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  1. Szlia

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Crack down on this to sell a couple more Vita or let it go free and sell a couple more PS4? Dilema, dilema...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Foreign Languages

    Your logic is not wrong. Instead of repeating "L'allemand" (Est-ce que vous aimez l'allemand? L'allemand est une langue que je veux apprendre.) which would be correct but not very natural, you used a pronoun. You just did not pick the right one, but I would have a hard time explaining why, so...
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    Rerolled "Best Game of 2014"

    Very strange year for me because I played a fair amount, but it was almost exclusively backlog games, old games, 2013 indie games and unreleased indie games. In the end I barely have 5 eligible games and the only one I would truly recommend is a bit of a stretch because it would be the 3rd...
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    Foreign Languages

    I tried to write a little essay on It's, This is, There is, He is, C'est and Il est but it's not simple to explain grammar! I tried to devise a good translation rule, but every time I thought I got one, I found a dozen exceptions! Quand j'?tais ? l'?cole je n'aimais pas l'allemand car...
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    Foreign Languages

    Il y a plusieurs personnes qui parlent fran?ais sur le forum. Il y a aussi des gens qui parlent allemand, russe et des langues nordiques. Il me semble qu'il y a ?galement plusieurs personnes qui parlent le chinois (langue maternelle) et le japonais (appris), au moins une qui parle espagnol et...
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    Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

    1 is a good game, 2 is a great game, 3 is a bit of mess but certainly has its moments. The main problems with 3 is that the set pieces were designed before the scenario so everything feels a bit shoe-horned or dumb (like 20 billion rocket launcher guys in that castle in Syria - would be more...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    If you don't take the previous generation into account, the Xbox One is doing ok in the US. It's like a 55/45 split in favor of PS4. Outside the US though, it's a 70/30 split.
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    Fury: Brad Pitt commands a sherman tank in WW2

    I found him watchable in Nymphomaniac, but he has a small part and his character is not there to be liked, so that helped! EDIT: To be fair I went and checked his film credits and he does no arm I can remember in The Company You Keep, Lawless or that new Wall Street... and I don't remember...
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    Hot Tub Time Machine 2

    I totally disagree! He was marvelous in Sex Drive and it was great to have this piglet of a guy be the lady's man with only his aplomb and smooth tongue. Duke's effortless line delivery worked wonders in that movie. I am ready to agree though that I probably enjoyed that somewhat meh movie more...
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    To your credit, the calvary is a better nickname than the cavalry! As for Skye, I must say I enjoyed her character a lot more in the first season. The 'average person discovering a secret world' thing worked well and she had the opportunity for some happy go lucky stuff and some comedy...
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    Hot Tub Time Machine 2

    I really like Clark Duke. We don't see enough Clark Duke.
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    Soccer 2014 - 2015

    As a semi neutral, that was a fun match to watch with a very thrilling 2nd half. Amazing free kick by Gerrard. For some reason Basel has a very good record against english teams these last few years. I guess it's a 'wins beget confidence begets more wins' scenario.
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    The Newsroom s3

    The random heart attack + slow mo' + sappy song was terribad. Just terribad (the now forever unresolved turnabout of Charlie is not much better). My only other complaint is the very end of the chat with the girl student. When the girl said, I paraphrase "that way the guys who even think about...
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    Homeland

    I feel Lockhart dropping the ball was pretty good. All the main characters are career intelligence agents, career soldiers or career diplomats, people used to making tough choices with a cold head and maintain a bird eye view of situations all the while being under great pressure. Lockhart is a...
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    M. A. R. S. Mars, bitches! Orion's first flight a success.

    My questions then are: How bad must the climate become for it to be worse than Venus, Mars or Europa? Why would rising population be a problem if you are able to have self-sustaining human communities? What resource can dwindle and be readily available away from Earth? As for other...
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    M. A. R. S. Mars, bitches! Orion's first flight a success.

    This is a point that is often made and while valid, I am not too comfortable with it, because you can argue that any large scale ambitious project will result in discoveries, in new know-how and/or in new technologies that might have a broader field of application. So why chose 'Manned mission...
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    Blackface

    This dutch tradition is all kind of weird and indeed racist, but I find it very funny that their Santa is from Spain. In the same kind of idea, there is the biblical magi Balthazar who is often played by caucasians wearing black make-up for events and ceremonies. It's a little different...
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    M. A. R. S. Mars, bitches! Orion's first flight a success.

