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  1. Szlia

    Burma

    Other than John Rambo?
  2. Szlia

    Tennis

    Davis Cup Week-End! France vs Czech Republicat Roland-Garros, the grounds of the French Open. Amusingly, a tennis stadium was first built on these grounds for the Davs Cup final of 1928! Berdych is playing for this tie and a ailing and aging Stepanek has been replaced by the somewhat...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I hear it's not against the EULA to play with clean hands or to clean the controller once in a while.
  4. Szlia

    Scottish Independence

    It should be mentioned that banks and investors shying away from a potentially independent Scotland is not indicative that an independent Scotland will fail in their eyes, it just means there is uncertainty, which is something most banks and investors shy away from.
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    Indie Games

    I had to used the advanced search function to dig this one out from page 987243! Anyway: indies! Secrets of Raetikon: You play a bird in a 2D game about exploration + physics puzzles + avian fights. Pretty neat visuals, but I found just about everything else lacking. A testament to that is...
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    Scottish Independence

    It has to do with the Tanks / Ballot boxes ratio. About the Euro question, I'll let an economist fill the specifics, but I think it's a package that comes with good and bad things (probably more of the former) and, unsurprisingly, the good is quickly forgotten when the bad happens...
  7. Szlia

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I think it's poem. Pedo: Deep poop, dope pee.
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    Tennis

    Nishikori did not play his best, but Cilic played another full match. Some unforced errors here and there, sure, but he served well enough for those to be of little consequence. Like Federer in semi, Nishikori had some opportunities but did not make the best of those. Would it have been another...
  9. Szlia

    Tennis

    History time. For shit and giggles I wanted to check how rare a grand slam final between the 10th and 14th seed is and the answer is... pretty damn rare. I checked from 1980 onward and it did not happen in the US Open. The best I could find for the Australian Open were a Safin (9) vs...
  10. Szlia

    Japan

    I don't know if it's still true, but CDs used to be ridiculously expensive in Japan, so foreign artists often included exclusive tracks or swag in the Japanese versions of CDs to limit importation from the US. As a result you have music aficionados around the world that import these Japanese...
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    NBA 2014 Off-Season Thread

    It seems pretty tough to accuse him of being a racist considering it's only when he investigated as to why they sold fewer season ticket than other franchise that he realized the audience was overwhelmingly black. Also he qualifies the unsubstantiated claims that the arena and its surroundings...
  12. Szlia

    Tennis

    Federer did not play the best or cleanest of matches, but Cilic played an incredible match. The serving quality was expected, as was the rock solid backhand, but this returning quality and the very consistent depth and weight of shots preventing Federer to mix things up was astonishing. And so...
  13. Szlia

    Tennis

    Zombikori? Nishizombie? He played well and managed the match brilliantly, but you must say Djokovic helped him more than a little with a surprisingly high level of nervousness resulting in a number of tight looking shots. I guess Nishikori finding a way to hang in there in the third, not...
  14. Szlia

    Transistor, new game by the creators of Bastion

    I decided to play Bastion before buying Transistor and was extremely underwhelmed by the gameplay after a couple levels. My question then is two-fold: should I soldier through Bastion because it delivers further in on the story front (past the amusing narrator trick)? Is there a chance for me to...
  15. Szlia

    The Knick

    Am I right to assume labor day week-end messed with the schedule? As in, ep4 has not been broadcasted yet?
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    Tennis

    They actually do that pretty often when he enters the court! I am not sure when and where was the first time or even if only Federer get the imperial treatment, but it's been at least a couple years now.
  17. Szlia

    Tennis

    So.... somehow we got our semis. DJOKOVICdid not play a stellar match, probably made a little uncomfortable by a surprisingly aggressive Murray, turning the match into a much more pleasant viewing than some of their earlier battles. Sadly for the scott, he ran out of gas in the third set...
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    Tennis

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    Japan

    Technical question: after the meal at Donguri did all your clothes smelled like cooking? I went to a similar type of restaurant (to eat monja though, yours was okonomiyaki I assume, but it's very similar) and after this stuff I had to shower and change just like if I did a shift in a fast food...
  20. Szlia

