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  1. Szlia

    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    I wonder how many pages we would have if the problem was an actual paradox that has yet to be convincingly solved. Like: There are two indistinguishable envelopes. Both contain money. One has twice as much as the other. You can pick an envelope and keep its content. You pick one, but before...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I don't care about baseball at all, but the production level and attention to detail in these games often made me want to buy one just to experience it as a kind of high fidelity virtual documentary on a televised sport.
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    Resogun

    I am a big shm'up fan. I failed to understand how one could find Super Stardust interesting and fail to understand why I would play Defender / Fantasy Zone in 2013. At least Fantasy Zone was beautiful!
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    Homeland

    I don't agree with this portrait you make of Saul. The love he has for his wife, the father/daughter relation he has with Carrie or that he developed with the terrorist girl in season 2 (?), show he has a very high level of empathy, but he keeps his emotions bottled up and share his rage, pain...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Statistics about video game players on PC has always been a nightmare, because you never know what criteria are used to form the numbers. You can usually assume the worst methodology because most of these numbers are published by organisations that have to promote video games (like the ESA), so...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    It should be added: no frame rate issue on X360/PS3 and embargo on info about the Xbox One version until the 15th.
  7. Szlia

    The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

    Curious to see it but... What's the idea behind Jonah Hill's fake teeth?
  8. Szlia

    Thor: The Dark World.

    That would be a good example of a lazy movie oneliner!
  9. Szlia

    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    Maybe it's a cultural thing... when playing Russian roulette with one bullet for six chambers and a single initial shuffle, do you believe you have five chances out of six to survive the third shot?
  10. Szlia

    Thor: The Dark World.

    Oneliners in the context of a movie has very little to do with what a Mitch Hedberg did or what a Jimmy Carr or aStewart Francisdo. Oneliners in stand-up are like the haiku of jokes, something self-contained and condensed to the extreme. In the movies, it's breaking the tone of a situation with...
  11. Szlia

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

    Remind us again the launch line up of the Jaguar?
  12. Szlia

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

    So.... the Steam machine is competing with the Ouya basically.
  13. Szlia

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

    There is two years between Uncharted and Uncharted 2 and there is a pretty huge difference between the two... there is that... but Uncharted was released a year after the PS3.
  14. Szlia

    Metal Gear Solid V

    Isn't that about the price of a DVD box set of a mini serie?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I still wonder how they plan to sell the Steam Box and to whom.
  16. Szlia

    Homeland

    Hah! I am glad I was right! The battle of the veteran spies should prove entertaining!
  17. Szlia

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

    Also, the hardware will never change while the OS and Dev Tools can and will, so it make sense for the devs to put some heat on Microsoft on those aspects for the changes to arrive sooner rather than later.
  18. Szlia

    Answer the question above you, no matter what it is

    Castle Vidcons: Comic #121- Be ProudAnd thank you for your question because it made me realize it started to update again a few months back. AlsoA Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversiblebut there is an update per decade now. A question... What time is it?
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    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    Since writing a song about it was not enough, let me use your own argument against yourself: Why would you assume that some sort of arbitrarily decided sequence of events has an effect on your initial pick? Because that's what you are saying: you pick a door with a one chance of three to win a...
  20. Szlia

    Electronic Dance Music

    I am late for your party, but maybe for the next: That was on the first Dave Clake's Electro Boogie compilation and he stumbled upon it in some SM Club. This anecdote adds even more character to a track that is not lacking in that department.
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    Homeland

    Not common enough to show up on a google search :/ What is it?
  22. Szlia

    Thor: The Dark World.

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

    Isn't that a great way to kill the battery? I know I left a laptop on charger for a long while and it shot the battery dead because of all the little discharges and charges over and over again (with the laptop it was for weeks though, not days, but maybe days would have been enough?).
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    Prisoners (2013)

    This was very solid. You can have a couple nit-pick about the police work (see spoiler below), but it was both a solid drama and a solid investigation movie. Great cinematography also.
  25. Szlia

    Thor: The Dark World.

    The movie is packed with comedy, 90% of it being one liners by Loki or Kat Dennings (ie: the laziest form of comedy). A bit of a shame considering the good part of Thor in the first movie and in the Avengers is when through solemnity and a somewhat literary language, the tale gets an air of...
  26. Szlia

    Shroud Of The Avatar - Shit Went Persistent

    I am all for no quest log as long as 1) the mystery is not there to hide the lack of content 2) the action-reaction chains are well oiled 3) There is an in-game way to take notes, add marks to maps, etc. That said, what I see of the game is bit schizophrenic: on one hand there is the will...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    It's not a ratio problem (you can play in 4:3 with the PS1 emulator on PS3) it's really an emulation problem with the graphic engine. I noticed it first playing Front Mission 3 where some screens use rotating vector graphic patterns and the line would not connect properly on PS3. As it surprised...
  28. Szlia

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

    For archiving purposes I would enjoy PS1 emulation on PS4 only if it is better than PS1 emulation on the PS3. I am not sure why, but the connections of the polygons and of the lines are messed up on PS3, making the game look messier on PS3 than they were on PS1. And its more than just using LCD...
  29. Szlia

    A brain teasing probability puzzle

    But if out of the remaining 99 box the host only opened the one? Would you change your pick for the marginal statistical boost or trust your initial instinct?
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    Homeland

    I would assume something like out-patient check-ups happen once a week or once a month, so it has yet to affect the story id she has to go through something like that.
  31. Szlia

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

    As a reminder: Journey is one of the best game ever made and Unfinished Swan is a very neat and clever game that explores a handful of original gameplay ideas without any of them overstaying their welcome. The two games are short so the Quality/Minute ratio is through the roof (Quality/Price is...
  32. Szlia

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

    I never understood why with all this rain your goggles/glasses seem to be the only thing that get rained on.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    That's some serious 625p right there!
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    I don't think about this when I watch the show, but when asked to compare two characters in two shows, it's only natural to get a little analytical.
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    It's a little unfair since Skye is a main character while Felicity is a supporting character but: Skye has an identification function (just like the viewer, she discovers the inner workings of SHIELD) and a plot function (hacker). The plot function is doubly motivated (hacktivism + personal...
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    Homeland

    Brody should come back into play when Saul goes after the money trail in Caracas.
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    Since most shows I am watching ended their season or have yet to start it, I looked for something to watch and remember Arrow being mentioned in this thread.... It's shocking how bad the writing of that show is at just about every level: lines, characters, plot... And I watched Dexter until the...
  38. Szlia

    Most screwed up thing your parent/bro/sis/gf/bf has told you?

    The only thing I can think of is how my grandmother, who was a political figure of her city and member of an individual liberties / pro-business right wing party, explained to me when I was a child that left wing parties were about controlling every facet of your life, like deciding at what...
  39. Szlia

    Flash/Browser Games Thread

    The lack of "run away" option in combat and the micro management needed with the village (only 80 people max means that an auto reliant machine is very slow and leave it run is useless because of random events) discouraged me.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    It seems the OS guys at Sony are not as clever as the hardware guys! On the up side, the OS can be patched.