Une Enfant Terrible

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Google has failed me!

I am looking for a cheat code to get over the locked bridges in GTA IV. Help please.

I really, REALLY hope I'm not the one with this problem.

So, I dear friend of mine bought me Tekken 6 for Playstation 3 as an antecipated Christmas gift because he couldn't take hearing me fangirlize about Jin Kazama and stuff. The first thing I did as soon as I got home was, of course, turning the PS3 on, doing all the required system updates and run to Offline - Arcade Mode. I chose Jin Kazama and went on playing... until I got to Azazel.

HELL, WHAT THE F*** WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?

I can't beat him. I just CAN'T beat him!! I don't know if I'm a n00b, if I chose the wrong character to begin with (is it just me or the controls are very similar to Virtua Fighter 5 and Dead or Alive?), if I'm too slow or what. No matter how many times I try, I CAN'T BEAT HIM!!!!

I tried switching to Devil Jin and lost the fight when Azazel was with about 30% of his life. Then, tried a couple of times more with Jin and failed miserably.

I'm frustrated. Seriously. The only game that was able to make me feel a sore loser like that was Soul Calibur 3.

So, I'm asking nearly in tears: does anybody have hints to go through Azazel? Also, is there anyone else feeling frustrated with this boss or am I really a n00b?

So there appear to be many fans here. I would love to have some people to play with that won't drag me into poison. Tag is Gwen_Soul.

From an interview in Filament Magazine:

“At what age is it best to crush a child’s dreams so that they have an easier time stepping in to the status quo?”

You fool. You do not do such things to children. A child is like a poison missile you aim at the Future. You encourage, fund and resource their dreams to the fullest extent of your capability, knowing that your reward will be the pain and misery of generations yet unborn.

Oh, and by the way, if you’re looking for cute baby pictures, there are many:

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As of last count, the expected total cost of federal bank bailouts is... wait for it... $40bn. That's right, $40bn. Close to $800bn was allocated to the effort, about half of which has actually been lent so far, but it looks like the actual cost to the federal Treasury, including all of the capital injections (those are loans) into AIG ($180 bn) and the auto industry ($40bn), will be pleasantly small change. I would say surprisingly, except for the fact that this was what a number of economists led us to expect, so it's not particularly accurate to call it a surprise. Essentially all of that $40bn loss, by the way, comes from losses incurred by AIG and the auto industry - the loans to banks are making a small profit, and the Treasury expects that to continue to do so until the Treasury can get back out of the business of loaning money to banks to keep them from failing.

We're not out of the woods by any stretch, though. Unemployment is still at a level not seen since the early thirties. And an awful lot of it is structural, not cyclic - we just don't need as many people building houses in Las Vegas as we had from 2000 to 2005. There aren't enough people there to live in them, and if people move there, there isn't enough water there for them to drink, and if they build the water infrastructure, there's still no work there other than, well, building houses. Which is a problem. If it were a less fundamentally expensive place to live, that could be finessed, but deserts are not cheap places to make habitable. And the problem for the broader economy is that it's going to take a while for organic economic growth to figure out profitable ways to use all of those out of work people and create new jobs for them to take on. That might happen faster with some sort of jobs stimulus effort, but that's difficult - let's say we go fund a large number of new civil infrastructure projects. Then we would have a bunch of repaired infrastructure (which is very good - too many of our roads and bridges and long-haul electrical and water transmission systems are in very poor shape), but if we're actually delivering noticeable numbers of jobs by backing those infrastructure projects, then once they're completed, we still have a bunch of people out of work who were working on infrastructure projects up until the time they finished them. So federal infrastructure spending can move the too-many-workers-in-an-industry problem around (in time), but it can't actually solve it. Which makes effective stimulus tricky. Worse yet, people in a contracting industry tend not to leave it as fast if the industry is being actively propped up - after all, they can see that the jobs situation near them is awful, and assume that it can't possibly be any better anywhere else, so they hold on to their job for dear life. And once the industry has government support, more people try to go into it, which leads to even more people spending their lives doing things that aren't actually profitable. Ugh. Which is a lot of how the federal government ends up subsidizing dying industries for decades.

Besides the first world jobs situation (this is not just a US problem, by any means), there's another problem still out there looking for a place to roost. The US Fed, and other central banks around the world, have dropped interest rates to extremely low levels in our attempts to avoid a much more serious Depression. This effort seems to have been successful - those unemployment levels not seen since the early 30s are still much, much better than they were in the early 30s, and we are not today causing the same kind of mass hunger and homelessness problems that we had then. (That may not be so much comfort if you or yours have been involuntarily out of work for months and are not seeing many options, but it really is much, much better - the worse things are for everyone else, the harder it is to climb back out for the folks who have really, really lost). But at some point rates will need to start climbing back to more normal levels if we want to avoid another bubble like the housing bubble that just crashed. But raising interest rates will also slow the pace at which job growth is expanding, which doesn't make anyone particularly happy, either. The US Fed is currently signaling that 2010 is probably when they will start to raise rates.

But next time someone starts talking to you about the US pissing $700bn away to keep banks afloat? They're wrong. Wildly wrong. The US loaned banks, the auto industry, and the largest insurer in the world close to a trillion to keep cash being a useful commodity. And, so far, is getting almost all of that back. That is pretty damned impressive.

I need help choosing my next system. =D


I looooove RPGs. Final Fantasy, Star Ocean, Kingdom Hearts... I like games like Dark Cloud and Ephemeral Fantasia too. Hand/Eye games like Rock Band/Guitar Hero I can play for hours. I really dislike FPS. Scary games aren't much to my liking either, even though I love watching them, I can't play them for more than one room. And Mario Party type games...I leave the room. >.>

WII	PS3
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World (#1 reason)	Final Fantasy VIII ETA(omg, that's FFXIII -.-;) Star Ocean: The Last Hope International (#1 reason)

Any other games you think I'd like, feel free to suggest. I dislike xBox with a passion, fyi. xD No reason, just dislike it.

