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  1. Szlia

    Andrew W.K. is a genius

    He will blame it on the rain. Girl, you know it's true.
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    The Knick

    In case you were wondering, this is still all kinds of great. I think it's the mix of opposites that works so well in this show. It's a period drama, yet it's filmed with raw energy and with an electronic music score. Most characters are part of the elite, yet it is filled with blood and guts...
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    Sin City: A Dame To Kill For

    In a way the change in actors kinda works, because the character also changed. Brolin is the hardened version of Owen.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I wanted to post a screenshot on the video game screenshot thread using the PS4 browser and could not! Boo boo! More seriously, I also find it surprising that you can't manage what ends up in the fast bar. Once I am done with a game, I want to kick it off the shortcut list, but I can't (or at...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Having recently bought a X360 controller to use on PC games, I have no idea why people are enjoying that thing as much as they do. Maybe the wired ones are cheaper than the wireless versions, but the plastic they use for the buttons and the one they use for the sticks make it feel flimsy.
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    Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

    I read a review that made the nemesis system sound pretty awesome and fresh, because it's very open-worldy (you chose how you go at problems), very emergent-behavioury (there is a wealth of things that are interconnected in obvious and less obvious ways) and it makes sure it does not feel like...
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    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

    Is it how it's transliterated in the scanlated manga? BecauseVerdun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    Hotline Miami 2

    I sure am!
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    Sports Figures Who Break The Law

    Does that figure include the professional players across all the leagues or only the top league?
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    Sports Figures Who Break The Law

    I find it a bit unsettling that the reaction to 'my employee seem to have some troubles' is 'better fire him quick before he does something stupid' instead of 'let's see what seems to be the problem and if we can help him'.
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    Sports Figures Who Break The Law

    I read the title right and the first thing that came to mind is the Iron Lotus.
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    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

    I still vividly remember the short dance scenes in Adjustment Bureau.
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    Sports Figures Who Break The Law

    Serious question: Is it domestic violence if you don't live under the same roof?
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    Final Fantasy XV (PS4 / XB1 / PC)

    Maybe it will be close to a road movie!
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    Court rules Yelp.com can manipulate ratings

    If the customer mistook another customer for a waitress, it's likely he found the 'waitress' rude!
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    Final Fantasy XV (PS4 / XB1 / PC)

    I wish it could be a mix between an action-RPG, a road movie and Entourage, with all the world building being done with the radio and the buddies babbling. It probably will not be as extreme as that, but it still looks very refreshing.
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    Why does Araysar have a raging hard on for Russia?

    Isn't he from Chechnya or something?
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    Looking for Mature Anime/Manga series recommendations

    I have not seen the tv show, but I can vouch for the brilliance of the manga. The close future / hardish science setting is also a big plus and sadly too rare. Did someone mention Monster already? It's like The Fugitive through a contemporary Europe haunted by the ghosts of WWII / Cold War...
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    The Knick

    Also... unless I missed it, there is no such thing as blood transfusion, making it remarkably easier for patients to just bleed to death! EDIT: Probably spoilerish as it may end up in the narrative, but it's medical history. Blood transfusions existed from the early XIXth century, but it...
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    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

    Dont russians do overdubs too? That is, over the sound of the movie, you have a single guy translating all the lines in a neutral tone. I wonder if when you get used to it you can mentally block that voice over in the same way you don't realize you are reading subtitles in a subbed movie. A few...
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    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

    I am not sure really (99% of my torrenting is TV shows!) I'll get back to you on that, because I have a friend who downloads a lot of off the beaten path movies. If crappy quality is not an issue, there is a surprising amount of stuff on youTube (I even saw a version of Pee Mak earlier with...
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    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

    It should be mentioned that it's based on a very popular folk tale, so as such there are number of thai movies on the same subject. I can't vouch for the quality of any of the others. I thought it was worth adding that because youTube is suggesting a video of a full pee mak movie, except it's...
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    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