    Sin City: A Dame To Kill For

    Oh. Car scene alright, but not the one I had in mind.
  21. Szlia

    Sin City: A Dame To Kill For

    I am pretty sure it was an action scene involving cars at a crossroad... my memory of the scene is fuzzy because I saw the movie once at release time and never read the graphic novel(s?).
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    Tennis

    When I saw them arriving on court and how windy it was, I though Berdych, his stratospheric ball toss and pretty flat shots would be in trouble. That much trouble I did not expect though. As a world class arm-chair psychologist I would also say that I found Cilic a little too happy to win. My...
  23. Szlia

    My new Dating Pool

    Are you a priest or a serial killer? Or both?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I hope it's not as bad as Dreamcast triggers. Finding a 2nd hand Dreamcast controller without broken triggers is a challenge!
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    Tennis

    This Djokovic vs Murray match is strange, with so many ups and downs for both player. Also I don't remember seeing 2 tie-breakers in a same match that perfectly mirror each other. 7-1 Djokovic in the first and 7-1 Murray in the second with exactly the same point progression 4-0, a mini break for...
  26. Szlia

    Tennis

    We have the quarter finals line-up: DJOKOVICwon in straight sets against Kohlschreiber, but he was tested. The german could very well have won the 2nd set, he in fact had a set point on the Djokovic serve that the serb saved in an epic rally. Very convincing level of play by the World N?1...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    You might want to check how many units they move of these games in Japan. These grindy non-narrative games are also easy to make by medium size studios.
  28. Szlia

    Teacher who is probably crazy also wrote some terrorist novels and is being evaluated

    Wait wait... was the teacher bitten by a radioactive spider?
  29. Szlia

    Tennis

    About theWTA, I feel I should also mention 21 year old from Serbia Aleksandra Krunic. Older than Bencic, but also way out of the Top 100. She qualified and reached the 4th round after beating 27th seed Keys and 3rd seed Kvitova only to lose to Azarenka in a tight three sets matches. Krunic is a...
  30. Szlia

    The "Am I stupid AF for wanting a motorcycle" thread.

    Maybe it's not the same in the US, but I just heard a stat from around here: 40% of the people aged 80+ still have their licence. Public transportation for me plz!
  31. Szlia

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

    Give back your gamer card if you don't know the Y's serie... Anyway it seems Sony is pushing japanese devs to release games on both Vita and PS4. Vita for the domestic market and PS4 for the international market.
  32. Szlia

    The Wire: Greatest Show Ever Made

    No matter what they used for the actual shoot, it's better than the broadcast or the DVD, even if it's not in HD. If they upscale it and then pan and scan to have a 16/9 image, that might not be much of an upgrade though.
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    Good Anime Movies

    Posts 19 and 4 of the thread, just sayin', just sayin'
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    Tennis

    Also I am forced to give an update on the WTA as 17 year old Bencic, just ousted two top 10 players in a row in Kerber and Jankovic. The story for these two weeks may go on for a while too, because she will play Peng in the quarterfinal and possibly Errani or Woznacki in the semi, so not exactly...
  35. Szlia

    Tennis

    We have our fourth round aka Round of 16: DJOKOVICdodged the Querrey bullet with surprising ease if the scoreline is to be trusted. Straight set victory for the serb. vs KOHLSCHREIBERgave Isner a taste of his own medicine: the german won three tie breakers in four sets! The big serving...
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    Good Anime Movies

    Light-hearted is not the word I would use to describe a movie about the struggles of a single mother and the difficulties of finding your place when you grow up different than other kids!
  37. Szlia

    And now for something completely different

    Fetchez la vache!
  38. Szlia

    Tennis

    There is no doubt that Kyrgios has qualities and potential. It is certain that his serve alone will allow him to win a lot of matches. Also, being aggressive minded, not being afraid to go forward and to go for your shots is a nature that is very difficult to teach, so having that is very...
  39. Szlia

    Teacher who is probably crazy also wrote some terrorist novels and is being evaluated

    We better learn that he painted himself in blue and ran around the school screaming that his book will become reality or something similar.