We just got a PS3 for ourselves for Christmas. I almost grabbed LBP, but then hubbs said I'm not creative enough to enjoy it [he's never played it either] and so I put it back.

Do you really have to be a naturally creative person to enjoy this game or is hubby just being a penny-pinching buzzkill?

I've had my Xbox for a few years now with no problems. In fact, I'd brag to my friends about how I've never gotten the red ring. The jokes on me now.

I got a code with my Left4Dead2 for 48 hours free XBL gold. I typed in the code, everything went well. Then it said I had to sign out and back in to have the gold work. I turned off my system, but when I turned it back on all I got was E 74. And to top everything off I'm past my warranty.

I'm not going to call Microsoft and yell, or even try to get it fixed. I'm going to put on my big girl panties and just buy another 360. But I still can't help but morn the death of my 360.

Have any of you gone through this? Any advice?

Update: I want to thank everyone for helping me save my 360 and allot of money!

It's not often that you get to catch a glimpse of how your family sees you, and the rare opportunity to do so makes the occasional awkwardness of sharing social networking space with them worth it. Even if it makes you cry.

(*snif* I love you, too, Dad.)

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I did it! I managed to complete my senior thesis, and I turned it in today. On time. And I'm actually pretty happy with it. Battle Thesis is ovah, and man, at times it really did feel like a battle. I'm now utterly exhausted but also sort of wound up and more than a little tired of being inside my apartment, since I've been here, working, awake, and sans human contact since Saturday morning.

All that's left between me and my diploma now is finishing and turning in my Metaphor final on the 15th and taking my PH 180 final on the 17th, and after writing a freaking 35 page paper they're both going to be a breeze.

**EDIT Wed Dec 9 00:28:16 UTC 2009 **

The notification system has been fixed in the new release... we are currently processing the queue, which is upwards of 12m jobs... please bear with us while our workers chew through this large queue and get your notification / emails out. Some may come more quickly than others due to weights on the notifications themselves, but we are hoping in the next 24 hours to have all the queues cleared and all notifications delivered that had been queued up over the past few days.

Again I apologize for this inconvenience, but we are almost out of the woods as soon as we are done clear cutting some of the forest ;)

Thanks,

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Hey Guys,

Unfortunately with our last release, and its instability, we were forced to roll back releases. Unfortunately in doing so, it would seem that our notification system has been broken somehow. Our engineers are working on this issue as quickly as possible. We hope to have a patch within the next day, so we can deploy our code and fix the notification system at the same time. Please *bear* with us ;)

Currently all notifications are being queued up so they can be processed as soon as the fix is pushed and verified to be working correctly.

Thank you,

Hey folks,

I wanted to share this because it made me laugh so hard my sides hurt. You may have already seen it, but oh well!

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/uncharted-2-hawp/59109

"Nathan Drake is Malcolm Reynolds."

Warning: Contains spoilers for Uncharted 2 & Firefly: Serenity.

I am not a PC gamer at all, but my dad is, and I want to get him a good game for Christmas. Last year, I got him Fallout 3, and he is still playing it, for what must be the sixth time by now. I also got him BioShock awhile ago, which I think he liked, but certainly not to the obsessive extent I did. Which is why I need some recommendations, because I knew nothing about Fallout 3 and he loved it, and I know a ton about BioShock and I loved it, and he kind of liked it.

He likes FPS games, and of his gaming history he has liked Halo, Half Life, Tomb Raider, and some game I think called Gothic or something like that. I was thinking of getting him Mass Effect, but I don't know if he would enjoy that so much. (that's kind of like BioShock -- I liked Mass Effect, so he may only kinda/sorta like it)

Obviously, I don't want to ask him what games he might like, or that would ruin the surprise. XD So, any PC gamers able to give me some recs?

hi everyone~ i just got a ps3 for my birthday and i am a total xbox-nerd so i have no clue on what exclusives are must haves for the ps3. i'm wondering, which games must i play?

i currently have/will have:
- Fat Princess
- Flower
- MGS4
- Little Big Planet

thank you~ much appreciated. ♥

I just finished this game, and while I have mixed feelings about it (which I won't go into here), the world exploration aspect of it was amazingly well done. And since it has a camera mode in game, I took way more pictures than I probably needed to:



Day Two
Day Three

(Nothing from day one since I didn't think to take pictures at the time.)

Day Three has some spoiler stuff under Cut-scenes and Ending, but otherwise it's mostly just environments and random stuff I found while wandering around the world. Gameplay was fun but had a lot of issues, but if you enjoy world exploration I can't recommend this game enough!

Hello fellow gamers!

I just wanted to update everyone on the current status of the community. I've closed the community temporarily to new applications/members because I've been extremely busy lately.

I've been in the hospital since the 2nd of December - long story made quite short, my new darling daughter was born and that has taken a bit of priority. (New future girl gamer! Yay!)

Never the less, we're home safe and healthy from the hospital and adjusting to our new life. Things will be hectic for a while as we both get into the swing of things, so to keep everything a little more sane, I've closed membership just until I get the current 155 pending requests evaluated. I realize that it's a bummer for new hopeful members and I really apologize.

I won't be passing "leadership" (I'm not really a "leader" honestly) on to any of the other Mods because I still love this community and what it represents - it'll just take me a while to get things back on track after a long stint away from home and everything I'm used to. I promise I'll work on the pending memberships as soon as I'm able to in order to re-open the community to new members. I'm hoping to have it under control within a week.

I hope you all understand.

Take care and happy gaming,
Six