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I need help with the Left 4 Dead 2 baseball bat code

I'll tell my story first and then I'll ask some questions in numbered order and if you know all the answers or just a few of them or just one of them, please put a number before you answer so I'll know which question your answering and also be kind enough to explain your answer if it is an answer that needs to be explained, well, I'm gonna get Left 4 Dead 2 for Christmas and I plan to also get the baseball bat code from ebay for Christmas, but I don't have xbox live or high speed internet but I think you can join xbox live and not be hooked up to the computer cause all I'm gonna do is just put the code in to get the baseball bat and that's it cause I won't be able to play online or get DLC and the Left 4 Dead 2 game that I got has a free 48 hour trial so I plan to use that.

1.Can I join xbox live without being hooked up to the computer?

2.(if yes to #1)Can I get the baseball bat when I put the code in or do I need to be hooked up to high speed internet?

3.I read somewhere online where this kid got Left 4 Dead 2 and he had the code to get the baseball bat but everytime he tried to download it on his xbox 360 it would say it failed to download or something like that so he went over to one of his friends house and downloaded it from there but when he got back home and tried to load the code, it would say cannot find code, then he found out that the code was attached to his friends xbox 360 so my question is, will the code stick with the xbox 360 that I downloaded it on to or will it be downloaded on to my hard drive cause I plan to get the Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 xbox 360 within the next few months?

4.(if the answer to #3 is hard drive)Can I tranfer the code along with all my memory on my 20 GB hard drive to the 250 GB hard drive?

5.If you have used the baseball bat on Left 4 Dead 2, is it worth it to go through all this trouble just to get the baseball bat or do you think I should wait for another few months until I do get high speed internet and xbox live cause if your playing online with someone who has the baseball bat, him and all his friends that are playing together have access to the baseball bat too?

6.if you answered #5 saying that it's too much trouble, this question is like an alternate #4 question, can I tranfer all my memory and achievement points without losing anything?

7.my friend told me that when I do start an online xbox live account that I will lose all my memory and/or achievement points? If so tell me how I won't lose it or recover it if it gets lost or deleted.

8.to put in the code and get the baseball bat, all I have to do is enter the code at redeem code but does that require me to have xbox live or have high speed internet? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.3.15.129 (talk) 01:23, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

1. You don't need to be "hooked up to the computer" (what computer?), but your Xbox does need to have an Internet connection to join Xbox Live. For most users this means you have a high-speed Internet connection via a cable modem or DSL modem, which is connected via an Ethernet cable to a router, which is connected via an Ethernet cable to your Xbox.

2. It is possible that Valve Software set it up this way, yes — call them on the phone and ask?

3. Too many details, important missing details, and too vague a question. (If you could link to the online claims then it would be easier to read.) If you are saying you don't have high-speed Internet at your house and you want to log on to Xbox Live from a friend's house and download something, then if you bring your Xbox itself (with hard disk attached) to your friend's house, log in from there, and download your DLC from there, yes, that will work - your Xbox and Microsoft don't care where you log in from. Your first act at your friend's house will probably to activate an Xbox Live account — find out how to get the 30 day free trial first.

Hey, that's the way he wrote basically, all I did was just read the way he wrote it and I don't remember the link to the site, I think it was gamespot forums, but even still, I don't know for sure if it was gamespot

4. Check this article - does it answer your question?

technically yes, but that's talking about a 120 GB hard drive, would it work for something like the 250 GB hard drive cause that's twice the space. Which one would work better, a transfer kit or if I got 2 xbox 360's, hooked them up together and switch the memory and achievement points from xbox 360 to another, I think it's called a system link, or would it only switch the memory over and not the achievement points cause I want both of them switched over

"System Link" is when you hook up several 360s to play against each other, playing games that have implemented System Link play, on an Ethernet network without having logged into Xbox Live - see this link for the how-to. It's not relevant to transferring one hard disk to another. That won't work. The transfer kit is what you need. Tempshill (talk) 05:26, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

7. Interesting. I think what he is worried about is that if you create a local, non-Xbox Live account on your 360 with the name "Chuckles", say, and then play for months, and then you decide to join Xbox Live, then you will not be allowed to have the name "Chuckles", because somebody out there already has that name. (You can name a non-Xbox Live profile whatever you want, including a profile that does currently exist out there on Live. You can create the account "Bill Gates" if you want.) I doubt that you will be forced to create a new profile from scratch when you try to join Live; most likely you will be told the name is a duplicate and you have to rename your account — but that wouldn't delete all your Achievements and Gamerscore. Tempshill (talk) 20:52, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

thanks, that answers question #7

Identifying a Strauss piece from a concert

Hello, RD'ers. I was skipping through television channels last night, and came upon a concert being broadcast on a PBS station. There was a fascinating piece of music being played, but since I missed the beginning of the piece, I didn't hear or see the title. (At the end, they just went into the next piece with a new title graphic.) Anyway, I looked up the name of the broadcast — It was called "Salute to Vienna," recorded in 1999, featuring the works of Johann Strauss Sr. and Johann Strauss Jr. — but the listing didn't identify the individual pieces performed. The piece in question featured one performer occassionally playing twittering bird sounds on a very tiny instrument, almost like a whistle, and another musician making cuckoo sounds on an instrument he held in two hands. Does anyone know the name of this piece? And what were those two unusual instruments? Thank you kindly? — Michael J 14:08, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Did that program feature André Rieu by any chance? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:29, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm thinking of this [1] which is a piece called Im Krapfenwald'l (in Krapfen's woods). ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:45, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

In the small forest of doughnuts? AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 12:58, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

I don't recall seeing André Rieu there. I've seen him before, and it was a little more sedate than one of his presentations (but not too much more). — Michael J 20:37, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Im Krapfenwald'l appears to be it, thank you. That video wasn't the performance I saw, but that's definitely the piece I heard. (The one I saw had two different musicians doing the twittering and the cuckoo.) Thanks again. — Michael J 20:48, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

The instruments used were specialist whistles - a bird whistle and a cuckoo whistle. Our article Whistle briefly describes the mechanism by which the former works (it's filled with water), and there's a page here with more information and a close-up image of a bird whistle. Cuckoo whistles are made by several companies, including the famous Acme company [2]. Although often seen as toys, specialist whistles do feature in a number of serious musical compositions, and György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre specifies a whole bunch of different ones including steamboat whistle, swanee whistle and quacking duck call, which must be great fun. Karenjc 11:28, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

The "cuckoo whistle" in the broadcast that I saw wasn't really a whistle at all. It was a device held in the hands that was rocked back and forth to make the sound of a cuckoo. — Michael J 20:24, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Wizard Music Video - I wish it could be Christmas everyday

has anybody else noticed the bass player in this video ? am I mistaken in thinking that it is in fact a very young Lemmy from Motorhead. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.162.206.228 (talk) 19:11, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

For reference, here's the video of which you speak. See [3]. For the record, the bass player in this video is Rick Price, who I will admit does bear a passing resemblance to Lemmy Kilmister. The song in question, I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday by Wizzard, was recorded in 1973, and at that time Lemmy was playing bass for the band Hawkwind. I don't think Lemmy ever played with Wizzard. --Jayron32 20:08, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

And here is a still image of Rick Price, just to see him better. As I said, he DOES bear a passing resemblance to Lemmy, but only in that "Long Haired White Bass Player With Beard" sort of way. For comparison, here's Lemmy circa 1973: [4] Lemmy is the last male on the right, next to the chick in the facepaint. --Jayron32 20:17, 3 December 2009 (UTC)