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My repeated efforts to get Sega to pay me for the hours I spent driving a fucking forklift for them in that stupid Shenmue game have been unsucessful, in case you were wondering.

Also note that the title of this article is a clear ripoff of an old article Steve Albini wrote for the Baffler, "The Problem With Music." But where Steve's article was a brilliant expose on the bullshit that is the music industry, mine is just, umm, you know, stupid crap in Über.

Über: The Problem With Videogames

"And why does my character stammer and and act awkwardly around girls that obviously have the hots for him? I don't need to play a video game for that, I do that just fine in real life. "

— July 9, 2001

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