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I downloaded the "on demand" version of Street Fighter X Tekken for my 360. (I prefer to keep a few games this way so i can play spur of the moment.)

However, after downloading the DLC characters and restarting the game, i noted that they are all still greyed out, and unable to be played as!

Anyone can help? I'd be appreciative... I don't like losing money.

Every time I try to boot the computer using the Windows 7 64-Bit disk to install Windows, it just boots up my 32-Bit that is currently installed... Doesn't matter if I boot through the BIOS or not... It immediately kicks over to what is already installed instead of going to the installer. I would like to get the most out of my computer, and with the 8GB of RAM installed, I'd like to be able to have access to as much of it as I can. 32 Bit obviously won't let me do that.

Your quick reply would definitely be helpful. Thanks.

Right after the battle with the Katayanagi Twins, Scott talks to Knives. A warped version of a song plays in the background when the snow starts to fall. What song is that? My girlfriend has been bugging me a lot lately about it.

With Jack Swagger stealing the belt from Chris Jericho in the Smackdown tapings on Tuesday, this has led me to weird question.

Why is WWE forcing their green talent into such situations that are destined to fail? Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of Jack Swagger, CM Punk, Sheamus... great in-ring talents, great on the mic... great future... but all of them are getting pushes that they really shouldn't be getting. Let's look at them in order, shall we?

CM Punk - WWE Debut: 2006 - Great easy push up in ECW for a year and three months, but after his pull to Raw, he was quickly given a meteoric push. No explanation for it, either. Suddenly he wins MITB, and without too much of him flaunting it, suddenly takes the championship... then instead of actually letting him have a run with the title, they give him a defense against JBL (meaning they weren't willing to job their big guns to him to help his push) and then basically strip him of the title and never let him even complain. After which, he didn't see a main event again until he won the MITB a second time. This time he took the belt AGAIN, only to be beaten a month later by Jeff Hardy, then wobble with the title, and lose it to Undertaker (without giving him true credibility with the belt by not having him defend it at all to anyone but Undertaker). Now he's floundering in the upper-card, a great talent with no way of truly breaking the glass ceiling.

Sheamus - WWE Debut: 2009 - Not only was his push in ECW short... he suddenly goes from squashing jobbers in ECW to squashing jobbers in Raw, and then suddenly he's champ? Not to mention the only defense he truly earned was against, you guessed it, a jobber!? Everyone else wouldn't job to him fairly, killing the credibility of his championship reign, and then he lost it unceremoniously to Cena, only to have Cena lose to Batista... furthering Sheamus' downfall, and hammering it home that he's isn't worth the big guns' time. The fans can't even get into him enough to care! Fluke win over Cena. Intentional DQ in Cena's rematch. Fluke DQ over Orton. Loses the belt with no way of defending it, and only pinning someone who didn't matter in the match anyway... then losing to Triple H in a microwave feud? *sigh*

Jack Swagger - WWE Debut: 2008 - Swagger was given a huge push when entering ECW. He won the ECW championship after a huge win-streak over established ECW guys, which made his ECW title run credible. But when sent to Raw, suddenly WWE gave up on him, leaving him as a mid-card nobody amongst players who outranked him by a long shot... then Sheamus showed up and skyrocketed past him. Suddenly he wins MITB, and is now Champ!? No push beforehand at all, and suddenly we're supposed to accept that he's worth being the main event. I'm not sure this will be a good thing for his career at all...

What do you think about all these "top tier" wrestlers getting their pushes way too early in their careers? Do you think that this push for Swagger will do him good? Or do you think they'll force him to have lackluster matches, solely because the actual top-tier talent doesn't want to job to him (like Sheamus...)?

As we may have noticed, Matt Hardy has returned to using his random colored pants again as his gear. I personally preferred his heel gear with the jacket and the tights with the keys on the sides... which did you prefer, and why?

You don't have to agree with me, but give me a real explanation...

