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Music Welcome to the Gamer for the Job conference call for the week of December 7th, 2011.

My name is Julian Murdoch, and I'm here with an irregular crew of regulars, Mr. Sean Sands.

How are you?

Irregular is a good statement of my current state of mind.

You know, they have medication for that.

I take many of it.

And the chuckling laugh would be Mr. Allen Pyroman Cook.

Alan, welcome.

Hello, internet.

And I'm so glad I get to be on the show with Laura Krieger at the same time.

Yay, Laura! Yay! And there was much rejoicing.

So this week, we're going to talk about expectations management.

Is it better to know everything you can about a game before it comes out or go on blackout?

Which one gives you a better opportunity to experience the game in all its glory and really have the best opinion

of it coming out the other side we'll also have your emails and as a special treat we're going on

a steam shopping spree for the winner of our annual fun drive uh we're going to be going through his steam list, making fun of his particular choices

and games, and seeing what we can do to round out his library.

But first, we're going to kick off games we can play right now.

And not a lot new out, but Laura, you've been playing something new, haven't you?

I have.

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