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There are mysteries in life, like some basketball players unable to hit a free throw yet able to land threes from waaaay beyond the line like it's nothing.

It is fair to say that pass toward the keeper was garbage, but what's the final verdict on wtf the keeper did? Was that a major brain fart? A total misreading of Benzema's position? Did he lose his footing when running toward the ball? It did not seem the ball had a surprising bad bounce of...

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I really liked the first Avengers movie. It was a very clever game of mix and match with themes and individuals that collided or matched. That movie had 7 super heroes and a brilliant screenwriter in Joss Whedon. Infinity War has 20ish super heroes and no brilliance to be found behind the...

Just got back from eight days of intense move watching at the Far East Film Festival in Italy. Here are, in no particular order, the best ones (rated 4 or 5 out of 5). Steel Rain : pretty topical south korean espionage action thriller with a hint of comedy about a former north korean operative...

Dontnod was co-founded by one of the best french author of speculative fiction, Alain Damasio (his books and short stories are hardly translated though because of his brilliant but heavy use of neologisms and word-plays), yet the guy apparently only worked for Remember Me... meh.

Played and beat Mega Man for basically the first time. Back in the days I did not get why people liked this game. Today, I still don't. I guess you can say it's a solid game, as in not janky (well... except the magnet beam I guess). Nice music, nice visuals with a distinctive aesthetic. But, oh...

I am not sure if you are wishing dodge is tied to a button or if you hope it will still play well with dodge tied to a button, but dodge is indeed tied to a button in this game.

It is possible to do pretty detailed stuff with a 28x28 image size, but that requires a modicum of know-how.

I have to ask... Is The Meg nuts? sorry

I am going to guess Madrid would not have suffered three goals against Roma Juventus (oups!) if Sergio Ramos was playing.

It should be noted that Paulo Branco (the producer suing) is a very important figure of portuguese and french art house cinema from the '80s onward. He is considered though to be... if not a madman, at least some kind of film loving crook who is pretty good at somewhat controlled chaos and...

Might want to check Syun_N (one of the best Super Mario Maker streamer) if you are into Nintendo stuff.

The NES backlog massacre continues with Contra! Well... all my NES games are PAL so for some reason the game was rebranded and reskined with robots as Probotector. The game is, to my knowledge, functionally identical. You just happen to control a little robot and all the enemies are robots too...

I am an idiot and went and farmed the super weapon (99 for all non Don turtles so had to replay the same sub level 15 times... I guess it took 45ish minutes). I am now at the start of level 6 with all turtles almost at full hp and 226 kiai out of the 297 I had at first. In a dozen minutes I'll...

Ok... I have been playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the NES these last few days... it invariably ended with me being very pissed off, putting the cartridge back in the pile trying not to break it in half and invariably, the next day, I picked up the cartridge again thinking "That should be...

@a_skeleton_00 If you want a multiplayer combat game involving gargoyles, a bunch of people I know got you covered: It's only couch multiplyer and only for 4 people though. It's also a bit rough as it is a jam game. It was an original jam concept: instead of having many little teams working...

I don't feel like creating threads for them so: Hostiles: (previously mentioned in this thread) post-cavalry movie with Bale, as a veterant who fought indians all of his adult life, tasked to escort a dying captive indian chief and old nemesis to his home land. If you take each scene...

@spronk To be fair, with a shorter run time, the movie would feel rushed if you want to structure the story the way it is. Basically it goes character exposition -> meddling in the spy game -> formation as a sparrow . This takes about an hour and then you still have to make your spy vs spy...

Something very noteworthy in this game is the super badass music done with an instrumentation of pipe organ, harpsichord and violins (well... at least their MIDI version in the SNES chipset!). That being said, since I played it very recently I'll pass this time again. I wish everyone good luck...

This film is basically horror-comedy with a political/historical twist. There is a good dose of poetic licence (compression of the timeline, alteration of some events) but that's to be expected. Oddly, the main flaw of this movie is an abundance of riches. It's so packed full of themes, great...

You have been traumatized by the 3D mazes as a kid, but they are ridiculously tiny and only have one entrance and one exit. Other than that they are totally empty (with the exception of the hidden hp thing in the first maze that I found by accident the first time around). If it can make you feel...

In the PAL version the bullets of the gun go through walls so... yeah... it's easier!

Well... since the NES was hot, I also played through Fester's Quest. This top down exploration shooter game uses the Addams Family licence. I am not familiar with the Addams Family, but I don't think this story of alien invasion is exactly canon... anyway, you control the slow and 4 direction...

Buddy gaming Thursday remained retro the last two weeks. As my friend is a big fan of Metal Gear Solid, we played a game neither of us played before: Metal Gear on NES! Note that I did not say the original Metal Gear, because the NES version is a rushed port of the original that was released on...

Warning: YouTube video in 4k 60fps! Contains a (un)healthy dose of Tim Rogers!

There is a small thread about Celeste already. So small in fact that I can quote it all here:

I am interested in playing Betrayal at Krondor, but for the sake of getting the list going I'll add the first retro game that is on a pile by me: Minna no Golf aka Everybody's Golf aka Hot Shots Golf on PS1!

They are doing a pretty good job at keeping the game fresh with new cosmetic stuff, changes in the map, temporary game modes, thematic changes, new items/weapons, etc. It's a bit hit & miss but they don't need to only have hits to keep people interested.

It's not horrible, but it's nothing special really. Somewhat by-the-numbers plot (apparently mostly a recombination of elements seen in the recent two games with a good serving of daddy issues on top) that keep things moving, not so hot dialogues, the action and puzzle solving set pieces are not...

Yeah the defender forgot where he was for a moment. He was like "I am going to grab that guy and .... oh shit! No! No! No!"

I have no problem with the unlikely or the coincidence, it's a narrative device that has its merits at times, but characters acting without any kind of discernible motivation? I have a problem with that.

I enjoyed the movie but I find it surprising you can get an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay with stuff like

Wait... there are people playing the single player mode? EDIT: About the matchmaking though, there is a swedish guy who is N°1 or around that in duo called Ettnix who is convinced there is matchmaking taking place because the quality of the opposition is much higher when he plays with his usual...

They'll release it on Netflix in a few days, but I am not 100% sure that it means it will not be released in theaters at all.

I platinum'ed this game on PS4 and the more I played it the least I felt like I could recommend it. The problem is that the harder it gets the more obvious and infuriating the control and level design flaws become. The core game is mostly fine, but that's like 20% of the game and there is even...

It took a lot of Thursdays but a friend and I finally beat Earthbound today! There are games that are labeled as cult classics that make you go mmmmmmmh when you play them (because they did not age well or were just not very good in the first place but simply rare, obscure or original in a bad...

On this occasion he posted a follow-up.

Nah... It is a key aspect of this group that we have different tastes. We are all reasonably curious and ok to see movies that potentially fall outside our core interests and, more importantly, we are always willing to debate with each others, hear what someone else saw in a movie we did not...

Amusingly, the only film I did not see in the best foreign language film category is the one that won :p That being said, I had the opportunity to see it and did not and it is supposed to be pretty good.