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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Still not shown this season: Bronn, Littlefinger, the illegitimate son of King Robert (lol), Osha and Rickon (not shown in season 5 though?), White Walkers, Olenna Tyrell (and her husband), Sam and Gilly...
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    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Saw bad vietnamese action/heist movie. Ending credit song was dirty hip-hop by one of the cast members. Curiosity brought the cat on youTube: Same artist:
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    Far East Film Festival 18: highlights

    From the 22nd to the 30th of April the 18th edition of the Far East Film Festival was held in Udine, Italy. As its names implies, the festival focuses on movies from the Far East, but what its name does not say is that it focuses on popular cinema. I went to a very unhealthy 57 screenings during...
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    Tomb Raider (2018)

    The only problem I see with Vikander being in Tomb Raider is that all the time she will spend shooting it would be better spent shooting a good movie. That said, there are some movies that by all metrics should be lame and end up being good.
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    [Win-OS X-Linux] Stephen's Sausage Roll - extraordinary puzzle game

    About "getting it", I will agree that not everyone will be equally aware of the elegance of both the game design and level design of this game (it's no surprise that game designers and game critics alike have only very high praises for the game, since they are more likely to be sensitive about...
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    [Win-OS X-Linux] Stephen's Sausage Roll - extraordinary puzzle game

    If you define a hipster as someone whose goal is to always be in the minority, the minority position would be to say this game is bad! It's a puzzle game though, so if you don't like puzzle game, it's not for you. If you don't know if you like puzzle games, the game is probably a bit too...
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    [Win-OS X-Linux] Stephen's Sausage Roll - extraordinary puzzle game

    It indeed does not. And the sum total of the info on the Steam store page is "A simple 3d puzzle game." It's in part because Increpare is both intransigent and facetious, in part because he never speaks about his games (he let his games do the talking for him or, to say it in another way, games...
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    [Win-OS X-Linux] Stephen's Sausage Roll - extraordinary puzzle game

    Hardcore gamer: 4.5/5:Review: Stephens Sausage Roll | Hardcore Gamer IGN Hungary: 9/10:Stephens Sausage Roll - Teszt - A világ legrandább, legokosabb játéka | IGN Hungary There are not that many reviews out for the game at this point (if there was I would not link to IGN Hungary!). I am...
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    What do you consider a sport?

    Funny you would say that because badminton, along with squash, ranks among the most physically demanding sport there is, just under things like MMA or boxing. Badminton requires very good hand-eye coordination, explosiveness, balance, proprioception and cardio/endurance as the constant explosive...
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    [Win-OS X-Linux] Stephen's Sausage Roll - extraordinary puzzle game

    It is very difficult to write about, Stephen "Increpare" Lavelle latest game:Stephen's Sausage Roll. The first difficulty is that it is a puzzle game and, as such, its core virtues are in its mechanics and in its level design. The second difficulty is that discovering the mechanics is an...
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    Shin Godzilla (2016)

    That looks like a remake of the first movie. Several shots are very similar as is the focus on the organized governmental response to natural catastrophes. The japanese title is Shin Gojira, so New Godzilla. That's a pretty common way to title movies and it can be for sequels, remakes, reboots...
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    Help me out with the name of this movie

    Have you seen this movie in theater or could it be a straight to video thing or a TV movie?
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    No Man's Sky

    Considering the algorithmic nature of the world generation it could very well take 100 years of play time to reach the center of the Galaxy.
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    Video Game Music (vgm) Thread

    Some Rhythm Tengoku Gold: And, to redeem myself for this weird stuff, this marvelous track from Axelay that you can listen to over and over again, focusing on the different instruments.
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    Video Game Music (vgm) Thread

    Does this count? I think it was made for the game, wasn't it?
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    Suicide Squad (2016)

    Might want to check The Wolf of Wall Street.
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    Gears of War 4

    It's my understanding that the Gears of Wars games are good and that it is likely that this one will be good too, but.... what's up with the atrocious 3D models and animations for the flash back segments of this trailer? These things are often outsourced, but still... wtf?
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    Video Game Music (vgm) Thread

