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  1. Szlia

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Rob Stark deceased wife and also Ros should have a place in this GoT beauty pageant.
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    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

    Huh?
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    Tennis

    Day 6! 3rd round of the bottom half is done! For real! NISHIKORI vs BECKER: Becker who won his 2nd round match 10-8 in the fifth threw the towel before even stepping on the ring. ROSOL vs GABASHVILI: Gabashvili won that in a clinical 4-4-4 that I did not see at all. TSONGA vs ANDUJAR...
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    NBA 2015 Playoffs Thread

    They were more constant and more clutch, but what do you keep from these matches? The Warriors really playing well or Harden choosing not to drive to the basket for a potentially game winning possession? The Warriors really playing well or Harden breaking the record of most turn-overs in a...
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    Soccer 2014 - 2015

    Blatter is probably a cunning scoundrel of the highest order, but, under his reign, FIFA made more and more money and, thanks to him, a significant chunk of this money is redistributed to the national federations to help with operating costs, infrastructure building/renovation, etc. The super...
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    NBA 2015 Playoffs Thread

    What I mean is that, in this serie, when Harden played very well, the Rockets won, when Harden played well, it resulted in close matches that could have gone either way and when he played poorly, the Rockets lost badly. I am not blaming Harden of anything, I am just saying that the Warriors are...
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    NBA 2015 Playoffs Thread

    I would be more optimistic about the Warriors if their 4-1 win against the Rocket felt like it was their doing and not the result of Harden's ups and downs.
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    Tennis

    Day 5: Round two of the top half is over... almost. Gasquet found himself stuck in the quagmire that is Berlocq's game (run to the ball, big shout, big lift: repeat until the opponent misses, dies of exhaustion or concede an attack opportunity. In case of attack opportunity: run to the ball, big...
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    League of Extraordinary Gentlemen remake

    These pages from the comics don't have the original text, in case that was not totally obvious. I guess it kinda keeps unspoiled the climax of this scene that way.
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    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

    To be fair, the word 'exposition' kinda semantically slid to mean 'bad exposition': moments where you feel things are forced in order to explain something to you, often with very verbose scenes ("Bob, what's going on here?" "Yadda yadda yadda (x27)"). Fury Road is an example of good exposition...
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    NBA 2015 Playoffs Thread

    On a side note, making an ad deal with the father of a college basketball player is pretty clever!
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    NBA 2015 Playoffs Thread

    If Harden manages to generate fouls on both end of the floor, there will soon be no Warrior left to play!
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    Conan the Octogenarian

    At5'11" Gal Gadot is taller than Grace Jones, but ok.
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    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

    To express a dissenting view, both content and form are important. News at 11?
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    Tennis

    Day 4: Round two of the bottom half is over... almost... the night interrupted Andujar and Kohlschreiber in the middle of the 5th set (the german is a break up in the fifth after being two sets down!). It was a bit of a seedocalypse today. Verdasco [32] lost 10-8 in the fifth against veteran...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    People forget too quickly the harbinger of the one true god.
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    Tomorrowland

    This scenario has the Ayn Rand / Walt Disney seal of approval... SPOILER SPOILER The "funny" part is the plot does not say word one about why Tomorrowland collapsed and why the new Tomorrowland (that works on the exact same Randian premise) will not. It's too bad because for the longest time it...
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    League of Extraordinary Gentlemen remake

    I thought there was some clever things done with the script in the first one, like having Tom Sawyer as an entry point for american viewers or adding Dorian Gray to the crew. The problem though is that it was written for 12 years olds, so it was heavy handed tunnel central while the comic was a...
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    Tennis

    Day 3 is over, the first round is completed! Well... almost: The Lorenzi vs Muller match got adjourned so Djokovic does not know who his 2nd round opponent will be. Nadal who in straight sets against french wild card Halys as did Djokovic against veteran Nieminen. The finn, probably playing...
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    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

    True story: I went to another city to see it in 2D as only 3D was available in my local multiplex.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    In the 'odd' department, teenage Myrcella is not played by the same actress as child Myrcella, even though the original actress has the same age as the new actress. Strange. As for the interest of the season, The Queen of Thorns has been the most entertaining character by far. Also, I am...
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    NBA 2015 Playoffs Thread

    LOL at that Harden shot! Cursed be the clock!
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    NBA 2015 Playoffs Thread

    That fall did not look goodI am worried about the wrist/arm mostly.
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    What's the worst movie you've seen at the theatre?

