Kaibigan

Title: The Resistance - Chapter 5
Rating: PG-13 - For now.
Summary: From the outside, it was just like old times. Good friends brought together by tragedy reunite once again, each in a different place in their lives. But a new virus that’s rapidly spreading across the globe is remerging from the abyss. It was just like old times. Leon/Claire
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Resident Evil characters

Reviews are always more than welcome!

**FINAL EDIT Thu Dec 10 02:15:47 UTC 2009**

So there is the final update... Over the past day we have processed around 11 million jobs out of the 12 million that were in queue at that time. Please bear in mind that over this past day, more jobs for notifications are also created. So while the queue has been dropping, we are still not fully caught up at this point, due to backlog and new jobs. We have roughly 3 million jobs still pending that involve the notification system in some manner. We had hoped we could have fully cleared the queue in a day, but unfortunately we can't clear it too quickly, since we need the rest of the site to operate normally. From our current perspective on the amount of jobs that are left in queue, and how many it has processed thus far, we believe it will take around another 8 - 12 hours to process everything.

And finally some answers to some questions:

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To summarize: The PSP version is horribly stripped of content in comparison to both its PS3 counterpart, and to T5:DR. Some argue that the better gameplay makes up for the lack of content, but I don't see why said content ever had to be stripped at all. I could understand the removal of campaign mode, but why butcher the standard story mode?

Also, this final boss. Azazel. I've beaten him a few times, but he is still pretty unforgivable, especially because the difficult settings have absolutely no effect on him. There is no "easy" Azazel. It doesn't help that given the nature of his attacks I'm forced to use a strategy/style entirely different than what I'm comfortable with.

Just seriously, what the fuck, Namco? Why do you feel the sadistic need to make each boss more irredeemably broken than the last. Between the unwarranted difficulty and time associated with trying to take this fucker down, and the fact that next week is the week before finals, I could easily see myself setting this down and just... not picking it up again for a really long while out of frustration. Arcade mode is really the saving grace here.

I finally got Tekken 6 today. I bought it for the PSP, because I don't have a next gen console (yet) and just popped it in and started playing it. I started with story mode, and I chose Jin as my first character. It gives you the standard text-based story lead-in before placing you into your first battle against new character Lars, who goes down really easy. So the second battle? The fucking final boss! And you know it wouldn't be a Namco game if the final boss wasn't a massively broken monstrosity. I mean, we're talking so big I'm not even really sure what's going on half the time. I'm talking a fucking Godzilla monster that effortlessly juggles you with some kind of claw crystals shooting out of the ground. And when you start to pummel his ass? He practically teleports away and then drops back in... on your head.

I just got K.O'ed again and I didn't even see how the hell it happened.

He shoots lasers, he shoots ice crystals, he rolls over you, he stomps on you, he slams you into the ground with arms bigger than you are, he teleports, he makes shit pop out of the ground... It's like Namco said, "You thought a grandpa shooting fireballs out of a mouth in his stomach was bad, you bitches ain't seen nothing yet."

And he's evasive as fuck too. Something that big should not be that fast.

Second motherfucking fight! I haven't played Tekken in a while; I can't handle a fucking boss for my second fight! Who the hell thought this was a good idea? Where the fuck is the story line? Did I just pay forty bucks for an arcade version?

At least with Jinpachi it was possible to strategize. If you stayed in close to him you'd be able to break most of his more devestating moves. This abomination has plenty of attacks designed to put distance beteen you and him, and he almost seems to have an auto-block so that you can't break the moves before you pull them off.

He just threw me up in the air while shoot me with ice crystals and lasers. FUCK YOU NAMCO!

Seriously, I know I ranted in a similar fashion about Jinpachi when I first picked up Tekken 5 and now I can beat him on auto-pilot with most of my regular characters, but this is still ridiculous. It is absolutely absurd to have a final boss for a second fight. It is absolutely absurd to have a story mode with no story. I mean, there might be some story after this, but at the rate I'm going I'll never reach it because of this dumb-ass broken fucker.

I just got so pissed off I had to turn the game off for a minute.

LiveJournal: The First Decade

Just in time for holiday shopping, we're thrilled to announce the release of our ten-year anniversary anthology. Published by Blurb.com, the book showcases a decade of extraordinary talent drawn from LiveJournal users around the world. This must-read compilation features stories, memes, photos, comics, editorials, graphic content, and more, including:

1. Excerpts from Oh No They Didn't (a/k/a ohnotheydidnt), the largest community on LiveJournal, covering celebrity gossip, entertainment news, and pop culture
2. A look at post-Katrina New Orleans from the journal of Poppy Z. Brite
3. Gripping narratives, including a poignant reverie on a blind date
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What began as a late-night inspiration back in Brad Fitzpatrick's college dorm in 1999 has grown to encompass nearly 25 million users worldwide, with journals and communities covering every conceivable hobby, passion, and topic. To get your copy, please visit the Blurb Bookstore. For updates and entries from book contributors, please join lj_turns10.

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Photos of the week

We're back with more incredible pictures from our super-talented LiveJournal photographers. Congratulations to ilya_gorokhov, who is the winner of our very first lj_photophile poll.

We hope you'll continue to post, vote, and comment! A gentle request: Please post only one photo at a time and limit size to 350x350 (so images display properly on friends pages). And now, without further ado, get ready to cast your ballot and view more awesome user content after the jump!

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Curtains

Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay safe and snug out there!

20 Merlin
29 Legend of the Seeker
61 Resident Evil (Darkside Chronicles, Degeneration)
15 Dead Space Extraction

Teasers:




tell me you love me

Title: The Looking Glass
Rating: T
Word Count: 781
Pairing: Neji/Tenten
Summary: When heaven gives them a second chance to live, their assignment is to eliminate a pair of deadly assassins within the span of six months and free their prisoners. Can they make the deadline? (AU NejiTen)

( Sometimes second chances aren’t always what they seem. )

I finally changed the layout for this community.
That only took me a few years!
It's beautiful, but it's just a random layout, and not a nice Claire/Leon one.
*Sigh*

We need to do something to make this community more active.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Should we have a fanfiction contest, an icon contest, what?

I was looking at older entries in this community earlier today, and I never realized how often people posted and commented!
And now, thought it isn't as bad as I'm probably making it seem, there are very few new entries and hardly any comments.
Look how many members we have! It should not be like this, people.

I'm open to ideas, so please, if anyone has any, feel free to leave a comment with them!

Also, if there is anyone out there who is a computer person, is there anyway you could make a nice Claire/Leon layout?
It'd be greatly appreciated.
Or even a nice picture for our profile or our first entry that I added today for new members.

Anything would be great, guys!
I look forward to reading your ideas, fellow Claire/Leon fans! :3

**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

So, with the release of DSC, I decided to make another AMV, something a bit more blatantly shipper friendly than my last one was. This was kind of an exercise in patience because I'm typically... not a fan of making slow videos, but I actually really like how this came out.

Anyway, the song is "Collide" by Howie Day, which kind of struck me as fitting pretty well when I was listening to it on my Pandora radio. Please enjoy, and comments are love :3a

( you and i collide; )

OH also if anonymous prickfaces could not bother commenting with passive aggressive statements about the fandom that would be awesome. Log in or eff off, thanks ♥