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  1. Szlia

    Iron Man 3 [Spoilers Everywhere]

    Surely, Bruce Wayne offshored the manufacturing of his gadgets to China or to another place where they don't know about Batman!
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    The best television espisodes

    Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Lefty Call (S06E04) - great scenes follow each other with an avalanche of these absurd concepts and linguistic creativity that make the brilliance of the show. So good I kept it on my PSP to watch it from time to time.
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    Tennis

    So: let's take a quick look at Rome's draw now that the first two rounds are done. Djokovic [1] vs Dolopolovbenefited fromWawrinka's withdrawal (seeing the draw, now it makes even more sense, you don't want to play Djokovic when not 100% fit, especially if you know that you have a shot when...
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    Tennis

    Yep... Wawrinka drudged through his first round match in Rome, won, but withdrew before the 2nd round because of a thigh bothering him. Watching Murray at the moment and he is still bothered by his hip/lower back on the left side and is on the path of defeat against Granollers who is playing...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    No Olenna in the 7th episodeBut a Bron-Tyrion sceneBron is not far from being my favorite character in the show.
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    Iron Man 3 [Spoilers Everywhere]

    These movies are worldwide blockbusters and super hero comics readership is the tiniest of niche outside the english speaking world. So there is that...
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    I have not seen the first half of tonight's Bulls vs Heat: What's up with the Bulls shooting at 27%? Cold hands all around or good Miami defense?
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    Mad Men

    Not too sure what Fifty Shades of Draper was about.
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    Mindcontrol casting

    I found that really silly... UNTIL he pointed out that learning to domesticate the interface could be part of the game, putting you in the position of the character having to learn magic. That interface could make for a fun competitive multiplayer game.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Charles Dance's "We could arrange to have you carried" killed me.
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    What directors do you trust the most?

    Wes Andersonprobably has the best track record I can think of. I can fit all his movies into two categories: great and very good. Even Darren Aronofsky or Paul Thomas Anderson can't touch that. Terrence MalickandJohnnie Tofollow closely. Two very different directors, but I know that even if...
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    Tennis

    Wawrinka started his final poorly, immediately giving good looks to a Nadal that was much sharper than in his previous matches. The spaniard still made some uncharacteristic errors, but it was more than evened out by the number of unforced errors and the bad shot selections of the swiss. Not...
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    Indie Games

    Just playedThe Unfinished Swanthis afternoon, a downloadable game for PS3. It's the exploration of several pretty cool gameplay ideas wrapped in a very clean, very elegant package. The narrative ribbon that ties it all is also neat, in a light, poetic children story kind of way, even if it feels...
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    Abacab's sick ass festival thread!

    You would think a sick ass festival is a professional fair for proctologists. Joke put aside, Burning Man is not 'on the playa' but in the middle of the desert so an important part of your enjoyment will be dependent on your planning (to deal with the sun, heat, sand and lack of water).
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    North Korea goes full retard

    And they sure has hell don't have any rice to throw away.
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    If the Thunder made a bullet point list of things to do better after game 2, they probably hit all of their targets, but they somehow did not do what they usually do well: shoot. Anyway I think they lost before Durant missed both free throw in a row (a career first?): They lost when Jackson(?)...
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    Tennis

    Hey things did not end past midnight this time, so we already know who will be the finalists. Wawrinka[15] somehow prevailed. He jumped onBerdychfrom the get go to break and managed to defend somewhat laboriously his own deal, well helped by a Berdych making a number of unforced errors and...
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    The Great Gatsby

    Again: Romeo + Juliet was well received.
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    Iron Man 3 [Spoilers Everywhere]

    I don't know who the Iron Patriot is, but it worked with the image vs identity theme of the movie, so it has a point.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Photochop alert!
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    The Great Gatsby

    Chicago is by Rob Marshall, not by Baz Luhrmann. Looking at Rotten Tomatoes, it appears critics were fan of Strictly Ballroom, enjoyed Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!, but really did not care for Australia and even less so for this version of Gastby. I'll see it anyway because of Di Caprio and...
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    The Place Beyond The Pines

    I have not seen Blue Valentine so I really cannot compare the two movies. But Nicolas Winding Refn being Nicolas Winding Refn the 'more Drive' hitch will probably be scratched by Only God Forgives.
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    Tennis

    She is coaching now! I saw her working for Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova the other day. Hingis' mother is also still coaching, she is trying to turn a talented swiss teenager called Belinda Bencic into a pro.
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    Late in the fourth, three good defensive sequences by the Bulls and yet three three points play by Miami...
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    Whenever Robinson is on the screen it feels like I am seeing a 4:3 feed in 16:9!
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    Tennis

    Another day, another round. Wawrinka[15] started the match just like he ended the previous one: hitting big on both wings and painting the lines. His meetings withTsongahave almost always been long and hard fought battles ending with Tsonga as the victor, but the swiss leading 5-0 after 20...
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    The Place Beyond The Pines

    People mention Drive over and over, but The Place Beyond The Pines is from the writer/director of Blue Valentine.
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    Scenes that made you cry like a bitch

    The 1958 version by Kinoshita or the 1983 version by Imamura? I remember the Imamura version being packed with a strange brand of dark humor and not particularly sad.
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    Tennis

    So yeah... after I posted, Kirilenko won one of the following 11 games... Anyway: ATP. Wawrinka[15] was keen to not be the other victim ofDimitrov, but the bulgarian started things just like he left them two days ago (but without the cramping!). Great variations off both wings, finding the...
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    Scenes that made you cry like a bitch

    The title of this thread is really fitting considering the number of dog related scenes!
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I don't like it when video games become the art of dressing up a business model.
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    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    Note that it is an EpiLad not an EpiLady. Don't use the wrong one!
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    Gravity (2013)

    I am a very big fan of Children of Men, but, I must say, I am even more intrigued by the cast here. Sandra Bullock and George Clooney? I am curious to see that.
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    Tennis

    I have not followed the WTA for a while so I am not sure who is in form and who is not at the moment. That said, Serena is the heavy favorite whenever she plays. Consider this, in 27 matches this year she lost just the two and one was the crazy upset against Sloane Stephens at the Australian...
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    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    Game 1: Butler + Robinson = 48 points Game 2: Butler + Robinson = 20 points That did not help!
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    Tennis

    So... Monte-Carlo came and went.Djokovicarrived there no knowing if he would play or not as he twisted his ankle in Davis Cup, hobbled through his first two matches and then mowed through the next two rounds (thanks to poor attendance and upsets, that meantNieminenandFognini) and started the...
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    Dexter

    I have a joke for you: A freudian psychoanalyst and his lacanian colleague cross path in the street. 'Hello' says the freudian. 'Hello' says the lacanian. Once they have walked past each other the freudian wonders: 'Did I say enough?' and the lacanian asks himself: 'Did I say too much?'
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    Now You See Me

    My vote is that they are angels or demons (depending on the political leaning of the script writer).
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    Iron Man 3 [Spoilers Everywhere]

    It's not really fair to characterize the twist as "lol just kidding." It goes along perfectly with the themes of image/identity and 'creating your own monsters.' I understand you point about being disappointed because it seemed at first their Mandarin was a good reinvention of the character.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    As far as scheduling for the actors go, I think it's not much of an issue considering there are that many characters and that the seasons are relatively short. Most of the cast has probably less than two weeks of shooting per year.