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I hope it's the worst because it's the one I did not play!

Hard to be a God is monumental but I must say that I have no love for these films that feel like never ending fever dreams such as The Hourglass Sanatorium or some (but not all) of the movies of Guy Maddin or Aleksandr Sokurov... now that I write that, I remember enjoying Lars von Trier's The...

I went to check that tonight as I noticed it was playing in a theater nearby, and while very well directed, it left me lukewarm. I am not a good customer for this type of slow burn psychological tension / para-horror films though.

At first I was like: 'What a terrible misspelling of Dunkerque' and then I realized that's how it's spelled in english... Anyway, can he do better than Joe Wright in Atonement? Because its Dunkirk *cough* sequence was great.

My list is still a work in progress as there are several films I have yet to see (The Revenant, Creed, Star Wars, Inside Out, Bridge of Spies, Crimson Peak, etc) and in my notes I have like 50ish movies that I rated 3 or 4 stars. Some of those where 2014 films in the US though (Birdman, Inherent...

Not shower related, but there is a french actor / music hall artist, Darry Cowl, whose first job at a cabaret included kissing the nipples of topless dancers to make them pointy. Food for shower thoughts!

Maybe there is a bunch of new PS4 owners trying to patch their consoles at the same time?

Played Undertale and that game is consistently clever both in writing and game design. I am not sure I have the patience to try to go through the different endings, but I had a good dose of entertainment even when doing a middle of the road play through with a kinda lame ending. I can understand...

Wouldn't Kobe win a game of one on one?

Religion was a little more present this season, but it was there from the start with Brody's secret praying, etc. I have very little taste for the religious and thought it was pretty well managed here. You add a bit of color to Durig with his chapel, you add a bit of PC complexity with the...

They have Ivan too. And I am not even sure having both to be able to somewhat corroborate their stories would be a plus or a unwanted source of complexity. About the light, I read that as Carrie being about to kill Quinn but not going through with it at the last moment because of the change...

Adding flaws to sound more human is one of the basis of pseudo AI designed to pass the Turing test.

It felt very artificial to me. It's like the writers were looking for an additional gut punch and retconned one out of thin air. The brother being a psychopath is not a lot better. Still, I think the worst resolution was the absence of one for Lucy. She is one of the main characters and her...

You mean the upside of doing it now? Because the upside of having self-sufficient extra-terrestrial colonies is pretty clear.

Not related to the Breaking Bad character. This is a hungarian art house film about a member of the Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz (prisoners being cogs in the death machine) trying to get a child a proper funeral. It just got released in the US. For most of the film, the camera is glued to the...

Tokyo Godfathers is still the answer to this question.

Pants will not be refunded:

In this style I prefer Louis CK, but I must say I am more a Stewart Francis / Mitch Hedberg kind of guy.

30 years ago: Also 30 years ago: Less than 30 hours ago: A new Retro Sabotage release! (see sig)

In all fairness, we do not know exactly what her instructions were, so maybe she just had to craft something that could be believable for 3 hours as she knew she was about to get exfiltrated. But yeah: prints, gun residue, anyone hearing the delays between gun shots, shot angles... CSI: Berlin...

I enjoyed the episode, but it's hopping over a number of baby sharks... No cell phone coverage in a german station? A fake shootout that cannot withstand 10 minutes of scrutiny? Zero follow up or "just in case" evacuation of the train station despite a credible lead that it might be the target...

So I spent several hours on Algebraic, filled the two multiplication tables before reaching the last board and of course something is fubared in the last one. Very strange when you consider that the other 8 boards are proper chess situations with checkmate in one move for white. You would think...

Real color or simulated color?

I solved the 3rd sequence of step 4! 321, 444, 675, 680, 370, 268, 949, 206, 851, ?, ... You have to consider each digit independently, like a 0 to 9 wheel. and from the first three digits you kind of weave a +1 thread a +2 thread and a +3 thread. What I mean is that each thread goes 1st...

By the magic of taking a dump with a notepad, I solved the first sequence of stage 4: 2, 4, 8, 1, 3, 6, 18, 26, ?, 12, 24, 49, 89, 134, 378, 656, 117, 224, 548, 1456, 2912, 4934, 8868, 1771, 3543, ... It's the powers of 2 written by skipping every other number. so 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128...

Well... it looks more like a duck on my piece of paper! I had a break through with Algebraic that was followed immediately by a cold shower: the realization that solving the thing will be super long and with a ton of chess logic and since I am not very good at chess it sounds like it will be...

Wuwu I solved Registration: when you draw the presence list on a 10x10 grid the end result is a duck. So answer: DUCK.

So I solved Message: It's a sudoku with letters and the additional clue is that the yellow diagonal spells MERRYXMAS. The answer is supposed to be "Extract answer from completed grid by reading the top row from left to right." so: MXAHRYESP. Not the sexiest of answer, but if it was not a...

The answer to the second one is actually: xivThey want words or strings of letter as answers. I worked a bit on Message which seems to be a sudoku of letters. But wtf are Loot and Manifold Agreement?

Chess or checkers were my first lead for 2) but the pawns are never called workers (and checkers was a translation issue because the terms are different in french and english). I guess we know it is a 7x7 board now since we have the answers for step 3 (but not how to find them).

Maybe I got the problem wrong, but my understanding is that we have 4 of the 7 definition for the across words and none of the X definitions for the down words and that the only way to find the 7th across word is to find the X down words that starts with the 4 letters we get from the 4 across...

I assumed the crossword puzzle did not have to be 7x7. As I found two decent answer in 4 letters, I went for 7x4 (also at a somewhat meta level, it's a lot easier to craft the puzzle with a 7x4 than with a 7x7). And Troll's solution for the Shaka riddle is probably the one they expected...

1) Withdraw as sailors hold festive sing-song 2) It receives a worker and returns a queen <---- CELL as in the honeycomb cell where a worker's larvae is fed to become a queen? 3) Try and sing medley of violin parts <---- ALTO both a type of violine and a singing voice range 4) Fit for capture...

Nice catch on CUB. We still don't know how the answer to the color question in Step 2 is found though.

I'll edit the first post to put the most convincing theories. Picasso's answer for Q3 has the benefit of working, but it seems a little too easy, especially after Q1 that asks you to find 5 of this type of straightforward conditions. Still, too simple does not mean wrong, so unless we find...

The Government Communications Headquarters, true to the tradition of creating puzzles to hire spies, posted a christmas puzzle on its web site. It's one of those "solve step 1 to find step 2, etc" thing. Step one is a tedious picross puzzle that forms a QR code that leads...

I agree that it did not work well (even if this type of odd contemporary music / historical setting mix can work, like in The Knick). I doubt that will be an issue in the actual film though.

If you saw anyone going through the portal to go back to earth, you had a special version of the episode done just for you. But yeah, the timing was kinda iffy, but not out of the realm of the acceptable for this type of fiction.

They confirmed this part will be in the remake