The true beauty of "SimCity" is that for every disgruntled person who ever said, "This whole place is run by idiots, " the game offers a way for you to prove to the world -- or at least, maybe, to your cat -- that you can do better.

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And for those of you who are viewing, not in this circle but around the country, maybe around the world, I appreciate the chance to share these ideas with you.

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And in the case of Federer, at the Australian Open, you know Roger Federer is the best tennis player in the world and maybe the best tennis player ever - he lost.

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Let her breathe for a second and adore the heck out of you (and maybe brush her hair and put on a nicer outfit) before the world whisks her away for Facebookable pictures.

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If not, then maybe your opponents have grasped some insights about the world that you have not.

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And they said, 'Jack, do you ever see a time when you will see a Chinese player maybe be one of the top 10 players of the world?

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Maybe -- we'll let you know how it holds up in the real world after stringing it through the Engadget review gauntlet.

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Maybe you'll even have the chance to be completely immersed in a video game 'world'.

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Maybe you need to pull your head out of your law books and look at the real world a little more.

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Maybe you can point to the fact that the New York metro area, one of the biggest markets in the world, has no real rock station to speak of, its last station going off the air in favor of sports talk just a few weeks ago.

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