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This is the Gamer's Jobs conference call for December 2nd, 1998, and I'm your host, Sean Andrich.

And joining me this week, we have Sean Elysium Sands.

Just so you guys know with Jesse Ventura, now our governor, I'm required to point out how much time things do and do not have to bleed.

So you're going to get up to the show.

Going back to it, just letting you know in advance. Also joining us, Ms. Lara Krigger.

Hello, everyone.

And Mr. Rob Borges.

Hello, hello.

So welcome to the show.

This week, we have a whole mess of games to talk about. It's been the last couple weeks have just been nuts. We have just a ton of huge games you want to get to. And, of course, we have your emails. And we have a couple smaller topics we also want to touch on. But let's start with the games. And I think that we kind of have to start with Half-Life. Which is shocking.

I mean, so I actually kind of want to start with Sin too, because I mean, you really,

don't you have to compare them a little bit? Well, you have to. I mean, Sin came out a few weeks

ago and the comparisons for like the last year like even uh i think it was computer gaming world

or maybe pc gamer they had an article comparing the two like there's there's like five different

games coming out but those were kind of the two front runners and sin was all right uh but it didn't

really grab me the same way that half life is becauselife, it just starts you so slow.

Wait, so that didn't grab you or did grab you?

You know, at first I was a little bit unsure about it, but I actually did really settle into it.

You know, I mean, we're kind of used to just getting thrown right into the mix, start shooting

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