Is it just me, or did EA take out all the fun from superstar mode? Last year (09) they had the ability to talk to your agent, and got boosts depending on how you did in practice. Your character gained attitudes as he went along as well.

This year, it's just playing a player and that's it. What's up with that?

I have a 120GB, but I downloaded a lot of TV shows (stand up comedy specials) back in the day that I don't want to delete, since the new Zune setup doesn't seem to tell you what you've already paid for... though I don't want to download more shows, I do want to put more game stuff on it and I'm running out of space, drastically.

Does anyone know if there is a larger hard drive coming out soon? I know that the limited edition Modern Warfare 2 system came with a 250G, but I would like to know if there is going to be one to buy separately, as I'm not going to pay for an MW2Elite just to get a bigger hard drive.

I can't see why people are so high on Evan Bourne to get a World Title push. Yes, Bourne is a great in-ring talent... but his mic skills are lacking, and his acting is attrocious. Don't believe me? Look up his feud with Mike Knox from last year, specifically when he was cowering after Knox beat the garbage out of him... After this, look up his tenure as Matt Sydal in WSX. His acting is horrendous, and his gimmick was basically the same, except a heel.

Lastly, look up his tenure in ROH. You'll note that not only was he never taken as a serious contender for anything, he was also not given that much mic time. There's a reason for it.

Instead of asking for a push... tell them to give him some acting training. He needs more than just being able to throw himself off of things...

He'll end up being a non-druggie Jeff Hardy, otherwise... just as rag-doll, just as non-talented on the mic.

As most of us (who have written storylines...) are well aware of now, there is a ridiculous amount of censorship involved in the uploading of a story. Phrases such as

"And not to mention, my old stomping ground, ECW, has a new champion! Christian!"

and

"Cody, did you tell your... daddy... that I ran Cena down? Are you serious!?"

are forced to be edited without explanation.

Has anyone gotten in contact with Yukes and/or THQ about the censorship problem? And have they been able to provide a list of censored material? I would like to know what I can and can't say, so I won't have to sit through hours and hours of rewrites just so I can upload my stories. Thanks.

Seeing as WWE Smackdown vs. Raw is supposed to have something like 60+ characters in it, I’m putting my money on the fact that they’re counting some non-wrestlers as “superstars” as well… solely because they’re in storylines, too. But I’ll be nice and give away who I think will be in the game.

From Raw:

1. Batista

2. Big Show

3. Carlito

4. Chavo Guerrero

5. Cody Rhodes

6. Evan Bourne

7. Jack Swagger

8. John Cena

9. Kofi Kingston

10. Mark Henry

11. The Miz

12. MVP

13. Primo

14. Santino Marella

15. Shawn Michaels

16. Ted DiBiase

17. Triple H

From Smackdown:

1. Chris Jericho

2. CM Punk

3. Dolph Ziggler

4. Edge

5. Finlay

6. The Great Khali

7. Jeff Hardy

8. John Morrison

9. JTG

10. Kane

11. Matt Hardy

12. Rey Mysterio

13. Shad

14. Undertaker

From ECW:

1. Christian

2. Ezekiel Jackson

3. Shelton Benjamin

4. Tommy Dreamer

5. Vladimir Kozlov

6. William Regal

From the Divas Roster:

1. Brie Bella

2. Nikki Bella

3. Beth Phoenix

4. Kelly Kelly

5. Maryse

6. Mickie James

7. Layla

8. Maria

9. Melina

10. Michelle McCool

46 Roster Members that are pretty much guaranteed to be in the game. Then we must claim what I call “space wasters.” For the sole purpose of annoying us with useless characters that probably won’t be in the GM mode, either.

