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I tried to check the years where there were nominated actors plying in movies related to gays and racism: So in 21 editions, 105 nominations, 5 for gay related movies for 3 wins (though all three wins also played the dramatic weight loss card), 4 for racism related movies for 1 win...

It also happens that The Wind Rises, while very original and with moments of pure cinematic grace, is a bit shit. The insufferable 'by mouth' soundscape and atrocious dubbing - and I mean the original dub: mumbled lines, no intent, horrible timing the whole way through - made it almost...

I only saw 5 of the 9 nominees for best pictures and I would have voted for 12 Years a Slave or Captain Phillips over Gravity, Wolf and Hustle. Captain Phillips probably should have won the adapted screenplay award.

For best actress, my personal pick was not even nominated: Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha (not seen Philomena nor Osage County though).

For my money, Cuar?n should have been nominated and have won the best director award for Children of Men, not Gravity and McQueen should have won tonight (though I have yet to see Nebraska).

I have some problems with the movie, but if you think 12 Years A Slave is 'nothing special whatsoever' you must not have a great eye for film direction. That said, I would not have given the best supporting actress award to Lupita Nyong'o over Jennifer Lawrence.

I don't get the punchline...

Humiliate?

I have not followed this thread too closely as it's not really my cup of tea (for both genre and platform reasons), but what's the verdict at this point? Is there any truth to the following sarcastic quote?

Another week on the ATP before Indian Wells and there are some ups and downs: The big UP is Federer in Dubai who managed to beat Djokovic in the semi and Berdych in the final to claim the title. More than beating two opponents that had his number as of late, more than winning it's biggest...

Only 36% of it is beef.

I guess I am not too optimistic about ManU's ability to make it a contest. It could be a fun match though, provided the greeks don't score first.

Unless they forget to tell that market that the movie is out!

How much did Way of the Samurai 3 and 4 sold on PS3 though? I suspect the numbers are not very encouraging for Sega.

The previous medieval spin-off was easily one of the best PS3 game. In the whole serie the writing of the many side quest is regularly hilarious, tackling unusual subjects with a satirical angle, but the main story in Kenzan also had moments of pure classical brilliance (NB: the game is very...

This is not entirely true: items have required stats and a number of things scale with stats other than hp and stamina (weapon damage, spell damage, equipment load, spell slots, casting speed...). Because of diminishing returns, it's less true by the end of the game, but early and mid game, you...

- The UK is without a doubt a massive gaming market and it has been for a while. During the PS2 era the video game market in the UK was something like 3/4 of the Japanese market with half the population (most of these PS2 were Fifa / Sing Star machines though). - I am not seeing the #2 market...

I think some of you do not realize how big 15 is as a number. I can't think of a boss that killed me more than 5 times and even with the backtracking I doubt I killed more than a handful of non-farming enemy more than 10 times (the skeletons that guard the aqueduct, the ones under the fire...

Considering Canada has less than half the population of the UK, it's pretty safe to say the UK was the 2nd market for Xbox 360.

By Hitoshi Yoneda (mostly known around here for his work on Phantasy Star). I like this painting because of its original composition (the character walking toward us, the scarf responding to the tree) and its non-heroic nature. Actually have a poster of this piece by Kazuhiro Otomo...

It's seems not that many return matches in the Champions League will be suspenseful... Galatasaray vs Chelsea should be fun though and Atl?tico vs Milan too.

The meaning of a text does not solely resides in its words. Part of it also comes from its layout, so they need some trick to convey things like paragraphs and chapters... but I find it pretty interesting. I can see it becoming an option on kindle-like devices (provided the display speed and...

Switzerland was in the same group as Faroe Islands a few years back and for some reason it has a ridiculous number of football fields and football players compared to their population (wikipedia tells me they have a championship with 10 teams, which is pretty crazy when you consider there are...

Oxygen Destroyer.

Stephen Elop is also the guy who was CEO of Nokia when it went down in flames... We are in a 'this could turn it around for Xbox One' scenario here.

I just read the Kotaku review and this is about the only positive thing Kirk Hamilton had to say:

Who qualifies again? Best two team + some of the best 3rd teams?

Just a brief update on this strange part of the year (between the AO and the Masters 1000 of Indian Wells and Miami) that is a mix of indoor in Europe, clay in South America and a little outdoor hard in Duba?. The two surprisingly hot players are Cilic (won in Zagreb beating Haas in the final...

We still don't have early numbers for the Japanese launch of the PS4?

I did it as a cleric so I suspect I used a Hollow Soldier Shield.

Decent as in 100% physical and high enough stability to withstand the short combos of the black knight. As for damage I don't remember being as bad as 10 damage a hit, but it certainly took several minutes of slow dancing and chipping away to kill him.

You can kill him early even without 'advanced' strategies like backstab or parry, you just need a decent shield, manage your stamina and be patient. Three things that save you from a lot of deaths if you get them sooner rather than later!

It occurs to me that a challenge Nintendo faces is that they can no longer be the go-to console for children. Why? Because there are now too many parents who are gamers, so they buy a console for themselves and then buy games for children on it instead of buying a console for their children. The...

A good thing no one is planning to smelt their medal then!

I would only be mildly interested if they use the light beaming technology instead of the already outdated 'lcd screen in front of your eyes' technology. Anyway, unless it's the pet project of some executive at Sony, I don't see them adventuring in the head mounted display territory for more...

The voice acting is super lame though. Having 98% of all sentences end by 'hehehe' and include three times 'hollow' did not help one bit, but still.

Narrative closure (sorta...) and being able to use him for the final fight. Anyway, the most silly thing about that Solaire quest is that you need to be of a covenant that is not his to save him and that you can screw it all up just by going past some geographical point that is unrelated to his...

Alexandre Desplat for the music! I am curious to hear what his take on Ifukube's classic score will be.

Is Wonder Woman supposed to be 7 feet tall?

A Coelacanth to watch the other dinosaurs go extinct!