    I understand the value such a project can have as a sort of recruiting tool for science, but I can't help but wonder if it's not possible to find a project that fulfills that objective AND has scientific merit. I also understand the value of not putting all your eggs in the same basket, but...
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    The Greatest Song You Have Never Heard

    Decade old song by a swiss band with 500 views on youTube so at least I am hitting the 'You Have Never Heard' box: EDIT: And now I spent 2 hours on youTube... so here is another that is probably only known to french people.
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    M. A. R. S. Mars, bitches! Orion's first flight a success.

    What is the objective and why is it an objective? 'Manned mission to Mars' and 'just because' ?
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    The Game Awards - Dec 5th 6PM PST

    You could indeed already ride a well animated semi-autonomous horse and shoot arrows at the same time in Shadow of the Colossus back on PS2, but, truth be told, at time it felt like a couple extra fingers would have helped. Maybe Nintendo will devise a better control scheme to do such complex...
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    Major nuclear accident in Europe's largest power plant reported

    I wonder if the super cool anti-nuclear self-fulfilling prophecy is at work there: Make it impossible to build new nuclear power plants for fear of accidents and say 'I told you so' when plants have problems after they are used for decades longer than initially intended, because they cannot be...
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    The plot thickens: [/spoiler] Anyway, not a very exciting episode, but the choreography of the Skye vs fake-May fight was interesting (with all the 'you lock my hand but I drop the gun to my free hand' moves) even if not that well filmed. On a United Colors of Benetton side note, I find it...
  25. Szlia

    Better Call Saul

    It's so awesome that AMC is region-locking advertisement...
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    Interstellar (2014)

    What a strange film. It feels like a collage of 4 or 5 semi decent Twilight Zone episodes.
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    Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Amazing!

    Some of the comments about Lawrence make it sound like she did not win an academy award and two golden globes... She did though and is without a doubt an amazing actress.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Is that a Turing test?
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    Tennis

    'La Coupe! Davis! Est Rouge et Blanc!' - Supporter song, Lille 2014 The Davis Cup is red and white. In case you missed it: Day 1: Wawrinka curbstomped Tsonga in a soccer stadium turned into a 28k indoor tennis court. Monfils answered for the french team by curbstomping Federer...
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    NBA 2014 - 2015 Season Thread

    This talk about Kobe sent me browsing some NBA stats and made me realize something that surprised me: How come Ray Allen is a free agent? You would think someone would be interested in hiring his daggers... but maybe not at the price he asks?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    So... it's edited very fast near the end with a lot of unreleased games so it's a bit tough:
  32. Szlia

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    What is the game with the lightning hitting a bridge making a rider fall of his horse? (3:20ish)
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I saw the movie when it came out and never since so I might be wrong, but I think the garage door was tampered with.
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    That was 6 episodes worth of content all crammed into one! The upside was obviously the pace, the down side was that some parts were a bit light (notably the random hydra foot soldier popping out of nowhere to get slaughtered part).
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    Foxcatcher

    Then why are they showing it downtown?
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    Foxcatcher

    EDIT: That lame joke was not better the second time around silly vBulletin.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I don't think she is on the right side of the crazy/hot line (EDIT: I guess there is a big offset on the crazy axis from the point of view of Manson).
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    Homeland

    What is the play of the ISI guy though? Is it office politics with the scheming woman agent? Is he just pro-american or at least anti-taliban? Or maybe just a pragmatic who sees his interest in the long term? Did he fall in love with Carrie? Please let it not be N?3!
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    Tennis

    The great final we were waiting for did not happen because... Federer withdrew from the event. He hurt his back during the semi final, hoped to be in good enough shape to play against Djokovic, but in the end decided not to. It's a shame for this Masters' Cup that has been the absolute worst I...
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    Tennis

    Nishikori played pretty well in his first set against Djokovic. In fact, you will have a tough time finding an example of someone playing better while still being at the receiving end of a 6-1 scoreline. Djokovic was in full flow during the first set, serving well, returning well, covering the...