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              <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E"><img src="../../images/icons/pipe_final.jpg" width="193" height="239" align="left"><loonystart>Vol. 
                2, Issue 5<br>
                December 10, 1999<br>
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                <p align="center"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="3">Down 
                  the Pipe</font></i></font></b></p>
                <p align="center"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="6"> 
                  Want to Play Games for a Living?</font></i></font></b></p>
                <p align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">by 
                  Russell &quot;<a href="mailto:radpipe@loonygames.com">RadPipe</a>&quot; 
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="../../images/letters_new/i.jpg" width="10" height="39" align="left">f 
                you haven&#146;t read <a href="../feat/index.html">this week&#146;s 
                feature</a> and the interview with my bud, Paul Steed, then dang 
                boy, get your ass over there and read it. Damn cool interview, 
                if I do say so myself. And some serious kickass <a href="../uc/index.html">cover 
                art</a> by Kenneth Scott to go along with it. I love those guys. 
                On a related note, I bumped into a good female gaming friend in 
                IRC and she had this to say:</font></p>
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              <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&lt;Anonymous 
                female friend&gt; My husband almost got mad at me last night.<br>
                <br>
                </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&lt;Anonymous 
                female friend&gt; I kept trying to climb on him and he goes, &#147;you 
                are not going to read a Paul Steed interview and then come looking 
                for action!&#148;</font></div>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ain&#146;t 
                that a classic? She also said that she read the interview and 
                hyperventilated through the whole thing.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ok enough 
                about that. This edition of DTP goes out to all the part-time 
                gamers out there.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hate your 
                job? School getting you down? Wish you could play games for a 
                living? Yeah, me too.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">When I 
                say, &#147;play games for a living,&#148; what I&#146;m really 
                talking about is working in the industry. It doesn&#146;t matter 
                if you work at a game company, write articles for magazines, or 
                you&#146;re really really good at playing games and can actually 
                make money from winning tournaments. Face it; you play games for 
                a living. And it&#146;s great work if you can get it.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I&#146;m 
                on this tirade because the contract is coming up on my current 
                day job and I&#146;ll soon be looking for other employment. No, 
                I&#146;m not talking about loonygames here, because unfortunately 
                it&#146;s just a part-time thing, but my other, real work. I&#146;m 
                a validation specialist at a pharmaceutical company, and that&#146;s 
                what pays the bills. And it has to be the most boring job in the 
                world. For some reason I turned my back on 10 years of computer 
                experience to get this job, and I guess I&#146;m going back now. 
                Validation work stinks.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">So what 
                do you do for a living? If you&#146;re like me then work is a 
                necessary evil to fuel your personal life. You make money to pay 
                for your habits, and as life goes on, you seem to have less and 
                less time for your habits. My personal life is divided between 
                home, wife, kids, and 5 minutes between 10:55pm and 11:00pm to 
                play the latest PC game before I hit the bed exhausted. But to 
                play games for a living! Wouldn&#146;t that be sweet?</font></p>
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