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  1. Szlia

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Remember that if you sit more than 7 feet away from a 55 inches screen, 4k is indistinguishable from 1080p. To get the full benefit of 4k you need to be 3 feet away from your 55 inches screen... On a side note, I have an increasingly difficult time seeing the value of increased graphic power...
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    Tennis

    The Nishikori vs Murray match was a strange match, made of many momentum switches seemingly coming out of nowhere and without much tactical sense or reason. I guess it was a question of who at any given moment was managing his game better. For Nishikori, it was about finding the right way to...
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    Tennis

    The two quarters of the top half got played... sorta. Tsonga did in fact self destruct, but not exactly in the way I thought he would not: he injured himself. A stern Djokovic was dominating proceedings when mid-way through the 2nd set Tsonga showed sign of discomfort when landing after his...
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    Tennis

    I only saw the night session today. In the afternoon, Del Potro beat Thiem (or more exactly lead Thiem by a set and break before the young austrian retired with a thigh injury), Wawrinka dominated Marchenko but was forced to play a fourth set after the ukrainian won the third in a breaker and...
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    Red Dead Remaster Rumor Mongering Thread

    I have this game in the backlog and my rationalization for not playing it is a potential remake... it would be nice if Rockstar could have a clear position on the subject.
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    Tennis

    They played the top half of the draw yesterday: Djokovic is fine... well... at least he was for two sets and then the discomfort he feels, apparently in his arm, came back or something and he became all somber and dejected but since Edmund is not the best competitor he courteously made 4...
  7. Szlia

    Reigniting Patriotism- A practical guide to helping others.

    Zapatta... didn't I have seen your name on a terrorist watch list?
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    Tennis

    I guess it's the US Open? I watched some of it during the first week but I thoug, heh, let's wait until the round of 16 :P DJOKOVIC [1] played a very strange opening match where he looked unconcerned and flat. It is known that he is not 100% healthy, but not much transpired about it. Luckily...
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    What are your top 5 funniest movies?

    That was an ok movie, but when I started to read the title I expected I Love You Phillip Morris!
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    The Hobbyist Game Creator Thread

    Pro Tip 1: When the guidelines blend in the color of the tablet, it's cooked! Pro Tip 2: You don't have to cook the tablet in one go, so you can tap your mouse until it's cooked with 0 risk of failure (sploit!) The "game" is very tedious though. About as fun as being a sumerian scribe I guess...
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    The Hobbyist Game Creator Thread

    Ouch... the game got functional, feature complete and uploaded 2 minutes before the deadline! It's crap and untuned, but it's done. Yay I guess. You can try it here. (requires Mouse with wheel and flash compatible browser).
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    The Hobbyist Game Creator Thread

    I might end up with a lame but functional compo. It's more about shaking the rust and having "something" done, because while reasonably original (it's a test of cuneiform script tentatively called Sumer Game), it will be ugly and lame!
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    Retro Gaming Thread

    After seeing Tanoomba casually dealing with so many NES games, I must counter-brag and say I just reached (once again) the credits of Tetris 2 + Bombliss on NES playing Tetris B mode in speed 29 height 5... (I have a save that lets me directly attempt it and it still took a while an many tries...
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    Bad Ass NES music.

    Nintendo Entertainment System.
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    Can you touch your toes?

    I am cursed with terrible flexibility :( I am pretty disciplined with my stretching exercises too, but touching my toes with straight legs and feet together is probably never going to happen.
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    Retro Gaming Thread

    99% chance that you are talking about Race Drivin' Commiserations...
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    INSIDE

    Just played through that. These guys need to find a couple people to add to their staff who are able to write a somewhat coherent and satisfying story and who are able to point at the moments where the puzzle design does not mesh well with the story world. If they find these two people, they...
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    La tour Montparnasse infernale (2001): 4/10. French comedy film written and performed by a duo of stand-up comedians (Eric & Ramzy). A sort of Die Hard spoof, except the heroes are two very dumb window washers (and the hostage takers about as dumb as them). A lot of not very funny improv', but a...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Well... while 4.2 light years away is not exactly close 1) We will never find an earth-ish exoplanet closer to us 2) It's at a distance that is at least conceivable. I mean, we can devise a contraption able to cover that distance in a non-geological time frame without requiring some breakthrough...
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    2016 Olympics. - Brazil

    There is an athletism meeting in my city tomorrow and guess who I bumped into at the gym (figuratively speaking)? Valerie Adams the very impressive twice Olympic Gold winner in shot put (and she would have won a third gold last week if an american athlete did not decide to shatter her personal...
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    Let's talk classics.

