Exactly. Unless the user has some experience in CUDA/Compute shaders/OpenCL, just shoving cards in there doesn't really solve the problem.

My scheme of buying computer parts to sell them on at a later date finally pays off.

It would have to be a pretty short range missile/chaingun. The range is something like 4 metres.

The daily mail says all sorts of things. It's not news when they write it, and it's definitely not news that they wrote it.

A CS degree is much more valuable in the long run. There is no particular advantage to a course like FS or digipen , even if you only ever want to work in games (in fact, understanding algorithms, data structures in depth is probably more useful)

Just make sure you can show some solid demo projects at interview. This is how I started out, and how most of my colleagues started too.