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  1. Szlia

    Tennis

    Today I learned it's a bad idea to type a long post in a browser, because when you want to type 'Quarters' and fat finger it as Ctrl+Shift+Q it kills Chrome and your lengthy essay.... Short version then WIMBLEDON! The draw! DJOKOVIC, as usual, has not played since the french. His...
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    Spy

    It's quite enjoyable and there is a pretty decent knife vs frying pan fight scene in there, but the plot is a bit of a mess and some parts are cringe worthy, notably when she has to run. It's obviously not possible for her and they can't use it for comedy effect, because they base some of the...
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    Current television show recommendations

    Treme
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    True Detective

    I have never worked in the US where the labor unions in the movie making industry put very strict boundaries one who can do what, but I have worked on several professional film projects in different capacities (grip, electrician, boom operator, 2nd unit director, cameraman, editor, script...
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    True Detective

    If it's like the city of Vernon, the pollution is real, because super lax or even non-existent regulation for the handling of toxic wastes is used to attract industries. Still, since with these kind of things no tit is left unsucked, they probably get federal decontamination money.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Cock-hunger and pregnancy are not suposed to be related.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Obviously the bright spot is the Little Prince's hair.
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    True Detective

    "The Bohemian club! Did you say Bohemian club? That's where all those rich Republicans go up and stand naked against redwood trees, right? I've never been to the Bohemian club but you oughta go. It'd be good for you. You'd get some fresh air." -President Bill Clinton to a heckler It's north...
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    True Detective

    My guess for the posts is that they are markers for soil samples in a polluted area. It looked like a big square of posts, so does not really fit for railroad markings.
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    Shenmue III

    You are wrong. Shenmue II was released on Xbox. I also suspect you are wrong about a lot of other things in your life.
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    True Detective

    About Velcoro and his antics, it should be reminded that he is police in the city of Vinci while the other two cops are not. And for all we know, Vinci is corruption central and possibly even a city only in the administrative sense, only to suck tax money, federal funding and manage land. I mean...
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    Looking for a list of movies

    Born in 1976, limiting myself to films I saw when I was a teenager (and that have yet to be mentioned). Animation: The Secret of NIMH Akira SF: Brazil Bladerunner Aliens Dune Comedy: Hot Shots Lethal Weapon (ok not 100% a comedy, pretty dark at times with Gibson's character...
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    True Detective

    Not telling what it was and just saying that it's outside her lover's zone of confort, allows for the viewer to imagine something that is outside their own zone of confort. If you specify what it was, you take the risk that some viewers will think it's mundane and wonder what's up with the lover...
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    Shenmue III

    In Yakuza though, the evolution of time is dependent on the evolution of the main storyline. That diminishes the "virtual life" aspect that is found in Shenmue. Also, while one of the strength of the Yakuza games is that their stories are commentaries on japanese society and as such have a...
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    True Detective

    Amusingly, that episode was directed by Justin "Fast & Furious 3, 4, 5 & 6" Lin! We knew he had more than one string to his bow though, since he started his career doing indie comedies about asian americans. About Vaughn's character being overly serious, I think the story makes it obvious...
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    True Detective

    It's clich? central really, but I am absolutely fine with it. It's like a serious version of Inherent Vice! There is some comedy though: "You're supposed to savor that..." "Let me try again!". I also greatly enjoyed the "who are these fuck ups" looks that were exchanged once the trio was assembled.
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    Metal Gear Solid V

    Will the content of Ground Zero be in Phantom Pain or not?
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    She is punished not because Meryn was not deserving to die, she is punished because it was a personal vendetta when she is supposed to no longer have personal anything.
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    Final Fantasy VII Remake

    Wasn't it V that had some jaw dropping mode 7 cut scenes? My google-fu failed me... I remember a female character going in some sort of trance and flying around the world or something... was that in VI? I played them once and more than 20 years ago, so yeah...
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    Final Fantasy VII Remake

    I have personally little interest in replaying FFVII if it is just updated visually, so I welcome these Nomura quotes with cautious optimism, but I guess others could feel differently:The Final Fantasy VII Remake Wont Be Exactly the Same
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    Tennis

    If that's any consolation, he never pegged himself as a multiple grand slam winner! About Del Potro, he just had another surgery to his left wrist...
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    E3 2015

    I am pretty sure the main character is not the father in the japanese version, but the brother or something. Let me google that... EDIT:
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I read that here and there., but was it really announced?
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    Final Fantasy VII Remake

    PS1 emulation on PS3 is absolutely atrocious when it comes to visuals. I am not sure if it's because of the way they emulate the graphic processor or if it's a CRT vs LCD problem or both, but anything polygonal craps the bed and the aliasing is insane. I recently played through Chrono Cross and...
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    E3 2015

    I just want to say that Neir was a deeply flawed game, but, refreshingly, it was also packed full of original ideas and strange mixes of game genre. A very odd and fascinating game.
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    Shenmue III

    The comparison with GTAIII is not so good. There really is no equivalent to the madness that is Shenmue. There are some elements of it you can find in other games before and after it, but the whole package is pretty much unique to it. Its core idea is to make a realistic world with a...
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    E3 2015

    Shenmue 3 only has a physical version for PC
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    E3 2015

    I like how Uncharted is better at action sequence than Hollywood.
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    E3 2015

    The guy stuck in LAX was the one who was suposed to play Uncharted apparently...
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    E3 2015

    Luke Skywater?
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    E3 2015

    How old are you?
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    E3 2015

    A FF for the old gamers, a FF for the young gamers. Makes sense.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Let's just hope the girl's bite was not poisonous as well!
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    I don't know if Melisandre will resurrect Jon or not, but I am sure she might be interested in that pool of blood.
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    NBA 2015 Playoffs Thread

    J.R. Smith played a good quarter! Can he play 3 more? 7 more?
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    E3 2015

    The main problem with Tactics Ogre is that you can probably play it for 10,000 hours and still be trying to complete some obscure side quests that provides resolution for the 47th character, but only if you beat that battle in 3 rounds, that one using only dragons and a third one where N?47 must...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    That immolation by fire scene really did not work for me, because, for some reason, it reminded me of an execution scene in a (great) egyptian movie titled Destiny (Al Massir) by Youssef Chahine. In Chahine's film, he showed the victim melting down in the purest tradition of horror films (wax on...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Since it's the continuation of a popular serie by an established author and, to my knowledge, they don't release these simultaneously in different languages, I would assume the final version of the text can be obtained very late in the publishing process. Once they have a narrow'ish window for...
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    Virtual Reality

    For most sports, the coverage a 'multi-camera + replays' TV broadcast offers is better than being at the event in person. The only benefit of being at the event is... being at the event! So it feels to me this VR coverage design really is the worst of both worlds: worse coverage and worse...