New Philly Thread (Super Street Fighter 4 AE @ University Pinball)

What can I say? Gentrification works wonders, considering how many silly Hipsters are out here now I doubt you’ll have issues. Nothing but papis and Jon pierres on this side of the fence. Now a roomie did find a bullet on the ground one day, a fired bullet:)

If it makes you feel better white people commonly play rugby way into the night 2 blocks down and old white women walk their dogs…alone.

gonna be at UP around 1-1:30

Wait, so the leftmost AE cab doesn’t work with Ultra inputs…? Is that why I could never get my counter ultra out or am I just bad at mashing?

it works, it just seems more difficult than it should be. not sure what the issue is exactly, but there’s something up with it.

Well, that could explain why my Kikoshos didn’t feel like coming out most of the time when I played on that machine…I thought it was just me sucking :stuck_out_tongue:

FYI Body Shop Saturday 12 is goin down tomorrow. check out the thread for more info if u never been there. for the ones that have, ya know what it is. We’re running MK9, MVC3, and BBSC2 so get your skills up or get bodied on the stream

Ha, I still think you’re nuts as well. It’s hard to forget things like the “Kensington Strangler.” Gentrification of that area doesn’t really seem to be happening THAT rapidly. It looks to me mostly like the typical “student ghetto” that a lot of Temple kids live in just because it’s cheap and close to campus. Those kids still get robbed, get their cars broken into, mugged, etc. But, how far down does Temple go on Cecil B. Moore and how busy is the street down there at any given hour? Around campus is fine and I know Temple is trying to buy up a lot of the area, but I know folks who have had issues just by being a lil bit outside of it and Temple doesn’t seem to have the same ever-present police force like Penn does. Regardless, I’d probably be up for some after work brawl sessions…if you have two sticks, even better…that way I don’t have to worry about mine getting jacked while I’m walking to and from your crib :wink:

Aye I was getting cheesed out by Pete for 2 hours on that cab and I didn’t drop shit

Sup Philly Folks! Long time no see. :smiley:

is anything going down tuesday thats like my only day free next week from work and i really want to get a session in somewhere ill meet up with people at UP if thats the spot to meet

Quick Reminder that the Grand Master Monthly Tournament is today @ Game Junkies in Glenside .

With gold off the lows and silver trading higher, today King World News interviewed Peter Schiff CEO and Chief Global Strategist of Europacific Capital. When asked about the pullback in gold Schiff remarked, “I think it’s a buying opportunity…I do believe the US economy is slowing down, in fact I think it’s going to slow a lot more than people realize. But for that reason I think that quantitive easing will not end over the summer, in fact I think the Fed is going to step it up. QE3 could be even bigger than QE2 and that’s very bullish for precious metals and very bearish for the dollar.

The latest action shows gold holding well ABOVE its 150-day MA and consolidating. Frankly, I thought gold was in for another test of its 150-day MA, but I may have been too pessimistic. Gold does not seem to want to test its MA (so far) this time, and that’s a bullish factor. As I write this morning June gold is up over 19 points, and there seems to be urgent buying in gold.

The gold/silver ratio has climbed back into the 40’s, and from a technical point of view is very close to achieving my mid-40’s target. That suggests to me that silver’s low is in place. My only concern here Eric is that this is options expiry week. We know from past experience that the shorts try to keep precious metals
prices from rising to have as many possible calls expire out of the money.

Prepare for the summer doldrums (maybe even a slump), and then be ready for an economic revival in the fall and into 2012. Also get ready for all-out inflation as the Fed steps on the QE3 accelerator in late 2011.
I think the gold action goes along with the above scenario. Why take profits or sell your gold, when the real move in gold is slated for 2012 and beyond?

Why is China so intent on accumulating gold? My thinking is that China is preparing its renminbi to replace the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. To become the new world power, China needs two items: (1) A military second to none. (2) The world’s most trusted and wanted currency.

(1) China is now on an all-out campaign to build up its military. (2) China wants the renminbi to backed with a huge percentage of gold, thereby making the renminbi the world’s best and most trusted currency.

