Bichatse commented on Bayonetta Demo Drops Next Week

"@WiggyDee: I wouldn't say that Edge is harsh - it's more like that they consider their one-to-ten scale to actually be a one-to-ten scale rather than the seven-to-ten scale used by many people these days. If a game gets a 6 in Edge, it's quite likely to be a perfectly playable, fairly fun game that just has some noticable flaws..."

Bichatse commented on Report: 60% Of Britain's Xbox 360s Have Died

"@alimokrane: It's definitely a sensationalist headline, but it's worse even than your analysis, of course.As you note, you can't extrapolate from the results of this survey to the population in general, because it wasn't a proper random sampling."

Bichatse commented on So, How Much Did Bobby Kotick Make From Modern Warfare 2?

"@MacGyver1138: I'm no tax lawyer, but I believe more or less all income is treated in the same way, so profits from stock trading (probably less some personal allowance that doesn't even register as a meaningful percentage in this case) just go towards your net taxable wage and income tax is calculated from that."

Bichatse commented on So, How Much Did Bobby Kotick Make From Modern Warfare 2?

"@Jean-François L'Her: I'm not bothered by some guy getting rich[er?] at all, but as it goes - since he exercised and sold options, rather than actual stock that he'd held on to for all that time, then he probably didn't actually invest the $2million in the first place."

Bichatse commented on Spring Back

"@Ursus-Veritas: I was chatting to someone on Skype via text when my computer auto-adjusted, whereupon Skype decided that the new messages marked as an hour earlier than the last messages must just have been things it missed earlier due to connection problems, and started inserting them an hour previous in the conversation."