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@iannis By a number of metrics, such as alphabetization, life expectancy at birth, peasants ownership of the land they work, price of electricity, of telecommunications and of rents, the cuban revolution markedly and quickly made things better for the people of the island. On other fronts, such...

Reading this it sounds to me the Batista regime and american companies did a pretty good job at fleecing the cuban people and the american taxpayers!

Fun fact: This film is titled Vaiana in several european countries because Moana is a trade mark owned by a perfume company. HAH! Karma for the Mickey Mouse clause?

About investments... But the truth is that in our country it was not only the land that was the property of the agrarian monopolies. The largest and most important mines were also owned by those monopolies. Cuba produces, for example, a great deal of nickel. All of the nickel was exploited...

Since Lithose is about as verbose as Castro, we can have them argue with each other about the great benevolence of the US and how it improved the quality of life of cubans: We surely cannot be blamed if there were 600,000 unemployed in Cuba and 37.5 per cent of the population were illiterate...

Big Phoenix, Castro thinks you are deceiving yourself and are ridiculous :( The Cubans who fought for our independence and at that very moment were giving their blood and their lives believed in good faith in the joint resolution of the Congress of the United States of April 20, 1898, which...

For historical significance, I am currently reading a transcript of Castro's speech at the UN in 1960. After a dull start where he whines about the way his delegation had trouble with their accommodations, it gets more interesting when he makes a brief history of Cuba as a colony (of Spain and...

At the end of the day, Castro was a law student, who, in his early '30s, during the cold war, managed with less than 100 people to topple the US propped dictator of a banana republic (well... a sugar cane republic). Once in power, his government increased dramatically the alphabetization level...

Absence of proof, proof of absence, yadda, yadda.

Somehow I feel the same posters would be here saying "whine whine pay 2 win" if the PS4 Pro gave an advantage...

For reference, the best film of the year so far is, by a significant margin, Sieranevada (not sure if it was shown in the US outside of the Chicago International Film Festival). Honorable mentions: Chevalier, The Final Master and for blockbusters Amasal/Assassination. Guilty pleasure...

Well, the best performance in that film was by an asian actor, so there's that.... (Daniel Wu's Gul'dan).

I don't think the future on display is a dystopia. Not an utopia either. Just a future with its futuristic questions and problems.

Never read the manga, but seeing the movies and playing the game, I am left with the impression that Kusanagi is not unique in any way. She just so happen to be the main character of the story and have an identity crisis (as probably many other androids do). In fact, making her exceptional...

That's pretty crazy. I wonder what is the exposure time and how many photons we are talking about (as in: is there room for enhancement?)

The question is, did some of the white blue collar workers of the rust belt became republicans or did they just vote for the guy who talked about their issues? Remember that looking at the maps and demographics of the 2012 election, it looked like the only possible path for republicans to win...

Several of my friends saw it and they all rated it highly. Have not seen it yet, but I found it difficult to muster the motivation, as I have little interest in the setting and it looks like a sausage fest.

@Khane Assuming your girlfriend meant the Paul Haggis film of 2004, you should watch the David Cronenberg film of 1996 and start a very strange conversation with her (the Cronenberg film is an adaptation of a Ballard novel about a group of people who have a sexual fetish around car crashes)...

For reference: Valérian and Laureline - Wikipedia I remember reading some of those and enjoying them back in... I want to say the mid-'80s, maybe late '80s as a teen in a public library for children/teenagers. Needless to say that memory is pretty fuzzy. Thinking about it it's surprising that...

It stands to reason that someone feeling miserable because they are fundamentally at odds with their body could still feel at odds with it after transforming it. That does not mean the transformation was the wrong thing to do. That goes for transsexualism, but not only. When the body and mind...

Considering only a very few movie theaters are equipped to show movies in Dolby Atmos, how many home users have a setup for it?

The person I quoted (Palum) said "ever since they gave tried to compete with bullshit they have struggled", I am pretty sure that would include the not powerful and motion controlled Wii that was extremely successful. There is no doubt the Wii U is a disappointment for just about everyone and I...

Yeah they have been struggling so hard with the DS and the Wii... struggling to find storage space for their money that is.

:emoji_scream::emoji_scream::emoji_scream::emoji_scream: So many musicians triggered by your choice of words! I'll assume you meant "CD-quality licensed music." PS: The 3DO also had a good version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo and, for the japanese speakers, Policenauts, an adventure game...

Mmmmmh.... no? The CDTV, the CD-i, the Turbo Duo or the FM Towns Marty were all systems with built-in CD-Rom drive that were released before the 3DO. CD-Rom extensions like the Sega CD or the CD-RomRom for PC-Engine are even older (5 years older in the case of the CD-RomRom).

This will end up with a question about marblecake, but there is something pretty healthy about the process. Not sure what I would ask though.

This is a tough one.... To see things in a positive way, it seems like a question that has no wrong answer.

Reading the thread I got one suddenly! I really enjoyed Eric Chahi's Another World aka Out of this World aka Outer World. It was a landmark in cinematic storytelling in an action/puzzle game. Needless to say me and many others expected much from his next game, Heart of Darkness, but it was...

The fourth film was not directed by Gore Verbinski and was not so good (why Rob "Chicago" Marshall? That makes no sense)... this time it's the directing duo of... Bandidas (not seen, supposedly lame?) and Kon-Tiki (not seen but supposedly good?) also a couple episodes of Marco-Polo. Not a fan...

Reasonable people trying to watch the news after Trump's election:

Being antagonistic is not in itself a virtue if its manifested in twisted narratives, out of context soundbites or gross caricatures. Also, when the media are working properly, being politically aligned with the president does not mean putting him or her above criticism. I suspect even the...

Shitty sensationalist journalism has the best revenue/cost ratio, so as long as people consume it and don't want to pay for actual journalism, this is what you'll get. Somehow I doubt a Reality TV star has the magical fix for that...

Just played 'Another Metroid 2 Remake: Return of Samus' over the week-end. A very nice fan remake on steroid of the Gameboy Metroid as seen through the lens of Super Metroid / Zero Mission. Nintendo obviously said "You must be kidding?", but I am sure the game can still be found through back...

Let me rephrase/expand for clarity. Your thesis, unless I misunderstood it, is that the Democratic Party is alienating its 'intellectual base' by pandering to the so called SJW, and that, as a reaction to this pandering and the perceived lunacy of these SJW, the 'intellectual base' is voting for...

Somehow I don't think the 'intellectual base' of the Democratic Party is made of people who think "SJW are retarded, let's prove them right! That will show them!" is a good plan for a presidential election.

I must be good at evaluating games before purchases or good at wiping off bad memories, because I can't think of a game I hoped would be great that I bought and that ended up being terrible. Yoshi Island DS cost me a DS though with its craptacular use of dual screen and Ulitmate Ghost 'n...

This is no cave!

The real Dark Souls begins h

Just a note on Davis Cup semi finals. It was Croatia vs France and Great Britain vs Argentina and somehow both favorites lost! France had to make do without Tsonga nor Monfils so on day one Cilic made light work of Pouille and then Gasquet dominated Coric for 1-1. The french put their Grand...