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  1. Szlia

    The "Am I stupid AF for wanting a motorcycle" thread.

    From a risk perspective, how come bicycles don't have the same terrible reputation as motorcycles? Is it only because it's harder to kill yourself on bicycles and that you mostly drive them in places where others are less likely to drive at speeds that will kill you? PS: And what does AF...
  2. Szlia

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I am not saying the 2014 pictures do not show an all time low, but it muddies the argument to use these 2011 picture where the water is obviously above normal level with all these immersed trees.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    So apparently there are even reasons to buy a PS4 when you already have a PS4!
  4. Szlia

    God's Not Dead

    He's not in the 2014 blockbuster remake of the rapture focused Left Behind though. That will star Nick Cage!
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    There are plenty of other reasons. Even if you have a PS3 and a high end PC there are reasons (though smaller ones).
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    Good Anime Movies

    It's a short film. It's probably called episode 1 because of the way things are stored on crunchyroll. Also I think there are two versions: The 'made at home' one with his wife and him doing the voices and a remastered one using a voice actors.
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    Sin City: A Dame To Kill For

    Pretty sure it's all fake 3D now, because they are getting a lot better at creating it in post prod AND it's cheaper and less cumbersome during the shooting. I missed it, but there was a talk in a festival I was at about how they did it for Edge of Tomorrow (using miniature replicas of the sets...
  8. Szlia

    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Heard 10 bars as dressing up for some documentary subject on the radio and got reminded of the genius of Michael Nyman. And he is building many of his tracks on bit and parts of Purcell (Frozen before frozen!)
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Why would thousands of birds be in the desert? I doubt migrations cut through the desert too...
  10. Szlia

    Sin City: A Dame To Kill For

    You guys saw The Spirit? Maybe the general public is able to understand what happens when Miller directs by his lonesome.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Here? How much water does it take to maintain a gold course in the middle of the desert.... or is the fairway made of tiny cacti?
  12. Szlia

    What tickles your pickle

    Can the NSA know about that or is it one of the advantage of the system? Anyway, that's a strange and deliciously vintage hobby (even if the tech evolved), it feels like a pre-internet global village; Chatroulette with a high barrier of entry and without the literal and figurative dicks.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I find it surprising that when a hacker group messes with online video game services, they are not immediately the target of other hackers group because they messed with their gaming! Unless no self respecting hacker admits to having a console or something...
  14. Szlia

    What tickles your pickle

    Not being familiar at all with the HAM radio thing (the only thing I know- or think I know - is that you can reach very long distance when the waves bounce on the clouds or something), when you said you were able to 'work' it, I thought you were able to chat with someone there. But are they like...
  15. Szlia

    Good Anime Movies

    That could scratch his hitch for a bit indeed!
  16. Szlia

    What tickles your pickle

    So how is Alex?
  17. Szlia

    P.T. (Playable Trailer) - Silent Hills

    Maybe that is not the case as I have not tried it, but the way people talk about this demo makes me think about a game by Cactus. I don't remember the name of the game, but people were arguing back and forth and people did not seem to agree on how to solve some problems, etc. A mad house. The...
  18. Szlia

    Crypt of the NecroDancer - Rhythm Dungeon Crawler

    Is there some form of syncopation in some tracks or is it isochronic all the time? bam - babam bam bam or bam bam bam bam? Because the latter sounds boring.
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    Tennis

    The qualifier that Raonic will play in the first round is Taro Daniel. It's a tall americano-japanese youngster, born in New-York and training in Spain. He played a Davis Cup match against Rosol earlier in the year where he managed to force a fifth set from two sets down! He lost the decider...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I still need to get one of these for the pretty cool Alien vs Predator game that was on it. That and Tempest 2000 are as far as I know they only two games worth playing on the system.
  21. Szlia

    Bro Team details his tumultuous relationship with Machinima in a long forum post.