    I can understand not liking a movie, but citing The Prestige as one of the worst movie you saw in theater? That, I don't get. Are you a member of the Edison Fan Club or something?
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    Recommended Best Games

    I wanted to put The Swapper, but on PC that's 24 months old.
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    Tennis

    Thank you for your kind words... but now I am a bit embarrassed to say I did not see much tennis today! Murray played a quality match against argentinian lucky loser Arguello (I did not find his body language very reassuring, but he confessed being a bit nervous during the match and tad...
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    NBA 2015 Playoffs Thread

    From a layman's perspective, it seems to me Lebron's main problem for being considered the greatest of all time is not his stat line or his ring collection, but his character. And not in term of being clutch or his will to win or whatever, but in term of being a bit of a whiny jackass who rides...
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    Twin Peaks

    I have a VHS box set of the serie! That said, I am not sure I would dare see it again because I doubt it aged well. I would also not dare to rewatch Fire Walk With Me (the movie set before the serie - and I don't mean the pilot that got extended into a TV movie), because I adored that movie as a...
  29. Szlia

    Best Covers

    Original by David Bowie (possibly one of the artist the most covered in this thread?) Original by The Smiths
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    Electronic Dance Music

    Shouldn't a remix be better than the original or at least different enough for it to be its own thing? Original for reference:
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    Tennis

    So yeah... French Open! During the clay court season, Nadal did not win a title, losing in Monte Carlo to Djokovic 3 and 3, losing to Fognini in two close sets in the 2nd round of Barcelona, getting obliterated by Murray in the final of Madrid and only managing to keep things close during a...
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    NBA 2015 Playoffs Thread

    There were a lot of turnovers early in game 2 by the Warriors, but in the end they totaled 14 yesterday, so only 3 less than in game 2. I have not seen the match, but looking at the box score, when you have Harden shooting 4/21 from the field, along with Brewer at 5/19, Ariza at 4/12 or Terry at...
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    Indie Games

    I'll (re)do a shameless plug for a game made by some buddies of mine. It's a little horizontal shm'up with some interesting mechanics. It's already out on Xbox Live Indie Marketplace (while it still exists!) and Desura, but They recently put it on Steam Greenlight:Nandeyanen!? NB1: The...
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    Recommended Best Games

    On the indie side: - Kentucky Route Zero (american gothic point and click adventure) - Environmental Station Alpha (retro metroidvania) - Beeswing (heartfelt auto-fiction in handmade adventure game form) - Papers, Please (totalitarian administrative simulator - 19 months old but GOTY...
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    True Detective

    If I remember correctly, Vince Vaughn was very convincing in his bit part as a salt of the earth farmer in Into The Wild. Also, I have never seen the almost frame perfect remake of Psycho done by Van Sant, but he is supposed to have been very good as Norman Bates in it.
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    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

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    What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

    It's a little more work, but with some players (EDIT: I thought that was the case with VLC, but I could not find the option, so I think I did that with a beefed up version of Windows Media Player Classic) you can offset the subtitles, so you can synch whatever movie file with whatever sub file...
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    True Detective

    The first film I ever saw with McConaughey was Lone Star and he was good then! (I think we already got that conversation... maybe over Dallas Buyers Club?).
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Are there official theories?
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    What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

    Or you can grab the film anywhere you please and then download a subtitle file from subscene:Subscene - Subtitles for What We Do in the Shadows