kelbear

Meh. They know they're going to work a ton of overtime for their salary and took the job anyway. Everybody wishes they could get compensated more. 
 
Public Accounting has a mandatory 60-hour /minimum/ work week for 4 months out of the year, plus additional months as they see fit, and those months may even take place in another state or even another country whether or not you have a family. Notice that I said minimum. It often goes well over 60 hours a week.  But the pay is good relative to the requisite level of experience, and the value of the experience on the resume leads to pay that would hard if not impossible to get in the same amount of time through another accounting career path. But there's no public accounting union because there's still plenty of competition to get these jobs, the work is hard, but the reward is still seen as being enough to justify it. 

Maybe they should put some of that $20 million into improving the UI. The Xbox360 has already gone through 2(maybe 3 if you include Kinect) major UI revisions. The PS3 XMB just feels clunky and poorly laid out. For one, why do you start alll the way on the right? Start in the middle and allow scrolling off the edge to kick you to the other side. Way too many menu jumps to get to where you want to go. It's especially ridiculous when you're turning on your bluetooth. That sort of thing should take a maximum of 2 menu presses considering how much use it gets. It should also keep an activated accessory icon at the top rather than making you go all the way back to the menu again. I like the unique games I get on the PS3, but boy, it's high time for a revamp.

What are your favorite forums to frequent besides Giantbomb, NeoGAF, and Slashdot?

I'm interested in any sites with some back-and-forth, i.e  forums where people talk to each other, rather than just posting a reply to the OP after skipping 20+ pages of discussion, then leaving never to return.  
 
EDIT: If you're wondering about the title, it's because I already know about NeoGAF. If I don't mention it, 90% of the responses will be NeoGAF.

240K debt at a low fixed interest, and the mortgage payments are just 1400 a month for our two-income household.  We use www.mint.com to track budget trends, it only takes 1 of our salaries to cover all of our spending, but we be doing much saving. We hope to have my wife stop working for 2 years to have a baby, then re-enter the workforce. Our nightmare scenario is that she might not be able to re-enter after 2 years.
 
My credit is pristine because I pay everything with a credit card, and have auto-payment setup from my bank account. Long detailed credit history, 0 missed payments. I bought my car at 0% for 3 years and just paid it off before the 3 years were up. Again, more credit history, and not a nickel of interest paid on that car purchase. 

First one, then the other. I loved Civ 5 and I'm loving Bastion. (I'd start with Civ 5) 
 
Oh, and clear your calendar before starting Civ 5, you're not going anywhere for a long time. 

Never take Destructoid reviews seriously, they're just an elaborate troll. And you know the rule: Don't feed the trolls.  
 
I really don't see why anyone goes there? What's the appeal? As far as I can tell the only thing that puts the website on anyone's radar is when they successfully troll someone with a review.

The franchises that have been scheduled to iterate like a mofo, popping one off every year...they don't have much time to mess around, and little incentive to screw up a good thing. 
 
The franchises that are taking their time with their sequels are still putting out good improvements. 
 
And fundamentally, sequels should be similar to the predecessor game. If it's not, they should just turn it into a new IP.