    "We have thousands of satisfied talent partners and I want you to be one of them" seems like a silly thing to say to someone who was ignored!
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    Virtual Reality

    Filming at 360? is one thing (a pretty trivial one too), but how do you record the difference between the two eyes for every position the user can take? That seems straight up impossible, which means you need to fake it with software (probably generating a 3D model of the scene - by picture...
  23. Szlia

    Tennis

    It's that time of the year. It's US OPEN TIME! And the Nadal-less funky draw is now known. Let's do a 8 seeds run down. DJOKOVIC[1] won Wimbledon but has inexplicably played poorly in both Toronto and Cincinnati. But even when he plays poorly, it's probably still hard to beat him in a best of...
  24. Szlia

    The Expendables 3 (2014)

    I defense of Ronda Rousey (who can obviously defend herself!), Gina Carano had Steven Soderbergh to direct her acting!
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    NBA 2014 Off-Season Thread

    Endurance/strength is not built by playing, it built at the gym. Confidence in the injured limb is what you grow back by playing. The problem is that if you play while worrying about your injury, you tend to not be as fluid or to change you technique and posture to preserve the injury, which can...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Neo Geo games had more room for video elements (so bigger sprites or lots of detailed animations) and possibly more colors. The problem though is that it was all short arcade games with infinite credits and that most games were shit (exceptions being the Samurai Spirits/Showdown serie and the...
  27. Szlia

    Automata

    I was wondering who was that 'visionary film maker' Gabe Ib??ez and he only made one feature film in 2009 and work as an animator on 4... I am not saying he is not good or anything, just that the visionary did not share his vision much up until now.
  28. Szlia

    Sweet Mary Mother of God! A Shadowgate Remake. Why am I not told these things?!

    All I remember about D?j? Vu is getting eaten multiple times by a crocodile in the sewers
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    How was that possible with TV screens using 60 half images per second? I don't remember horrible interlacing/edge blur on fast horizontal movements in NES and SNES games.
  30. Szlia

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

    I don't fundamentally disagree, but I think he glances over an important fact: not all aspects of visual fidelity have the same impact and the same clock cycle cost. One can talk about poly count and mapping resolutions and anti-aliasing, but the lightening is what requires the more horse power...
  31. Szlia

    The Expendables 3 (2014)

    He should hire an academy award nominee for best original scenario of a movie that won the Oscar for best film... That said the movie was not as fun than the second and there is an alarming density of people who can't act (the front runner in that category being Ford, Schwarzenegger and...
  32. Szlia

    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    Sounds like another reason to watch the show for me!
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Don't even joke with that. It would be a modern day version of Bloodball, so it could happen.
  34. Szlia

    The Knick

    Just watched the first two episodes: we'll see how it goes, but I will certainly check the whole season. Could indeed be very very good.
  35. Szlia

    Are Tombstones Delicious?

    Not all tomatoes are created equal, but a good tomato is great.
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    Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland

    Was the weather ok when you were here, because we really had a terrible few months. It's usually not that grey/rainy/cold during the summer months. Pretty depressing stuff really EDIT: I should add that it's cool that you gave some closure to the thread. I wish all the people who start...
  37. Szlia

    Tennis

    I predict a very strange US Open. It seems pretty open considering the number of players that are not at their best. It will be interesting to see if a surprise player can rise up to the occasion (Tsonga, Ferrer and Raonic are the likeliest candidates at this point) and go lift the trophy or if...
  38. Szlia

    Virtual Reality

    So apparently it's possible to play for hours on end:I Just Spent Two Weeks Being A Space Commander
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    Only Lovers Left Alive - Jim Jarmusch

    It offers a pretty interesting take on the vampire myth and the cast is great, but he really has no interesting story to tell with that good setting. There is also something a bit smug about it all as it can all be understood as a metaphor about the enlightened artist (Jarmusch - forgetting a...
  40. Szlia

    Tennis

    A bit of a roller coaster ride this one. Federer starts by serving well and playing some high quality offensive tennis, spreading the court and closing the net, or drawing Ferrer in with short slices. But Ferrer started well also and managed to play points on his terms behind his serve. From...