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A dumb thing to do, but for these guys whose life has been heavily influenced by the balkanic clusterfuck (both Xhaka and Shaqiri are from the albanian minority in Kosovo and their family fled the war to Switzerland in the '90s), it's probably a bit difficult to forget about it when they play...

My understanding is that the referee cannot call for the video, it goes the other way around. There are several refs behind monitors looking at the match (how many exactly I am not sure as I have heard conflicting reports). When there is a call that seems kinda fishy to them or might have been...

Pretty cruel ending for the serbian team, but amazing counter attack by the swiss team.

To be fair, the Costa Rican who stayed unconscious on the ground because Marcello touched his forehead was also pretty scummy. Karmic justice though: if they tried to play instead of trying to run the clock down, they might have been able to defend the 0-0 and certainly would not have faced 6...

I only saw the Portugal match today and had not seen their epic 3-3 against Spain. I was shocked at the number of bad passes they produced when attempting to attack. They seemingly always passed in the feet of people expecting the ball in the space which, obviously, resulted time and time again...

I don't know if it exactly applies to Lewandowski, but there is a type of player that are called in french "renards des surfaces" so roughly... boxes foxes? Basically they are players that are good at exactly one thing: through a mix of eagle eye, insight, ruse and explosive first steps, they...

Good luck trying to predict what will happen in this group! As for Columbia being as good as Japan while one man down, let's not be silly, it's just that all plans made by both teams got out the window 3 minutes in. Japan suddenly was unsure if it needed to play or preserve the win, chose to...

For reference, Switzerland played Panama in a friendly match back in march and they won 6-0. I dont want to rain on Belgium's parade, but I suspect both England and Tunisia will look good when playing Panama.

Will we use the "It's an RPG so it's the game of the month for two months" pseudo-rule? Because I have yet to start :( (Yakuza 5 takes time!)

There are shared responsibilities in that 1-1. Brazil is to blame, because after they scored the goal, they stopped to press high and allowed Switzerland to stay afloat. Also, once a wrench was thrown into their well oiled machine, they suddenly got nervous during 30 mins, only finding some...

There is enough talent on the pitch for it to be possible, but I doubt it.

Just one match got played in group F so it's a bit early to say, but if it gets likely that Germany ends up N°2 in its group (as, with this win, Mexico could very well ends up first), that might have some impact on group E. I am not sure Brazil would be super happy to win in its group for the...

Seeing how Germany was absolutely unable to deal with the speed of the mexican team, they might also have a tough time against South Korea (as, usually, they play at break neck speed).

Honestly, France is extremely lucky to have won today and extremely lucky to be in such a 'weak' group. They might very well go through even if they play another two matches as poor as this one and, possibly maybe, that will give them enough time to find how they are supposed to play. Because...

With Iran winning and Spain vs Portugal ending in a draw, there is potential for some serious drama/comedy in that group. Slim potential, but still potential.

@Biggby I think you missed a negative in the thread's title. To contribute: french romanticism masterpiece (also: a short read!) Sylvie by Nerval.

I suspect handheld consoles are over. The main market was kids and now kids have smartphones. Microsoft never touched this market and will not start now, Nintendo released several revisions of the 3DS, but the latest models (New 3DS standard and XL) have been discontinued almost a year ago...

There is a bit of revisionist history going on in that video about Bulgaria beating Germany. Bulgaria was a no joke team at the time. They had an offensive line with Emil Kostadinov (very successful at Porto) and Hristo Stoichkov (runner up for FIFA player of the year in 1992 and a pillar of the...

It should be mentioned that for decades and until not so long ago, Spain was a shitty team of great players. The Barca players could not be arsed to pass the ball to Real players who themselves would rather die on the spot than deliver a cross to an Atletico player... fun times. And even in this...

I saw Etat de siège (State of Siege) the other day. A french political thriller made in 1972 by Costa-Gavras. Apparently this film was for the longest time pretty difficult to see in the US (now available at least in the Criterion collection), possibly because it is not so loosely based on the...

South Korea got pretty unlucky in the draw and Japan was not a lot luckier... that being said, I would be surprised if Serbia or Costa Rica go out of the group instead of Switzerland.

Also, no Super Mario Maker 2.

PS4 can crossplay with PC. I see it all the time. The PS4 player needs to be invited with a PC playing friend or something though.

A drastic change from what? It's a new IP. These guys don't have to do Souls like game for all eternity.

Saying it does not make it true though. She could be lying or she simply could be wrong.

I did not catch the stream from the Sony conference, but just watched a video from the POV of a attendee. While the logistic of it was a bit strange, there was a pretty neat idea: the first venue was a replica of the room the Last of Us 2 dance scene took place and the path from the first to the...

@Kharzette it's not made in Japan.

Still waiting for another DontNod game written by Damasio... could it be this one?

@Croetec I guess you can get used to it by playing Blood Will Tell. It's a PS2 game about a samurai with prosthetic everything...

What we knew would happen at the start of the season happened. Congratulations to the Rockets for almost having it go off the script.

I always felt there is something very mysterious with these NBA series. It's crazy how games played two or three days apart can have totally different players be super hot or super cold, stars that suddenly can't make a bucket, bench warmers that suddenly can't put a foot wrong... It feels like...

Bought 5 and 6 recently. I am 13 hours into 5, but, as my philosophy in these games is "do everything you can before advancing the main story line", I am at Part 1, Chapter 2!

You can consistently finish Top 10 playing the sneaking game. It is almost impossible to win that way though. More importantly, it does not allow you to learn the skills needed to actually win.

My body is ready, but I have to check if that is also the case of the battery in my cartridge!

Smith is to blame, but I would also blame the coach to some degree. It's his job to make sure the players have a clear idea of what to do when the clock starts running again (Kerr did so for the Warriors).

Epic brain fart to get overtime :P

Easy vote for me this time as there are only 3 of these games that I own and have not beat. I thought I had Cadash on PC-Engine somewhere, but it seems I do not have it :(

It's only natural that the week I finally borrow a non crap PS3 to buy and play Yakuza 4 is the week they announce the remaster...

Maybe my memory is lying to me, but I seem to remember Cadash as a game that is hard as first, but, as the character gets more powerful, rapidly becomes trivial. So it's all about getting past the initial hump and then you are on a roll.

From a layman's perspective, it feels the main problem the Rocket had is a lack of bench, forcing a 7 men and then 6 men rotation once Paul was injured.