From College Humor: http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1797612

These are hilarious!

Since I haven’t seen an entry along this line yet, well, why not. A little late, I know.

( Screenshots and verbosity )

So what was your year like gaming-wise? Average? Fantastic? "I want my money back" terrible?

So where do playing games fit in with your life?

Whether you are working, in school, or are ready to take an important exam in your professional career, when and how much do you actually play?

Is anyone or has anyone survived med/law school with gaming?

A 'guaranteed' job that would have started Tuesday is on hold now until the end of the month.

Still looking for roommates.

At least I have a (relatively low paying, braindead) job in the mean time, but without a 1/4 of my expected income between now and the 21st, getting to FC's gunna be a lot tougher.

Oh well, back to the races, right? Lunch is over...

I muuuust know this since I don't want to finish the game without it, but I also don't want to spoil myself reading walkthroughs. D:

( So, question about Mass Effect... )

I noticed some weird splotches on my PSP screen this morning.
Actually, I think "in" is more accurate than "on".

At first, I thought maybe something had spotted onto my screen protector. Nope.
Closer investigation required me to peel up my screen protector. Nope.
I'm 100% sure it is not on my protector, under my protector, or on the screen itself. It is 'inside'.
I have no idea what it is, or what caused it.
I thought taking a picture might help for diagnosis, but that didn't work out too well.
I found this image on google of what the splotches sort of look like - the main difference being that most of them are circular in shape.
They are in the top and sides of the screen.

And this is a pretty good representation, actually. They aren't dark splotches or anything, almost grey-ish when looked at on a white background. Somewhat like little water spots on a white wall.
But why the heck would that be IN (or under) my PSP screen? I don't know if it's a moisture issue, or what.

It's from the 1000 series (had it since launch). I'll admit, I haven't played my PSP in close to 10 months.
I don't know what may have caused this in that time span though, as it's been kept snug and safe inside it's case on my shelf.

Anyone else have this issue, or know what may be wrong?
Thanks in advance for the help.

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EDIT: I should also probably mention that you can't see the splotches at all when the system is powered off.

I'm still saving up to buy a few games that were released last year so I haven't really checked out any sites to see what's coming out.

I'm curious what you all are interested in.

So, after years of borrowing my sister's or roommate's psps, I've finally gone and gotten my own. Does anyone have any recommendations for places to get psp skins, necessary accessories, movies, or games for the psp?

Games I have/ have played for psp include Mana Khemia, Prinny, Final Fantasy Dissidia, Crisis Core, and Little Big Planet (haven't played it yet though)... Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I've just been wondering...

Why does Sega display all their Xbox360 Megadrive conversions ('Genesis conversions' for yanks) inside a frame?

I use a 4:3 telly and if I played the original cartridges on my Megadrive, it'd be full screen. So why is it that whether I play a game via the XBLA download or the disc collection, everything from them has a frame around it?

MAN, it's annoying...

Hello ladies,

I need your help. I like my Sim's girlfriend's house better than my own. Is it possible for my Sim to move in with her? How do I do this? I know I can get the girlfriend to move in with me but that is not what I want.

Thanks for your help!

Something very strange is going on with my Mario Kart Wii WFC. Recently, whenever I start racing with people, I don't get halfway through the first lap before the race suddenly ends and I'm declared the winner, even if I was in 8th place at the time. If THAT doesn't happen, my car becomes ridiculously fast and I zoom ahead of everyone at an impossible rate.

I thought maybe it was just a one time fluke. I even tried changing my drivers and cars. That still didn't change anything. I turned it off a few days ago and came back to it today, and it's still doing it. On top of that, the other drivers keep disappearing and reappearing.

What the heck is going on?! Has anyone else had this issue with Mario Kart WFC?

It's been a momentous 12 months here at LiveJournal. We crossed a capital T at Ten years young. And, like most precocious pubescents, we celebrated turning double digits by publishing our first book! Needless to say, we've experienced some major changes, both inside and out. Before we recap, we'd like to thank you for bearing with us as we've struggled through ungainly growth spurts, identity pangs, and, yes, the occasional blemish. We hope you'll continue to stand by us: We're gaining wisdom with maturity.

