Whats my point? Its ingrained in me. Saying "their" instead of "there" is acceptable maybe for a 15 year old, but not for someone who is a fucking English major at university.

In any situation.

Ever hear of human error? Good lord, you act as if people are infallible.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

Ive spent so much time doing math the past 4 years that Ive even changed the way I write certain letters because of the necessity of doing so in math class (writing a z with a line through it to differentiate from a 2, writing u with the serif on the side to differentiate from a v, and I write my f's a little longer almost like an integral sign).

Whats my point? Its ingrained in me. Saying "their" instead of "there" is acceptable maybe for a 15 year old, but not for someone who is a fucking English major at university.

In any situation.

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That made virtually no sense at all.

"I write my letters funny because of the maths XD"
"You dumb 15 year old kid, so you not be English Major T_T "

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

Whats my point? Its ingrained in me. Saying "their" instead of "there" is acceptable maybe for a 15 year old, but not for someone who is a fucking English major at university.

In any situation.

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I didnt actually confuse the "theres". It was a simple editing mistake of cutting and pasting. The sentence was supposed to read

"If you are excellent at keeping their deadline then there will always be a job for you out there."

As far as ending it on a preposition, fuck that. If you want to argue that I can argue that there really is not a preposition and "out there" is actually a compound noun in the sense I was using it.

Oh I dont even know what a preposition is, I dont care about that.

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Originally Posted by Jeremy

Ever hear of human error? Good lord, you act as if people are infallible.

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Well, see...

Spelling errors, typos, those are perfectly acceptable for anyone, especially if you're typing quickly.

Mistaking "their" and "they're", which are amazingly different, especially to someone that has to read like 20 fucking books a semester... that's different.

Not shitting on Mman or anything, just saying.