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  1. Szlia

    Homeland

    I think Saul's plan is to be confirmed in the face of what is basically one of the most impressive spy work conceivable: turning a top level intelligence officer of an enemy nation.
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    Blue Is The Warmest Color - La Vie d'Ad?le

    Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival for the movie and its two lead actresses (NB: Spielberg was the president of the jury). First, let's not sugarcoat it: it's a 3 hours long movie in french about a teenage girl who falls in love with another girl slightly older than her and it is rated...
  3. Szlia

    Homeland

    Saul knows that Javadi will fuck with him and that americans will die, but a war is being waged and it is more advantageous to have him as a reluctant double agent than to kill him. As far as I am concerned, they have a serious problem with Javadi though: their threat has no granularity...
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    Gravity (2013)

    I am seriously considering making a trip to Paris France to watch it in 4K and Dolby Atmos. Anyone here saw it in Atmos?
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    Thor: The Dark World.

    It is relevant to the people whose name are on the screen though.
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    Ghostbusters : Afterlife

    You need to pick your battles, because Jonah Hill and Emma Stones are great additions to any cast. Now, they might be considered for the wrong parts, but we can't know that at this point.
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    Our Hobbies

    I play a lot of badminton and recently got a little more involved in my club and became the captain of one of our interclub teams. Who knew making sure three guys and two girls are at the right time at right place twelve times a year would be so stressful! We are doing well at the moment and the...
  8. Szlia

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

    PlayStation: bringing families together since 2013.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Visual fidelity is a log function of computational power, so that's not a big surprise that the visual gap between generations is smaller and smaller and that the generations themselves last longer and longer.
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    Storing large DVD collection

    I have several friends with huge DVD collections (we are talking thousands). At first they swap the boxes for thin boxes, but now I think both use big binders. They only kept the boxes if they were special in some way (like if included a book or something). Destroying is not an option, because a...
  11. Szlia

    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Browsed some old drive and found my mp3 library from a decade ago... 2 samples: crazy multi-instruments multi-style super epic anime music & super solemn repetitive contemporary music for art house film
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    They can't ban a guy who bought a PlayStation Camera! That's the kind of customer you only dream of!
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Other than party games, soccer or basketball games should work ok with 8 players. I had a PC-Engine aka Turbo Grafx 16 and it had a device to plug 5 controllers. I remember playing 5 people Bomberman, 4 people Final Match Tennis and 5 peopleLegend of Dekoboko(a silly top view racing game with...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    About future RPG on next gen, that RPGamer site is missing Ubi's Child of Light (though, who knows how it will turn out to be in the end). Tentative date is 2014. EDIT: How and for the 'I bought a PS4 without games' crowd, let me lobby once again in favor of Flower. Very original...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    The flag!
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    NBA 2013?14 Season

    I hear Mikel and Jello, the italian roofers, were too. Seriously... prima donna
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    The question is.... who buys the Xbox division?
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    A good sign rand() is fubared is that you getexactlythe same results as Tuco at the 100000000 mark even though the values are not converging.
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    I got that. What I am saying is that if you run your code another time, your average might not be anywhere close to 13 despite the sample size. I tried to test it myself, but I forgot most of the little I knew about C, so I am not sure what I need to include for your code to compile.
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    Breaking Game World into Cells

    Not entirely relevant, but could offer some clues:Gamasutra: Matt Klingensmith's Blog - Overview of Motion Planning
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    Did you run it just the once? I would expect avgVal to be all over the place considering the expected result is infinite and the deviation not a lot smaller. expectedResult = (1/2)*1 + (1/4)*2 + (1/8)*4 + ... + (1/2^n)*2^(n-1) + ... since (1/2^n)*2^(n-1) = (2^(n-1:emoji_nose:/(2^n) = 1/2...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    For me, buying a console is akin to voting with my wallet for a video game philosophy. The question is "What should video games be?" and the answer is in the architecture of the console, in its capabilities, in the first party software, in the nature and vibrancy of the third party ecosystem, in...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    The guy better be wary of the pixels in his PMs! Droigan: it's a fair point and I don't remember if Reeves made that distinction in his talk. In the context of comparing PS4's potential with PS3's currently installed base, I am not sure it is relevant because of the cheaper revisions of the...
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    That seems related to another paradox:St. Petersburg paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A casino offers you the following lottery: when you enter the game, there is a pot of $1. A coin is then flipped. For each head result, the pot is doubled. As soon as there is a tail result, you...
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    Homeland

    Looking back at this season's events under the light of her secret pregnancy is interesting... suddenly, running and herbal cures make a lot more sense, as is her being genuinely furious for staying too long in the psych ward (assuming there is no mandatory pregnancy test and that she kept it a...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I had the chance to attend several press events during David Reeves' tenure as COO and then CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. The guy was not very knowledgeable about video game software or hardware, but he certainly knew his video game market so he gave very insightful talks about its...
  27. Szlia

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

    About Europe, it should be noted that I see a lot of Microsoft sponsored ads for BF4 and CoD:G on French TV along with the general Xbox One ad, but I don't remember seeing a PS4 ad (the Assassin's Creed ads might be sponsored by Sony though, I am not sure). Microsoft France outspending Sony...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Is there cross-generation multiplayer for for CoD and BF4?
  29. Szlia

    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    I am not sure to understand what your Atlantic issue is. They were over the Atlantic because the Sand Box is in Morocco. Now you can argue there is an american military base in the Azores but...
  30. Szlia

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

    You do realize that game companies will also become more familiar with the PS4 so while the resolution gap might close it will be at the expense of a gap in the complexity of the visuals, don't you?
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    There are two envelopes but you only know one has twice the amount of the other.
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    Homeland

    The fact the test was positive did not seem at all like a surprise for Carrie, so it's fair to assume she checked it several times before, so maybe the drawer represents two or three previous abortions (witch is not totally out of the question when you consider how her lifestyle pas presented in...
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    The wikipedia page mentions this, but then it takes it a step further: you open the envelope you picked and it contains... say... $100. So now you know the other envelopes contains $50 or $200 so switching is risking losing $50 for a chance at winning $100, a deal that seems difficult to...
  34. Szlia

    Homeland

    A possibility is also that the other tests are from earlier pregnancies that got terminated.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Sean: News embargo play a part in this one. The fear of losing access if they piss in Microsoft cheerios is also a possibility (with or without threats from Microsoft).
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    Homeland

    Seemed like a lot of positive pregnancy test for it to be him. On top of that, Google tells me that the most sensitive home pregnancy tests take a week after conception until they are able to detect the pregnancy hormone in the urine (The more you know!).
  37. Szlia

    Metal Gear Solid V

    The part where I sneaked through an underground improvised infirmary while I could hear the battle raging outside, the part where as a third party I influenced the outcome of a battle to suit my needs, the part where I sneaked into an enemy camp only to find myself in the middle of an ongoing...
  38. Szlia

    foxnews hacked?

    Looks more like someone pushed on the server some content that still had placeholder headline and lead.
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    Oups! My bad for typing it in a hurry. I edited the original post to put the correct 1.25 X. You are unto something here: the idea that things go wrong because X does not represent the same thing in all its instances. Yet it does not fully elucidates the paradox. Anyway, for more:Two envelopes...