Stuff you liked

• Back in February, we placed a call for entries for our ten-year anniversary anthology in lj_turns10. In December (less than a year later!), we officially announced the publication of Live Journal: The First Decade. Featuring an inspired collection of writing, photographs, and artwork from the pages of LiveJournal history, the book has been selected by Blurb.com as a top staff pick! We are proud to have played host to so much talent over the years, and we thank our contributors for sharing their extraordinary work.
• We all love quirky surprises, but not when it comes to managing our account settings. This year we streamlined settings into one central account management area. No more sifting through FAQs to figure out how to control privacy settings, modify notifications, adjust mobile settings, or update contact information!
• Being users ourselves, we realize our own mothers couldn't find us on LiveJournal based on our usernames and userpics alone (*heaves heavy sigh of relief*). But since there are times when we actually want to be found, we created a search tool--Find Your Friends--to help locate people by email address (it's in the Friends drop-down menu).
• Spam counter-attack: The war against vicious malware and spambots reigns eternal, but we've been making serious inroads to ensure your online security. We've established new protocols, such as requiring email address validations. We've grown more savvy about ferreting out suspicious behavior. We've added features, like whitelisting, to help you protect your communities. Our valiant (i.e., overworked) spam avengers (a/k/a the LiveJournal ops team) are standing on red alert so you can sleep safely at night.
• After an intensive beta, we launched My Guests at the end of the year, which lets you see who's been hanging around your journal. A number of you have even discovered secret admirers (not all of whom are creepy)!
• Last, but by no means least, we want to thank our volunteers for providing invaluable support and feedback. Their Herculean efforts enable us to answer your questions more efficiently, identify spammers, reduce abuse, and deliver better features (through tireless testing). On behalf of the staff and the larger LiveJournal community, we are truly grateful for their diligence, intelligence, loyalty, and passion.

You got your fix

• We recently debugged a number of the oustanding issues with the rich text editor so your entries look great regardless of whether you know html. You can read more about text editors here.
• In response to user demand, we brought back international voice posting. Please note that this still needs more tweaking, and we are working on the one-minute cut-off issue. For more info on voice posting, read here.
• At long last, we revived TxtLJ with Verizon. For more info on TxtLJ, check out the FAQ.

Paid features you enjoyed

• In December, we introduced My Stats, which provides detailed data on who's been viewing your entries as well as statistics on commenting, RSS requests, friending history, and more. Despite a few early glitches, the response has been extremely favorable.
• This year, we launched and improved Notes (i.e., the feature formerly known as Alias), which lets you add private comments on friends and commenters (it's in the Profile drop-down menu). This way you won't be caught red-faced when you strain to remember details about that wonderful LiveJournal friend who sent you a birthday vGift. For more info, read the FAQ.
• When we first announced View friends pages by date, we thought it would be a quiet, minor enhancement. The rave reaction floored us, which made us all very happy. We gave it a fine tuning in February of 2009, so it's even better!
• How embarrassing! It appears pingbacks have gone back to the shop for service. We’ll keep you posted. We didn't know just much you liked pingbacks until it went in for service. It's back and, judging by your irritation when it wasn't available, this is good news. FYI, pingbacks send instant notifications (via screened comments) whenever someone links to one of your entries on LiveJournal. For more info, read this entry in paidmembers or check out the FAQ.

Mixed reviews

• The search is still on. Some of you have reported getting more comprehensive results for keyword searches using the new Yandex search engine and like the ability to search within content categories (like entries or comments). Others have not been satisfied with the relevancy of search results. Please be patient. We're still tweaking this product.
• This past December, we wanted to try out a new holiday promotion. Given the crap economy, we decided to offer our Paid/Permanent users a stack of $10 coupons to send to Basic/Plus users for paid account upgrades. We hoped you would like it. And some of you did, but many were disappointed that we didn't offer Give More as well. We want to thank you so much for letting us know. Your input will help us plan better in the future. Just FYI, Paid/Permanent users can continue to send out coupons through January 15th. Coupons can be redeemed through January 31, 2010.
• We were pretty excited about Your Journal Your Money, which allows Paid/Permanent users to earn extra cash by displaying Google ads to Basic/Plus and logged out users. A number of you tried it. Some of you really like it. Others, not so much. (Just FYI, Paid/Permanent users who do not participate in this program will not view ads on journals. Participants will see ads on their own journal, but won't see them on other journals unless they specifically opt in.) For additional details, visit here.
• We relaunched m.livejournal.com, our mobile app. While it offers a nicer UI and enhanced functionality, some of you think we can do better on load times. Like most of us, it's a work in progress. You can customize your mobile settings here. For more info, please read the FAQ.

