Chris Avellone on Breaking Into the Game Industry

Obsidian Entertainment's Chris Avellone has penned an article for Penny Arcade that offers some advice on how someone can break into the video game industry. Witty:
I'm Chris Avellone, I'm a creative director at Obsidian Entertainment, and we do role-playing games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, Neverwinter Nights 2, and the upcoming I Wish the RPG Market Was Like It Was When Fallout 1 Came Out 2.

I was going to spit out some words of wisdom about getting into the game industry, or what it's like doing role-playing games, or cuss a lot, but basically, I really only have the following words of wisdom to impart if you want to get into games.