1. Vince McMahon (Probably playable through unlocking, but not in Story or GM)

2. Stephanie McMahon

3. Matt Striker (Probably playable through unlocking, but not in Story or GM)

4. Jim Ross

5. Josh Matthews

6. Todd Grisham

7. Jerry Lawler (Possibly playable from unlocking, but doubt it.)

8. Michael Cole

9. Teddy Long

10. Tiffany

11. Hornswaggle (The same animation from last year, and most likely useless.)

12. Charles Robinson (Ref for Smackdown)

13. Scott Armstrong (Ref for Raw)

14. Jack Doan (Ref for ECW)

That is exactly 61 people altogether. With the “guest star” Steve Austin (for Gamestop buyers) and The Rock (for Best Buy patrons) rounding it out at a perfect “60+” also known as 62.

Now, there are probably going to be a few downloadable roster members, which would make the roster a bit more rounded out, though not as much as we would like it. I’m thinking packs of three or four. Here are my choices:

The Hart Dynasty:

1. David Hart Smith

2. Tyson Kidd

3. Natalya

Current Vets Pack 1:

1. Paul Burchill

2. Jamie Noble

3. R-Truth

Current Vets Pack 2:

1. Hurricane

2. Goldust

3. Zack Ryder

New Talent Pack:

1. Yoshi Tatsu

2. Tyler Reks

3. Sheamus

Diva Talent Pack:

1. Gail Kim

2. Rosa Mendes

3. Alicia Fox

There will probably be another “legends” pack that would come out sooner or later as well, just to add to the roster and story ideas. But my list here pretty much rounds out about 90% of the current roster (Minus, I believe, Mike Knox, Eve and Jillian), meaning that those character packs I put together may not even show up…

It’d be nice to see the entirety of the current WWE roster being in the game (reminiscent of the days of WWF Wrestlemania 2000 and WWE No Mercy for N64 when the entire roster was placed in the game… and even gave you the ability to create the roster members transferred back to OVW). But I highly doubt it will ever happen. I have my doubts that a game would be up to date EVER, considering people are fired right before the game comes out every year… lol. But yeah. That’s my ideal.

Recently WWE.com released some new details on the new DLC Pack for Smackdown vs. Raw 2009, showing the new wrestlers to be...

LEGENDS?

Doink, Earthquake, Vader, and the Bushwackers to be exact.

My question is why, after touting that the downloads were specifically made to keep the roster as current as possible, and stating that legends were purposefully removed from the roster because Legends of Wrestlemania was soon to be released... Why would they waste their times with five barely legendary wrestlers, instead of current stars like Primo, Vladimir Kozlov, Maryse, Ricky Ortiz, Jack Swagger, and the Bella Twins?

I think they did the fans a disservice with this download pack... and though I'm going to be hypocritical and still get it, I'm confused as to why these five instead of useful current stars? If they wanted to make more legends for LoWM, why didn't they just make them DLC for that game instead of Smackdown?

I've noticed something in the WWE... why is it that when someone is RIGHT about something, we turn them into the bad guy? When they complain about something that should be complained about, we immediately take the side of the person who is, in reality, wrong. I'll give a few examples.

Muhammad Hassan - He only TRULY became a heel after everyone threw him out of the ring at the Royal Rumble. Before that, all he was doing was stating TRUTH about how Arabs had been treated since 9/11. In reality, Arabs got the cold shoulder because of our own prejudiced minds and fear, and basically we summed up a whole race of people due to the actions of a small few. Hassan made the true comment about reality. And we hated him for it.

Chris Jericho - When Jericho first came back from his hiatus, he stated that he was here to save the WWE... but WE turned on him when he got upset that Shawn Michaels CHEATED to win in a match against a fellow face (Batista) and we turned even further when Jericho blamed Shawn Michaels for retiring Ric Flair... something we were sad to see! Top that off wit hthe fact that now we hate him for telling the truth, wrestlers retired, and just can't stay away from what they retired from. He claimed their ideals to be like a druggie, gets his high, and then will do anything to get the high again. And we hated Jericho for the truth again.