Missing Inaction

• We shudder to bring up the neon purple elephant squatting on our heads, but, yes, we didn't give you those a la carte userpics. We've been making radical improvements to our backend in order to support them. But no excuses. We know you want them. We cringe every time you mention them. We're sorry we dropped the ball on this, and we promise to do our best to get them to you in 2010.

Stumbling points

• Back in early August, we experienced outages related to a series of DDoS attacks. We are proud to report that we were down a total of one hour over the course of a few days. We thank our heroic ops guys for getting us up sooner and more consistently than any of our less fortunate social networking friends. We apologize for leaving you temporarily stranded.
• A couple of months back, we offered a free, unrestricted vGift, which induced a snowflake cookie avalanche. This resulted in backed up/delayed notifications, which, in turn, led us to reboot systems, rendering scrapbooks unavailable. It took a while to shovel free. Apologies for the inconvenience. We learned a valuable lesson that should keep us calamity-free in the future (fingers crossed while knocking on wood).
• That darn Best Buy ad. First off, we're sorry about the audio auto-play (we got it turned off as quickly as possible). While it's true that we'll continue to show this type of ad to accounts that normally see them (never to Paid/Permanent accounts), we'll make sure the sound defaults to off moving forward. We promise to do our very best to keep ads to a minimum on LiveJournal, while keeping a roof over Frank's head.

Full steam ahead!

As we plunge headfirst into the next decade, we want to take a moment to look back and thank all of our employees, both past and present, who have worked so hard to create our unique and magical universe. We couldn't have made it this far without you: Your contributions brighten our path everyday. We also want to extend our heartfelt appreciation to each and every one of you. Whether you've been around for ten days or ten years, your humor, intelligence, talent, and creativity are what makes this the most vibrant global community on the Internet (the best place on the Web, in our humble opinion). Here's hoping that 2010 will be the greatest year yet! We thank you for joining us as we embark upon another glorious decade of LiveJournal history!

Hi everyone! Just had a quick question for you. I sent in my red Elite 360 (it's the Resident Evil special edition) for repair right before Christmas. The disc drive wouldn't recognize games or DVD's anymore. When you tried to play anything, it'd automatically switch to that damn "Open Tray" message. So I packed it up, sent it off, and just got it back today.

Today? Really? That quick? I mean, thanks. . .but I guess I thought it would take longer or something.

Have any of you dealt with Microsoft's repair center? How did your console operate afterwards?

This is my 9th Xbox, and as the red Elite's are in very limited supply, I'd like to keep it for as long as possible. I'm too nervous to open the box. Haha. :(

Any advice? Thanks in advance!

Okay, so for the first time ever, a UMD has broken on me. It's not a game I totally love (a review copy I got), but it is fun and I was disappointed to see it break. You know that metal disc that's in the middle of a UMD? Well, this game's metal disc is slipping and sliding all over the place.

I did manage to get the UMD to play successfully in my PSP once since I discovered the problem, and played the game for 15-30 min. But yesterday I tried it again and, when it was still in the PSP home screen, the UMD didn't sound like it was spinning properly so I took it out.

Any tips or hints on repairing it? There's an independent game store about an hour away that I visit once a every other month or so, and they might be able to fix it. But I figured I'd check here in case there's a simple, free solution.

(I also think I've pin pointed the cause - a single UMD case that has a hard plastic button that probably poked up into it and pushed it out of place or something. I threw out the four other cases I had to prevent this from happening to another game that I do love.)

http://www.spiralusa.com/

I just got the hooded SS "Death RIP" "TR227840

Very cool and good deals.