It's time for another extremely late pick-up post!
I didn't have a whole lot of money to throw around last month, but I managed to get a lot of cool stuff quite cheap. Unfortunately I had to pass on some amazing finds last month, like Otomedius for XBOX 360 with the Otomedius Arcade Stick for only $150 (the stick ALONE sells for $300ish) and a Moon (PS1) Guidebook for $10.

Anywho, here's what I DID get:

I got all of this stuff at a Flea Market here in Osaka for 540円 total! The Flea Market was supposedly the biggest one of the year (with 600 booths), but it was like 1/10 the size of the Flea Market back home in Chicago!


Super Mario World Electric Pencil Sharpener - Awesome and only 400円! My girlfriend wouldn't stop teasing me for buying this. :
Moogle/Cloud Strife/Jigen/Ryuk Coca Cola figures - only 10円 each!
THE ブロックくずし...

Was in Ann Arbor with two good friends, went to a used bookstore in downtown Ann Arbor, The Dawn Treader, excellent store might I add. Now with great surprise while going through books, I found a Shadowrun 1.0 core rulebook, hard cover, little damage, NO writing/marking inside, NO page discolorations and just a minor bit of wear/slight warping of a few pages.



I paid under $10 for it! It truly made my day.... at first.

Followed that up with grabbing some books for a friend, which seemed to make them happy (I hope) and then went over to a robot store (Note - the link is to their charity site, not their store). One person nabbed a music box (I need to go back and buy about four for my Steampunk costume now after seeing them work!) while I grabbed a bell.

After that, went to Kilwin's chocolate store, and MAN I love that place. Got some caramel coated...

Please vote on my November poll!

Thursday was the three year anniversary of the market leader this generation, the Wii. To celebrate this anniversary, I'm going to do exactly what I did for the DS in September. I'm going to review and rate every game in my Wii collection-- all seventy-five games (or at least the ones I've played)! Some are fantastic, some are great, some are merely good, while others are less than stellar and/or suck horribly. So here are we are! As always, all quickie reviews are from 1 to 5. Let's crack our knuckles and get working on this, shall we?

Animal Crossing: City Folk - The third Animal Crossing release to hit North America may not have changed the formula up as heavily as Wild World did before it, but did it offer a quality experience with friends and with your many animal neighbors. New holidays meant new experiences, and the city brought with it new shops and fun. Online play with Wii Speak (a much underutilized gaming peripheral)...

here it is











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Hey I just bought a Sega Dreamcast for $24.99+Tax. A few of by friends who are students at MIT told me about some hardware upgrades for my dreamcast plus the vmu.

now my vmu holds 2GB of data (just replace the parts with a good mp3 player that plays movies) and a better screen.

Thanks to people putting ISO's online i got a bleem! disk and modded it.

With new parts for my dreamcast taken from my old consoles i'm playing ps1, 2, 3, xbox, xbox360, and dreamcast games on my dreamcast.

Unfortunately its not upgraded enough yet. it cant play cd's, dvd's, (it can play blu-ray), and it cant get online...yet.

Anyone know a good learn japanese cd or book thats cheap? I love the .hack games and im trying to play .hack//FRAGMENT but dont know japanese very well.

[December 22, 2009 - Golbez's House]

*Doorbell Rings*

Golbez: *rolls eyes* ...Sigh. WHO THE F*CK IS IT?

Mysterious Voice: Hello? ..Hello? Is there a Golbez Rodriguez? I'm looking for a Golbez Rodriguez.

Golbez: No one's here, you f*cking gringo. Now get the f*ck off my property. I don't have THE F*CKING TIME to be putting up with Jenova Witnesses.

Mysterious Voice: *laughs* Relax, sir. I'm only here to inform you abo-

Golbez: I DON'T THINK I MADE THINGS CLEAR ENOUGH TO YOU. GET. THE F*C- ....OH, F*CK IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *casts Meteor on his front lawn, peeking through the window to make sure that the man is dead, right before sitting back down on his couch to resume playing Modern Warfare 2* .... *shoots someone's brains out* ....hehe. ...Nice to see some real gore, after playing Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2....

*The Doorbell Rings once again*

Golbez: W.T.F.? Are you- ....How did h- ........

I've tried my hardest to get a MAG beta code. I preordered and Gamestop said they didn't have any more codes left. I tried signing up for the beta, but never got picked.

After watching the videos it is my most wanted game. I've been so close to getting one. I even had a dream about it last night. I am obsessed over a game that I never even played. Damn you MAG beta

Well, I finally got to finish all 5 DLC packs for Fallout 3 thanks to CAG's own xxsouthparkxx. So, why not put a trophy review up in the meantime while I continue to grind away at GTA IV and Warhawk?

Individual trophy reivew


Bronze



Devil

"Reached Level 30 with Bad Karma"

See Messiah



True Mortal

"Reached Level 30 with Neutral Karma"

See Messiah



Messiah

"Reached Level 30 with Good Karma"

Although the trophies hint at it, there is no need to playthrough the game three times to get it (although I wouldn't mind doing another playthrough, great game). There are two easy methods to get all three of these trophies in one go and I'll explain them in detail below:.


Method ...

Top 50 Software (New Titles Bolded)

01./00. [PSP] J-League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou!...

