If game studios are shifting to the Hollywood model, game workers are going to have to shift more quickly to the union model in order to survive.

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That's a good question - and would be very plausible that people who don't socialise much in person and live lives online are disproportionately likely to answer online surveys.

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Also we know that declining response rates are an absolutely huge problem in political polling, but we seem to forget this with all other sorts of survey data. Are we sure this isn't just picking up demographic pyramid effects and failures to sample groups who don't answer the phone?

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I don't think anything's straightforwardly good or bad in a complex society, and having been stuck on a train with a bunch of Plymouth fans enjoying themselves in company yesterday, I very much think that community of unpleasant nutterdom can be found everywhere.

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Or it might just be people genuinely changing their tastes! It is possible to go overboard on this "o the humanity" stuff; the Finns are people just like the Greeks.

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