The Nation of Domination - We saw the truth of the matter. Black members of the WWF roster were barely given a chance since the beginning of the WWWF... Faarooq and company decided they had enough of the treatment of black wrestlers as jobbers and such, and we revolted against them for it.

Is there something morally wrong with the United States as a whole that we berate people who are internally good? People who try to tell the truth? They don't even have to be extremists... I'm completely surprised we hail CM Punk as a hero... I mean, he's against everything else we'd want to defend... drugs, alcohol, smoking... et cetera et cetera.

Why is it that when truth is exposed, we rebel and turn the truth speaker into the enemy?

I started in a tag team with a fellow legend... I turned out crazy, he did not... I got hired by Vince McMahon, he did not.

Apparently Vince McMahon thought I should be pushed, despite his belief that I had no talent or sense of professionalism.

I had the horrible habit of changing the color of my title belt straps on a weekly or monthly basis... hello pink Intercontinental Championship!

After the WWE made a video about my career, I called Droz, a quardaplegic, a cripple in public.

Who am I?

FIRST CORRECT ANSWER, as always, WINS!

My name is not my own, but it's still part of my family.

I lost something dear to me in WCW, but WWE gave it back.

I won a title that never had time to develop... I was the second and last.

I have the distinct reputation of beating Kevin Nash with a botch.

Who am I?

FIRST CORRECT ANSWER WINS

The first one is easier, the second, not so much. Good luck!

NUMBER FOUR

On my debut, I won a now-defunct championship.

I was the lackey for many a wrestler after I jumped ship, and am still a lackey, despite my status.

I lied my way into a Wrestlemania main event.

I dressed as Hulk Hogan and Rikishi, and it wasn't even Halloween!

Who am I?

NUMBER FIVE:

On my debut, I won a now-defunct championship.

I was the lackey to a few wrestlers before coming into my own.

I was lowballed on a contract, which lead me into the main event when I jumped ship.

I dressed up like a super hero once... but it wasn't my fault.

Who am I?

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First person to name BOTH, gets the ten points. I know others got it easy on my first few rounds, but I figure to try and keep it hard and interesting. Good luck!

I had two failed gimmick before showing up with a bang.

Originally, I was "blind" in one eye.

I hate a baseball playing flower.

According to the fans, I'm my own worst enemy.

Who am I?

I started my TV career as a part of an animal.

WCW thought my brand of humor would never lead me to a main event.

I accidentally named Perry Saturn's WWE finisher years before I came to the WWE.

I have the distinct reputation of holding the best of both worlds... at the same time.

I started my televised career managed by Teddy Long.

My last match in WCW was against Sting, despite everyone thinking I never fought him.

According to my debut in the WWE(F), I have the same first name as my brother.

My claim to fame is being the man with the least "fair" losses to his name, and an unbelievable streak of luck.

Who am I?

Even as a kid, I disliked Hogan. I'm not saying I was too smart for the show, I just couldn't figure how a guy could hulk up after being beaten down for so long.

Maybe I'm evil, but I actually liked more of the heels than the good guys when I was little. Jake Roberts, Ted DiBiase, Andre the Giant, Rick Martel...

I don't know... is there anyone else who hated Hogan despite age and despite Hulkamania?

I understand that I'm not the thinnest guy in the bunch, but I'm not a huge guy either. I know that what I look for in a girl isn't her size, but if her face is kissable, and if her personality is cool to hang out with (with or without my friends around)... after that, though I have preferences, I'm not extremely picky...

Lately, though, I've been overlooked consistently, and I'm trying to figure out why suddenly every girl has become so shallow in their search for the "nice guy."

I see the question from them all the time... "Why is it that I always date assholes? Why is it that i can't find a nice guy..." blah blah blah... My favorite quote is "Girls would kill to have a guy like you!" spoken by many of my female friends that are taken... but when they're free, suddenly I'm not the guy they'd kill for.

What's with the shallowness? I know guys are the same way, but why do most people only look at the outward appearance, and that's it?