I read a lot, i mean a shit ton. Where I work there is not much too do in the winter time. I play DS, Listen to my Zune, or I read. I have way too many hobbies and finding time to devote to each one is tough. I am 23 years of age as of this writing, I am happily married and my first son just turned 4 months old. I work 2 jobs, My full time job is a entry level book keeping job for a very small company of 5 stores. Accounts Payable. Its a simple job you recieve invoices everyday, you match them up with your back, expense them out and enter them to be paid. Run checks once a week and thats pretty much it. Once I finish my work for the day I am free to do as I wish. During the winter I am sent to fill in for store managers when they take vacation. Simple Job, decent pay and nice hours. Lots of free time to read and such.(I promise there is a point to this, im just tired and rambling)

My second job I work 10-20 hours a week part time at a Gamestop. I use to be a manager at Gamestop,...

Well my week started out a little rocky. I had to send off my fairly new DS Lite for repair. The L button on it doesn't work. I've never had any real problems with Nintendo hardware, so I wasn't exciting about going through the warranty process. It is already on it's way back, so I will report it's status on Monday.

After that though, my week really picked up. I had just over $100 in Walgreens Register Rewards, and I cut that down to $21. Concidentally I now have $50 in Amazon gift cards, perfect for Black Friday.

I also picked up my Thanksgiving turkey this week. It was $0.37/lb, making the 12 lb bird I picked up just under $4.50. I read an article saying that Walmart's heavily advertised $0.41/lb was a 10-year low. Just my own comparision, I traditionally just picked up a frozen turkey breast for about $7, maybe 4 lbs. I am only cooking for my boyfriend, so that was our previous more "economical" choice.

There was a Woot-Off this...

Some stuff.

Got:
Nintendo Club Platinum Gift - I chose the Mario hat. Very nice quality.



Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition (360) - Yea, I got it...



Assassin's Creed 2 Master Edition (360) - The tin case is even LARGER than AC1's LE. Geez... Nice design though.

Box and contents.


More games and movies.



Star Trek LE (BD) - Statue is very nice. Completely metal and quite heavy.

Box and contents.
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Resident Evil: Survivor is a light gun game for the original Playstation, except without the whole light gun thing. In America, the game didn't include the ability to use a light gun, even though that was the entire point of the game. It released in Japan in January 2000 and August 2000 in America. I know Resident Evil: Survivor is nine years old, and is approaching it's 10th birthday in Japan, so I'll go a little easy on it.

It seems like Capcom really half assed this one. For a 2000 PS1 release, I think the earlier Resident Evil games had a much better polish to them. Resident Evil:Survivor is a game that seemed to fly completely under the radar. I don't think too many people actually played it, because I never hear anyone talk about it. That could be for several reasons: the time it released, the quality of the game, the fact that it's a light...

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How many of you have had your stats and achievements completely wiped? This just happened to me today, and there's currently a 12 page thread on the steam forums about it.

It's pretty discouraging to think all that progress I made is gone. If Valve is going to do achievements they need to get a system like Microsoft has. How many times have people just lost all their achievements on xbox for no apparent reason?

I'm writing this blog post without having slept a wink in the past 24 hours... for about the 5th time this semester. I'm currently sitting in discrete math, not absorbing a word of what is being said. And even if I was fully well rested I probably wouldn't know what was going on, because guess what--I sleep through the damn thing almost every other day. The class is at noon. Yeah, you read that right, 12pm, noon. Not only that, but I also have a multivariable calculus class right before that, which I've missed even more times.

Think I've got issues? Yeah, no kidding. I'm on the verge of failing both of those classes. Staying up until 5-6am or later every night is retarded, but I do it anyway. Without reason. I stay up doing absolutely nothing other than listening to music, messing around the computer, and/or sometimes talking with my roommate(s). You'd think I'd learn after suffering for it so many times, but nope, I don't change a thing. It's not that I actually enjoy this...

Hey guys back with some more funnies for you.
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Actual Newspaper Headline

-Crack Found on Governor's Daughter [Imagine that!]
-Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says [No, really?]
-Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers [Now that's taking things a bit far!]
-Is There a Ring of Debris around Uranus? [Not if I wipe thoroughly!]
-Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over [What a guy!]
-Miners Refuse to Work after Death [No-good-for-nothing' lazy so-and-so!]
-Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant [See if that works any better than a fair trial!]
-War Dims Hope for Peace [I can see where it might have that effect!]
-If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile [You think?]
-Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures [Who would have thought!]
-Enfield ( London ) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide [They may be...

Who else thinks that the airport scene and one dead American 'conspirator' WOULD NOT prompt an all out Russian land and air assault on mainland US?

Korean + English = Konglish.

or maybe i'm wrong and there really was a Bitch Festival

You have been banned for the following reason:
Suspected of selling illegal/stolen XBLM codes.
Date the ban will be lifted: 11-14-2011, 10:00 AM




Tried an appeal once to no response. Pmed a few mods to no response.






Banned for something I did not do and in a manner of guilty until we forget why you were banned. Yup, I said it once and one thousand times, they were not stolen. My paypal account was limited 4 times during that period, and I proved to paypal with invoices and tons of other information on my supplier. Does that mean I have to prove it here to potential competition? Clearly.







Why bring this up now? Because that ban was originally a ridiculous 2 year ban to be lifted on 7-14-2011. Now 4 months have been randomly added which I'm extremely curious as to why or what kind of system is running here that randomly adds 4 months?...