    I think I mentioned it before, but in a film festival where jury members where asked to name a cult comedy film from their country of origin to make a little world comedy section, a canadian guy chose Slap Shot or, more precisely, Lancé Frappé, the french-canadian dub of the film which...
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    What are your top 5 funniest movies?

    This is difficult because the best comedies are not necessarily the funniest movies, so some super slick screwball comedies like His Girl Friday or the very smart and themes-rich french political comedy The Names of Love do not necessarily score very high on the laugh-o-meter. So, using laughter...
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    Retro Gaming Thread

    When you say "Defender style gameplay" do you mean a game with horizontal scrolling, or do you mean horizontal scrolling with the ability to flip the ship and control the left/right direction of the scrolling (along with a minimap with objectives/enemies on it). If it's the first, my first...
  24. Szlia

    Tennis

    Side effect of the Olympics, a tired bunch showed up in Cinci (or, in the case of Djokovic, didn't) and only three of the top 8 seeds reached the quarter finals! In the bottom half it's Cilic that benefited from the seedicide, but he contributed as he beat Berdych for the right to face Coric...
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    2016 Olympics. - Brazil

    The brazilians must be pretty satisfied, they won in men's association football (penalty shootout against Germany), in men's volleyball (three very tight sets against Italy) and in men's beach volleyball (two reasonably tight sets against Italy). The women did not fare as well as they got...
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    2016 Olympics. - Brazil

    Doesn't NBC offer on their website a number of live feeds? Beijing was the best Olympics ever on that front as there was an official site with like a dozen life feeds covering just about all the events. This stuff was gone for London and now Rio, but the national TV station that has the right...
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    2016 Olympics. - Brazil

    Honestly, when the brazillian public boos athletes that were caught for using PEDs, I am with them. When they boo tennis super star Nadal because he does not have the self-conscience and restraint to not over-celebrate his points when facing a local underdog, I am with them. But when they...
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    Re-watched with a friend who never saw it The Castle of Sand (Suna no utsuwa - 9/10), a japanese police procedural from 1974. There are two brilliant ideas in the structure of this film, the first is that from the get go we know how the murder happened, but the police and the viewers have no...
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    Let's talk classics.

    If you want to go old school Trier why not go pre-Dogma and pick Europa or The Element of Crime?
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    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Who needs Voight-Kampff tests when you have Namida no Renrakusen (The Ferryboat of Tears). Easy: if you don't cry, you are a replicant (even if you don't know it's about a woman who cries alone every night as she waits on the harbor for the ferryboat that, once again, does not bring back the one...
  31. Szlia

    A German Life ()

    Im toten Winkel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    YouTube Channels

    Numberphile : miscellaneous math and math related clips (while among the less "mathy", the Prof. Tokieda serie is pretty fun).
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    Retro Gaming Thread

    There is a number of good side scrolling shmups that have been and are being released, the thing is that these days they are released in the Arcades, on Steam, on digital download or only in Japan on physical media (sometimes in limited runs for vintage consoles).
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    2016 Olympics. - Brazil

    IOC lawyers > Bubbles
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    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Sometime you browse youTube and discover things you would not expect like an Alec Empire / Mertbow collab that sounds like the OST of a David Lynch short film.
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    Tennis

    Well, at the end of her first career in 2003, she already had more double titles in Grand Slam than single titles (9 vs 5 - including a Calendar Slam in Double in 1998) and as many Masters' Cup titles in double than single (2). She also hardly played any mixed (5 times vs 30 for single and 25...
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    2016 Olympics. - Brazil

    The legend says that the Olympic Village, being packed full of young people in great shape that have a sudden break in they usual intense training regimen, makes an astronomical consumption of condoms. I remember there was a shortage at the Olympic Village in Barcelona and they had to bring...
  38. Szlia

    Tennis

    Oh I would have been able to both cheer for the victory AND find the event stupid. I am pretty sure Federer never played a single match of mixed double in his career.
  39. Szlia

    Tennis

    I don't disagree but... Olympic Medals for mixed double in tennis? Will they add a legend tournament in Tokyo?
  40. Szlia

    What classic childhood movie would you like to be bastardized and remade by current hollywood.

    I am trying to be optimistic here and find a movie that potentially could benefit from a remake, because it aged badly or simply was not that good to begin with. Highlander?