    A recent addition to the VG playlist:
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    Virtual Reality

    I have some friends making a little game for the Gear VR and I tested it the other day. I don't have a point of comparison with the other headsets, but it was light, cordless, confortable and quality of the head tracking impressed me. For the game to run at enough FPS, it had to be pretty...
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    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

    Cautiously pesimistic. What is there to add to this story? Even expanding the story that has already been told (like showing the many failed attempts at going past the farm house and the toll it takes on Cruise's character) would probably not work.
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    Swiss Army Man (2016)

    Where did I see that guy using another guy as surf board before? (EDIT: other than Jushin Thunder Liger of course!)
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    Kolkata Overpass Collapses At least 24 killed

    Let's just say that the huge majority of building don't fall down when being built or when being used, so for it to happen something exceptional must happen, which includes the exceptionally stupid and/or unlucky! You usually need both because you need a bad decision and then no one noticing it...
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    Kolkata Overpass Collapses At least 24 killed

    Not an expert on the subject, but I very recently read Why Buildings Stand Up and Why Buildings Fall Down, two books by Mario Salvadori a structural engineer. A number of things could have gone wrong. If I have to make a guess, I would say more than cutting corners or using material of a...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Isn't there tons of book stuff that was not showed or even mentioned in the serie and other that was changed making a "tv watchers only" thread still a good idea?
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    No More Ronnies

    I am not very familiar with the old school BBC comedy sketch show The Two Ronnies, but, after Ronnie Barker a few years back, Ronnie Corbett just died. A good (if sad) occasion to repost one of the best and smartest sketch ever devised: Mastermind.
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    NBA 2015-2016 Season thread

    It took me a while to stop laughing:
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    Trainspotting 2

    Is the book sequel set 20 years after the original?
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    VR Gaming - Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, HTC Vive

    That Chronos game look ok, doesn't it? I hope it will get released in a non-VR version in a not so distant future.
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    RIP Phife Dawg

    I am with sukik. I am sad to hear about Malik's death, but I am also surprised to discover that he was basically the same age as my brother who was the one very much into hip-hop in the early '90s.
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    Your guilty pleasure movies

    Just about all the ZAZ movies (Hot Shot, Naked Gun, Airplane, etc ) but.... dubbed in french. I first saw them as a child/teenager in their dubbed version, so the nostalgia effect only works when linked to the timing, wording and slightly stilted delivery of the french dub that is ingrained in...
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    Future First Family and Hot Protesters Thread

    Maybe the asian father is the one taking the picture?
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    Movies You Must Show Your Kids

    If you show Mel Brooks movies to children, don't you have to spend longer than the movie explaining what the jokes are about? I mean The Producers seems like the start of a LONG conversation. Probably a good thing though.
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    ReRolled's SJW Thread Primer

    The middle east thread is also the thread where non-european people are trying to explain european people how Europe is.
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    Ben-Hur remake

    Fun fact: my late grandmother, when she was a child, saw a screening of the original Ben Hur. And I mean the 1925 silent film. Having the 2016 version be close to the book is strange when you consider this part from the wikipedia article about 1959 film: "The screenplay differed more from the...
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    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Saw a classic of indian cinema today: Pyaasa by Guru Dutt (1957), a drama about a penniless poet struggling with love and recognition in a society he increasingly despises. In this particular song (indian cinema, so there are songs!), he describes a poor red light district, with the hook asking...
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    Who are you voting against the least?

    With the coarsening of all discussions on the board, it seems the true artful trollers only have a single way left to stand out: post reasonable, level headed and well thought out messages. Picasso: the first post-troll of the board.
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    Who are you voting against the least?

    Voted shitpost to help show the portion of the board users that will not or cannot vote.
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    Ghostbusters (2016)

    You know how there are "switch" comedies where two characters that are very different switch places? Rich and poor, young and old, single and married? It sounds like this Ghostbuster is a meta gender-switch comedy. In that context, Ghostbuster is almost a pretext to do something else and that's...
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    I must say I am not a fan of the multiplication of side characters with random powers. It has a big potential to turn the show into Deux Ex Machina central.