It's like there's no hope you're ever going to pay back the mortgage, but they don't want to foreclose on you because otherwise the house sits there and falls to pieces.

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There's still hope here, but, you know, at the same time, there's a lot of very sensitive issues going on here and any one of them could really be a deal breaker.

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If you're injured you know there's no coming back, but when you're ill you always hope that you have a chance.

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Now, you've now heard both sides make their argument, and I hope you know at this point there's a big choice to make.

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"If you start off with as big a budget as a traditional console game and hope you generate enough money, there's a substantial amount of risk, " he said.

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"Thank you for all the great times, and I hope there's many more, " he added.

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So there's the hope that this will happen again, that they will have a good, you know, air quality.

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There is a machine under all this luxury, and it's astonishing in all the ways you'd hope.

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