To compete, I believe that somewhere head the US will have to back its current irredeemable fiat currency with gold. In order to do that, the US will have to boost the price of its huge gold hoard to a level where the dollar may be backed anywhere from 50% to 100% with gold. That could mean unilaterally raising the price of gold to maybe $5000 and ounce or more…I thought that gold, closing higher, in the face of the stronger dollar, was significant. Gold appears to be advancing against almost all fiat currencies (is this a preview of the future?).

The other side of the coin is that if investors use options expiration weakness to buy, this has generally provided a good entry point. So don’t be worried if you see any additional price weakness this week.

People should be saying to themselves that they don’t care what the gold price is doing today, if this is the day of the month they are scheduled to buy, then buy it. Continue on with their dollar cost averaging plan and the same goes for silver.

good morning. more inflation coming my investor friends.

“So when you have communiques coming from the Federal Reserve like this, and since inflation is never an accident, inflation always comes from a central bank monetizing the national debt, if they stop doing that, if they are indeed serious about doing that, it has massive implications for the stock market, for precious metals and for the economy in the short-term.

…If the Federal Reserve exits monetization of the middle of the Treasury curve, real interest rates will rise in the short-term, and that is deadly for an economy that exists on borrowing money to the tune of trillions of dollars per annum, and most of that is monetized.”

When asked about the implications for the economy Pento replied, “You have to look at what’s going on in the labor market. Initial jobless claims, they are above 400,000, existing homes sales dropped to an annual rate of 5.05 million and the prices of those homes continues to fall, they are down 5% year over year. The months supply (of homes for sale) is surging above nine.

So there is no healing for the economy, the economy has started to fall off a cliff even before QE2 ends. What’s going to happen when they completely stop? Now understand, in the long-term we need this to occur. We need to have a sustainable and viable economy that is not based on borrowing and printing, but when you have that removed, the government thinks the training wheels can come off the bicycle, but the training wheels have become the entire bicycle.

The entire economy is artificially driven. When those training wheels come off, you better have your crash helmet on…They (the Fed) think the economy is healed, but if you look at a very simple calculation, look at the total of non-financial debt as a percentage of GDP. It is now 244%, it has never been higher.

So if the problem with the economy stemmed from debt, and we have actually added debt to a record nominal level…how could it possibly be that the Fed is feigning the idea that they could raise interest rates, that we are not going to have another 2008 collapse of the economy. It’s impossible, it’s going to be even worse if they are really serious.”

When asked in that situation how soon QE3 would be initiated Pento stated, “Well, it can’t be far off on the heels of QE2, that’s why I say you are a fool if you want to sell all of your gold. For those who are long-term investors, I wouldn’t sell any at all…but there is going to be a better buying opportunity.”

mk is laggy. hit me up comeback lets play online.

Kensington Strangler? Is that what they call me nowadays? Pffft. No sticks man, I wish I had a stick or two but I haven’t been serious about fighting games in a minute. Just getting back into to it. But whatever, if you’re chicken shit stay home :wink:

On that note today I won’t be back in Philly until later around 6:00 PM. I got called in for work a bit prematurely.
If anyone wants to hit me up about playing later message me for the digits.

Worstplayer / Adam: I am down for a meet-up too. I mainly play MvC3 but looking to learn MK as well. I’m not bad too bad at MvC3.

I’m located in Levittown, which is pretty close to NE Philly. Let me know and we can work something out.

Yo Jimbo, bout to play tonight. Unless Dred dude got mugged on the way here lol 646.345.9910 as for TWP if you want to come through.

aye yoooooooo i live up in bristol :stuck_out_tongue: sound meet up sometime or pick each other up sometime. we are literally like 3 minutes form each other i bet

been pickin up mk9 recently. ton of fun but i sitll don’t know how to deal with pressure/open up ppl with ermac/jade

Worstplayer: Sorry I was at a friend’s tonight… definitely wanna session soon though.

sung_moon: nice, the friend’s place I was at tonight was actually on pond street in bristol borough… probably your neck of the woods.

No problem guys, seems like the Dredheqad dude got bodied for real lol! Said he was coming, wrote a text I’m lost…wouldn’t call back.
What happened man!?! Maybe Adam was right, this place is dangerous. Was supposed to beach today…may just chill out and play because
I have work earlier…bleh.