    It made $18 millions domestic + $13 millions foreign in South East Asia, Hong Kong and China (a movie like Hunger Game made a bit above $3 millions in Thailand). Box Office Mojo does not have the budget of the film and even if it did it would require cost of living adjustments to have a sense of...
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    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

    Yeah man. Black Coal Thin Ice is so shit it won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival (you know, the top price at one of the three most important film festival in the world?) and I am such the pretentious aesthete that I put it next to Peek Mak which is the highest grossing film in the...
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    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

    What's with the retard level on these boards lately? Do you want help finding Denmark on a map? Should I google Sils Maria for you? 5 of the 6 great movies I saw this year are asian? Boo fucking hoo, I wonder if it's related to the fact I saw 50+ recent asian movies at a festival back in Spring...
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    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

    Canadian imperialism?
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    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

    This picture is a total misrepresentation: I don't drink wine! More seriously it's hard to make more mainstream than Venus Talk, it's really a polished well flowing film with an all star cast. The trailer focuses on the comedy though. Think of it that way: Edge of Tomorrow is great...
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    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

    For reference, I really enjoyed this movie and gave it three out of four stars. But I saw this year several 4 stars movies (in alpha order): Black Coal, Thin Ice: a chinese post-noir. Blind: a danish psychological drama about a blind woman who imagines stories and fantasizes all day long...
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    Boyhood - Richard Linklater's next movie

    I almost convinced myself the answer was Gemma Ward, but then i put them side by side and a doubt subsists...
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    Jason Bourne (2016)

    I kinda liked Legacy. I am not too keen on the secret service within the secret service within the black op that tries to kill its own agents thing BUT I liked the pacing of the movie and how its events were woven with the events of Ultimatum. Which brings me to my point: Damon being in doesn't...
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    Boyhood - Richard Linklater's next movie

    Saw that the other day. It left me a bit unsatisfied. It feels a bit like Linklater is afraid of his own project as he is very aware the potential for false 'good ideas' is pretty high and that trying to save the movie with editing and reshoot is not an option without a time machine. As a...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Bought the US Open Day Session shirt of Stan Wawrinka... there must be a Fedor / 'americans are fat' / 'japanese are racists' joke in there.
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    Your Own Photography

    Regional train underground station, Lausanne, Switzerland. Grey day at Montbenon park, Lausanne, Switzerland. Lake L?man.
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    Your Own Photography

    I dug up my crappy digital camera this week-end (still better than the one of my vintage dumb phone) and thought I could dump here some of the pictures I rediscovered in it. Tokyo, Meiji Jingu entrance. Could be a good album cover for some prog rock / idm project...
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    Tennis

    Federer closed the deal in three sets against Fognini (and its better than way because the italian was playing very very well in the third) to book Switzerland's spot in the final for the second time in the long history of the event (the first time was in 1992 against the USA that then fielded a...
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    Kickstarter Projects

    Creepy Castle by dopterra Kickstarter An acquaintance is doing this exploration / somewhat action-rpg thing, ZX Spectrum style! Monochrome sprites and no superposition! Check it out of it's your thing.
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    Tennis

    After the double matches, France is through to the final as Tsonga and Gasquet beat the super excellent Berdych-Stepanek duo (their two Davis Cup crowns were gained thanks in no small part to how efficient this pairing has been over the years). Apparently, Berdych played very poorly and in spite...
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    Have you been Cuckolded?

    Isn't the poll all kind of screwed up relative to its objective since it is not gender specific?
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    Tennis

    My almost 10 year old digital camera proved to be a little too crappy to take decent pictures from my seat (a tad too far + artificial light). But here is one of Bolelli and Federer warming up: The italian played a very good match, forcing Federer into backhand to backhand rallies or...
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    My new Dating Pool

    I have a friend who works for the internal shipping department of a multinational company. The cheapest and most reliable way they found for stuff to reach their russian based branches is to send it three times. Relevant to the thread, because it also involves multiples.